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“Aromatherapy
is … the skilled and controlled use of essential oils for
physical and emotional health and well being.” Valerie
Cooksley
“Aromatherapy conveys the concept of healing
with aromatic substances.” Robert Tisserand
“Aromatherapy is a caring, hands-on therapy
which seeks to induce relaxation, to increase energy, to reduce
the effects of stress and to restore lost balance to mind,
body and soul.” Robert Tisserand
“Aromatherapy can be defined as the controlled
use of essential oils to maintain and promote physical, psychological,
and spiritual wellbeing.” Gabriel Mojay
Aromatherapy
can be defined as the art and science of utilizing naturally extracted
aromatic essences from plants to balance, harmonize and promote the
health of body, mind and spirit. It
is an art and science which seeks to explore the physiological, psychological
and spiritual realm of the individual's response to aromatic extracts
as well as to observe and enhance the individual's innate healing process. As
a holistic medicine, Aromatherapy is both a preventative approach as
well as an active treatment during acute and chronic stages of illness
or 'dis'-ease.
It is a natural, non-invasive treatment system designed to affect
the whole person not just the symptom or disease and to assist
the body's natural ability to balance, regulate, heal and maintain
itself by the correct use of essential oils. Aromatherapy is essentially
an interaction between the therapist, client and essential oils,
working together to bring forth the healing energy which will help the client
regain their sense of well being and vitality.” Jade Shutes
Origin of the word “Aromatherapie The term “ aromatherapie ” was
coined by Rene Maurice Gattefosse in 1928. He utilized the word to imply
the therapeutic use of aromatic substances (essential oils). Since the beginning
of Aromatherapy, the practice has encompassed human pathology and the treatment
of different conditions (emotional and physical) with essential oils. As
Aromatherapy developed into a practice it adopted an holistic approach which
encompasses the body, the mind and the spirit (energy).
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