Wonderful scent flows around you and fills the atmosphere. Slowly but surely it takes away your tiredness, problems and worries of a hard day and lays you on a quiet meadow full of fragrant flowers, shrubs and trees. Their perfumes are lovely, relaxing and makes you want to rest with beautiful music or just with a burning candle in uninterrupted silence.
How AROMATHERAPY affects you when inhaling?
Oils, as well as any other odours, affect our smell above all. As soon as you open the bottle of essential oil, its fragrance immediately escapes from the closed vessel and spreads around. Its molecules are caught by your nose when breathing-in, and further they are lead up to the olfactory organ where the smell is created. There, tens of millions of olfactus start vibrating in the mucous membranes inside your nostrils, and thus the scents are identified. This information is then transferred via nerves to the brain, where it recalls memories and affects the emotional and physical behaviour of an individual. It has been proved, that smells influence and stimulate taste, body temperature, immunity, thinking, reaction, sexual desire, mood or creativity. Smells evoke psychological and physiological responses by stimulating the production of endorphins and neurotransmitters in the brain. Although essential oils are tools of fine therapy, they have the power to impact deep in the psyche and thus relax the mind and raise the spirits. These chemicals call up various feelings: they may ease pain, reduce stress, evoke the feeling of self-confidence and balance. When breathed in, the essential oils penetrate into the respiratory system. Inside the lungs the oil molecules bind with oxygen molecules? they are distributed into the blood circulation and go throughout the body. Inside individual cells these oils activate the ability of self-therapy.
Artificial substitutes are usually derived from petroleum, a non-renewable resource, and thus may cause allergies, or their use is limited to a certain time only. Obviously, their production costs, and therefore the prices are lower. Fortunately, people have gradually begun to realize that the quality of their lives and the positive effects of pure essences on their health give a benefit that the substitutes can never offer.