Fragrant Clouds Of Purity And Protection

Human beings are far more sensitive than can be accounted for by sight, hearing touch, taste and smell. We react in different ways to people and places, 'feeling' them to be beneficial to us or not, although such differences cannot be accounted for by the way they look. A person might walk into a room and appear perfectly normal, in that they are dressed like every one else and behave in much the same way, but we might feel suddenly, unaccountably distressed. Or we might feel suddenly, uncomfortable distressed. or we might walk into a room and feel uncomfortable in it, although it's clean and well-furnished. It may even be our own home that feels, at times, uncomfortable in a way we cannot explain.

Unseen energies are a part of life and, although invisible, affect us deeply and even change the course of our actions. people say, 'I just want to get out of here,' and, although we may not have the same feeling, we understand that some unpleasant energy phenomenon has taken place and reply,' OK' let's go. "You often hear people say of a person "They" sap my energy,' and although there's no energy to see, we know exactly what they mean and sympathize. You even hear people occasionally say, I felt a presence in the room,' and, although we don't know exactly what this 'presence' is, we've known similar experiences at some point in our lives and accept what they say. Even though we may have a limited vocabulary to describe these invisible energy experiences, they are there nonetheless.

If invisibility meant non-existence, there would be no such thing as portable radios. TVs and mobile telephones because these are the receiving hardware that interpret bits of invisible information floating through the air. Our bodies are the receivers of other, natural, unseen energies, some of which are not welcome in our lives.

judging by the number of talismans, ceremonies and rituals used by people around the world, from earliest times, dealing with these unseen force has been a very widespread human activity. They have been variously perceived as 'bad luck', 'the evil eye', 'spirits' and in more modern times as 'negative thought forms', 'distressed emotional frequencies' and so forth. Some Christians wear a St Christopher's medal as a pendant to protect them while travelling, or cross of the Crucifixion; while a feng shui expert might rearrange the furniture in a building to redirect the 'wind and water' forces, to bring good energies and fortune. 

In dealing with the invisible forces, and dispite differences in belief, geographical location and time,people have often used fragrance as a protective shield between them and the perceived negativity. This manipulation of fragrance for spiritual ends binds people very distant from each other in belief, space and time, and often they use the same widely dispersed species of plant to facilitate more or less the same thing. Cedarwood, pine, and juniper are among those plants that have been widely adopted in this way.

Native Americans living along the Thompson River burnt juniper to keep 'ghosts' away, and in Tibet juniper is offered daily to good spirits. In several native American cultures, the aroma of burning sweetgrass or sage purifies the enetgies and attracts the 'supernaturals'. In some Arab homes, on Thursdays, frankincense is burnt in a censer and carried through the living rooms and bedrooms - to expel evil spirits and invite the angels in.

In the souk in Cairo, Egypt, and elsewhere, people make a living going from shop to shop, censing each in turn with frankincense burnt in a censer or even a small piece of charcoal in a rusty tin can, to dispel any negative energy customers may have left behind, making the environment more inviting to potential customers.

Such practices have been going on for millennia. The ancient mesopotanians, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans all used fragrance not only to attract beneficial energy, but to keep in auspicious energies 'at bay'. The Greeks fumigated homes with bay leaves, while in the early days of Rome verbena or other fragrant plants were hung above doorways  to deter il malochio, the evil eye. Censers were kept burning by front doors in classical times, even by the poorer households. In medieval Europe, 'witches' were the feared bad spirit, and rituals were carried out at pivotal points in the year with the object of dispelling them from the vicinity.

These often involved walking through the village or town wavering bunches of smouldering fragrant herbs or woods to send the aroma into every nook and cranny. Juniper and rosemary were amongst those widely used. In the feng shui spirit-placating rite, tun fu, incense is used.

Reference: The Fragrant Heavens: Valerie Ann Worwood

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I remember going to the Max Fac tor Museum in Los Angeles and being struck by an aroma I did not know. When I say 'struck', I mean that inhaling it caused a profound reaction in my solar plexus. This aroma and I have a history which I have yet to discover. It conjured up images of which I have no conscious memory of a time before my birth.

One day I'll return to that museum with my essential-oil kit and attempt to replicate the aroma. Then, with the help of someone to guide me through, I'll hopefully understand what significance it has to me.

If you have found while undergoing body-work that you have memories, or any other experience which is different to normal, and there is an aroma attached to it which corresponds with an essential oil, take a sample of that next time you go.

Inhale the aroma before the session begins and ask the therapist to work on the same place that caused the memory or other reaction last time.

Be very open with the therapist about this - you should not keep anything to yourself. It is important to verbalize and discuss any such experiences. Aside from the fact that you need to bring them into the open so they can be released, if any event involved physical hurt, the energetic emotional reaction can be stored in the body tissue and organs and your therapist will want to know about it.

Reactions to particular aromas are highly individualistic. One person may have no reaction at all, while another may find a far-memory is revealed. Aromas are like pigments and that colour our experiences of life and each painting is unique. There have now been so many books, articles and TV programmes about past-life experiences, they can hardly be denied. The question is, 'What are they?' In some cases, they are undoubtedly an illusion - some-one has read something, overheard something, or seen something which they later adopt as their own experience.

In most cases these are innocent mistakes, caused by being half asleep, in a daydream, or some mental state in which reality and fantasy become mixed up. Children may be particularly prone to this. If everything we ever see, smell and hear is retained in our vast memory vault, who can say that a bay didn't watch a TV programme in say, 1960, and recalled it as a 'past life' in 2000? Some 'past lives are 'simply' genetic memory, an invisible in heritance we carry deep within.

However, in many cases, there is absolutely no possibility of this because the ancestors and the date and location of the recalled event don't match up. This is especially so, when the whereabouts of ancestors can be easily confirmed. Those who work in this field are familiar with the options, and are also familiar with the profound release that can come from experiencing key moments in past or far-lives - and in the present life - and see that major changes in behaviour and life-direction can result.

When a person  is free from encumbering emotions of past lives or of other lives encountered along the spirit's journey - they soar like a bird into a happier future. This release can be physical, and chronic pains and ailments are sometimes said to lessen; it can be behavioural, and old ways of relating change for the better, and it can be spiritual, as people find their own true selves. In a sense it doesn't matter whether the techniques used access the personal subconscious, the superconscious or the universal consciousness.

What is clear is that which we seek consciously or unconsciously, and need to evolve. In this, aroma can play a transformational role.

Reference: The Fragrant Heavens: Valerie Ann Worwood.

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I've heard hundreds of similar stories during Aroma-genera sessions, and am led to believe that it is the emotions around a particular situation that get trapped within the electromagnetic field, or etheric field, bio-plasmic field, or orgone or other variously termed field of person. It is not so much the dying, or the people or circumstances of a particular memory, its magnitude or triviality, but the emotion - the core feeling - that carries forward and interferes with the flow of life.

What is so clear from past-life or earlier present-life recall is that events in the past can rest in the energy, causing it to flow in the wrong direction. The past emotion sits like a rock in the river of life, sending us off course. These rocks of distortion send us into directions that relate to the past, not to the future we should enjoy unencumbered b y the past. We become, as the saying goes, ' bent out of shape'. We are hindered by emotions such as anger, anxiety and shame that bear no relation to the life we are living right now.

The Aroma-Genera experience is very gentle and releasing. No hypnotic techniques are involved. At all times the person is fully aware of the present, and also of the sensation that they are involved in, enabling them to discuss each step of their experience as a detached observer. Indeed, the aroma seems to allow us to straddle two time -place existences. Take for example, the case of Martin, who recalled being an innkeeper at a place some distance from London during the great fire of 1666. He described standing with his wife watching the dramatic scene on the horizon as London burned, sending the aroma of burning wood far and wide.

At one point his voice lowered and he appeared to be talking to someone - he was giving highly detailed instructions  to his wife to prepare more beds  and food, as they would surely be busy tonight. He was having two conversations with two people in our one time. The present-day Martin, objectively viewing his old self, was amused that he had been more interested in the monetary fortune to be gained from London burning than in the fate of the people directly involved in the fire. interestingly, in this lifetime, Martin works as a healer with people suffering post-traumatic stress, and he hypothesized that he was now making up for his past selfish behaviour, and perhaps assuaging the subsequent guilt he may have felt.

Aroma-genera is not regression therapy. It involves working with personality types which may be imposed upon us, or adopted by us to get us through the present-day life. However, through Aroma-Genera, personalities from somewhere else do emerge. There is always a key moment, a pivotal point which keeps coming up until its message is understood and resolved.

This is not a process that can be undergone alone, and the blends cannot be put together in an arbitrary way. Using aroma as a regression tool  is a precise science. There is absolutely not need for standard regression techniques - where a person is led back in time - the aroma does that instead. Nor is there any need of hypnotism. The state induced by aroma is not like being repressed, or hypnotized, and neither is it like dreaming. Aroma takes us down another route entirely.

Aroma-Genera is a system that uses aroma like a searchlight, seeking within that which waits to be found. \But there is another approach when a particular aroma haunts a person, either in a positive or negative way. For example, a person might find a particular aroma abhorrent for no apparent reason and this may b e indicative of a hidden story that could be released by that aroma. In these cases a sample of the aroma could be taken to a psychotherapist, counsellor, Aroma-genera practitioner, or someone else professionally trained  to understand the psychological process that goes on in memory recall.

They can support the individual on the journey and, when the relevant memory source is reached, help him or her understand the connection between that past experience and their present life and behaviour patterns. Also, their may be a particular aroma that draws a person enigmatically to it, and there may be a story in that.

Reference: The Fragrant Heavens: Valerie Ann Worwood….READ MORE

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But how do we explain the visitation of 'Tim L. to Claire Sylvia in the dream? Can the cell, including its associated energy field, hold the memory and behaviour not only of the person up to and until the moment of death, but also hold to itself the individualized 'spirt' of the person.

Many questions are raised by these issues. Organ transplants give a modern twist to other-life existences, but basically this is an ancient subject which has played an important part in the spiritual development of people around the world - many of whom have their own body-work systems, ways to go into a hypnotic state, spontaneous experiences and aromatic ceremonies.

Aroma and memory are, of course, inextricably linked. olfactory nerves are actually part of the brain, extending from it into the nasal cavity, where they meet aroma molecules, via receptors. Nothing gets closer to the brain than aroma! The brain, we now know thanks to research in psycho-neuro -immuno-endocrinology, is an ongoing system, producing neurochemicals which have receptors on cells in all parts of the body - a continuum with undefined borders. Aroma induces the release of brain chemicals, and thus can affect the whole body.

In addition, from pictures of the auric field of aromas - in the form of essential oils - we can see they have a wonderful dynamism that interacts with the auric field of a person. Aromas, then, are unique in being the one physical/etherical thing which appears to reach all parts of our body and perhaps, all parts of our spirit.

Is it any wonder that smell has such a profound effect on us, or that extended memory can be triggered by certain aromas? Aroma is one of the means by which memory is laid down by its as yet mysterious recording mechanism. Aromas that have no particular association for us  in this lifetime can act as a trigger, releasing the memory association that may have been laid down in a former life.

The mechanism for this may be essentially physical, with the aroma molecules acting on the cells indirectly by stimulating  neurosecretory hormones to act upon the cell-receptors. Looking at it from an energetic viewpoint, there may be a parallel universe in which aroma is itself the key which unlocks the memory-receptors. And as the etheric energy is eternal, rather than physically mortal like flesh, the memories can relate not only to this lifetime, but to other times held in the etheric field. 

During Aroma-genera - a system I have developed for the release of emotions that are attached to experiences of past events, both in this lifetime and beyond - a fragrance associated with a particular personality sometimes brings to the front of the mind a time and blends are used, and, by inhaling them with eyes closed, other space-times are reached.

Some of the present-life memories that are recalled can seem very trivial, and they show how sensitive human beings really are. A child can be deeply hurt by a casual offhand comment, or made to feel inadequate by being unable to tie a shoelace. Even new-born babies can be traumatized, as, for example, the case of a woman who remembered, as a new-born baby, being separated from her mother in the delivery room, and put behind a curtained screen. It's frightening to think how many babies have had to undergo similar distress because adults don't understand the emotions even new born's can experience.

So many hurts are being carried forward in time, unbeknownst to us. Memories arise from adulthood too, and reveal emotions we may have hidden even from ourselves, such as loss and fear.

Past-life memories can, unlike present-life recall, involve death. This is sometimes traumatic, and sometimes not obviously so, although there is always an emotion attached. For example, one woman recalled being hung for stealing an apple. She asked, bewildered, ' An apple? They'd hang me for an apple?' and it was the emotion of unfairness that clung tenaciously to her present.

In another case, a man recalled a lifetime in which he was so fat that when he died his family had difficulty getting him out of his bed and down the stairs. He was very embarrassed that his dead body had continued to release horrible smelly odours. Not coincidentally, in this lifetime he has an obsession with cleanliness or, rather, had an obsession before it was dissipated by the Aroma genera session.

As we know, there are often several traumatic moments  in a person's life. One Native American woman with fear of enclosed underground spaces had it explained during Aroma-Genera. She was a young girl of three or four and waiting for a tornado to pass with her family in the root cellar of their house. Suddenly she got the sensation they were not safe where they were and told her family who disagreed.

But she was so insistent everyone eventually left the cellar, only seconds before the whole building collapsed into it. It was  the meeting  of the past aroma - of the cellar and roots - and the present aroma - one of nine Aroma - Genera blends - that brought this memory out of the lifetime's memory vault. The girl and her family did not die and were not harmed by the experience but she was still holding the fear, until it was released by Aroma-Genera.

Reference: The Fragrant Heavens: The Spiritual Dimension of Fragrance and Aromatherapy: Valerie Ann Worwood……. READ MORE