The rising interest in mind-body medicine has renewed academic focus on ancient ideas. For example, the chakra model is now being studied related to how it interplays with fascia, the nervous system, and energy states. These frameworks seek to explain how chakras impact our health using modern medical terms.

Essential oils are another modality being explored to explain their traditional botanical use and healing benefits. This is based on their biochemical and psychological mechanisms.

Previously, we discussed how chakras and essential oils interweave and can be used together to enhance our nervous system, physical health, and mindset. Specifically, essential oils can be used to support chakra balance based on the idea that the frequency of different oils corresponds with specific energy centers. As a result, various essential oils have been used to stimulate certain hubs along the chakras with the aim of restoring physiological and emotional equilibrium.

In this video post, I continue highlighting merging modern medicine with ancient wisdom. I provide a resource for implementing chakra balancing with essential oils. Next, I introduce how essential oils can also be used with Traditional Chinese Medicine. By combining our aromatic allies with these time-tested healing techniques, we can optimize how they aid our mind-body-spirit.

Topics include:

  • How to practice chakra clearing with aromatherapy and seed sounds
  • Background information on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
  • Bridging TCM, essential oils, and the five seasons based on an interview with Rachel Jackson, CYI, LMT, Certified Medicinal Aromatherapist

As always, all the resources, links to studies, and references will be available in this accompanying article

So, let’s get started.

 

Chakra Clearing with Aromatherapy & Seed Sounds (Yam Healing Hearts)

Now that we’ve explored the science of chakra healing and essential oils, as promised I’m going to provide a brief overview of Chakra Clearing with Aromatherapy. Then, I will offer you a resource for you to personally experience this exercise with an expert.

Chakra clearing can be used during life transitions, when we need to pull more from certain energies than others. This can cause imbalances and blockages to our healing. By moving energy and stimulating the nervous system, this process can shift us out of stress patterns, dysfunctional dynamics, and/or illusions that keep us physically and emotionally stagnant.

In this 20-minute video, Rachel Jackson, CYI, LMT, Certified Medicinal Aromatherapist, acts as our guide in the experience of a chakra clearing using intention, aromatherapy, and the seed sounds (sounds associated with each chakra). She believes that all the chakras are an essential part of the whole system. When this energetic system is in balance, we can experience better resiliency and overall health.

Click here to experience a chakra clearing yourself.

 

Traditional Chinese Medicine, Essential Oils, and the Five Seasons

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is another system of medicine that combines ancient Eastern healing philosophy with conventional medicine. Similarly to essential oils and chakras, TCM has been investigated for its effects on health.

TCM developed over millennia and employs techniques like acupuncture, tai chi, and herbal remedies to treat illnesses. It holds that disease results from an imbalance in a person’s qi, or life force. TCM aims to restore harmony by balancing yin and yang (complementary but opposing forces) within the individual and re-connecting to the earth’s rhythms.

Unlike our conventional Gregorian calendar, which observes four seasonal shifts based on aligning with the solar system, TCM observes five seasons, with late Summer being the fifth. In TCM, each season brings its own energy, wisdom, and timing in alignment with nature. These transitions of our earth help us to tap into what our body needs most to support it. At the same time, they impact and align with the makeup of our precious plants, as essential oils produced by the plants will shift in relationship to their environmental cues.

Previously on the Essential Oil Revolution, Rachel Jackson, CYI, LMT, Certified Medicinal Aromatherapist, joined us to discuss aromatherapy in season according to these five elements. Like chakra healing, when one is experiencing dis-ease, balancing these elements can aid in recovery of the mind-body harmony we desire.

During the interview, Rachel taught us ways to use aromatherapy throughout the seasons of life to enhance intentional living practices, self-care, and vibrant wellbeing. This was through tending to these different aspects of ourselves. Below is a summary of topics from this amazing episode.

What You Will Learn By Listening-In:

  • An introduction to Rachel and her poem on forming a relationship to aromatherapy (0 min)
  • Rachel’s healing journey into aromatherapy (5.40 min)
  • What is the meaning of “Yam”? (11 min)
  • How Eastern and Western medicine are starting to “speak the same language” (13 min)
  • The philosophy surrounding the Wisdom of the Earth Training (17 min)
  • How aromatherapy can be dynamic, like nature, and how essential oils shift based on the environmental factors which relate to our healing (19 min)
  • How Rachel’s training in yin yoga and massage spurred her interest in combining Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) with Aromatherapy (28 min)
  • The connection between the seasons, the five elements, and personal growth (32 min)
  • What the “spirits” of each organ system represent (40 min)
  • How emotions are signals to the body and how this relates to the five elements and the spirits (41 min)
  • How to incorporate aromatherapy into the five elements, focusing on spring (45 min)
  • What essential oil Rachel keeps in her emergency kit (48 min)
  • The difference between Helichrysum Gymnocephelum and Helichrysum Italicum (50 min)
  • The season lavender oil is associated with and the importance of applying it with intention (53 min)
  • The importance of our kidneys in TCM and its relationship to chronic disease (59 min)
  • What essential oil can nourish the kidney’s Jing (1 hr. 3 min)
  • How yoga and essential oils combine therapeutically (1 hr. 5 min)
  • What is Yoga Nidra and how Rachel combines it with essential oils (1 hr. 7 min)
  • The purpose of meditation and how Yoga Nidra helps one accomplish this (1 hr. 14 min)
  • Rachel’s “Aromatherapy Hacks” for Springtime and the practice of Jala Neti Cleanse (1 hr. 15 min)
  • The importance of cleaning out our noses for our health (1 hr. 17 min)
  • Using essential oils on a budget (1 hr. 20 min)
  • Where to find Rachel and closing thoughts (1 hr. 21 min)

Be sure to tune in and listen so you can go deep into this topic with us and gain new insight into a whole new application and approach with aromatherapy and essential oils!

 

Summary of Merging Chakras, TCM, and Essential Oils

As holistic approaches become more widely discussed, research is being conducted to examine the impact of ancient healing practices on emotional and physical health. These modalities have been connected to changes in the mind and body in correlation to anatomical connections, including the nervous system.

Essential oils have also been studied on how they influence our biochemistry, psychology, and physiology using modern medical terminology. They can be integrated into traditional medicine applications, such as chakra clearing and TCM with the five elements, for optimizing mind-body-spirit harmony and overall resiliency.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this merger of modern medicine with chakra healing, TCM, and essential oils. Comment below.

Sending many blessings.

 

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This information is applicable ONLY for therapeutic quality essential oils. This information DOES NOT apply to essential oils that have not been tested for purity and standardized constituents. There is no quality control in the United States, and oils labeled as “100% pure” need only to contain 5% of the actual oil. The rest of the bottle can be filled with fillers and sometimes toxic ingredients that can irritate the skin. The studies are not based solely on a specific brand of an essential oil, unless stated. Please read the full study for more information.

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