EMOTIONS & ESSENTIAL OILS. ❤
Did you know.... ??? Approximately 87-93% of disease comes from our THOUGHT LIFE. *Thoughts* become emotions, emotions become attitude. Our attitude is our reaction, and all of our daily reactions make up our *lifestyle.* When you think, you build thoughts, and these become physical substances in your brain.
"As a man thinks in his heart, so is he." - Proverbs 23:7
There are two kinds of emotions: Love-based (positive) emotions, and fear-based (negative) emotions.
Love-based emotions include: love, joy, faith, trust, inner strength, confidence, belief,happiness, caring, sharing, forgiveness, openness, passion, freedom, harmony, honesty, beauty, compassion, self-love, self-appreciation, respect, acceptance, and peace.
Fear-based emotions include: fear, anger, disgust, worry, anxiety, frustration, resentment, ill-will, blame, sadness, jealousy, negativity, and stress.
We are ultimately wired for LOVE, while fear is a learned and not a natural response. In therapy, especially with children, I speak a lot about the two. Kids (and adults!) act out of fear when they lie or manipulate. 2 Timothy 1:7 says "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind."
We live in a world that is filled with health issues-our world is sicker than we've ever been, which means that we are more filled with fear-based emotions than ever before. Fear-based emotions lead to toxic attitudes. Toxic attitudes produce toxic responses in the body. (Think migraines, hypertension, cancer, allergies, chronic pain, diabetes, and and other really BAD THINGS.)
Dr. Bradley Nelson from "The Emotion Code" said "A trapped emotion is literally a ball of energy, and these will lodge anywhere in the body and disrupt the normal energy field of the body." Scientists and Doctors are on the same page in noticing that emotions and certain areas of the body correlate with one another. For example:
Anger is stored in the Liver & Gallbladder.
Worry is stored in the Stomach.
Grief is stored in the Lungs
Fear is stored in the Kidneys.
Stress is stored in the Heart.
Many people commonly relate to worry in the stomach, such as when you feel butterflies in the tummy or even nausea when feeling nervous!
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We must take care of our emotional health in order to take care of our physical self! Mind & body are so very connected.
The Limbic System is referred to as "the emotional brain." Within the limbic system is something called the amygdala, which is where we PROCESS our emotions. Of our 5 senses (sight, touch, taste, hearing, and smell), SMELL is the ONLY one that activates the limbic system! That is one reason why aromatherapy, or smelling and breathing in oils, is so incredibly powerful. We can diffuse or breathe in oils to open up our amygdala and process our emotions in a healthy way. SO COOL, right? Such an amazing, natural remedy in managing our emotions!
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Let's break it down even more and talk about cells. As you know, we are made up of an insane amount of cells. Your cells, just like your brain, have a memory. You have the power to make the memories positive or negative, but that's another story. The nucleus, which lives inside the cell, is the thinker. It tells the cell what to do (and it's where DNA is produced). According to Dr. Caroline Leaf, "research shows that DNA actually changes shape according to our thoughts. As you think those negative thoughts about the future - the week ahead, what a person might say or do, even in the absence of a concrete stimulus - that toxic thinking will change your brain wiring in a negative direction and throw your mind and body into stress." Is this expanding your mind too?! Okay, so information must go through the cell and into the nucleus so that it stays in communication and keeps working properly. How does the information pass through? Through what's called receptor sites.
But listen to this: *Negative or fear-based emotions damage the receptor sites on your cells.* Just like chemical toxins (processed foods, GMOs, smoking, multiple beauty products) block those receptor sites, so do our fear-based emotions. And when the receptor sites are blocked, our cells don't get the information they need. THAT is how disease can take hold in the body.
*BOOM*
Remember: 87-93% of disease comes from our THOUGHT LIFE.
What does this have to do with oils? Let me tell you!
Essential oils are made up of different constituents: monoterpenes, sesquiterpenes, and phenols.
What do phenols do, you ask? They CLEAN AND REPAIR RECEPTOR SITES. Meaning that the damage that our fear-based emotions have caused can be cleaned and repaired by using essential oils.
Use oils, breathe them in, and they quickly work on your amygdala and affect every single cell in your body within 20 minutes. Even cooler, they're adaptogenic, which means that they will work on the receptor sites that need help.
To clean those receptor sites, look for oils high in phenols. (We will go into all the details in another post.... )
Some great ones include:
Clove
Cassia
Basil
Cinnamon Bark
Oregano
Anise
Peppermint
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NOW What do sesquiterpenes do, you ask? They bring oxygen into the brain. This helps our amygdala (remember that is the emotion processing center of our brain) to work as it should.
So, when it comes to using oils for your emotional health - which is really your overall health, because remember: 87-93% of disease comes from our thought life/emotions - what should we look for?
Oils high in sesquiterpenes! (Again, more on this later!)
Some great options are:
Cedarwood
Vetiver
Spikenard
Sandalwood
Black Pepper
Patchouli
Myrrh
Ginger
Frankincense
Lavender
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And here are some majorly amazing oils for emotional health:
Here we go….
THE FEELINGS KIT - Valor, Harmony, Forgiveness, Inner Child, Release, Present Time - 170 PV.
AWAKEN - The is the blend of all blends! A great one to get started with! 20.5 PV
WHITE ANGELICA - protects against negative energy, and seriously rocks for emotional health. 28 PV
GARY'S GOOD DAY FORMULA - 1. Valor on wrists. 2. Joy over heart. 3. Harmony on solar plexus (trunk) 4. White Angelica on energy field (crown & down)
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Then, we can talk FREQUENCY. Everything has a frequency, it is a vibration or energy that things operate at. When someone enters a room and you feel it, that is their energy! Same as when someone can suck it out of you.
Oils operate at high frequencies and help our bodies to match those. When you experience the emotion of joy, for example, your body is vibrating at a certain frequency (you know the phrase good vibes only? it’s a real thing 
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So some super smart people created the OIL of joy by using plants and flowers and things that create oils that vibrate at the same frequency our body does when we experience joy. That’s how they are named what they’re named. Very cool!
The 10 Most Amazing Benefits of Diffusing Essential Oils
If you had the choice to breathe purified or unpurified air, which one would you choose? Don’t overthink this now . . .
Using the best essential oil diffusers is proving to have amazing health benefits. Aromatherapy, inhaling the purified healing constituents of essential oils, is becoming a newly rediscovered frontier in medicine.
Pub Med lists some 300 articles on the medical benefits of essential oils. In fact, the number of published medical journal articles on the scientific wonders of EO vapors in 2016 alone is astounding.
In fact, a recent journal article titled “Essential Oils, A New Horizon in Combating Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance,” researchers Polly et. al. note that: “Combination therapy combining conventional antibiotics and essential oils is currently blooming and . . . this new generation of phytopharmaceuticals may shed light on the development of new pharmacological regimes in combating antibiotic resistance.”
Research is emerging at an exponential rate, in fact, that essential oils are proving to be antiviral, antibacterial, anti-fungal wonders that can detoxify your home and can benefit your health in all kinds of intriguing ways.Today I’m going to discuss some of the most important health reasons we should use diffusers for health, happiness, and to protect our loved ones and us from life- threatening environmental threats.
Ultrasonic or Nebulizing? Well, Both Would be Best, Really. . .
The reason I say this is because (a) all homes have different sized rooms and some diffusers work better in large rooms (nebulizing | atomizing) and (b) sometimes you want and need a diffuser for smaller spaces that can also work to moisten the air with water (ultrasonic). So, I use both in my home, several of each, and I use them both indoors and outdoors.
Portable diffusers are wonderful for using in the car or on the go. And hotel rooms, we all know, need detoxifying. Badly.
Indoors, the powerful constituents within essential oil’s super-charged vapors work to envelope your home in the uplifting, healing, protective powers of essential oils and to purify the air that you breathe.
The Top Ten Wonder-Benefits of Diffusing Essential Oil Vapors
1. Don’t Worry, Be Happy: Diffusing Essential Oils Relieves Stress, Depression, and Anxiety
The powers of essential oils to help promote relaxation and reduce stress have been well documented since the advent of aromatherapy.
Recent studies have only confirmed the power of essential oils like lavender to reduce stress, lessen anxiety, and promote relaxation. Just plug “lavender and aromatherapy” into Pub Med and you get countless results for how lavender is proving effective to relax patients undergoing medical procedures of all kinds.
In fact, in one of the first scientific studies to research the effects of an essential oil blend, found that a blend of bergamont and lavender essential oils alleviates both anxiety and depression in patients. Diffusing lavender is also evidencing in studies to have overwhelmingly positive effects for postpartum depression, stress, and anxiety.
2. Diffuse EOs for Improved Sleep for the Whole Family
Parents in the know have been using essential oil diffusers to help their children to go to sleep quickly for decades, and they will be the first to tell you of the positive effects of using essential oils to promote fast, deep sleep and positive dreams. Ultrasonic aromatherapy diffusers can be wonderful for children’s rooms, because they both moisturize the air and power it with the relaxing constituents of essential oils. Plus, ultrasonic diffusers boast a whisper-quiet hum that is can gently lull you to sleep. Diffusers for kid’s rooms come in all kinds of fun shapes and sizes and do wonderfully tricky things with vapor (like stream it out a pig’s nostrils). Many of them light up and can function as both a night-light and diffuser.
For a super-sleepy blend for kids, use a blended oil of comprised of Bulgarian Rose, Roman chamomille, and lavender essential oils– around five drops of the blend — in an ultrasonic diffuser, to moisturize and positively charge your air with blissful, deep sleep.
For parents who want a blend guaranteed to fight insomnia, try using an atomizing diffuser set to a one to two hour setting (this preserves your oils) with an auto-shut off. Then, fill your nebulizer with lavender, chamomile or orange essential oils! This blend will smell delicious and help to alleviate anxiety, promote relaxation, and help you fall asleep with ease.
3. Diffusing EOs Helps Curb the Appetite
There is all kinds of research going on into how we can learn more about our health by studying the brain’s relationship to our olfactory glands. In fact, the 2015 Nobel Prize was awarded in this field.
New research into the benefits of diffusing peppermint is evidencing its power to curb appetites, induce our satiety response, and enhance energy.
The power of scent to either curb or enhance appetite is not, of course, hard to fathom. Everyone chef knows the powers of sizzling bacon and sautéing onion and garlic to make restaurateurs hungry. Well, it turns out that we can turn off our appetites with scent as well.
In his book, Dr. Alan Hirsch explains how diffusing peppermint essential oil can help to curb our appetite and make us feel full earlier, by affecting the brain’s ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus, which is our brain’s satiety center.
**** It is important to note here that we are talking about diffusing oils not ingesting them orally. Oral use of oils may be poisonous, as it is hard to prove the exact purity and ingredients of some oil brands. See seedtoseal.com for more information on Young Living oil quality!
4. Diffusing EOs Gives You a Deliciously-Scented Home Without Risk of Fire or Harmful Chemicals
The benefits of using essential oil diffusers to waft scent all about your home are myriad. They purify your air while scenting it (unlike contaminant-filled air fresheners and candles), there’s no risk of damaging your respiratory system with harsh chemicals, and there’s no risk of catching your house on fire – or your cat’s tail!
Popular essential oil blends to try that super-infuse your environment with delicious- smelling aromas include rose, ylang ylang, sweet orange and patchouli essential oils. Other popular scents for homes are sandalwood, valor and many others!
5. Essential Oil Diffuser/ Humidifiers Models are Superhero Bacteria-Killing Wonders
Essential oil diffusers are powerful bacteria-fighting wonders in the way they break down free radicals in our air and this power is only doubled when you diffuse the proper essential oils for that purpose.
Atomizing and nebulizing diffusers, are good for powering a large area outdoors or indoors with a flood of antimicrobial and antifungal EO constituents (800 – 1,000 sq. ft.). This makes them great for dens, master bedrooms, patios, kitchens, and living rooms. They are also good for the outdoors or going camping because they require no water and can protect you from getting bacterial infections from grass, dirt, etcetera. In fact, diffusing essential oils has proved to help heal and prevent bacterial infections such as MRSA and STAPH. Good bacteria-fighting choices are. Eucalyptus, Thyme and Clove. Tea tree is also a powerful anti-bacterial oil that can be diffused or applied topically to fight STAPH and MRSA infections.
Even though they require water, ultrasonic diffusers function to double-purify the air, first through use of bacteria-fighting essential oils and the second, through breaking the molecules of essential oils up, releasing negative charged ions that attach to positive free radicals in the air, detoxifying all air within range.
6. Essential Oil Diffusers Can Help to Rid Your House of Deadly Molds and Fungal Threats of All Kinds
Essential oils prove very effective in eliminating fungal yeast threats and inhibiting the growth of mold of all kinds, including black mold and fluconazole-resistant strains of candida. For destroying fungus before it can spread, scientists find that pine or tea tree are the best fungal fighters.
7. Essential Oils Repel Even the Deadliest of Mosquitos
Most mosquito repellants contain very harsh ingredients such as DEET, which many people do not want near their air pathways (or children) as its made of poisonous, noxious liquids which kill mosquitos, yes, but might kill our fragile airways as well.
Researchers have found that two specific essential oils, clove and lemongrass essential oils, repel ONE of ZIKA carrying mosquitoes, the Aedes aegypti mosquito, at a rate of 100% (article one and article two). They are currently working on finding another oil to repel mosquito two.
So using a super-powered atomizing diffuser outside with a super-long cord and high-power settings, can help protect you and your loved ones from viral diseases and the predators that carry them.
8. Essential Oil Diffusers/Humidifiers Help Eliminate Mucus in Lungs and Nasal Passages
I still love the smell of Vapo-Rub® to help me sleep at night when I have a cold, and that’s because my grandmother used to rub this into my chest to help me breathe better. Of course, Vapo Rub is made from a eucalyptus-like plant with powerful decongestant powers.
And there are all kinds of essential oils whose vapors have the power to eliminate mucus in the nasal passages and lungs, helping you and your children to breathe better, such as eucalyptus, thyme, frankincense and peppermint essential oils.
In fact, using essential oils vapors has been shown to cure pneumonia in mice and researchers are hard at work on proving its effectiveness on humans as well.
9. Diffusing Essential Oils Creates a Strong Anti-Viral Environment
In a recent article in The Atlantic titled “Essential Oils Might Be the New Antibiotics,” author Tori Redding notes that “scientists have turned up exciting results” by using essential oils to counter “the growing antibiotic crisis”
In recent studies, for example, diffusion of certain essential oils is proving that they are powerful vius fighters as well.
As You Can See, EOs Can Ultimately Save You Thousands in Doctor BillsWith the power of essential oils used to enhance health, protect us from bacterial infections like MRSA, viruses such as the flu, bug-borne illnesses such as ZIKA, and fungal infections of all kinds, as well as to promote wellness through decreasing stress, enhancing our quality of sleep and promoting happiness and emotional well being, it is easy to see how diffusing essential oils is an economical choice that will benefit our health in myriad ways – much like a gym membership can (without the risks of fungal and bacterial infections, however).
The question anymore isn’t “why should I diffuse essential oils” but “what kind?” And “how often?” Hopefully, this information will help youmake some wise purchases and some super-informed choices about which oils you need and which diffusers you want to fill your environments with purity, health, and happiness.
• Changes a negative mindset
• Comforts children and pets
• Entertains guests
• Gets rid of nasty odors
• Improves focus
• Improves memory
• Improves sleep quality
• Promotes quiet time
• Promotes relaxation
• Purifies the air
• Reduces appetite
• Reduces food cravings
• Reduces stress
• Soothes anxious pets and children
• Supports a healthy immune system
The Diffuser
My favorite type of diffuser is known as a cold water diffuser. These diffusers are the best choice because they don’t harm the essential oils with heat and the oils are dispersed very evenly throughout the air (think Nano particles!). There is also very little waste involved compared to other cold methods which is a huge plus.
The distance the oils can travel through the air and the length of time they’re diffused largely depends on the diffuser you buy.
