How To Find
The Right Aromatherapy Oil For
Emotional Problems
Yesterday, I met a young lady
who told me that she been having
emotional problems and someone
suggested
Clary
Sage as the remedy.
She said she didn't like the
smell of it and it made her
nauseous, so she's not used the
aromatherapy oil at all since
she bought the bottle and opened
the lid for the first - and
last! - time.
Now I could eat, drink, roll
around in Clary Sage until the
end of time, and it *is* a good
remedy for *certain* emotional
problems, but clearly wasn't the
right one for this young lady.
So how do you find the
right aromatherapy essential oil
for YOUR specific emotional
problems?
Well I explained to her that
I use a different way of
explaining the effects of the
oils.
I don't use therapy or
psychology words such as
stressed, depressed, anxious,
fearful, paranoid, ADD or
whatever.
Instead, I tell a story.
For
example, the
Clary Sage
story
is about a woman in rags and
with her hair in tatters,
running in her bare feet across
a frozen winter field, and crows
pecking at her head as she runs
for her life ...
Someone comes and catches her in
their arms, chases the crows
away, puts a warm blanket around
her, and takes her inside, where
there is a cosy fire, and it is
warm, and safe.
So the woman is the
description of the state of
being, and the someone with the
warm blanket is the action of
the Clary Sage.
I said to the young lady,
"Now when you hear this, you can
tell if that fits you - if
that's what you feel like.
"There are many other ways in
which to feel emotionally upset.
"Instead of the crow woman,
you could have someone sitting
in a dark cave, covered in dust,
in the darkness, dry, no light
shines here, no movement, no
sound ...
"And if someone feels
emotions like that, they will
RECOGNISE THEMSELVES in one of
the stories, and that's the
story that has the right
essential oil for YOUR state of
being, whatever that may be."
I'd never explained what
Aromatherapy For Your Soul is
actually doing with those
stories to someone who has never
heard of this before, and I was
surprised how readily and easily
the young lady understood
exactly what I was trying to do,
and saw the merit in it.
The fact is that
people are DESIGNED to learn and
understand BY STORY, not by dry
fact listings or artificial
words that mean one thing to one
person, and a totally different
thing to another (one man's
depression is NEVER exactly the
same as another man's
depression!).
Stories are far more
information dense than "just
facts" because they include
environment, energy, emotion
AND ACTION within them.
Where "depression" or
"madness" is this still thing,
stuck in time, the woman being
chased by the crows running
across the winter fields,
exhausting herself, hurting
herself, being defenceless and
terrified is MOVING, it is an
unfolding state of affairs, as
all stories are; and as the
rescuer comes into the story, it
BECOMES CHANGED and we
understand how that happens.
That's the other amazing
thing about story vs "fact" -
people UNDERSTAND stories
without having to go to
University first for 8 years and
read a mountain of "learned"
books.
A five year old can
understand the story about the
Clary Sage, and if they're a bit
switched on, could say, "That's
just like Auntie Kate!" if you
asked them who that woman
reminded them of.
That's the true magic of
story as an information
transmission device - we
understand it, it makes sense,
and we learn something from it.
I bet that after reading
this, you'll always remember
that crow woman and the Clary
Sage that comes to the rescue,
and if you ever met someone in
THAT emotional state, you could
quite authoritatively tell them,
"You need Clary Sage!"
As for the young lady who
didn't feel that the Clary Sage
"vibed" with her problems, she
can now look through the pages
of Aromatherapy For Your Soul,
which are all free online at
http://aromatherapy4soul.com
and find THE RIGHT aromatherapy
oil FOR HER OWN emotional
problems - whatever they may be.
Which is a very neat thing
indeed, when all is said and
done.
Dr
Hartmann, February 2009
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