incense

dear friends of hive,
today I want to talk to you about the smoke sacred to me of incense, a symbol of purity and mystery. often its smoke rises into the air forming figures, symbols, designs full of mystery that each of us translates in our own way. The scent intoxicates, calms relaxes, brings us into a receptive state of mind.

Frankincense is mentioned in Vedic sacred texts from 4,000 years ago, and it seems to have been brought to Greater China about 200 B.C. by a monk.
Clearly, the oldest incenses used by man were herbs they found in the fields or barks or resins from trees in the woods.

A perfume dear to my heart is Sandalwood, widely used in China and Japan but also in India and all of the East. Widely used to harmonize and purify places, homes, meditation centers, I use it as a personal perfume. to harvest Sandalwood you have to wait at least 40 years for it to mature. in India it was customary for wealthy people at death to have their bodies burned on Sandalwood pyres.

Another classic scent also dear to me is Patchouli, a bush with aromatic leaves is an evergreen plant, not very tall and can be planted in pots.
In India they put it in linens, in fabrics, it drives away moths. and in fact Indian cashmere fabrics are kept in Patchouli scented cases, I use it in wrappings or laundry drawers, I alternate with Lavender seeds.

But what I mean by that is that frankincense has been with us since the dawn of time, from birth to death, think of the gifts of the Magi, gold, frankincense and myrrh, used for centuries to inspire prayers, to strengthen the spirit for meditation.

frankincense envelops one of our most important senses the sense of smell. and in fact it is thanks to smell that we sometimes decide or choose a food to feed us, animals like and mate thanks to smell, dogs smell us and can recognize our emotional state thanks to smell. a smell whatever it is evokes to us an experienced emotion. scents stimulate pleasure and desire, they become antidepressants' remove

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