Archive for July, 2010
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OVERUSE OF PERFUMES
Monday, July 26th, 2010
It seems that we can have too much of a good thing – in this case the enjoyment of scent.
We are surrounded with scents and perfumes in our social environment and even in the workplace. But these are not the perfumes of nature, the natural ones that are so beneficial to use in reviving our energies and spirits as in the woodlands and outdoors in gardens and in natural surroundings – they are, in the main, the product of chemical laboratories and industry.
However, the addition of attractive perfumes in commerce, once seen to be offering exciting new products seen as innovation, is now known as a potentially threatening influence. This is not only through volume but the fact that many ingredients in their complex chemical compositions are proven to be carcinogenic or toxic to our health.
We are all aware that our environment has become hazardous because of the chemicals that have been used and abused over the last decades. In attempting to improve our health and social environment, we in the twenty first century face a difficult task as much damage has already been done. Without a ban on the manufacture of toxic chemicals our problems will continue.
Because of the obvious danger we all face when we come into contact with any chemicals or hazardous substance, that it will stimulate disease conditions of some kind, we must try to avoid them affecting us through our food, our drinking water, our skin and through our respiration.
The simple solution regarding scents in the workplace is being addressed so that we are not as a group subjected to a general odour or perfume that some find distasteful or to which some may have negative reactions. The idea of Scent-Free workplace environments is catching on, and will probably be established as successfully as the smoke-free ones.
Individually we are encouraged to learn more about the benefits of the natural garden perfumes or the outdoors which remain supremely satisfying, or in the natural concentrates to be enjoyed in essential oils that can serve as both pleasure and benefit.
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BREATHING AND THE POWER OF AROMATICS
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
Inhaling a delightful scent makes us impatient for the next breath! Perfumes increase our sensory enjoyment of life and beautiful ones make us smile. On the other hand if we sense an obnoxious odour, we frown, and tend to feel disturbed until free of its influence.
One aspect of the function of olfaction is protective in warning us of danger. Another aspect is to increase our awareness of nature and developing our natural sensory enjoyment of beautiful scents and perfumes.
Different scents can unconsciously or consciously affect or trigger our moods. They can affect our deeper emotional memories and thoughts as we recall past experiences.
Perfumes, the natural perfumes of essential oils and natural substances, are found to have unique qualities of their own that makes them therapeutic and are used in the science of osmics for the express purpose of healing brain and body tissue. They are used to great advantage in the treatment of respiratory ailments.
Perfumes were used in ancient times in the ancient healing arts. Egyptian priests of long ago used inhalation of a perfumed oil as treatment for headaches, epilepsy and other diseases. Later, in the Middle Ages aromatics were used to ward off the plague and doctors considered it as a successful preventive measure. The use of smelling salts in recent centuries was later to become popular in Victorian times. Similarly many oils are used to relieve health problems and are regularly used by aromatherapists today for healing of brain and body.
Deliberate inhalation of perfumes and oils can be pleasurable and beneficial and some influence us in such a way as to elevate our mood or to calm our emotions. As the finest natural perfumes can help to make us feel good and to elevate our consciousness or calm our mood, so there are odours which are heavy, damaging to our cells, and depress our consciousness. We should avoid inhaling petrol, traffic fumes, chemical fumes, and heavy or oppressive smells that can be decidedly detrimental, causing damage to our brain and nervous system. Glue “sniffing” is a conscious negative habit used by some young people who unfortunately suffer the consequences of brain damage.
It is necessary to discriminate in the choice of personal perfume and to learn more about the character of each essential oil if you wish to benefit by direct inhalation of their perfumes.
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DANGEROUS INHALATIONS
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
Modern consumers are faced with a bewildering array of commercially prepared, synthetically scented products as well as the huge range of complex sophisticated perfumes in our department stores. We witness many passing moods and trends that affect consumer choice of products. Commercial advertising is fully aware of the tool they possess in offering an attractively perfumed product of all kinds including household products. They remain alert to consumer preferences as for instance, lemon or apple scented washing suds prove most popular.
In modern life we are surrounded with scents and perfumes but not the natural ones that are so beneficial to use in reviving our energies and spirits as in the woodlands and outdoors in gardens and in natural surroundings.
The general use of perfumes in commerce, once an exciting new innovation, has now become a threatening influence, not only through volume but through the complex chemicals used, many of which are positively toxic to our health.
In the case of chemicals used in food production, some injurious substances have been identified. Health authorities for years have sought to determine carcinogenic material in particular and to restrict artificial colouring agents in food. But regulations have been shown to be difficult to put into practice and to police. The appearance of new substitute chemical agents is constantly increasing beyond the ability of the health authorities to keep pace with scientific proof of their safety.
Research into chemicals that are inhaled rather than ingested is taking longer. It is even more difficult a task to control the chemicals used in the perfume industry. Only recently has it become mandatory to list 26 of the presently identified carcinogenic or toxic chemicals used in commerce.
For our self protection, the message remains clear……
Avoid artificially produced scents and concentrate on conscious inhalation of the beneficial perfumes created by nature.
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Deep Soul Memories
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
Perfumes have the extraordinary power to influence our strongest and deepest emotions and remind us of our most potent life experiences.
Beyond the inhaling of perfumes to involve the brain’s inner neurological centres of recall, it is possible that some perfumes when inhaled, touch the immortal or soul aspect of our nature beyond the brain and its recording of this present life experience, to give wings to flights of memory and our possible identification with other times, places, personalities and emotions.
Many people have had recall of previous lives through the influence of perfume whether by spontaneous response or by the purposeful employment of a scent. It is our natural reaction to a sensory stimulus with associated familiar or welcome association. A scent has the power to help us recall our earliest memories, encourage a comforting closeness with a lost love one or to take us ‘right back’ to a past happening in our lives.
The experience of some hypnotherapists who work with regression of memory know that it also can provide a psychic stimulus to the subtlest memories that reside in the enduring soul of each of us, to trigger memories of previous lives. They will only encourage this if it is in the patient’s interests to do so.
To seek to turn the pages back in time has certain disadvantages – whether it is to do with poring over the past of this life, or any other and that is because we are not taking advantage of the life opportunities that exist in the here and now. ‘Be here now!’ and ‘Create your future!’ are healthy directives to help us lead a vital present life.
To recall our deepest soul memories can provide us with answers to perplexing matters and indicate causes in the functioning of life justice, or karma, but these will usually surface naturally as we progress in our meditations and allow our inner wisdom to communicate through intuition.
Until we require additional insight through intervention of the greater wisdom of our spiritual guru, it is best to avoid undue curiosity and just enjoy the art of living that embraces all beautiful natural perfumes.
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