Essential Aromatherapy: The Key to Unlocking the Doors of Perception
Therapeutic essential oils work on your body and psyche approximately the same way they work on your skin and hair: they cleanse, detoxify, heal, nourish, replenish, and restore them. In fact, most psychotherapists agree therapeutic essential oils do more for a person's spirit and psyche than for her whole body.
Think about it: Aren't you more than a little amazed? When you drink-in a deep draught of any essential aromatherapy fragrance, your mind comes alive with vivid images of your happiest memories. The fragrance brings imagination and memory to life, and you see your own joys, loves, and triumphs as if in Technicolor and cinemascope. Psychotherapists put this power to work, often using it to unlock patients' obscure or repressed memories.
Essential Aromatherapy and Repressed Memory
Our primordial defenses protect us against dangerous memories. Consequently, many victims of sexual assault cannot clearly remember details of their attacks or characteristics of their attackers, inadvertently hindering prosecutions. One southern California social worker has obtained exceptional results from asking victims to sample the most popular male fragrances; in difficult cases, the social worker combines common colognes with equally common job-site smells. In more than fifty per cent of cases, women with only obscure, uncertain memories clarified and specified revealing details of their assaults when they detected smells they associated with their attackers. Most of the women went on positively to identify their assailants.
Essential Oil in the Creative Process
We think artists should harness essential oil's therapeutic and generative powers, using them to inspire and fuel creation of their masterpieces. We especially advocate essential aromatherapy for writers.
We agree with our fellow Cal alumna, Joan Didion, who insists, "Mastery of one's self depends upon one's mastery of language." And we identify with E.M. Forster, who confessed, "I don't know what I think until I write it." For the full-time writer among the carpool moms, writing is as essential as breathing, and she explains, "If I am not writing every day, surely I am slowly suffocating." We encourage you, one way or another, to share our passion for good writing-either creating it or reading it-and we hope you will understand aromatherapy is essential to fine writing. A distinctive fragrance gives the golden key that unlocks the doors of perception.
We remind you of our all-time favorite examples: Can you catch even a hint of "Tabu" and not remember high school dances and your first boyfriend? Can you breathe in even the faintest little whiff of Coppertone and not conjure scenes of summers at the lake or along the ocean? Ah the stories we might tell! And that, of course, is exactly the point. Essential aromatherapy selects and illuminates the most powerful, most promising subjects for your creation. Easy to say but difficult to accomplish: Recreate or reify imagination's contents, revel in and represent your vision, feel and witness the magic.
Think how much a fragrance says about character. Expert perfume reviewers match fragrances to the people who ought to wear them. Drawing or writing about people, we can capitalize on fragrance's special capacity to represent people's situations, values, and expectations. A woman wearing lavender-tint and essential oil-enters a room far differently from a woman wearing patchouli, jasmine, and mango. The words trigger the sense memory triggers the images. Take it the next step further, invoking the power of eponyms: the old boyfriend who showed-up wearing "Polo" left a far different impression from the boy who drenched himself in "Brut" or "English Leather." And who does not associate "Old Spice" with dad or grandpa? The words themselves evoke the imagery; but imagine how a good strong dose of Old Spice would turn loose a torrent of images and stories about the men who shaped and governed your early life.
Therapeutic essential oils work on your body and psyche approximately the same way they work on your skin and hair: they cleanse, detoxify, heal, nourish, replenish, and restore them. In fact, most psychotherapists agree therapeutic essential oils do more for a person's spirit and psyche than for her whole body.
Think about it: Aren't you more than a little amazed? When you drink-in a deep draught of any essential aromatherapy fragrance, your mind comes alive with vivid images of your happiest memories. The fragrance brings imagination and memory to life, and you see your own joys, loves, and triumphs as if in Technicolor and cinemascope. Psychotherapists put this power to work, often using it to unlock patients' obscure or repressed memories.
Essential Aromatherapy and Repressed Memory
Our primordial defenses protect us against dangerous memories. Consequently, many victims of sexual assault cannot clearly remember details of their attacks or characteristics of their attackers, inadvertently hindering prosecutions. One southern California social worker has obtained exceptional results from asking victims to sample the most popular male fragrances; in difficult cases, the social worker combines common colognes with equally common job-site smells. In more than fifty per cent of cases, women with only obscure, uncertain memories clarified and specified revealing details of their assaults when they detected smells they associated with their attackers. Most of the women went on positively to identify their assailants.
Essential Oil in the Creative Process
We think artists should harness essential oil's therapeutic and generative powers, using them to inspire and fuel creation of their masterpieces. We especially advocate essential aromatherapy for writers.
We agree with our fellow Cal alumna, Joan Didion, who insists, "Mastery of one's self depends upon one's mastery of language." And we identify with E.M. Forster, who confessed, "I don't know what I think until I write it." For the full-time writer among the carpool moms, writing is as essential as breathing, and she explains, "If I am not writing every day, surely I am slowly suffocating." We encourage you, one way or another, to share our passion for good writing-either creating it or reading it-and we hope you will understand aromatherapy is essential to fine writing. A distinctive fragrance gives the golden key that unlocks the doors of perception.
We remind you of our all-time favorite examples: Can you catch even a hint of "Tabu" and not remember high school dances and your first boyfriend? Can you breathe in even the faintest little whiff of Coppertone and not conjure scenes of summers at the lake or along the ocean? Ah the stories we might tell! And that, of course, is exactly the point. Essential aromatherapy selects and illuminates the most powerful, most promising subjects for your creation. Easy to say but difficult to accomplish: Recreate or reify imagination's contents, revel in and represent your vision, feel and witness the magic.
Think how much a fragrance says about character. Expert perfume reviewers match fragrances to the people who ought to wear them. Drawing or writing about people, we can capitalize on fragrance's special capacity to represent people's situations, values, and expectations. A woman wearing lavender-tint and essential oil-enters a room far differently from a woman wearing patchouli, jasmine, and mango. The words trigger the sense memory triggers the images. Take it the next step further, invoking the power of eponyms: the old boyfriend who showed-up wearing "Polo" left a far different impression from the boy who drenched himself in "Brut" or "English Leather." And who does not associate "Old Spice" with dad or grandpa? The words themselves evoke the imagery; but imagine how a good strong dose of Old Spice would turn loose a torrent of images and stories about the men who shaped and governed your early life.
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