Liquidamber:About:Therapy

–Relieves stress and anxiety accumulated from the assault of daily life and work
–Works as a catalyst to move out of a negative pattern onto a healthier, happier path
–Identifies and releases obstacles that prevent you from moving forward
–Releases trauma from abuse or pain of loss
–Provides clarity to make meaningful choices
–Calms emotional storms in children and adolescents
–“Have never been well since...” an incident happened in your life
–Alleviates nightmares
–Is an instrument for deepening self awareness

Essential oils affect the mind, emotions and body through your sense of smell. The aroma bypasses the ‘reasoning’ part of your brain and links directly into your limbic system; the part of the brain that is “the mysterious bubbling cauldron in which all your pleasures, pains, and memories are brewed – your ‘emotional brain’. Events in the limbic system depends on personal things like your past life, your memories and what has influenced you.” * Like the trunk in the attic, it holds treasures from the past—both positive and negative memories.

The active compounds of the essential oils enter the bloodstream through the lungs and impact body chemistry; the limbic system is closely linked with the hypothalamus, which regulates heart rate, blood pressure and circadian rhythms (the body’s daily biological patterns and wake/ sleep cycles) For example, an aroma may calm your nerves, lower blood pressure and allow you to relax so you can fall asleep, or another aroma may stimulate you like a catapult into taking action.

Blocked emotions and memories hold information, beliefs and experiences that shape your life and color your worldview. Accessing this information through essential oil therapy creates an opening for insight and inspiration to percolate into your consciousness.

Whenever you engage in a thought, you give power to it - you charge it with energy. Emotionally- charged patterns of thought can clutter your mind and get stuck on a track of negative thinking, anxiety, or fear. Essential oil therapy helps to break the charge of these persistent patterns, creating a window of opportunity for you to make healthier choices, provided you are willing.

This therapy is deeply introspective, interactive, and intuitive, relying on your will and your therapist’s insight. Like any therapy, it requires your engagement and commitment. It gives you an opportunity to observe yourself, find patterns, and bring them to light. Finding meaning in those patterns requires your participation. Essential oil therapy is not healing that is done to you, but healing that you do. It is work, but it is shared work, and its reward is richer the more you put into it.

* ”Big Head! A Book About Your Brain and Your Head” by Dr. Pete Rowan