Lavender - Relaxation * Opennes * Nurturing

The oil of Relaxation * Openness * Nurturing

Lavender is native to Southern Europe, northern and Eastern Africa, the Mediterranean, southwest Asia and parts of India, where she has been celebrated for centuries. With a wide range of uses, she is one of the most extensively used essential oils, distilled from her soft purple flowers and leaves. Her relaxing aroma and healing properties ensure she’s a staple in aromatherapy.

Lavender is the duvet of the aromatherapy kingdom, wrapping you up in comfort to soothe and hold you. She will bring you tranquility and peace where there is none. She reminds you to turn inward for stillness and solace. She also soothes and calms hurts, emotional heartache, contraction and grief. Just as lavender is applied to the skin for bites and stings, the you are feeling stung by someone’s words or actions, use lavender to facilitate emotional healing.

My Gift to you is Relaxation

Lavender will assist you in gaining clarity on what you want from a relationship and adjust your attitudes about love and yourself so you can move towards a relationship you find truly fulfilling. With this clarity, Lavender will also help you communicate your needs to a partner. Lavender promotes authenticity and open communication, which helps strengthen understanding in any relationships.

The calming nature of lavender goes beyond her ability to soothe the body and mind. She can also relax fears and inhibitions that prevent you from receiving all the abundance the universe wishes to bestow upon you. Lavender wraps herself around you, removes fixations on how things should turn out, and shows you there are many ways a dream can come true.

Lavender instils an awareness of the healing abilities of nature. Go to a wild place in nature, breathe in your lavender and look around. She will help you discover the serenity, comfort and joy that you crave.

Lavender is the ideal oil if you are beginning to explore your spirituality or preparing to take your spiritual journey to the next level. She will raise your vibration, protecting you from harm and obstacles, as well as overcoming internal demons such as fear or doubt that may have held you back in the past. She also enhances your intuition, clairvoyance and psychic abilities. Lavender teaches that you grow spiritually not by doing more, but by doing less.

Practice

 Take some time to contemplate what you find relaxing, whether it be listening to music, receiving a massage, or getting out in nature and dedicate some time to it in the coming days.  As you enjoy this relaxing activity, find a way to incorporate lavender.  It will not only enhance the relaxation but create an ‘aromatic anchor’.  Whenever you need to feel relaxed, smell lavender and it will take you back to feelings of relaxation.  You can also include an amethyst in this practise which will absorb the peaceful energies and keep them with you as you go about your day.

 Affirmation 

 It is okay to pause rest and just be 

From The Gifts of the Essential Oils by Adam Barralet & Vanessa Jean Boscarello Ovens

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