Aromatherapy Not Effective?

Today I was perusing one of my professional journals and there was a snippet on the ineffectiveness of aromatherapy on health. The two paragraphs gave no explanation or discussion  on the study conducted by the Division of Health Psychology at Ohio State University. I was simply amazed that this journal would continue to publicize what I feel are not conclusive, definitive findings. Several weeks prior I read the study (Journal of Psychoneuroendocrinology) and simply discounted it as not a very well grounded study. In addition to it being a small study the researchers looked at only two aromas.  Later,  CBS-”the media”- jumped on the bandwagon too.

My 2 Cents About the Effectiveness of Aromatherapy

Aromatherapy and aromatic essential oils have been around and effective in many areas of health and well-being for centuries. My personal experience and the experience of my clients with essential oil use has been positive. A  lavender and a blend of other essential oils helped lower my blood pressure. With the use of lavender I had no scarring after a hot cooking oil burn! Read more… Aromatherapy for a Broken Heart

Aromatherapy for constipation

Effect on dysmenorrhea 

Aromatherapy and Pruritis

Postive effects of  aromatherapy on blood pressure

The media  need to have all the facts before broadcasting. Misinformation is so unproductive!

That’s my 2 cents about the effectiveness of aromatherapy! Send your comments, I’d like to hear your opinion.

To those of you who telephoned and jokingly brought to my attention that I didn’t mention Oprah in my last post…I wanted to interview her.  Now I want to let you know I haven’t been able to talk with her.  The other women I will be interviewing are destined to be on Oprah’s Soul Series on XM radio. Soon you’ll be able to tell your friends, family and co-workers you read about them here first! Stay tuned!!

 I guess Oprah was busy with Jill Bolte Taylor, who will be appearing on Oprah’s forthcoming Monday night program.

 For more information on Jill Bolte Taylor read post Awareness and the Mind

The Spirit in Wellness

How are you today? Last weekend millions of people were feeling great physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Where you one of those millions of people?  On Friday I had completed reading “With Head and Heart”, the autobiograpy of Howard Thurman, the Dali Lama was streaming from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA and Pope Benedict had arrived in New York. It could only get better if Daisaku Ikeda had arrived from Japan and they were all meeting with Dr. King and Mahatmas Ghandi!  Dr. King carried with him and read passages from Thurman’s book, ” Jesus and the Disinherited” during the course of his life.  Howard Thurman had a private meeting in India with Ghandi. He also met with Dr. King when he was in the hospital for the treatment of an almost fatal stab wound.

All of these great human beings believed and believe in the connection between Spirit and one’s inner spirit and wellness/health. In his address at the U.N.,  Pope Benedict spoke about discernment and ‘the possibility of a social order respectful of the dignity and right of the person….conversion of the heart…’.

More Heart and Spirit

I’m now reading “Meditations of the Heart” by Howard Thurman. In it he wrote, ‘We express our dislike for things, sometimes for people, when we do not undestand the things we pretend to dislike;….. ’

‘If I knew you and you knew me,

And each of us could clearly see

By that inner light divine

The meaning of your heart and mine;

I’m sure that we would differ less

And clasp our hands in friendliness,

If you knew me, and I knew you’

How are you? How do you feel? Spiritually, emotionally, mentally, physically?  What is the connection for you?