The Healing Power of Scent - A beginner's guide to the power of essential oils

Includes recipes for essential oil blends to make at home.
In The Healing Power of Scent, aromatherapist and author Ellen Rowland dives deep into the most mysterious and ephemeral of the five senses - scent - and explores how we can use our own unique responses to the smells we find in the world around us for spiritual and emotional healing.

In_The Healing Power of Scent, aromatherapist and author Ellen Rowland dives deep into scent - the most mysterious and ephemeral of the five senses - and explores how we can use our own unique responses to the smells we find in the world around us for spiritual and emotional healing.Rowland's sensitive exploration includes:- An accessible explanation of the science of scent and its molecular makeup- A series of exercises, recipes, and prompts to help readers develop their own scent diary_ - A list of products with instructions for how to employ scents to elevate the world around us The Healing Power of Scent, with its holistic combination of scientific and emotional approaches, is the perfect introduction_to everything you could want to know about the power of scent, offering readers a path toward using their nose to heal their bodies, minds, and spirits.

Leseprobe:

The Healing Power of Scent is not a guide to the synthetic fragrance ingredients often used in perfumery, which tend to be used for their aromas and don't have any intrinsic therapeutic benefit. Instead this book focuses on aromatics found in the natural world: primarily plants, their essential oils and other natural plant-based ingredients. These are the products that are principally used in aromatherapy, since they have many healing (therapeutic, medicinal) properties.This book is a journey through the world of aromatic plants (and their non-aromatic friends) - their history, cultural significance and medicinal uses. Along the way, you'll discover the science of our sense of smell and learn some practical ways to harness the power of scent in everyday life. You'll find mindfulness exercises, observation and olfaction (smelling) activities, aromatherapy blends and recipes for skincare products. Throughout, the book aims to explore how we can all learn to better appreciate, respec t and harness the benefits that these amazing aromatic materials generously lend us, and how they play a role in supporting our health and wellbeing.In writing this book, I found myself paying closer attention to the healing aromas around me, and tuning in more frequently to the small details. I felt that the process of creating the activities and researching often brought me a clearer and more mindful connection with the world around me. My hope is that this book will be a resource for you to turn to for mindful, creative and sensory activities, rituals and practices, and that it will help you to develop your own relationships and associations with the aromas and plants within the pages.