Sense of smell and the brain's response.
December 12th 2007 11:09
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When they tell us to "use your sense" perhaps they mean use your senses as the power of smell has a very powerful effect on our brain and memory.
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Now, From the American Chronicle:
The Secret Power of Scent Messages
Luke Vorstermans
Think about your response to these two different messages delivered to our five senses:
Hearing: opera -- hip hop
Seeing: a sunset -- a garbage dump
Tasting: ice cream -- chili peppers
Touching: tender kiss -- a punch
Smelling: perfume -- rotten eggs
Sense of smell
With our sense of smell, every odor when broken down to its smallest component is a chemical formula.
Chemicals formulas are molecules in specific configurations.
When we smell, a chemical formula rises in the nose and lands on thousands of smell receptors which identifies the molecules and forwards the information to the brain.
Sending specific scent messages is a simple way to help manage moods.
Scent therapy works by sending scent messages to the brain using your sense of smell.
A scent message encourages the brain to respond in a certain way… the smell of coffee is a scent message to the brain that makes you feel like drinking a cup.
The smell of burning toast sends a scent message to take action and unplug the toaster.
The smell of an exotic perfume sends a scent message to the brain that triggers feelings of sensuality.
By infusing specific sent messages into a small patch that is inhaled frequently through the day, Scent Therapy “teaches” the brain to respond in a specific way to the scent message being delivered.
The scent receptors identifies the incoming information which it then associates with a certain feeling, just like baking bread evokes a feeling of hunger.
Scent Therapy uses molecularly engineered scents blended with essential oils to modify and influence behavior.
These engineered scents are designed to assist with managing a wide variety of moods that control food cravings, alleviate stress, and promote feelings of relaxation.
Much like motivational posters or tapes that our sense of sight or hearing to encourage a change in behavior, scent messages also ‘reinforce’ the behavior connected to the scent.
For example, smelling Scent Therapy’s Scentuelle patch ‘teaches’ the brain that this scent message triggers feelings of relaxation and sexuality.
Once memorized, each time the patch is smelled the response becomes more immediate and the mood state is activated quicker.
This process is constantly at work with your sense of smell. The response is intuitive.
Scent Therapy is an exciting new technology that gives individuals personal control over enhancing moods and influencing behavior.
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Well now, isn't that something to look forward to, it sounds relatively easy to me. And those scents are well sought out by consumers.
Which does help satisfy the profit motive of those who sell them
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Good post.
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cool post katiezzzz, thanks
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Raven, I guess techno gave it to you, Rosemary, great comment, Louie, I'm sure everything has a smell of some kind, not all pleasant and a taste too, unless those can be regarded as metaphorical, search me, ask the poets.
Thanks everyone for your wonderful participation. Anyone like citric?
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Great post. Many of my memories are olfactory ones....of my grandmother's cooking, of places I have visited..., etc...
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