s an Ayurvedic treatment for correcting imbalances in the doshas. This therapy works by penetrating into the memory and breaking the pattern of imbalance that lives there. In this way aromatherapy heals the memory of trauma and disease, quickly, effortlessly, and pleasurably.

• Vata is cal

The sense of smell is vastly underappreciated—it can give you early warning of a nearby fire, arouse your sex¬ual interest or appetite for food, and elicit a surge of deep-seated memories. Without smell you couldn't distinguish the taste of an apple from that of an onion or potato: 80 percent of your ability to detect a flavor comes from fragrances. How can a mere sniff be so powerful?

Smell owes its potency to the fact that, unlike other senses, it is directly connected with the emotion-generating areas in the brain. When you inhale an aroma, its molecules stimulate two tiny membranes deep in your nose. They stimulate receptors that trigger an electric signal to the limbic system and the hypothalamus. These ancient parts of the brain activate, control, and integrate parts of the nervous system, endocrine system, and many body functions including heart rate, respiration, temperature, blood sugar levels, waking, sleeping, and sexual arousal. They are also the seat of your most basic emotions—such as pleasure, anger, sadness, and fear—and are involved in memory.

How Aromas Affect the Doshas

Aromatherapy, the use of specific essential aromatic oils, is an Ayurvedic treatment for correcting imbalances in the doshas. This therapy works by penetrating into the memory and breaking the pattern of imbalance that lives there. In this way aromatherapy heals the memory of trauma and disease, quickly, effortlessly, and pleasurably.

• Vata is calm

your ability to detect a flavor comes from fragrances. How can a mere sniff be so powerful?

Smell owes its potency to the fact that, unlike other senses, it is directly connected with the emotion-generating areas in the brain. When you inhale an aroma, its molecules stimulate two tiny membranes deep in your nose. They stimulate receptors that trigger an electric signal to the limbic system and the hypothalamus. These ancient parts of the brain activate, control, and integrate parts of the nervous system, endocrine system, and many body functions including heart rate, respiration, temperature, blood sugar levels, waking, sleeping, and sexual arousal. They are also the seat of your most basic emotions—such as pleasure, anger, sadness, and fear—and are involved in memory.

How Aromas Affect the Doshas

Aromatherapy, the use of specific essential aromatic oils, is an Ayurvedic treatment for correcting imbalances in the doshas. This therapy works by penetrating into the memory and breaking the pattern of imbalance that lives there. In this way aromatherapy heals the memory of trauma and disease, quickly, effortlessly, and pleasurably.

• Vata is cal

branes deep in your nose. They stimulate receptors that trigger an electric signal to the limbic system and the hypothalamus. These ancient parts of the brain activate, control, and integrate parts of the nervous system, endocrine system, and many body functions including heart rate, respiration, temperature, blood sugar levels, waking, sleeping, and sexual arousal. They are also the seat of your most basic emotions—such as pleasure, anger, sadness, and fear—and are involved in memory.

How Aromas Affect the Doshas

Aromatherapy, the use of specific essential aromatic oils, is an Ayurvedic treatment for correcting imbalances in the doshas. This therapy works by penetrating into the memory and breaking the pattern of imbalance that lives there. In this way aromatherapy heals the memory of trauma and disease, quickly, effortlessly, and pleasurably.

• Vata is cal

, temperature, blood sugar levels, waking, sleeping, and sexual arousal. They are also the seat of your most basic emotions—such as pleasure, anger, sadness, and fear—and are involved in memory.

How Aromas Affect the Doshas

Aromatherapy, the use of specific essential aromatic oils, is an Ayurvedic treatment for correcting imbalances in the doshas. This therapy works by penetrating into the memory and breaking the pattern of imbalance that lives there. In this way aromatherapy heals the memory of trauma and disease, quickly, effortlessly, and pleasurably.

• Vata is cal

s an Ayurvedic treatment for correcting imbalances in the doshas. This therapy works by penetrating into the memory and breaking the pattern of imbalance that lives there. In this way aromatherapy heals the memory of trauma and disease, quickly, effortlessly, and pleasurably.

• Vata is calmed by warm, sweet, sour smells such as basil, orange, rose geranium, and clove. Vata tends to be fearful when out of balance, and aromatherapy cul¬tivates positive vata emotions of joy and inventiveness.

• Pitta is balanced by sweet, cool aromas such as sandal wood, rose, mint, cinnamon, and jasmine. With aromatherapy pitta's irritability and anger are replaced with creativity and enthusiasm.

• Kapha responds to pungent aromas such as juniper, eucalyptus, camphor, clove, and marjoram. These fragrances stimulate kapha out of its cynicism and apathy and toward extroversion, sociability, and energy.

How to Use Aromatherapy

There are many ways you can easily and simply use the above combinations of aromatic essential oils to stabilize each dosha and its predominant emotions. You can place a few drops of the oils into a special ring made to be placed over a light bulb; this disperses the fragrance as long as the bulb is on. You can use a special diffuser, which uses candle power to heat water containing the oils. You can make a spray with a combination of the oil, water, and lecithin (to get the oil and water to mix).

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