Essential Emotions
The other week I had someone offer me a session of essential emotions. Using essential oils to help towards a breakthrough in an issue you’re dealing with. I’ve loved essential oils for years, but more for their pretty smell than the emotional side of things, which they are reported to be helpful for.
It was a great experience. The issue I bought to the table was exhaustion. I have struggled against exhaustion for many years. And it was amazing!
First we identified some oils that could have been associated with the issue, and I chose the red mandarin. According to this site red mandarin has these qualities:
The Emotional Benefits:
The oil of innocence and sweetness
Helps you tap into the joy and wonder of life around you
Relaxing you into the moment
Helps you release overwhelm, stress, or other heavy burdens from your shoulders and have fun again
Affirmations to Use with How to use Red Mandarin essential oil:
Even though I’m stressed, I choose to remember life is sweet and wonderful.
It’s safe for me to put down the burdens I feel obligated to and allow myself to finally PLAY.
All of life is play. I play my part with laughter, lightness, and delight.
I can choose stress, or I can choose joy. Today I choose joy.
All of this was a big fat yes. I want more play. I want more appreciation of the sweetness! To relax into the moment.
Once the oil was identified, while smelling the oil the coach asked me if I wanted to let go of the exhaustion. Definitely yes. I visualised the exhaustion lifting off me, and during the process I had some amazing realisations.
How often do we identify with something that isn’t actually part of who we are? I realised that I had been wearing my exhaustion like a coat. Holding it tight, unwilling to totally let go of it, even when it wasn’t actually serving me, it wasn’t actually something I wanted to identify with.
While I know I can still get tired (and have even since this was done), and I need to manage my energy by eating nutritious food, balancing my blood sugar levels, moving by body in a way that serves me, focusing on my sleep, dealing with emotional stuff that comes up and managing my stress, I no longer have to have exhaustion as part of my identity.
It’s got me thinking more too. What else do we identify with? What words do we use? It could be as simple as something like saying “I’m a diabetic” rather than “I have diabetes”, taking it into our identity rather than something that we have. Or “I’m anxious”, compared to “I suffer with anxiety”, or “I sometimes feel anxious”. Sometimes even separating ourselves that one step further from the thoughts can be helpful such as, “I’ve noticed that my brain is having some anxious feelings at the moment”. Using words like suffer, or struggle to describe our relationship with something.
I don’t have all the answers, and I likely never will. But I feel like I learned something on this journey. Much like handing over my mask, I could hand over my identity of exhaustion. I don’t want to wear it any more.
Is there an identity that you’re holding onto that you want to let go of? I’d love to help you out.
