acterizes the act of healing and why we actually do heal. Chapter four addresses your personal part in the process and asks you, “How will you approach healing with essential oils?” There are several choices for your approach, and you will choose what suits your thinking. Please read chapters five and six before you go on a purchasing spree. You’ll enjoy knowing more about which essential oils to buy as a starting line-up, which essential oils to avoid, which oils combine best together, and suggestions of various carrier oils in which to blend them. Part two begins with chapters seven through ten and covers the properties, details, and uses for each of the fifty essential oils I favor. This comprehensive study of each oil provides you with a private course that enables you to build a mental library about the oils so you can begin to work wonders. In part three, as your reward for studying so hard and mastering fifty essential oils, chapter eleven explains how you can use the oils for healing emotions. Chapter twelve discusses how past civilizations have used essential oils throughout history and why they called them sacred. They have become sacred to me too. Chapter thirteen outlines four alternative methods for using essential oils. You can select from information about chakra healing, the Chinese Five Element system, astrology, and learn how to use charms and talismans for healing. Chapter fourteen is a collection of some of my favorite recipes I have created, discovered, adapted, and used in my own healing practice over the years. (For men and women, the WOW Cream recipe is a skin changer!) You will uncover a wealth of knowledge about essential oils in these pages and as you experiment with them, you will very likely find yourself falling in love with them as I have. One at a time I learned about each essence and tested them in many different ways for a myriad of purposes. After a short while, I found that I couldn’t imagine life without them. Essential oils quickly became irreplaceable members of my extended family. I even travel with them. They even turn my hotel room into a tranquil paradise for adequate rest and recovery from jet lag. I reflect back to a time when I didn’t know about or use essential oils. Life had a different quality back then. I reached automatically for remedies and OTC products that
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