How to Use Therapeutic Essential Oils for Emotional Healing

Essential oils provide a natural and holistic method for emotional healing. You can use essential oils for a massage or by burning incense to heal emotional energies, or chakra (chi) energy.

Things You'll Need

• Essential Oils
• Incense burner

Instructions

Understanding the Power Therapeutic Essential Oils

1. Begin with the root chakra, which correlates with issues of success, survival, stability and patience and the body systems of kidneys, adrenal glands, bladder, colon and circulation. Essential oils associated with the root chakra include burdock, dandelion, wild lettuce and meadowsweet.

   To channel these essential oils, either massage the stomach including bladder and kidney areas or burn as incense.

2. Treat the sacral chakra, connected to life force, procreation, feelings and sexuality and the reproductive organs.

   The following essential oils heal the sacral chakra: licorice, oregano, calendulla or wormwood. Meditate next to burning incense using these essential oils or indulge in a sensual massage to heal emotional issues around sexuality and life force.

3. Work with the solar plexus chakra, the area associated with power, authority, boundaries and the body systems of the stomach, muscles and liver. If you are feeling powerless or weak, you can focus on this chakra for emotional healing.

   The essential oils to use to heal this emotional point are: yarrow, lemon balm, chamomile, fennel, sage and skullcap.

4. Treat the heart chakra area,which is connected to emotions around understanding, balance and forgiveness, manifested in the physical systems heart, lungs, immune and circulation systems.

   Essential oils include: lavender, lemon balm, parsley, sweet marjoram and green flowers or plants.

5. Work with throat chakra, which is related to communication and creative expression, seen in the thyroid and hormones. If you are feeling powerless in ability to communicate and stand up for yourself verbally, working with the throat chakra will open energy channels associated with these feelings.

   Thyme, lovage and eyebright are the essential oils to use for emotional healing related to these body energy locations.

6. Treat the crown chakra, which represents the higher self and spirituality, associated with the central nervous system, intuition and headaches related to anxiety and insecurity.

   Pagoda, sunflower, shrub roses or bo tree are essential oils to use when relating to emotions regarding the crown chakra.

References

• Apothecary List of Essential Oils