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With cold and flu season now in full swing, there are a lot of stuffy noses and scratchy throats. And if you have young, school-age children like me, you’re even more susceptible to these common seasonal symptoms…
Congestion is no fun, and can sometimes be painful. However, you may be able to find relief with something as simple as essential oils. These botanical remedies are “small,” but they are mighty.
The Different Types of Meditation & Which Is Right for You
Meditation has grown from an ancient spiritual practice into a mainstream tool for improving mental health, clarity, and well-being in the modern world. With numerous styles, each offering unique benefits, choosing the right type of meditation can be overwhelming. Here, we'll explore various forms of meditation, their benefits, and how to match them with essential oils and herbs for an enhanced experience.
Creating your incense for in-home aromatherapy can be a deeply rewarding experience.
Not only does it allow you to customize the scents that fill your living space, but it also connects you to ancient practices that promote relaxation and well-being.
We usually think of sight and hearing as our main senses. But what we smell has the strongest impact on our mind. The olfactory receptors in your brain connect directly to your limbic system, where feelings and emotions begin.
That may be why essential oils -- the distilled essence of various plants and flowers -- are so potent.
fragrance wheel from drom, from ‘top notes’ (citrus) around to ‘bass notes’ (musk), one of many different attempts to taxonomize the scents used in perfumery
When I was young, my emotions and my sense of place and time were quite powerfully connected with my sense of smell.
I remember the smell of different places: When, as a young boy, I visited the UK, I could distinguish many of its places by their smell, even with my eyes closed. I am told that, in those days, England used a lot of diesel fuel compared to Canada, and Wales of course produced a lot of coal, and that concentration of carbons might have signalled to my ‘palette’ of remembered smells to tell me where we were. Though I also noted that the skies in the three countries, and different places within them, also had unique shades of blue, so it may be that my sense of place was triangulated somewhat by those clues as well.
If you tell most medical doctors that essential oils bring about healing with no negative side effects, they won’t believe you. This is because in medical school, students are repeatedly told by their professors that all effective medicines have negative side effects, and if they don’t then they can’t be effective.
Ritual is an ancient and intrinsic art form of being human. Grounding in nature, it is a powerful tool for promoting resiliency, solidarity and a much-needed constant in a world that is constantly changing.
Black Cumin Seeds have numerous medicinal properties that have been used over the course of history to cure a variety of ailments.