How do plants affect our psycho-emotional state?
Just like individuals, each plant has its own color and vibration, making it unique. They are guides to sources of well-being that balance us. Smell, the only sense that does not pass through the mind's interpretation filter, allows us to touch the unconscious and act directly on it, both on a subtle, physical, and energetic level. Plants therefore represent an active support for reaching this unconscious with accuracy.
Why did you choose essential oils as an olfactory medium?
The respect I have for plants led me to reconsider perfume and to want to restore its dignity by working with natural products. Perfume can have an essential function: contact with nature and emotional balance to overcome the ups and downs of life in order to grow and flourish. The idea that it should be personal and unique therefore makes perfect sense. And that it should be made of essential oils powerful enough to act on both the subtle and material bodies. Because even if certain aromatic molecules can sometimes be chemically reproduced to create a similar scent, they will not have the same effect on the brain and emotions.
How to proceed?
There are several ways to create your own olfactory fragrance. You can intuitively choose a scent that particularly attracts you, but also a scent that you hate. Indeed, what we reject en masse often reflects an energetic void (or overflow) that needs to be rebalanced. By mixing the two, the scent that attracts you will favor the work of the one you don't like. In my workshops, I finally suggest adding a random element by choosing an EO without thinking. Because, as in lithotherapy, an EO can attract you for no apparent reason for energetic reasons that have not yet been explained, with the idea of touching the unconscious. Very clear links have been demonstrated between scents and emotions at the scientific level. But not yet between the unconscious and chance.
What do colors bring?
During my workshops, I also suggest starting with a set of 14 colors. In energy, colors are linked to chakras and smells. Working with these supports allows for multiple entry points to the unconscious and to be infinitely more subtle during therapeutic work since one can, for example, be attracted to a smell but reject the color associated with it, and vice versa. The little game also helps to release a clear intention that allows the perfume to be created.
Once the perfume is made, how do you use it?
By the olfaction technique which consists of connecting to one's intention by deeply inhaling the perfume several times while concentrating on one's sense of smell. One can also create a perfume with essential oils and a floral water base which itself has a smell, a power, an energy. In addition, it offers a good support by bringing to the perfume, when it is well chosen, roundness and accuracy, which allows it to be worn daily if desired. It is also possible to create oleoparfums based on vegetable oil when the essential oils allow it (dermocausticity) and to massage them on the reflex zones.
A fragrance for the holidays:
Intention: I find warmth despite the cold of winter, I connect with joy and I boost myself for a new beginning.
- 2 drops of Clove essential oil which helps you move forward by giving strength and energy. It's the scent of renewal.
- 2 drops of Ginger EO which facilitates digestion, including on a symbolic level, by allowing you to “digest” new realities and by promoting self-realization.
- 2 drops of Sweet Orange EO which helps to release anxiety, promotes the joy of living, but also intuition and curiosity
- 2 drops of Cardamom EO which brings out the best in us
The perfume to keep your good resolutions:
Intention: I set myself in motion.
- 2 drops of Holy Basil EO which gives courage and willpower and promotes perseverance
- 2 drops of Clove essential oil which helps you move forward by giving strength and energy. It's the scent of renewal.
- 2 drops of Ginger EO which facilitates digestion, including on a symbolic level, by allowing you to “digest” new realities and by promoting self-realization.
- 2 drops of Petit Grain Bigarade EO for its role in regulating the nervous system
: All of these essential oils are associated with red or orange, which are warm colors that facilitate grounding. Mix them in a glass bottle and breathe in the scent deeply. If necessary, add a little more of one essential oil or another until the scent suits you.
And the broadcast?
These fragrances can be created in diffusion synergy as long as you respect the proportions given by Dominique Baudoux in his book Practical Guide to Aromatherapy – Diffusion. Note, however, that diffusion does not reach the limbic brain as much as more traditional olfactory techniques. My essential oils to diffuse this winter andnbsp;
Claire Vandewalle Distorted by the beauty of nature and trained in classical and psychoemotional aromatherapy, I am the daughter and sister of doctors. The question of healing has always been omnipresent in my life. But since I am a rebel, I chose another path: architecture, urban planning, nature... I want to bring a gentle approach to healing, to open inner doors in people so that they can heal themselves from within. More info: Instinct Parfum
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