Essential Oils for Heart Chakra Balance

Anahata—the fourth or heart—chakra is the place of inner guidance and the higher emotions such as love, trust, empathy, and kinship. An out-of-balance heart chakra either suppresses love or causes it to be overabundant (a constricting love). A balanced heart chakra lets you express true love for yourself and all sentient beings.

Essential Oils for Heart Chakra Balance

Recommended best essential oils for heart chakra balance from Aromatherapy and Subtle Energy Techniques:

• Bergamot opens the heart center and allows love and joy to radiate. The oil eases and comforts wounds of the heart, especially grief, and increases compassion for others’ suffering.
• Helichrysum promotes compassion and patience for others and yourself.
• Lavender calms, comforts, and stabilizes the heart and promotes compassion, forgiveness, and acceptance.
• Mandarin uplifts the heart and helps a wounded heart joyfully engage in life.
• Marjoram warms the heart, helps you accept emotional loss and change, and promotes sincerity and ability to give.
• Melissa supports unconditional love and cheerfulness. The oil also comforts, eases emotional blocks from grief and shock, and promotes peace and acceptance.
• Neroli supports love and a sense of peace and also eases grief and sorrow.
• Rose promotes love, compassion, hope, acceptance, and patience with self and others. This oil also comforts and eases heartaches, especially for a heart wounded by grief.

The book lists common imbalances with additional balancing heart chakra essential oils, along with symptoms of congested energy with suggested oils. I recommend this book for the most comprehensive suggestions about essential oils for chakras.

Subtle Aromatherapy also recommends bergamot, melissa, and rose, plus the more unusual essential oil of inula. Use this oil to bring moral courage and assist when you are afraid to acknowledge and fully exercise your highest gifts.

This book notes inula and melissa can help release an energy blockage between the solar plexus and heart chakras, when used on the area between the two chakras. Another suggestion is jasmine to warm the heart chakra and help the heart’s function as the balance point between the upper and lower chakras.

Blends of Essential Oils for Heart Chakra Balance

Here's a sampling of blends of essential oils for heart chakra balance suggested by Aromatherapy and Subtle Energy Techniques.

• Mists: To make a mist, drop essential oils into a 4-ounce dark-color mister bottle. Fill with distiled water. Shake well before each use. To use, spray around the chakra area or around your body in general. Avoid eyes and other sensitive areas.
• Anointing oils: To make an anointing oil, blend oils and store in a small dark-color glass bottle with a cap. To use, apply 2 to 3 drops directly to and around the chakra.

To help heal a wounded heart:

Mist

• 7 drops bergamot essential oil
• 3 drops rose essential oil
• 4 ounces distilled water

Anointing Oil

• 2 drops bergamot essential oil
• 1 drop rose essential oil
• 1 tablespoon jojoba oil

To relieve fear of emotional intimacy:

Mist

• 4 drops bergamot essential oil
• 3 drops sandalwood essential oil
• 2 drops rose essential oil
• 4 ounces distilled water

Anointing Oil

• 1 drop bergamot essential oil
• 1 drop sandalwood essential oil
• 1 drop rose essential oil
• 1 tablespoon jojoba oil

More Anointing Oils for Heart Chakra Balance

Balancing Anointing Blend

• 1 tablespoon jojoba or olive oil
• 1 drop bergamot essential oil to help open the heart for love and joy to radiate
• 1 drop geranium essential oil to encourage devotion
• 1 drop orange essential oil to promote contentment and cheerfulness

Source: Aromatherapy Anointing Oils

Stimulating Anointing Blend

• 5 ml (1 teaspoon) almond oil
• 5 ml apricot kernel oil
• 12 drops pine essential oil 
• 12 drops rosewood essential oil 
• 2 drops neroli essential oil 

Use to anoint the fourth chakra. To use this blend for full massage, halve the amount of essential oils.

Source: Essential Oils in Spiritual Practice (This book suggests kaffir lime leaf, massoia bark, neroli, pine, red spikenard, rose, rosewood, and white lotus for the fourth chakra.)

Heart-Opening Bath Salts

• 9 drops bergamot essential oil
• 5 drops rose essential oil
• 5 drops jasmine absolute
• 2 tablespoons carrier oil
• 5 drops vitamin E oil
• 3 cups salts (your choice, such as sea, Epsom, or pink Himalayan)

1. Blend all the oils in a small glass container.
2. Place the salts in a dark-color glass container (minimum 3-cup size) that has a tight-fitting lid.
3. Stir the oil blend into the salts.
4. Place lid on container and let sit in a cool, dark place for 24 hours.
5. Stir mixture again.
6. Use 1/2 cup in a bath. Store salts in a cool, dark place for up to 3 months.

Source: Essential Oils for Emotional Wellbeing (Suggests bergamot, eucalyptus, jasmine, melissa, pine, and rose.)

Balancing Blends

Balancing Heart Chakra Inhaler

• 2 drops jasmine absolute
• 1 drop rose essential oil
• 1 drop lavender essential oil

Combine the essential oils and drop onto the wick of an aromatherapy inhaler. Carry with you and inhale as needed.

Source: April Kurtyka, IAC. "Aromatherapy for Chakra Balancing." NAHA Aromatherapy Journal, Summer 2014.2, p. 16.

Blend of Heart Chakra Essential Oils

This heart-opening aromatherapy blend reminds you of the valuable gift of sharing and giving:

• 1 drop rose essential oil
• 2 drops ginger essential oil
• 4 drops grapefruit essential oil
• 3 drops frankincense essential oil
• 2 teaspoons carrier oil

Use the blend in one of these ways:

• Massage your heart chakra, solar plexus, shoulders, and neck.
• Place a few drops on your palms and inhale deeply.
• Pour 10 to 20 drops of the blend into a warm bath and soak for 15 minutes or longer.
• Wear it as a perfume.

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