Aromatherapy is an alternate healing treatment that uses natural plant extracts to promote health and well-being. It is also called essential oil therapy. Aromatherapy uses aromatic essential oils medicinally to improve the health of the body, mind, and spirit. It enhances both physical and emotional health.
Aromatherapy is widely used as an instrument in science of late and conventional medicine has recognized its benefits. It can manage pain, improve sleep quality, reduce stress, agitation, and anxiety, soothe sore joints, treat headaches and migraine, alleviate side effects of chemotherapy, ease discomforts of labour, fight bacteria, virus, or fungus, improve digestion and palliative care and boost immunity.
Perfumes can also show one’s personality. Room fresheners, when sprayed across a home or office or a vehicle, can bring a place to life by eliminating all negative and unpleasant odour. You feel nice when you enter a place which has a nice fragrance. It has many therapeutic benefits, too, like curing headache and treating insomnia.
Use of perfumes or fresheners at home is important to attract fresh, positive and vibrant energy. Some common sources of fragrances are incense stick,s flowers as well as oil diffusers. According to the principles of Vaastu, perfumes and fragrant products have a connection with planet Venus or Shukra. The use of such products pleases the planet and helps promote relationships.
Directions
Items used as fragrances must be stored in the northwest corner of the house. This is the direction for relationship and communication and ideal to store perfumes and related products.
A few tips
1. Add attar (fragrant oil derived from plants) to a jar of holy water and sprinkle the liquid across the house. This helps resolve conflicts and build positive ambience.
2. Burning camphor in the house can dispel negative energies.
3. Common home aromas use include fragrant flowers, incense sticks as well as scented candles. Burning essential oils like jasmine, chamomile, lavender and eucalyptus is excellent in enhancing the aroma of the rooms.
Some items for luck
The crystal ball: Crystal balls are useful everywhere and they have no negative effects. They are extremely lucky for students. Keep a crystal ball on the study table for concentration. Clean it regularly in salt water because they also absorb negative energy.
Crystal balls can be hung on the window to let the sunlight diffuse through it inside the house. This is auspicious for wealth.
When kept in the southwest corner of the bedroom, crystal balls can improve relationships.
The tortoise: Feng Shui considers the tortoise as a very lucky item. The tortoise brings peace and money. It can be kept in the north in a plate with water. Replenish the water when it dries off. Statues of tortoise mounted on coins are available. These are also very good to keep in the office or house.