What do you most love about essential oils? Is it their rich and enticing aroma? Is it how beautiful you feel when you put an oil on you? Is it that they are pure nature in a bottle, and bring nature into your home? Or is it how quickly they work to transform just about anything?

When I think about this question, I could easily say “all of the above”. Yet what stands out for me is that essential oils work in a truly holistic way. They not only work on our physical body, but also on our emotions, our mind and our Spirit.

If I was looking for just one tool to have in my toolkit of life, essential oils would be the easy winner for me. I had been using essential oils for about 7 years before I encountered the Young Living brand. I liked essential oils in those pre-Young Living years and had my favourite uses for them.

Yet once I started using the Young Living oils, I could tell there was something so different about these oils compared to the other reputable brands I was using. Their “aliveness” was so tangible, and I saw results that were so much more powerful and quicker than what I’d experienced with my other brands.

After years of exploring, I now realise this is the result of the Seed to Seal process, and all the many steps that Young Living does to take care of the soil, the plants, the seeds, the distillation process and their state-of-the-art testing.

This all rolls together to ensure we have the best of the best in our oils.

I met Gary Young in 1998, and was so impacted by his depth of knowledge that I decided to travel the world studying with him. This led me to Dallas in January 2000. It was at this training that Gary shared a simple emotional clearing technique, using 12 of his essential oil blends. After coming back to Australia, I started running events based around this emotional clearing technique, and later evolved this technique into a practitioner modality called the Egyptian Emotional Clearing Technique, which I now teach once a year as a residential retreat in Byron Bay.

In this post, I want to share with you an experience from one of my early emotional clearing technique classes, that blew my mind. Enjoy!!!

How do essential oils work emotionally?

Essential oils are made up of hundreds of different aromatic molecules. We call this the fingerprint of the plant. These molecules are “volatile”, meaning that when you take the lid off your bottle of essential oil, the molecules turn from liquid (in the bottle) into vapour, and move through the air. That’s why you can smell them even when your nose is 30 or 40cm from your bottle.

These aromatic molecules float through the air, and some go up your nose. There they land in the “olfactory epithelium” (a thin membrane at the top of your nose), and they trigger receptors that send signals through to your brain.

But here’s the fascinating thing.

These signals completely bypass your conscious brain, and go straight to the limbic region of your brain (the centre of memory and emotions). This is how essential oils can help to unlock and release both memories and emotions.

That’s why they are such a great companion to us when we are feeling emotional, and also when we are on a conscious path of self-awareness. They’re our best friend.

The link between emotions and dis-ease

If you’ve ever read Louise Hay’s book “You can Heal your life” or Annette Noontil’s “The body is the barometer of the Soul”, you will have learned an important concept.

Beneath every physical condition and pain is an emotional condition. Whilst we can often help that physical condition by purely working on the physical level, if we don’t address the underlying emotional causes, the pain just pops up somewhere else in our body.

Our emotional pain gets locked in our body and creates “dis-ease” and disharmony. So then we think “I have this challenge in my body”, but we don’t always go deeper to unravel the emotions that created the environment that led to the problem.

Clear the emotions, and the physical imbalance then has nothing to anchor into and it can also more easily be cleared.

These books mentioned above are a great reference tool, as they link the body part to the emotions. For example, grief is stored in our lungs, just as our lower back reflects how supported we feel by others.

How to perform a simple Emotional Clearing Technique

It was around 2006 when I ran a half day Emotional Clearing Technique training in Perth. Students worked in groups of 3, where one would be receiving whilst the other 2 were giving to them.

Then they’d swap, so that everyone had the opportunity to both give and receive over the course of the event.

We were working on matts on the floor, and the anointing process was very straightforward. We’d apply an oil in the order listed below, wait a few minutes (during which time we’d do simple energy healing and sending love to the recipient), and then we’d apply the next oil, and so on.

Here are the steps:

• 3 drops Valor under each foot. Place your right palm under your recipient’s right foot and left palm under their left foot, and hold for 3-5 minutes until the energy under each foot feels balanced. We call this a Valor Balance.
• 1 drop Harmony oil on each of the Sacral, Solar Plexus, Heart, Throat and Third Eye chakras
• 1 drop 3 Wise Men on the crown
• 1 drop Present Time on the thymus (the upper part of the chest)
• 1 drop Inner Child on the navel
• 3 drops Release on the liver (the right side of the body, under the lower ribcage)

• 1 drop Forgiveness on the navel
• 1 drop Hope on each of the ear lobes
• 1 drop Joy on the heart chakra (the lower centre of the chest)
• 2 to 5 drops SARA wherever there’s been trauma, abuse or pain. If there’s been verbal abuse, place this oil on the temples. If there’s been emotional abuse, place it on the heart chakra. If there’s been sexual abuse, place it on the sacral chakra which is a hands’ width under the navel.
• 3 drops White Angelica on each shoulder
• 3 drops Grounding oil under each foot or on the sternum

Sharon’s story

At the end of this event, I went around the group and invited each of the participants to share their experience.

I’m always stunned by how diverse the experiences can be – everything from getting clarity around an important decision, to floating in a bliss state, to having spiritual experiences, to having long-forgotten memories surface….and at times emotions also rise to the surface to accompany these memories.

Sharon’s experience was so powerful, it’s stuck in my mind ever since. This is what she shared:

When she set her intention for the emotional clearing (prior to the anointing starting), she decided she wanted clarity on a particular relationship in her life. She was married, but was feeling an intense connection with another man, and she wanted to know why this was.

In her emotional clearing, she went back in time to what she felt to be one of her past lives. In this vision, she saw herself giving birth to a baby boy. She experienced the intense joy of that birth, which was followed by the horror of seeing her child stillborn. As she relived this experience in her emotional clearing session, she sensed that her stillborn child was the same Soul as the man she had recently met and felt such connection with.

In that life, her grief was overwhelming. She wasn’t able to cope with the grief of losing her child, and she saw herself taking her own life by stabbing herself in her stomach with a knife. This was a tragic vision, and it was accompanied by a full immersion into the emotions of that life (as if it was happening today).

But what was even more interesting is that Sharon had been having stomach pains for 6 months, and the doctors hadn’t been able to find any cause. All the tests had come back normal.

After that emotional clearing technique and reconnecting with the pain of that past lifetime (which would have been getting triggered with her connection with this man today), the pain completely disappeared.

I want to be clear here. If you have stomach pains, I am not saying “put these oils on and they will take it away”. This was nothing to do with the physical pain.

What happened was that the oils opened a part of Sharon’s brain where these memories and emotions were stored, which were creating her “phantom” pain. By reconnecting with the emotions of this past experience, the phantom pain no longer had an anchor point in the body, and was able to shift.

This is such a powerful testament to how our emotions can impact our physical body. When we transform our emotions, our physical body is set free and is able to return to harmony.

Where to from here?

If you resonate with this and would like to explore your own inner realms, follow along with the emotional clearing technique in your own space and time, using the instructions above.

Put an oil on, let yourself relax and your mind float for a few minutes, then put the next oil on, and so forth.

If you don’t have all the oils for the emotional clearing technique, start with Young Living’s Feelings Kit. This kit gives you 6 of the 12 oils. Place them on the locations listed above corresponding to those oils, eg. Valor under the feet, Forgiveness on the navel, and so on. Then over time you can build up to all 12 oils.

If you love the idea of deep diving into your own inner journey or becoming a practitioner helping others with essential oils and emotional clearing (gaining insurance cover for your practice), reach out so we can add you to our interested list for the upcoming 7 day Egyptian Emotional Clearing Technique course. If this year’s dates don’t work for you, we will still keep you informed for following years.

This exceptional course (which I run as a residential retreat in Byron Bay Australia) will help you to deep dive into the world of essential oils for emotional transformation.

You will learn to tap into your natural intuition, discover different hands-on healing techniques (these are used in the 3-4 minutes between each oil going onto the body), and you will have the chance to enter a deep personal journey of transformation as you give and receive sessions each day.

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