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 You
assume that you are healthy if there is nothing wrong
with you. To a person versed in aromatherapy, health
is much more than that. A healthy person is a person
who is free on all levels: physical, emotional, mental,
spiritual, and social.
Obviously,
a person with a broken leg is not free---on the physical
level---to move around. But on a more subtle level,
a person who cannot eat certain foods or is allergic
to certain materials is also experiencing a lack of
freedom.
It
is a good emotional release to cry at a "tear jerker"
movie, but someone who continues to cry for several
weeks afterwards is experiencing a lack of freedom
on the emotional level. Likewise, a person who cannot
absorb what he has read or cannot remember day to
day appointments is experiencing a restriction on
the mental level. Someone who finds it difficult to
trust or believe in either themselves, people or God
is experiencing a lack of freedom in the social and
spiritual aspects of life. Aromatherapy can be a powerful
aid in overcoming the barriers to friendship and closeness
which, in turn, can cause suffering, loneliness and
isolation.
The
professionally-trained aromatherapist recognizes such
limitations and attempts, through the use of the properly
selected blends and properly administered treatments,
to restore the person to health and freedom.
An
important basic difference exists between conventional
medical therapy and aromatherapy. In conventional
therapy, the aim often is to control the illness through
regular use of medical substances, even if the medication
is nothing more than vitamins. If the medication is
withdrawn, however, the person returns to illness.
There has been no cure. A person who takes a pill
for high blood pressure every day is not undergoing
a cure but is only controlling the symptoms.
Aromatherapy's
aim is to initiate and facilitate the cure, the complete
restoration of perfect health. True healing happens
when we are empowered to change those factors in life
that are at the root of disease.
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Book: Medical Aromatherapy
Book: Advanced Aromatherapy
both written by organic chemist Dr. Kurt Schnaubelt, PhD,
a distinguished and internationally recognized
PhD in organic chemistry. These books are a
thorough in-depth look at essential oils from
a scientific viewpoint and include suggestions
for their medical use. What is especially appealing
about this author's approach is that he has
applied his extensive research on plants into
a very plausible explanation as to why
essential oils have the healing properties they
have.
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"Healing
with essential oils is different from purchasing mainstream
medical services and products. It is a path away from
the hubris of apparatus-medicine. It reverses the
current attitudes of commerce before life, and information
over reason. Aromatherapy is neither destructive business
nor brain-dead information management; instead, it
embraces all aspects of human life, including instinct
and the human spirit.
Aromatherapy
contributes to the realisation of health what no material
science can --- it acknowledges, accepts and integrates
the phenomena of the soul. Aromatherapy easily combines
physiological and psychological betterment and, because
plants are egalitarian, it does so for poor and rich
alike."
"Daniel
Penoel has called aromatic matter the immune system
of humanity."
---Dr.
Kurt Schnaubelt
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Mental
attitudes & thoughts.
