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A hands-on guide showing how essential oils can support and enhance meditative and mindful practices.
For millennia, the spiritual power of odor--such as from incense or frankincense--has been used to symbolize intention, stimulate awareness of our spiritual self, and accentuate rite and ritual. Drawing on this power, as well as their healing qualities, essential oils can provide the perfect complement to meditation or mindfulness practice.
Outlining the practice and benefits of meditation and mindfulness in combination with the use of essential oils, Heather Dawn Godfrey explains how these practices hone and sustain a conscious awareness of "being" in the present moment, focusing attention on what you are sensually experiencing and leaving no space for regrets, traumas, fears, anxiety, or anticipation. Providing the latest scientific research on the restorative, rehabilitative, and psycho-emotional healing effects of essential oils, she explains how the sensory experience of odors can immediately draw your attention to the present moment, trigger a specific state of consciousness, such as a deeper meditative state, or offer a way to regain composure quickly when dealing with life's ups and downs.
Explaining methods to incorporate essential oils into your practice, Godfrey introduces readers to the "Gem" essential oils--a group of oils specifically selected for attaining and maintaining a state of mindfulness, as well as a broad spectrum of therapeutic properties--and she provides an easy-to-follow chart to help you select the oil that is right for you. Offering a hands-on practical guide to integrating essential oils into mindful and meditative practice, the author shows how each of us has the ability to self-generate a calm, tranquil, and worry-free state of mind.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Coming into the Now with Mindfulness, Meditation, and Essential Oils
1 What Is Mindfulness?
Why and How to Make It Part of Your Life
2 Essential Oils as Meditation Companions
The Science of Their Use
3 Applying Essential Oils
Safety Guidelines and Indications for Eight Therapeutic Application Methods
4 Complementary Wellness Techniques
Relaxation, Exercise, and Nutrition
Conclusion
Entering into Your Own Voyage of Discovery
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
