Essential Oils for Chakras to Balance Your Body's Energy Centers

Chakras are spinning energy centers that influence your well-being and how consciously and happily you create your life path. Using essential oils for chakras is a way to help keep that energy moving and in balance.

When all chakras are balanced, you feel healthy, safe, creative, strong, and secure according to The Everything Guide to Chakra Healing. You can comfortably speak your mind, and your thoughts come together with clarity and ease. You also feel connected to your intuition and the energy of the universe.

Chakras can be deficient, that is blocked, where not enough energy flows in, or excessive, that is agitated, reactive, or aggressive, where too much energy flows in.

Not everyone agrees on the specific balancing essential oils for chakras. That doesn't mean oils are not a valid way to support your chakras, just that every person is different and responses will vary. This article briefly describes each chakra and links to more detailed articles with chakra balancing essential oil recipes.

Ways to Use Essential Oils for Chakras

Only use essential oils that have a scent you like. You want a pleasant experience, which is difficult with unpleasant scents.

You can use an essential oil for chakra balance in these ways:

• Massage: Massage around specific chakras or get a full-body chakra-balancing massage.
• Anointing: Place a drop of an anointing blend on your fingertip. Touch the energy center in need. If you cannot touch the skin, hold your fingertip in the energy field above the center.
• Stroking: Place a drop of anointing oil on your left palm. Gently pat or rub your hands together. Rest your hands three to six inches above the energy center. Slowly stroke the area without touching the body.
• Misting: Make an essential oil spray and use it to mist the area around the energy center.
• Inhalation: Inhale the aroma of an essential oil blend from a drop on a tissue or use an aromatherapy inhaler. Hold your hands over the energy center and imagine the aroma filling the center.
• Diffusing: Use an aromatherapy diffuser for general support. Optionally, do a chakra meditation while diffusing supportive oils.

Muladhara – First Chakra Essential Oils

Your root (first) chakra, located at the base of your tailbone, connects you to the earth. Choose balancing essential oils from a plant with earthy and red colors or with a musky scent, such as:

• Myrrh encourages courage, peace, sympathy, and acceptance. 
• Patchouli provides general support for health and helps release negative emotions.
• Vetiver psychologically grounds, calms, and stabilizes.
  
• Geranium may help relieve PMS and menopausal symptoms.
  

Read more... Root Chakra Essential Oils

Swadhisthana – Second Chakra Aromatherapy

Your sacral (second) chakra is associated with fluidity, creation, sexuality, and emotions. To balance swadhisthana, choose essential oils that calm the emotions and ease fear of change. Second chakra essential oils include:

• Clary sage has a mellow scent that both uplifts and relaxes. It's a good choice to help improve your attitude during PMS. 
• Fennel's earthy fragrance promotes energy, vitality, and balance.
• Sandalwood has a warm, woody aroma that is uplifting and relaxing.
  
• Jasmine and neroli may act as aphrodisiacs.
  

Read more... Sacral Chakra Essential Oils

Manipura – Third Chakra Essential Oils

Your solar plexus (third) chakra is a fiery energy center. Recommended essential oils include:

• Cedarwood and coriander relax and soothe.
• Black pepper encourages fearlessness, strength, and stamina.
• Hyssop decumbens has purifying properties that promote awakening, clarity, balance, and harmony.
  
• Lemon may help relieve anxiety and fatigue.
  
• Marjoram encourages calm, balance, and sincerity.
• Roman chamomile is calming.

Read more... Solar Plexus Chakra Essential Oils

Anahata – Fourth Chakra Aromatherapy

Your heart (fourth) chakra is a powerful transmitter for love, compassion, and maintaining authentic relationship. Suggested essential oils for balance include:

• Bergamot builds confidence and enhances your mood.
• Lavender is an adaptogen that can assist the body when adapting to stress or imbalances. 
• Melissa has a light, fresh scent that strengthens and revitalizes, while also calming and soothing.
• Ylang ylang calms and relaxes and may help release tension, anger, and nervous irritability.
• Rose brings balance and harmony.

Read more... Essential Oils for Heart Chakra

Vissudha – Fifth Chakra Essential Oils

If your throat (fifth) chakra is overactive, you may talk too much and monopolize a conversation. If the chakra is underactive, you may not say what you have to say. Suggested essential oils for balance include:

• Basil's spicy aroma encourages concentration, assertiveness, straightforwardness, and clarity.
• Cypress is refreshing and encourages stability, confidence, wisdom, patience, and trust. 
• Peppermint can improve concentration and mental sharpness.
• Roman chamomile encourages serenity, understanding, and cooperation.
• Rosewood comforts and soothes, has a steadying and balancing effect on emotions, and may help uplift feelings of despair.

Read more... Essential Oils for Throat Chakra

Ajna – Sixth Chakra Aromatherapy

Your third-eye (sixth) chakra is associated with intuition. Recommended essential oils include:

• Frankincense essential oil promotes deep relaxation and awareness of breath and can help you access dream states and deep meditative states. 
• Basil essential oil helps you think more clearly and decreases stress and nervousness. 
• Juniper has a cleansing effect on the mind, spirit, and body, and may work as a detoxifier and cleanser.
• Lemon helps revitalize and uplift.
• Rosemary is an energizing oil that may help restore mental alertness.

Read more... Essential Oils for Third Eye

Sahasrana – Seventh Chakra Aromatherapy

Your crown (seventh) chakra is your energetic gateway to bliss and oneness with the universe. Essential oils for crown chakra balance include:

• Frankincense stimulates and elevates the mind. Useful for visualizing, centering, and improving your spiritual connection.
• Neroli encourages lightness, calmness, and peace.
• Rose essential oil helps bring balance and harmony with stimulating and uplifting properties that create a sense of well-being.

Read more... Crown Chakra Essential Oils

Sources: Aromatherapy for the Soul and The Everything Guide to Chakra Healing.

Essential Oils for Chakras 8 and 9

Some systems recognize eighth and ninth chakras. The eighth chakra, also called the soul star or star chakra, floats a few inches above your head. The ninth chakra reaches into the cosmos to connect you with source energy.

Neroli essential oil has the strongest connection to the eighth and ninth chakras, according to Subtle Aromatherapy. Neroli's energy is pure, cool, and transparent. It encourages our highest aspirations. Frankincense and lavender also resonate with the high spiritual energy of the eighth and ninth chakras.

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