Chakra Essential Oils
Chakra essential oils help to calm and balance emotions and the mind. Essential oils have an ancient history of use in religious rituals as well as for medicinal purposes. Essential oils operate on many levels: physical, emotional and spiritual. Essential oils are volatile, meaning they evaporate easily. They also affect into the sense of smell, which is part of the limbic system. This is where memories and emotions are often stored in the brain.
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Root Chakra Essential Oils
Imbalances in the root chakra can appear as anxiety disorders, nightmares, and fears about safety and security. A strong root chakra is also important for the health of the colon, bladder, lower back, legs and feet. A mantra or belief for the root chakra is “I am safe.”
Primary Root Chakra Essential Oils
Although recommendations may vary, the following essential oils are generally associated with helping to balance and heal the root chakra:
- Angelica
- Clove
- Rosemary
These oils can be diffused or used in conjunction with chanting, meditation, affirmations or prayer.
Purchasing Root Chakra Essential Oils
Purchase these essential oils for the root chakra from Young Living as referred by Kathleen Karlsen and Kasondra Grillo: Angelica Essential Oil, Clove Essential Oil and Rosemary Essential Oil.
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Sacral Chakra Essential Oils
The sacral chakra is the center of emotions and feelings, including the body’s beliefs regarding pleasure and desire. A balanced sacral chakra experiences full expression of sensuality and creativity. A positive affirmation for the sacral chakra is “I allow myself to feel.”
Primary Sacral Chakra Oils
Essential oils to support this chakra include:
- Ylang Ylang
- Clary Sage
- Jasmine
- Patchouli
The use of these oils might be to support conception but might also be for healing your relationship with your deepest self or other types of close relationships with others. Learn more: Sacral Chakra.
Finding Sacral Chakra Oils
Purchase essential oils for the sacral chakra from Young Living as referred by Kathleen Karlsen and Kasondra Grillo: Ylang Ylang, Clary Sage, Jasmine, and Patchouli.
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Solar Plexus Chakra Essential Oils
Imbalances in the solar plexus chakra can appear as indigestion, panic attacks, liver problems, chronic illness, and high blood pressure. There are key essential oils to help heal and balance the solar plexus chakra including the following:
- Cinnamon Bark Essential Oil
- Peppermint Essential Oil
- Chamomile Essential Oil
These oils can be purchased from Young Living as a referral from Kathleen Karlsen and Kasondra Grillo: Cinnamon Bark Oil, Peppermint Essential Oil and Chamomile Essential Oil.
Solar Plexus Chakra Balancing
The corresponding belief for a balanced solar plexus chakra is “I stand in my power.” The solar plexus chakra can be assisted by applying 2-4 drops directly on the chakra point. Learn more about the Solar Plexus Chakra.
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Heart Chakra Essential Oils
An imbalance in the heart chakra may appear as chronic fatigue, upper back pain, heart related issues and anxiety/depression. Traumatic experiences may leave you feeling lost and confused. After a traumatic experience one can feel disconnected with everyone around them, but most importantly themselves. An affirmation for the heart chakra is “I am love and I am loved.”
Connecting with Your Heart
The following oils are used to connect with your heart and create a sense of grounding:
- Rose
- Neroli
- Joy (blend)
Rose essential oil is balancing and calming. Traditionally, rose oil has been used for healthy skin and its oil was extracted by pressing the petals. The beautiful fragrance of rose oil helps bring balance and harmony.
Neroli essential oil is extracted from the flowers of the orange tree. The ancient Egyptians used neroli for its ability to heal the mind, body and spirit. This oil is a natural relaxant and can be used in high-stress experiences to restore calm.
Joy essential oil blend is a wonderful way to get the benefits of rose essential oil with other fragrant oils at a reasonable cost. This is a favorite to wear as an uplifting perfume.
Purchase these oils (referred by Kathleen Karlsen and Kasondra Grillo) from Young Living: Rose Essential Oil, Neroli Essential Oil and Joy Essential Oil Blend.
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Throat Chakra Essential Oils
The fifth chakra is the throat chakra or the Vishuddha chakra. In Sanskrit, Vishuddha means “especially pure.” The throat chakra is depicted as having sixteen petals. In the center is a triangle pointing downward and a white circle representing akashi or ether.
Imbalances in the throat chakra can appear as throat issues, neck stiffness, trouble breathing, and thyroid problems. A positive affirmation for the throat chakra is “I express myself and my truth.” The essential oils that correspond to the throat chakra include:
- Eucalyptus
- Myrrh
- Geranium
This chakra is associated with the neck, thyroid, esophagus, teeth, mouth and the ears. The throat and thyroid are where emotions, intentions, praise and criticism are expressed.
Eucalyptus for the Throat Chakra
Eucalyptus helps to reduce stress and mental exhaustion. Eucalyptus has traditionally been recommended for colds and sore throats. This is a soothing oil for the respiratory system. The scent of eucalyptus is uplifting.
Myrrh Essential Oil for the Throat Chakra
Myrrh is fantastic for the throat chakra and thyroid. Myrrh is actually a resin and not an herb. Myrrh is a thick, viscous essential oil that dries in a light film when applied to the throat. Myrrh can be applied to the feet, especially around the neck of the big toe. Reflexologists say that spot is connected to the thyroid.
Geranium Essential Oil for the Throat Chakra
Geranium essential oil serves to increase spiritual protection. Geranium is also a calming oil for the mind and meditation. The oil of geranium has been used to treat anxiety, depression and neurological conditions. Geranium essential oil is thought to relax physical tension in the throat and elsewhere in the body.
Purchase Eucalyptus Essential Oil, Myrrh Essential Oil and Geranium Essential Oil from Young Living referred by Kathleen Karlsen and Kasondra Grillo.
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Third Eye Chakra Essential Oils
An imbalance in the third eye chakra may appear as ear and eye issues, learning disabilities, inability to make decisions, and feeling stuck. A mantra for the third eye chakra is “I trust my intuition.”
Oils for the Third Eye
Essential oils that are helpful for the third eye include:
- Helichrysum
- Lavender
- Cedarwood
Helichrysum Third Eye Chakra Essential Oil
Helichrysum essential oil is steam distilled from the daisy flower. Known as the “Everlasting” or “The Immortal Flower” the oil has been used in skincare anti-aging products for years. The floral scent is uplifting to the subconscious mind.
Lavender Third Eye Chakra Essential Oil
Lavender is possibly one of most used essential oils for its calming effect. This essential oil is steam distilled from the flowering top of the lavender bush.
Cedarwood Oil for the Third Eye Chakra
Cedarwood essential oil is steam distilled from the bark of the cedar pine tree. Traditionally, cedarwood was used in medicines and the ancient Egyptians used it for embalming the dead. Researchers discovered that cedarwood “stimulates the limbic region of the brain (the center of emotions) stimulates the pineal which releases melatonin” (Essential Oils Desk Reference). The pineal gland is closely associated with the third eye.
Purchase Helichrysum Essential Oil, Lavender Essential Oil and Cedarwood Essential Oil from Young Living referred by Kathleen Karlsen and Kasondra Grillo.
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Crown Chakra Essential Oils
Imbalances in the crown chakra can appear as dizziness, vision issues, memory problems, and nervous system problems. This chakra is the spiritual center of the body. An affirmation for the crown chakra is “I am connected to a divine understanding.”
Essential oils helpful for the crown chakra include:
- Frankincense
- Spikenard
- Sandalwood
Spiritual Power of Frankincense
This oil supports spiritual awareness and is wonderful to use during meditation. It also has an uplifting effect on mood and mind.
Ancient History of Spikenard
Spikenard essential oil is steam distilled from the roots of the Valerianaceae, a beautiful flowering plant. In ancient times it was only used by priest and kings because it was seen as precious. Spikenard was used to anoint Jesus’ feet in the Bible.
Sandalwood Essential Oil as Medicine
Sandalwood essential oil is steam distilled from the wood of the Sandalwood tree. It has been used in Ayurvedic medicine for skin revitalization, yoga, and meditation. Traditionally used for the skin and healing scars, this oil can also enhance deep sleep and ground the body.
Purchase Frankincense Essential Oil and Sandalwood Essential Oil from Young Living referred by Kathleen Karlsen and Kasondra Grillo.
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How to Use Essential Oils
My favorite way to use essential oils is to diffuse them in my office and kitchen. These are the places where I spend the most time! In addition, I have created my own skincare blend mixed with coconut oil that includes rosemary, a wonderful root chakra essential oil that is also a primary essential oil for healthy skin. I also use essential oils liberally every day as a natural perfume.
Improving Indoor Air Quality
The mounting public awareness of the health issues involved in our indoor lifestyles is evident in a number of emerging trends: the emphasis on improving indoor air quality in both public and private buildings, the movement towards “natural homes” and non-toxic building materials and the growing interest in alternative approaches to enhancing interior environments including feng shui, biogeometry and aromatherapy.
Indoor Living Lifestyles
Americans are estimated to spend an average of 80-90% of their time indoors, whether they are at home, at work or at school. In colder climates, the time spent indoors is even higher. Unfortunately, the concentration of individual air pollutants that lower indoor air quality typical buildings can easily be 100 times higher than the level of contaminants in outdoor air. Essential oils are a practical and cost-effective solution to offset many of the detrimental effects of poor indoor air quality.
Psychological Benefits of Essential Oils
The delightful fragrances of aromatherapy are beneficial for the mind and spirit, too. Psychologists report that aromas penetrate deeply into our unconscious and emotional worlds because we react instinctively rather than intellectually to the vast array of scents in our environment. Knowing this, we can enhance our moods and physical health by improving indoor air quality with oils that are wisely chosen and properly diffused.
Create a Safer Environment
On the physical level, essential oils help combat biological contaminants by binding to the airborne molecules of fat that typically carry unpleasant odors. Citrus oils are great air fresheners in offices, schools and public places and very few people object to the smell. Synthetic air fresheners, on the other hand, only mask the undesirable odors.
Cleaning the Air with Essential Oils
Essential oils also have well-documented antiviral, anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties to further improve indoor air quality. Some powerful and relatively inexpensive “bacteria busters” are cinnamon, clove, lemon, eucalyptus, lavender and pine oils.
Choosing Essential Oils for Your Home
You can also pick your oils in relation to the time of year. In spring and summer, light, refreshing essential oils are the most appropriate for optimal indoor air quality. These include geranium, lavender, pettigraine, lime/lemon and sandalwood. Oils appropriate for autumn and winter would be warming scents such as cypress, benzoin, nutmeg and frankincense.
Essential Oils for Every Area of Your Home
Different areas of your home can also benefit from specific scents. Relaxing oils like clary sage, bergamot, rose and jasmine work well in the living room. To rouse yourself from winter lethargy, improve the indoor air quality with stimulating oils like mints and forest blends!
For bathrooms and kitchens, the “bacteria busters” mentioned above along with lemon grass and citronella are excellent. In bedrooms, sleep enhancing oils like valerian, chamomile, cinnamon, hops and lavender are good choices.
Air Quality: Diffusers, Candles & More
Essential oils can be diffused through a wide assortment of clay, glass and metal diffusers commonly sold through essential oil and herb companies. There are lots of styles and options on the market for essential oils diffusers. Some easy homemade approaches work just as well, like putting several drops of oil into a pan of boiling water.
Essential Oil Spray Bottle
You can also add a few drops of oil to a cup of warm water in a standard spray bottle. Or add some drops to your humidifier (check manufacturer’s recommendations). Note: be careful not to spray the mist on wooden furniture to avoid discoloration.
Essential Oil Candles and More
If you prefer the methods your grandma may have used, look for perfumed pillows and sachets, potpourris, scented soaps and scented candles. However, make sure you are getting the real thing. For purity and health, the best options are beeswax or soy candles with natural fiber wicks.
Caution with Essential Oil Candles
Lower quality candles, for example, can emit pollutants such as acetone, benzene and soot, which actually decrease the level of indoor air quality. Some imported candles even have wick cores made of lead. Make sure to get good quality essential oils and related products to experience the full physical and psychological benefits of aromatherapy.
The Power of the Sense of Smell
Smells can evoke memories and past experiences in the same way that hearing a familiar piece of music can bring back a time, place or experience. Depending on whether those memories are positive or negative, you may choose to enjoy or avoid particular smells.
Essential Oils as Healing Agents
Essential oils may assist in healing karma in the sense that increased calm and centering can help in the areas of forgiveness and resolution of conflicts. Flowers have been used as healing agents for thousands of years. Essential oils are the most concentrated form of the active ingredients present in flowers.
Essential Oils from Flowers
The comforting and uplifting aspects of flowers are all captured in the precious oils that are distilled from the buds, blooms and flower tops of various plants. Other essential oils are made from bark or the branches and roots of trees. Explore the essential oils below for each of the seven major chakras!
Essential Oils and Color Therapy
Color therapy combines well with the use of essential oils. Each oil can be categorized by color and used on the body or in a diffuser. Examples are given below:
Red: black pepper, cedarwood, jasmine, sage, myrrh, rose, thyme
Orange: caraway, ginger, carrot seed, begamot, pine, neroli, orange, patchouli, sandalwood
Yellow: birch, cardamom, ylang ylang, lemon, lemongrass, grapefruit, coriander, cumin
Green: eucalyptus, lime, peppermint, myrtle, oregano, parsley, melissa
Blue: chamomile, rosemary, hyssop
Indigo: clove, melaleuca, yarrow, cinnamon, by laurel
Violet: juniper, lavender, frankincense, basil, clary sage
Essential Oils for Emotional Health
Good emotional health is becoming more and more essential as everyday life speeds up, stress increases, the economy waxes and wanes and financial security is in question. Depression and anxiety now affect approximately 60 million Americans.
Essential Oils for Stress Relief
The positive effects of essential oils on stress, mental fatigue and insomnia, as well as depression and anxiety are well known. Because of the concentrated and complex chemical nature of essential oils, they are not only safe to use, but also they send quick messages to the brain and central nervous system. As a refreshing alternative to man-made chemicals and drugs, these aromatic essences revitalize the body and mind, with the result that the spirit is also uplifted.
Essential Oils for Relieving Anxiety
Some oils are particularly appropriate for both depression and anxiety such as lavender, which is relaxing and calming; frankincense, which is balancing and has been called a natural antidepressant; and ylang ylang, which is known for it sedative properties. Other oils for depression include bergamot, lemon, clary sage, jasmine, neroli, melissa and rose. Oils for anxiety are generally more uplifting and include sweet orange, lemon, grapefruit, chamomile, Dalmatian sage, peppermint and rosemary.
Ways to Use Essential Oils
Essential oils can be used in a variety of ways. They can be inhaled by putting a few drops on a handkerchief and holding it to the nose. It is well known that the olfactory nerve has a direct route to the brain and therefore quick relief is offered. Oils can also be inhaled by diffusing them throughout the air in your immediate environment, whether it is in the office or the bedroom.
Diffusing and Massage with Oils
Diffusing oils in the bedroom is especially effective for a good night’s sleep. Essential oils can also be applied topically, behind the ears like a cologne or on the bottoms of the feet. In the case of emotional problems, using essential oils as part of a massage combines the inherent properties of the oils with the soothing and calming effects of having your muscles relaxed and your body refreshed.
Oil Blends for Emotional Healing
Young Living has developed two formulas that have established a reputation of positive results for emotional health issues. Their Joy™ formula contains lemon, bergamot, ylang ylang, rose, rosewood and geranium. This formula is both uplifting and calming, and helps to reduce depressive emotional feelings. The formula called Peace and Calming™ is a combination of tangerine, ylang ylang, patchouli and blue tansy, and is useful for both anxiety and insomnia.
Supportive Essential Oils
Although more severe forms of depression and anxiety may require other forms of therapeutic assistance, such as counseling and medical antidepressants, the use of essential oils can help to maintain a vibrant and inspired perspective on life’s ups and downs and emotional challenges.
How Are Essential Oils Created?
The ancient art of aromatherapy is connected to both the perfume industry and the natural health industry. Essential oils can be extracted in three basic ways: steam distillation, cold-pressing, and solvent-extraction.
Oil Extraction Methods
Steam distillation is the most traditional and widely used method of oil extraction. The distillation process begins by using boilers to heat purified water and produce steam. This steam is then passed into a stainless-steel chamber containing the plant material. As the plant is heated it releases the aromatherapy oils into the air which mix with the steam and is carried upwards into a system of pipes called the condenser.
Separating Oils in Distillation
The steam is then cooled using cold water and condenses into a mixture of water and essential oils. Next this mixture is transferred into a separation device in which the oil floats to the top of the water and is collected.
Cold-Pressed Oil Method
Cold-pressed, or expressed, oils are created by mechanically pressing the oils from the rinds of fruit. Only organic fruits should be used in this process of oil extraction because the pesticides used on non-organic fruit will be concentrated in the oils. Although they are not technically essential oils, expressed oils are still deemed highly therapeutic and are generally less expensive than steam and solvent distilled oils.
Processing Flowers for Oil
Flowers containing a small, volatile amount of oil that is not easily extracted using steam distillation are processed by distilling the plant with a hydrocarbon solvent. After this distillation a substance remains which is a mixture of essential oil, wax, resin, and plant material. This concrete is then distilled again using grain alcohol to extract the pure essential oil.
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Healthy Skin and a Happy Face
One of Kathleen’s lifelong challenges has been dry skin. A few years ago she began a program of essential oils blended in a base of coconut and jojoba oils. She started using this on her skin morning and night. She also added more oils to her diet: avocados, nuts, and fats.
She has studied several systems of face exercises to get more circulation to her skin and reverse sagging and wrinkles. She is also a student of body language and oriental face diagnoses, finding correspondences between emotional patterns and facial features.
Kathleen’s DIY skin care uses pure essential oils. Kathleen is a Young Living Essential Oils brand partner. To become a customer, use this form or order using her referral number #1043288 or Contact Kathleen for more information.
Learn more about the benefits of essential oil diffusion on the Essential Drops of Joy website. Buy essential oils at discounted rates (24% off) with Kathleen Karlsen as your mentor (Brand Partner #1043288) at Young Living Essential Oils. Or learn more about essential oils and the seven major chakras on this website at Chakras and Essential Oils.
More Chakra Resources
Chakras and Musical Notes: Chakras and musical notes have been paired in a number of ways. Learn about both Western and Eastern systems.
Chakra Names: Chakra names reveal the roles of the chakras in the body on psychological, spiritual and emotional levels. Includes explanations of English and Sanskrit chakra names.
Chakra Flowers: Chakra flowers offer unique symbolic meaning for each of the seven major chakras. Flowers are among the oldest spiritual symbols, revealing the meaning of each chakra.
Purchasing Young Living Essential Oils
The Young Living Essential Oils company focuses on creating pure products from plants grown around the world. Find everything you need for natural living and a healthy lifestyle including oils, blends, household cleaners, diffusers and more on the Young Living Website. Use Kathleen’s member #1043288 to connect with her as your sponsor and enroller. Order $100 of product to get a 24% discount on all orders for an entire year.
Author Kathleen Karlsen
Kathleen Karlsen is a musician, artist, writer and speaker. She is the author of two books (Flower Symbols and Vocal Medicine) and over 200 articles. Kathleen, her husband Andrew, and their five children live in Bozeman, Montana. More about Kathleen Karlsen.
