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ABOUT AUTHOR Kylie Thompson is a 32 year old mother of four children, an Australian Citizen and a Beauty Therapist by trade, with additional certificates in Aromatherapy, Acrylic nails and Make-up artistry. Kylie has 12 years experience within the beauty industry, and is a former salon owner/operator. Kylie has also completed the first year of university study of a Bachelor of Education, majoring in Home Economics and minoring in Health Education. She currently lives in the beautiful Western Australian Chittering Valley amongst unspoiled natural bush land and native fauna. "Aromatherapy for the Emotions' is Kylie's first written text. She is currently working on three separate projects being another two books on the subject of aromatherapy and a cookbook. She intends to write a book concerning the use of aromatherapy oils in magic, and the myths and legends associated with individual oils. The other aromatherapy book she is currently devising is a guide to less-common and rare essential oils and their applications. Lastly, the cookbook will be a collection of what Kylie refers to as 'Lazy Recipes', intended for people who either don't like to cook, don't have time to cook, who are not really good at cooking or can't be bothered cooking but still want to feed themselves and their family nutritious meals. ABOUT THE BOOK- I wrote this book because I was personally fed-up with finding most aromatherapy books regurgitating the same general information. Through my own personal use and experiences with essential oils I knew of the effects they can have on emotional states. I was sick of searching through various texts to try and find which oil worked well for which state, so I decided to write this book so all the relevant information was in one text. I was also inspired to write this book by the recent emergence onto the consumer market place of aromatherapy blends specificially for balancing the chakras/chakra system, which are also thought to be affected emotions. When I was unable to find any reliable information or texts written on the subject, I decided to research the subject and write it myself. The overall intentions of this book are to instruct its reader on the applications of essential oils in treating negative emotional states. The book does this by explaining to the reader the relationship between aromatherapy and its effects on moods by causing changes in the nervous system and limbic system. (Part 1) Its also explains the chemical makeup of essential oils, and how these compounds affect our conscious minds to bring about changes in overall disposition, physically and psychologically. The book also explains the how negative emotional states can manifest into physical conditions such as stress, depression, anxiety, stomach complaints, sexual dysfunction, debility and more serious physical conditions such as heart disease. Methods of use are also discussed in this section. There is a detailed section devoted to the individual essential oils, profiling their effects when used for emotional states. (Part 2) Following each oil’s profile, there are various suggested blends for the oil, for differing emotional states, some examples are; grief, heartbreak, fear, confusion, lack of confidence. Following most oil’s profile, generally a suggestion for a massage blend, a bath blend and vaporisation blend for differing emotional states is mentioned. Further into the book, there is a section devoted to selecting essential oils according to an individual’s personality traits. (Part 3) Listed are 10 characterologys of essential oils, and from these characterologys the reader can identify their own personality traits according to the oils, and from this information they can ascertain which selection of oils are most suitable for their own use, by identifying their own personal ‘signature oil’. Also, there are two other commonly used profiling techniques for selecting oils according to personality and colour choice or skin type and hair type. Lastly in Part 4, there is information on the chakra system and Aromatherapy’s effect on this system. This section informs the reader that certain emotional states can affect the chakra system, causing blockages and affecting the whole individual. Readers learn that by using aromatherapy oils to balance the chakra system, negative emotional states can be released and an overall improvement to their total wellbeing will result. Through the text, the reader can identify by the descriptions of individual chakras and by their own emotional states, which chakra may need work. The aromatherapy oils suggested for each chakra have been researched by me from various sources. I discovered through my research that most commonly the chakra oils; correspond to/and climb up the perfume note scale of essential oils. Through my research I have not seen this concept mentioned before and believe it to be a new discovery for aromatherapy. There is also a detailed instruction of a massage sequence designed to energise and balance the chakra system through the use of aromatherapy and visualisation.