Hello, ladies; this is a list of recommended resources, books, and nervous system essential oil ideas.
I hope you find this useful 🙏🏻
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Recommended Books:
Wild Woman’s Way – Michaela Boehm
Women Who Run with the Wolves – Clarissa Pinkola Estés
The Heroine’s Journey – Maureen Murdock
If Women Rose Rooted: A Life-Changing Journey to Authenticity and Belonging – Sharon Blackie
Waking The Tiger – Peter Levine
In An Unspoken Voice – Peter Levine
A New Earth – Eckhart Tolle – the chapter on the painbody is worth buying this book alone!
Overcoming Underearning – Barbara Stanny
Guilt Unplugged: Waking up from the Lie We Live & Addiction Unplugged: How to be Free – both by John Flaherty (who has two interviews on the Wild Awakening Circle Group)
The Keys to the Kingdom and The Queens Code – Both by Alison A. Armstrong
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself – Michael A Singer
Dandelion: The Extraordinary Life of a Misfit – Sheelagh Mawe
Unbound: A Woman’s Guide to Power – Kaisa Urbaniak
The Wisdom of Mental Illness: Shamanism, Mental Health & the Renewal of the World – Jez Hughes
The places that scare you – Pema Chödrön
The Magnesium Miracle – Carolyn Dean
Recommended Supplements:
Nervous System Support: Vitamin B
Fish Oils (also for Nervous System Support & Brain Health)
Mega-Mag Liquid Magnesium (add to water throughout the day)
Magnesium Relax Tablets – Bedtime Sleep Supplement To Aid Relaxation
Magnesium Cream to rub on your feet before bed
Essential Oils:
Essential Oils Introductory book
Nervous System Care:
Whenever you notice yourself in the stress response, I’d invite you to diffuse this blend of essential oils to soothe your nervous system:
Mix 3 drops of Bergamot, 2 drops of Geranium, and 2 drops of Chamomile in water in a candle burner or electric aromatherapy diffuser, and do some deep breathing for 10 minutes.
These essential oils, especially bergamot and chamomile, have excellent calming and relaxing properties and are wonderful for soothing the nervous system.
As you begin to notice more, you might be surprised that, sometimes, even things that we don’t realise can cause us to feel stress – for example, not drinking enough can tell the body it’s short on water.
Symptoms of a stressed nervous system can include anything from lack of appetite to over-eating, disruption of the menstrual cycle, ulcers and inhibited immune function, or things like depression (which can be your body’s way of numbing).
The body feels the stress response and acts accordingly, so even just noticing how it expresses itself in your own body is the first step into soothing the nervous system, as it offers you a choice as to what to do about it. That, along with this beautiful essential oil blend, is a powerful first step into reclaiming your power.
What can we learn from the wild?
In “Waking the Tiger,” Peter Levine proposed that human animals are unique in that they don’t discharge their nervous energy like wild animals.
He says, “The key to healing traumatic symptoms in humans lies in our being able to mirror the fluid adaptation of wild animals” as they pass through the stress response to heal. He believes that, unlike animals, our stressed energy gets frozen in our nervous systems and that this needs to be discharged.
A practice for discharging nervous energy
Therefore, the second invitation is a return to the wild to discharge any nervous energy via movement practice.
As you begin to notice your stress response more with the first enquiry practice, you’ll want to transform it. The next step is to create some form of body-led movement practice—whether yoga, dancing, shaking (TRE, which is what I teach my clients), or anything that feels like it is discharging your stress energy.
Do 10 minutes of this daily.
Use this essential oil blend to support this practice:
Mix a blend of 3 drops of Lemongrass, 2 drops of Ylang Ylang, and 1 drop of Lavender in 15 ml of Grapeseed oil and massage into your body in a direction towards the heart.
Make this a beautiful ‘de-stress’ ritual by being very conscious about the reason for doing it and affirming “I am discharging nervous energy from my body and reclaiming my nervous system”. Once you are fully covered in oil, shake some more.
Lemongrass oil is a powerful nervous system restorer, great for stress-related exhaustion, and extremely uplifting, so it’s perfect for this stage of reclaiming your power over stress! Ylang Ylang is excellent for treating nervous tension, and Lavender is generally relaxing, so you’re in good hands with these oils.
Using essential oils to reclaim your power over stress
Of course, we have learned from the wild that we need to shake and begin to see ourselves as human animals who require some tending and nurturing – especially in a world that is no longer as wild as it was. And a huge part of our wild reclamation over our nervous system is integrating essential oils into our everyday life.
This is quite literally bringing nature into our bodies.
My Top 10 essential oils for calming and soothing the nervous system are:
Soothing your nervous system with essential oils:
So, with these oils in mind, your next invitation into a practice involves using your intuition to really tune into what your nervous system needs in each fresh moment.
Your body is clever and will let you know which essential oils it desires via your sense of smell.
You’ll be drawn to specific oils at different moments and in different ways.
Let yourself be guided by your body on this, which will help you reclaim your relationship with your nervous system.
Here are ways to use your oils along with suggested blends (remember you can substitute the oils for an alternative of your choice, as long as you keep the number of drops to the carrier ratio the same):
- Bath Blend: Mix 3 drops Rose, 2 drops Clary Sage and 1 drop Neroli in 15ml Bath Oil or Shower Gel, and add this mixture to your warm flowing bath water. Sit in your cauldron of relaxation and breathe your stresses away.
- Spritz Spell: Mix 15 drops of Lemongrass, 10 drops of Sandalwood and 5 drops of Patchouli in 100ml of Orange Flower (Neroli) or Rose and use as a soothing spritz as required.
- Diffusion Blend: Mix 2-3 drops of each of your favourite three essential oils and diffuse when you’re likely to feel most need soothing. A beautiful blend is 3 drops of Bergamot, 2 drops of Rose, and 2 drops of Patchouli mixed in water in a candle burner or electrical diffuser.
You may also want to add some healing, therapeutic essential oils for soothing specific nervous system symptoms.
For example, for the symptoms we highlighted earlier, these might be helpful:
- Lack of appetite – Peppermint is a great oil for digestive disturbance
- Over-eating – Grapefruit is wonderful for nervous exhaustion while also helping curb an appetite due to stress.
- Disruption of hormones and the menstrual cycle – Geranium and Rose are significant for nervous disorders but are also outstanding hormonal balancers.
- Ulcers—Lemongrass is an excellent nervous system balancer and is said to be good for stomach ulcers (it should never be ingested, only diffused or used in a blend on the skin).
- Inhibited immune function—Orange is a beautiful oil that stimulates and balances the immune system while relaxing it.
- Depression – Rose is a powerful and beautiful antidepressant, helping process emotional issues and soothing the nerves.
Overall, I’d encourage you to practice choosing how you want your nervous system to be. The more you can reclaim your nervous system by being more conscious and bringing it back to balance when you can, the easier it will be to manage your stress.
You have the power to bring your nervous system back to balance.
Rewild yourself, and you’ll feel calmer with each action you take.
Extras:
- Gua sha Stone – for Face Care
- Castor Oil – For Face / Body Care
- Oil Pulling oil – mouth
- St Palo Wood
- Foam Roller
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