Healing with Plants
Why Imaginal?
Imaginal cells are catalysts of transformation.
When a caterpillar enters the chrysalis stage, the dormant imaginal cells – the source of the butterfly – begin to grow and flourish. Initially the caterpillar’s immune system, not recognising these new beginnings, tries to destroy them but the cells multiply, banding together as they resonate. Eventually they reach a tipping point, transforming and growing into a multi-celled organism – a butterfly.
Bruce Lipton, author of the bestselling book ‘Biology of Belief’, writes about the imaginal cells as being ‘a new vision in the midst of chaos – a higher level of evolution.’
The same can be said for our Body and Soul. The Soul carries our ‘imaginal cells’ and knows our true self and its journey, but the Body – unaware of the Soul – tries to control and suppress our link to that true self.
It is this dissonance which opens us up to dis-ease and ill-health.
Imaginal Oils help to restore and rebalance your energy field – using Nature’s own frequencies to enable the body, mind and soul to heal itself.
Rosemary oil sacs with leaf hairs
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Lavender oil gland
Essential oils are part of the defence system of a plant.
They are extracted from leaves, flowers, peel, roots, bark, resin or wood and plants use them for protection and survival.
While discouraging foragers with their strong smell and taste, they also fend off competing plants and attract pollinators.
When distilled, the oil sacs explode releasing the essential oil which holds the intelligence of the plant.
How your Oil works…
Smell is one of our most powerful and evocative senses. It’s 10,000 times more powerful than our sense of taste and works using a combination of tiny scent molecules given off by the essential oil and our complex and clever olfactory system.
Essential oils, though they may appear simple and fragrant, are actually made up of complex phyto-chemicals; these power the therapeutic qualities of each oil. A typical essential oil will possess more than 200 different phyto-chemical compounds and some oils such as Rosa damascena have over 500 identified compounds. This complexity means that they are very effective in a range of uses, so one oil may be anti-septic, anti-fungal, anti-viral and anti-bacterial whilst also addressing mental, emotional and spiritual needs.
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In 1991, a family of 1000 genes that encode odour receptors was discovered in the lining at the top of the nose. The Professors who discovered how this works, Richard Axel and Linda Buck, were awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize for Physiology for their groundbreaking work.
The lining of our nose or olfactory epithelium contains over 5 million olfactory neurons which send messages directly to the brain. When the scent molecules stimulate these receptors, they transmit impulses to the limbic system – the parts of the brain that deals with emotions, mood and memory.
This is why smell triggers memories and powerful emotions.
The synergy produced by combining oils together amplifies the effect.
