Emotions, Scent and the Law of Attraction
What is the most effective healing product, technology, personal skill, or technique you use for self-healing? Think about what makes this work. You can use chemistry, biology, physiology, electromagnetics or mechanics to explain the function and results. You’ve studied, learned, googled, and have been marketed to know this product or system, gathering the information and following instruction and process. You have in your mind that this is your most effective and powerful healing tool, and it delivers results. What, though, really makes this tool work for you?
The emotional bond
Consider what made you choose this product or system. No matter how you were exposed to it, the choice was likely a decision driven by emotion, the “feeling” that this would be effective. The reason you continue to use the product comes from the results you see from it. This creates an emotional bond to a positive feel-good result. Of course the chemistry and science behind the results were there, supporting the emotional attachment of a good decision. You “follow the science,” a mantra that became popularized in 2020, though even this mantra is more about emotion than factual science - a topic for another time. We are all driven by emotion and may try to rationalize or prove our decisions within a veil of science, logic or some other reasoning. Could it be that emotion, when used intentionally and with awareness, is the most powerful instrument you have for self-healing?
Emotions of healing
We know that emotion is an important aspect to healing. Countless studies show that positive emotions enhance and speed healing, even overcoming dire medical prognosis. Happiness and similar emotions are shown to provide longer life, healthier bodies and youthful skin.
Emotions are thought. What you think seems to be what you get. Emotion is an important component in the practice of the law of attraction and said to be the key to creating and empowering what you want, your desires, and your outcomes. Many studies demonstrate the significance of mindfulness (thought) and emotions in conscious direction of healing illness and injury.
Smell of emotion
The olfactory system, our sense of smell, is intimately linked to our emotional centers. Scent has a profound way of controlling our behavior, based on the memory and emotion identified, or linked, with the fragrance. Volatile molecules ease their way up the nasal passage and trigger immediate emotional and behavioral response through the limbic system. Every memory and every emotion has a scent attachment. All scent comes with emotional reaction, and a resulting behavior. This can be a subtle or profound response, triggering a vivid memory, a physical alertness, a joyful inner bliss, or feelings of anxiety. The response bypasses intellectual centers, meaning you don’t think about the response, you just respond. This is biology, an evolutionary survival mechanism in all life forms. With this in mind, scent plays a significant role in health, wellness and therapy.
Every memory and every emotion has a scent attachment.
Emotions for sale
Products you buy are all sold to you through an emotional connection. Highly charged positive emotion may elevate mediocre products, as a negative experience or feeling may override outstanding products and services. Sales and marketing are all based on emotion. Whether consciously or not, emotion is built into your buying decisions. A business, therapy or product has an intended physical outcome. A successful business or product incorporates a desired emotional outcome. Being aware of your emotional response to a selling pitch and the emotional branding of a business, can alter your buying decisions. Many companies include “scent branding,” a products unique fragrance that triggers your emotional connection to, or desire to buy, a product through the established link produced by the sense of smell.
Intention is creation
A clear intention, a purpose, goal or objective, forms a desired result. Clarity in emotional intention elevates the potential of an identified result. The emotion must be real, not just a detached idea. It should be felt, which is a thought that becomes an emotion, flooding the system with feel-good neurotransmitters. The emotion becomes physical. Countless studies show that a life with a continual flow of feel-good molecules, like oxytocin, dopamine and GABA, form a healthy, vibrant body. The opposite, where negative emotion and stress trigger the release of cortisol and other inflammatory compounds, the bad juju messenger molecules, result in a diseased body and premature aging. Successful businesses integrate a feel-good emotional intention into their services or products.
Tools for thought
Essential oils are arguably the most holistic aid available for self-health. Essential oils have healing properties that are restorative, preventative and address many physical functions of the body. They are also known for emotional stability and balance. Though any scent will have emotional and behavioral attachment, essential oils have this along with complex, diverse and extensive healing properties. Essential oils also have metaphysical, spiritual, and energetic properties. Through this combination of physical healing, emotional balance and scent memory, essential oils become a powerful tool for any holistic health and beauty wellness therapy. The power is increased when essential oils are used to link a scent memory with the thought of a positive physical intention, often expressed through verbal cues, affirmations or mantras, and accompanied by the emotional feeling of having that outcome.
The reaction to scent branding
For at least the past 100 years, product and business marketing has intentionally and successfully used scent branding. This identity is mostly subconscious, though with awareness you find many buying decisions you make are based on fragrance. Think about it. What does your laundry detergent smell like? It’s relatively easy to mentally recall the scent of your favorite food, place to shop or skin cream. The scent will also produce the feeling associated with that product or business. Scent branding triggers behavior. The smell of fried fast food creates the desire that fills the drive through lane. A craving for popcorn comes from the scent released within the movie theatre. If the association is negative, you’ll be moved in the opposite direction of that food fragrance or familiar store aroma.
Once the fragrance has been smelled to create a positive emotional and healing imprint, it can be used in massage or as an environmental fragrance by diffusing or spraying the air.
Make it yours
Directing the emotional feel of your environment can be accomplished with your own personal scent branding. A personalized fragrance, ideally containing essential oils, is smelled exclusively during a time that provides a specific positive emotional and healing experience, creating a scent memory association. This same fragrance is then used to recall and reproduce this experience. The fragrance may be created for an identified purpose, such as insomnia or digestive pain. Once the fragrance has been smelled to create a positive emotional and healing imprint, it can be used in massage or as an environmental fragrance by diffusing or spraying the air. If the memory association was effective, the scent should recall the positive emotional feeling.
The emotional law of attraction
Whatever it is you seek, you can create with clear intention, combined with a positive strong emotion, made more impactful with a scent association. Intention combined with emotion is the basic premise of the Law of Attraction. Though this seems very simplistic, with practice and fine tuning, you can see the impact of a focused use of intention and emotion. When scent is included, an olfactory impact is created with the associated emotion. Simply by smelling the scent used will recall the memory and emotion associated with the healing intention.
Emotions, scent, intention and verbal cues
Using intention, emotion, essential oils and a personalized fragrance, a self-healing program can be developed to accomplish a specific goal (result) of beauty wellness and holistic health. Words, or verbal cues, also produce results. What you say, either in your mind or expressed, has physical and emotional impact. Pay close attention to the words and thoughts you say. Be clear with your intentions and use terminology, whether self-talk, mantras or affirmations, as a way to accomplish goals and desires. Words have emotional impact. These are verbal cues and must always be in the affirmative, addressing what is wanted, never what is not wanted. In these words and therapeutic systems an intention is set that will have its greatest impact when there’s a strong emotional component that includes an intelligent use of essential oils and intentional personalized scent branding. Emotion is a significant force, and a most effective tool, in achieving total wellness of body and mind.