Aromatherapy for “A Good Cry”
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Continuing to advocate for creating a ritual around crying, we are sharing essential oil practices that align with the key points in last week’s article “A Good Cry.” Excerpts from “A Good Cry” are underlined above suggestions from our friend in healing, Megan Schneider, Co-Founder of Yōga Advocates.
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Energetic Re-Alignment Protocol
It is important to create an integration practice to compliment the physical release of A Good Cry. There will be an energetic, emotional release that needs to be addressed, as well. You want to make sure the emotions of the release are energetically swept away. The simplest application would be an anointment of Tea Tree on the solar plexus with an additional few drops along the spine. This placement will serve as an energetic cleansing agent for any toxic emotional residue. Next, make sure you nourish and harmonize this new clean, energetic state by applying Frankincense at the top of the head and third eye. Once you have cleansed the body physically, as well as energetically, you are able to calibrate into a higher state of emotional wellbeing.
With each anointment, make sure to take a few moments in that space to breathe. Give yourself at least 3 long, slow breaths, or intuitively stay and breathe slowly as long as it feels therapeutic.
With this plant energy practice, you can allow yourself to embrace each cry with an intentional energetic re-alignment protocol. You bring healing and power back into your own hands, inviting a return to your own body and breath, creating healing shifts.
Plant Medicine Alternatives
If you are open to the practice, you may utilize essential oils as an alternative to these drug store items. One great option would be to apply Peppermint essential oil to your temples to reduce head tension. You can also use a respiratory blend like Breathe to clear the nasal passages and open your mind back up from any residual fogginess or cloudiness.
Another option is to apply Deep Blue, a pain relief blend, to your neck and shoulders, or even over your heart space, in order to help soften and release the stress that is habitually stored in these areas.
Bath Rituals
Bath Rituals are one of the best self-care practices when the mind and/or body have been over-exerted. A Good Cry can be both physically and emotionally taxing. Bath Rituals can soothe the mind, the body, and the soul.
Draw yourself a bath, add your oils and Epsom salts, light some sage and drop in for an energetic experience. Allow this space to be a place to submerge your soul as you consciously choose to let go of whatever you intended to “cry out.”
Supporting the Physical Release
If you are intentionally setting yourself up to have a real cleanse, you could add a Citrus Oil to your water or tea (using only glass bottles - no plastic). This will help the detox process flow internally, as well, supporting the physical release.
We store grief energetically in our lungs, so the practice of combining a blend like Breathe, to help open the lungs, will create a greater capacity to release the trapped/stuck/expired emotions that are stored in this region of the body. Using Breathe can strengthen the respiratory system's ability to filter dense emotion, but also aids the limbic center of the brain, creating a deeper mind/body release through the aromatic integration.
Breathe in the power of acceptance.
Exhale a heaving sigh of relief.
Let acceptance pour over the wounds you hide.
Embrace forgiveness through your your body.
Consider using Bergamot to cultivate Self-Acceptance. You can intentionally inhale drops of this oil from your palms and/or diffuse after your Good Cry Ritual. It can also act as a holistic reset when applied to the Shenmen acupoint in a simple aromapoint practice.
Cultivating gentle, mindful & intentional practices with nature is an integral part of our wellbeing. The powerful shifts of combining breath, essential oils, physical touch and intention can only best be explained through personal experience.
Slow down.
Anoint.
Affirm.
Breathe.
Listen.
You are an extension of nature’s wisdom. You hold the power to transform. You are divinely connected to the natural world. Immerse yourself in the loving, abundant energy within you and around you.
— Megan Schneider, Co-Founder of Yōga Advocates | yogaadvocates@gmail.com
NOTE: Subtle-Arts supports Megan’s use of doTERRA brand essential oils. While other brands can be used, please note that the blends mentioned here are exclusive to doTERRA.