Aromatherapy: A Holistic Guide to Natural Healing with Essential
Oils is a practical reference that features easy-to-follow
'recipes', close to 250 in all, plus instructions and helpful
tips for the reader who wants to know how to use aromatherapy in
the safest, simplest, and most straightforward manner in their
home, while at work, and while travelling. Covering more than
100 common ailments, it is one of the most complete resource
texts on the subject today and is utilized as a classic textbook
in aromatherapy training courses in the United States. Written
for those individuals interested in natural medicine: parents who
want to practice only safe and natural care for their family,
avid athletes who need from their aching muscles, the
environmentally-conscious person who wants to avoid harmful
s, or the stressed out business executive who needs to
unwind. Among the most remarkable benefits of essential oils are
their positive effects on relieving contemporary stress, a major
contributing factor in illness today. Aromatherapy has been
around for centuries, but only in the last decade has it become
recognized as a proven mainstream healing technique. And while
current trends show that nearly half of the acute conditions in
America are being treated without direct physician intervention,
this resource is indispensable. Embraced by a growing desire to
take charge of our own and to be connected to what is real
and natural, more and more people are turning to holistic
self-care, and seeking simple, safe, and natural alternatives to
achieve optimal - which is the heart of this book.
Holistic Nurse and best-selling author Valerie Cooksley has
researched the healing benefits of essential oils, trained with
leading physicians' worldwide, taught hundreds of students,
including fellow nurses, and helped start numerous hospital-based
aromatherapy programs across the U.S. From more than thirty years
of professional practice, Ms. Cooksley shares real life cases and
offers a holistic guide to utilizing and blending essential oils
for maximum benefit keeping you and your family y.
Aromatherapy is a hands-on guidebook to preventative self-care
offering the reader a holistic education and the tools to
practice this integrative therapy first hand, knowing that the
body, mind and emotions do affect . Supporting an
connection to nature while providing restorative and
potent healing solutions is an integral part of this complete and
practical guide -from bath blends and steam s to
massage lotions and body scrubs; room sprays and diffuser
synergies to teas and tonics - all natural, pleasurable to use,
inexpensive, self-care practices that work. A few examples of
the holistic remedies you will find inside... • The ultimate
flower-filled elixir for rejuvenating aging skin • A cooling mint
oil blend that eliminates tension headaches • The warm bath soak
that creates calm and reduces feelings of anxiety • An aromatic
natural formula that promotes restful • The uplifting
al inhalation that eases depression Nature, in and of
itself, has healing and restorative properties that contribute to
. Aromatherapy is connecting us to nature in a very
and natural way. Essential oils are as real and
down-to-earth as the s in your kitchen pantry and the flowers
growing in your garden and it is not necessary to have a graduate
degree in biochemistry to use them correctly and to enjoy them.
Aromatherapy has survived the ages and now is experiencing a
reawakening for good reason. What better way to improve our
, appearance, and the environment around us, than through
the benefits of essential oil therapy? We have come around full
circle, from lab-created drugs and high-tech medicine to
returning to our roots and embracing 'nature' medicine (once
again) to experience and .