Excellent Aromatherapy Guide

Essential oils for meditation

Before you meditate with essential oils, you need to decide whether to use a burner, room spray or a meditative mood perfume. Using a burner or electric vaporizer of some kind is generally best, because the effect of the essential oil is more powerful than it is with mood perfumes or room sprays. However, meditative perfumes are useful if you wish to meditate outside, or practice the walking meditation. If you want a very subtle effect, then a room spray is a good choice.

Using room sprays and mood perfumes

You can achieve a more subtle effect from essential oils as you meditate by using a room spray. Choose your essential oils as described above, add them to the water in your spray bottle and shake well. Spray the area you will be meditating in just before you start.

To use a meditative mood perfume, choose your essential oils as described above. Blend them into base oil, then apply behind your ears, at the base of your throat and on the inside of your wrists.

How to use a burner

You will need a blend of essential oils of your choice, cotton wool buds, a burner or electric vaporizer, and matches or a lighter.

First, decide which essential oils you are going to use. Analyze how you are feeling and what you wish to gain from the meditation. For example, you may feel tired and want to feel refreshed after your meditation and not fall asleep. In this instance you would choose a mentally stimulating essential oil, such as rosemary, cardamom or basil, and would blend it with something uplifting such as bergamot, orange or rosewood, and with a balancing essential oil like geranium.

Second, choose three or four essential oils according to your feelings. Then do a sniff test, using cotton wool buds, to make sure the blend is pleasing.

Third, fill the burner’s bowl three quarters full of cold water and float the essential oils on top. (This method allows you to begin your meditation as the water slowly heats, so that the essential oils diffuse gradually. If you would like a more instant effect, start with hot water.)

Last, light the candle once you are ready to begin meditating.

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