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The Mind-Body Connection with Essential Oils

If there is one thing the past couple of years has caused in a lot of us is stress. How have you handled it? Have your circumstances changed so much that your anxiety levels have risen? Has there been added trauma?
You're not alone.
Did you know that every emotion you experience can be linked to a physical response in your body?
Ok, so this is where I get a little nerdy... but stick with me because it's so interesting. When we know better, we can do better. I know for me when I understand how my body works and why my dōTERRA essential oils respond they do, it causes me to use them so much more.
The reasoning is found in the limbic system within your brain.

The limbic system is the part of the brain that involves our behaviours and emotions that we need for survival, like feeding, sex, caring for children, and our fight or flight responses.
When we feel an emotion-based from fear, happiness, sadness, anger, love, guilt, peace/ calm, and stress, our limbic systems send hormones through our body and we have a physical response.

For the next couple of weeks, I'll share three of our strongest emotions, the mind-body connection, and how we can use essential oils to assist us with those emotions. But before that, let's lay a bit more of a foundation. 

Everyone responds differently to different emotions… but there are underlying themes that each type of emotion exhibits. In order to get to the heart of the matter and understand what underlying emotion is happening when we clench our jaw or puff out our chest (anger, for example), we want to tune in and recognize what our body is doing at that exact moment when we become emotional.
We can do this for each emotion we experience as emotions manifest into physical indicators.

What is your GO TO emotion when you are triggered? Anger? Stress? Anxiety? Laughter? Peace? 
Would you say they are healthy responses? 

How can we integrate our dōTERRA essential oils into our responses and help support this connection to become healthier and move through our emotions? Check this out...
We all have the same base or root emotions: 😤 Anger 😱 Fear 😞 Stress 🥺 Guilt 🤗 Happiness 😥 Sadness 😍 Love 😌 Peace

Each of these root emotions shares associated emotions
For example, love. Love has associated emotions like passion, forgiveness, fondness, empathy, or caring, and kindness. These emotions carry the same root. When we are looking for an essential oil to help us when we want to feel a certain emotion or combat a certain emotion and we are able to describe the associated emotions, we can start to dig deeper to the root emotion and try to peel back why we feel the way we feel.

Our associated emotions and root emotions can all drive physical indicators. We can not only emotionally feel anger, for example, but we can physically feel it too. That is how strong the mind-body connection can be!

What root emotion do you want to learn more about this month? Comment below and we'll dig deeper into those. 

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