I would like to introduce you to the oils I use during aromatic essential oil massages. I grouped them based on elements.
Lemongrass: The oil of "cleansing". It helps clear stagnant energies, allowing them to flow instead of being blocked. It harmonizes the thyroid, regenerates connective tissue injuries, and has a calming effect that helps reduce restlessness and anxiety. It alleviates symptoms of depression, improves mood, and reduces stress by reconnecting you to your inner light. It can improve sleep quality and helps with emotional stability and balance. It also enhances concentration and memory.
Tea Tree: The oil of "boundary-setting", supporting the escape from parasitic connections. It boosts confidence, self-esteem, and belief in one’s own strength. It brings clarity to indecision, clearing negative emotions like anger and frustration. It relieves emotional pain, sadness, and grief, and helps you see things more positively.
Geranium: Helps process emotional traumas, restoring inner stability. It’s highly effective when recovering from grief, melancholy and intense stress, releasing suppressed emotions and aiding their expression. It supports healing deep wounds from past heartaches, restoring trust in others and the world. With its tenderness, it supports smoothing one’s relationship with their parents.
Ylang-Ylang: Can help improve romantic relationships, deepen emotional connections, and calm the mind. Being a powerful heart remedy, it's beneficial for insomnia and restful sleep. It is one of the best oils for balancing the flow of the heart chakra and reconnecting with your inner child, encouraging playfulness. Let’s connect to our heart and get in balance by releasing negative emotions.
Lavender: Reduces stress, anxiety, and depression. It helps improve sleep quality and brings back happiness and joy into your life. Lavender oil enhances concentration, memory, and mental performance, calms the nervous system, and reduces muscle tension, making it excellent for relieving stress. It can also stimulate some people, aiding in communication and ensuring neglected feelings are heard.
Orange: The oil of "flowing abundance." It connects to the root chakra, fostering happiness, improving your mood, and promoting emotional balance. It helps boost energy, vitality, and momentum, turning exhausted into creative. It supports creativity and spontaneity, teaching you the true meaning of abundance.
Litsea Cubeba: A powerful mobilizer of willpower, encouraging trust in the wisdom that may exceed one’s momentary understanding. It clears thoughts, stimulates the mind, and boosts positive emotions, fostering optimism and happiness. It supports mental freshness and vitality, alleviating emotional exhaustion and burnout.
Cypress: The oil of "flow," activating stagnant energies. It works in the heart and mind, creating flexibility and teaching the soul to release the past. It also boosts focus as well as completion of tasks, and helps you find your purpose. It encourages you to put your worries aside and let control go so that you can enjoy the joys of life.
Vetiver: Helps you strike a deeper root in life, anchoring you in the physical world. It supports self-awareness and mindfulness, and is known as the oil for those with attention deficit disorders. It enhances self-confidence, self-esteem, and helps find your purpose in life. It also supports spiritual development and boosts the consciousness to help you find your inner peace. Vetiver gets individuals to focus on their true selves, guiding them to the root of their emotional issues.
Sandalwood: Sandalwood oil helps focus and calm the mind, increasing self-confidence and self-image. It reduces stress, anxiety, and promotes peaceful sleep, enhancing mental clarity and offering a connection to higher spiritual realms. It is also good for your skin, as it has antibacterial and inflammatory benefits.
Arborvitae: Connects with primal trust, fostering a sense of safety and inner calm. It encourages connection to nature and dismantles the belief that progress must come through struggle. It strengthens inner resilience and endurance, helping you face challenges and connect to your divine. In addition, it can help with decision-making and finding motivation.
Bergamot: It’s called the oil of “self-acceptance”. If you’re lacking it, if often derives from feeling incapable which can decrease your sense of self-worth and self-confidence.
This oil can help with your lack of self-confidence, so that you understand that you’re enough. As the navel chakra oil, it heavily focuses on stability, bringing hope and courage to share your inner self.
Cedar: It helps bring people together to experience the power and value of community. It may help you open up and accept love and support from others. Using this oil can reduce stress and anxiety so that you can be calm and balanced instead. All in all, it supports emotional stability, focus and meditation.
Incense: The oil of fatherly quality. It provides you with a certain emotional support, presence and direction. It also reduces stress, anxiety and the symptoms of depression. What’s more, it can help you stop emotional stress and let things go, experiencing a sense of fullness. Incense reminds you of the wisdom and knowledge that you spirit brought to this world.
Vanilla: Providing you with a protective layer, it makes you feel like a baby who is surrounded by safety and love. It can boost your most primal self-confidence and stability. In addition, vanilla is also a well-known aphrodisiac, increasing your sense of sexuality. It helps you showcase your feelings physically and restart lost sparkle.
Eucalyptus: The oil of "well-being," invigorating and clearing negative energy. Its fresh scent helps relieve stress and anxiety, and supports respiratory health. Eucalyptus encourages renewal and transformation, helping to maintain faith even in tough times. It also boost your sense of freedom, encouraging you to never stop believing that you can transform and change in light of challenges and difficulties.
Pine: Supports emotional growth and healing, offering an energizing and refreshing scent. Pine oil is known for its ability to reduce anxiety and depression, while promoting alertness, concentration, and productivity. It also boosts self-confidence and self-expression.
Peppermint: The oil of "joyful heart," dispelling bitterness and offering a breath of fresh air. It invigorates the mind, enhances focus, and drives away fatigue, offering mental clarity and relieving headaches.
Cardamom: The oil of "objectivity," enhancing healthy self-control and useful during anger or stress. It improves mental clarity, reducing fatigue and promoting calmness. It calms the nervous system and forces you to putting the blame on others.
Cinnamon: The oil of harmonious sexuality, helping release control over oneself and others. It also helps you accept your body and feel your sex appeal. Its warm, spicy scent enhances vitality, creativity, and confidence. Being an aphrodisiac, it boosts passion and improves the quality of sexual relationships.
Clove: The oil of boundaries, helping individuals assert themselves and let go of co-dependency. It fosters independence and assertiveness, encouraging proactive decision-making and personal integrity. It is an aphrodisiac as well, so it also boosts passions the improves intimacy.
Ginger: The oil of responsibility, helping eliminate victimhood patterns and encouraging a warrior mentality. Ginger promotes self-confidence and courage, making it easier to tackle everyday challenges. It helps you shake off your fears and become more courageous in everyday life, taking full responsibility.
Pink Pepper: Releases inhibitions and enhances circulation. It teaches that comparisons only lead to sorrow, promoting self-acceptance. It can help you find equality through self-acceptance.
Each essential oil serves a specific purpose, helping individuals restore balance, improve emotional health, and connect with their inner strength.
