Summary: <p>Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery: Mindfulness and Relaxation For the Family<br> Presented by: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes<br> Executive Director, AllCEUs</p> <p>Continuing Education (CE) credits can be earned for this presentation at <a href="https://www.allceus.com/member/cart/index/product/id/577/c/">https://www.allceus.com/member/cart/index/product/id/577/c/</a></p> <p>Objectives<br> ~ Review the concept of mindfulness, and how to incorporate it into daily life<br> ~ Learn about the history, benefits, cautions and methods of incorporation into practice of<br> ~ Aromatherapy<br> ~ Meditation<br> ~ Guided Imagery</p> <p>Mindfulness<br> ~ Being aware of your current state<br> ~ Emotionally<br> ~ Mentally<br> ~ Physically<br> ~ Spiritually<br> ~ MindLESSness allows people to ignore “minor” stress until it adds up to a meltdown<br> ~ What discriminative stimuli can you put in the environment to remind you to do a mindfulness scan?<br> Mindfulness Activities<br> ~ Body scan<br> ~ Mindful Breathing<br> ~ Mindful Observation<br> ~ Mindful awareness – Think before you act<br> ~ Mindful appreciation: Random Acts of Kindness<br> Aromatherapy<br> ~ History<br> ~ Hippocrates, known as the father of modern medicine, maintained 2,500 years ago that “the key to good health rests on having a daily aromatic bath and scented massage’.<br> ~ Some of the plant materials Discorides wrote about in his Materia Medica 100 AD include many of the herbs and essential oils we use today including cardamon, cinnamon, myrrh, basil, fennel, frankincense, juniper, pine, rose, rosemary, and thyme.<br> ~ Scented ointments and oils were recognized as having great benefit on both the physical and psychological level.<br> ~ One of the principle aspects of ayurvedic medicine is massage with aromatic oils.<br> ~ Distillation of essential oils is credited to the Persians in the 10th century<br> ~ 1887 French physicians first recorded laboratory tests on the anti-bacterial properties of essential oils.</p> <p>Aromatherapy<br> ~ History<br> ~ In 1910, Rene Gattefosse discovered the healing properties of lavender after severely burning his hands in a laboratory explosion. He later used the wound healing and antiseptic properties of essential oils in the care of soldiers in military hospitals during WWI.<br> ~ Gattefosse coined the term “aromatherapy” with the 1937 publication of his book, of the same name. Translated into English as Gattefosse’s Aromatherapy (1993).<br> ~ Dr. Jean Valnet, a French army surgeon used essential oils in the treatment of war wounds during the French Indochina War and wrote the book, Practice of Aromatherapy, which was translated into the English in 1964.<br> ~ Marguerite Maury, a French biochemist and nurse, lectured and gave seminars in the early 30ies throughout Europe on the rejuvenating properties of essential oils and resulting overall sense of well being they provided.<br> Aromatherapy<br> ~ The inhalation of aromatic molecules affect us on a variety of levels – physical, emotional and spiritual.<br> ~ When inhaled<br> ~ Aromatic molecules enter the nasal passages<br> ~ Stimulate olfactory receptor sites and trigger messages to the limbic center which stimulates physiological responses within the body via the nervous, endocrine or immune systems impacting pleasure, pain, emotions, memory, sleep, appetite and sex.<br> Aromatherapy<br> ~ A 2009 study found that pre-operative patients who received aromatherapy with lavandin oil were significantly less anxious about their surgery than controls.<br> ~ A 2007 study in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine suggests that women who used aromatherapy during labor reported less pain overall and were able to use fewer pain medications.</p> <p>Aromatherapy<br> ~ Benefits<br> ~ Anger<br> ~ </p>
