Aromatherapy for Healing the Spirit: A Guide to Restoring Emotional and Mental Balance Through Essential Oils [Paperback]

Gabriel Mojay (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1996

Simply presented for the lay reader--and yet thorough enough for the student or practitioner--this lavishly illustrated volume draws from the traditional wisdom of both East and West to create an effective and safe healing program to treat depression, anxiety, frustration, apathy, and a wide variety of other ailments via the use of essential oils. 100 color photos & illustrations.

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About the Author

Gabriel Mojay is a registered practitioner of aromatherapy, acupuncture, herbal medicine and shiatsu. He is a principal of the London-based institute of herbal medicine and aromatherapy, and is founding chairman of the register of qualified aromatherapists. He lectures internationally on essential oils and oriental medicine. Robert Tisserand is recognised for his pioneering work in the area of aromatherapy. He founded the highly respected Tisserand company, which produces essential oil and aromatherapy products, and is the principal of the Tisserand Institute. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 191 pages
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co (P) (June 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0805044965
• ISBN-13: 978-0805044966
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,331,285 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful work !, June 29, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Aromatherapy for Healing the Spirit: A Guide to Restoring Emotional and Mental Balance Through Essential Oils (Paperback)

In this book, the author made an splendid introduction of TCM basics like the Yin Yang theory and 5 elements. Your clearly way to explain and merge the aspects of traditional western Aromatherapy with Chinese Medicine fundaments, do this work a very good way to people interested learn both. The acupressure directions to help in many disorders and the explanations about psychological help of essential oils are other important elements of this book. The author made correlations of each oil "personality" with strong mythological and religious symbols and it help us to "feel" the oil soul even never smell it. This is a very important work and I encourage everybody interested in Aromatherapy and TCM must read it.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars emotional/mental/spiritual healing via aromatherapy, September 12, 1996

By A Customer

This review is from: Aromatherapy for Healing the Spirit: A Guide to Restoring Emotional and Mental Balance Through Essential Oils (Paperback)

Mojay has presented a lovely, gentle guide to healing the
psyche thru the use of Essential Oils. Introductory chapters
are an overview of Chinese Medical Concepts which are difficult
for my pragmatic Western mind to grasp. However, his pages
on each essential oil are much clearer, referring back to the
oriental concepts, but also describing the effect of each oil
in a terminology I found more comfortable. He gives a loving
description of each EO, an overview of its history, current
therapeutic uses, known safety data, and its impact on the mind and psyche. The
last section of the book deals with Restoring Balance. He
describes various forms of emotional/spiritual imbalance and
gives suggested formulas for dealing with them.

This is, in my opinion, the finest popular work on the market
today dealing with the emotional effects of Aromatherapy.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful!, July 18, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Aromatherapy for Healing the Spirit: A Guide to Restoring Emotional and Mental Balance Through Essential Oils (Paperback)

This is a wonderful, wonderful book on aromatherapy! Like Valerie Worwood's The Fragrant Mind, it goes beyond essential oils per se and delves into emotions. And he does so complete with beautiful line illustrations on the margins and photographs in full living color. Guaranteed to delight you!