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In Remembrance
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: about 45 minutes to anywhere!
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In Remembrance
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: about 45 minutes to anywhere!
Posts: 3,086
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Let your food be your medicine - etc...
please try to think about these next two quotes -
Three Reasons We Are So Sick
It’s a complex issue and a complicated history that led us to this point, but our alarmingly unhealthy bodies can be traced to three simple mistakes: breakfast, lunch and dinner. What have you been putting in your mouth?
“Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food”. – Hippocrates (c. 460 B.C.) the Father of Medicine
Plants have the job, vital to the continued existence of mankind, of converting the light energy radiating from the sun into an energy form which we humans can use; hence plants from which we obtain the fixed oils should be exposed to as much good quality sunlight as possible. Oils from a sunny area possess a vibrant energy and intrinsic synergy which those coming from a cloudy area do not (the words *vital force* are deliberately not chosen because of inappropriate connotation).
Fixed oils, possessing as they do lubricating, emollient and dietetic qualities, provide a meeting place for aromatherapy and nutrition, and at times it is difficult to separate the one from the other. Any study or inquiry into the carrier oils inevitably arouses interest in all aspects of the usefulness of these allÐround health giving oils with their vitamins, minerals and attributes beneficial to the general health, but the aspect of ingestion cannot be properly addressed in this book. It is hoped that the following pages will help in both the study of aromatherapy and of massage generally and give guidance in choosing the carrier oils which are the most appropriate, effective and of a suitable quality.
Although there is quite a large body of research on the nutritional aspects of oils, very little work has been done on their use in massage, so although references are quoted whenever appropriate, much of the information in this book is anecdotal, and some readers may view this as a drawback. It is to be hoped that, on reading this book, the reader will be motivated to find out more about these intriguing and useful oils and perhaps to take them more seriously than hitherto. The author would be very grateful to receive any personal experience that any reader may have regarding the properties of fixed oils mentioned in this book (or indeed any other oil) which it is thought might be helpful and which could be added to this text to improve it and thus make available additional information to all aromatherapists and massage therapists.
In one respect knowledge is like love, the more given, the more received.
Taken from Aromatherapy World, Distillation 1999 journal of the International Society of Professional Aromatherapists
This book is not only informative and interesting, but is also an important addition to the therapist's library. Like all good text books it helps us all to be more aware of what we don't know and give us an appetite for learning more.
I recommend the book to you, the only problem being that once you start reading it, you will not be able to put it down!
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Carrier Oils for Aromatherapy & Massage by Leonard Price
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pd documentary - part 2 and 3
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Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these.
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