Learning the function (purpose)that your emotions serve is helpful so that you can identify what gets in the way of reducing painful emotions. I have even tried a therapy where when you get in touch with a memory you want to clear, you smell the bottle until the memory fades or changes intensity.ĭoTerra even have a set of oil blends that target emotions: Peace, Motivate, Passion, Cheer, Console, Forgive. The first step in regulating emotions is learning to identify and label your emotions. You can buy along with the book a wheel chart you can use to select what emotion you are feeling or want to feel, and the corresponding oil you can use. There are many tools out there now to guide you, apart from intuition, with Emotions and Essential Oils, there’s also an app for your phone called Essential Emotions Reference. Douglas Fir is the Oil of Generational Wisdom.Clary Sage is the oils of Clarity and Vision.In this book there is a description for each oil and I have found them to be so spot on with what I have experienced and felt after smelling the oils. Inspire the fulfilment of our life’s purpose Increase spiritual awareness and connectionĥ. Assisting us in releasing limiting beliefsĤ. Assisting us in healing the physical bodyģ. According to the book, Emotions & Essential Oils there are five stages of healing with Essential oils.ġ. This can literally be done by smelling the bottle or diffusing them in a diffuser.Įssential oils can assist us with our emotional healing, but they can’t do the work for us. The smell receptors located on the upper surface of the nasal cavity make direct links with the limbic system of the brain, where the scent is perceived and processed.”Īnd from there the brain sends signals via the nervous system to other parts of the body, so smelling essential oils is just as beneficial as ingesting them and rubbing them on your skin. Our sense of smell can have a profound effect on our emotions, and simply inhaling the aroma can elicit an emotional response. These compounds are able to interact with the olfactory (smell) receptors in the nose.

Our nose is the fastest way to reach the limbic system.Īs David K Hill, Chairman, Scientific Advisory Committee for doTerra says “ Essential oils are simply a mixture of volatile aromatic compounds. Essential Oils are more than just lovely smells, there is actually a therapeutic process going on in your nose which affects the limbic system in the brain the area that governs the emotion center.

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