Essential Oils and Chakras Part One; Introduction to Using Essential Oils for Balancing the Chakras

A Little About Aromatherapy, What Are the Chakras?, Chakras Explained Through the Aura, How Can Aromatherapy Be Used to Balance the Chakras?

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"Essential oils are alive and full of vital life-force energy, the very energy that helps to balance and create homeostasis in our beings."- Suzanne Bovenizer

It is now widely accepted that we are not just physical beings, but mental, emotional and spiritual bodies as well, all inter-connected as a whole instead of just one or the other. So it stands to reason that if we are depressed, anxious, stressed, fatigued, jealous, and angry or a mixture of any of these emotions on a constant basis these 'negative energies' will cause us to become sick, diseased or affect us negatively in our physical bodies.

Our Creator gave us many plants, herbs, flowers and trees; the 'flora' of the earth to help us heal our ills with natural medicine. Even sunshine and fresh air, the act of just being outside can help us feel better when we're not 100 percent. Essential oils are concentrated forms of those natural medicines that have been used for a millennia (essential oils' usage can be traced back over 5,000 years) with their uses passed down from the ages and most still hold true to this modern day.

More and more of us are going back to nature again to relieve our ills and take notice of the natural world to aid in our healing. The age of synthetic medicines is becoming less and less of a trusted source, as people are becoming aware that these man-made synthetics hold very low vibrational energies, and only temporarily subdue the symptoms of our ailments, instead of dealing with the illness as a whole, or the root of the illness or disease, and aren't really "healing" us at all, just making us more dependent on the synthetics and the doctors who prescribe them. We are more than just physical beings, and want more than just to mask our symptoms.

But treating an illness, imbalance or dis-ease isn't all up to our doctors, they are not magic. We have to become fully involved in the treatments and be responsible for a part of our healing too. Many of the illnesses, imbalances and dis-eases are a direct cause of the ways we live our lives, from what we eat and drink to what we breathe, say and do, as well as how we do it. If we do nothing but eat McDonald's food, drink high sugared, caffeinated, and alcoholic drinks, sit in front of a screen all day and complain about how miserable our lives are, then our minds, bodies and spirits will become very imbalanced and diseased. Our emotions play just as integral a part as our physical and mental bodies do.

Treating emotional imbalances on an energetic level can help us to get on the right track, along with taking care of our bodies, inside and out, as well as helping not only overcome our illnesses and become balanced, healthy beings, but aid us in a full feeling of well-being, and bring a state of homeostasis to our whole bodies, a peace, if-you-will, that all of us strive to feel. Essential oils are just another tool to add to our natural arsenal in helping our bodies achieve that harmonized and balanced state.

Introduction to Using Essential Oils for Balancing the Chakras

A little about Aromatherapy:

Aromatherapy is described as being the therapeutic use of pure essential oils for benefiting the body, mind, and spirit and is a very ancient practice. Used throughout the globe for centuries (dated use can be traced back over 5000 years), essential oils also hold an almost mystical aura in ancient texts as they were employed by sacred medicine men, Ayurvedic healers, Egyptian & Greek Gods and Goddesses for a myriad of tasks, one being (in ancient Sanskrit texts) to aid in the opening and balancing of the energy vortices or chakras that are a part of us all.

Most of us know about the mystical gifts of the "Three Wise Men" to Baby Jesus being highly prized essential oils. If you are a reader of the Bible, you know that essential oils are mentioned many times throughout. (The Bible has more than 500 references to at least 33 species of essential oils and/or the herbs from which they are distilled.) To understand more about Aromatherapy and how to choose oils, read this primer first; Many Helpful Suggestions on Uses of Essential Oils.

Introduction to Using Aromatherapy to Balance the Chakras;

What are Chakras?

"In Hinduism and Buddhism the chakras are symbolized as flowers. In our human undeveloped state the chakras are like flower buds waiting to be opened." -goodkarmabetterhealth.com

Chakra is a Sanskrit word that means "Wheel of Light" . Chakras are a part of our auras, or the luminous radiations of light, or fields of light energy radiating from our bodies; "three-dimensional spiraling vortices of energy that are transfer points for our thoughts, feelings and physical functioning of specific endocrine glands." - health.indianetzone.com.

Chakras are basically the energy centers of our bodies and are always in constant motion, (unless we are sick or very unhealthy). These swirling colorful energy centers reflect our total health encompassing everything from our physical health to our mental health, and our emotional health as well as our spiritual health.

Chakras are easily unbalanced by any blockage in the free flow of energy that correlates to the corresponding physical areas they center on. Chakra healing is the process in clearing these blockages so that they can function properly. This means that whether the blockage or stagnation of energy is affected by physical, mental or spiritual causes, it can affect our whole body, mind and spirit and can create corresponding physical problems in those areas, and vice versa. That is why it is so important to not only use natural remedies full of life- energy in our healing, but change our thought processes and make shifts in our lifestyle to become fully balanced in all aspects of our lives.

Angelic wisdom imparted to Doreen Virtue is shared with us regarding chakras and 'rainbow energy' in her book Angel Medicine where she states that the angels of Atlantis spoke with her and said many things to aid in our personal roads to healing including the following bit of information about chakras, sunlight and rainbow energy,

"The bands of natural sunlight are composed of the colors of the rainbow as well as our chakras, which are our natural connection to the Divine light (we all have rainbows inside us). With sufficient sunlight (and rainbow absorption) we feel happy and alive, the human body was designed to absorb and assimilate rainbow energy through sunlight to help heal our ailments and prevent them from ever occurring. Rainbow energy is concentrated in reiki, qi gong, therapeutic touch, rainbow medicine, prana and other names given to channeling rainbow energy through your hands and hearts."

Introduction to Using Aromatherapy to Balance the Chakras;

Chakras Explained through the Aura

While taking courses at the Sarasota School of the Natural Healing Arts I came across a book that is now one of my all-time favorites; Barbara Brennan's "Hands Of Light". If you haven't heard of her, or seen any of her books, I highly recommend them. She has a way of explaining the unexplainable with her highly intelligent scientific brain...even for those of us that have a hard time understanding the science of the mystical.

In her book "Hands Of Light", she shows that each layer of the aura is connected to a particular chakra, or energy vortex. She says the first chakra (bass or root chakra) is associated with the physical part of our bodies' functions and sensations, where we feel pain and pleasure. And the second chakra (sacral chakra) is related to our emotions and all emotional aspects of our feelings. The third chakra (solar plexus chakra) she says is associated with our internal ancient knowing, linear thinking and our mental body. The fourth tunes into the heart chakra which of course is where we connect to both personal and unconditional love (and/or lack thereof). The fifth chakra is the throat chakra relating to divine will, where we speak our truths and take responsibility for our words. The sixth chakra (also called the 'third eye' or brow chakra) is located at the pituitary/pineal level and deals with connecting to higher understanding, acceptance, intuition and celestial love. Barbara also says the seventh chakra (or crown chakra) located at the crown of the head, is our connection/alignment to God/The Source in all its manifestations.

Introduction to Using Aromatherapy to Balance the Chakras;

How is it that Aromatherapy can be used to balance the Chakras?

Aromatherapy is one way to help bring balance to an out-of-balance body and our chakras. How is this so? Well, our bodies are made of energy, plants are made of energy, (everything is made of energy and vibrates at its own speed) so it stands to reason that certain frequencies can support the levels of energies in the body that resonate with those similar frequencies. Light and love resonate at very high levels of vibration and can literally blast away stagnant, dark and hardened energies causing us imbalances and dis-eases. And things like hate, anger, jealousy, greed, and insecurity are all very low on the frequency scale, so by employing the use of high energy (therapeutic grade) essential oils we can encourage a 'raising of frequency' to help bring a state of health to the body.

Note: Choose therapeutic grade essential oils for balancing energies as they must be of good quality and carry high vibrations to work properly. Note that many essential oils marketed today are adulterated and diluted and do not carry high frequency levels. If you haven't already, read this primer first;Many Helpful Suggestions on Uses of Essential Oils to understand more about Aromatherapy and how to choose essential oils.

Stay tuned for the next chapter of this series which will introduce each chakra and the essential oils best used for balancing and clearing them.

Essential Oils and Chakras Part Two;Using Essential Oils for Balancing Chakras 1-3

And Essential Oils and Chakras Part Three;Using Essential Oils for Balancing Chakras 4-7.

Resources and More Reading;

"Healing Oils of the Bible" David Stewart, PH D.

Angel Medicine-Doreen Virtue

Barbara Brennan's "Hands Of Light"

Many Helpful Suggestions on Uses of Essential Oils

http://www.bhia.org/aromatherapy.htm

http://health.indianetzone.com/aromatherapy/1/essential_oils_chakras.htm

Suzanne Bovenizer's website here;

MORE READING ON CHAKRAS AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE:

Chakra Test; Find out if your chakras are open or are blocked by taking this questionnaire. http://www.eclecticenergies.com/chakras/chakratest.php

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A Little About Aromatherapy, What Are the Chakras?, Chakras Explained Through the Aura, How Can Aromatherapy Be Used to Balance the Chakras?

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