How Essential Oils work on Emotions

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, it is believed that different emotions are stored in different organs of the body, based on their vibrational frequency.  For example, anger is often stored in the liver while fear is stored in the kidneys. Thus, an overabundance of anger may weaken the liver and inversely a weakened liver may bring about feelings of anger. 

Science has also recently proven that emotional patterns can be passed on from generation to generation.  Studies done on survivors of the Holocaust as well as their descendants have shown that the trauma suffered by those in the concentration camps is passed down through DNA.  Emotions are being stored on a cellular level!

Obviously, the trauma suffered by these survivors was of an unheard-of level.  Trauma and emotions don’t need to be this intense to be stored in our cells. Much of what we experience growing up is also stored in our bodies on the cellular level and families also have emotional patterns that are handed down from one generation to the next. 

Through physical application as well as through smell, essential oils, with their high vibrational frequency, can help release our stuck emotions as well as release negative emotional patterns that have been passed down to us.

When used in conjunction with Traditional Chinese Medicine, essential oils applied to specific points on the body can access the various organs and glands where blocked emotions are stored.  Through the olfactory system, essential oils can work on the limbic system in our brains which also stores many of our emotions and traumas.

When using essential oils to treat emotional issues, it is important to use high quality essential oils as it is their high vibrational frequency that will help restore balance to the weakened areas in the body. 

*O’Sullivan, Jen.  French Aromatherapy.