Aroma Therapy of The Three Doshas - Ancient way of living a balanced life

Ayurvedic aromatherapy is an ancient science that gives us a complete paradigm of life. It covers the medicinal aspect, and also touches our consciousness, mind, thoughts, feelings, and emotions.
 
Ayurveda believes that every living being on Earth is made up of five basic elements – fire, earth, water, ether and air. It further believes that these elements will combine in various forms and leave us with at least one of the three doshas. Doshas are functional intelligence within the human body that are responsible for all the physiological and psychological processes. Three doshas are Kapha, Pitta and Vata.

Does aromatherapy help to balance the doshas? Aromatherapy is a very important part of the Vedic holistic treatment system. Ayurveda believes that aromatherapy can restore the balance of the doshas and help us feel strong, healthy and happy with life.​

Ayurvedic doctors use essential oils for treatment of a wide range of illnesses. Some oils help with wound healing as they have anti-inflammatory and antiseptic effects (such as cedar, pine, fir and chamomile oil). Others increase efficiency, concentration and improve memory (such as fir, ginger, tea tree, lemon, basil, verbena, rose).

Aromas can be experienced as spray, essential oil rubs, incense, soaps, sachets or even massages. Irrespective of the delivery method, they have similar benefits. Irrespective of the delivery method, each oil used in Ayurveda has special properties that help us relax, concentrate, restore strength, balance our emotional state and fight off various health issues.
 
Vata (or Vayu): Vata is predominated by the space (ether) and air elements and governs movement, transportation, drying and separating functions of the body. This dosha is characterized by coldness, lightness, agility and dryness. People with this type of constitution often suffer from insomnia, constipation, headaches, dry skin, have nutrition problems and anxiety.
To restore Vata dosha’s balance, sweet, soothing and warm essential oils are used. Some of these are- cinnamon, camphor, eucalyptus, bergamot, sandalwood, rose and jasmine.
Other oils that are also suitable for balancing Vata dosha are vanilla, lavender, lemongrass, lemon, ginger and ylang ylang.

Pitta: Pitta represents fire and some air and water elements, and it governs all metabolic processes.
People with Pitta dosha have a hot and intense character and often suffer from ulcers and inflammation of the skin.
To balance the Pitta apply oils that stimulate sweating and have a cooling effect. Such oils are jasmine, gardenia, rose, mint and chamomile and yarrow

​Kapha.: Kapha or Kapa is made up of the earth and water elements and governs structure, liquidity, growth and cohesiveness. People with this type of constitution are prone to cold and respiratory diseases and therefore the right oils for them are warming, stimulating oils such as basil, cedar, myrrh, sage, anise, laurel, birch, ginger.
One main issue faced by people with Kapha dosha is lymph stagnation, accumulation of mucus and other body fluids that delay metabolic processes. To solve these problems Ayurveda uses essential oils that activate metabolism and strength the body like parsley, dill, cinnamon, coriander, lemon grass.
Once the metabolism is activated, essential oils such as cardamom, coriander, chamomile, juniper, sage, eucalyptus and others that combat pathogens must be used.

Further note on Effects of essential oilsRefreshing – peppermint, lavender, tangerine, lemongrass, orange, fir, lemon and other essential oils have this effect.
Relaxing effects – ylang – ylang, camomile, lavender, basil, balm, orange, mimosa, sandalwood, vanilla, cedar.
Soothing effects include lemon, lavender, jasmine, dill, chamomile, vanilla, wormwood oils.
Against depression and severe mental conditions – the essential oil of bergamot has the greatest effect.
Stimulating effects – coriander, musk, juniper, cloves, mint, lemon, rosemary.
Cleansing properties – aromatic oils of geranium, lavender, magnolia, musk, orange, rose, rosemary, sage, lemon.
The aromatic oils of geranium, jasmine, tangerine, mimosa, orange, marjoram, rose and sandalwood harmonise and balance.
Elevating mood effects – jasmine, bergamot, cardamom, geranium, tangerine, patchouli, orange, rose, sandalwood, ylang ylang, sage, lemongrass.
Soothing and relaxing effects – musk, mint, rosemary, wormwood, cedar, lavender, lemon oils.
Geranium, jasmine, bergamot, coriander, lavender, mimosa, patchouli and other essential oils have an anti-stress effect.
 


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OR:
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Positivity, like negativity, can be influenced and held as a powerful weapon of choice to lead the team to greater heights.
However, how to use it may be tricky as we are dealing with the complex psychological part of humans.
These are the 3 methods that can help to boost up the team’s positivity which can simultaneously bring about positive benefits to your team; such as having better working relationships, culture, workplace satisfaction, performance and productivity! So, let’s dive in, and find out more!
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1. Having a Positive Team Leader

​A leader is a prominent and influential figure of the team who guides and gives direction to the team. Likewise, since a leader is holding such a pivotal position, he/she can also very likely sway the positivity of the team.
Positive leaders believe in the growing potential of their team members, no matter how dire the circumstance the team may be in. They shine through the dark clouds of disappointments and discouragement the team encounters, and have the capability to motivate, persuade and drive the team out of the spiral of uncertainties and distress by utilizing positivity deftly.
Emotions strongly motivates a team. Whether the team’s growth potential is snuff out due to the negative and discouraging words of their leaders, or grow through the positive and nurturing words of a leader can make a big difference to the team’s success.
Therefore, it is important for the team leader to take note of their working and communication style – whether they are spreading positivity or negativity.
 
2. Replacing Positivity Roadblocks with Motivators

Frederick Herzberg, a psychologist, have ascertained that just by identifying and removing the negativity causes is not sufficient to boost team’s satisfaction.
For example, is a team member is not satisfied with the current team’s culture, by just removing the people that causes this culture will not increase the satisfaction. Only by developing a change to the culture, that it will produce positive exponential effect.
Allow open-minded discussion on improvements to such area of concerns that saps away the team positivity. It may be the dissatisfaction to the policies of the company, the lack of learning exposure, the team dynamics or their salary paid.
Therefore, we have to not only identify the team’s causes in its positivity roadblocks but replace these roadblocks with “motivators” that drives and motivates the team positively.
 
3. Implement and Reinforce Positivit

​Now that we have identified the possible roadblocks to the team’s positivity and the feasible ways to make improvements, these improvements will need to be implemented and reinforced.
These are the few possible methods of improvement that can be implemented:
Figure out the Team’s Vision: This is to help team gain clarity of their team’s goals and purpose, to become unified which enhances commitment and efficiency in the team.
Issue Clear Roles & Responsibilities: Every individual should know what their work entitles and what they are required of to contribute to their team. If these boundaries are unclear, a lot of miscommunication and misunderstandings may unnecessarily encounter. Hence, by implementing this, it could help increase the team’s performance.
Develop Effective Communication: Many times, social relationships get strained due to miscommunications. Therefore, non-judgmental working culture should be nurtured, encouraging differing and diverse viewpoints. It is also important to keep everyone up-to-date of what’s happening and how they will be affected. All these adds up to aid the relationship among team members and potentially reaps significant benefits to the team in the long term.
 
Lastly,
Every team have different causes that limits the positivity of the team. But once you have recognized, implement positive changes and reinforce them, these changes will lead your team to gain not only the joy of working, but also the joy of working together as a team!
Workshops are a gateway to building relationships through quality time. The links below offers Team Building Perfume Workshops that not only helps you understand one another through their personality quizzes but provide mini interactive binding games and you can also gain novel experience of personalizing your own perfumes!
If you are interested to book a session, or just to find out more, click on the links below!
Perfume Workshop Team Building links for more information:
https://www.perfumeworkshop.com
 
OR:
https://www.perfumeworkshop.com/perfume-team-building-singapore.html
 
Couple & Bridal Showers Perfume Workshop:
https://www.perfumeworkshop.com/goodman-perfume-workshop.html

 It is a misconception to think that creativity is inborn and cannot be developed. 
 
With practice, everything we once could not do could be easily done (except for those that defies our human capabilities, like flying on earth - please don’t try this even with supervision). 
 
Let me give you a simple example. It’s not like we know how to walk right after we are born. We learn; by falling, by observing, by trying to stand up again and by not giving up and learning from our previous mistakes. So I would say perseverance and practice are keys to building creativity or learning anything else, for that matter.
 
Hence here are some simple games you can play with your peers to make your practice even more enjoyable! 
 
1.  Complete the Piece

1. Prepare and provide a series of incomplete pictures for each participant. (For example, each incomplete picture could have only a circle, triangle or some cursive lines)
2. Using your creativity, try to complete the missing parts of these incomplete pictures. 
3. Have a short show and tell with their completed pictures, explaining your thought processes in your creation.
4. Objective: Learn the varying perspectives of individuals and the different yet creative approaches to a problem. Remember the possibilities are endless, and you don’t have to limit your imagination to existing things in this world, so think out of the box!

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2.           Find a Tagline

1)    Find several random, interesting, ambiguous or unusual pictures.
 
2)    Pass down or show a picture from your selection to each person in the game for them to think and create a tagline.
 
3)    Present their completed ideas while also explaining the taglines they have come up with.
 
Objective: Brainstorm ideas that can catch people’s attention yet carry across the message you want to bring about from the picture. For example, their tagline could narrate a story, contains humor or even point out moral values.

3.           Product Ideation

1)    Prepare some easily sourced recyclables or materials. For example plastic bottles, plastic bags, news papers, balloons, markers, paints, tapes and scissors.  
 
2)    In your separate teams, set an allocated time for the teams to discuss what and how they want to create using these available materials.
 
3)    After discussion, using their selected materials, give about 20 to 30mins for each team to complete their product.
 
4)    Allow each team to present their final product, explaining its functionality and applications.
 
Objective: With limited resources, this game serves to develop one’s creativity and innovative minds, while also working out feasible ideas together as a team to produce desired results.
 
4.           Innovate on the Existing

1)    Prepare an item - preferable an item that is easily sourced yet closely relevant to our lives. For example, you could choose a paperclip as the ‘Existing item’.
 
2)    In separate teams, each team is provided with a piece of paper and some time to write down its possible uses other than the existing uses to clip papers. 
 
3)    Present the possible uses written on the piece of paper to the rest of the teams and explain their uses.
 
4)    Possible Innovative answers to the ‘Existing item’ Paperclip could be: earrings, nail cleaner, a pick lock or even hair clip. 
 
Objective: To not limit your views on the existing item’s application according to its known usage, but innovate and think out of the box. 
 
To Conclude,
 
Creativity is everywhere, even in hard science we have to use creativity to create new ideas to advance our world. 
 
To build our creativity, there are also workshops you can attend. One example is a Perfume Workshop. I have listed their website links for interested parties to find out more information about their workshops.
 
Perfume Workshop Team Building links for more information:
https://www.perfumeworkshop.com
 
OR:
https://www.perfumeworkshop.com/perfume-team-building-singapore.html
 
Couple & Bridal Showers Perfume Workshop:
https://www.perfumeworkshop.com/goodman-perfume-workshop.html
           

You may have clicked into this page with the intention of conducting some pre-purchase preparation for a fragrance, saving yourself from any post-purchase regrets. Or, very possibly, you may be here just out of sheer curiosity.
 
Whether you are here for the former or latter reason, I hope that this article could shed some light to your queries and help you gain a new perspective towards the benefits of fragrances.
 
1.  Cognitive Processing

Here’s a question for you! Do you know that when we are breathing, it is actually a form of learning? It comes so naturally, that we may not even recognize it as a skill, but this is what perfumers do for a living.
 
Any odor you breathe in sends electrical impulses to the limbic system, hippocampus and amygdala, which activates and gains information to understand the scent you are smelling. These three are parts of your brain that also influences and impacts your learning and memory (AYU, A., 2016).
 
Donald A. Wilson, Professor of the Department of Physiology and Neuroscience, researched and gained insight to our olfactory senses, concluding that our sense of smell greatly connects to our learning abilities.
 
And to add on, a published literature paper from Medical News Today written by Tim Newman, a major in neuroscience in U.K.’s University of Manchester, articulates that even during our sleep, studies have shown that fragrances have the ability to boost our memory retention.
 
Do note that, after cross-referencing with many resources and studies,  some aromas also do display more effectiveness in stimulating our focus and memory as compared to others (WorldHealth.net Anti-Aging Forum, 2020). The list of these fragrances will be listed in table 1 at the end of this article.

2.           Psychological Mind

As much as we recognize the usefulness of cognitive learning, our psychological well being is just as, or if not, more important. 
        
Very often we see that fragrances are tagged and labelled as aesthetic items or for cosmetic applications. However, they are also actually valuable mediums that provide mental support for people - invoking feelings of warmth, joy, peace and even pleasure when we smell them.
        
Evangelos Fradelos, a clinical Professor in mental health and psychiatric nursing displayed clinical evidence in his research paper, who noted that over time, results show a significant reduction in anxiety with patients that underwent therapy treatment involving fragrances.
 
Furthermore, Stephen Warrenburg who is employed by International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.had also supported in his research paper and noted that fragrances can effectively enhance our moods.
 
What’s more, these are only a meager pool of scientific articles pulled out, there are many more research papers readily accessible to the general public that you can find on the net. 
 
3.           Physical Attractivenes

I would comment that the fascinating point of perfumes or scents is in their instant ability to boost our attractiveness. This is supported by the long-standing fact that the majority of the human population love people who smell good.
 
Research led by Unilever has even shown that our facial appearance appears more pleasing just by applying fragrances on our body. 18 young adults of mixed genders were involved in this study, where results indicate the ones who are rated higher in attractiveness are all wearing perfume.
 
Another research conducted in the UK also supported this claim with their study, placing both women and men together in a room and requesting women to rate the attractiveness of men. In accordance with the evaluation results, men who are rated to be significantly more attractive were also ones who are wearing scented deodorant.
 
Since studies have shown positive results in regards to scents, there isn’t much to doubt if perfumes could help us elevate our appeal.
 
In Conclusion
We may start off with different intentions when purchasing a fragrance but with this article, I hope it helps you have a better idea of what you should look out for in accordance to your needs.
 
If you can’t seem to find or decide on a fragrance, you can even create your own personalized fragrance to cater more specifically to your needs. Just head down to the website below to register for a workshop! 
 
Perfume Workshop Website: https://www.perfumeworkshop.com
 
In the table below, a brief list of fragrances are included in regards to their respective benefits.

List of Fragrances with Their Respective Benefits
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Stress, Anxiety and Insomnia
Bergamot, Chamomile, Cinnamon, Cloves, Frankincense, Lavender, Myrrh, Nutmeg, Orange, Peach, Rose, Sandalwood, Vanilla, and Ylang-ylang

Depressive symptoms
Bergamot, Clary Sage, Grapefruit, Jasmine, Lavender, Lemon, Neroli, Orange, Petitgrain, Sage, Sandalwood, Tangerine and Ylang-ylang

Focus
Benzoin, Camphor, Cardamom, Cinnamon, and Eucalyptus

Cognitive Memory
Bay Laurel, Jasmine, Lavender, Lemon and Rosemary

Irritability & Anger
Chamomile, Jasmine, Patchouli, Rose and Ylang-ylang, Neroli, Rose, and Geranium

Confidence
Frankincense, Jasmine, Patchouli and Sandalwood

Attractiveness
Jasmine, Rose, Sandalwood, Vanilla and Ylang-ylang

Fragrance list (WorldHealth.net Anti-Aging Forum, 2020)

As social creatures roaming on this planet called earth, social cues are very important in our lives since we interact so much with these creatures.
Have you met with mystifying situations where you just had a great time with a colleague or a friend but the very next day, they were just plain cold to you? And suddenly you doubt if this person was the very same person you’ve been together with since yesterday.
So, let’s check the facts together to help you identify what are some of the possible causes behind this hot and cold behaviours of our fellow homo sapiens.

1. Personal Bubble

Like territorial creatures, we note how close you are allowed to be in our personal space, and if you breach it, our instinctual aversion alarm will go off, marking these creatures as intruders.
 
Notice these non-verbal signs when you draw close to someone. For example, if they move away from you a few seconds after you draw closer, or show expressions of discomfort (sometimes even disgust). If they suddenly and unnaturally change their seat with someone else, it means you have been inside their comfort zone for way too long.
However, do not fret as the situation is still salvageable - only if you change and keep a comfortable distance with them. They will appreciate the gesture after seeing your change.
 
1. Delivery Tone

I cannot stress enough how important this subtle yet significant tool of communication is. For example, how you say “What do you want?” in different tones, can make one feel extremely intimidated or just casual indifference.
We may also encounter situations where we misunderstand people as angry or rude when they speak loudly in conversations. However, it may just their way of speaking, and they most likely did it unintentionally and do not mean any harm.
However, whether it is intentional or not, in social situations, it is always wise to control our volume, and our pitch when we speak so as to not send any wrong social cues.
 
2. Eye Contact

This is important to not only show your interest in the conversation but also convey respect and confidence.  
However, too much eye contact will make seem like you are staring. And in conservative Asian culture, staring is considered rude and may sometimes also make you seem like a creep.
So, one in a while look away naturally, like you are pondering on the conversation or a response but look back when you are speaking to the person.
 
3. Are They Distracted with Something?

When you are conversing with them, do they look at their phones, or look around you and not keep a healthy amount of eye contact with you? This may mean that they are not engaged in the conversation.
You may be conversing on a topic that they are not interested in, or they may be troubled with something in their lives or just plain busy with their work.
So, let’s not jump into conclusions, and observe what they are distracted with to find out what the problem is. Or you can take the direct approach and ask them if they are troubled with something.
 
4. Observe Their Postures and Behaviours

If you find that the person’s body or legs are facing away from you while you speak, they are probably not interested in your conversation and would prefer to leave as soon as possible. And vice versa. If the person is interested in your conversation, they will posture their bodies towards you.
Are they crossing their arms in the conversation? This may be a defensive stance that they take especially if you are touching on an uncomfortable topic. So, you may want to steer the conversation topic away to a lighter and more casual conversation or you may want to speak in a softer and more polite tone to soothe the tension.
 
Overall,
Do not take to heart if you fail in reading other’s social cues due to your unintentional remarks or behaviours. We learn as we make mistakes, practice makes perfect! And what is most important is your heart and intentions during a conversation, is it out of love or kindness?
Lastly, if you want to spend more time learning these social cues, more exposure with your colleagues or friends would help you to understand one another better.
I have attached several links down below on a Perfume Workshop, where you can take personality quizzes to find out more about yourself and your peers! Plus, you can also bring back bottles of perfumes that serves to help boost your mood when you are down.
Perfume Workshop Team Building links for more information:
https://www.perfumeworkshop.com
 
OR:
https://www.perfumeworkshop.com/perfume-team-building-singapore.html
 
Couple & Bridal Showers Perfume Workshop:
https://www.perfumeworkshop.com/goodman-perfume-workshop.html