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Scent Of Life Clinical Aromatherapist,Bespoke Essential Oils Blends, Natural Perfume, Relaxation & Stress Management Techniques, Olfactory Branding

As a Clinical Aromatherapist my mission is to help you create a lifestyle of wellness so you can take control of your stress and anxiety. Through Clinical Aromatherapy I will help you reduce stress and chronic stress related problems, identify areas of self limitation, sabotage and emotional wounding to a place of healing, restoration and wholeness. You can make an appointment to enquire about my

coaching programme or essential oil recommendation. Call 0410818764 or email angela@scentoflife.com.au

✨ In Honour of St. Mary Magdalene ✨Yesterday we celebrated a woman of deep devotion, fierce love, and the fragrance of f...
23/07/2025

✨ In Honour of St. Mary Magdalene ✨
Yesterday we celebrated a woman of deep devotion, fierce love, and the fragrance of faith: St. Mary Magdalene.

“Mary took a pound of costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped them with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.”
— John 12:3
Her act was more than perfume.
It was prayer in liquid form.
It was the language of love, spoken without words.
It was Ora et Aroma—prayer and fragrance as one offering.

🌿 Mary reminds us:

Prayer can be a gesture, a silence, a scent.
Healing comes when love is poured out without measure.
Fragrance can fill the room, and the soul, with grace.
🕯️ A Magdalene Moment at Home:

Light a candle
Anoint your hands with a drop of oil (spikenard, frankincense, or lavender)
Whisper this prayer:
“Lord, let my life rise before You like a sweet fragrance.”
💬 What fragrance feels sacred to you?

✨ Follow for more sacred scent rituals and monastic healing wisdom.
📷Sharing some photos taken during my pilgrimage to her site in Provence At Maximin la St Baume

⌛️We often hear that time heals all wounds.But that is not true.When grief lingers or wounds go unspoken, time often bec...
16/07/2025

⌛️We often hear that time heals all wounds.
But that is not true.
When grief lingers or wounds go unspoken, time often becomes a veil—it conceals…. Time is not a remedy.
True healing calls for something deeper:
The courage to tend the heart gently and well.
Healing needs presence.
It needs intention.
It needs the gentle tending of body, mind, and soul.
🌿 In monastic gardens, hawthorn was a quiet ally:

❣️For the physical heart, strengthening and steadying
❣️For the emotional heart, comforting grief and loneliness
❣️For the spiritual heart, teaching trust and resilience
Today, if your heart feels heavy, reach for connection, a scent, a prayer …let Hawthorn be your whisper:
♥️Reflection:
“You were never meant to heal by hiding.
You were made to heal by being held by Divine Mercy’s sacred embrace.”
🕯️ Light a candle.
🫖Brew a cup of herbal tea.
🫶🏼Place a hand over your heart.
Pray: “Lord, heal the hidden places in me.”
🍃
Wishing you aromatic blessings to release and heal from wounds that bind you to the past❤️‍🩹


In Ayurveda, the Pancha Vayus—the five sacred winds—govern your physical and emotional flow.Balancing these vayus restor...
04/07/2025

In Ayurveda, the Pancha Vayus—the five sacred winds—govern your physical and emotional flow.
Balancing these vayus restores clarity, calm, and purpose.
🌀
Ayurveda teaches that within you move five sacred winds—Vayus—subtle energies that guide how you think, digest, speak, release, and connect.
Each breath is a prayer, each inhale and exhale a chance to align:
🔹 Prana Vayu (Head & Chest) – clarity, inspiration, Spirit
📍When imbalanced: racing thoughts, shallow breathing, anxiety 
🔹 Samana Vayu (Navel) – digestion, discernment, inner fire
📍When imbalanced: brain fog, poor digestion, indecision 
🔹 Vyana Vayu (Heart & Circulation) – connection, movement, flow
📍When imbalanced: restlessness, emotional disconnection 
🔹 Apana Vayu (Pelvis) – grounding, letting go, rooted peace
📍When imbalanced: constipation, overwhelm, fear
🔹 Udana Vayu (Throat) – voice, truth, spiritual ascent
📍When imbalanced: confusion, lack of direction, suppressed voice
🔵
When all 5 Vayus move in harmony- you feel whole
📍Anchored in your faith
📍Rooted in your purpose
📍Alive with divine flow
✔️Inhaling with trust♾️Exhaling with surrender.
✔️This is how we return to stillness—even in chaos.
✨ Try this: Close your eyes. Inhale a grounding scent (like Vetiver or Cedarwood ).
Let Scent 💧Breath 🌬️& Sacred Ritual gently guide you home.
📌I invite you to take the FreeSacred Scent Nervous System Quiz to begin your journey

Winter Awakens Vata🌬️Cold. Dry. Moving. Unpredictable.It stirs the subtle winds within us—the Pancha Vayus, or five sacr...
02/07/2025

Winter Awakens Vata🌬️
Cold. Dry. Moving. Unpredictable.
It stirs the subtle winds within us—
the Pancha Vayus, or five sacred currents of prana.

💨When Vata is imbalanced, we may feel:

❄️Scattered thoughts
❄️Dry skin
❄️Sleepless nights
❄️Anxious breath
But winter can also be a season of quiet renewal.

🫧Scent + Stillness + Nourishment
can pacify Vata and restore calm to the inner winds.

Try this:
💧Abhyanga (warm oil massage - sesame oil base with ashwaganda )
🫖Warming teas with milk, pepper,& turmeric
🙏Soothing breathwork + quiet prayer

The winds don’t need to be fought.
They need to be guided.

01/07/2025

🖤Symptoms Are Messengers
•••subtle whispers from the body, disruptions, inner turmoils, …
inviting us to LISTEN with compassion
Not enemies. Not errors. Not disturbance.

🤍In Ayurveda, symptoms point us toward imbalance - pay attention, listen
🕊️In faith, they can be soul prompts—divine invitations to be more introspective, reflect, return.

Today, I practice the pause by asking:
🕯️What is my body trying to tell me?
🕯️What deeper healing is waiting to unfold?
🕯️What am I trying to control or resist?

🫧I reach for the scent of Magnolia for its beautiful, heavenly fragrance- calming, complex and soothing and it’s an oil for renewal, regeneration…perfect for the start of a new month.
Through awareness, realign… heal.

Your path to balance is personal.
🤍Start with your scent.
🩶Start with your breath.
🖤Start by listening.

🫧🤍Take the Free Sacred Scent Quiz—to find your dosha type and discover how your body wants to heal. 🫧🫧
🖤DM Scent to find out more
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⚜️All shall be well: A Reflection with St Julian of Norwich 🌹🔅I have just started to learn about her visions and “showin...
27/06/2025

⚜️All shall be well: A Reflection with St Julian of Norwich 🌹🔅
I have just started to learn about her visions and “showing” if you like to know more join my FB group: Plant Aromatics of The Bible & Monastic Healing Practices
https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1C2QY1bLsM/?mibextid=wwXIfr

♥️The Heart That HealsToday is the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus—the symbol of divine love poured out,wounded y...
27/06/2025

♥️The Heart That Heals
Today is the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus—
the symbol of divine love poured out,
wounded yet always open,
burning but never consumed❤️‍🔥

🌿 In Ayurveda, the heart ( Hridaya) is not just a pump,
but the home of the Atman—the divine spark.
Emotion, memory, soul, breath… they all pass through this sacred space.

And in the Catholic tradition, the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a wellspring of love, mercy, transformation and healing.
❣️His heart teaches mine:
⚜️to feel without fear,
⚜️to break and still bless,
⚜️to open again and again.

✨ Today I bless my own heart—with prayer, with scent, with silence.
May I carry a heart that is soft, strong, and surrendered.
❣️Feeling anxious, heavy or scattered?
That’s not just stress - it’s your heart asking for balance
♥️ Breathe - pause… be still
🍵 Sip- rose + hawthorn tea
🌹Let Scent soften and shift your space
💗I love my heart shaped scented beeswax tablets to give me a soft background scent to set the tone

⚜️Reflection:
Where is my heart being invited to open, forgive, or trust again?

“Between stimulus and response, there is a space.In that space is our power to choose our response.In our response lies ...
25/06/2025

“Between stimulus and response, there is a space.
In that space is our power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
⚜️At the moment I am totally resonating with this quote often attributed to Victor Frankl⚜️
🌿
Practising the Pause is like taking a little respite amidst the chaos, noise and tasks, …Not to escape…. but to catch a breath. To recharge.
🌿
In Ayurveda and contemplative spirituality alike, healing begins in the PAUSE.

🕊️ That sacred space between reaction and response—
is where the nervous system softens…so I can tune in and allow myself to listen……the Spirit speaks … I rise with clarity and focus.

✨ When I work with scent, I’m not just calming the body.
I’m creating space.
A pause. To reflect and consider my options before reacting.
A doorway into clarity.

🍃Reflection:
What decisions might shift if you gave yourself a moment of sacred space?
📍Try This:
Inhale a grounding aroma like Vetiver, Cedarwood , or Rosemary .
🌬️Exhale slowly.
Ask not “What should I do?”
But “What am I being invited to become?”
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healing

Faith ⚜️Ayurveda ⚜️Nervous System Resonance:Your body listens to everything your heart never got to say.What we believe—...
20/06/2025

Faith ⚜️Ayurveda ⚜️Nervous System Resonance:
Your body listens to everything your heart never got to say.
What we believe—about ourselves, about our worth, about God—shapes our inner chemistry.
Everything you feed your body, thoughts, words, actions and food becomes your biography.
For example, if it’s rooted in fear, control or perfectionism …the nervous system echoes it in anxiety, fatigue or burnout
What we bury doesn’t die.
It waits... in the breath, the gut, the tension, the fatigue.
Our symptoms become messengers.

But healing is possible. It is not about fixing but - listening
🌿 Through the gentle language of scent.
🌬 Through the wisdom of breath-work and prayer.
🕊 Through sacred stillness where body and soul can finally meet.
🕯️Healing begins when the soul feels safe enough to speak again

🌿Reflection🌿
“What truth has my body been whispering under the weight of my silence?”


🌸 Part 5: The Journey Home to SvasthaYour nervous system is not your enemy.It’s your map.Your symptoms are not failures....
19/06/2025

🌸 Part 5: The Journey Home to Svastha

Your nervous system is not your enemy.
It’s your map.
Your symptoms are not failures.
🌀Feeling anxious or agitated?
🌀Constant fatigue despite rest?
🌀Irregular digestion or appetite?
🌀Disconnected from prayer & purpose?
💡These are not symptoms- They’re signals.
The body is telling the truth the mind has silenced
✨ Svastha is your birthright—your God-designed alignment.
🕯️Lets help you return to alignment and balance
Are you ready to come home?

🌿 Book your personalized consultation to discover your Prakriti & receive a Scent Prescription
🌼 Take the Dosha & Nervous System Quiz

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