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Aroma Wisdom The Canadian Aromatherapy Journal

Spring 2020 The Blossoming Edition

Mar-May 2020

education, innovation, growth, support

British Columbia Alliance Of Aromatherapy ISSN 2562-2218 $7.99 CND

Aroma Wisdom

The Canadian Aromatherapy Journal

Celebrating our second year in print

BCAOA 3928 Michigan Rd, Port Alberni, BC, V9Y 5Z6

Supporting aromatherapists everywhere The Spring Edition ~ March 2020 Cover Photo by ira_evva from Shutterstock

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Vice President: Drena Drenic

Directors at Large: Michelle Beukers, Leah Burns, Wendie MacQuarrie

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Past President: Pat Antoniak

Aroma Wisdom is an educational resource published by the British Columbia Alliance Of Aromatherapy (BCAOA). It focuses on issues important to the alternative health care community with an emphasis on aromatherapy. Published in the Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter, Aroma Wisdom is available digitally to our membership for free and to the global public for purchase as a single issue or subscription. To purchase, please see our web store at https://bcaoa.org/store/ or a local bookstore. For our full submission guidelines, go to https://bcaoa.org/membership/submissions/. For other forms of material submission, or if you have questions, please contact the Editor editor@bcaoa.org before submitting. Inclusion of an advertisement does not indicate endorsement of the company, person(s), service(s) or product(s) by the BCAOA, its Directors, members, or Editor. The BCAOA, its Directors, members, and Editor are not responsible for the claims of advertisers appearing in these pages. Advertising guidelines are at https://bcaoa.org/membership/submissions/, or e-mail the Editor for an Advertisers Agreement. Formats, size specifications, and deadlines for ad submissions are found within the Agreement.

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Contents 5 Our Contributors 7 President’s Message 12 Spring 2020 CE Event Information 13 Announcements 15 Featured Writer: Saving Cedar Dr. Kelly Ablard discusses alternatives to at-risk plants

25 Guest Writers: Essential Dreaming: Using Essential Oils for Dreams Part 1 of 3 - Melissa Housser, Toby Johnson and Krista Lee experiment

Student Case Study: Insominia, Headaches & Stress - Mary Monteiro discusses her findings

33 BCAOA Educational Offerings 37 Spring In To You! - Nutritionist Sherry Akef R.H.N tells us why spring is the best time to cleanse our systems

40 Book Review: “Veterans With PTSD: How to use essential oils for Combat Stress” - Anita Kalnay reviews the only book on this subject

45 The Classifieds DISCLAIMER: THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED HEREIN DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THOSE OF THE BCAOA, ITS DIRECTORS, THE EDITOR, OR ITS MEMBERS. INFORMATION PROVIDED IS NOT INTENDED TO REPLACE PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL ADVICE. THE BCAOA, ITS DIRECTORS, MEMBERS, AND EDITOR CANNOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MISUSE OF ESSENTIAL OILS OR ANY OTHER THERAPEUTIC METHODS PRESENTED HEREIN. THE BCAOA RESERVES THE RIGHT TO ACCEPT OR REJECT ANY ARTICLE OR ADVERTISEMENT SUBMITTED FOR PUBLICATION AND DOES NOT NECESSARILY ENDORSE ANY PERSON, PRODUCT, COMPANY, COURSE, OR SCHOOL MENTIONED HEREIN.

Announcements Welcome to our Announcements page for notices of upcoming events and general interest to the community. Members can send personal brags/achievements or special shout-outs to other members (congratulations, celebrations, births, milestones etc.), just be sure to have permission to share any personal information with the community! To send in your announcement request, email the information to the editor with “Announcement Page” in the subject line. Let’s celebrate!!

BCAOA Sponsored Events

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CE credits are granted for attendees of events

The BCAOA is proud to host Peter Holmes for a 2 ½-day workshop this Spring on April 24, 25 & 26, 2020. Peter will be

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teaching his Aroma Acupoint Therapy and this will include a HANDS-ON portion of the class. Wear comfortable clothing and come prepared to work. Further details and registration information on the following pages. Location: Coast Tsawwassen Inn 1665 56 Street, Delta, BC V4L 2B2 Ph: 604.943.8221

Dates: April 24, 25, 26 2020

Contact: Betsy De Lucca cecoord@bcaoa.org Web: https://bcaoa.org/bcaoa-events/spring-2020-bcaoa-ce-event/ For non-BCAOA sponsored events: According to BCAOA Guidelines, every full day of attendance at a recognised seminar, workshop, or webinar is equivalent to 4 CE Credits. Please contact the registrar at registrar@bcaoa.org if you are unsure of an event’s status. Continuing Education Credits: Please refer to the above CE Activity guidelines. Proof of attendance can be sent via hardcopy or email. Please make sure to include the title of the specific event along with your name and address.

The following are for information purposes only. Inclusion DOES NOT imply BCAOA recognition. Be sure any course/workshop/seminar etc., qualifies for credits before taking it. Sedona Aromatics - Sharon Falsetto: Offers various types of courses and workshops. Ongoing. Information and Registration: https://sedonaaromatics.com/botanical-aromatherapy-programs/ Pacific Institute of Aromatherapy: Essential Oils for Herpes and Shingles - a downloadable short, easy introduction to the treatment of Herpes, Shingles and Genital Herpes with Essential Oils. 24-page pdf for printing and onscreen viewing. Information and Registration: https://www.pacificinstituteofaromatherapy.com/ Other links to explore for upcoming events: Alliance of International Aromatherapists - https://www.alliance-aromatherapists.org/ The Canadian Herbalist Association of British Columbia - https://www.chaofbc.ca/

Essential Dreams Dream a little dream with me… In this first part on essential oils and dreams, writers Toby Johnson, Melissa Housser, and Krista Lee discuss lucid dreaming and their experimentation with essential oils A certain fragrance can evoke memories and emotions before we are even consciously aware of it. Essential oils enable us to access stored or forgotten memories and suppressed emotions so that we can acknowledge and integrate or release them. Similarly, this is one of the theories of the function of dreaming; building the net of the mind within dreaming, a safe space to explore these stored, forgotten memories, access them and create bridges and connections to other experiences. In doing so, when we are faced again with these situations, be they traumatic ones filtered through nightmares, or decision-making ones within our metaphoric sleeping adventures, we have already integrated them. The emotional brain responds to smell because the limbic system is directly connected to those parts of the brain that control heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, memory, stress levels and hormone balance. This is why essential oils can have drastic effects on emotional states and behaviors. The olfactory nerves respond to the essential oils’ odor which then triggers the brain to stimulate the release of hormones and neurochemicals that will alter the body’s behavioral response. This is as true in sleep, as it is in everyday waking life. A dream can be defined as a succession of images, ideas, emotions and sensations that occur involuntarily in the mind. You may or may not remember dreaming, but everyone dreams. When we are sleeping, we enter five stages of sleep. The first four are considered NREM, or ‘no rapid eye movement’, the kind of sleep where less vivid dreams occur, and thinking takes place. In stage one, you produce alpha brainwaves. This type of sleep doesn’t restore or rest your body, but the heart rate slows and muscles relax. Stage two slips you deeper than stage one, where short-wave brain pulses occur, and lead you into stage three, where the heartbeat drops further, along with blood pressure and temperature. The fourth stage occurs when delta brainwaves are produced and the body is immobile. REM, or ‘rapid eye movement’, is the fifth stage of sleep and where the most vivid dreams take place. 25

REM is also known as paradoxical sleep because while the brainwaves indicate alertness and the adrenal glands produce adrenaline, the body remains limp and oblivious to external stimuli (Beare). Approximately 60% of the sleep of newborns is REM sleep, which is over three times that of an adult (Fontana, 116).

Blend #1 for Lucid Dreaming

No doubt, for these newborns, the increased amount of REM sleep helps them begin to decipher the major conundrum that is human life. For most people, REM sleep happens every 90 minutes. At first, it lasts for 5 minutes, and increases throughout the night. By the 5th cycle, most people can dream for up to 30 minutes. Deprivation of REM sleep can lead to irritability, fatigue, memory loss, and poor concentration (Fontana, 41).

The term ‘lucid dreaming’ was first coined by Dutch author and psychiatrist Frederik van Eeden in his 1913 article A Study of Dreams. Historical documents shows that philosopher Aristotle wrote, “often when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream”. Galen, a physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman Empire, used lucid dreaming as a form of therapy.

Another theory on the function of dreaming is that the brain is firing signals as it organizes the previous day's thoughts and experiences that might end up as memories. With nightmares, the dreaming involves the making of broad connections, far more so than waking life allows.

Lucid dreaming is defined as ‘a dream during which the dreamer is aware of dreaming’. During lucid dreaming, the dreamer should be able to exert some degree of control over the dream characters, narrative, and environment.

A great way to induce lucid dreaming is to fall asleep with the intention of being ‘lucid’. Repeating a mantra can help. Something as simple as, “I will lucid dream tonight” works, so that your brain is aware during the process of falling asleep. Lucid Blend:

The most popular theory is that these connections are made through the use of pictured metaphors as the brain sorts the information from the trauma by attempting to create connections to memories and emotions. With the end goal being to weave the trauma into the sleeper’s mind, these new connections and contexts can then be used for future functioning. This results in new trauma being less serious and producing fewer storms (nightmares, emotional effects, etc) since the appropriate connections already exist and can be accessed to cope with it. Overall, they are turning memories of traumatic events into experience. For this experiment, our group focused on the effects of essential oils blended with intention toward three types of dreaming: lucid, night terrors, and prophetic. The blends were each used for one week. Each blend was 10ml in size, diluted with jojoba oil. The blends were diffused every night, accompanied by a mantra-based meditation before bed for the first half of the week, and a roll on application to the feet for the second half.

Frankincense (Boswellia carteri) – 5 drops • Useful in attracting angels and dispelling evil • Recommended to smooth the free flow of Qi • Aids in meditation, clearing mental chatter and calming the mind Clary sage (Salvia sclerea) – 5 drops • Has the ability to probe deep into the psyche • Opens a path to the unknown, unusual, creative, & intuitive • Brings us more closely in touch with the dream world • Encourages vivid dreams and dream recall • Strengthens third eye, helping one see more clearly Patchouli (Pogostemom cablin) – 5 drops • Connects one to the body and its sensuality • Heals negative detachment from body and environment • Recommended for the “dreamer” type personalities • Liberates one from boundaries

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Book Review

Veterans With PTSD: Survival Guide 101 How To Use Essential Oils for Combat Stress Author: Unknown Review by Anita Kalnay Title: Veterans With PTSD, 2nd ed. Author: Unknown (Pseudonym Oils4Warriors) Publisher: self-published under GodsOils, USA (2015) Pages: 126 “For anyone who has trauma, it’s not a matter of ‘getting back to normal’ but ‘finding your new normal’. Oils will greatly support your journey to find this!” “This coping too (essential oils) did not come from the mind of big government, but the mind of Creation itself, in plant-form and has been used for many thousands of years…” The book is written from the perspective of a caring mom whose 20-year old daughter returned injured and with a traumatic brain injury (TBI) after her vehicle was hit while she was serving in Iraq. While being treated for severe wounds and spinal injuries, the daughter wanted real answers to her health issues, not to get hooked on 40

Aroma Wisdom - The Canadian Aromatherapy Journal Spring 2020