Essential Oils for Mindfulness and Meditation: Relax, Replenish, and Rejuvenate
A hands-on guide showing how essential oils can support and enhance meditative and mindful practices • Details safe and effective methods to incorporate essential oils into your mindfulness or meditation practice • Explains the many ways essential oils benefit the mind, such as how odors can immediately draw your attention to the present moment, trigger a specific state of consciousness, or provide a way to regain composure quickly • Provides the latest scientific research on…

The book has the following chapters.

 

What is Mindfulness

Essential Oils as Meditation Companion

Applying Essential Oils

Complementary Wellness Techniques

 

I enjoy finding books that combine complimentary topics. The idea of essential oils and aromatherapy being used with mindfulness and meditation is not new, but the author does a good job of showing how and why they work together. She also includes a chart with the Noble Eightfold Path along. The photos in the book are beautiful.

 

The author provides a table detailing where specific plants store essential oil. As someone concerned with safety, I appreciate that the author does not recommend ingesting essential oils. She does an excellent job detailing the olfactory, respiratory, and limbic systems. This is a very thorough book and would be a great resource for anyone working with essential oils for themselves or others.

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