Essential Oils for Mindfulness and Meditation

Relax, Replenish, and Rejuvenate

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Pub Date Nov 06 2018 | Archive Date Sep 06 2018
Inner Traditions | Healing Arts Press

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A hands-on guide showing how essential oils can support and enhance meditative and mindful practices

• Details safe and effective methods to incorporate essential oils into your mindfulness or meditation practice

• Explains the many ways essential oils benefit the mind, such as how odors can immediately draw your attention to the present moment, trigger a specific state of consciousness, or provide a way to regain composure quickly

• Provides the latest scientific research on the emotional, psychological, physiological, and neurological effects of essential oils on the mind, body, and nervous system

• Includes an easy-to-follow chart to help you choose the right essential oil for you

For millennia, the spiritual power of odor--such as from incense or frankincense--has been used to symbolize intention, stimulate awareness of our spiritual self, and accentuate rite and ritual. Drawing on this power, as well as their healing qualities, essential oils can provide the perfect complement to meditation or mindfulness practice.

Outlining the practice and benefits of meditation and mindfulness in combination with the use of essential oils, Heather Dawn Godfrey explains how these practices hone and sustain a conscious awareness of “being” in the present moment, focusing attention on what you are sensually experiencing and leaving no space for regrets, traumas, fears, anxiety, or anticipation. Providing the latest scientific research on the restorative, rehabilitative, and psycho-emotional healing effects of essential oils, she explains how the sensory experience of odors can immediately draw your attention to the present moment, trigger a specific state of consciousness, such as a deeper meditative state, or offer a way to regain composure quickly when dealing with life’s ups and downs. She shows how many essential oils naturally reduce stress and anxiety, promote a peaceful attitude, support concentration, regulate breathing, and stimulate serotonin and GABA pathways in the brain, making them ideal aids to mindfulness and meditation.

Explaining methods to incorporate essential oils into your practice, Godfrey introduces readers to the “Gem” essential oils--a group of oils specifically selected for attaining and maintaining a state of mindfulness, as well as a broad spectrum of therapeutic properties--and she provides an easy-to-follow chart to help you select the oil that is right for you. Offering a hands-on practical guide to integrating essential oils into mindful and meditative practice, the author shows how each of us has the ability to self-generate a calm, tranquil, and worry-free state of mind.

A hands-on guide showing how essential oils can support and enhance meditative and mindful practices

• Details safe and effective methods to incorporate essential oils into your mindfulness or...


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PAGES 160

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This little book looks at the current trend of mindfulness and meditation and how we can use essential oils in tandem with these practises to enhance our wellbeing. The book is a nice mix of background information and suggestions for which oils to use as well as how to use them to get the most out of them. I am looking forward to putting some of the suggestions into practise.

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Essential Oils by Heather Dawn Godfrey is a comprehensive guide on how to best use oils for health and well being. Using the right oils to get the best results for your meditations is one subject that I really enjoyed studying. It's a hands on book that teaches as it goes . A wonderful resource book that I think that everyone will be able to use whether you are really into oils or jut dabble. I loved it. I received this book from Net Galley and Inner Traditions for a honest review and no other compensation.

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A lot of really good information about essential oils. So glad that I was able to review this book and get that information!!

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Essential oils have become so popular. It’s nice to have the opportunity to read a book combining mindfulness, meditation and essential oils. I would definitely recommend reading this book. When, how, where and the best time to use the essential oils is outlined throughout the book. A great reference book too.

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This book is an informative guide to the use of essential oils as an accompaniment to meditation/mindfulness. It finishes with a chapter on other forms of achieving wellbeing - nutrition, exercise and relaxation. There are footnotes and a bibliography for further information. As such it’s very comprehensive but as a newcomer to essential oils I didn’t find the content intimidating. Thanks to NetGalley and publisher for the chance to review this ebook in exchange for an honest review. I liked it so much I’m putting in on my paperback birthday wish list!

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Essential Oils for Mindfulness and Meditation is a great resource for those who want to deepen their understanding of aromatherapy and the use of essential oils in general, but particularly as a way to enhance mindfulness.

The book begins with a high-level discussion of mindfulness, then moves onto a thorough exploration of essential oils and how to use them as part of your mindfulness practice. This means that you don’t have to have background knowledge about mindfulness, meditation, or essential oils before coming to this book. You get to learn it all in one place.

Godfrey approaches the material academically. She cites numerous studies and references to back her claims. She explores essential oils from a variety of directions to include the history of their use, the science of scent, and the practical application of how to use them. She talks about how to choose them, how to store them, proper dosages, dilution, and so on. In addition to standard prose, the book includes photographs, tables, and diagrams to make the information easy to understand. The book even includes a section about complementary wellness techniques in which Godfrey touches on exercise and nutrition.

I enjoyed reading this book. First of all, it is pretty. There is something to be said for a book that sparks peaceful excitement just by looking at its pages. The information is organized well, and I learned a lot. For example, I didn’t realize until I read this book how prevalent the mention of essential oils is in spiritual and historical texts. It is a practice that has been going on in some form for a very long time. I learned that adding essential oils to my bath mixed with a carrier oil is preferred to reduce the risk for drying and irritation over my current method of adding the drops “neat.”

This book is great for people who want to expand their own techniques at home, as well as for those who offer services to clients — particularly meditation instructors, Reiki practitioners, yoga instructors, and other mindfulness practitioners.

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I am reviewing “Essential Oils for Mindfulness and Meditation” by Heather Dawn Godfrey.

I am just developing an interest in the self use of essential oils having had them used effectively during massage sessions in the past. I found this book to be a clear and concise relating of information particularly to someone new to the art of the use of essential oils. Many times books of this type heavily subscribe to the specific mindset of a user and do not give a broad application of knowledge for all types of people and their varying interests. This was absolutely not the case with Ms. Godfrey’s book. It was well researched and documented and would be a wonderful reference book for the use and application of oils and the ancillary healing and meditative methods that support them. All this in lay terms that anyone can understand without a great deal of prior experience.

Thank you so much for allowing me to read and review this book.

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As someone very interested in both aromatherapy and mindfulness I was very excited to review this book. I wasn’t disappointed. Concise and informative. A very enjoyable read

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Although this book is more academic than I expected, it is very informative and useful for anyone with an interest in essential oils and mindfulness

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Great book. I liked it and found it helpful. It offered great information and was informative. Anyone looking for information on essential oils should get it.

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Great book for those with an interest in essential oils. Look forward to putting it to practice, and would recommend for others.

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This book has tone of great information about essential oils. I love the different combinations of oils and the wonderful way they smell! My whole family seems to like it.

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