AROMATHERAPY AND THE TWELVE GIFTS

essential oils

Innumerable tools and activities (physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual) can help us tap to the rich resources within us. On the physical level alone, using each of the body's senses, there are multitudes of ways to stir and nurture our inborn strength, beauty, courage, compassion, hope, joy, talent, imagination, reverence, wisdom, love, and faith. Here's one example:Holistic nurse and aromatherapist Lorraine Santos Rimando made a "Twelve Gifts Spritzer" for a workshop she conducted which was based on my book, The Twelve Gifts for Healing.Like me, Loraine loves to collect and share ways that we can release stress and refresh ourselves.Among her favorite tools are essential oils. From her studies and work, Lorraine offers these suggested oils associated with nurturing and tapping into each of The Twelve Gifts:Strength - Atlas CedarBeauty - JasmineCourage - ThymeCompassion - Sweet MarjoramHope - Tea TreeJoy - Sweet OrangeTalent - RosemaryImagination - GeraniumWisdom - CypressReverence - FrankencenseLove - RoseFaith - FrankencenseThese can each be used alone or combined into a spritzer, as Lorraine did.Thanks for sharing, Lorraine!