Valor is a popular blend of Frankincense, Black Spruce, Blue Tansy, Camphor Wood, and Geranium that is helpful for many emotions around our activated, sympathetic, fight or flight response, thus it’s battle-worthy name!
In fact, this oil is inspired by the oils that Roman Soldiers would bathe in before battle. The oils would sit atop the water in their bath houses and this special blend was added before a big battle. When they rose from the water, the oils would soak and stay on their skin to help prepare them for something big and scary ahead.
Valor‘s woodsy, calming aroma comes from a blend of Black Spruce, Blue Tansy, and Frankincense. This blend can also be a key oil in overcoming emotional abuse and recovering from trauma. It’s a powerhouse when facing a trial or season of adversity because its natural properties help align the body both emotionally and physically.
Our emotions and trauma are often stored in the physical tissues and fascia of our bodies and essential oils help release stuck emotions and tension at a physical level from specific parts of the body:
- Feeling Resigned (like you can’t fight it): Diaphragm
- Feeling like you are Losing a Battle: just below lower lip
- Fear of Conflict: Abdomen, just above right and left hips
- Feeling Aggressive: Abdomen, just above right and left hips
- Feeling Defensive: Stomach
Valor has properties that get to the core control centers of the negative emotional programs. When we’re ready to make a change, to start challenging that fight or flight survival mode with a better way of thinking and living, this is the perfect oil.
Emotional Exhale Practices with Valor
- Apply to your shoulders, the bottoms of your feet, the back of your neck, or anywhere that you’re experiencing tension or a stressful tightness in your body.
- Diffuse this oil as you journal, move your body or walk through visualizations.
- Diffuse Valor while you sleep
- Place a drop or two of Valor between your wrists (palm-up side), and then hold them together for a few minutes. Use this time to process through past trauma or emotions that are weighing you down.