Blog

We’ve just been through a pandemic which is still carrying on, we’ve been locked away, working on our own, not seeing our family and friends like we normally would do and stress is at an all time high. Figures released recently by the Department of Health state that 65% of people are classed as severely stressed. Stress is becoming the main thing to tackle post-pandemic. If we don’t get on top of our stress, then it can lead to other symptoms and illness as our bodies become dis-eased with ourselves. So how do we bring down our stress levels? How…

Fear and Frankincense Frankincense, works on old past fear whether it comes from the past life or present life situations. Most cases of panic or fear do not come from the present time though a trigger (from the ‘now’) that they have seen or heard may have set it off, so to the person it seems that the fear has just arose. Frankincense works so much on the biochemicals that calm us down that it in fact puts us into a hypnotic trance like state that enables us to access old closed areas which previously we were too frightened to…

With more and more people turning to Aromatherapy not just for a relaxing massage but as a form of treatment for their ailments, it is time for us Aromatherapists to understand scientifically how essential oils work within the body. At the moment, the only thing that we know about oils are that they relax us or stimulate us or that they are good at relieving headaches and so on but do we know WHY they do this and how. I have decided to write over the next few issues a series of articles centering on how oils work within the…

Like the butterfly effect in chaos theory, disease can be explained by a similar effect within the human body. Similar to how a butterfly’s wing beat in South America can cause a tornado in Alaska, so can a single thought pattern develop into a variety of complex diseases without control. The problem here lies not so much in creating a model to fit and control but to open our minds to the ever expansiveness of disease – through the chaos of our thoughts comes the order of disease. In our minds illness is the chaos but in reality, in nature,…

Can our unconscious mind start and affect illness? Can we influence the unconscious mind and illness by changing the way we think? I think we can. The way society thinks, the way our parents think and the way we think subconsciously affects everything we do, from the way we interact with each other to the way we develop disease within us. We think that we are in control of our minds but not our bodies. Our bodies we feel are not under our control, somehow what our body does is external from what we would like it to do. We…