The Healing Bath: Using Essential Oil Therapy to Balance Body Energy [Paperback]

Milli D. Austin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 1997

Many books discuss the aromatic power of essential oils, but The Healing Bath is the first to focus on using essential oils to cleanse, clear, and heal the energy field surrounding the physical body. If this energy field is damaged, the body's vitality, strength, and overall health and well-being is jeopardized. When energy fields in the subtle bodies are strengthened and energized, deep healing in the physical body is accelerated. This book describes essential oil therapy that can be used with conventional allopathic, herbal, and other healing methods. 

The author has been refining her essential oil techniques for ten years, and she draws on experiences from her personal practice to describe the method. 

Provides bath formulas for a wide range of physical and emotional ailments, including asthma, depression, substance abuse, headaches, sleep disorders, food intolerance, allergies, bladder and urinary tract problems, and hyperactivity.

A special section discusses the use of essential oils to heal infants and children. 

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About the Author

Milli D. Austin conducts workshops on essential oil therapy and has a private practice in Austin, Texas. 

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Healing Arts Press (March 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0892816325
• ISBN-13: 978-0892816323
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #802,836 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A giant leap forward in mind/body healing!, October 7, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Healing Bath: Using Essential Oil Therapy to Balance Body Energy (Paperback)

One need only listen to the news to become aware of the recent national trend toward spirituality and mind/body healing. Talk shows frequenlty focus on healing the pain of the past and getting in touch with one's spirituality and sense of self. The connection between certain disease and personality types has been established and many authors offer tips on how to prevent falling victim to them.

Milli Austin's book, The Healing Bath, presents a healing technique that is on the cutting edge. Her ideas have a spiritual basis which is explained in a simple manner than anyone can understand. She offers formulas for baths using essential oils to heal a variety of problems. While the number of drops of oil recommended in many of the baths is more than is commonly used by aromatherapists, they have proven to be extremely safe and effective. As a therapist, I have had clients who were unable to get to make certain changes in their lives no matter how hard they tried. When they began using Ms. Austin's formulas, they all began to make tremendous breakthroughs and see improvement in their lives without having to relive the trauma and fear that was keeping them stuck in old patterns. I taken the baths myself and found the results spectacular. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is dealing with psychological and/or health issues and is ready to "get over it" and move on with their life.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Groundbreaking work; paradigm-shattering ideas, August 27, 2006

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Lisa Estus (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Healing Bath: Using Essential Oil Therapy to Balance Body Energy (Paperback)

I did not realize just how paradigm-shattering, though, until I read some of the first responses here on Amazon. It seems that this book has touched a nerve, perhaps even tipped a sacred cow or two. ;-)

Essential oil therapy is not aromatherapy, something Ms. Austin takes care to point out. It is perhaps understandable that the therapy's divergence from fundamental guidelines of aromatherapy could be found threatening by aromatherapy practitioners. After all, they have had to struggle for acceptance (or at least shelter from criticism) from a conservative medical establishment. Still, it is a shame to read such vitriolic and unfounded criticism.

This book is about a powerful healing modality. Its author is responsible, thorough, and truthful about how it works.

The Healing Bath contains careful instructions about the uses of essential oils in specific situations. Ms. Austin is clear and upfront about the potential effects certain essential oils can have as they interact with the body's subtle fields. She describes in detail how to prepare in advance to prevent or reduce any discomfort, and what to do if one does experience any unexpected effect or emotional response.

I found this book fascinating, so much so that I looked up the author and arranged for a private consultation. Over the last few years, I have done two separate rounds of Essential Oil therapy baths. The therapy and results are, in my experience, highly beneficial and life-changing. I highly recommend this book to anyone seeking new information about healing.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This Book Changed My Life in Incredible Ways, November 3, 2002

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Farah (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Healing Bath: Using Essential Oil Therapy to Balance Body Energy (Paperback)

I have been using essential oils and aromatherapy a great deal on myself. Milli Austin's book does suggest using essential oils in much higher dosages than most aromatherapists recommend, but if anyone tries her baths, they are life changing. I don't believe she is negligent at all. She is simply attuned to using the oils in a different way than they are generally used. If you are a sensitive person you may want to use a bit less oil than she recommends but her baths do what they are meant to. Taking the baths weekly on a regular basis helped me to get in touch with my issues with anger and emotional inhibition. I had startling past life flashbacks emerge that were very relevant to my life today. I feel like I underwent an absolute transformation using the bath recipes suggested in her book.