Plant Essential Oils are Organic Entities
This thought suddenly popped into my mind at the beginning of the reading group: the "organic" I'm referring to here isn't agricultural organic, but rather organic at the level of natural life energy. The organic nature of natural plant essential oil formulations manifests on two levels: the blender and the user.
Each person's unique temperament and energy signature interact with the essential oils when blending a formula. In my experience, I've often observed that even with the same formula, number of drops, and blending sequence, different individuals will create distinct aromas.
Once the blended personal formula is applied to the user, it responds to the individual's current physical and mental needs, acting on the required areas or even manifesting an aroma preferred by the user.
Considering the four essential oils — Lemon, Clary Sage, Laurel, and Sweet Basil — from the second "Essentialtalk aromatherapy study group", the common threads I observed are 'stimulating relaxation' and 'nourishing nerves'.
Stimulating Relaxation
The concept of stimulating relaxation refers to situations where nerve fatigue is caused by excessive tension or prolonged stress. In such cases, a bit more stimulation is initially needed to break the habit of tension and tightness, allowing the body and mind to then relax.
Common examples in daily life include children who are too excited before bedtime and find it difficult to fall asleep, or individuals who are utterly exhausted and physically drained from work, yet paradoxically unable to sleep.
Nourishing Nerves
Nerves are distributed throughout the entire body, serving as the body's internal and external communication cells. They constantly receive, process, and respond to information 24 hours a day, sensing messages from the external environment — atmosphere, temperature, humidity, sound, light, and scent — while also perceiving information about internal movements and changes in gases, blood, hormones, and organs. Activated by these stimuli, they generate various bodily actions and reactions, and so the cycle continues.
Nourishing nerves involves several aspects: maintaining stable and continuous reception and transmission of messages by sensory nerve endings; ensuring stable and continuous transmission of messages by nerve fibers; and providing sufficient space and time for sensory and motor nerve synapses to exchange and process information.
Both the weekend and weekday classes blended body massage oils themed 'Awakening the Mind, Tonic the Nerves' and 'Purifying, Promoting Flow.' As the weather is getting warmer, students decided to use apricot kernel oil as the base carrier oil, with a blending concentration of 1%.
'Awakening the Mind, Tonic the Nerves' is suitable for application on the head, neck, shoulders, back, and face. 'Purifying, Promoting Flow' is suitable for full-body application.
My Reminder: Due to the inclusion of Lemon essential oil, please be aware that after application or massage, direct sun exposure should be avoided for 3-4 hours, or sunscreen should be applied.
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