In the best case, the process of using essential oils leads to a state in which we have enough self-confidence to maintain our own health without continuously consulting the conventional medical machine. Conventional medicine, with its technology and drugs, is something we generally use when we think we must, when we think that more natural ways are not sufficiently effective. Indeed, it has crucial benefits under certain circumstances. But at the same time, we know it is as overdone and self-defeating as a Ferrari without gasoline. It disempowers us if we attach too much of our well-being to it.

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Schnaubelt Ph.D., Kurt. The Healing Intelligence of Essential Oils: The Science of Advanced Aromatherapy (p. 2). Inner Traditions/Bear & Company. Kindle Edition.