Natural Help For Dry Skin

Written by Jeannie Crabtree C.Ac.


Natural Help For Dry Skin

Dry skin can be annoying and sometimes painful. There are many things to help restorerepparttar moisture to your skin:

+ Drink plenty of water. I suggest 1 quart of water to every 50 pounds of weight. If you weighed 150, you would need to drink 3 quarts of water daily. Most people do not.

+ Rubbing in almond oil or avocado oil can cleanse and nourishrepparttar 142378 dry skin. Patrepparttar 142379 oil on, then wash it off with warm water and a soft cloth.

+ Olive oil helps encourage natural oil production if used consistently. Rub in every night untilrepparttar 142380 dry skin has improved.

Aromatherapy: Esoteric & Spiritual applications

Written by Danny Siegenthaler


The third and final part of this three part series on Aromatherapy and Essential oils deals withrepparttar more esoteric aspects of Essential oils. There is a long history of Essential oils being used for spiritual purposes and in rituals. Incense is just one example of essential oils being used in religious ceremonies and for inducing a 'spiritual' environment.

c. The Way Essential Oils Effectrepparttar 142377 Etheric Body or Psycho-spiritual Level

The historical use of aromatic oils and resins goes back many thousands of years in human history and traverses many cultures and civilizations on our planet.

In China, incense was burned to purifyrepparttar 142378 atmosphere and ridrepparttar 142379 environment of evil spirits, in India, incense was and is used in all temples of all persuasions to sanctifyrepparttar 142380 devotions; in Mexico, incenses were used in rituals to induce trance-like states inrepparttar 142381 participants to make them more accepting in their role of living sacrifice torepparttar 142382 Gods; in Northern Europerepparttar 142383 Druids used incenses which were sacred torepparttar 142384 Earth Mother;repparttar 142385 Greeks and Romans also used essential oils and fragrant herbs in all aspects of their daily lives, and many of their practices were learned fromrepparttar 142386 Egyptians and Mesopotamians who were without doubt,repparttar 142387 absolute masters inrepparttar 142388 Art of “Aromatherapy”.

The first people to dispense aromatics as medicines in Ancient Egypt wererepparttar 142389 priests - they wererepparttar 142390 first Aromatherapists. Asrepparttar 142391 use of aromatic substances became more common, they were also used byrepparttar 142392 physicians.

At Heliopolis,repparttar 142393 city dedicated to Rarepparttar 142394 Sun-God, incense was burned 3 times a day: sunrise, noon, and sunset. This incense was called Kuphi or Kyphi and contained 16 ingredients including cassia, Calamus, Citronella, Cinnamon, Peppermint, Pistacia, Juniper, Acacia, Henna, Cypress, Myrrh, Raisins, Frankincense, and Morning Glory.

Aromatherapy was used inrepparttar 142395 healing temples in both Egypt and later in Greece, which also incorporatedrepparttar 142396 use of color healing utilizing solar light. Great glass windows of various colors were built in torepparttar 142397 ceilings of these temples at specific points, corresponding withrepparttar 142398 journey ofrepparttar 142399 sun acrossrepparttar 142400 sky. The patient was placed inrepparttar 142401 stream of colored light and incense was burned or oils applied torepparttar 142402 patient as need dictated. This form of healing is called Heliotherapy.

Even as recently asrepparttar 142403 Middle Ages in Europe, fragrant herbs were known to possess special healing properties by virtue of their fragrances, and were burned inrepparttar 142404 streets to counteractrepparttar 142405 odor and ill effects ofrepparttar 142406 poor hygiene ofrepparttar 142407 times. Duringrepparttar 142408 time ofrepparttar 142409 Great Plague this method was also used to anticepticiserepparttar 142410 air. Essential Oils, via their own innate LIFE FORCE ENERGY , can help change energy imbalances in our Aura (Etheric body). They can adjustrepparttar 142411 way in which we perceive, feel and think about both ourselves and our environment working fromrepparttar 142412 Spiritual Level ‘downwards’.

They can help us have a more positive, relaxed or energetic mood, help us to concentrate better, develop our "psychic awareness”, and act as a bridge to help us access “deeper” or “higher” levels of consciousness. This function of Essential Oils overlaps withrepparttar 142413 effects oils have onrepparttar 142414 Brain, but it must be remembered thatrepparttar 142415 Nervous and Hormonal Systems arerepparttar 142416 physical “translators” ofrepparttar 142417 Etheric dimensions.

The use of Aromatic plants as Incense in religious and ritual practices is based on this knowledge. Incense purifies, acts as a libation or gesture of respect to higher intelligences and gives us a "doorway" for entry intorepparttar 142418 Astral realms.

It is believed that Essential Oils, when used inrepparttar 142419 form of “incensing”, are signals to those other dimensions where we find our Guardian Angels, Spirit Guides, Gods and Goddesses and states of pure “Cosmic Consciousness” and form a means whereby we can show our intention or willingness to open our consciousness to those realities. The result being that these Beings are able to communicate with us or through us more easily.

By developing our sensitivity to other levels of energy/being and other levels of our own consciousness, we are better able to develop our healing powers and accelerate our own personal/spiritual growth.

Because we are conditioned from birth to relate primarily torepparttar 142420 physical plane of existence we tend to have some degree of difficulty in shifting torepparttar 142421 spiritual levels without some assistance. Essential oils can help us with this.

THE SENSE OF SMELL AND ETHERIC ENERGY From an energy point of view,repparttar 142422 sense of smell relates torepparttar 142423 Element called AKASHA or ETHER. This isrepparttar 142424 Universal and All-Pervading element,repparttar 142425 Element of Spirit, and it hasrepparttar 142426 ability to transform itself into anyone ofrepparttar 142427 forms of Elemental Energy. It is also closely related torepparttar 142428 Element of Air, which is related torepparttar 142429 sense of taste.

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