| Anointing the body can help restore healing in many | | | | What is often overlooked is how the ancient peoples |
| ways-physically, emotionally, mentally as well as | | | | used essential oils for cosmetic beauty and |
| spiritually. The word "anointing" has primarily been | | | | desirability. Nothing much has changed! The Egyptians |
| used in religious rituals as in anointing the sick or | | | | used essential oils like frankincense and myrrh to |
| anointing the hands of priests. But it is actually term | | | | enhance all of their cosmetics and hair products. |
| that means much more. | | | | After all, it was the desert and all that wind, sand |
| Anointing for Physical Healing | | | | and sun wrecks havoc with one's skin. Frankincense |
| To "anoint" means to rub or stroke with an oil, that | | | | protected the eyes from eye diseases and the |
| part of the body which is out of balance-in pain, or | | | | myrrh kept the skin soft and supple. both oils |
| wounded, or inflamed. The priests or healers in | | | | protected from infections. |
| ancient times knew the healing properties of these | | | | Anointing for Mental, Emotional and Spiritual Healing |
| oils and kept written texts which prescribed oils that | | | | Anointing also means to use an oil in the space |
| were good for wounds, gout, sciatica, rheumatism, | | | | around the physical body in the person's aura or |
| lung conditions like bronchitis and pneumonia, for | | | | energy field. Now you won't find that description in |
| coughs, sore muscles, broken bones, headaches, etc. | | | | the biblical texts, but you will find references to the |
| Egyptian texts listed hundreds of recipes and | | | | use of incense, and references to sprinkling the |
| antidotes for physical healing. Sometimes it meant | | | | person which of course would be anointing more than |
| smearing the oil on the skin and sometimes it was a | | | | the physical body. You will find references to the use |
| concoction that the person drank. So anointing for | | | | of anointing to restore the individual to the |
| physical healing meant more than just dabbing a drop | | | | community, to exorcising "evil spirits" which caused |
| of oil on the forehead and it certainly never meant | | | | the person's anguish, and references to the setting |
| just olive oil by itself without the addition of a healing | | | | apart for certain individuals for priestly service, and |
| aromatic oil. Their methods of obtaining these oils | | | | for anointing the kings and prophets. The effect of |
| varied from crude steam distillation to macerating the | | | | this anointing was to make them holy-to consecrate |
| plant material in olive oil to make an infusion. | | | | to the Lord. |
| Anointing for Beauty | | | | |