Healthy Emotions
Do you know there are about 158.6 different kinds of emotions you can experience throughout the day 🤠 🤣 🤔 😍 🤗 😁 🙃 🤪 😟 😭 😱 😐 😎 🤩. Have you ever felt like you experienced all of them in the span of about 60 seconds. #LifeHappens.
Your body was created so amazingly that it stores the memory of your emotions for a lifetime (for better or for worse, lol).
Have you ever made homemade cookies and it instantly took you back to your grandmother’s kitchen?
For me, I have a memory of buying a specific brand of scented baby wipes to take on a trip to Germany in 2006. I used those baby wipes every day for 2 weeks. Still to this day when I go down the aisle in the grocery store and catch a whiff of that familiar scent, I am instantly taken back to the streets of Nuremberg and to those midnight baby wipe baths. HaHa 💦🤩 The smell triggers my brain to pull up the emotional memory associated with that specific scent.
The interesting thing is, your brain can take an emotion and file it away for your entire life. Different smells will trigger your brain to access an emotion. And as you well know, some emotions are pleasant ones, and some you would rather store away in the deep, dark dungeon of Never Never Land and completely forget about it.
Stuffing negative emotions is likened to them rotting in that deep, dark dungeon. They start to effect the organs and tissue around them, and over time can cause illness and disease in the body. When your brain categorizes an emotion and stores it, it doesn’t just store it somewhere in the brain. It actually stores it somewhere in the body.
Studies show that a large majority of diseases have an emotional root. In Louis Hayes Book titled “Heal Your Body” she gives several examples of negative emotions and what part of the body they are stored in. A person with heart problems may have trouble letting go of a loved one, or they may have been wounded by someone they love. Poor digestion can be caused by stress and anxiety. Liver function can be inhibited by anger.
Now you may be wondering how exactly you can access the emotional memory once it is in storage. Well, David Stewart, Ph. D shares some powerful tips in his book titled “Healing Oils of the Bible”. His research goes deep into how essential oils can trigger the brain to access stored emotions. Then at the right time these emotions can be dealt with so that they do not have long lasting effects on the physical body.
Unhealthy emotions, trauma, abandonment, neglect, addiction, physical and emotional abuse, death of a loved one, accidents, work challenges, arguments will all take a toll on your health. So why not deal with them and come to a healthy resolve. Forgiveness is oftentimes a key element of emotional healing. Knowing your value as a human being is a key element that helps you overcome feelings of unworthiness, doubt, abandonment, even fear and depression.
Are you ready for some practical wisdom … Here we go!
David Stewart shares this in his book “Healing Oils of the Bible” on page 24-25.
Oils and Emotions
One of the most powerful healing aspects of essential oils is their ability to penetrate the so called “blood Brain Barrier.” When you breath oil molecules into the back passages of your nose, they go straight to the brain in a central part called the amygdala (or diencephalon). This is the central headquarters of the limbic system, which manages your storage and filing system for all your emotional experiences. That part of the brain does not understand words and cannot be communicate to with spoken or written language. It responds only to smell. Hence, essential oils provide a powerful means to contact that non-verbal portion of our brains that stores our feelings and emotions.
Bigger Than All The Computers in the World
You will be interested to know that whereas the center of the brain is the coordinator of emotional memories, the memories are not actually stores there. That part of the brain performs the functions of a librarian who catalogues all the emotional memory books and then assigns a location in the shelves of your bodily temple to hold that information for future reference. When we have an emotional experience, especially a traumatic or painful one, the amygdala assigns a part of your body to remember that experience until you are ready to deal with it.
The body is composed of some 100 trillion cells each with a strand of DNA capable of storing up to six gigabytes of memory that can replicate RNA memory strands without limit. The emotional brain can delegate any place in your body to store a feeling or an emotional memory. You will never run out of memory storage space. What you carry in your body is greater than the combined memories of all the computers in the world. You and every other human being has this amazing capability.
WOW!!! What do you think? Does that explain some of the major questions you’ve had about brain function?
Let’s dig a little deeper … and in this section you are going to start hearing about how essential oils can be a major key to emotional health.
David Stewart shares this in his book “Healing Oils of the Bible” on page 26.
How Emotions Can Make Us Sick
When an essential oil penetrates into the central brain, it makes it possible for us to access forgotten memories of emotions with which we need to deal. Stored emotions can make us sick. If they are stores in the stomach, you can have stomach ailments. If in the pancreas, you can have diabetes. If in the liver, you can have many problems. If in the thyroid or other endocrine glands, you will have hormonal problems. If in the joins, you can have arthritis.
Stored emotions can cause cancer, too, which is why women, whose breasts are their physical expression of love and nurturing, often have breast cancer. In such cases, emotional trauma has been repressed and stored in cellular memory that blocks a woman’s natural ability to let love flow towards others and/or towards themselves.
Hence, when essential oils trigger an emotionally upsetting memory, it gives us an opportunity to deal with that emotion and release it from our systems, thereby affe ting a healing. Sometimes this healing is instantaneous with the release of the emotion and sometimes it takes longer. In either case, a healing results.
The Blood-Brain Barrier
It was thought for years that the interstitial issues of the brain served as a barrier to keep damaging substances from reaching the neurons of the brain and the cerebrospinal fluid. Instead of a barrier, it would be more accurate to consider it as a sieve or filter through which only molecules of a certain size or smaller can pass.
Most of the molecules of the substances used in chemotherapy are too large to pass through the blood-brain filter, which is why doctors say that chemotherapy doesn’t work on brain cancer. Some of the smaller molecules get through, but not the whole suite of drugs intended.
Doctors don’t know for sure, but it seems that in order to cross the blood-brain barrier, only molecules less than 800-1,000 atomic units (amu) in molecular weight can get through. Lipid solubility seems to be another factor which facilitates passing through the blood-brain barrier. Water soluble molecules don’t usually penetrate into brain tissue, even when very small. The molecules of essential oils are all not only small, but lipid soluble as well.
In fact, when it comes to essential oils, small molecules (less than 500 amu) are what they are made of. This is why they are aromatic. The only way for something to be aromatic is the the molecules to be so small that they readily leap into the air so they can enter our noses and be detected as odor and smell.
That is why oils for cooking or massage, such as corn, peanut, sesame seed, safflower, walnut, almond, canola, olive and other oils pressed from seeds are not aromatic. Sure, they have a smell, but you can’t smell them across the room in minutes as one can when you open a bottle of peppermint, hyssop, or cinnamon oil.
Essential oils of every species cross the blood-brain barrier. This makes them uniquely able to address disease, not only from a physical level, but from a more basic and fundamental level - that of the emotions which are often the root cause of physical illness.
Fascinating, right? Every time I read the above, my heart is happy. Why? Because I know without a shadow of a doubt that God created the very plants and trees and shrubs and roots that he knew we would need for healing.
We live in a very imperfect world, and stuff happens - some great stuff and some not so great stuff.
I hope you are seeing now that we have a powerful tool, that is readily available from trusted suppliers, that can be used regularly to help us through the restorative process. Since essential oils are in abundance, thanks to several key individuals who forged the path of rediscovery in the 21st century, we now have access to what I believe is one of the most powerful forms of natural health support.
Are you ready for some practical tips using essentials for emotional support?
Here are a few very basic things I personally do on a regular basis to support my emotions. In another blog I will go into an emotional release technique used by thousands around the world. It is a more detailed process of using several single oils and blends during a prayerful, meditative process. But for now, here you go.
*note: I use the Young Living Essential Oil brand and highly recommend this company. They are the world leaders in therapeutic grade essential oil production and their Seed To Seal quality standard has become the universal quality standard for grading essential oils.
Sleep Support
Lavender: Diffuse before bed or put a drop in the palm of hands and inhale for several minutes. Rub about 3 drops on the bottoms of each foot. Add 3-5 drops into a cup of epsom salt and pour into a hot bath for a nice relaxing soak.
Sleep Support & Emotional Support
Stress Away: This is a blend of Copaiba, Lime, Cedarwood, Vanilla, Ocotea, and Lavender. Diffuse before bed or put a drop in the palm of hands and inhale for several minutes. Rub about 3 drops on the bottoms of each foot. Apply 1-3 drops on the back of neck and shoulders for a relaxing massage to sooth shoulders.
Peace & Calming: This is a blend of Tangerine, Orange, Ylang Ylang, Patchouli, and Blue Tansy. Diffuse before bed or put a drop in the palm of hands and inhale for several minutes. Rub about 3 drops on the bottoms of each foot.
These are just a few of my favorite oils. Over the past 14 years of research, attending health expos and specialized classes with some of the top leaders in the essential oil industry, I have heard hundreds of success stories. The successes with EOs used by our veterans is especially incredible.
A good friend, Matt Roever from Kerrville, TX recently shared that he gives Orange essential oil to veterans who have PTSD. Whenever they are feeling anxious, they inhale the oil deeply and it helps them relax. Matt makes bracelets with lava beads and gifts it to the men as well so that they can put the orange oil on the bracelet and wear it throughout the day.
D. Gary Young, founder of Young Living Essential Oils, once shared a study on stage at convention that he had been doing with 5 retired and active service members. They each shared on stage about their experience with trauma and their life before using essential oils. Then Gary Young shared about the protocol that he had each man do using the oils in the Freedom Release and Freedom Sleep collection. Each man, after using this protocol, had their very own unique experience. Each experienced noticeable changes in their emotions, demeanor, anxiety levels, even dreams and night terrors, and jumpiness triggered by noise.
Since Gary’s testimony, during which I was sitting in the audience with tears running down my face, I have recommended these oils to several customers. Each has come Baack to share their experience and the restoration they have received.
If you, or anyone you know, has suffered from trauma and you’re looking for a holistic healing approach, I am very happy to talk one-on-one. I don’t have all the answers, and I’m not a medical doctor, although I do have some experience in this area and am happy to be a support system. I can also help you get started as a wholesale member and be your go-to for ongoing education.
WOWZERS!!!
Well, this is a lot for one blog!
Thank you for reading, and I pray this was a blessed used of your time. Please feel free to contact me at 719-359-7495 or via email at AncientSecretsOfHealth@gmail.com.
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To Your Health,
Elizabeth Rose