Enhancing Counseling with Aromatherapy, Imagery & Meditation
Channel: Doc Snipes
Date: 2016-10-04

Enhancing Counseling Aromatherapy, meditation and guided imagery all have been proven through research to be effective in helping people deal with stress, anxiety, anger, depression and chronic pain. 

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Objectives
~    Review the concept of mindfulness, and how to incorporate it into daily life
~    Learn about the history, benefits, cautions and methods of incorporation into practice of
~    Aromatherapy
~    Meditation
~    Guided Imagery

Mindfulness
~    Being aware of your current state
~    Emotionally
~    Mentally
~    Physically
~    Spiritually
~    MindLESSness allows people to ignore “minor” stress until it adds up to a meltdown
~    What discriminative stimuli can you put in the environment to remind you to do a mindfulness scan?
Mindfulness Activities
~    Body scan
~    Mindful Breathing
~    Mindful Observation
~    Mindful awareness – Think before you act
~    Mindful appreciation: Random Acts of Kindness
Aromatherapy
~    History
~    Hippocrates, known as the father of modern medicine, maintained 2,500 years ago that “the key to good health rests on having a daily aromatic bath and scented massage’.
~    Some of the plant materials Discorides wrote about in his Materia Medica 100 AD include many of the herbs and essential oils we use today including cardamon, cinnamon, myrrh, basil, fennel, frankincense, juniper, pine, rose, rosemary, and thyme.
~    Scented ointments and oils were recognized as having great benefit on both the physical and psychological level.
~    One of the principle aspects of ayurvedic medicine is massage with aromatic oils.
~    Distillation of essential oils is credited to the Persians in the 10th century
~    1887 French physicians first recorded laboratory tests on the anti-bacterial properties of essential oils.

Aromatherapy
~    History
~    In 1910, Rene Gattefosse discovered the healing properties of lavender after severely burning his hands in a laboratory explosion. He later used the wound healing and antiseptic properties of essential oils in the care of soldiers in military hospitals during WWI.
~    Gattefosse coined the term “aromatherapy” with the 1937 publication of his book, of the same name. Translated into English as Gattefosse’s Aromatherapy (1993).
~    Dr. Jean Valnet, a French army surgeon used essential oils in the treatment of war wounds during the French Indochina War and wrote the book, Practice of Aromatherapy, which was translated into the English in 1964.
~    Marguerite Maury, a French biochemist and nurse, lectured and gave seminars in the early 30ies throughout Europe on the rejuvenating properties of essential oils and resulting overall sense of well being they provided.
Aromatherapy
~    The inhalation of aromatic molecules affect us on a variety of levels – physical, emotional and spiritual.
~    When inhaled
~    Aromatic molecules enter the nasal passages
~    Stimulate olfactory receptor sites and trigger messages to the limbic center which stimulates physiological responses within the body via the nervous, endocrine or immune systems impacting pleasure, pain, emotions, memory, sleep, appetite and sex.
Aromatherapy
~    Benefits
~    Anger
~    Anxiety
~    ADD/ADHD
~    Concentration
~    Depression/Grief
~    Fatigue/Energizing
~    Irritability (adults and children)
~    Pain Mangement
~    J Dent. 2006 Nov;34(10):747-50. Epub 2006 Mar 13. The effect of clove and benzocaine versus placebo as topical anesthetics. Alqareer A1, Alyahya A,
~    Peace/Contentment
~    Relaxation/Sleep
Aromatherapy
~    Cautions
~    Sensitivities / allergies
~    Photo-sensitivity: Bergamot, lemon, lime, bitter orange, angelica root
~    Prior learning may impact experiences
~    May interact with medications (dermal absorption)
~    Some essential oils are thought to increase estrogen
Aromatherapy
~    Methods of Incorporation
~    Topical: Essential oils have a chemical weight of less than 1000m (m = weight of molecule) and can be absorbed by the skin and enter the blood stream
~    Facial steam

0:00 Introduction
0:19 Objectives
3:21 Mindfulness Activities
18:34 Aromatherapy
39:48 Meditation Types
51:21 Guided Imagery
57:53 Summary