INFORMATION
Essential oils can support us through many of our everyday activities and life changes but please take the time to understand there are different grades of oils! To get great benefits it's important to use therapeutic grade essential oils that are NOT adulterated. Adulterated oils contain synthetic chemicals or compounds. And, that may actually be harmful to our body!
WHAT IS AN ESSENTIAL OIL?
Essential oils come from plants, and are vital to the plant’s health. They are aromatic volatile liquids, found in shrubs, flowers, trees, roots, bushes, and seeds. Essential oils help the plant by carrying oxygen and nutrients to its tissues, and fighting pathogens (bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other disease). Essential oils are scientifically documented to carry the highest level of molecules of any substance known to mankind. Essential oils contain minerals, they are a catalyst because they are made up of oxygen amino acids, and their function is to carry nutrients into the cells of the human body. This is why essential oils are the missing link of the 21st century. Click here to read more
In the plant, an essential oil contains between 80 and 300+ individual chemical constituents, in perfect balance. This is its “blueprint”, and the source of its power in the plant. For example, bacteria and viruses find it difficult to become resistant to the plant’s essential oil, because it is chemically so complex….this is how the essential oil can offer such great protection to the plant.If an essential oil is produced correctly, its “blueprint” will be retained during the production process. The end result vibrational” (living) essential oil. Unfortunately, most manufacturers do not produce to these standards, so the quality and blueprint of the essential oil is lost.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ESSENTIAL OILS AND HERBS
Essential oils are very concentrated compared with herbs – for example, a single drop of peppermint oil is equivalent to approximately 28 cups of peppermint tea! Because they are concentrated (often requiring an entire plant or more to produce a single drop), essential oils are 50 to 70 times more potent than the herbs or plants they are derived from.
Essential oils are very compatible with your body, because they comprise the same building blocks (carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, etc.). And having a very small molecular size compared with herbs, they are able to more easily penetrate tissue and cells (carrying oxygen and nutrients, and removing toxins). An essential oil will enter the blood stream within 20 seconds and be within every single cell of the body, within 20 minutes. That’s how quickly it enters your blood stream and moves around your body – much faster than herbs, which have to take the “slow lane” by going through your digestive system. When herbs are cut and dehydrated for therapeutic use, they lose up to 90% of their healing nutrients, as well as most of their vital oxygen molecules. In simple terms, they have lost much of their life force). If an essential oil is produced correctly it will retain the life force (frequency) of the plant and they never expire.
THE HISTORY OF ESSENTIAL OILS
Essential oils were man’s first medicine, with records dating back to thousands of years before Christ. Learn more about the use of oils in Ancient times.
ESSENTIAL OILS AND EMOTIONS
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THE VIBRATIONAL EFFECTS OF ESSENTIAL OILS
Essential oils (when produced correctly) have the highest frequency of any natural substance known to man. This creates an uplifting effect on your body, as it helps to raise your own frequency. In this regard, essential oils exert a similar vibrational effect to crystals. And since disease cannot co-habitate with a substance high frequency, why wouldn’t you use pure, unadulterated therapeutic-grade oils on a daily basis? Click here to learn more about the effects of essential oils on your vibration.
SCIENCE AND ANATOMY - HOW ESSENTIAL OILS AFFECT OUR MINDS
When we inhale the fragrance of an essential oil, the odor molecules travel up the nose where they’re registered by the nerves of the olfactory membranes in the nose lining. The odor molecules stimulate this lining of nerve cells and trigger electrical impulses to the olfactory bulb in the brain. The olfactory bulb then transmits the impulses to the amygdala - where emotional memories are stored - and to other parts of the limbic system of the brain.Because the limbic system is directly connected to those parts of the brain that control heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, memory, stress levels, and hormone balance, essential oils can have profound physiological and psychological effects… Olfactory responses to odors induce the brain to stimulate the release of hormones and neurochemicals that in turn alter the body’s physiology and behavior. Click here to read more
