Permanent Zen Blog: Emotional Healing with Crystals and Essential Oils

Crystal healing and essential oil healing are a types of alternative therapy that involves using gemstones and oils in the bid to bring balance to an individual's life and mind. Crystals and oils have  stable and unchanging energy patterns, each with a unique frequency and energy field, or resonance that gives them special properties.  As a result, crystals and oils can act like tuning forks that help bring harmony to the unstable energy field of the human body.

Crystals and essential oils absorb, focus, direct and diffuse our energy fields to enable a diseased or out of balance body to find it's natural energetic rhythm once again. The appropriate crystals can be placed on the seven main chakras, which look like different colored spinning wheels of subtle energy, running up the centre of the torso. These link the subtle energy fields of our aura with our emotions, glands, organs, physical body parts and subtle and physical circulatory flows. This is why wearing certain crystals such as yellow citrine may uplift you, rose quartz may help to ease heartache, and amethyst may calm a busy mind and help you to sleep.

Crown Chakra

Crystal: Amethyst

Essential Oil: Lavender

Known as the ‘Crown’ chakra, this energy point sits on top of the head. It’s considered to be the most important chakra, one that’s said to raise your consciousness upon opening up. If you are feeling pessimistic, hopeless or you suffer from chronic worrying, you may need to open up your Crown Chakra.

Both an amethyst crystal and lavender essential oil will help you connect to your inner consciousness. You can sleep with amethyst under your pillow or place it in your meditation space. You can spray lavender oil in your room or meditation spot as well. You’ll get a deep meditation and a deep sleep!

Third Eye

Crystal: Lapis Lazuli

Essential Oil: Rosemary

The Third Eye sits between the eyebrows and is responsible for the link between your mind and the outer world. A healthy 6th chakra promotes intuition, pattern recognition, learning skills, and memory. If you are feeling confusion, rigidity or close-mindedness you may need to open up your Third Eye Chakra.

A stronger sixth chakra allows you to bridge the gap between other chakras and your crown chakra. Meditation on this point will eventually open the thousand-petaled lotus in the brain.

Meditate on a lapis lazuli while using an essential oil diffuser on your meditation altar.

Throat Chakra

Crystal: Blue Lace Agate

Essential Oil: Eucalyptus

The throat chakra is the voice of the body. It is a pressure valve that allows the energy from the other chakra to be expressed. If it is out of balance or blocked it can affect the health of the other chakras. When it is in balance we can express what we think and what we feel. We can communicate our ideas, beliefs, and emotions. When the throat chakra is in balance and open, we can bring our personal truth out into the world. If you find yourself habitually lying, feeling fear and doubt about the intentions of others, or find yourself stammering or at a loss for words, you may need to open up your throat chakra. Physical symptoms may include sore throats, tight jaws, stiff neck, and headaches.

One of the best ways to cleanse and rejuvenate is to simply take a bath. In fact, it’s been recommended for similar treatments in ancient India. Try adding 10 drops of eucalyptus oil into your bath! This will be an aromatherapeutic addition that will completely change the way your bath feels.

You can also place your agate crystal underneath your pillow to absorb this wonderful energy.

Heart Chakra

Crystal: Rose Quartz

Essential Oil: Rose

‘Anahata’ is the Sanskrit word for the heart chakra. It means “unhurt and unbeaten”. Imagine what it’s like to have nothing hurting you at an emotional level. This is a properly functioning heart chakra! If you’re experiencing feelings of loneliness, anger, an inability to forgive or a tendency to lack empathy, then you may need to unblock your heart chakra.

Wear malachite jewelry while you diffuse rose essential oils. This promotes compassion, love, and self-acceptance.

Solar Plexus

Crystal: Citrine

Essential Oil: Lemon

The solar-plexus or Manipura is located two fingers above the navel on the spine. It radiates prana (life energy) through the entire body. It’s our center of self and holds our willpower and confidence. Raw emotions and self-discipline are governed by this area. If you have difficulty defining what your will really is, and/or exerting this will into the external will, you may need your 3rd chakra opened. This can happen on a micro level in failing to represent your self honestly in a one-on-one conversation, or on a grosser level, as staying stuck in a job you hate because you’re afraid to take a leap of faith toward your passion.

Use a citrine stone and lemon essential oil to accept and a create great appreciation for all the people in your life (including yourself). Inhaling lemon promotes healing and helps combat insecurity. It’s also super energizing!

Sacral

Crystal: Carnelian

Essential Oil: Orange

Our sacral chakra helps us to cultivate an energy and zest for life. Individuals with a healthy sacral chakra bring forth beauty and abundance in their surroundings through joy, laughter, pleasure and creativity. If you’re feeling lethargic and unmotivated for life, particularly exercise and sex, or experiencing a mild depression, you may need your sacral chakra unblocked.

You can create an aphrodisiac blend with 3 drops each of orange blossom, rose, and sandalwood essential oils in a spray bottle and spritz your bedroom. Wearing carnelian can increase the power of this energy center as well!

Root

Crystal: Red Jasper

Essential Oil: Patchouli

The deepest connection to your physical body is located at the base of your spine. It’s literally ‘the root’ of your astral being and is located at the base of the spine. This is also the origin of our most base instincts, such as the preservation of life. This is also the source of courage and resourcefulness. If you feel stuck, fearful, ungrounded in life or if you’ve experienced a lot of traumatic life events, you may need your root chakra unblocked.

This is the most grounding chakra, so to keep in line with this thought process, rub patchouli oil on your feet, where you connect most with the world. And it might sound crazy, but jasper in your shoe also helps to promote a ‘rooted’ energy.

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