Aromatherapy: Essential Oils

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Aromatherapy is an ancient art that is incorporated in this era of rapid change life and accelerated life.
This discipline provides a therapeutic use of pure aromas for a natural treatment and an important supplement to help restore our balance and harmony.
Essential oils have many properties that makes stimuli in humans and become an invaluable element of welfare.
The use of essences is to ancient times and has references in all cultures and religions.
In antiquity, the Egyptians for 40 centuries BC were prepared with essential oils that are used in medicine, cosmetics, baths, temples, and harmonizing.

The Egyptians began the art of extracting essences of plants in clay pots by heating them, the Greek alchemists who were keeping the fragrance and healing properties invented distillation to obtain essential oils.
The use of essential oils was carried out for millennia in China, India and Persia. The closures also used oils for medicine.

The plants produce medicinal aromatic essences, they are extracted by distillation and pressure, there are other methods for some particular species.

Action of Essential Oils
One way of doing the essential oils through the nose is harmonizing the mental emotional and spiritual states, the sense of smell is related to our emotions to be directly connected to the brain where the center of emotions, also the space of many vital activities Our body, dreams, sensuality, thirst, memory, etc.
When something smells evoking emotional memory, emotions can be relational. The limbic system where the center of the emotions is related to the hypothalamus, the part of the brain that is connected to the sex glands.
The associative memory of smells and situations cause the use of oils for therapeutic use, since the consciousness registers the aroma with the setting.
Aromatherapy acts on the subtle planes can therefore be used as vibrational therapy also helps with meditation, visualization, concentration, statements and all those techniques to find balance and inner harmony.

Meditation
The oils were used since ancient times for meditation and religious rituals, many cultures also flavorings are used as offerings to gods. To meditate with oils can achieve:
· Purify and prepare the place for meditation
· Help quiet the mind of everyday thoughts.
· Deepening and calm breathing.
· Achieve mental clarity
· Balancing the chakras
· Bringing energy to earth
. Harmonize the energy of a group

Major Essential Oils
Basil: is used for headaches and migraines, mental fatigue also. Angelica: aid to contact the Divine.
Bergamot: uplifting, refreshing and relaxing. It is useful for cases of depression, anxiety and tension.
Cinnamon: is mental stimulants and aphrodisiacs.
Cedar: sedative effect indicated for stress. Kidron combined with soothing lavender.
Cypress: used in duels and in other stages of change.
Clove: mental exhaustion quit.
Juniper: It acts on the mental planes, emotional and physical situations of confusion and relieves fatigue.
Eucalyptus: acts on the respiratory system is a decongestant.
Geranium: antidepressant, relaxing and to restore and stabilize emotions.
Ginger: rheumatic and muscular pain, sexual and physical exhaustion.
Lavender: is a very effective sedative, is used in sleeping problems. Helps balance emotional states like depression hysteria, calm, relax.
Lemongrass: Used in the mental fatigue is a mental stimulant
Lemon: mental stimulant, antiseptic, astringent, healing.
Tangerine: soothing and calming, gives joy.
Marjoram: works by enhancing states of loneliness, anxiety.
Mint:stimulates the brain helps to clear the thoughts.
Orange: is antidepressant and restores lifting the spirit. Pino nervous system stimulant, gives energy and wellbeing.
Rosemary: Stimulates memory, mental clarity, creative processes is a protective psychic and physical stimulant.
Sage: Relaxing, relaxing harmonizes sexuality and sexual energy distended. Sandalwood sensual properties, meditation, calms the thoughts, is anxiolytic and antidepressant.
Thyme: respiratory antiseptic and antitussive. It is tonic and energizing the physical, mental and emotional memory enhancement.
Vetiver: it is a deep relaxation, energy balancing group can be an aphrodisiac.
Ylang-Ylang: antidepressant and sedative, acting on sexual difficulties, for stress and anxiety, is used in states of stress, insomnia and hyperactivity.
Use of Essential Oils:
The most appropriate method for the home, meditation rooms, clinics is the stove, the heat of a candle warms a small ceramic bowl in which water is placed and from 5 to 10 drops of essential oils.
You can use ceramic hanging on the neck or carry a handkerchief with the substance chosen, there are some ceramic rings that are placed on side tables, there are placed drops of preferred oils with the warmth of the lamp and the smell evaporates environment place.
In case of skin contact with the oil penetrates the pores of the same entering the inner system, there should be diluted in neutral oil such as wheat germ, sesame seeds, almonds or neutral creams and use in massage.
When diluted in oil aromas may be used as perfumes. Can also be used in oil baths placing 10 to 15 drops in water.

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