Because scent has such a strong yet invisible influence over our emotions and thoughts, it has been connected with the spirit world for thousands of years. Upon smelling some scents we can find ourselves longing for love, food, harmony and thus inspiring us to take action. This is why when we walk into some homes, spas or businesses, do we think we experience a likeable energy or memory. It is the invisible lure of scent that influences our feelings toward a person or place.

The power of scent has been long used in magickal rituals to transform our beings and beliefs. Upon smelling ritual oils a person can easily get lost into that magical hypnotic trance. The difference between a magician’s trance and going into hypnosis is the fact one is self induced and one is lead by another person. So really when you perform a ritual you are helping yourself quiet down that chatty negative conscious mind and allowing the subconscious to conjure up images in your psyche. Soon, you’ll find yourself drifting off, and in that place of no emotion and calm, that’s where then you can program yourself to get rid of fears and habits. The act of having a ritual is to engrain your thoughts over and over in your brain. For instance, making complex patterns that only you understand or drawing artwork to express your inner yearnings, and scent certainly helps you retain the memory for a later time to take action.

It connects us to our higher self that desires nothing more than to be at peace, calm, flourishing and giving for it can triggers a memories and feelings of our childhood. For most of us, that was the time of innocence.

For instance, did you know that the best real estate trick is to bake chocolate chip cookies to get the buyer to reminisce about home life? This works with American buyers, but with Asian buyer, it’s the smell of incense and the presence of Buddha that makes the home likeable.

So have you added scent to your home’s Feng Shui? Or began using fragrant scents in your self hypnosis rituals? If not you should try it, and soon you will find yourself longing to inhale and become emotionally attracted to those scents. And most certainly your life and relationships will change with others….almost like magic.