When a scent is more than just a smell.

The very second you read these words, your brain is monitoring the light, heat, cold, sounds, smells, touch, and pressure all around you.  As sensory experience floods our system, it allows our brain to create meaning from our experiences.  Sensory specific stimulation can be a useful tool to stimulate the side of the brain you want to engage.   Floral scents will stimulate the left brain, spicy for right brain. 

 

 

In olfactory stimulation we use various scents or essential oils to stimulate your childs brain.  Olfactation is what is call an ipsilateral circuit.  It does not cross the midline like all other sensory information does.  Olfactory stimulation is done on the same side of the weak hemisphere, whereas all other stimulations are done on the opposite side of the weak hemisphere.