The Method
Aroma Freedom brings revelations, connections, and release to places within your story and mindset that you never imagined or thought possible
What is Aroma Freedom
Aroma Freedom was created by Dr. Benjamin Perkus, a clinical psychologist who discovered a way to combine the power of scent with proven psychological principles to support mental and emotional wellbeing. It is a modality proven to quickly and gently dissolve the negative thoughts, feelings and memories that have detrimental influence on our day to day experiences and hold us back in life.
It uses the principle of Memory Reconsolidation, which has been studied in neuroscience as the process by which the brain can experience profound release from the grip of a distressing emotional learning or an unconscious acquired response that has formed due to adverse experiences. These internalized, automatic responses silently dictate how we feel about ourselves and interact in our daily lives.
How it Works
Dr. Perkus discovered that holding the four primary aspects of consciousness together at the same time (feeling, thought, sensation, and imagery related to a particular memory) while smelling specific essential oils had the effect of "dissolving" the negative associations to the memory/emotion complex, and it allowed the person to become released from the effects of negative experiences from the past. He further discovered that the same process can be used when addressing current struggles, belief structures and patterns, and future imaginings and fears.
It is an inherently gentle and grounding process, even when it illuminates and addresses profound places of harm or tenderness within our stories.
With Aroma Freedom, we now have a collection of techniques that are effective for stress reduction, relief from painful memories, reframing mindset, releasing self-limiting beliefs, and supporting overall mental and emotional balance.