FEEL YOUR BEST
This last year has been a whirlwind! If your feelings are out of whack, you’re not alone! This month, we’re going to be talking all about how to take control of your emotions so that you can feel your best. We’ll have specific essential oil and supplement ideas to help with different emotions. Remember that sleep and your hormones are also directly related to your feelings, so be sure to get enough sleep and support your hormones appropriately.
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WHY ESSENTIAL OILS?
Did you know that essential oils can be a powerful tool for managing your emotions and clearing emotional patterns that aren’t serving you?
Have you noticed how certain smells can take you back to a specific moment in time? A specific memory? Smell accesses the limbic system of the brain, where our emotions live. Studies at New York University proved the amygdala gland does not respond to sound or sight or touch, but ONLY releases emotional trauma through the sense of smell. How amazing is that?
This is why when we sniff Stress Away, we can feel our shoulders release tension. Why when we diffuse Valor, it can give us that much needed courage to act. Our actions are directly tied to our emotions, which come from our thoughts about our circumstances. When we take control of our thoughts and feelings, it can have powerful repercussions on our life.
Throughout this class, we will be referencing ideas from the book Releasing Emotional Patterns with Essential Oils, by Carolyn L. Mein, D.C.
We highly recommend getting this book as it has so much valuable information along with specific details, charts, and graphs that will help you with application and specific emotions you may be working through.
In this class, we’ll be sharing oils to try for different emotions along with where to apply them. This book goes into much more depth into understanding and CLEARING emotions rather than glossing over them.
We’ve also included a couple more books to add to your library that can help you learn more about your emotions and how to work through them.
Releasing Emotional Patterns
Conquering Toxic Emotions
It's Not Always Depression
Although we try our best, we’re all angry at times. Whether it’s at ourselves or someone else, letting go of anger is like taking a load of bricks off. Here is a quick excerpt from Releasing Emotional Patterns with Essential Oils to get a more in depth view of how to release anger.
“The alternative to a negative response is to express the positive side of the emotion. That sounds like a viable option, so let’s take a common emotion like anger. We all know how it feels to get angry and what it is like to be the recipient of someone else’s anger…
To find a positive expression for the energy known as anger, we need to understand what it is and what causes it…
anger is an explosion of energy that gets attention. What is a positive expression of an explosion of energy? Laughter. Now, what would you rather experience, anger or laughter?
What happens if you have a lot of negative energy around a positive emotion? Perhaps you were told your laughter was inappropriate or were laughed at as a child. If this were the case, it would be hard for you to spontaneously laugh. Accessing your laughter requires releasing the blocked emotions around laughter as well as around anger.
When you are able to feel both sides of the emotion, you are free to fully experience the feeling. You now have a choice of holding or releasing the emotion. Releasing the emotion positively creates good feelings for yourself and those around you. Holding the positive emotion allows you to use the energy for a positive or creative expression through work or play” (Mein, 4).
Apply the oil(s) you choose from the list below to your palm, about halfway down under your pinkie finger. The anger is stored in your liver, so you can also apply it over the liver and to the liver reflex points on the bottom of your feet (google this or find it in the Releasing Emotional Patterns Book).
Everyone is different, so the oils that are best suited for each of us may be a little different, but these oils are a great place to start if you’re feeling sad. Start with just one and use it consistently to see if how you’re feeling changes.
For sadness, apply the oil(s) you choose behind your ear, in the middle of the ear.
Raise your hand if you are feeling overwhelmed!!! I mean, with the last year, I think we all are at some level.
Apply the oil(s) you choose from the list below to your temples when you’re feeling overwhelmed. Use them consistently and remember to make some time for yourself and what you love each day. Whether that means taking a bath once everyone’s gone to sleep, reading a book for enjoyment, knitting, or whatever makes your heart happy, make time for that!
FEAR
Sometimes we need some extra bravery for an interview, a party where we won’t know anyone, or something as simple as riding a rollercoaster. Other times, our fear is deep seated and due to some serious trauma.
Regardless of what you fear is and/or how it came about, apply the oil(s) you choose from the list below to your third eye, right in the middle of your eyebrows to help alleviate some of that fear. Use them consistently and consider adding an affirmation to help you conquer your fear.
This is another feeling that I believe we all feel at some level, as untrue as it is. There are areas of our life that we know we are amazing at while others leave us feeling like we just never do enough, provide enough, help enough, etc. Let’s kick that feeling to the curb!
Apply the oil(s) you choose from the list below over your heart when you’re having feelings of unworthiness and to your throat for feelings of scarcity. Pair them with positive affirmations about yourself that you know are true! You could even write a note on your mirror to remind yourself.
Before we get into the oils for exhaustion, let’s talk about some supplements that can help too! Taking NingXia Red and Super B can have an extremely positive effect on your energy levels. You may also want to look into your thyroid and consider a supplement like Thyromin if things persist or seem irregular to you.
Apply the oil(s) you choose from the list below over your sacrum. Consider starting with PanAway as this will also provide pain relief. Remember that getting enough sleep affects so many things in our bodies including our hormones, immune system, weight gain, in addition to our emotions.
We all have feelings of confusion or uncertainty from time to time. Whether it’s based on a decision we have to make, feeling like we don’t know enough about something, or don’t know the best path forward, these feelings can be paralyzing. Luckily, our oils can help!
Apply the oil(s) you choose from the list about an inch below the bottom of your ear when you are feeling unsure. For confusion, apply it to your spine about 3 inches above the base of your spine.
We’ve talked about oils that can help with different feelings and recommend starting there. If you are wanting to truly clear emotional patterns, it will require you to identify & feel the feelings, recognize & understand the lesson/pattern, increase awareness, and clear the cellular memory stored in the body.
This is not easy work. It takes recognizing your feelings and wanting to make the change. Once you have that down, you’re on your way! Releasing Emotional Patterns with Essential Oils truly is a great guide to give you step by step directions to go through this process.