In a world where there always seems to be a “New and Improved”, we have lost sight of the tried and true. Essential oils have been used throughout history as prevention and healing remedies, they are mentioned 188 times in the Bible. Essential oils can be absorbed by the human body in a variety of ways. The vapors, once inhaled, can trigger neurochemical release in the brain via receptors in the nose. Many people are familiar with the phenomenon of a sudden awareness of past memories after detecting a particular smell or taste. Although these memories can be buried deep in the subconscious, they suddenly flood into view. Of all the five senses, smell has the strongest link into the subconscious. The blood can also absorb vapors once it gets into the lungs. Once in the bloodstream, it can circulate quickly to all the organs of the body, not just the brain.

There are as many tragedies in modern medicine as there are miracles; we all know someone living on pills. We are not curing anything; we hide the symptoms. The pharmaceutical companies do not want to cure us, not much profit in that, and many lives are lost in the process. You don’t have to be dead to fit in the category of “lost lives”; look at the clinics that sprang to life to treat heroin addicts and are now almost solely treating Oxy Contin addicts.

They are only giving us what they say we are demanding, not that the million dollar commercials that we are bombarded with don’t influence us. We have put too much trust in people that must keep the shareholders happy, and we assume they have our best interest at heart. I believe that is asking too much of them and too little of ourselves.

If you want to change your life, you first have to change your mind. We put our spiritual lives in the hands of God, and our physical lives in the hands of a CEO? It just does not sound right, does it?

I am not saying there is not a place for modern medicine; I am saying we need to take a look at the natural medicines and UNDERSTAND that the FDA created laws that gave Pharmaceutical Company’s the monopoly. Essential Oils were here centuries before the FDA, and they will exist long after the “pill era”.