Our Heart Chakra or heart space is our energetic center of love, compassion, and emotional balance. It governs our ability to give and receive love, experience deep empathy, cultivate inner peace, and allows us to develop deep connections and relationships with others and our world at large. When our Heart Chakra is open and balanced, we feel a sense of harmony in our relationships and an ability to forgive-including self-forgiveness. When blocked, we may struggle with grief, resentment, loneliness, or feelings of fear.
Aromatherapy with essential oils can be powerful allies in healing, helping to release emotional wounds, invite in compassion, and restore balance. Here are our four favorite essential oils we love working with to support our Heart Chakra.
Rose (Rosa x damascena) is considered the queen of heart healing oils. It takes approximately 60,000 roses to produce one ounce of Rose Absolute! It has the highest vibrational frequency of any oil and is associated with love, beauty, and symbolic of ancient goddesses. It nurtures self-love, gently releases grief, and promotes heart-centered healing.
Palmarosa (Cymbopogon martinii var motia) is steam distilled from a grass that is grown across India into the Himalayan Mountains. Because of its sweet, soft rose-like scent, it is often used in cosmetics and fragrances. It calms the heart space, reduces stress, and promotes emotional stability. It encourages us to embrace change with an open heart and release emotional rigidity and is particularly helpful for those who have built up emotional walls or shields due to past trauma.
Lavender (Lavandula officinalis) is well-known for its calming properties, how it soothes emotional wounds, reduces nervousness, and releases fear. Lavender allows for forgiveness and acceptance to flow naturally.
Ylang Ylang (Cananga odorata) awakens joy, passion, and emotional openness. It can dissolve feelings of anger, sadness, and rejection. Use this oil when working through heart break, significant personal loss or past trauma. A very small amount, 1 drop, is all that's needed as it has a very strong fragrance.
You can incorporate these oils in your meditation practice, in a salt bath, or in an aromatherapy essential oil diffuser. Our Heart Chakra blend also combines some of these calming and emotionally uplifting oils paired with a Rose Quartz crystal and can be placed over your Heart space with a carrier oil.
Morning affirmations are a practice that can improve your outlook on life. Using uplifting and encouraging words and phrases can move your actions, thoughts, and mood from a place of negativity and fear into optimism and love. Apply 1-2 drops of heart opening essential oils mixed with a carrier oil, such as jojoba oil, to your heart space while repeating affirmations such as "I am open to love" or "I forgive and release".
By using these essential oils with intention, you can support your Heart Chakra, release past wounds, and cultivate a deeper sense of love and forgiveness!
