BUSINESS
Client comfort
THE SWEET SMELL OF
SECURITY
and success
Elizabeth Ashley shares how using scent can make your clients feel at ease and add to your profits…
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Aromatherapy is the use of smell alone. With that in mind, one could use chocolate, coffee or flowers in the absence of oils as long as one recognises the medicine derives from the
OST holistic therapists
of security and wellness to your surroundings.
understand that they need
Essential oils tap into places of the mind you
to put their clients at ease
never even knew existed and bring about a
and create an ambience in
glorious sense of pampered calm.
individual’s response to smells.
Aromatherapy and the mind The mind has a unique
their practice rooms that
relationship with
why so few practice rooms are painted in red or
Aromatherapy 101
neon shades and why we use warm blankets
Let’s start at the basics.
enter the body via two
and heated couches.
In its classical sense,
fosters a sense of safety and relaxation. That’s
fragrance. Molecules routes– up the nose
Now, thanks to COVID-19, the sumptuous
aromatherapy uses
and to a lesser degree in the air we breathe in
furnishings have been stripped out and visors
concentrated plant
through the mouth. These go to different places.
and masks take their place making it impossible
essences to bring
The latter heads to the lungs to be defused through
to forget that danger is never too far away. So,
about changes in the emotional, mental and
the capillaries supplying the lungs and the tiny
how do we ensure our clients feel safe, but also
physical bodies. Over time, the term has become
constituents find their way along the circulatory
nurtured and cosseted in these challenging times?
somewhat debased to encompass any use of
system, touching all the places that need them
essential oils. Strictly speaking, using them
(every oil touches a different place) and then they
topically is the domain of essential oil therapy.
head on up, through the blood to the brain.
I thought I would share some tricks of the aromatic trade to help bring a renewed sense
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