Aromatherapy and Spring

Hello friends,
Hope you and your families are doing well today. I am blessed and highly favored.
Are you enjoying your springtime, with the beautiful flowers and green grass and trees? Oh, how I love the Texas Mountain Laurels! I love the purple, sweet fragrant flowers that grow on them! They’re so beautiful with the vibrant lavender and purple colors, and they smell like super-sweet grape kool-aid or grape candies from my childhood.

You know, fragrances and smells can influence our thoughts, our moods, and sometimes our health. Have you ever been baking bread, or cookies, or a cake, and everybody comes to the kitchen, excited or happy, asking “What is that smell? It smells wonderful! It’s making me hungry!”? Many of us associate smells with comfort foods, which cause us to feel certain ways or be in certain moods.

Well, that’s the concept, somewhat, involving aromatherapy and using essential oils. Lavender and chamomile oils tend to cause people to relax and be calm. Eucalyptus oil is a natural disinfectant, and excites our respiratory system. It is often used to open up and clear the sinuses and the lungs to make breathing easier. And wow, does it work! Tea tree oil is also a disinfectant and antiseptic, that is also antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, and antiparasitic. It is one of the only essential oils that can be used topically, meaning you can put it directly on your skin, to treat and heal athlete’s foot, cuts and scrapes, bug bites, acne, sunburn, yeast infections, any body fungal infections, and even get rid of certain parasitic infections.

There are so many more wonderful essential oils, and so much more that they can do, and I am still learning about them every day. Many of our medicines, creams, lotions, skin care products, contain one or more various essential oils at times.

Using straight, neat (without dilution) essential oils has to be done with caution and care, though, and usually just administered by professionals, because many of the oils can burn or damage skin, or cause an adverse or negative reaction. It is usually NOT recommended to take essential oils orally, as well. But I wanted to tell you about them, and tell you specifically about a few of them that you can use to help you in certain circumstances. I keep lots of different oils in a couple of places in my home. Many of you who have visited, have smelled them not only in my home, but even outside when walking up to my front door. And only a few drops were used.

Ephesians 5:2 tells us, “And walk in Love, (esteeming and delighting in one another) as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us, a slain offering and sacrifice to God (for you, so that it became) a sweet fragrance.”

May your days be blessed, and please remember to setup your appointment for a massage with me today.

Take care and God bless,
Janora Alverson