Essential Oils for all Your Therapeutic Needs
As you develop and deepen your understanding of aromatherapy, you inevitably will discover effective uses for essential oil in therapeutic practice. Playing a critical role in all stages of healing and recovery from illness or injury, stress or psychological disorder, essential oil for therapeutic purposes reinforces traditional Western medications and treatments, and it has proven its efficacy in a wide variety of psychotherapies. Extensive research has demonstrated how therapeutic essential oils perform at least as well as synthetic tranquilizers and anti-depressants; in some studies, essential oils for psychotherapy have out-performed their synthetic rivals—especially in treatment of post-partum depression and mood disorders accompanying peri-menopause. Orthopedists’ case studies also report essential oils, therapeutic and anesthetic, have significant benefits for their arthritis patients and their patients recovering from arthroscopic surgeries. Many traditional physicians rely on essential oils, therapeutic and relaxing, to calm their patients undergoing extensive laboratory testing and chemotherapy.
You need not own an advanced medical degree, however, to capitalize on essential oils’ therapeutic, anesthetic, restorative, and recuperative powers. You especially can put therapeutic essential oils to work in your home and office to influence family members’ and co-workers motivation, attitude, and focus.
Essential Therapeutic Oil for Mood and Motivation.
Many successful woman entrepreneurs subtly capitalize on essential oils’ therapeutic magic to sustain their motivation through long, difficult projects and stressful conferences. Many psychological counselors take advantage of essential oils’ therapeutic effects to put their clients at ease and help them open-up for productive discussion and resolution of their issues. Many dentists skillfully use their knowledge of essential oils’ therapeutic benefits to calm their patients’ anxiety and help relieve their pain when topical anesthetics do not quite relieve sensitive nerves. Most of all, however, psychologically savvy retailers use their command of essential oils’ therapeutic effects on mood and motivation to put their customers in the right frame of mind for making major purchases. Clothing retailers especially have found their average tickets and gross sales increase when they use essential oils to fill their stores with upbeat, sophisticated fragrances consistent with the styles they sell.
Essential Therapeutic Oil for Emotional Rescue.
Especially effective against anxiety, many over-achieving women use the legendary “five-flower” blend to calm their jitters before they do battle against the boys’ clubs. This potent mix of soothing, tranquilizing essential oils, therapeutic in everyday situations as well as clinical work, trigger’s the body’s own relaxation responses and promotes feels of well-being, self-assurance, and competence. Blended from equal measures of five therapeutic essential oils–Cherry Plum, Clematis, Rock Rose, Impatiens, and Star of Bethlehem–and then diluted in a 50/50 mix of purified water and brandy, the five-flower mix takes the edge from stage-fright before major presentations, difficult negotiations, sensitive performance reviews, and public appearances. Many working mothers also use a slightly more diluted five-flower mix with their pre-school children, helping them cope with separation anxiety, and boosting their confidence as they make new friends. Mothers of middle- and high-school children report the five-flower mix also helps with all kinds of social anxiety, calming wobbly adolescents before the first big dance, the first big date, and prom night out on the town.
Essential Therapeutic Oils for Relaxation and Recovery
Among all the essential oils for therapy, chamomile and lavender stand-out as by far the most useful. Both have profound calming effects, and they act as exceptionally strong anti-bacterials, anti-microbials, ant-virals, anti-fungals, and all-purpose cleansers. Use these two essential oils, therapeutic and indispensible, in shampoos, conditioners, soaps and shower gels, candles, air fresheners, and especially in your laundry. Whether or not you and your family really need “therapy,” these broad-spectrum essential oils for health and healing will help you, your spouse, all the kids and pets feel energized, motivated, confident, and alert—and you will smell wonderful, too.
