Your Sense of Smell

No matter your personal history, there’s something that you have regardless of good or bad in life. It’s an awareness your body uses to inform you. Actually help you. You’re not even aware of its scope, yet it’s worth more than gold in your pocket. This kind of intelligence is so capable that it guides both your mind and body.

Although humans have this innate gift, our senses lead us to the one, the dominant sense we are ultimately healed with.

What wonderful ability is this? Your sense of smell.

Scents of Aromatic Plants are Precious

The aromas of plants are the products the plant creates for its own self-protection. In minute quantities, the plant makes and holds molecules from its own food and sunlight in the flowers, stems, leaves, barks, roots and resins of the plant body. Readily available to its attackers or pollinators, these plant-created essences protect the plant from microbes or germs, too.

It’s a less accepted fact that extracting these plant essences requires hundreds of pounds or hundreds of thousands of plants parts. For example, for just over 2lbs (1 kg) of Rose essential oil, over 3 tons, or 3 thousand kg) of the flower petals are needed. Hard to visualize just how much that is—but it’s a lot!

Once extracted, these essences are extremely concentrated due to the processes we use to extract them from a plant. Intensity of aroma signals intensity of effect. A strong, powerful effect is found with the substances in essential oils.

Scents and perfumes can uplift your low mood, diminish pain, increase well-being overall. We know this because scented essences and perfumes have been part of the human experience since ancient times. Although plants all metabolize substances for self-protection, a small percentage, perhaps about 10% of the 300,000 named plants of the world are distilled or processed for scent or flavoring.

Plants have survived in spite of biological challenges to their well-being. It’s believed that’s why flowering plants are millions of years old.

Admire the powerful substances found in essential oils.

Acknowledge that they come from the work of many farmers, growers, distillers and craftspeople around the globe. While we add these luxurious scents to our daily rituals, we mindfully add a measure of gratitude for the labor that created the product in your hands.

See more on your senses in this post “Reawaken Your Senses”.

Request a free pdf on Your Sense of Smell, here.

Be safe! when using essential oils and products of natural origin. This post is for informational purposes only and is not intended as medical treatment. Please ask your health care provider before using essential oils and recipes on these posts if you are pregnant, nursing, or taking medications for any condition.