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FRAGRANCE & CONNECTION
By Cornelia Powell | June 12, 2008
I love how a certain scent can bring a sweet distant memory into focus. On a walk the other morning, the smell of honeysuckle took me on a childhood journey of adventure with my father. I remembered how we would pick armloads of wildflowers in the piney woods of our Alabama farm, and then surprise my mother with our fragrant bounty!
My aromatherapist friends remind me that none of our senses are more related to the emotions than the sense of smell. The pure fragrance of essential oils encourages the link between the right and left sides of the brain, connecting how we feel to how we think. Scents are a part of the delicate balancing act of the body and mind, the heart and brain. But to really understand the power and magic of scent, they say, one must experience it.
Hmmmm. That’s a bit like love, isn’t it? With love, we experience the movement of energy that rushes through the body and seems to fill our heart, leaving us a bit light-headed! And like experiencing a fragrance — breathing in the sweet scent of a rose, for instance — the experience of “love” brings all of our other senses into play. We seem more aware of the world around us; we become more balanced and settled into a deeper place inside our heart.
If aromatic essential oils are considered messengers of nature (speaking to our inner nature through fragrance, not words) then love may be considered the messenger of our true spirit, speaking the language of connection and harmony of our inner and outer worlds. The perfect envoy of true partnership.
No wonder brides have used scented flowers through the ages, not only for their beauty, but for their soothing, balancing effect … and connection to the heart.
Take three deep breaths, breathing in the fragrance of love … breathing out whatever doesn’t feel harmonious and balanced in your world. And listen closely to the stillness … there are messages that come to us in very delicate, subtle ways.
Love. Listen. Let go.
… with love from Cornelia
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