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Aromatherapy massage is an ancient healing art. Aromatherapy massage combines the sens of smell with the sense of touch, using natural formulas of pure, plant essences distilled from flowers and plants to interface with body, spirit and mind and create a healing force. Let the therapeutic properties of plants combine with deep tissue massage to loosen your muscles and calm your mind.
I use aromatherapy massage to soothe and heal body, mind and spirit. This multisensory approach to life is an integral aspect of holistic health. By becoming more conscious of all the dimensions of our senses, we live with more awareness and have the ability to be healthier. There are strong indications that smell and touch (both easily neglected in our stressful, modern lives) have the ability to balance our inner body biochemistry and brain activity. Charles Spence, author and lecturer in experiemental psychology at Oxford University, suggests that living in an environment that depletes one, or several of our senses, we create imbalance that can have a direct effect on our health. Aroma-massage can restore this necessary balance.
There is a science to aromatherapy. Plants have been the major source of medicine for centuries. Today modern technology has provided ways to isolate and replicate the components in plants that minimize, even eliminate, harmful microorganisms, fungus, viruses, and infection diseases. Where commercial medicine synthetically replicates components of plants, herbalism and aromatherapy incorporate the whole of the plant or its plasma -- its plant oil, its essential oil. Back in the 1960's, modern aromatherapist pioneer Maruerite Maury, evolved the use of the aromatogram, a lab test able to acquire analysis of an essential oils activity in vitro. This allows the technician to examining the oil's effectiveness against a broad range of infectious illness. This testing, still used in Europe today, would forever change the face of aromatherapy, elevating it from purely aestheic to therapeutic, being acknowledged as a potential form of phytomedicine.
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