As I unravel the intersection of the nervous system and the fascia, I have been learning more about energetic systems in the body, like the chakra system.
Often dismissed as ‘woo-woo,’ the chakras may help explain the link between fascia, the nervous system, and the physical and energetic bodies. As I have been working to clear my chakras and move out stuck or suppressed emotional energy, I have seen a considerable shift in my physical health. So considerable that I decided to break my code of silence and share what I understand about the chakra system and how it can be supported with essential oils.
The chakras—or energy fields within the body that are thought to help record and process your thoughts, feelings, and emotions—vibrate at different frequencies. Sometimes this energy can become stuck, or the chakra can pick up energy from an outside source. When a chakra is not balanced, it can affect the body’s physical region and affect particular aspects of your physical and emotional selves.
Essential oils also have their own individual frequencies and energetic properties, and can significantly assist in balancing the energetic body and the chakras.
What are Chakras?
Chakras are energy centers in the body—often visualized as spinning discs or ‘wheels‘ of energy— that are believed to mark places where energy lines intersect.
There are thought to be 114 Chakras within the body in total. Still, the seven main Chakras—located along the midline following the curvature of the spine—are said to be focused areas (or vortices) that support energy flow in the body, spanning from the base of the spine to the crown of the head.
Connected to these Chakras are energy channels called Nadis (which translates to Rivers in Sanskrit), with primary pathways (ida, pingala, and sushumna) paralleling the spine. These Nadis are the vessels through which energy flows, from the chakras to the rest of the body. Blockages in this flow can lead to physical, emotional, or spiritual issues.
The seven main chakras are thought to tie into both the physical body and your energetic body. While the physical body consists of mass and is visible, the invisible energetic body, which includes the mind and emotions, corresponds to specific physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual facets of your well-being.
Chakras and the Nervous System
Your chakra and nervous systems share similarities in structure and function, with the positions of the seven major chakras aligning along the spine and bearing an extraordinarily close resemblance to the nervous system.
The vagus nerve—the central nerve in the parasympathetic nervous system—weaves a seamless thread through the chakras. Its influence extends beyond regulating bodily functions, delving into emotions and mental states, similar to chakra-related emotions and mental states.
Sympathetic and parasympathetic nerve fibers converge at “plexuses” in the body cavities. These are big groups of nerve cells bundled together and branching outward toward the body organs or inward to relay messages to the cranial brain. Four of these main plexuses include the cardiac plexus, the celiac plexus, the superior hypogastric plexus, and the inferior hypogastric plexus. The position and connection to vital organs can also be correlated with the main chakras of the body.
Just as the spinal cord acts as the primary communication highway, nerves transmitting electrical signals between the brain and body, your chakra system facilitates energy flow and communication throughout the body. Similarly, the vagus nerve is thought to help regulate your physical and emotional states, and each chakra governs specific emotions and bodily functions.
Both systems bridge the mind-body connection, with the Chakra System tying physical organs and spiritual/emotional energy, and the Nervous System integrating sensory input and emotional responses via brain and nerve functions.
Finally, the nervous and chakra systems can be calming and energizing. For example, the sympathetic system (fight or flight) mirrors the “energizing” role of lower chakras. The parasympathetic system (rest and digest) resonates with the calming nature of the upper chakras, including the Heart chakra.
Chakras and Fascia
Chakras are believed to be intricately connected to fascia, the connective tissue that penetrates all regions of the body, surrounding muscles, organs, and nerves. Your fascia system is tightly linked to the meridian system and may correlate with specific energy channels. Fascia is a significant route for liquid chemistry and light energy movement throughout the body.
Fascia is thought to support the flow of energy through the subtle body, and blockages in the fascia can impact chakra flow and vice versa. Bands of fascia and chakras physically and energetically align with the chakra system, with the horizontal bands of fascia crossing the spine where the chakras are placed. Chakras are considered wheels of energy, centers where different physical, mental, and emotional awareness can be processed. This more subtle energetic flow is physically manifested with corresponding fascia and nerve endings.
Fascia is deeply connected to your emotional body and the energy generated by the emotional body. The fascia compartmentalizes every aspect of our body and allows for a superhighway of materials to move chemically and electrically through it. The center of these fascial connections is at the solar plexus—or the third chakra—a complex network of nerves in the upper abdomen impacting the diaphragm, liver, gallbladder, stomach, pancreas, adrenal glands, and transverse colon.
The fascia in this area forms a horizontal band that aligns with the solar plexus chakra location. From this center point, the fascia spreads out to every aspect of the body. When the fascial system dries up or there is scarring within it, information and materials need to be rerouted or may fail to arrive at all.
The multilayered fascial system separates your organs deep inside of you as the mesentery, then expands to separate your muscles on the outermost aspects of your body.
Similarly, blockages in the fascia can restrict energy flow through the chakras, and vice versa. For example, a blocked root chakra can manifest as physical issues in the legs and feet, while a restricted sacral chakra can affect emotions and reproductive health.
Every experience in life gets stored somewhere in the body. Your fascia is thought to hold emotional baggage. It has memory. It responds to stress, pain, and fear. When stress, grief, or trauma occurs, the fascia remembers it and tightens, almost like giving you and your internal bits a massive hug to calm you down. Sometimes, however, it forgets to let go, contributing to energetic and physical blockages.
Energetic blockages in the chakras can cause physical blockages and vice versa. If the fascia tissue is healthy and well-maintained, it may be easier to move through blockages, release emotional tension, and create a better energetic flow throughout the chakras and the body.
Essential Oils to Balance Chakras
Essential oils are believed to help balance the chakras, with the frequencies of different oils thought to correspond to and harmonize various energy centers. As the highly concentrated essence of plants, essential oils are thought to carry the plant’s unique energetic vibration. It is believed that these vibrations can resonate with and influence the energy of specific chakras, helping to open, balance, and promote healthy energy flow through the chakras.
Each chakra is associated with specific essential oils that resonate with its unique energetic properties and functions. For instance, grounding oils like vetiver and cedarwood are often used for the Root Chakra, while uplifting oils like Rose and Jasmine are used to clear blockages and support healthy energy flow for the Heart Chakra.
Moreover, your limbic system—the part of the brain associated with emotions, memory, and behavior—is directly connected to your sense of smell. When essential oils are inhaled, their aromatic molecules travel through the olfactory system and impact the limbic system, potentially influencing emotional and mental states related to chakra health.
1st Chakra: Root Chakra (Muladhara): Foundations of Survival, Stability, Safety, and Security
Located at the base of the spine (at the coccyx) and activated at birth, your Root Chakra governs your basic needs—safety, trust, and all survival instincts. It is associated with your ability to feel safe, grounded, connected to your physical body, and meeting of your basic physical needs in a healthy way.
The root chakra correlates to your nervous system. Stress can cause your root chakra to coil in, be contained, or be tight (freeze, fight, or flight). For example, trauma may block the energies expressed in the root chakra or trigger dissociation, numbing, or overstimulation in other ways.
Parasympathetic activity allows the root chakra to open up.
The Root Chakra governs your pelvis, appendix, lower abdomen, ascending colon, and lower back. Constipation can be a sign of holding on, feeling unsafe to open up, not letting go, and trusting.
Safety helps this chakra to flourish and grow. Essential oils that support safety and grounding, like Attention™ and Parasympathetic®, help support the root chakra and provide the foundation for the higher chakras.
Attention™ contains highly grounding oils like Vetiver, which may help you feel grounded and centered and encourage emotional strength, mental clarity, and mind-body connection.
Vetiver is a perennial bunchgrass with deep roots that help ground it to the Earth. Vetiver essential oil is extracted from these deep roots and is known to ground you mentally, physically, and emotionally, often helping you explore the root of your emotional issues. Attention™ also contains Frankincense™ and Cedarwood, which help us ground and feel connected to the planet and each other. Apply 2-3 drops of Attention™ on the bottom of the feet and back of the neck to help with grounding and help stabilize you when you’re feeling unsafe in your physical body.
Parasympathetic® Grounding is known to calm the sympathetic nervous system and promote overall nervous system balance. Supporting the Parasympathetic State, which is associated with rest and digest functions, can also aid in grounding the body, further benefiting the vagus nerve. The lime oil in the Parasympathetic® blend can help promote emotional grounding, fostering a balance between the heart and mind, which is the connection that enables you to ground. To experience these benefits, apply Parasympathetic® over the vagus nerve, located behind the earlobe on the mastoid bone.
2nd Chakra: Sacral Chakra (Svadhisthana): Regulates creativity and emotional intimacy
Located in the lower abdomen/upper pelvic area, between the navel and the pubic bone, the Sacral Chakra links to creativity, emotional health, passion, intimacy, and sexual energy. It supports healthy boundaries, including healthy relationship patterns and a feeling of connection to the world.
The Sacral Chakra governs reproductive organs, adrenals, kidneys, bladder, and the umbilical cord. The sacral chakra is associated with the fluidity of the water element and correlated with emotional highs and lows. It can relate to a persistent state of fear, stress, or fight-or-flight, embodying feelings of wounded emotions, including feeling unloved, unwanted, disrespected, uncared for, or unappreciated. This triggers the adrenal glands to release cortisol continuously.
The sacral chakra can either trigger intense feelings of being consumed by your emotions, like anxiety and overwhelm, or feelings of dissociation, detachment, avoidance, loneliness, repression, isolation, low libido, including inability to experience emotional or sexual intimacy, or lack of creative inspiration.
Essential oils like Kidney Support™ and Adrenal® may help balance the Sacral Chakra.
Kidney Support™, the sacral chakra is believed to be connected to the kidneys, especially the emotional and water element of the kidneys. Your kidneys control the volume, composition, and pressure of fluids in all the cells. Water is symbolic of the unconscious, our emotions, and of that which we do not understand and that which we fear. These feelings of fear and paranoia can be held in your kidneys, impairing function. To help release the fear so that you can release any blocks in the Sacral Chakra, smell or apply Kidney Support™ over the kidneys (one inch up and out from the belly button), back of the neck, or around the outside of the earlobes.
Kidney Support™, when applied over your kidneys (one inch up and out from the belly button), the back of the neck, or around the outside of the earlobes, can help dispel fear and assist you in feeling safe. Kidney Support™ contains Cedarwood, which helps the brain focus, especially with anxiety disorders, and increases energy to the solar plexus chakra. Spruce supports the nervous and glandular systems, helps balance the solar plexus, and calms anxiety and stress.
Adrenal®: Your adrenal glands help determine and regulate the body’s stress response by secreting key hormones that regulate energy production and storage. Prolonged periods of stress can deplete our reserves of these hormones. Supporting your adrenal glands and their energy reserves helps support your solar plexus’s healthy function. Much like adaptogenic herbs, Vibrant Blue Oils Adrenal® blend helps increase the body’s ability to adapt to stress and maintain healthy adrenal function. Rosemary essential oil, in particular, supports adrenal function, as it naturally relieves stress and nervous exhaustion and stimulates the immune system. A 2007 study found that Rosemary oil decreased cortisol levels in saliva when inhaled.
Adrenal® blend also contains several stimulatory oils like Thyme and Cinnamon that help you feel invigorated, revitalized, and energetic. Inhale Adrenal® through the left nostril or apply 1-2 drops to the adrenal glands (on the lower mid-back, one fist above the 12th rib on each side).
3rd Chakra: Solar Plexus Chakra (Manipura): Personal power, Confidence, and Self-Esteem
Located in the upper abdomen, behind the navel, the Solar Plexus Chakra acts as the body’s energy powerhouse. It is associated with your sense of self, including your power, confidence, self-esteem, self-worth, willpower, and the ability to take action. A balanced Solar Plexus Chakra allows energy to flow, helping you to feel empowered, make decisions, and create a life aligned with your authentic self. Your Solar Plexus Chakra also correlates with healthy boundaries so that energy flows in a healthy way to support both physical and emotional health.
Congestion in this chakra may contribute to feelings of stagnation, overwhelm, powerlessness, anger, aggression, rigidity, or controlling behavior. You may struggle with difficulty making decisions, procrastination, giving up easily, or acting out of fear. On a physical level, the Solar Plexus Chakra is thought to govern your digestive system, including your metabolism, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, and spleen.
Essential oils—like Small Intestine Support™, Pancreas™, Liver Support™, and Digest™—can help you maintain the healthy function of the Solar Plexus Chakra.
Small Intestine Support™: Healthy solar plexus energy lets you set clear boundaries to support healthy relationships and self-care. Small Intestine Support™ helps you fortify and embody your third chakra, which helps strengthen your energetic field, so external energy does not penetrate your field.
Small Intestine Support™ contains a proprietary formulation of boundary-supporting essential oils, including grapefruit, which helps to move stagnant energy and is said to address a person’s self-acceptance and release self-abusive patterns. In addition, Mandarin oil is known to help disperse stagnant energy within the solar plexus and release tension and frustration. Similarly, Lime clears trapped emotions and thoughts, helping to overcome stagnant energies and stimulates your drive for clear boundaries.
Apply 2-3 drops of Small Intestine Support™ around the belly button in a clockwise direction. It is also helpful to apply around the ears and over the heart. You can start on the bottom of the ear at the earlobes and gently massage upward along the exterior of the ear, hitting many of the major reflexology points. This article and chart show specific ear points related to particular issues.
Pancreas™: The pancreas secretes digestive enzymes that help break down nutrients so they can be adequately absorbed in the small intestine. The pancreas also helps to control blood sugar levels and allow “sweetness” (including energetic sweetness like love) into your life, as your pancreas is directly related to the ability to process nutrients, emotions, and life experiences. On an emotional level, the pancreas is often associated with feelings of worry, anxiety, and low self-esteem. When emotions like worry and anxiety are strong, they can disrupt digestive processes.
Herbal remedies, like the Pancreas™ blend of essential oils of Rose Geranium, Anise Seed, Geranium, Cucumber, and Rose, help tonify and balance the pancreas against overload and fatigue to support optimal function. To put the pancreas in balance, consider rubbing some Pancreas™ on the fifth rib (2 down from the bottom of your bra) on the left side of the body to help put the pancreas back in balance for optimal function.
Liver Support™: The solar plexus is sometimes called the abdominal brain because it regulates the abdominal organs, like your liver. Depleted solar plexus energy depletes energy from your liver, which presents as liver problems. Liver Support™ helps support your emotional liver health. For example, Helichrysum, in particular, helps to strengthen and fortify the solar plexus.
German Chamomile helps the liver to release stagnant energy, purify the liver, and discharge toxins. Lavender™ is an adaptogenic essential oil that works wherever balancing is needed and is often used as a “rescue” remedy when high emotions are present. Lavender™ encourages the release of pent-up feelings, dispersing stagnant life energy. It works to cool and calm an overactive liver, restoring emotional balance.
Apply 2-3 drops of Liver Support™ over the liver (right side of the body under the breast). You can also apply with a castor oil pack over the liver or place a drop or two on the palms, rub hands together, cover your nose, and inhale.
Liver Support™ allows you to release anger, stagnation, and suppressed negative memories that lock those beliefs in place on a deep cellular level, including the chakra level. 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 self-limiting belief. You can also apply it around the ankles, as this is often an area where we resist moving forward 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 your self-limiting beliefs.
Digest™: Designed to alleviate digestive issues, Digest™ contains a proprietary formulation of powerful solar plexus supporting oils like Juniper, which helps clear stagnation in the solar plexus. Juniper helps to increase circulation in the kidneys and liver and free up constricted energy.
Similarly, Ginger can gently stimulate your solar plexus and support healthy digestive function. Peppermint™ is also known to be soothing for digestion and supportive of the liver. Apply 2-3 drops of Digest™ in a clockwise circle around the belly button.
4th Chakra: Heart Chakra – Love, Compassion, and Emotional Balance
Located in the center of the chest, near the physical heart, the Heart Chakra governs your ability to connect with others and experience feelings of love, compassion, and empathy. It also influences your capacity for self-love and forgiveness.
A balanced Heart Chakra allows for the free flow of energy, leading to feelings of inner peace, strong relationships, and emotional stability. A blocked or unbalanced Heart Chakra can lead to emotional instability, loneliness, resentment, difficulty forming healthy relationships, and a sense of isolation.
Your heart chakra bridges the lower three earth chakras and the upper three heavenly chakras. When your heart chakra is clear and open, energy flows seamlessly to all other chakras, fostering a profound sense of love, open-heartedness, alignment, balance, and healthy connections with others.
A balanced heart chakra is pivotal in unlocking the full spectrum of a joyful and abundant life. The heart chakra possesses the ability to heal through the highest frequency attainable. This healing energy radiates inward and then extends outward.
Your heart chakra governs the physical heart, lungs, and thymus gland, and it interweaves with your vagus nerve, impacting the parasympathetic nervous system.
Essential Oils like Heart™ and Lung Support™ may help harmonize and balance the Heart Chakra.
The oils in the Heart™ blend in particular may help to balance your heart energy to promote feelings of safety that allow your subconscious mind to release negative stored memories and emotions and replace them with positive beliefs. Essential oils can also help release emotions trapped within various body organs and tissues, including your Heart Chakra.
Heart™ balances the heart to enhance compassion and support, integrate and reset all body systems, including supporting feelings of open-heartedness, expansiveness, and receptivity while mitigating loneliness, sadness, and grief. The heart integrates and balances the physical, emotional, and mental body, providing blood to every cell and every organ. It also serves as a complex information processing center, influencing brain function, the nervous system, the hormonal system, and most of the body’s major organs. The heart is our body’s reset button, but a state of constant stress can fatigue the heart and compromise our ability to reset, leading to inflammation, infections, toxicity, and heart disease. By returning the heart to balance, we support the cardiovascular and circulatory system, regenerate the heart’s structure, and help reset the homeostatic mechanism for the entire body.
Heart™ blend contains a proprietary blend of organic and/or wildcrafted essential oils, including Jasmine, which positively influences the nervous system, lifts anxiety, soothes emotional stress, and shows love to others and yourself. Research has shown that sweet smells, like those found in the Heart™ blend, have been shown to reduce pain by activating the opioid receptors in the brain. Apply Heart™ blend over the heart or on the wrists to clear and reharmonize your Heart Chakra.
Lung Support™: Your lungs contribute to self-confidence by maintaining your physiological boundaries. Lungs in harmony provide for optimism and are our source of self-respect.
Feelings of grief, bereavement, regret, loss, and remorse can obstruct the ability of the lungs to accept and relinquish, impeding their function of “taking in” and “letting go”. Grief that remains unresolved can become chronic and create disharmony in the lungs, weakening the lungs’ function of circulating oxygen around the body. Lung Support™ was designed to help overcome grief and let go of negative experiences.
Lung Support™ contains citrus oils like Bergamot, which help release emotions and tension and promote joy and courage. The relaxing properties of bergamot have been shown to boost confidence and reduce stress hormone levels in the body and prohibit the release of adrenaline by the body, which helps promote self-acceptance, self-love, and self-approval, which support your sense of self-worth.
Similarly, Orange essential oils help to clear stagnant thoughts and grief, strengthening focus toward positive thoughts and increased confidence. Red Mandarin helps switch off an overactive mind, promotes relaxation, connects with the inner child, and releases long-held grief and sadness.
Lung Support™ also contains Rose essential oil, which is known to help relieve stress and support feelings of self-worth.
This blend works best when topically applied over the lungs or around the ears. It can also be deeply inhaled, and allowing yourself to gently release intense emotions with your exhale is a powerful strategy to enable you to micro-dose emotional release.
5th Chakra: Throat Chakra (Vishuddha) – Communication, Self-Expression, and Speaking Your Truth
Situated in the throat region, encompassing the neck, mouth, jaw, and ears, the Throat Chakra is the energy center associated with communication, self-expression, and speaking your truth. When this chakra is blocked or congested, it impacts your ability to express your feelings or ask for what you need.
Your Throat Chakra facilitates clear communication, honest expression, and creative manifestation through speech and other forms of communication. Due to its location at the base of the throat, your throat chakra acts as a bridge between the heart and mind, allowing you to express your authentic self to the world. Vagus nervefibers connect to the heart, lungs, throat, inner ear, and face, allowing information gathered from the ears and heart to be received and sent.
The throat chakra also enables you to produce sound. Sound is essentially vibration. Your expression, tone, and choice of words influence how you interact and co-regulate with others, sending signals of safety, care, and love.
The throat chakra impacts your Thyroid gland, vocal cords, and vagus nerve. Essential oils—like Thyroid Support and Parasympathetic—may help support the Throat Chakra.
Thyroid Support helps support the throat chakra and clear expression. Thyroid Support assists both the physical and energetic thyroid and throat area to help enhance your ability to communicate your thoughts, opinions, desires, and feelings and listen to, hear, and hold space for each other.
As you may know, your thyroid gland relates emotionally to self-expression and the struggle to communicate. This includes speaking up for yourself and not suppressing your truth, failing to ask for what you want, or feeling you do not have the right to ask for what you want. Suppressed communication can give rise to feelings of shame and humiliation, never getting to do what you want, or never prioritizing your wants and needs.
An inability to speak one’s truth—including difficulty in self-expression, feeling suppressed or shut down in creative endeavors, or “swallowing” or “stifling” your words to keep the peace or win people’s approval—will often cause physical problems in the thyroid, mouth, and neck area around the throat.
Thyroid Support™ blend contains powerful oils including Angelica Root to promote feelings of balance and help release or let go of negative emotions, German Chamomile, which brings balance to emotional intensity, Frankincense, which helps you communicate from a clear and centered place, and Neroli, which helps reduce feelings of stress to support open, honest communication.
Apply 2-3 drops of Thyroid Support™ over the throat or heart throughout the day as needed to aid with speaking your truth. You may also consider the following affirmation in conjunction with the Thyroid Support™ blend. “I allow myself to express freely and creatively.”
6th Chakra: Third Eye Chakra (Ajna) – Clarity, Intuition, and Insight
Located between the eyebrows, the Third Eye Chakra is associated with intuition, wisdom, perception, imagination, and spiritual awareness. When balanced, this chakra enhances focus and mental clarity, allowing for a deeper understanding of yourself and the world. ‘
It enhances your vision, awakening you from illusion and enabling you to perceive reality more clearly.
The insights gained from the third eye increase spiritual awareness of ourselves and others.
The third eye is found in the front part of the brain, the region known as the prefrontal lobe, and is said to be connected to the pineal gland, eyes, and nervous system. The prefrontal lobe is the part of the brain that controls thoughts, actions, emotions, critical thinking, and behavior.
The pineal gland is located outside the blood-brain barrier between the cerebral hemispheres, in the brain’s midline. The pineal gland works with the pituitary, the hypothalamus, and the thalamus glands to regulate the body’s hormonal system.
Essential Oils—like Hypothalamus and Circadian Rhythm—may help support the healthy function of the Third Eye Chakra.
Hypothalamus™: Your hypothalamus is a pearl-sized region of the brain located just above the brain stem, serving as the control center for neural and hormonal messages received from/sent to the body. The ability of the hypothalamus to receive clear messages from the body helps ensure the health of the Third Eye chakra.
Formulated with Mandarin, Patchouli, Frankincense, Bay Rum, and Pine, Hypothalamus™ helps return your hypothalamus to its original blueprint to ensure that it sends and receives healthy signals. Frankincense in particular contains compounds known as sesquiterpenes that cross the blood-brain barrier and increase oxygen around receptor sites in the emotional centers of your brain, like your hypothalamus and amygdala, helping to calm anxiety. Sesquiterpenes are C15 carbon chains that do not contain oxygen molecules, but seem to pull oxygen in. This is one reason oxygen levels seem to increase when essential oils high in sesquiterpenes are topically applied to the brain or inhaled through the nose.
To help return the hypothalamus to balance, apply one drop of Vibrant Blue Oils Hypothalamus™ to the forehead right above the third eye (right above the nose between eyebrows and hairline) up to 6 times daily. The blends also help to wake up intuition and connect with the heart center, when applied on the sternum over the heart (it might feel a bit tender on the spot), and directly behind the earlobe (where the ear connects to the head). For Aromatic Usage, hold the bottle under the nose for 3 or 4 breaths.
Circadian Rhythm®: Essential oils can help the pineal gland return to its innate intelligence and release more melatonin naturally. Activating the pineal gland with essential oils can help balance the Third Eye Chakra. Your nose is a direct gateway to the brain and the pineal gland. To stimulate the olfactory passage to detoxify and activate the pineal gland, you can either inhale Circadian Rhythm oil or place a drop in specific spots around the head—on the very top of the head, the very back of the head, and on the skin above the ears. The pineal gland is located in the brain’s center, so topically applying oils directly around the brain allows transdermal access. Circadian Rhythm® blend can be applied around the base of the skull (apex of head, above ears, and back of head) to help trigger the natural release of melatonin and support healthy Third Chakra function.
7th Chakra: Crown Chakra (Sahasrara) – Higher Consciousness, Spiritual Enlightenment, and Connection to Divine.
Located at the top of the head, or slightly above—like a crown, radiating upward. Its location is closely linked to the brain and the nervous system.
Your crown chakra is associated with higher consciousness, spirituality, universal consciousness, wisdom, unity, self-knowledge, and a sense of connection to something beyond yourself. It’s often visualized as a thousand-petaled lotus, with each petal representing a different aspect of our being, such as emotions, thoughts, and actions.
Like the fascia network—the vast three-dimensional network of connective tissue that envelops and connects all body parts—the crown chakra is thought to collect and store energies amassed through kind thoughts and actions, faith, meditation, and prayer.
Fascia is thought to hold emotional and energetic “imprints” from trauma, stress, or prolonged negative patterns. Some believe fascia acts as a communication system, carrying electrical signals and information between different parts of the body. The fascia’s vast network of nerve endings and sensory receptors contributes to this idea. This interconnectedness allows for transmitting emotional and energetic information throughout the body. Supporting the healthy flow of information through the fascia may help support the healthy function of the crown chakra.
The crown chakra is also associated with the pituitary, pineal glands, and the hypothalamus, brain, and nervous system. Energetically, the seventh chakra has a connection with the first chakra. They are bookends of the chakra system.
Essential oils—like Fascia Release and Limbic Reset—may help support the crown chakra.
The essential oils in Fascia Release™ are uniquely formulated to simultaneously work on physical and psychological levels, unraveling deeply held tensions, constrictions, and energetic blockages 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.
Fascia Release™ contains Frankincense, which promotes calmness, aids visualization, and creates balance while connecting with the higher self. Topically apply to the top of the head and the back of the neck.
Limbic Reset™️: Your sense of smell has direct access to your limbic system, making essential oils an ideal tool to calm threat arousal and send safety cues to help reset your limbic system and support healthy emotional regulation. Limbic Reset™️ was formulated explicitly with Helichrysum and Sandalwood and Melissa oils, which are touted for brain function and known to cross the blood-brain barrier and assist in carrying oxygen to the limbic system and support the crown chakra.
To support the crown chakra, apply 1-2 drops on the forehead (above the eyes and on the temples), at the base of the skull at the back of the neck, on the bottom of the feet, and especially on the amygdala reflex point on the big toe.
Chakra Cards
I have been using these high vibrational Chakra Cards, designed with sacred geometry and explicitly created to activate, align, and refine the Chakra Energy Centers. In addition to sacred geometry, these cards incorporate crystals, sacred sound, and color to produce an excellent vibrational harmony. I draw 1-3 cards daily and read them aloud to identify the chakra priority and help assist chakras to clear, evolve, and align with the addition of essential oils.
This deck of 48 Chakra Cards is a highly effective energy healing tool and is a perfect companion for essential oils.
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