- Truth is a good thing, a necessary thing, and can feel like a complex thing as well.
- Your past pain and trauma is true. And so is the ability for you to find freedom from it.
Everyone’s trauma is different, but remember that our definition here is a time where you did not receive what you needed and were not equipped to handle it. Using oils and truths or affirmations will help you rewire the pathways in your brain to create new ones that are peaceful and whole.
Speaking truth over our lives, our situations and even our past is essential to the emotional release process. This can be done in multiple different ways, so choose one that feels good to start with, and consider adding in some of the other practices as you move forward.
Affirmation
This can be as simple as identifying the emotion(s) you wish to release, finding the opposite of them, and repeating a mantra (or a few) each day as you breathe in an essential oil.
Grab a dry erase marker and write these affirmations on a mirror. Then spend five to ten minutes a day looking at your reflection and reciting these affirmations while you breathe from the bottle or diffuse your chosen oil.
Journaling
Writing can be a powerful tool for processing emotions. This can look like writing a letter to a younger version of yourself, to a parent or family member, to the ‘good girl or boy’ you felt like you had to be, or really to anyone (real or imaginary or a past version of a real person).
Get a pen and paper instead of typing as our eyes track and process differently on a blue light device. Fire up your diffuser, apply an oil blend and inhale it as you write.
Detox baths
Because our emotions affect our physical health and because we need to really slow down to process them, taking a long bath can be great for processing.
Grab about a cup of epsom salts and add a few drops of your chosen essential oil or blend. Fire up your diffuser as well. Then sit and soak as you isolate your emotions, find the other side and process through any trauma that you uncover. Continue to breathe in the oils as you go.
Visualization
You can use visualization to revisit a past pain and rewire the pathways in your brain to move your nervous system into a safe place.
Think back to a painful period in your life. Who was there? What did it look like? How did it feel? How old are you? Sit there for a moment.
Now visualize someone who feels safe, strong, and nurturing to you. It can be a real person or someone fictional or someone you make up. Imagine that person coming in to give the younger version of yourself exactly what you needed in that moment.
As we move forward to talk about using essential oils for emotional release, come back to these practices as a way to actually work through your emotions and trauma. Add at least one of them to your daily routine, then add others!