Young Living crossed my path for the first time in September 1998, when I was given a cassette with Gary Young (the founder of Young Living) speaking about essential oils.

In those days I was already using essential oils in a small way in my life. I had a modest sized collection of essential oils from various top Australian brands, some basic aromatherapy books, and I had a candle oil burner. Yep, they were all the rage in those days, before we realised the heat from the candle destroys the fragile constituents in an essential oil.

But there was something about Gary’s message that grabbed my attention in a very significant way.

His explanation of both the science and frequency of essential oils went far beyond what I’d ever heard before, and he gave me my first glimpse into the true power of essential oils. 

I was already looking for something to assist me in my own life, a missing link in my own personal toolkit, and here it was.

Little did I know that Young Living was about to change my life in every way possible, and that an amazing adventure lay ahead.

I know I’m not the only one to feel this way. Today, I want to share with you one small part of this incredible journey, and that’s how essential oils work on our frequency.

Essential Oils are your “Universal Can Opener”

Like so many of us, I have many interests outside of essential oils and health. One of the arenas I’ve been exploring this past couple of years is sound healing.

I’ve had the privilege of studying sound healing with Seriya and Matty from Sound Healing Australia, and in August they invited me to teach their Level 2 students

about essential oils for the chakras.

I was given a 5 minute teaching slot each morning during the opening circle, to introduce the oil that corresponded to the chakra for that day.

Five minutes isn’t much time, yet it was a great opportunity for me to look at “quality over quantity” in my teaching, and to distil my years of knowledge into some very impactful statements. It was a great reminder to me to use fewer words, but to make them count.

Each morning I’d share a brief explanation about the oil we were about to use, and we’d pass the oil around. Students put a drop in their palm, and I invited them to inhale the oil, observe how it made them feel, and then place it onto the corresponding chakra.

That process took about 4 minutes, and left me with 1 minute to say something else which would change the minds and lives of our students. On the very first day, this is what I said….

You’re here to study sound healing, so I’m sure you are wondering why we’re teaching you about essential oils. The answer is simple. It’s because essential oils are your “Universal can opener”. They open your energy field so the sound healing (or whatever other modality you are practicing) can go deeper and be more effective.

Everything has a frequency

Everything has a frequency. Plants have a frequency. Essential oils have a frequency. Our body and its emotions have a frequency.

Even the planets have an audible frequency, meaning that they sing! If you want to read more about this, check out Hans Custo

a Swiss musicologist and mathematician who discovered the natural law of the cosmic octave.

A small change in frequency can make a big difference. This is evident in the frequencies of sound. For example, in the days of Pythagoras, the musical note “A” was tuned at 432Hz, which is the healing frequency of the planet. 

But then someone in their infinite non-wisdom decided to change the note A to be 440Hz, and this is what our concert pitch is now based on.

You might be thinking that’s only a minor change, around 2%. That difference would barely be audible. Yet our body responds differently to 440Hz compared with 432Hz. 432Hz is softer. It speaks to our body in a way that we can “let go” and feel that much safer, cocooned in the womb of Mother Earth’s lullaby.

That’s why I chose a set of crystal singing bowls based around the planetary frequencies of 432Hz, rather than the standard 440Hz.

And just like the crystal singing bowls, our essential oils have a frequency that speaks to our body and our consciousness.

Transformation oil to the Rescue

Many moons ago I was married and living in a beautiful home in regional Victoria. After the passing of my two cats, I searched high and low until I found the 3 cats that are my feline companions today. The two boys are siblings, and their sister is from an earlier litter. I loved watching them in their playful moods, running at full speed down our massive hallway of polished wooden floors. It was like a feline Formula 1 race!

But when we relocated to a new home in the Byron Bay hinterland, things changed. We’d gone from a stunning home built during the Gold Rush era (with its 12 foot ceilings, chandeliers and polished floorboards), and we’d swapped that for a modest pole house. It was a stepping stone into the Byron region, but (at least in those days) the energy of our new home wasn’t quite right.

We felt it, and the cats felt it.

Six months after moving there, the cats still weren’t settled. Not once had they run through the house the way they used to play in our old house. It was sad, and I really wanted to change the energy of our home.

One day, I was drawn to diffuse Transformation oil. Gary Young always taught that Transformation oil locks the emotional changes into our DNA. This is why we use it as the final oil in some of our different modalities like the Egyptian Emotional Clearing Technique.

Maybe I shouldn’t have been amazed, but I was.

After just one day of diffusing, the energy in that home had subtly shifted, and the cats began playing again (streaking through that house at the speed of light).

It was like a light switch that had been turned off was suddenly turned on again. Now, Transformation oil is my absolute favourite oil to diffuse, and I’m once again reminded that essential oils are our Universal can opener.

Joy oil – it’s all about frequency

Gary Young was an incredible pioneer. His thirst for knowledge about essential oils was unmatched by anyone I’ve ever met.

This not only led him to investigate how essential oils work on our physical body when they are applied topically or ingested*, and on our emotional body when they are inhaled, it also drew him to study their use on our energy body.

He partnered with Bruce Tainio from Tainio Technology to do some experiments. Bruce had a radionics machine which measured frequency. That’s how Gary discovered that Birch and Wintergreen oils both have a frequency of 52 Mz, which is the same frequency as our bones. That’s why these two oils are “bone-loving”, and it’s why we use Wintergreen oil up the spine during Raindrop Technique.

Gary also measured people who were in a state of joy. When he was creating Joy essential oil, he blended single oils until the blend reached the frequency of joy. That’s how Joy essential oil has become like a tuning fork for our heart, calling us into a state of Joy.

Interestingly, Gary found that when a bottle of Joy is placed in someone’s energy field, even if the lid is closed on it, the person’s energy still lifts into a state of Joy. Wow!

This demonstrates so clearly that we have 3 main channels by which essential oils work on our body.

1. Inhalation – When inhaled, essential oils reach the limbic region of our brain (our subconscious) within milliseconds, impacting our emotions and our spiritual centre.

2. Topical – Gary always taught that when applied to our skin (or ingested*), essential oils enter the blood stream and are in every cell of our body within 20 minutes.

3. Energy Field – Now we’ve learned that essential oils also work through our energy field, using frequency to attune us to a greater version of our Self.

*Every region of the world has its own ways that we can promote the use of essential oils. In the US, we can talk about ingestion of essential oils for the benefit of different body systems. This is not something we can promote in other markets like Australia, New Zealand or Europe, where different regulations exist.

How to use oils to uplift your frequency

There’s a very simple way to do this. Every Young Living oil you use is working on your frequency, so there is no right or wrong oil to choose! They are all designed to be frequency antennas to draw us from an out of balance state into a balanced state.

If you’re already in balance, you won’t notice a difference….or maybe you’ll just feel that little bit brighter and more alive. But if you’re out of balance, that’s when you’ll notice a radical difference when you get re-tuned to your correct and natural frequency.

Look at your collection of oils, relax your body, and see which one jumps out at you. Trust yourself – your inner Self knows what it needs. And if you use this oil and don’t see a shift, choose a different oil each day. Remember – they all work.

But there will be one oil or blend that will work the best for you, and that’s the one you are on a mission to find, and sometimes it does take a leap in faith (trusting your inner guidance) or some trial and error in order to find it.

But self-discovery is an important part of this journey that we are all on. We’re all pioneers, discovering new uses for our essential oils. Gary didn’t have all the answers. I don’t have all the answers.

But you are here to discover the answers for you. And when you do, please share those with others, so together we can make our world a better place.

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