What is Health? It’s all so simple really
and then an honest
Having suffered pneumonia as a small child,
discoveries.
sharing of the one’s
growing up I was dogged with bronchitis, asthma and chest infections. As a teenager I chased a hedonistic life of parties, nightclubs, alcohol and dancing (not there is anything wrong with those things per se) but then I hit my early 20s and a close
True health – is so much more than the absence of disease.
friend gifted me a box of essential oils and a book
We are all so multi-dimensional, multi-faceted and
called The Art of Aromatherapy by Robert Tisserand.
capable of indomitable multi-tasking, there is a
My life changed…Juanita Shield-Laignel writes in her
danger of becoming too disparate in our everyday
capacity as a Natural Health
lives. On the other hand, accepting and moving
Practitioner
forward with all the things that bring us joy and not denying any part of ourselves…seeking - and
The discovery of
becoming our most authentic self…is what makes us
Aromatherapy opened up a
truly whole and therefore - naturally healthy.
whole new world for me, not only was I fascinated by the romance of the incredible
‘There is Truth in Nature!’
aromas but astonished by the
Owning every part of who we are, helps us to
numerous medicinal
move into a truly open, honest and loving
benefits of the oils
being who can then help others to do the
that we are all so
same…this in turn leads one to not
familiar with and yet
want to harm anyone else, animals or
have only come to
the planet. It is all very simple really…as
really understand in the last few
you grow to truly love yourself – your
decades.
body, mind and creative essence – that spark that makes you human – you
This discovery led me to study and qualify in, not
realise you are inexorably linked to Nature / God and
only Aromatherapy, but several other therapeutic
that everyone else is also linked to Nature / God
techniques. Coupled with this thirst for natural
whether they acknowledge that for themselves yet
health knowledge was a realisation that in order to
or not and therefore you have no desire to hurt
be a good healer…one must also seek to heal oneself.
them or any other sentient being – you become
“That which we seek is Authentic Self.”
gentler, more compassionate, more loving, more understanding, kinder…you seek to heal not harm. You want to protect all life, the life of others, the life
My personal healing quest began and before long it
of all animals and the very life of the planet itself.
became obvious that the adage of ‘Mind, Body,
This is TRUE health. A connectedness beyond all
Spirit’ only just scratches the surface of what is
else…this is wholeness, this is health.
meant to be ‘truly healthy’ and is in fact a life-long continuum of self-improvement and self-discovery 20 | www.thejerseylife.co.uk
‘Heal yourself and heal the planet’
