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Cualquier cosa que interfiera con el flujo de líquidos o energía en su cuerpo bloquea su capacidad para transportar oxígeno y nutrientes y eliminar toxinas y desechos de las células.

Esto, a su vez, dificulta enormemente su capacidad de curación.

Estos «campos de interferencia» pueden incluir cualquier cosa que cree una barrera energética o física que comprometa o impida el oxígeno, los nutrientes, el flujo sanguíneo y la eliminación de desechos, permitiendo que las células de su cuerpo se regeneren y sanen. Con el tiempo, estos obstáculos pueden contribuir a los síntomas de enfermedades crónicas.

Los aceites esenciales pueden ayudar a abrir y mejorar el flujo de líquidos (incluida la circulación sanguínea y linfática) y la señalización nerviosa, lo que favorece la regeneración de los tejidos.

¿Qué es un campo de interferencia?

Un campo de interferencia es cualquier cosa que interrumpa o bloquee el flujo saludable de energía en el cuerpo.

Específicamente, los campos de interferencia «impiden» o impiden la capacidad del cuerpo para suministrar oxígeno, nutrientes y el flujo saludable de sangre, linfa, señales nerviosas y/o energía a través del cuerpo.

El término «campo de interferencia» fue acuñado por el Dr. Ferdinand Huenecke y el Dr. Walter Huenecke para describir el tejido debilitado o dañado debido al estrés o un trauma. El tejido dañado luego se vuelve electroquímicamente anormal o se despolariza y, por lo tanto, es más susceptible a la acumulación de toxinas ambientales y metabólicas, que bloquean aún más el flujo de energía normal de los nervios y la red de meridianos por todo el cuerpo.

Cualquier lesión o trauma, ya sea químico, mecánico, eléctrico o de otro tipo, deja tras de sí marca de energía que permanece después de que el tejido ha sanado. Estas cicatrices permiten que las toxinas ambientales y metabólicas se bioacumule e interfieran mecánicamente y, en última instancia, bloqueen el flujo de energía normal de los meridianos, órganos, glándulas y/o tejidos.

Un FI es un área que se ha «despolarizado» (o debilitado), a menudo debido a un trauma previo, como una caída, un accidente, una cirugía, una inyección o una cicatriz. Un área IF debilitada es más susceptible a la acumulación de toxinas y a más lesiones. El IF actúa como un «cortocircuito» en el flujo normal de energía del cuerpo.. Este «mecha quemada» puede repercutir en áreas distantes del cuerpo y crear síntomas, degeneración y deterioro de la función.

Además del estancamiento y la consiguiente acumulación de productos de desecho y el bloqueo del flujo de energía, los campos de interferencia también bloquean el flujo de oxígeno y nutrientes y el drenaje de toxinas y desechos, impidiendo la curación e interrumpiendo el flujo de energía del cuerpo.

Se puede pensar en los campos de interferencia como interrupciones de circuitos que crean un «ruido» de fondo constante que confunde a las células cercanas y mantiene el sistema nervioso autónomo en un estado desregulado.

¿Qué causa los campos de interferencia?

El campo de interferencia puede ubicarse en cualquier parte del cuerpo y puede ser causado por factores estresantes comunes, que incluyen:

• Trauma (físico, mental, emocional)
• Cicatrices (incluidas las cicatrices de cesárea)
• Perforaciones en las orejas o en el cuerpo (especialmente a lo largo de la línea media del cuerpo)
• Tatuajes
• Problemas dentales (como infecciones focales, endodoncias, cavitaciones o amalgamas metálicas)
• Congestión linfática (incluidas amígdalas, ganglios cervicales, inguinales)
• Sitios de punción de inyecciones (incluidas vacunas e intravenosas)
• Infecciones de los senos
• Áreas traumatizadas (por latigazo cervical, esguinces/distensiones, conmociones cerebrales, quemaduras o hematomas)
• Bloqueos del tejido fascial
• Metal dentro del cuerpo (clavos, placas, brackets, mallas, restauraciones o empastes dentales)
• Campos electromagnéticos (EMF)

Síntomas de campos de interferencia

Los campos de interferencia pueden «cortocircuitar» el sistema de cableado del cuerpo, bloqueando el flujo de energía, lo que puede perturbar silenciosa y crónicamente áreas remotas del cuerpo que «parecen» no tener relación con el sitio del campo de interferencia, incluyendo:

Desregulación del sistema nervioso: Los campos de interferencia pueden interrumpir los mensajes del sistema nervioso autónomo a su cuerpo y activar crónicamente el sistema nervioso simpático, contribuyendo a una respuesta de estrés crónica.

Energía reducida: Los campos de interferencia pueden impedir o bloquear el flujo de energía en el cuerpo, especialmente cuando afectan los meridianos (vías de energía que cruzan el cuerpo), lo que resulta en un estancamiento de energía o circulación que puede experimentar como fatiga. En particular, el tejido cicatricial es rico en tejido conectivo que exhibe propiedades de conductividad electromagnética diferentes a las del tejido normal, lo que provoca interrupciones en el flujo de energía que pueden causar trastornos funcionales en los sistemas de órganos conectados a través de meridianos.

Impacto en el tráfico: Los campos de interferencia pueden alterar significativamente el medio ambiente, provocando «torceduras» en los tejidos estructurales que alteran la alineación del cuerpo. Esto provoca desequilibrios estructurales en todo el cuerpo, limitaciones de movimiento y adherencias y desequilibrios fasciales que actúan como «camisas de fuerza» internas, reduciendo el rango de movimiento de los músculos, las articulaciones y la movilidad de los órganos. Esto reduce su eficacia y potencialmente causa dolor.

dolor (incluyendo migrañas, neuralgias, dolores articulares y musculares): los campos que interfieren pueden provocar que los impulsos nerviosos se vuelvan hiperactivos. Los campos de interferencia, como las cicatrices en las células nerviosas dañadas, pueden causar un potencial de membrana en reposo crónicamente bajo, lo que significa que el nervio disparará un impulso nervioso con muchos menos estímulos. El tejido se vuelve excitable y tiene un efecto caótico sobre el sistema nervioso, creando una desconexión entre el cerebro y los tejidos, lo que resulta en la sensación de dolor. Por ejemplo, cuando una cicatriz de cesárea bloquea un nervio, el flujo sanguíneo y linfático hacia el sistema gastrointestinal superior se ve afectado, lo que puede contribuir a síntomas dolorosos como acidez de estómago, indigestión, dolor de estómago, náuseas o dolor de hombro.

Efectos hormonales: Los campos de plomo pueden afectar su sistema hormonal al desencadenar la producción suprarrenal de cortisol, que puede suprimir la producción de hormonas sexuales.

Enfermedad crónica: Los campos de interferencia no solo bloquean el flujo de energía y nutrientes directamente en el sitio del trauma, sino que con el tiempo también pueden reflejarse en partes distantes del cuerpo para crear una sedación no deseada del flujo de energía hacia órganos y glándulas clave, conocida como «salpicadura». efecto».

Eliminación de campos de interferencia con aceites esenciales.

Los campos de interferencia provocan un cortocircuito en el flujo de energía del cuerpo. Los campos de interferencia y estos cortocircuitos pueden eliminarse para restaurar el flujo de energía al cuerpo y permitir el flujo adecuado de líquidos y nutrientes y la eliminación de productos de desecho.

Los aceites esenciales u otras terapias no invasivas como la luz (láser) y el sonido (sintonización) pueden ayudar a restablecer energéticamente los tejidos dañados y devolverlos a su estado original. Los aceites esenciales contienen propiedades curativas conocidas por desbloquear, reconectar, reparar y regenerar células, órganos y tejidos afectados. Contienen poderosos ingredientes químicos que pueden ayudar a restaurar la movilidad, mejorar el flujo de líquidos, aumentar la microcirculación y estimular el flujo de energía.

Una de las razones clave por las que los aceites esenciales funcionan tan bien para limpiar el campo de perturbación es que esencialmente pueden ayudar a borrar y reescribir recuerdos emocionales y patrones de pensamiento asociados.

Cuando inhalamos aceites esenciales, las moléculas de olor pasan a través de la cavidad nasal y desencadenan impulsos eléctricos al sentido del olfato, que luego transmite los impulsos a la amígdala, la parte del cerebro donde se almacenan los recuerdos emocionales.

Nuestro sentido del olfato se conecta directamente con el centro emocional del cerebro, lo que le permite acceder a los campos causados ​​por el trauma emocional para poder reconocerlos, integrarlos o liberarlos.

Liberación de fascia para campos de interferencia

Su sistema fascial se ve profundamente afectado por los campos de interferencia porque pueden crear adherencias físicas y energéticas en la membrana de la fascia que bloquean o comprometen los mensajes eléctricos de su sistema nervioso y las señales posteriores al cuerpo.

Como sabrás, tu fascia está plagada de aproximadamente 250 millones de terminaciones nerviosas que pertenecen al sistema nervioso simpático, que transporta mensajes entre el cerebro, la médula espinal y el resto del cuerpo.

También tienes receptores del dolor que viven en tu fascia, lo que significa que cuando sientes dolor, son las terminaciones nerviosas de la fascia las que se comunican con el sistema nervioso para decirle a tu cerebro que hay un problema.

El Liberación de fascia™ la mezcla ayuda a revelar campos de interferencia y restricción de constricciones fasciales que impiden el movimiento y bloqueos de energía en los tejidos. Liberación de fascia™ También ayuda a aumentar la circulación y el flujo linfático, lo que ayuda a eliminar el líquido de los tejidos.

Como usted sabe, la fascia se encuentra justo debajo de la piel, por lo que la aplicación tópica de aceites esenciales sobre la piel permite un acceso fácil e inmediato a la fascia y a los campos de alteración que residen dentro de la red fascial. La piel es el órgano más grande y es relativamente permeable a sustancias liposolubles como los aceites esenciales.

Los suplementos tópicos juegan un papel importante en el mantenimiento de la salud fascial y la recuperación de la inflamación. Por ejemplo, los aceites esenciales penetran fácilmente las capas de la fascia restringida, creando calor para eliminar la congestión, aumentando la circulación, el drenaje linfático y movilizando el tejido atascado.

Los aceites esenciales suavizan el tejido miofascial, permitiendo que el tejido profundo y restringido se estire y se mueva como debe funcionar. También tienen efecto analgésico, relajan los músculos y reducen el dolor.

Los aceites esenciales en Liberación de fascia™ la mezcla está formulada exclusivamente con aceites esenciales orgánicos conocidos por liberar campos de interferencia y bloqueos de energía, incluidos incienso, lavanda y geranio.

El aceite esencial de incienso tiene propiedades calmantes para la piel y alivian la inflamación. De manera similar, el aceite de lavanda ayuda a promover la regeneración de nuevas células de tejidos, especialmente en la reparación de la piel y los tejidos dañados y en la curación de campos de interferencia.

El aceite de geranio tiene poderosas propiedades antiinflamatorias que pueden ayudar a calmar la inflamación y favorecer la regeneración de tejidos y el crecimiento de nuevas células.

Cómo aplicar: Los campos de interferencia y las cicatrices pueden hacer que el tejido de la piel sea inelástico y más rígido que el tejido circundante. Esto puede limitar el movimiento en una dirección. Si acaricia suavemente la cicatriz de la piel, podrá moverse más fácilmente y con más movilidad en una dirección con más restricciones en la otra dirección. Para ayudar a liberar y limpiar los campos de interferencia, aplicar tópicamente. Liberación de fascia™ en la zona de dirección donde hay más movimiento y se mueve con mayor facilidad.

Para mejorar el flujo de líquidos y la circulación, también puede utilizar la linfa y la circulación en combinación con Liberación de fascia™.

A medida que se liberan los campos de interferencia, es posible que también se liberen varias emociones. Cuando se desbloquea o elimina el campo de interferencia y el trauma asociado, no es inusual sentir una emoción fuerte o la necesidad de liberar emociones a través de lágrimas o movimiento. Cambiar el flujo eléctrico del tejido y liberar las toxinas acumuladas en su sistema le permite liberar emociones.

Los aceites esenciales pueden ser herramientas útiles para liberar emociones.

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Breathwork –  or diaphragmatic breathing – is a powerful tool for calming the body and mind and sending safety cues to your nervous system to help activate the parasympathetic nervous system.

Your breath feeds and cleans your cells and supports efficient tissue repair.  Supporting healthy breathing can also really help to release tension, alleviate anxiety, and boost mood.  When you are afraid, your first reaction is to hold your breath – which can increase feelings of anxiety, rachet up your body’s stress response, and interfere with healthy sleep patterns.

Essential oils can be inhaled in conjunction with breathwork to help enhance relaxation, and improve oxygen absorption and signal the body to inhale more deeply.

What is Breathwork?

Breathwork is a mindfulness practice that involves intentionally changing breathing patterns to improve physical, mental, and emotional health. 

Your breath carries nourishing oxygen into your body with each inhale and releases toxins and stress with each exhale. 

When you are physically or emotionally stressed, your breath may become fast and shallow. This limits the oxygen entering your bloodstream. Your brain tells your body that there is a threat, and your body responds in fight or flight.

When you take time to slow down your breathing and intentionally extend your inhales and exhales, it stimulates your vagus nerve and sends cues of safety to your body and your brain that it is safe to relax. The fight or flight response decreases, and your body can begin to function normally again.

When you practice slow breathing, you build up more carbon dioxide in your bloodstream. With more CO2 present, your vagus nerve activates a cardio-inhibitory response that then stimulates the parasympathetic system, producing a relaxing sensation throughout your body.

Benefits of Breathwork.

Breathwork is believed to help:

• Activate your Parasympathetic “rest & digest” nervous system
• Elevate your mood
• Alleviate anxiety
• Reduce inflammation
• Deepen relaxation
• Boost Energy
• Enhance focus and memory
• Improve circulation and blood flow 
• Alkalize Blood PH
• Decrease high blood pressure.
• Improve organ function
• Optimize cellular detoxification
• Enhance emotional regulation
• Regulate Your Nervous System
• Strengthen the diaphragm
• Alleviate aches and pains

What’s more, a better oxygen supply significantly improves the quality of your blood. The more life-enhancing oxygen that is in the blood, the more energy you have, and the better your body functions. Deep breathing also improves the blood flow to your muscles, so increasing physical strength, stamina, and drive.

How Essential Oils Enhance Breathwork

The healing constituents of essential oils can help open airways to allow oxygen to flow more freely through the respiratory system which can be helpful for deep breathing techniques. 

Another advantage of using essential oils is their calming and grounding properties which allow you to drop into and feel more present in your body so you can focus fully on breathing. 

Essential oils, with their natural anti-inflammatory and decongestant properties, can help support your nasal passageways and improve your capacity to assimilate oxygen through the nostrils 

Essential oils – like eucalyptus – possess natural expectorant qualities that to help clear mucus from your respiratory tract. They work by lubricating your airway, which loosens up mucus and makes it thinner. This can alleviate nasal and chest congestion that may obstruct airways.

Adding essential oils to your breathwork ritual can be used simultaneously to help you increase your energy, lift your mood, breathe better, ease your mind, induce healing, and ground you. 

Essential oils may also help release your diaphragm by relaxing the smooth muscles with additional blood flow. Plant compounds, including the highly concentrated essence of plants found in essential oils, have been shown to help the veins contract, stimulating blood flow.

Breathing is in charge of cleansing as much as 70% of the toxins from your body with the release of carbon dioxide as you exhale. It basically helps the lymphatic system detoxify the body. And by improving blood oxygenation to allow more efficient absorption of essential nutrients and vitamins, deep breathing also protects the body from bacteria, viruses, and other illnesses.

Diaphragmatic Breathing

Your diaphragm – a large, dome-shaped muscle located at the base of the lungs – is your main breathing muscle. It helps feed every cell with oxygen.

Your diaphragm is also one of the main respiratory pumps for your lymphatic system.

When you inhale, your diaphragm contracts and flattens and your chest cavity enlarges. This contraction creates a vacuum, which pulls air into the lungs. When you exhale, your diaphragm relaxes and returns to its domelike shape, and the air is forced out of your lungs.

Diaphragmatic breathing helps you consciously engage your abdominal muscles to help move your diaphragm, and give you more power to take deep breaths and empty your lungs.

When you breathe normally, you don’t use your lungs to their full capacity. Diaphragmatic breathing allows you to use your lungs at 100% capacity to increase lung efficiency.

You might think of your diaphragm as the engine for your breath – the large, strong core muscle in the center of your torso that moves all the time as you breathe. Picture an open umbrella below your stomach attaching to the bottom of the ribs all the way round. When you inhale, your diaphragm moves out and downwards, just like an umbrella opens and gets bigger, which pulls your breath in. When you exhale, your diaphragm moves in and upwards, like an umbrella slightly closing and moving up, which forces your breath out again.

If your diaphragm is tense it will stay pulled up, tight, and closed which restricts your breathing making it hard to get a deep breath in. When your diaphragm is tense and tight this will lead to tension in the stomach which is right beside it.

In addition to enhancing physical flexibility and respiratory movement, your diaphragm enables emotional flexibility. Breath is correlated to your ability to activate your parasympathetic nervous system and adapt. The act of breathing helps support your physical and emotional resilience, both by delivering nutrient-rich oxygen to the cells and expelling waste, but also by helping to stimulate the vagus nerve which enervates the diaphragm.

Releasing your diaphragm may help “contribute to the transformation of physical and emotional habit patterns; which, although protective, may be limiting,” according to a study on The Role of the Diaphragm in Self-Awareness and Transformation.  The study found that “facilitating the release of the diaphragm helped to free the natural breath… A released diaphragm indicates an inner sense of safety and increased relaxation and contributes to the transformation of physical and emotional habit patterns; which, although protective, may be limiting our full potential.”  The study also found that the “pattern of our breathing is also influenced by the emotional centers located in the brain’s limbic system. The emotional pathway connects with the respiratory control center in the brain stem and travels through the phrenic nerves to the diaphragm.”

In addition to helping you breathe, your diaphragm increases pressure inside your abdomen, which helps move blood and lymphatic fluid, improves digestive, renal, adrenal, liver, uterine, ovarian, pelvic floor, bowel, and bladder function.  When your diaphragm is relaxed and moving freely, it works harmoniously with the respiratory system and nervous system, helping to improve sleep, reduce stress, enhance concentration and improve digestion.

Essential Oils to Enhance Breathwork

Inhaling specific essential oils blends in conjunction with your  breath work practice can further enhance results.  The natural expectorant properties of many essential oils can help open up airways to allow oxygen to help increase oxygen intake and lung efficiency.

Consider including the following essential oil blends in your breathwork practice:

Breathe™  

Breathe™ blend contains oils with expectorant properties that can help open your airways. Expectorants help expel mucus from your body and support your respiratory detoxification.  In particular, eucalyptus oil possesses potent antibacterial, antiseptic, expectorant, and decongestant that can help clean and strengthen the lungs. 

Peppermint™ essential oil possesses expectorant qualities that may help support upper-respiratory congestion, caused by asthma, bronchitis, allergies, cold, or flu.

Eucalyptus radiata can be used on its own or as part of Breathe™ blend to help soothe inflammation in the lungs and calm bronchial spasms that can result in coughing fits. Since eucalyptus oil can be “hot,” meaning it can cause a hot or warming sensation when applied to the skin, including causing the skin to turn red, I recommend you dilute more aggressively with a carrier oil.

Circulation™

Formulated to support healthy circulation to deliver oxygen and nutrient-rich blood to the body and the brain, including Cypress, while simultaneously carrying toxins and waste to the kidney and liver to be eliminated. 

Cypress essential oil gives energy to improve circulation and bring energy to the diaphragm to support the release of constriction and tension.  Cypress creates flexibility and supports letting go of stagnant energies to help you release the past.  Cypress essential oil is especially helpful when you are feeling mentally or emotionally stuck, stiff, rigid, or tense or feel the need to control or force things in life, rather than allowing them to unfold naturally, Cypress encourages us to cast aside our worries and let go of control so we can experience trust in the flow of life.  Just smelling Cypress can help create a feeling of security and grounding to help enhance emotional flexibility.

On the physical level, Cypress oil is known to clear up congestion and eliminate phlegm that builds up in the respiratory tract and lungs. The oil calms the respiratory system and works as an antispasmodic agent.  Essential oils, like Cypress, can be warming in nature which helps them enhance blood flow and improve circulation by relaxing the blood vessels and supporting the health of the blood vessels.

The Circulation™ blend contains a proprietary formulation of organic and/or wild-crafted essential oils that work synergistically to support healthy circulation and blood flow to the body and the brain.

Fascia Release™

All the diaphragm muscle is fascia.  Fascia Release™ is formulated with Lavender oil which is known for its calming and soothing effects. Lavender is known to help relieve muscle tension and promote relaxation, which can indirectly support flexibility.  Cypress allows for improved flexibility and resilience.  Frankincense™ helps calm your nervous system and supports mental flexibility.  Black pepper and Rosemary oil are stimulating and invigorating which may help improve circulation and alleviate muscle tension, which can support flexibility.

Lymph™

Your diaphragm is one of our main respiratory pumps for the lymphoid system and diaphragmatic breathing has a vital role in the lymphatic system. Since Lymph nodes do not have their own muscular layer, they must rely on pressure changes to empty their contents. Diaphragmic breathing helps change the intra-abdominal pressure, which causes a “wringing” effect on the lymph nodes, which stimulates flow.  You can enhance this flow by topically applying Lymph™ blend.  To enhance lymphatic flow and drainage, liberally apply 2 to 3 drops of Lymph™ over the lymphatic organs and key lymph nodes located under the arms, over the diaphragm, and around the inguinal ligament (bikini line area—think where your leg creases when you lift it) to ensure optimal drainage and health.

Parasympathetic®

The vagus nerve passes right through the diaphragm, so when you are stimulating the diaphragm, you are also stimulating the vagus nerve.  You can also stimulate the vagus nerve by topically applying Parasympathetic® essential oil on the vagus nerve behind the mastoid bone to stimulate and release the diaphragm.

You can combine the topical application of Parasympathetic® with Vagal Toning Breath.  Consider this breathing technique when you are feeling anxious, angry, afraid, or easily irritated or annoyed.  Simply place your hands gently over your belly, inhale into your lower abdomen, exhale slowly, and say in a low vibratory tone “vooooo” which cues long exhales. Repeat for 1-2 min. 

You can apply oils over the diaphragm or inhale directly from the bottle and practice the following diaphragmatic breathing exercises:

1. Sit comfortably in a chair, with your knees bent and your shoulders, head, and neck relaxed.
2. Place one hand on your upper chest and the other just below your rib cage. This will allow you to feel your diaphragm move as you breathe.
3. Breathe in slowly through your nose so that your stomach moves out against your hand. The hand on your chest should remain as still as possible.
4. Tighten your stomach muscles, so that your stomach moves back in, as you exhale through pursed lips. The hand on your upper chest must remain as still as possible.

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I stumbled upon a blind spot in my healing.

It has not been fun. 

In fact, over the past week, I have been experiencing more overwhelm, fatigue, lethargy, distractibility, and lack of productivity than ever before in my life.

The trigger was not a surprise to anyone but me.

My former husband –  the driver in the car accident that killed my son and his friends – completed his prison sentence and was released last week.  

The emotions this has released in me – all of the unspoken grief, anger, sadness, disappointment, and rage that my ex may never be able to discuss bubbled up to the surface and got stuck.

Because my body remembers how scary it was to raise children with this man who didn’t prioritize safety in the same way.  Who not only did not agree with some of the health choices I was attempting to make on behalf of the family but would often undermine me in food choices and safety decisions.

I sensed the danger, but I suppressed it.  

The technical term for this is functional freeze, the involuntary, immobile state triggered by the combination of both the fight or flight and the freeze response  – you experience chronic stress, but are unable to fight or flee so you have to freeze, while also feeling constantly alert and attuned to the danger.

What is Functional Freeze?

Functional freeze refers to a state where you may remain capable of performing tasks and functioning in your daily life, despite being stuck in a physiological response similar to the freeze reaction observed in animals under extreme stress or threat. 

The functional freeze response is correlated with an imbalance in the two branches of your autonomic nervous system which primes you for survival by either fighting, fleeing, or freezing, in other words, either ramping up or shutting down.

Your sympathetic “fight or flight” branch primes you for battle by releasing stress hormones like adrenaline, increasing blood and oxygen flow to the extremities, and powering your body with energy to either fight or flee.

Your parasympathetic “rest and digest” branch allows your body to relax and heal, routing blood flow to the organs of digestion and detoxification, and turning on systems that support healing like your immune system.

These two branches help regulate your body’s response to stressors and maintain a balance between arousal and relaxation. 

That said, chronic and prolonged stress can keep your nervous system locked in an ongoing state of “fight or flight”, known as sympathetic dominance. 

This prolonged stress coupled with the re-emergence of unresolved trauma (like my ex being released from prison and all the unresolved emotions that stirred up) can tip you over the edge from sympathetic dominance into dorsal vagal shutdown, a stress response initiated by the parasympathetic nervous system that redirects your limited energy towards essential functions such as conservation and self-preservation.  

In other words, trauma can shift the two branches of the autonomic nervous system from functioning harmoniously – pendulating between arousal and relaxation – into over-activation of your parasympathetic branch causing you to freeze rather than simply slow down.  

In his ground-breaking book, The Polyvagal Theory, Dr. Stephen Porges explains how your vagus nerve consists of three distinct branches: ventral vagal (safety), sympathetic, and dorsal vagal (shut down).

The dorsal side of the vagus nerve responds to cues of extreme danger.  When it is too aroused, the dorsal vagus nerve can shut down the entire system, pulling you away from connection, out of awareness, and into a state of self-protection.  You may experience this as functional freeze, responding to fear or trauma by becoming immobile, frozen, numb, shutting down, dissociating, or feeling unable to think clearly or access words or emotions.

Symptoms of Functional Freeze

In a functional freeze state, your body may become still as a defense mechanism which can present as mental, physical, emotional, or behavioral symptoms, including:

• Extreme Fatigue
• Social Withdrawal or Self-isolation (like canceling plans and not returning calls)
• Constantly Feeling Overwhelmed, even by simple tasks
• Difficulty Making Decisions
• Feeling stuck or unable to move forward.
• Emotional Detachment or Apathy
• Disengagement or a sense of detachment from the environment
• Inertia, lacking the drive to pursue goals or engage in activities that once brought joy
• Weight Gain (functional freeze reduces metabolic activity)
• Desire to Distract, Numb, or Dissociate
• Procrastination, No Energy or Motivation
• Inability to focus 
• Escapism and Task Avoidance (think binge-watching TV or scrolling on your phone)
• Less likely to exercise (freeze response makes it hard to move and be active)
• Difficulty speaking up (your voice feels frozen)
• Spacing Out or Operating on Autopilot
• Crankiness/irritability that often changes without warning.
• Loss of sense of time

My blind spot – The Polyvagal Ladder

I have been over-simplifying the branches of the vagus nerve, focusing solely on the sympathetic “fight or flight” and the parasympathetic “rest and digest” without sub-dividing the parasympathetic nervous system into the healthy ventral vagal safety response, and dorsal vagal immobilization response that I am currently experiencing. 

Until now, I mistakenly assumed that activation of the parasympathetic nervous system was a good thing, not realizing that there could be detrimental consequences from too much of a good thing, in the form of functional freeze.

I would therefore like to elaborate on my previous explanations by introducing the concept of the polyvagal ladder, developed by Rhythm of Regulation® founder Deb Dana.

Dana describes three distinct states or pathways that individuals experience in response to perceived threats or safety cues. 

Social Engagement (Ventral Vagal or Healthy Parasympathetic State): Characterized by a sense of safety, connection, and social engagement. The ventral is the front side of your body. In this state, your heart is open and able to connect to others and your vagus nerve promotes relaxation, social engagement, and adaptive responses to stress. Individuals in the ventral vagal state feel grounded, present, and capable of forming meaningful connections with others.  This is the positive version of the parasympathetic response that I have referred to thus far where you enjoy better digestion, immune response, circulation, and you’re more relaxed.

Mobilization (Sympathetic State): This refers to the sympathetic “fight or flight” state of mobilization, and prioritization of resources to respond to perceived threats or challenges. While mobilization can be adaptive in certain situations, prolonged activation can lead to feelings of stress, anxiety, and hypervigilance.

Immobilization (Dorsal Vagal State or Parasympathetic Collapse/Functional Freeze): Characterized by immobilization and shutdown responses. In this state, the body perceives overwhelming stress or threats or ongoing trauma (including interpersonal trauma), triggering a cascade of physiological responses aimed at promoting survival. Individuals in dorsal vagal shutdown may experience feelings of numbness, dissociation, and disconnection from themselves and the environment.

Just like you can get stuck in “fight or flight” sympathetic overdrive, traumatic experiences can keep you stuck in a functional freeze, as it help to numb you from feeling life’s pain so you can survive it.  This shuts you down both emotionally and physically.  It literally shuts your body down, storing unprocessed emotions in your body and your nervous system.

Smell and Functional Freeze

In order to thaw the freeze and move out of stuck and shutdown, you need to begin feeling again beginning with feeling your body sensations which helps discharge stuck energy.

Connecting to your body is the key to thawing your freeze response.  Your cognitive brain becomes mostly disengaged during stress, when everything other than immediate survival is shut down, and can’t be accessed, so trying to think your way out of freeze or access your cognitive function becomes unavailable under high-stress states.

Your sense of smell and your other senses can be powerful tools to bring you into the present moment and into your body so you defrost the freeze.  Smell  can be used to as a trigger to stimulate the body to re-engage in its own self-defense mechanisms.

When you smell something strong, it’s very hard to focus on anything else.  Smell can be used as an anchor to help reorient you from the present to the here and now.

Essential oils are gentle tools that allow you not to overwhelm or overload your nervous system as you are attempting to calm the overwhelm and defrost the shutdown.  Gentle strategies are helpful for unpacking freeze as when you feel frozen feelings that you have been avoiding, it can make you feel worse.

Essential oils can be used as a behavioral prompt to help shift you out of your head and into your body, for a number of reasons. Your brain responds to smell-based stimuli like essential oils within seconds.  In fact, research estimates your sense of smell to be 10,000 times more acute than your other senses. Once registered, scent stimuli travel more quickly to the brain than do either sight or sound.

Scent has direct access to the emotional center of your brain that controls your hormones and motivation levels, known as your limbic system.  On a physical level, only two synapses separate your amygdala from your olfactory nerve.  No other sensory system has this kind of direct and intense contact with the neural substrates of your brain’s emotional control center.  Your other four senses, including sound, sight, taste, and touch must travel to other regions of the brain first, before reaching your limbic system. This makes essential oils an incredibly powerful prompt for triggering desired behavior.

Your sense of smell is also tied to your breathing.  Deep inhalations and exhalations both help you focus on your breathing, taking time to slowly inhale and exhale while helping connect to your mind and body in the present and remind you that you are safe. 

How to Thaw Functional Freeze with Essential Oils

To thaw the functional freeze, you need to let your body know that you are safe.  You can incorporate your 5 senses – including your sense of smell which plays a critical role in safety – to communicate safety cues to the body.  The blends that have helped me the most include:

1.  Parasympathetic™ 

Activating the ventral vagal nerve tells your body that you are safe.  Stimulating the vagus nerve by inhaling or topically applying the Parasympathetic™ blend can help activate the ventral vagal parasympathetic nervous system, which helps you regulate your nervous system, promoting safety and relaxation which may help counteract functional freeze mode, inducing a state of calm and openness which can help you process through the underlying emotions and traumas.

Parasympathetic™ blend can help calm the nervous system and help you be grounded and present in the moment.  This sense of embodiment and safety can prevent future Freeze Responses.  Apply Parasympathetic™ over the vagus nerve (behind the earlobe on the mastoid bone) to activate the vagus nerve.  This helps discharge energy and shift out of the frozen state into the healing Parasympathetic.

2. Fascia Release™ 

Trauma lives in your tissues, specifically in your fascia, the tissue that surrounds every cell in your body.  Your emotions – or energy in motion –travel through your fascia in order to be released. When your fascia is tight and constricted, emotions do not flow and are not released, but instead become trapped in your tissue.

To release the trapped energy in the tissue and negative emotions, you need to release the fascia.  Essential oils offer a safe and simple way to release negative emotions from the tissue and create an ease of flow for healthy fascia.  Releasing my fascia with Fascia Release™ essential oil and Deanna Hansen’s block therapy.

Fascia lies just below the skin so topically applying essential oils onto the skin allows for easy and immediate access to the fascia.  The skin is your largest organ and is relatively permeable to fat-soluble substances like essential oils.  Fascia Release™ blend is uniquely formulated to unravel deeply held tensions, constrictions, and energetic blockages in your tissues to reduce pain, improve blood and lymphatic circulation, and release fear, repressed emotions, and tension held in the body (organs, muscles, tendons, bones, and joints) or the mind.

Application Tip: I have been applying Fascia Release™  to my fingertips and tapping on key reflex points to actively engage my safety response.  The video in this post and graphic in this post show how to tap in more detail.

3. COMING SOON! Limbic Reset™

I am in the process of creating a new Limbic Reset™ blend because smell plays such a critical role in communicating a safety signal to your body.  When your body enters freeze mode, both your nervous system and your limbic system become hyper-sensitive to potential threats and need to be calmed and reset.  

Essential oils – especially those that are high in the constituent Sesquiterpenes like Frankincense and Sandalwood – are thought to help increase the oxygen in the limbic system of the brain which in turn “unlocks” the DNA and allows emotional baggage to be released from cellular memory.  The blend is formulated to provide safety cues, drawing on the grounding energy of trees with deep roots in the earth, like sandalwood and Cedarwood, which help you feel grounded and safe.

I am incredibly excited to release this new Limbic Reset™ blend, which has dramatically helped me calm the freeze response and support smell-based safety cues.  The blend can be inhaled and topically applied above the eyes on the forehead and at the base of the skull to calm maladaptive stress responses, support healthy limbic system function and send safety signals that help release immobilization to calm functional freeze response and allow the brain to safely experience and process uncomfortable feelings and sensations. 

In addition to inhaling and topically applying essential oils, it is helpful to move your body, as movements such as yoga and walking allow you to ground and be present in the moment and know that you are safe.  These gentle movements provide a pathway to restore balance so your sympathetic and parasympathetic branches can function harmoniously again.

Do not be surprised if you feel the need to physically shake as you release and move out of the functional freeze response.

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My son Max would have turned 18 last week.

While I had always been warned that grief is not linear, I was ill-prepared for the intensity of this particular missed milestone.  

I would have loved to meet the man he might have become.  

I could not help but wonder what he would have looked like, how he would have filled his time, which childhood friends he would still be close to, who he would have loved and where he would have chosen to attend college.  

The last question, the college choice question, feels particularly intense as all of his childhood friends are in the process of making their college decisions and every time I leave the house I seem to run into his old friends or their parents.  Watching his best friends grow up and thrive without him is such a mixed blessing – on one hand, I am so proud of them and so grateful to bear witness to their journey.  On the other hand, I am so sad that Max will never get to experience those milestones.

One day after running into his closest friend and hearing about all the exciting things in his future – college, girlfriend, summer travel plans –  I was overwhelmed with such an intense wave of sadness, that I literally felt paralyzed – I couldn’t breathe, I couldn’t move.  The intensity of my sadness and grief was so big that I didn’t know how to experience or release it, so instead I tried to depress it.  I do wonder if this is the origin of the word depression – the inability to process sad feelings so just attempting to numb and avoid feeling.

Fortunately, I was walking my dogs during this particular moment so I was unable to stay paralyzed and depress these feelings for long.  Instead, I started moving with the dogs and the tears started flowing and the breath started heaving – loudly.  I had read that movement helps to move emotions.  

And I did.  I walked and sobbed and at one point started dry heaving, but I made it home and went straight to the essential oil pantry (the cool, dark, place with I keep my oils).  

Intense moments of pain and suffering have always emerged as the biggest opportunity to crash test dummy myself, so I best guessed 

• Parasympathetic™ to calm my nervous system with
• Heart™ to try to pivot my sadness into love and gratitude for the 12 years I did get to enjoy with Max and all the positive memories from those years
• Lung Support™ to release my grief 

Releasing Emotional Patterns with Essential Oils

These blends helped me calm down enough to realize that I needed more powerful tools or strategies to tackle this level of emotional pain.  I remembered an old book on releasing emotional patterns with essential oils – that I ironically stored on a bookshelf in Max’s old room – and set out to learn more.

The first page of the book details how emotions can either be released or stored and that stored emotions can either be:

• Stuffed, as I had been doing which leads to blocked energy and pain or 
• Redirected and channeled into positive experiences, which I had also been trying to do.  

But, let’s be honest, I had mostly been avoiding situations that could cause emotional pain because I already had too much to handle.  What I did not know how to do was redirect and release my negative emotional patterns, which I want to share more about.

My most exciting discovery is different acupressure points which assist in releasing emotional patterns

Essential Oils To Release Or Change Emotional Patterns

I have been writing a great deal about how smell accesses the emotional limbic brain.

In particular, the chemical constituent Sesquiterpenes, found in high levels in essential oils such as Frankincense and Sandalwood, are thought to help to increase the oxygen in the limbic system which in turn “unlocks” the DNA and allows emotional baggage to be released from cellular memory.  Research on intergenerational trauma has found that emotions can be encoded within the DNA of the cells and passed on from generation to generation. 

Emotions themselves are stored in the body in your organs, glands, and systems.  According to the book Releasing Emotional Patterns with Essential Oils, “Feelings are taken in through the chakras, or energy centers along the midline of the body, and then fed into the meridian system, which consists of energy channels that run over and through the body. Since each organ has a vibrational frequency, as do emotions, the emotions will settle in an area with a corresponding frequency. Disease occurs when the body’s vibrational frequency drops below a certain point. Essential oils can raise the body’s frequency, and therapeutic grade (medicinal quality) oils are able to do this because they vibrate at a high frequency and transfer that frequency to the body.”

The book notes that “emotional patterns are fear-based survival responses.”  To be safe as a child, you had to control your emotions.  If you felt unsafe expressing feelings, you may have had to suppress and internalize them or find another outlet. As a child, you may have had limited resources, especially if your role models had poor ways of handling their own negative emotions. As a result, you may have learned the negative expression of an emotion, but not the positive side, let alone how to access it. 

Pain is usually the catalyst that inspires you to seek better ways of handling situations. For me, pain was induced by the trauma and resulting grief of losing my 12-year-old son Max in a car accident in 2018.  For you, pain might be induced through a physical or emotional trauma which then initiates an emotional pattern where:

• Emotional energy gets generated during real or perceived trauma, which enters the body and, if it is not released, gets stored in an organ or gland with the same vibrational energy. For example, anger is stored in the liver, fear is stored in the kidneys and grief is stored in the lungs.  Anything that bothers you can carry an emotional charge.  
• The memory of the trauma gets stored in the “emotional center” of the brain, known as the limbic system. 
• Your mind may create a belief and attach it to the emotional memory stored in the limbic brain. 
• This emotional response to trauma gets stored in the cellular memory throughout your body and becomes automatic, until you release it.  If you choose to ignore and suppress the feelings, the problem tends to magnify each time it presents itself.

Often, the emotional pain you are experiencing can feel like more than you are able to deal with, so you may block it off from your conscious awareness.  I often say that when I don’t know what to do, I do nothing.  And by doing nothing, I mean I stuff and ignore the painful feelings – perpetuating the problem instead of healing from it.

This is the how chronic illness can start.  You can only bury your emotions for so long.  Remember that emotions are stored in the body.  Over time unprocessed emotions build pressure, producing pain or disease in the area

Essential oils have been a powerful tool to help shift the emotional intensity without having to relive the unpleasant experience.

Clearing Emotional Patterns with Essential Oils

Essential oils can be powerful tools to help you clear emotional patterns from the body.  This is due, in part, to the fact that most emotions stem from either love or fear.  Essential oils can help regulate the fear response and activate heart coherence and feelings of love and gratitude which help ease the release of intense emotions like anger, sadness and grief.

Emotions stored in the glands and organs can be accessed through the the topical application of essential oils on acupuncture points, and the limbic system accessed through smell and the inhalation of essential oils. 

“Essential oils hold vibrational frequencies that can shift patterns. Using them on the acupuncture alarm points sends the frequency directly to the specific organ and smelling the oil releases the pattern from the limbic system of the brain, thus providing direct access to the body’s cellular memory,” according to Releasing Emotional Patterns with Essential Oils.

The book further notes that “Clearing deep-seated emotional patterns requires releasing held emotional patterns and replacing them with more positive responses.”  I outlined a protocol that combines essential oils, affirmations, and tapping with fingers on specific Chinese acupuncture meridians associated with key organs (Available Here). This combination helps release and repair emotional blocks, diminishing the pattern of the negative emotions and thoughts and replacing them with more positive options. This helps to balance the nervous system and enhance and open our energetic field for optimal healing and vibrant health.

Step 1: Shift Out of Fear with Parasympathetic™ 

Your Parasympathetic branch of the nervous system allows you to feel safe and less reactive to intense or toxic emotions, while the Sympathetic nervous system keeps your body, mind and heart in lockdown where it is more difficult to process and release emotions. Activating your parasympathetic nervous system may help to neutralize the emotional charge that keeps the intense emotions stuck in your body. 

Topically applying the Parasympathetic™ blend behind your earlobe on your mastoid bone helps to shift you out of emotional reactivity, allowing you to transmute and detoxify intense emotions with less difficulty and intensity.

Step 2: Heal your Heart with Heart™ 

Part of releasing negative emotions involves transmuting the negative perspective to the positive.  This is accomplished through your heart and raising the vibration of body into the heart emotions of joy, love and compassion.  When you increase your heart coherence, lower energies, like suppressed emotions, no longer resonate, allowing the body to more easily  release these feelings.  Stagnant anger, grief, sadness, judgement, low self-worth cannot exist in combination with coherent heart rhythm patterns. 

When you are in a state of fear or anger, your heartbeat reflects that negative energy through a chaotic heart rhythm known as an “incoherent heart rhythm pattern.”  Your heart then sends signals to your brain that influence the release of hormones that impact your mental and emotional experience. Incoherent heart rhythms inhibit higher cognitive functions such as attention, perception, memory and problem-solving that help support emotional detoxification.

Heart™ blend helps you activate heart coherence by energetically aligning your heart into coherence to help you focus on positive, peaceful, loving and harmonious thoughts and emotions. To use, simply apply 2-3 drops over the front of the heart (left side of chest).

Fascia Release™ also helps open up the space around your physical heart with fascia blend.  Releasing fascia constriction in the back of the body – specifically between the shoulder blades at the back on the heart – helps to physically release fascial constrictions and adhesions around the heart that may help open the heart for the healthy flow of emotional energy.

Step 3: Release the Specific Emotion

I formulated the Vibrant Blue Oils Emotion Balance line to help release specific emotions from your body’s cellular memory.  Deep seated emotions and their resulting thought patterns can drive a chronic stress response that interferes with your ability to heal.  Remember a body in stress cannot heal. In order to really heal, you need to address the problem at its root and help release outdated emotions and thought patterns driving the stress

The word emotion includes the word motion, signifying that emotions are meant for us to experience and move through.   When we lack the tools or the support to move through these emotions or thought patterns, they can get trapped in the body as concentrated and condensed fields of energy, often in the corresponding organ area, disrupting the body’s innate intelligence and energy flow.

That said, releasing those emotions and thought patterns can often help heal the associated organ. With this intention in mind, we are pleased to introduce the following emotion balance blends to help balance associated organs:

The following blends and affirmations can be used in this process:

These blends are designed support the gentle release of emotions. Oils are uniquely beneficial in helping to release emotions as the sense of smell links directly to the limbic lobe of the brain which stores and releases emotional trauma. Smell has a direct route to the limbic system and often can mobilize long forgotten memories and emotions.   Just as when we detoxify our livers, it is not enough simply mobilize the toxins. We need to ensure that they leave our field and replenish the depleted organs with nourishing food and energy.

Here’s how:

1. Identify and FEEL the EMOTION.  This brings it into conscious awareness.

2. Inhale deeply, smelling the essential oil while focusing on the positive side of the emotion or the positive expression of the emotion.

3. Topically apply the oil to the Emotional Accupressure points, above the eyes on the forehead.  You can also lay your hand over your forehead.

4. Focus on or say a positive affirmation that helps to shift the energy from the negative to positive. This allows you to move from an undesirable emotional state to a positive state.  

Remember all emotions come from either fear or love.  Positive affirmations – or phrases you say to your subconscious mind to support positive change –  allow you to reframe your experience and connect with the other side of the emotion from a mindset of choice and personal empowerment, not that of a victim. (more here).  When the negative emotion has lost its hold, it is easier for you to shift.  Continue breathing the oil until you feel the energy shift, 

The following affirmations can be used in combination with the following oils to help clear, release and reprogram emotional patterns in your body and replace them with the desired response.  

• Bladder Support™ – “I comfortably and easily release the old and welcome the new into my life.  I am safe.”
• Calm™ – “I love and support myself and I trust that everything is going to be O.K. I am safe.”
• Kidney Support™ – “I dissolve my fear with ease.  I am safe.”
• Large Intestine™ -“I easily release that which I no longer need.  The past is over.  I am free.”
• Liver Support™ – “I am ready to release all hurt, resentment and angry feelings.”
• Lung Support™ -I release my grief with ease and take in the fullness of life.
• Small Intestine™ –  I digest life with ease and trust myself and my judgement. I easily assimilate and absorb all that I need and release the past with joy.
• Spleen Support™ – I release worry and embrace balance. I love and approve of myself and trust the process of life to be there for me. I am safe. All is well.
• Thyroid Support™ – I express myself freely and creatively. I speak up for myself with ease 
• Uplift™ – I love and approve of myself. It is safe for me to reclaim my power to change.”

The most important element is your intention. Feel the feelings and focus on the affirmation to release the negative emotion and invite in the positive emotion you wish to program into your cells. For example, you might replace fear with safety, love or confidence. If you cannot think of anything specific, simply say “I deeply and completely love and accept myself.”

Doing the clearing procedure at night before you go to bed allows your subconscious to process the emotional patterns during your dream state.

Featured Oils:

References:

Наскоро претърпях доста болезнено предателство. От приятел, на когото вярвах и го подкрепях почти десетилетие.

Определено нож в сърдечния опит, който раздвижи не само болка и тъга, но и яснота.

Осъзнах, че съм забелязвал — но съм избрал да игнорирам — червени знамена в продължение на години, както в начина, по който този човек се отнасяше към другите, така и в начина, по който те се отнасяха към мен.

С други думи, бях позволил неуважително и подкопаващо поведение, като не отстоявах себе си или другите. И което е почти по-лошо, рационализирах и извинявах този човек, дори когато знаех в сърцето си, че греши.

Осъзнах, че не само бях предаден от този приятел, но бях предал и себе си, като мълчах и се опитвах да игнорирам и приемам поведение, което е просто неприемливо.

Необходими окончания

Докато се борех да обработя това предателство и как исках да отговоря на него, друг много скъп и подкрепящ приятел ми подари книгата Необходими окончаниякоето помага да разопаковате кога и как да се откажете от връзки, които ви спъват или ви нараняват, за да направите място за по-голямо щастие и успех.

Това е нещо като подход на Мари Кондо към взаимоотношенията.

Склонен съм да съм неблагосклонен към конфликти и съм избягвал този човек седмици наред от страх да не се справя зле с този потенциално необходим край. Този човек има много положителни черти и се е показал като добър приятел през годините. Но предателството наистина уби доверието и честно казано не виждам как мога да бъда във връзка с някого, на когото нямам доверие.

Заиграх се с идеята за поставяне на границино осъзнах, че за да продължа напред или с модифицирано приятелство, или с необходим край, трябваше да участвам в смел разговор.

Говоря повече за поставяне на граници и изяснявайки какво поведение ще приемете и какво не в отношенията си в тази публикация. В него отбелязвам, че „Когато не говорите за себе си, нито демонстрирате на другите, че имате граници, вие предавате на Вселената, че не цените себе си.“

Що се отнася до смелите разговори, те имат смисъл само ако другата страна желае или е в състояние да получи вашата обратна връзка и да промени поведението си. Ако приятел не може да се покаже по положителен начин, границите може да не са достатъчни. Вместо това подрязването – процесът на премахване на взаимоотношения, които или изтощават ограничените ви ресурси от време, енергия, емоции или пари, или в моя случай умишлено ви подкопават – може да е в ред.

Тук е книгата Необходими окончания върши отлична работа, като помага да се идентифицират 3 типа хора и как всеки тип реагира на обратната връзка, за да помогне да се определи дали една връзка може да бъде спасена или трябва да бъде съкратена.

Как различните типове личности получават обратна връзка

Ако вярвате, че сте отговорен и любящ човек, лесно е да предположите, че другите хора мислят като вас. Правех това предположение в продължение на години с моя приятел, което, честно казано, повлия на способността ми да виждам модел, който сега е напълно ясен.

Предполагах, че са добър човек. Предположих, че ги е грижа за мен и за другите хора и как действията им влияят на другите. Неприятната истина е, че не всеки поема отговорност или отговорност за себе си или се интересува как действията му засягат другите. За съжаление, някои може действително да се стремят да ви навредят, ако това служи на техния личен интерес или да намерят начини да оправдаят поведението си, когато са заседнали в начин на мислене, воден от право, ревност или конкуренция.

Необходими окончания вие предлагате това Характерът предсказва дали хората ще бъдат възприемчиви към промяна и обратна връзка. За тази цел книгата идентифицира три стила на поведение, които човек може да прояви в отговор на обратна връзка, и отбелязва, че не всички от тези стилове са отворени или готови да променят поведението си по начин, който е уважителен към вас или другите.

Има отговорни хора, безотговорни хора, и опасни хора и ще искате да се възползвате от различни стратегии при работа с всеки тип човек.

Отговорни хора Те се характеризират със способността си да поемат отговорност за действията си без извинения или обвинения. Отговорните хора са в състояние да слушат и да получават положителна обратна връзка, да признават и да се извиняват за всяко поведение, което може да е наранило другите, и те лесно включват обратна връзка и променят нежеланото поведение.

Безотговорни хора не могат да поемат отговорност за действията си. Вместо това те са склонни да виждат себе си като жертва, да се противопоставят на вашата обратна връзка или да заемат отбранителна позиция и минимизират проблема. Когато са притиснати относно поведението си, безотговорните хора ще се отклонят, ще се ядосат или ще се отбраняват, ще рационализират или ще измислят извинения за поведението си или ще прехвърлят вината върху някой друг (като вас – вината е ваша, че са се държали зле с вас). Те никога не са грешни или виновни за някакъв конфликт. Безотговорните хора се опитват да коригират истината, за да не се налага да се приспособяват към нея.

Не можете да говорите за проблеми с безотговорни хора, тъй като те никога няма да признаят ролята си в който и да е проблем. Вместо, Необходими окончания съветва да предприемете стъпки, за да защитите това, което е важно за вас, и да дадете ограничения, които спират съпътстващите щети от техния отказ да се променят или да наложат последствия, които ще ги накарат да почувстват болката от своя избор. Тези последствия изпълняват двойна функция – и двете съобщават, че вашите нужди са сериозни, и ви предпазват от хора, които не зачитат вашите граници. Например, можете да изберете да ограничите времето си с безотговорни хора, тъй като това едновременно ви предпазва, като ограничава излагането ви на тях, и силно съобщава, че е необходима промяна.

Опасни хора умишлено възнамеряват да наранят или навредят на другите с думите или действията си, за да получат това, което искат. Те може да ви завиждат, да се чувстват пренебрегнати, ревниви, конкурентни или просто да са нещастни в собствения си живот или обстоятелства и да излеят гнева си върху вас (т.е. да нараняват хора, да нараняват хора). Те може умишлено да внасят разногласия или активно да клюкарстват, да подкопават или да планират да унищожат вас или нещата, които имат значение за вас.

Нищо, което можете да направите, няма да промени поведението на опасните хора. Не можете да ги разсъждавате. Вместо това трябва да преминете в режим на самозащита, да прекратите връзката и да направите всичко възможно да се държите далеч от тях.

Етерични масла за справяне с предателство

Етеричните масла могат да ви помогнат да идентифицирате и поддържате здравословни умствени, физически и емоционални граници за себе си и за другите, като поддържат смели разговори и ви помагат да преодолеете собствените си емоционални реакции.

Предателството се дефинира като „наранено от умишлени действия на хора, на които имаме доверие“, а липсата на лоялност и реципрочност предизвиква набор от негативни емоции, включително тъга, скръб и разбито сърце.

Въпреки че ще трябва да реша проблема с приятеля в някакъв момент в близко бъдеще, първо трябва да обработя тези болезнени чувства в собственото си тяло. Етеричните масла са мощни инструменти, които ви помагат да преработите и обмислите връзката и предателството.

Използвах следните смеси от етерични масла, за да ми помогнат да преработя болезнените емоции, свързани с това предателство.

Сърце™ за Heartbreak

Колкото повече сте в контакт със сърцето си и какво желаете и не желаете, толкова по-лесно е да сте наясно какво ще допуснете и какво няма да допуснете в живота си.

The Сърце™ сместа е формулирана, за да балансира сърцето, за да поддържа, интегрира и нулира всички системи на тялото, включително умствена яснота, физическо здраве и емоционален баланс. Сърцето е бутонът за нулиране на нашето тяло. Чрез прилагане на Vibrant Blue Oils Сърце™ смесва се със сърцето, помага за връщането на баланса на сърцето и укрепва способността ни да разпознаваме това, от което сърцето се нуждае и желае.

Lung Support™ за скръбта

Чувствата на скръб, тъга, съжаление, загуба и разкаяние често се свързват с белите дробове. Белите дробове са подобни на гъба органи, разположени близо до гръбначния стълб от двете страни на сърцето. Те функционират като основен източник на жизнена енергия – транспортират кислород от атмосферата до капилярите, за да могат да насищат кръвта с кислород – както и важен канал за елиминиране – освобождавайки въглероден диоксид от кръвния поток в атмосферата.

Скръбта може да възпрепятства способността на белите дробове да приемат и да се отказват, възпрепятствайки тяхната функция на „поемане“ и „пускане“. Скръбта, която остава неразрешена, може да стане хронична и да създаде дисхармония в белите дробове, отслабвайки функцията на белите дробове за циркулиране на кислород в тялото. Когато функцията на белите дробове е нарушена, това води до задух, умора и чувство на меланхолия, подобно на това, което се изпитва при скръб. За съжаление много хронични респираторни заболявания и състояния се развиват след голяма загуба или тежка загуба.

Етеричните масла в Lung Support™ blend ми помогнаха да премина през и да преработя чувствата на тъга и дълбоко чувство на загуба заради това, което беше здрава реципрочна връзка толкова много години.

Liver Support™ за Гняв

Да отстоявате себе си и ценностите си с риск да обидите или нараните другите изисква смелост и може да предизвика чувство на страх и несигурност. Не е необичайно за други хора, които са се облагодетелствали от лошите ви граници, да отблъскват или нападат, когато се опитвате да внушите здрави граници и да се оттеглите от ангажиментите си към другите.

Те могат да използват обвинение, срам или вина в опит да ви манипулират и да подкопаят вашите граници.

Да се ​​противопоставите на тях може да ви се стори непосилно и страшно, но етеричните масла харесват Liver Support™ може да ви помогне да поставите някои граници и да възстановите силата на вашето време, енергия и психическо благополучие.

Ако непрекъснато позволявате на другите да ви казват какво да правите, когато това не е от полза за вас, може да започнете да се ядосвате и негодувате. Liver Support™ ви позволява да освободите гнева, вината и срама, които често се съхраняват на много дълбоко клетъчно ниво. Просто поставете бутилката под носа си и дишайте дълбоко, като вдишвате напълно маслото за 3 – 7 вдишвания, след това бавно издишвайте, докато умишлено освобождавате гнева. Помага ви да вдишате и да работите чрез емоцията. Ще разберете, че етеричното масло за обвинение работи, когато спрете да го миришете.

Можете също така да прилагате локално 2-3 капки от Liver Support™ над черния дроб (дясната страна на тялото под гърдата), за да помогнете да преодолеете и освободите гнева си. Можете също да го нанесете около глезените, тъй като това често е зона, в която имаме съпротива да продължим напред в живота и блокираме способността да получаваме радост и удоволствие. Започнете от задната част на глезена и нанесете под костта на глезена отпред и отзад под другата кост на глезена, като същевременно си позволите да освободите гнева си.

Small Intestine Support™ за здрави граници

На физическо ниво тънките черва играят критична роля в процеса на храносмилане, абсорбирайки и асимилирайки ключови хранителни вещества, като същевременно предотвратява навлизането на вредни патогени и токсини в тялото.

На емоционално ниво тънките черва играят подобна проницателна роля с емоциите, като помагат да се разберат преживяванията и да се определят здрави и подходящи взаимоотношения и граници.

Това също е област, в която можем да запазим дълбоки детски белези на отхвърляне, изоставяне или малтретиране; Негативните мисли, подхранвани от чувство на липса на самооценка, ниско самочувствие, самота, пренебрежение и тревоги за оцеляването и успеха, могат да попречат на способността ни да идентифицираме и поддържаме здравословни граници.

Small Intestine Support™ сместа поддържа здравословното функциониране на тънките черва, докато сортира и трансформира храна, чувства и идеи в полезни съставки за тялото/ума. Също така помага за коригиране на дисбаланси, когато сте прекалено съгласни с критиките, чувствата или мненията на другите за сметка на вашите собствени.

Малък IntesTine Support™ може да се помирише или да се нанесе около ушите. Можете да започнете от долната част на ухото от ушните миди и нежно да масажирате нагоре по външната страна на ухото, като удряте много от основните рефлексологични точки. Тази статия и диаграма показват конкретни точки на ушите за конкретни проблеми.

В заключение, знам, че решението за прекратяване на една връзка не е нещо, което някога трябва да бъде леко и е от решаващо значение да имате добри критерии, за да решите дали да продължите да поддържате връзка след предателство или не.

Надявам се, че тази публикация ви е дала сили с инструменти за самообслужване и оценка на другите, които ще ви помогнат да се подготвите за най-големия успех в живота и взаимоотношенията си.

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Siempre tengo frío.

Mantengo mi termostato a 74 grados y siento frío cuando baja de 72.

Durante mucho tiempo sospeché que mi glándula tiroides era la culpable de mi incapacidad para regular la temperatura corporal, pero sólo recientemente descubrí que el nervio vago y otros sistemas corporales que pueden ser respaldados por aceites esenciales desempeñan un papel clave en la termorregulación, el mecanismo biológico. responsable de mantener una temperatura corporal interna constante.

¿Qué es la termorregulación?

La termorregulación es un proceso homeostático que mantiene una temperatura corporal interna constante a pesar de los cambios en el entorno externo. Mantener la temperatura corporal dentro de un rango estrecho (alrededor de 98,6 °F (37 °C)) permite que las enzimas y las respuestas inmunitarias del cuerpo mantengan una funcionalidad adecuada.

Su cuerpo mantiene la temperatura mediante procesos físicos, incluida la sudoración para reducir la temperatura corporal, los escalofríos para aumentarla y la constricción o relajación de los vasos sanguíneos para cambiar el flujo sanguíneo.

Quizás sepas que la temperatura de tu cuerpo fluctúa a lo largo del día. Suele ser un poco más baja por la mañana y un poco más alta por la noche. Sin embargo, la temperatura corporal central tiende a bajar a su valor más bajo durante la segunda mitad del ciclo de sueño; Este punto bajo es uno de los principales marcadores de los ritmos circadianos.

El sistema termorregulador incluye el hipotálamo, el nervio vago, el sistema circulatorio, las glándulas sudoríparas y la piel.

Aceites esenciales para regular la temperatura.

Varios aceites esenciales ayudan a aumentar, disminuir o normalizar la temperatura corporal.

Se sabe que los aceites esenciales como el de menta y lavanda tienen un efecto refrescante en la piel y el cuerpo y pueden ayudar a reducir la temperatura corporal. El aceite esencial de menta, en particular, contiene el compuesto mentol, que se cree que contribuye a sus propiedades refrescantes naturales.

Tenía curiosidad sobre cómo el mentol ejerce su efecto refrescante y encontré algunas teorías. Uno sugiere que cuando el mentol se une a un receptor del frío, aumenta la concentración intracelular de calcio y produce el mismo estímulo neuronal que, por ejemplo, el contacto con agua fría. Entonces el cuerpo siente una sensación de frescor.

Otra hipótesis sugiere que el mentol provoca una sensación refrescante en la piel y las membranas mucosas. Por ejemplo, después de cepillarte los dientes, obtienes esa sensación de frescura mentolada. La sensación de frío se crea porque el mentol se une a los termorreceptores de la piel o las membranas mucosas. Estos termorreceptores están especializados para responder a estímulos de frío o calor y sentir la temperatura del ambiente.

De manera similar, los aceites esenciales calientes, incluidos los de clavo, canela, tomillo, orégano, eucalipto y romero, pueden activar los receptores de calor, elevando la temperatura corporal, mejorando la circulación y ayudando a inducir una sensación de calor, especialmente en las extremidades frías. Se cree que las moléculas de aceites esenciales se unen a un receptor de calor en la membrana mucosa y crean una sensación de calor. Por ejemplo, si comes alimentos calientes, como pimienta, puedes empezar a sudar.

Los aceites esenciales también pueden ayudar a mejorar la circulación al relajar los músculos lisos que recubren la sangre, mejorar la circulación y aumentar los niveles de oxígeno en el proceso. Se ha demostrado que los compuestos vegetales, incluida la esencia vegetal altamente concentrada que se encuentra en los aceites esenciales, ayudan a contraer las venas, estimulando el flujo sanguíneo y mejorando la «microcirculación», que es el flujo de sangre a través de los vasos más pequeños del cuerpo.

Específicamente, se ha demostrado que compuestos vegetales como los polifenoles y flavonoides mejoran el flujo sanguíneo. Los aceites esenciales de tomillo y albahaca son ricos en flavonoides. Los cítricos como las naranjas, los limones, la bergamota y los pomelos contienen numerosos flavonoides.

Cómo ¿Funciona la regulación de la temperatura en tu cuerpo?

Su sistema de control de temperatura incluye:

hipotálamo:

Los receptores de temperatura alrededor del cuerpo, llamados termorreceptores, identifican si su temperatura interna es demasiado fría o caliente.

El cuerpo tiene termorreceptores periféricos y centrales. Los termorreceptores periféricos están ubicados en la piel y detectan la temperatura superficial, mientras que los termorreceptores centrales están ubicados en las vísceras, la médula espinal y el hipotálamo y detectan la temperatura interna. Los cambios en la temperatura corporal activan estos termorreceptores, que transmiten la información al hipotálamo, que responde a la información que recibe de la sensación aferente para señalar la liberación de hormonas que cambian la temperatura corporal. Estas hormonas envían señales de regulación del calor a diferentes partes del cuerpo para que pueda aumentar o disminuir la temperatura corporal y devolverla al valor inicial.

Hipotálamo™ Está diseñado para equilibrar el hipotálamo y ayudar a regular el control de la temperatura. Cuando su hipotálamo funciona de manera óptima, la cascada de hormonas está equilibrada. Por ejemplo, su hipotálamo puede liberar hormonas tiroideas para aumentar su tasa metabólica y la posterior producción de calor. Asimismo, el centro motor primario del hipotálamo posterior hace que los músculos esqueléticos se contraigan y tiemblen, lo que aumenta la producción de calor. Por el contrario, el hipotálamo puede reducir la liberación de catecolaminas de las glándulas suprarrenales y las hormonas tiroideas, lo que resulta en una disminución de la tasa metabólica.

Si el hipotálamo puede enviar y recibir señales claramente, la regulación de la temperatura debería funcionar de manera óptima. Durante la menopausia, el hipotálamo, el centro de control del sistema endocrino, puede sobrecargarse, lo que provoca una desregulación de la temperatura, como sofocos.

Para reequilibrar el hipotálamo, aplicar 1 gota de Vibrant Blue Oils Hipotálamo™ en la frente, justo encima del tercer ojo (justo encima de la nariz, entre las cejas y la línea del cabello) hasta 6 veces al día. Para uso aromático, sostenga el frasco debajo de la nariz durante 3 o 4 inhalaciones.

Circulación™

Formulado para apoyar una circulación saludable para llevar sangre rica en oxígeno y nutrientes al cuerpo y al cerebro mientras transporta toxinas y desechos a los riñones y el hígado para su eliminación. El Circulación™ la mezcla contiene una fórmula patentada de aceites esenciales orgánicos y/o silvestres que trabajan sinérgicamente para apoyar la circulación y el flujo sanguíneo saludables al cuerpo y al cerebro, incluida la pimienta negra, que Ayuda a calentar el cuerpo y estimula la circulación sanguínea, aumentando el flujo sanguíneo y el calor. Esto ayuda a aumentar la absorción de nutrientes hasta tal punto que a menudo se agrega a los suplementos para mejorar la eficacia del suplemento.

Se ha descubierto que la pimienta negra y su compuesto activo piperina mejoran la circulación, aumentando el flujo sanguíneo al cuerpo, lo que ayuda a elevar la temperatura corporal. La mezcla también contiene ciprés, que puede ayudar a mejorar la circulación y estrechar los vasos sanguíneos, lo que facilita la estimulación del flujo sanguíneo.

Parasimpático™

El nervio vago puede afectar indirectamente a la regulación de la temperatura. Las investigaciones señalan que el nervio vago desempeña un vínculo fundamental en la regulación de la temperatura corporal al transmitir información a los órganos viscerales y regular numerosas funciones fisiológicas, incluidos los reflejos de calor viscerales.

Su nervio vago es una importante conexión bidireccional entre sus órganos viscerales y su cerebro. «Las aferencias vagales termosensibles pueden detectar cambios de temperatura en el tracto respiratorio y el tracto gastrointestinal y mediar en los reflejos térmicos viscerales».

El nervio vago ayuda a generar calor activando el sistema nervioso simpático, lo que provoca vasoconstricción de las arteriolas de la piel, lo que hace que la sangre pase por alto la piel y reduzca la pérdida de calor. Además, las glándulas suprarrenales liberan catecolaminas, como la epinefrina y la norepinefrina, que aumentan la tasa metabólica y la producción de calor. Para disipar el calor y el frío, el nervio vago puede activar las fibras colinérgicas simpáticas que inervan las glándulas sudoríparas, lo que provoca un aumento de la sudoración y la pérdida de calor, así como la inhibición de la actividad simpática en los vasos sanguíneos de la piel, lo que hace que la sangre se dirija a la piel y aumente pérdida de calor

Se cree que un nervio vago sano y tonificado ayuda a mediar estas respuestas fisiológicas a los cambios de temperatura en el cuerpo, junto con los mecanismos reguladores básicos que respaldan una regulación saludable de la temperatura.

La mezcla Parasympathetic™ ayuda a estimular el nervio vago y activar el sistema nervioso parasimpático para favorecer una regulación saludable de la temperatura. Aplicar Parasimpático™ sobre el nervio vago (detrás de la aurícula del hueso mastoideo) para activar el nervio vago.

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Your limbic system works with your nervous system to help you regulate your emotions, like anger and fear.  

In fact, your limbic system is often referred to as the “emotional nervous system” as it helps control your emotion health in combination with your parasympathetic nervous system.

As you may know, your limbic system is a complex set of brain structures that helps you regulate emotional and social processing, as well as learning, motivation, and memory.

Your limbic system in wired to respond to sensory information – especially the sense of smell – making essential oils a powerful tool to help regulate your limbic system.

What Does Your Limbic System Do?

The limbic system gathers and interprets information from the environment through sensory information and decides how your body should respond to external stimuli. 

The limbic system is also involved in your response to stress, your emotional response to external events and your involuntary protective mechanisms (like the “fight or flight” response). It is particularly active when you are under stress or feeling unsafe or threatened.

More specifically, sensory information is carried to the hypothalamus, which then acts like the “regulator” of hormone control, communicating to other parts of the body by sending signals to the pituitary/thyroid/adrenal glands and helping the body maintain homeostasis.

Interactions between the hypothalamus and the rest of the limbic system influence the autonomic nervous system — specifically the sympathetic nervous system fight-flight-response and other emotional hyperarousal responses, including anxiety and fear. 

More specifically, your limbic system connects to the autonomic nervous system centers in your brainstem. 

A stressor or memory of a negative event activates connections between your amygdala and your brainstem sympathetic centers that increase heart rate, blood pressure, and muscle responsiveness. 

Your parasympathetic nervous system can help to dampen this physiologic response, functioning like a “vagal brake”.

The limbic system connections to your ANS strengthen or weaken depending upon the environment, stress, and other exposures.  This can cause threat mechanisms to overfire and distort your interpretation of sensory information, which can contribute to dysfunction and neurological disorganization.

What Is Your Limbic System?

Your limbic system consists of several interconnected areas of the brain that lie beneath the outer, wrinkly part of the brain and above the brain stem, including your:

Amygdala: All emotion is processed by your amygdala. When in senses danger, it sends messages to the body in the form of stress hormones (cortisol) and is intimately related to the autonomic nervous system’s sympathetic “fight or flight”. Fear conditioning is driven by an interplay between the hippocampus, amygdala, and prefrontal cortex. 

Hippocampus: Primarily involved with olfaction (smelling), consolidation of memory and creating new memories, and connecting those memories to smell, sound and emotion. Your hippocampus supports mood regulation, and can shut off the stress response when needed.  Failure of the hippocampus to modulate the amygdala’s activity can make it difficult to create a safe environment for incoming information or sensations, contributing to chronic anxiety.

Hypothalamus: Controls your body’s response to stress, helps you maintain a steady internal state (homeostasis), helps form and release hormones that control energy and mood. Your hypothalamus also links the pituitary gland (the “master” gland, which controls most of the endocrine system) to the nervous system.

Thalamus serves as the main relay station for information such as sensory and motor signals to and from the rest of the brain. It transforms sensory information into a more manageable form for higher brain functions. The thalamus also maintains alertness and directs your attention to sensory input. 

Olfactory cortex: Your olfactory system is unique among the sensory systems for having direct anatomical and functional links with the limbic system. Thus, olfactory stimuli – like the inhalation of essential oils – can have a strong effect on mood. 

Cingulate cortex: Integrates input from different areas of the limbic system, creating pathways for information and brain messages to travel across. It is also connected to memory, learning and emotional processing.

Symptoms of Limbic Dysfunction

Your limbic system can get “stuck” in a state of hypervigilance and over-reactivity where it categorizes non- threatening stimuli as threatening, triggering involuntary trauma patterns and contributing to distorted unconscious reactions, sensory perceptions and protective responses, including the following symptoms: 

• Unexplained Brain fog 
• Low energy or fatigue
• Chronic joint and/or muscle pain
• Heightened sensory perceptions, including smell, taste, light, sound or electromagnetic sensitivities
• Sensitive to perfumes, household cleaners, personal hygiene products, or other chemicals (i.e. immediate experience of  brain fog, fatigue, headache, nausea, or neurological symptoms)
• Inability to concentrate or focus 
• Anxiety and irritability or panic attacks
• Mood swings
• Depression
• Sleep-related issues
• Increased sensitivities to foods, medications or supplements
• Headaches
• Dwell on past negative events or expect negative outcomes
• Short-term memory problems

Over time, this state of hyper arousal can weaken the immune, endocrine and autonomic nervous systems and negatively impact our ability to rest, digest, detoxify and heal, stabilize our mood, and maintain motor and cognitive function.

In other words, Limbic System Impairment can sensitize the brain to a negative stress response and keep us stuck in a Sympathetic Dominant viscous cycle.

Essential Oils for the Limbic System

Inhaling essential oils is the fastest and most efficient way to create physiological or psychological balance in your limbic system.

It’s interesting to note that the limbic system was originally called the rhinencephalon (meaning ‘smell brain’) because it was thought to primarily involve the sense of smell.

This is because your sense of smell is key to survival!

Smell is often the first warning of safety or danger.  You smell food and water.  You smell predator odor and fire.

As noted above, your sense of smell has direct anatomical and functional access to the amygdala in the limbic lobe of the brain which is physically located near the olfactory bulb.

In fact, on a physical level, only two synapses separate your amygdala from your olfactory nerve.  No other sensory system has this kind of direct and intense contact with the neural substrates of your brain’s emotional control center.  Your other four senses, including sound, sight, taste and touch must travel to other regions of the brain first, before reaching your limbic system.

Smell travels through your olfactory system to your hypothalamus by way of your amygdala.  When you smell an essential oil, it stimulates your hypothalamus to release hormones that trigger a rapid emotional response, directly impacting how you feel and how you function.

Your brain’s rapid response to smell based stimuli like essential oils is best explained by research which estimates your sense of smell to be 10,000 times more acute than your other senses. Once registered, scent stimuli travel more quickly to the brain than do either sight or sound.

Shifting your focus by engaging your senses – such as your sense of smell – also helps distract you out of an internal state of distress, thereby lessening its intensity and the intensity of your responses to others.  This allows you to feel safe and access more possibilities and options.

How to Calm the Limbic System with Oils

Olfactory stimulation with essential oils can be used to reset the volume of threat perception, and help calm the over-firing of your limbic system.

I am excited to share 3 powerful blend that can be used in combination to help rewire neural circuits in your limbic system and calm an over-active stress response.

Heart™

Your heart integrates and balances your physical, emotional, and mental body.

More specifically, your heart’s electromagnetic field affects your limbic system, which is responsible for emotions.  This is because your brain’s rhythms entrain with your heart’s rhythm. 

Your heart actually sends more communication to your brain than the other way around.

Coherence is the state when the heart, mind, and emotions are in energetic alignment.  Positive emotions such as compassion and love generate a harmonious pattern in your heart’s rhythm, leading to coherence and greater emotional regulation. 

It’s interesting that your amygdala is primarily involved in information processing related to negative emotions, whereas positive emotions tend to reduce amygdala activation, according to The neurobiology of positive emotions.

Heart™ blend helps increase your heart’s harmony and activate heart coherence.

With an electrical component about 60 times greater and an electromagnetic energy field 5000 times greater than the brain’s, the heart has a significant influence on the body down to the cellular level. 

Your heart plays host to 40,000 sensory neurons through which it communicates to the brain and the body, producing and releasing hormones into the blood stream.

Heart™ blend was designed to harmonize these chemical and electrical signals to help support an optimal state of heart coherence that allows you to detoxify and transmute intense emotions.  To use it, simply apply 2-3 drops over the front of the heart (left side of chest).

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Parasympathetic™

Quieting down your nervous system allows your limbic system to quiet down.

Calming your amygdala’s hair-trigger reaction helps to calm and reduce emotional outbursts.  This begins by helping you feel safe.  

Your sympathetic “fight or flight” state turns on when survival and safety are threatened.  

When you are able to shift out of the high alert state into a mental and emotional space of safety, your mind can relax, allowing you to calm your emotional state and quiet limbic system overwhelm.

Activating your parasympathetic “rest and digest” state can enhance your sense of safety.  

Applying Parasympathetic™ behind your earlobe on your mastoid bone helps stimulate your vagus nerve which triggers your “rest and digest” parasympathetic state, alerting your body and your amygdala that the danger has passed so it can stop over reacting.

Research titled “Fear and anxiety take a double hit from vagal nerve stimulation” documents how activating your parasympathetic nervous system via vagus nerve stimulation helps to quell an overactive limbic system.

Your vagus nerve helps your autonomic nervous system communicate fear and danger information to your amygdala. In simple terms, the vagus nerve detects the release of the stress hormone epinephrine which acts as a “something important just happened” signal that is communicated to other fear centers in the brain. Activation or inhibition of this signal “can enhance or decrease the rate of fear extinction.  By enhancing fear extinction while quelling anxiety, vagal stimulation delivers a double hit against maladaptive fear. This may make vagal stimulation particularly useful in cases where severe anxiety prevents effective exposure therapy.”

What’s more, when stimulated, your vagus nerve releases the neurotransmitter Acetylcholine which calms anxiety by relaxing the smooth muscles in your artery walls, dilating the arteries, and slowing your heartbeat. It also may enhance memory consolidation and enhancement which may help with the processing of fear memories, which helps inhibit exaggerated fear expression, like anxiety. (read more about Acetylcholine).

Applying Parasympathetic™ behind your earlobe on your mastoid bone helps you drop into the “rest and digest” parasympathetic state, alerting your body and your amygdala that the danger has passed so it can stop over reacting.

Hypothalamus™

While the amygdala is the emotion center of the brain, the hypothalamus is charge of your ability to change your emotional response and emotional reactivity.  Supporting your hypothalamus can often help fix downstream hormonal and endocrine issues that impact your emotional reactivity, especially related to anxiety.  The direct pathway from the olfactory system to the hypothalamus can also be used to help return your hypothalamus to balance.

Essential oils may help balance the various feedback loops to regulate the production of the stress hormone cortisol, including the hypothalamus and the adrenal glands – part of the Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis – to ensure that they are not chronically activated or dysfunctioning which can lead to chronically elevated cortisol levels.

In response to stress, your hypothalamus triggers your adrenal glands to release the stress hormone cortisol until your hormones reach the levels that your body needs, and then a series of chemical reactions known as the negative feedback loop begins to switch them off.  In other words, when the hypothalamus receives the signal that cortisol levels in the body are sufficient, it signals the adrenals to stop releasing cortisol.  So long as the hypothalamus is able to correctly send and receive signals, cortisol levels in the body should return to balance.

Hypothalamus™ blend contains a proprietary blend of organic essential oils, including  Patchouli and Frankincense, which are high in sesquiterpenes.  Research shows that sesquiterpenes are able to cross the blood-brain barrier and have been found to increase oxygen around receptor sites near the hypothalamus because they are so small they are capable of penetrating deeply into your brain and carrying oxygen molecules into your brain tissue to help your brain heal. Sesquiterpenes also specifically have an effect on our emotional center in the hypothalamus, helping us remain calm and balanced.

To help return the hypothalamus and the amygdala to the balance, apply 1 drop of Hypothalamus™ to the forehead right above the third eye (right above the nose between eyebrows and hair line) up to 6 times daily.

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Inhalation of essential oils is one of the fastest, direct and most effective ways to shift your health.

Research on Therapeutic Effects and Mechanisms of Essential Oils found that “Inhalation is the fastest and most effective way to induce responses in the central nervous system within a few seconds, altering blood flow in the body by controlling circulation through the autonomous nervous system.”

Your sense of smell, which is part of the olfactory system, is one of the most powerful channels into the body.  In fact, your olfactory system is unique among the sensory systems for having direct anatomical and functional access into the limbic lobe of the brain which is physically located near the olfactory bulb.

This allows inhaled essential oils to easily access areas of the brain that help shift your physical health and your mood.

And it happens quickly!

Research shows that the entire process from the initial inhalation of an essential oil to a corresponding response in the body can happen in a matter of seconds. your sense of smell is thought to be 10,000 times more acute than your other senses. Once registered, scent stimuli travel more quickly to the brain than do either sight or sound.

This is because your sense of smell is key to survival!

Smell is often the first warning of safety or danger.  You smell food and water.  You smell predator odor and fire.

Research elaborates that “intact sense of smell is critical for evaluating the safety of ingestible substances, assessing impending danger, and recognizing social relationships.”

What’s more, your sense of smell bypasses absorption in the gut, where there are usually many roadblocks due to modern terrain issues like inflammation and leaky gut.  Similarly, research reveals that the digestive channel chemically alters the chemical constituents of essential oils, which undergo significant biotransformation after being absorbed in the digestive system which alters bioavailability and has been observed to alter their effects on health.

How Inhalation Allows Access to the Brain

One of the challenges of healing is getting the right remedy into the right area of the body.  For example, it is really hard to get remedies into the brain because the blood brain barrier acts as a highly selective, protective shield that surrounds and protects your brain from potentially dangerous agents that could disturb brain function. The tight gaps between the cells of your blood-brain barrier, known as tight junctions, allow only super small, nano-sized molecules, fat-soluble molecules, and some gases to pass freely through the capillary wall and into brain tissue.

Essential oils are naturally the ideal chemical composition to pass through the blood-brain barrier, as the molecular components that make up essential oils are so small that they’re known as volatile and aromatic. Essential oil molecules are so small – approximately 40 million-trillion molecules in one drop – that they literally circulate in the air where our noses detect them as smell.

When inhaled through the nose, essential oils efficiently pass through the blood brain barrier in the area surrounding the olfactory nerve. A true blood-brain barrier is 8 cells in thickness. The number of cells which constitute the layer around the olfactory nerve is only 4 to 5 cells thick. Hence, it is very easy for the oils to pass straight through to the brain when breathed in through the nose.

Essential oils are also lipophilic (fat-friendly), allowing them to access and bind to cell membranes, which are also comprised primarily of fat.   Research confirms that “the soluble molecules present in essential oil vapor carried with the inhaled air can cross the air–blood barrier. A majority of the essential oil components are lipophilic and hydrophobic in nature (lipid soluble terpene family). Lipophilic EO components can cross the blood–brain barrier and transport healing remedies to the nervous system.”

Your cellular membranes serve as a semi permeable, protective barrier, regulating what enters and leaves your cell.  Surface receptors that line the outside of your cell membranes allow your cells to receive chemical signals from your brain and your body.  When the appropriate chemical messenger binds with these receptors, it initiates a cascade of chemical changes inside your cellular membrane, triggering modifications in the function of the cell.

The selectively permeable nature of your cellular membrane relies on specialized transport mechanisms to help permeate your cell membrane and move into the cell without being limited by the cell’s transport machinery.   This process is known as passive diffusion and only a few substances – including gases like oxygen, nutrients, alcohol, some drugs (like anesthetics) and essential oils — are capable of moving in this way.   For example, the cells of your blood-brain barrier actively transport metabolic products such as glucose across the barrier in response to signals on their receptor sites.

Research demonstrates that when essential oils can interact with the receptor sites on your cellular membranes, influencing the excitatory and inhibitory effects on your brain’s chemical messengers.  It is believed that the compatibility of chemical composition allows essential oils to bind to and modulate cell receptors and transporters. This is because, like your brain cells, your cellular membranes are composed of lipids. Essential oils are lipid soluble and small, allowing them to directly traverse your cellular membrane.

This is one reason that short chain fatty acids help heal inflammation – the fatty acids are composed of lipids so they can actually access the cell membrane.  Essential oils have the same chemical composition and work in the same way! They support the normal electrical functioning of your brain and nervous system.

This makes essential oils especially helpful when your cells are compromised in their ability to efficiently pass substances across its membrane. Your cells can’t repair without the proper exchange of nutrients, but they cannot get the proper nutrients to repair and heal because membrane transport mechanisms are suboptimal. Essential oils have the ability to influence cells even when there is physiologic compromise such as during times of poor nutrition or environmental threats.

When inhaled, essential oils have been found to “stimulate the olfactory, respiratory, and gastrointestinal systems, and release endorphins to initiate a feeling of well-being and an analgesic effect”, according to research on Clinical Aromatherapy.

The Physical Process of Inhalation (Olfaction)

The process of olfaction involves the conversion of a chemical stimulus, an odorant, into an electrical signal sent to the brain for interpretation.

I have been trying to unpack the exact physical process and areas of the brain involved in smell to help explain how, when inhaled, essential oils travel through the nasal passageways into the brain.

Research on the Therapeutic Effect and Mechanisms of Essential Oils in Mood Disorders: Interaction between the Nervous and Respiratory Systems found three potential mechanisms of actions that enable essential oils to travel to the brain and influence brain functioning:

1) Nasal olfactory chemoreceptors (receptor cells found within the nasal cavity) are activated, setting off a cascade of olfactory signals within your brain.  Aromatic molecules contained within essential oils “travel through the interior of the nasal passage where the endothelium in the inner lining is thin and located close to the brain, allowing essential oil molecules to readily enter the local circulation and the brain.

A particular odorant can activate sensors in your nasal cavity, known as olfactory receptor cells, which have specialized cilia extensions. The cilia trap odor molecules as they pass across the epithelial surface. Information about the molecules is then transmitted via electrophysical signals which then stimulate the target regions in the brain.  Each receptor expresses a specific type of odorant reception which is how different odors can be identified and differentiated, according to research on The physiology of taste and smell: how and why we sense flavors.

Here’s how it works:

• The volatile molecules in EOs enter your olfactory system through the nasal cavity which leads to the olfactory lobe located close to the brain. The olfactory lobe is connected to several brain areas, including the amygdala (which processes the emotional response and the controls scent intensity), hypothalamus (which secretes hormones in responds to incoming sensory information) and hippocampus (which plays a role in odor memory formation).
• When you breathe in essential oils, Odorant molecules within the nasal passages signal receptors on the primary cilia of olfactory sensory neurons. Each neuron expresses a single type of protein receptor on these dendritic extensions.
• This activates the sensory neurons present in the olfactory mucosa, which deliver the signals to the limbic system and central nervous system.
• These signals help to modulate specific physiological responses involving mood and behavioral actions (emotion and cognition), hormone production, regulation of body temperature, digestive reactions, memory, stress responses, sedation, sex stimulation, blood pressure, and heart rate.

2) Direct penetration of EO molecules via the olfactory nerve into connected brain areas either by extracellular or by intracellular transport mechanisms. 

• Intracellular mechanism: When essential oils directly pass through the neuronal pathway in the olfactory lobe and are transmitted to the brain. The molecules bind with the olfactory receptor surface of the neurons and initiate receptor-mediated endocytosis (cells take in substances present outside the cell body by engulfing them in a vesicle which reopens inside the cell and the substance becomes a part of the cytoplasm).
• Extracellular transport mechanism: When essential oil molecules pass through the paracellular cleft between the olfactory sensory neuron and supporting cells and enter the connective tissue through fluid and fascia movement.  From the connective tissue, the essential oils are further transported through the blood–brain barrier and blood–cerebrospinal fluid barrier to spread into different regions in the brain where they interact with the neurotransmitter receptors – including GABA, serotonin and dopamine –  and produce anxiolytic and antidepressant effects, according the research on the Therapeutic Effect and Mechanisms of Essential Oils in Mood Disorders: Interaction between the Nervous and Respiratory Systems

3) Absorption into alveolar blood circulation: Post inhalation, essential oils can travel through the respiratory system involving gaseous exchange via diffusion into the blood circulation in the alveoli, also known as the air-containing compartments of the lungs.  Inhaled essential oils travel through the respiratory tract, enter the lungs, and reach the alveolar sacs where the gaseous exchange (of oxygen and carbon dioxide) takes place between the cells of the alveoli and blood cells in the capillaries.  Oxygen passively flows from the air inside the alveoli into the blood in the alveolar capillaries, carrying inhaled essential oils molecules with it, while carbon dioxide passively flows in the opposite direction.  Simultaneously, some essential oil molecules are also absorbed by the inner mucous linings of the respiratory tract, bronchi, and bronchioles.  Deep breathing tends to increase the quantity of any essential oil components absorbed into the body by this route. 

My Favorite Essential Oils to Improve Brain Function

As noted above, inhalation of essential oils can enhance blood flow, including blood flow to the brain with helps support a heathy flow of oxygen to the brain and enhance brain function.

Inhaling Circulation™ blend helps support healthy circulation to deliver oxygen and nutrient rich blood to the body and the brain. The brain is the most vertical tissue in the body with the smallest blood vessels that are furthest from the heart. It is consistently dealing with the forces of gravity due to its vertical position.

Inhalation or topical application of Circulation™ blend may help to increase circulation and blood flow to the brain.

Essential oils may help improve circulation by relaxing the smooth muscles that line the blood vessels and improving the health of the blood vessels.  This helps more blood circulate through them, improving your circulation and increasing brain oxygen levels in the process.

Plant compounds, including the highly concentrated essence of plants found in essential oils,  have been shown to help the veins contract, stimulating blood flow and enhance “brain microcirculation,” which is the flow of blood through the body’s smallest vessels.  

Circulation™ blend in particular contains Black Pepper essential oil, which has been found to enhance circulation, increasing blood flow to your digestive system which helps boost nutrient absorption, so much so that it is often added supplement formulations to enhance the effectiveness of the supplement. 

Apply 2- 3 drops on the sides or back of the neck, over the left clavicle, on the wrists or ankles to promote circulation and greatly accelerate the healing process.

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Your body stores toxic emotions along with physical toxins – like metals, mold and pathogens.  When you mobilize physical toxins, it is common to mobilize emotional toxins as well.  If you are unable to process and release emotional toxins, it can impede the progress of your physical detox.

Research on the Health-promoting and health-damaging effects of emotions found that unprocessed negative emotions “appear to be associated and/or promote disease and ill-health.”  “The health-deleterious impact of negative emotion” – like anger, fear, sadness, grief, anxiety, and depression – were “implicated in a full panorama of diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer, to arthritis, and diabetes and the common cold.”

This likely has to do with the fact that emotions activate your “fight or flight” stress response and unprocessed emotions are always running in the background keeping your sympathetic nervous system on high alert even when no physical danger is present.

The word emotion is derived from the Latin word exmovere, which means to move out, agitate or excite.  The English word “motion” is also derived when this word.  When emotions get stirred up, they trigger movement or readiness for action which, in turn, activates stress hormones and alters brain activity.  

Left unprocessed, these negative emotions influence your thoughts and your behavior and ultimately your health.

What is an Emotional Detox?

When you begin to release toxins from your tissues, you may release both physical toxins, like mold, metals and biological waste, along with emotional toxins, including emotions that you may not have been able to process during periods of intense trauma, like anger, fear, grief and sadness.

You may not realize that your emotions produce physical energy and when you release them you may feel physical detoxification symptoms (like nausea, fatigue, flu-like symptoms, headache, joint and muscle pain) along with emotional symptoms (like sadness or anger), in addition to possibly unleashing memories surrounding the original unprocessed trauma.

These stuck emotions are similar to physical toxins in that they can contribute to stagnation and compromise the function of your cells, tissues and organs.

Certain organ systems are thought to have a greater affinity for certain emotions.  According to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) trapped emotions vibrate at specific frequencies that correlate with and impact the function of specific organs.  For example. anger is believed to correlate with your liver, fear with your kidneys and grief with your lungs.

What Role Do Emotions Play?

Emotions are in fact energy that prompt and organize you for action.  This energy resonates at specific vibrational frequencies and serves as a warning system to alert you to danger.  

When a particular emotion is triggered, your whole body goes on a sort of alert to be ready for action related to that emotion.  For example, anger can organize you mentally and physiologically to become aggressive.  Fear helps you prepare to flee by triggering fear-based thoughts to prime your body for safety.

According to the book, Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life, emotions can also:

• Prompt and organize you for action
• Provide important information about what’s going on in a situation (especially social situations)
• Motivate you (anger in particular is very motivating)
• Help you with communication with others
• Can help you become adaptive.

Essential oils can help you move emotion through the body to prevent and reverse disease.

shift to more positive emotions and release emotions that may be stored or trapped in your body.

What is Really Happening When You Detoxify Emotions?

Detoxifying emotions is really just helping to transmute and release the emotions that you either do not want to feel or don’t know how to process so you suppress them.

When you don’t transmute or work through your emotions, your body continues experiencing those emotions even when you’re not thinking about them.  Your body is so good at protecting you that you may even dissociate from these painful emotions (so you don’t actively experience but they still run on repeat in the background, contributing the fight or flight response). 

Just like a physical detoxification, and emotional detoxification is a multi-step process:

Phase one: In physical detox, phase one neutralizes toxins so they can then be excreted or easily removed from the body.  For an emotional detox, you similarly need to neutralize the intensity and toxicity of the emotion through the practice of nervous system regulation and heart coherence.

Phase two:   In physical detoxification, phase 2 is where the liver attaches another molecule to the “intermediate toxin” to render is less harmful. Toxic emotions can get wired into your organs and your nervous system.  Essential oils can be used to help you release the specific unprocessed energy from the emotional toxicity from your organs and tissues.

Essential Oils for Emotional Detox

Essential oils can help you mobilize, process, transmute and integrate stuck emotional energy and re-create nervous system and heart coherence within your body.  

The key to releasing negative emotions is love, compassion and empathy, both for yourself and for others involved in the situation.   If someone hurt or betrayed you, you may stay stuck in a place of anger at that person or fear of future interactions.  These emotions dysregulate your nervous system, throwing you into a sympathetic dominant state, and take you out of heart coherence.  

Essential oils are powerful tools to help you embrace positive emotions and sort through more challenging emotions.  Sadly, positive thinking alone cannot override your fight or flight nervous system.  

But your sense of smell (used to inhale essential oils) has direct access to the emotional center of your brain that controls your hormones and influences your emotions and your mood, known as your limbic system.  

On a physical level, only two synapses separate your amygdala from your olfactory nerve.  No other sensory system has this kind of direct and intense contact with the neural substrates of your brain’s emotional control center.  Your other four senses, including sound, sight, taste and touch must travel to other regions of the brain first, before reaching your limbic system.

You can use this direct physiological access to rewire your physiology and detoxify emotions.

The inhalation and topical application of essential oils work with your natural physiology to support an emotional detox!

Essential Oils for Phase One of Emotional Detox

The following essential oil blends can be used to help support nervous system regulation and heart coherence to neutralize the intensity and toxicity and help to transmute the emotion for easier detoxification.

Parasympathetic™ 

Your Parasympathetic branch of the nervous system allows you to feel safe and less reactive to intense or toxic emotions.

Topically applying the Parasympathetic™ blend behind your earlobe on your mastoid bone helps to shift you out of emotional reactivity, allowing you to transmute and detoxify intense emotions with less difficulty and intensity.

Activating your parasympathetic nervous system may help to neutralize the emotional charge that keeps the toxic emotion stuck in your body. Acknowledging your emotions from a mindful state allows you to observe your experience from a more detached, less emotional place which makes it easier to process, transmute and release.   You might physically feel the discharge or release.  For example, some clients report that they shiver or physically shake off emotions during this process.

Heart™

Your heart integrates and balances your physical, emotional, and mental body.

More specifically, your emotions are reflected in your heart rhythm patterns. When you are in a state of fear or anger, your heartbeat reflects that negative energy through a chaotic heart rhythm known as an “incoherent heart rhythm pattern.”

Your heart then sends signals to your brain that influence the release of hormones that impact your mental and emotional experience. Incoherent heart rhythms inhibit higher cognitive functions such as attention, perception, memory and problem-solving that help support emotional detoxification.

Conversely, when you’re experiencing positive emotions like love, joy, gratitude and compassion, you creating a state of heart coherence or “coherent heart rhythm patterns” that look smooth, ordered and stable. Coherent heart patterns help your body’s systems synchronize and work better, enhancing your ability to think clearly, learn, remember, reason and make healthy, thoughtful decisions – and detoxify emotions.

Heart™ blend helps you activate heart coherence by energetically aligning your heart into coherence to help you focus on positive, peaceful, loving and harmonious thoughts and emotions.

Your heart plays host to 40,000 sensory neurons through which it communicates to the brain and the body, producing and releasing hormones into the blood stream.

Heart™ blend was designed to harmonize these chemical and electrical signals to help support an optimal state of heart coherence that allows you to detoxify and transmute intense emotions.  To use it, simply apply 2-3 drops over the front of the heart (left side of chest).

During times of intense sadness, use as often as is needed (every 20 -30 minutes).  During times of normal stress, use 2-3 times daily to support heart coherence and emotional detox.

Fascia Release™

The issues are in the tissues, and before you can begin to unpack your blocked or stuck heart energy, you need to open up the space around your physical heart with fascia blend.

Releasing fascia constriction in the back of the body – specifically between the shoulder blades at the back on the heart – helps to physically release fascial constrictions and adhesions around the heart that may help open the heart for the healthy flow of emotional energy.

When you experience stress or heartbreak, part of you is resistance, which triggers you to physically contract, constrict, or pull away from a physical danger, a negative thought or an emotional aversion.  In the process, you constrict and physically guard your heart in preparation for attack.  When you do this, you internalize the fear without release or recovery.  In short, energy doesn’t flow and your body constricts – which locks the stress in your body.

Fascia Release™ may help “unwind” your fascia and emotionally signal your body that you’re “safe” and physically remove restrictions and physical tension in your muscles and connective tissue known as a protective layer or “armoring”,  which will not release physically or emotionally until you know that you are safe.

Topically applying Fascia Release™ over the physical heart – with focused application and both above on the clavicle bones in sweeping outward motions and in a gentle vertical caress from your throat and the sides of your neck down over and below the heart– opens the space to allow energy and emotions to flow down and out of your system.  You can also apply over the back of your heart.  This allows the fascia and muscles surrounding the heart to help release toxic emotions, like anger and sadness.

Essential Oils for Phase Two of Emotional Detox

The following essential oil blends can be used to calm the intensity of emotionally toxic energies – including anger, fear, sadness and grief – to allow you to micro-dose emotional release and detoxification from your internal organs.

In Chinese medicine different emotions ‘gravitate’ to and are related with different organs. For example, the emotions relating to the liver are anger and frustration. When you start to physically detoxify your liver, it will often start to self-clear emotionally.  If you are unable to process the intensity of the emotions, it can impede your physical detoxification.

Essential oils and the sense of smell allow you to activate and release intense emotions and sensations over brief durations – providing a small amount of stimulus to engage your body in releasing the pain without flooding and shutting down your system or keeping you stuck in a state of emotional denial or suppression.  

Once you have calmed your nervous system, you can then begin to release specific emotions in small doses  – think eye dropper, not fire hose.  Intense feelings can be painful to release, so try to be compassionate and patient with yourself.  The only way out is through, but there is no rush to get there.

On a positive note, essential oils help you control the duration of challenging emotions, releasing just a small amount of the intensity at a time, much like you would slowly and carefully unscrew the top of a carbonated beverage to gently release excess carbonation and avoid an explosion.

I recommend inhaling essential oils and gently releasing intense emotions with your exhale.  Just place the bottle under your nose and breathe deeply, fully inhaling the oil for 3 – 7 breaths. It helps you breathe into and work through the emotion.  Try to extend the exhale and really allow yourself to release the painful emotion and any associated pain and intensity.

Liver Support™ for Anger

Anger can take many forms – from rage, to blame, frustration, hostility or irritation.

Anger that we don’t process and release can get stored in your liver, according to Chinese medicine.  Any stagnation, congestion or compromise in the healthy function of your liver allows toxic chemicals to build up and accumulate in your body.  Frustration, rage, and anger tend to build up when toxins build up.

Liver Support™ helps support the release of anger, including frequent irritation, impatience, resentment or frustration, being critical of yourself or others, control issues, an inability to express your feelings, feelings of not feeling heard, not feeling loved, not being recognized or appreciated.

Just place the bottle under your nose and breathe deeply, fully inhaling the oil for 3 – 7 breaths.  It helps you breathe into and work through the emotion.  You can also apply it around the ankles as this is often an area where we hold resistance to moving forward in life and block the ability to receive joy and pleasure.  Start at the back of the ankle and apply under the ankle bone around to the front and back under the other ankle bone, all while allowing yourself to release challenging emotions. 

Kidney Support™ for Fear

Fear is the emotional response to an immediate threat.  It’s defined as an unpleasant feeling that stems from perceived danger or threat. It plays an important role in survival as it alerts you to the presence of danger and allows assess our ability to deal with situations that are perceived as threatening.  It often triggers a fight or flight response to help ensure that you are prepared to effectively deal with threats in your environment.

Fear can also be triggered by anticipated threats or even our thoughts about potential dangers. When over-activated, it can feel like anxiety, nervousness, compulsiveness.

The goal isn’t to “overcome your fear” or turn it off. It’s to feel it, embrace it and learn from it.

In addition to the Parasympathetic™ blend, which helps to calm the fight or flight response, Kidney Support™, when applied over your kidneys (one inch up and out from belly button), back of neck, or around the outside of earlobes, can help dispel fear, and assist you in feeling safe.

Fear is often associated with your kidneys, two bean-shaped organs that sit on top of your adrenal glands and regulate the balance and flow of fluids in your body, by selectively filtering out or retaining various minerals and electrolytes.  In Chinese medicine, fear is associated with the water element, as water is symbolic of your unconscious, or that which you do not understand and therefore might fear.  These feelings of fear and paranoia can be held in your kidneys impairing function. Topically applying Kidney Support™ over your kidneys 2-3 times daily may help calm your fear response.

Lung Support™ for Sadness and Grief

Sadness is an emotional state characterized by feelings of disappointment, grief, hopelessness, disinterest, and dampened mood.  Sadness allows you to become aware of and release anything that no longer belongs to you or hurts you.

According to Chinese medicine, feelings of grief and loss are stored in your lungs where they can obstruct ability of your lungs to accept and relinquish, impeding their function of “taking in” and “letting go” of oxygen and feelings. Grief that remains unresolved can become chronic and create disharmony in the lungs, weakening the lung’s function of circulating oxygen around the body. Lung Support™ can help release these feelings of loss and support your ability to transport oxygen from the atmosphere into the capillaries so they can oxygenate blood – and eliminate carbon dioxide from the bloodstream into the atmosphere. Apply 2- 3 drops over the lungs, allowing yourself to deeply exhale any grief as you apply the blend.

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Restless legs syndrome (RLS) – a movement condition that causes a strong urge to move your legs when you’re resting – may be correlated to poor fluid flow.  

Essential oils that support healthy fluid flow – including healthy circulation, lymphatic drainage, and fascia release – may help prevent the stagnation of fluid that can contribute to crawling, tingling, or itching sensations in your legs at night that are often alleviated by movement which helps support fluid flow. 

While there is no known cause of Restless legs syndrome, common treatment options for RLS symptoms all seem to support healthy fluid flow, including vibration therapy, essential oils, compression devices, stretching exercises, and massages.

That fact, coupled with the overlap between symptoms of RLS and poor circulation – including symptoms of tingling, numbness, pins, and needles,  led me to research questioning Is restless legs syndrome an entirely neurological disorder? Which notes that “the occurrence of unpleasant sensations in the legs at night should be the change of blood flow dynamics. Acceleration of blood flow in the legs when lying down should stimulate nerve fibers that are closely located in the blood vessels. This hypothesis can explain many aspects of RLS, including symptoms as well as epidemiological findings. It is easy to explain why unpleasant sensations occur while lying down, and why relief is achieved by walking.

More specifically, lying down affects the regulation of blood flow dynamics in the extremities, especially the lower legs. Acceleration of blood flow in vessels would increase the pressure of blood on the vessel walls, and subtle changes in vessel tension or shape might stimulate nerve fibers that are in anatomical proximity to the vessels.

It should also be noted that RLS is correlated with an iron deficiency – which is related to blood flow as blood carries iron – and varicose veins, which are also associated with poor circulation. 

Varicose veins and chronic venous insufficiency are both associated with circulation problems in your legs. Both develop when tiny valves inside your veins stop working the way they’re supposed to, allowing blood to “pool up” or slow down. Over time, these tiny malfunctioning valves lead to vein problems and related symptoms, including RLS.  What’s more, a 1995 study published in Dermatologic Surgery found that 98 percent of RLS patients treated with a common therapy for varicose veins reported a reduction in RLS symptoms. 

What is restless legs syndrome?

Restless legs syndrome has been deemed a brain, nerve, and sleep condition that causes a strong, nearly irresistible urge to move your legs when you lie down or relax that can be relieved by movement. The urge to constantly move can interfere with your ability to relax or fall asleep.

Rest seems to trigger the onset of symptoms, with uncomfortable leg sensations starting or becoming worse when you’re sitting, lying down, or trying to relax.  Symptoms seem to improve with movement, such as walking or moving your legs which supports fluid flow.

Symptoms of Restless Legs Syndrome

Symptoms of restless legs syndrome include 

• Leg discomfort combined with constant urge to move legs to relieve pain and feelings of tingling.
• Repetitive cramping, twitching, jerking or kicking, or other involuntary leg movements during sleep.
• Uncomfortable sensations deep within the legs that may include:
  • Twitching
  • Tingling
  • “Creepy-crawly” sensations of bugs crawling under your skin 
  • Sensations of “pulling” or “tugging.” 
  • Crawling.
  • Itching.
  • Aching.
  • Burning.
  • Throbbing.
  • Prickling electrical-current sensations

RLS sensations worsen at night contributing to sleep disturbances and contributing to other problems like:

• Fatigue
• Daytime drowsiness
• Irritability and moodiness
• Difficulty concentrating and focusing
• Depression

Poor sleep can even cause weight gain, which can make underlying circulation problems worse. 

Blood Flow Restriction

Movement and gravity help to facilitate the flow of fluids in the body.   Therefore when you are lying flat or still, fluids – like blood and lymph – are not flowing.  Poor blood flow means poor oxygen delivery/nutrients into a cell and poor waste removal away from an injury and out of the body. This contributes to chronic pain and inflammation.

Cells need blood flow to function and heal. If they can’t get adequate blood flow they cannot heal. Tightness, tension, and poor circulation can create blood flow ‘chokepoints’. Poor blood flow points in larger arteries and veins block the flow in smaller ones causing symptoms, like the pain and inflammation experienced with RLS.  

Solutions that support fluid movement – such as physical movement and essential oil application – may help relieve the uncomfortable symptoms of restless legs syndrome by treating the underlying circulation problems that may lead to RLS. 

Essential Oils for Restless Legs Syndrome

Essential oils help keep plants healthy by moving vital fluids and energy. They transport water from the roots to the leaves and perform similar functions in your body, helping to move energy, flush toxins like viruses and heavy metals, and prevent stagnation.

They perform similar functions in your body, helping to move energy and prevent stagnation.  For example, essential oils help to vasodilate and open circulation pathways like those in your lymphatic and circulatory systems 

Natural compounds, like essential oils, have been shown to increase circulation and blood flow.  For example, essential oils can help relax and improve the health of your blood vessels.  This helps more blood circulate through them, improving your circulation and increasing brain oxygen levels in the process.

When the diameter of a vessel decreases by half, its resistance to flow becomes 16 times greater, contributing to stagnation and pain.  Helping to dilate the blood vessels helps to improve flow and calm pain and inflammation.

Research demonstrates that essential oils, like peppermint and lavender, can be beneficial for offering some relief from restless legs. Peppermint is known to help relieve muscular pain and spasms because it has a cooling effect along with its antispasmodic and analgesic properties.

Many essential oils have been found to have anesthetic properties, which helps explain their value in supporting circulation pathways. Science magazine reported that certain types of anesthetics, or substances that reduce sensitivity to pain, dramatically increase the space between your cells so fluid can flow more easily to help alleviate stagnation and inflammation. Studies have verified the sedative and anesthetic properties of essential oils like clove, eucalyptus, lavender, fennel, black pepper, and peppermint. For example, the administration of clove oil, which is high in the constituent eugenol, dramatically decreased the time required for the induction of anesthesia. Similarly, both fenchone, a constituent of fennel essential oil, and linalool, a naturally occurring constituent in lavender oil, have acute local analgesic effects.

Lavender has been known to slow down blood pressure and heart rate, while putting you in a relaxed state, both physically and mentally. 

A randomized 2014 clinical trial study on The Effect of Massage With Lavender Oil on Restless Legs Syndrome randomly assigned RLS patients to receive either massage using lavender oil or routine care for three weeks.  The RLS patients who received massage with lavender oil showed a “significant decrease” in RLS symptoms, leading to the conclusion that “Lavender oil massage was effective in improving RLS. It has no adverse effects and is practical and cost-effective. It is suggested to be used along with routine treatment of RLS.”

4 Essential Oils for Restless Legs Syndrome

Essential oils can help support healthy cellular function, regulating your body’s fluid levels and supporting cellular hydration, nerve impulses, blood pressure, and muscle contraction. More specifically, topically applying essential oils to specific points on your skin can activate fluid flow directly and quickly.

Circulation™ to Improve Blood Flow

Your circulatory system helps move fluid through your body.  Poor circulation can cause the veins in your legs to become swollen and painful.  Circulation™ blend is formulated to support healthy circulation to deliver oxygen and nutrient-rich blood to the body and the brain, while simultaneously carrying toxins and waste to the kidney and liver to be eliminated. Circulation™ blend contains Black Pepper essential oil, which has been found to enhance circulation, increasing blood flow to your digestive system which helps boost nutrient absorption, so much so that it is often added to supplement formulations to enhance the effectiveness of the supplement. Apply 2- 3 drops on the sides or back of the neck, over the left clavicle, and on the wrists or ankles to promote circulation and greatly accelerate the healing process.

Lymph™: to Support Lymphatic Circulation 

Your lymphatic system permeates every part of the body, serving as a complementary system to our circulatory system.  It draws fluid from the cells and carries it through a series of lymphatic ducts and nodes back to the circulatory system, establishing the link between the smallest blood vessels – the capillaries – and the cells.

The lymphatic system needs to be functioning optimally to support healthy circulation.  The lymphatic system is critical for moving metabolic waste, toxins, and infections out of the cells via the lymphatic fluid.  The lymphatic system also helps carry nutrients, oxygen, hormones, and other healing substances into every cell. 

To enhance lymphatic flow and drainage, generously apply Lymph™ around the sides of the neck, under the armpits, and along the bikini line.

Fascia Release™  to alleviate restrictions in connective tissue

Fascia promotes the movement of vital fluids such as blood, lymphatic, and interstitial fluid. By transporting nutrients, oxygen molecules, and waste products throughout the body, this supportive function allows for optimal tissue health along with respiration and nourishment of all cells of the body. Tightness or denseness of the fascia in the legs can create a structural obstruction to healthy fluid flow.  

In fact, patients suffering from RLS often demonstrate fascial restrictions in their feet and pelvic regions, trapping the legs in the middle of a connective tissue tug of war.  Helping to release fascia constrictions and densifications in the soft tissues of the body and legs may help diminish RLS symptoms.

Your fascia is connective tissue that surrounds your muscles, skin, organs, and bones, holding your entire body together.   Fascial densifications can form in the soft tissue of the legs and other areas of the body.

Very often, patients suffering from RLS demonstrate fascial restrictions in the feet and pelvic regions, which makes sense if you consider that the legs are then caught in the middle of a connective tissue tug-of-war. 

The Fascia Release™ blend helps to increase circulation and lymph flow which helps to move fluid out of the tissues of the legs and consequently, decrease swelling and relieve painful symptoms.

As you may know, fascia lies just below the skin so topically applying essential oils onto the skin allows for easy and immediate access to the fascia.  The skin is your largest organ and is relatively permeable to fat-soluble substances like essential oils.

Topical supplements play an important role in supporting fascia health and recovery from inflammation. For example, essential oils easily penetrate layers of restricted fascia, creating warmth to break up congestion, increasing circulation, lymphatic drainage unraveling constrictions, adhesions, and any fascial restriction that impede the movement of fluid in your tissues.

Essential oils soften the myofascial tissue, allowing the deep and constrained tissue to stretch and move as it is designed to function.  They also have an analgesic effect, relaxing the muscles and reducing pain.

Essential oils can be used to revitalize and de-stress the fascia and muscles, working quickly to break down inflamed, fibrous tissue, and removing toxins from the painful area.

The essential oils in the Fascia Release™ blend are uniquely formulated with penetrating essential oils, such as the combination of Angelica Root, Black Pepper, Cypress, Elemi, Frankincense, Lavender, Rose, Geranium, Vetiver, Litsea Cubeba, Rosemary and Ylang Ylang work synergistically to create warmth to break up congestion while relaxing tissues and releasing constriction and congestion and improving blood and lymphatic circulation.

Parasympathetic™ to Balance the Nervous System and Blood Pressure

An imbalance of the autonomic nervous system, known as Sympathetic dominance, can spike blood pressure and systemic inflammation which may contribute to RLS.  Parasympathetic ™ blend may help to activate the vagus nerve to trigger the Parasympathetic rest and digest state of the autonomic nervous system.  The vagus nerve travels down both sides of the neck and is most accessible behind the ear lobe on the mastoid bone.  Topically applying the Parasympathetic ™ blend on the vagus nerve behind the neck can help reset the autonomic nervous system for optimal function, allowing muscles to relax and setting the stage for the optimal detoxification state.

Anti-Inflammatory™ to Relieve Contraction and Inflammation of the connective tissue and fascia

To help relieve contraction and inflammation of the connective tissue and fascia, Anti-Inflammatory™ can be topically applied to the legs, bottoms of the feet, abdomen, and other areas of the body where tissue feels tight and contracted.  This blend contains several essential oils known for their anti-inflammatory properties.  It is designed to reduce inflammation and encourage regeneration of damaged or stressed cells and tissues that have been chronically inflamed or acutely inflamed.

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