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'Aromatherapy for Healing the Spirit'A Guide to Restoring Emotional and Mental Balance
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Aromatherapy for Healing the Spirit
presents the first truly comprehensive approach to understanding and applying
the psychological benefits of essential oils. The therapeutic and spiritual
insights of Oriental medicine help to reveal how aromatherapy works to harmonise
the body, mind and Spirit.
Forty common essential oils are surveyed from a wide range of perspectives. Their botanical origin and aroma, traditional symbolism and usage, and subtle action on the body's vital energy are all carefully analysed in order to highlight their precise healing influence on the mind and emotions. The Oriental theories of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements are used to describe not only the subtle properties of the oils, but the imbalances that underlie all the most common psychological problems. The aromatherapeutic treatment of nervous tension and agitation, anxiety and worry, depression and other complaints is based on the understanding that each individual is unique, and therefore requires a unique blend of oils. Lavishly illustrated with both colour photographs and detailed line drawings, Aromatherapy for Healing the Spirit is suitable for the home enthusiast, student and health professional alike. It will provide a vital resource for anyone wishing to tap the profound psychological and spiritual potential of natural aromatic essences. The reader will find a complete rationale for selecting essential oils appropriate to the needs of the whole person, and many aromatherapists will find this ancient yet novel approach an enlightening one. This is the first useful text on the energetics of essential oils, and it helps to give authority and substance to an area inherently esoteric and diffuse. Robert Tisserand "In my opinion, this is the finest exploration of the emotional uses of essential oils in print today, and I'm delighted it has been reissued. Gabriel's overview of TCM and how it applies to aromatherapy is thought provoking; but it is in his descriptions of the emotions and of the oils that his work truly shines." Marge Clark Where to order a copy in the UK: ITHMA, 1 Laburnum Lane, Burwell, Cambridge
CB25 0EB Where to order a copy in the USA and Canada: Nature's Gifts, 1040 Cheyenne Blvd, Madison,
TN 37115, USA |
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