Meditating with essential oils or practising meditation
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Subtle aromatherapy
Meditating with essential oils or practising meditation before giving an aromatherapy treatment is
a good introduction to subtle aromatherapy.As you have seen, meditation helps you access your
spiritual essence and when you use essential oils with the different meditations you also discover
their subtle aspect. Working in this subtle way can have a profound healing effect on mind, body
and spirit. Subtle aromatherapy has several other manifestations such as using essential oils with
crystals. You can also use essential oils to work with the chakras - or psychic energy centres - in
the body, and with the aura that surrounds the physical body to cleanse blocked or negative
energy. The subtle vibrational healing energy of essential oils complements the subtle energetic
fields, centres and channels that exist within us all.The following pages offer clear, simple advice
on how to use subtle aromatherapy in these various ways. Subtle aromatherapy is another
important aspect of holistic aromatherapy, and works harmoniously alongside aromatherapy
massage, aromatic baths and all other aromatherapy treatments. In this way itis n in isolation as a
separate discipline, but as a complement to the not see more tangible practices of aromatherapy.
Any attempt to separate and compartmentalize the different aspects of aromatherapy works
against the principle of holism.
Keeping an open mind
Working with the subtle side of
yourself and with essential oils requires an open mind but without losing sight of your common
sense.you need to avoid new Age Mumbai- jumbo, yet remain open to subtle, psychic
phenomena, which often cannot be empirically or scientifically demonstrated as 'real' and cannot
usually offer a rational explanation for the way a healing effect is achieved. Plants were often
ascribed ruling planets by the ancient herbalists, and in modern aromatherapy we can also look at
essential oils from a subtle. astrological perspective, in this way we can see how the characters or
*personalities" of essential oils are reflected in the different signs of the zodiac. This approach
offers an alternative, subtle method of choosing essential oils its for use in aromatherapy
treatments. according to their astrological influences and dispositions..