Essential Oils and Chakras: How To Activate, Maintain, & Calm
Chakras (the Sanskrit word for wheel) are the 7 major energy centers of the body that run from the base of your spine to the top of your head. The thought is that the chakras need to be open and free-flowing to live a healthy life emotionally, physically, and spiritually.
When blockages occur, there are many tools for opening these Chakras back up and creating balance. Essential Oils are one of these helpful natural aids. That’s why today, we’re going to teach you the link between essential oils and chakras. You’ll learn which essential oils for chakras work best, and how to use them for each of the 7 major energy centers of the body.
If you’re hoping to live a more connected life, this is not an article you want to miss – read all the way through to the end. Let’s start by discussing the link between essential oils and chakras.
Essential Oils and Chakras – Is There A Link?
If you’re not well versed in using essential oils for chakra balancing, you might be a bit skeptical. Is there really a link here?
There sure is. In fact, this is one of the best uses for essential oils. And once you’ve experienced it yourself firsthand, you’ll never doubt the power of essential oils again. While concrete science is lacking, anecdotal evidence is abundant in support of using essential oils to activate, maintain, or calm the seven chakras.
What Are The Best Essential Oils For Chakras?
We know that you’re eager to start using aromatherapy for chakras – but which ones should you use? In just a moment, we’ll give you a comprehensive breakdown on which essential oils to use to maintain, which essential oils to activate, and which essential oils to calm each of the seven chakras.
However, here is a quick list of some of the essential oils we recommend incorporating along your spiritual path in one way or another:
- Frankincense oil
- Vetiver oil
- Angelica oil
- Sandalwood oil
- Cardamom oil
- Ylang Ylang oil
- Grapefruit oil
- Lemon oil
- Myrhh oil
As we mentioned earlier, the tricky part is determining which of the seven chakras you want to activate, maintain, or calm. From there, we can recommend a specific essential oil to help you along the way.
For example, you’ll use a different oil for activating the root chakra than you would for maintaining or calming the root chakra. Similarly, recommendations for activating, maintaining, or calming the solar plexus chakra will all differ as well. So, let’s dive deep into the world of essential oils and chakras!
How To Use Essential Oils To Activate, Maintain, or Calm The Chakras
It’s the moment you’ve been waiting for – how to use essential oils for chakra activation, maintenance, or calming. We’ll go through the following chakras today, offering recommendations to help you take your spiritual well being into your own hands:
- Muladhara (root chakra)
- Svadhisthana (sacral chakra)
- Manipura (solar plexus chakra)
- Anahata (heart chakra)
- Vishudda (throat chakra)
- Anja (third eye chakra)
- Sahasrara (crown chakra)
Let’s start off with Muladhara.
Muladhara
Root chakra attributes to our basic needs, physical survival, safety, and sense of belonging. Someone with a root chakra imbalance may experience black and white thinking, pessimism or negative thinking about life. The root chakra is our energy in how we feel rooted, secure, and safe in the world that surrounds us.
Maintain – Frankincense Sacra oil
Frankincense comes from tree resin and carries with it a woodsy scent. It aids in soothing racing thoughts, promotes a connection to the natural world, and rounds out the other root chakra oils suggested. There are three different types of frankincense oil – but for maintaining Muladhara, we recommend Frankincense sacra.
Activate – Angelica oil
When deficient, what shows is a lack of confidence and grounding in personal reality. You may not have goals or feel self-destructive, and have feelings of being abandoned or unloved. Angelica has sensory powers to amplify the body’s aura.
To Calm – Vetiver oil
An overactive root chakra will rear stubbornness or be unwilling to expand one’s view. Smokey Vetiver has earthy notes that are perfect to banish anxiety, burnout, and insomnia.REVIVE recommends that you blend the pure essential oil with a carrier oil such as fractionated coconut oil, and massage it onto the soles of your feet or inner thigh.
Svadhisthana
Sacral chakra deals primarily with issues of relationship, pleasure, play, and creation. When underactive, its bearer exhibits mental rigidity, a lack of passion, denial of pleasure, and excessive boundaries. In excess, an overactive svadhisthana is characterized by addiction to pleasure, extreme, strong emotions (bipolar), oversensitivity, and emotional dependency.
Maintain – Sandalwood oil
Sandalwood is the essential oil for the sacral chakra as it promotes positive self-esteem and contentment with the self, Stimulating a spiritual love regulates hormones and the reproductive system.
Activate – Cardamom oil
Cardamom essential oil is taken from the seeds of the fruit. It has a fresh, spicy, and sweet aroma and has been used as a stimulant and as an aphrodisiac. It is comforting, stimulating, warming, and has the ability to bring out the lover in you.
To Calm – Ylang Ylang oil
A sweet intoxicating floral fragrance of ylang-ylang is best to reduce stress and insomnia. It enhances the feeling of gratitude and connection, whether it be in relationships or for material blessings.
REVIVE recommends that you blend the pure essential oil with a carrier like Rosehip Oil, and massage it onto the lower back and abdomen.
Manipura
The Solar Plexus Chakra regulates the feelings of self-esteem, self-respect, self-discipline, ambition, and courage. When the solar plexus chakra becomes imbalanced, fears of rejection, criticism, obesity and aging begin to kick in. This chakra also holds our confidence and independence, which allows us to take risks and flow with gut feelings.
Maintain – Grapefruit oil
Grapefruit aids in appreciation of the body for everything it has done, where it is now, and everything it will continue to do. Unreleased emotions are stored in the belly which leads to physical problems later.
Activate – Juniper Berry oil
Juniper Berry detoxifies and helps clear the liver. It strengthens willpower and eases the sense of fear of failure. This, in turn, supports the restoration of self-confidence and a sense of self-worth.
To Calm – Helichrysum oil
Helichrysum unclutters the heart, stimulates kindness for self and others, and unifies the body/mind/spirit connection. It can reveal and unravel habitual ways of thinking that keep people stuck in patterns of painful experiences.
REVIVE recommends that you blend the pure essential oil with a carrier oil like Golden Jojoba Oil and massage it onto the lower back and abdomen
Anahata
The heart chakra directly affects the heart, lungs, chest, arms, and hands. When misaligned, symptoms like poor circulation, high or low blood pressure, and other heart and lung conditions can result. Mentally, an imbalanced heart chakra can result in problematic issues, such as co-dependence, manipulative behaviors, feelings of unworthiness, and an inability to trust yourself or others.
Maintain – Geranium oil
Geranium is incredible for balancing. This oil may ease mood swings and continue to keep joy in and compassion in your heart and soul.
Activate – Ylang Ylang oil
Ylang Ylang is a comforting and warming oil that can help to build a stronger connection through expression and emotional support. This oil may help you to give love and receive love more easily.
To Calm – Sweet Marjoram oil
This relaxing oil can calm an overactive heart chakra by providing a soothing stability. This may help to quiet a burning heart that is feeling way too much emotionally.
REVIVE recommends that you blend the pure essential oil with a carrier oil like Sweet Almond Oil and place it directly onto the center of the breast bone.
Vishudda
The throat chakra represents your ability to be your authentic self and express your truths. When out of balance, you may not be able to speak up for yourself, feel intensely shy, or even talking too much. Additionally, you may experience health issues like sore throats, neck pain, or even thyroid disorders.
Maintain – Chamomile oil
Roman Chamomile is great for alleviating anxious feelings or anger that may arise through your voice. It may also help you to communicate in a respectful way.
Activate – Citronella oil
Citronella protects, cleanses, clear negative energies, and strengthen and purify one’s life force. It is beneficial in clearing the mind and encouraging expressions,. Citronella oil is used to stimulate the throat chakra and clarify communication.
To Calm – Cypress oil
With an overactive throat chakra, you may be overly critical and inauthentic. Cypress may aid in bringing strength and stability while calming frazzled nerves.
REVIVE recommends that you blend the pure essential oil with a carrier like Grapeseed Oil and apply in a circular motion to the throat area.
Anja
Anja or Third Eye Chakra is located in the center of your forehead is the link to the mind, awareness, and openness. When in balance, one may be intuitive and see the big picture with the ability to think more clearly. If this Chakra is blocked, you could experience fear of the future, rigid beliefs, and even difficulting seeing.
Maintain – Sandalwood oil
Sandalwood oil encourages the mind to have a greater sense of awareness and promotes a calm and collective feeling. Often used in religious ceremonies, this soothing oil encourages spiritual connection.
Activate – Lemon oil
To spark intuition and bring light to the pineal gland, add Lemon Essential Oil to your practice. This uplifting scent can help to awaken the third eye and expand your thought process.
Calm – Frankincense King oil
This mega calming oil supports relaxation and balance. Wonderful for meditation, Frankincense King can release fears and bring us back to our center helping create homeostasis.
REVIVE recommends that you inhale or diffuse these oils as needed for the Third Eye.
Sahasrara
The Crown Chakra is located at the top of the head and it represents spirituality and enlightenment. A balanced Crown inspires consciousness, purpose, and understanding. Being out of balance here may feel disconnected, egotistical, and close-minded.
Maintain – Myrrh oil
When keeping the Crown in balance, Myrrh can aid in continuing that spiritual connection. Known to enhance meditation, this oil may promote higher consciousness and a focused mind.
Activate – REVIVE Exhale oil
An incredible essential oil blend for emotional and spiritual stability, we love Exhale for its ability to encourage harmony and help you to release negativity. This blend can boost your ability to connect at a higher level.
Calm – Vanilla oil
If your crown chakra is overly active, you may feel a sense of elitism or even superior to others. To bring you back down to Earth and forge that spirit/body connection, we recommend using Vanilla Absolute. This scent will soften the harsh energy and promote peace while honoring the divine that surrounds you.
REVIVE recommends a room diffusion or creating a diffuser mist to surround your crown with these balancing Essential Oils.
Final Thoughts On Essential Oils and Chakras
If you’re ready to transform your wellness regimen and spiritual journey, there is just one thing left to do – grab your essential oils and start learning more about how they interact with your chakras. Here at Revive, you’ll find the best selection of essential oil products at the lowest prices online. We take great pride in the stellar reputation we’ve earned as the #1 supplier of all things essential oil – and we intend to uphold it.
We have essential oil diffusers that can help you use aromatherapy to activate, maintain, or calm your chakras. We also have essential oil rollers that make topically applying oil right to your chakras easy and efficient. You’ll also find essential oil blends that offer synergy you can’t get anywhere else. Take a look and start living a healthier life emotionally, physically, and spirutally!
