| Are you looking for spiritual health? Here is a unique | | | | or heart as you call upon God to bless yourself or |
| way that many have found helpful: anointing yourself | | | | someone else with health and well-being. Some |
| with essential oils on a daily basis. Using essential oils | | | | wonderful fragrances include balsam, neroli, |
| will help to open you to the possibility of receiving | | | | frankincense or blends like Joy, Harmony and |
| God's favor-God's healing grace in your life. This kind | | | | Abundance. |
| of anointing is more than just putting oils into your | | | | 2. Anoint and clear your meditation space and your |
| bath water and allowing the aroma to release your | | | | healing space with oils. Any of the tree oils are good |
| negativity and open you to unconditional love. It is | | | | for this but especially balsam, sandalwood, and |
| more than diffusing an essential oil into the room to | | | | frankincense. Also blends like Awaken, Inspiration and |
| create a sacred healing environment. And it is more | | | | Grounding. |
| than burning incense to lift up your spirit to the high | | | | 3. For massage therapists, incorporate the use of |
| places. Sacred fragrances are an honoring of the gift | | | | essential oils in massaging the body. Relaxing oils |
| of God present in your daily life. God has blessed the | | | | would be helpful like lavender, Roman Chamomile or |
| earth with all kinds of plants for your use. When you | | | | blends like Peace and Calming. |
| take the very essence of the plants, the essential | | | | 4. Anoint the linens, table and room before a healing |
| oils, and breathe them, rub them on your body or | | | | session begins. One word of caution--make sure you |
| take them within, you are accepting the gift of | | | | are not using an oil that stains. |
| blessing from God. It is through this kind of anointing | | | | 5. Anoint the client's body, blessing and respecting the |
| that is a reminder that God has placed a mark upon | | | | sacredness of the person. I particularly like to use |
| your heart. | | | | blends here. Harmony, Valor, Joy or White Angelica. |
| Today those on a spiritual path recognize the healing | | | | 6. Diffuse a healing oil to cleanse and anoint the |
| properties of oil and create their own spiritual rituals | | | | client's aura. Use light fragrances like lemon, orange, |
| for themselves and their families, anointing their | | | | grapefruit, or bergamot. |
| bodies with these healing substances. | | | | 7. Anoint bath water. Are you in need of relaxation |
| Some Modern Ways of Anointing | | | | ro energy? Lavender, Roman Chamomile, or neroli |
| | | | might be just what you need. If its energyzing that |
| 1. Anoint the energy centers like the brow or throat | | | | you need, go for pine, rosemary, or juniper. |