Myrrh and frankincense— to purify Your home and warm the soul Bashny.Net

FROM the history of the USE of INCENSE AND of MYRRHthe Ancient Greeks believed that if the soul no storm, no pain in the body and therefore the soul care was an integral part of Greek medicine. The consent of the spirit and the flesh – then the main condition under which a pure soul rebuilds the body. We are able to hear themselves, their feelings, other people's feelings.

The easiest and most common method for promoting the purification of the soul, is the method of aromatherapy. The first is to understand the founders of various religious worldviews. Incense resin, contributing to the change of consciousness, as if allowing communication with the gods, was as precious as gold.

Among the used while aromatic resins frankincense have been revered in many ancient countries. Describing built at Babylon the temple in honor of Baal, Herodotus, in admiration, talking about Golden Stella with the image of God, then focuses on the Golden altar, which was annually burned about thousand talents of pure incense.

 





 

About how strong was the people's need of communication with the gods, says at least the fact that the demand for relevant aromatic substances, in addition to its own production was carried out not only purchase, but also the collection of fragrances in the form of tribute. For example, only the Arabs paid tribute to about, a thousand talents of frankincense.

Not only in honor of the God RA incense was lit three times (dawn – amber, noon – myrrh, on the sunset incense), but on special occasions and in honor of the pharaohs. Frankincense and myrrh with some success and was used in embalming.

Frankincense and myrrh, as a means of sacred ritual incense of the last century the religiosity of the ancient successfully migrated to our daily life. In the Christian churches and incense is still used, but most often as part of complex spices.

Holiday coffee in today's Ethiopia, the birthplace of the coffee trees, accompanied by an unusual ceremony, can furnish a special ritual. Coffee ceremony usually usually takes whole day, and her luxury and complexity depend on whether they make it in a rustic hut or in a rich town house.

The ceremony is preceded by spreading the floor with the herbs, then start to Voskresenie incense, and only then begin to carry out the necessary manipulations with coffee beans. They are first washed, patiently dried, and then roasted, pounded in a mortar, and finally cooked in special round-bottomed vessel over an open fire.

 

A LITTLE GEOGRAPHY TO the QUESTION of HOW AND WHERE to GET the MYRRH AND FRANKINCENSEcustomary For us to find the damaged bark of apricot frozen build-up that many rural kids happy and eats without any fear eat. Also have deliberately damaging the bark in spring, birch get birch SAP, which is used not only as a refreshing drink, but it is also applicable for the purposes of healing. All this is familiar and understandable.

But what can be not only mysterious, but also mysterious to many of us the myrrh and frankincense? When even a cursory examination is a resin that excels in places of damage to the bark of trees merrisa and bark of frankincense trees. In nature there are some species like those, and others.

Arabic myrrh — bitter, as many of the myrrh trees secrete a resin with a peculiar bitter smell. Although extremely rare, but there are myrrh sweet smelling. But the incense almost always has a sweet, resinous odor.

In countries such as the United Arab Emirates, Israel, India, Somalia, Oman frankincense trees occupy large areas. But what is remarkable is the fact that the trees, as if one and the same species, but grown in different countries and in different circumstances, give a resin with different notes of smell.

In different countries to voskresenia these expensive resins were developed ceremonial rituals, which used coals and incense burners special forms of many of them in different cultures vary greatly. Voskresenie incense in Egypt, for example, in addition to altars made in special incense burners resembling modern pipes.

In Assyria the same preference was given to the Voskresenie incense on open altars located on the hills. The conservatism of the ancient Greeks and Romans allowed to convey to the present day incense burners unchanged in form, familiar to us dishes that we can see in our churches.

 

The SMOKE of INCENSE INTO the BELIEF of SPECIAL PROTECTION of the HOUSE of GODSINCE ancient times it has been observed that the inhalation of the smoke of incense is accompanied by a change in behavior, and in the mind, contributing to the dip in TRANS. Wizards from the island of Java used this property of the smoke of the incense with the intention to let spirit in yourself.

Medical studies have shown that inhaling the smoke of incense increases suggestibility and facilitates the recovery of the patient. However, a significant role in the inhalation of the smoke of incense play his purely physical properties: composed of resinous smoke there is a wonderful antiseptic such as benzoic acid, which helps purify the air from pathogens.

On the blog mentioned that, from the hygienic point of view, man needs only light negatively charged air ions, which are oxygen molecules that carry a negative charge. These air ions in the amount of 1 cm3 of air is very good for health and well-being.

In this regard, understandable persistent faith of Orthodox Christians that the temple of God cannot be sick. Confirmation of this belief is the fact that in 1770, when Moscow was the plague, the epidemic passed the Trinity – Sergius Lavra.

 About PRACTICE of APPLICATION of the RESINS of FRANKINCENSE AND MYRRHto the Aromatherapist is well known for soothing, antitussive, anti-cough properties of the worlds fragrances and incense. Despite the fact that the resources allocated from these resins essential oils that have somewhat depleted the palette of smells, but the fact that easier to work with, that producers all are satisfied with it.

For treating colds you just have to drip a drop in the aroma lamp oils, spreading them 10 times. Among fans of aromatherapy, inhalation with a dry persistent cough, especially in combination with the same diluted lavender oil find greater recognition. But personally I like it as a preventive measure Voskresenie resins on charcoal.

Of course, if the incense burners and the implementation of the inhalation does not have to around the house felt the aroma voskresenya resins. In addition, for ignition of the resins in the incense burner the necessary coal, which, like resin can be purchased in the Church stores and shops. If you get caught Salitre coal, which, although easily ignited by a lighter or match, but coming from him the smoke of nitrate is not always pleasant.

There are still hookah coal that does not have an unpleasant smell, but it requires a longer ignition. Using forceps or tweezers that you can hold the coal over the flame of a candle or gas burners, to achieve ignition of coal.

After the charcoal flare up red hot, quickly put it in heat-resistant pot or incense burner. Only after that should on the surface of the coal to put the pieces incense resins and leave them to fester, while inhaling the emitted aromatic smoke.

The recommendations of aromatherapists the inhalation of the smoke of incense and myrrh are shown to relieve fatigue and when necessary, to relax and at least temporarily escape from those problemsthat cannot be resolved "immediately". In addition, okurivanie incense, this is the perfect case for frankincense and myrrh, when fatigue, disturbing sleep, or insomnia, is eliminated by fumigation their bedrooms before bedtime.

The patient home is a health issue for the rest of the household. In such situations, it is crucial to begin performing the required preventive measures: after each airing, throw frankincense on a hot coal, and this measure helps to ease the discomfort in the airway during disease and disinfects the room.

If to consider that now the peak of winter days, with their long winter nights and the incredible propensity of many to colds, the information on the frankincense and the myrrh just what you need, and for times when the immune system is weakened, and the infectious epidemic is gaining momentum.

 

P. S. And remember, only by changing their consumption — together we change the world! ©

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