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

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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.

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.

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.

Having studied with Milli in the 90's, and after having done hundreds of baths myself, I have to say that my spiritual journey has been greatly enhanced and quickened as a result of my association with Milli and by taking the Essential Oil Baths. Not only have some of the most profound healings of my life accured whilst taking the Essential Oil Bath therapies, but my love, respect and honour of the plant kingdom, from which the essential oils are derived, has flowered. Aromatherapy, which I studied over 20 years ago, and still practise, barely touches upon the spiritual potential of essential oils.This aspect of healing that can be derived from the baths, is missed and overlooked by many Aromatherapists, who are not taught, and therefore are afraid, to look beyond and outside of their square. I am so grateful to Milli who has had the courage, the insight, the wisdom and compassion to put forth, in a simple manner, a therapy that everyone can benefit from. It is a shame that fear, ignorance and pride could in any way prevent someone from purchasing this book. This book is invaluable to anyone who is serious about emotional and spiritual healing with essential oils.I recommend it wholeheartedly.

Ms. Austin's book is both irresponsible and dangerous. Many of her suggested recipes call for oils that are irritating to both skin and mucous membranes, as well as sensitizing to the immune system. She also recommends using these oils in far greater strength than responsible aromatherapists will allow. Painful results from some of her baths are NOT a result of the 'body releasing toxins' but rather skin cells being burned by concentrated substances. I strongly advise prospective readers to choose other books.

I have just been reading the comments listed here. Im surprised at the negativity, but I can see where they are coming from. I found this book to be mind opening, inspiring, and educational. It was given to me as a gift 2 yrs ago, and I have taken many essential oil baths with no harmful side effects. Im getting ready to start another bath series now, and Im very excited. I think essential oil baths are very healing and have helped me very much. I would like to encourage readers and potential buyers of this book to please not be swayed by the negative comments posted here. Read the book for yourself! Even if you DONT do the baths, the concepts this book teaches can open your mind and give you an insight into life that you didnt have before. It would be a shame to miss out on that because of someone elses opinion.

Ms. Austin obviously has no knowledge of the safe usage of essential oil therapy! Many aromatherapist's use this book as an example illustrating disreputable practice when teaching classes on aromatherapy. I would strongly urge potential readers to steer clear of her potentially dangerous recommendations contained within this book.

This book was a well-intended gift to me from a fellow relaxing-bath enjoyer. I didn't realize it would contain very subjective material that is actually not at all useful to me. I had a hard time even relating to this book, being from a scientific background though I try to keep an open mind. I would not recommend it to anyone--it seemed to me essentially hocus-pocus.

Please, all of the newcomers to the field of aromatherapy, know that this book has nothing whatsoever to do with Aromatherapy. It is simply one person's ideas of what do do with essential oils, and while this bath therapy has worked for some quite well, it has harmed many many more. We have seen problems ranging from skin burns to liver damage. Public alerts have been made regarding this dangerous essential oil therapy by NAHA (The National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy) as far back as 1996. Please use extreme caution if you do decide to try the therapies, or even better, read Ms. Austin's rantings on how there is so much obesity in the world today because the people who were killed in Auschwitz have reincarnated, and are overeating because they were starved in another life. This is insulting, and does not even require any more comment. She is on the lunatic fringe, and is dangerous.

I want to thank the other readers for warning me about the dangers laid out in this book. It sounded like a nice book and I almost bought it, then, I read the reviews. I appreciate people taking the time to warn others. I am new to aromatherapy and would not have known better. So thank you for warning me!!