Guest guest Posted August 11, 2009 Report Share Posted August 11, 2009 > > Hi , > I work with middle school learning disabled, autistic and gang students ages 11-14. Test score increases are just one change. I'm never sure which variable creates the most transformation: scent, vimala handwriting, a caring environment, individualized instruction, boundary setting, etc. > > Three years ago I studied high schools in Nagoya, Japan. One classroom was scented with incense. A lot of classrooms used a citrus smell. A music school classroom smell reminded me of an old library, cherry cigars or a combination of the two. One room smelled like matcha (powdered green tea). > > There are lots of sites with articles on scents and learning. > http://www.enviroscent.com/research.php > > Caren Thanks for your thoughts Caren, and the link you sent. Its great that you are using scent like this. Your experiences seem to back up our basic assumptions that lighter topnotes like lemon and mint energetically lift a person's energy, whereas vanilla is heavier and warmer and perhaps more grounding and relaxing in terms of energy. This is a really interesting area, and one we know so little about. Diane > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 11, 2009 Report Share Posted August 11, 2009 There are lots of sites with articles on scents and learning. http://www.enviroscent.com/research.php Caren Thanks for your thoughts Caren, and the link you sent. Its great that you are using scent like this. Your experiences seem to back up our basic assumptions that lighter topnotes like lemon and mint energetically lift a person's energy, whereas vanilla is heavier and warmer and perhaps more grounding and relaxing in terms of energy. This is a really interesting area, and one we know so little about. > > Diane Hi Caren, Diane, and All I do sometimes wonder if it's as simple - sometimes - as looking to the chemical functional groups... I have a little book by Rosemary Caddy - " Aromatherapy - Essential Oils in Colour " which is perfect for the visual learners amongst us. The most commonly used e oils in AromaRx get a page each, with a pie graph in colour, showing the typical chemical profile of the oil. Each chemical group is assigned a colour, and an activity/effect. The colour key ranges from yellow-red-orange - stimulating to all the greens - balancing; to blue - relaxing. Bergamot - which we love for its sweetness, liveliness, hidden depths and easy familiarity, is typically 40% esters - relaxing; 33% monoterpenes, & 18% alcohols, both considered stimulating. And this is how we often see it working - both relaxing and enlivening. It's the ultimate spreader of stuck emotional qi.. gentle movement, without catharsis. Benzoin - sweet, dense, and vanilla-like, is typically 70% esters - considered a relaxing group of chemicals; Roman Chamomile [ C. nobile] tops 75% in the esters. To my senses, Benzoin is more attractive to adults and teens, R. cham rarely upsets infants and little ones in need of pacifying. Caddy built upon the work of Pierre Franchomme for the book - all to do with electrochemical behaviour of the chemical families. Franchomme's work suggests that " negatively charged particles appear in general to have more relaxing effects compared to more stimulating effects of the positively charged particles " quotes Caddy So there we have it - the Yin and Yang of essential oil activity ! One thing's for sure, none of us engaged in the olfactory arts and sciences, will ever be bored, or unable to find a framework or model in which to base our work. I have a hefty book - " Olfaction, Taste & Cognition " . It has brain scans on the cover, and content including psychophysics, hedonistic dimensions of odours, odour memory, cortical representations, genetic variation in taste ... and much more.... it discusses how the sense of smell came to be considered the most dispensible in the Western aesthetic - no thanks to Immanuel Kant for that! Did you know that " nose-wise " now an obsolete word, could mean either " clever " or " keen-scented " and that in Latin, both the sense of taste and of smell were linked with wisdom? [p.69] I just dipped into the book... haven't ever read it yet, maybe it's time I did ISBN 0-521-02097-2 Cambridge University Press Margi http://margihealing.wordpress.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 14, 2009 Report Share Posted August 14, 2009 ________________________________ Hi Caren, Diane, and All I do sometimes wonder if it's as simple - sometimes - as looking to the chemical functional groups... I have a little book by Rosemary Caddy - " Aromatherapy - Essential Oils in Colour " which is perfect for the visual learners amongst us. The most commonly used e oils in AromaRx get a page each, with a pie graph in colour, showing the typical chemical profile of the oil. Each chemical group is assigned a colour, and an activity/effect. The colour key ranges from yellow-red-orange - stimulating to all the greens - balancing; to blue - relaxing. Bergamot - which we love for its sweetness, liveliness, hidden depths and easy familiarity, is typically 40% esters - relaxing; 33% monoterpenes, & 18% alcohols, both considered stimulating. And this is how we often see it working - both relaxing and enlivening. It's the ultimate spreader of stuck emotional qi.. gentle movement, without catharsis. Benzoin - sweet, dense, and vanilla-like, is typically 70% esters - considered a relaxing group of chemicals; Roman Chamomile [ C. nobile] tops 75% in the esters. To my senses, Benzoin is more attractive to adults and teens, R. cham rarely upsets infants and little ones in need of pacifying. Caddy built upon the work of Pierre Franchomme for the book - all to do with electrochemical behaviour of the chemical families. Franchomme's work suggests that " negatively charged particles appear in general to have more relaxing effects compared to more stimulating effects of the positively charged particles " quotes Caddy So there we have it - the Yin and Yang of essential oil activity ! One thing's for sure, none of us engaged in the olfactory arts and sciences, will ever be bored, or unable to find a framework or model in which to base our work. I have a hefty book - " Olfaction, Taste & Cognition " . It has brain scans on the cover, and content including psychophysics, hedonistic dimensions of odours, odour memory, cortical representations, genetic variation in taste ... and much more.... it discusses how the sense of smell came to be considered the most dispensible in the Western aesthetic - no thanks to Immanuel Kant for that! Did you know that " nose-wise " now an obsolete word, could mean either " clever " or " keen-scented " and that in Latin, both the sense of taste and of smell were linked with wisdom? [p.69] I just dipped into the book... haven't ever read it yet, maybe it's time I did ISBN 0-521-02097- 2 Cambridge University Press Margi http://margihealing .wordpress. com/ Hi Margi these sound like interesting readings - thanks for sending details. I think it entirely makes sense that colour (and sound) experiences map onto our sense of smell - relatively recent work in psychology suggests that all thinking is at root metaphorical and grounded in bodily experience. So we can use metaphors of 'up' and 'down' (based on our bodily experiences of being full of energy or drained and slouchy) to describe other things that don't really have any spatial coordinates, so that a smell can be 'light', a music note can be 'high' and a colour can be 'heavy'. This mapping suggests that difference sensory experiences is not processed in separate modules in the brain as was once thought but in a much more distributed and holistic way. But interestingly there are also cultural differences in how different sensory domains are mapped linguistically onto others - as we would expect i guess. Look forward to chasing up your readings. Diane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 12, 2009 Report Share Posted October 12, 2009 Hello! If you have a chance to go to a classical homeopathic doctor, you might get very good help. The consultation would be expensive, and they are a bit difficult to find in this country, but thereafter probably there would be little cost for meds etc., and homeopathy is usually very effective. The 'remedy' chosen would depend on a lot more than your symptoms.... though they are included... [homeopathy uses 'like cures like' --- eg in acute not chronic situation, if symptoms are as if from while cutting an onion, than usually a TINY amount of the onion remedy relieves (less than an atom is in the 'remedy') ] and NO side effects!! and sometimes immediate relief.... sometimes... and if you needed to carry 'your' inexpensive remedy with you, can be in tiny pellets or even a cream... Sometimes acupuncture can also help, especially with a highly trained practitioner. and many thanks for your service as a soldier! Jean From: jffmunger Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 12:54 AM To: BeingSick Subject: Hello Hello Everyone. I am a 21 white male soldier in the us army. I have rhinitus basicaly a sinus infection that never goes away. This is causing problems for my career. Does anyone know of anything to get ried of this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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