Aromatherapy
What is Aromatherapy?
Aroma-who? Aroma-what? Aromatherapy! Aromatherapy is the therapeutic application of essential oils. Essential oils have been used for thousands of years in various cultures for medicinal and health purposes and are recently gaining popularity as a natural, safe and cost-effective therapy for a number of health concerns.
The particles in essential oils come from distilling or extracting the different parts of plants, including the flowers, leaves, bark, roots, resin and peels. Just one drop of an essential oil can have powerful health benefits. By concentrating the oils of these plants, you are literally separating the most powerful healing compounds of a plant into a single oil. Due to the potency of these oils it is important they are used with caution and under the supervision of a knowledgable practitioner. More does not always mean better.
What Can I Use Essential Oils For?
Essential oil benefits are vast and essential oil uses range from aromatherapy, household cleaning products, personal beauty care and natural medicine treatments.
Some of the health benefits of aromatherapy include it’s ability to reduce anxiety, ease depression, boost energy levels, speed up the healing process, eliminate headaches, boost cognitive performance, induce sleep, strengthen the immune system, reduce pain, improve digestion and increase circulation.
The successful use and application of essential oils, is easily accomplished with a little bit of guidance
Majority of our beauty and household products are filled with toxic chemicals that affect out health. Replacing these products with natural essential oils can reduce your toxin load and even help to stimulate detoxification. Whether you are looking to learn more about essential oils or would like a customized aromatherapy plan, I can help you incorporate essential oils into your daily life.
We will go over which essential oil properties work best to achieve your goal(s) and compose a list of oils for you to begin working with. I will teach you different application techniques to help you achieve these goals as well as how to blend oils and use them appropriately to avoid potential negative side effects.
Incorporating essential oils and aromatherapy into your life is an amazing, natural way to improve your health and well-being. There are so many ways to use and benefit from essential oils, let’s figure out which techniques will be best for you!