How To Create Your Own
Essential Oil Blend Part Three
Ever wondered how to create your own essential oil blend? It's not hard and it can be a lot of fun! Put your handy professor hat on, and get ready to blend!
Setting The Stage for Blending Essential Oils
Most people who like to use essential oils have their own favourite method of pulling them together to create the ultimate symphony for the olfactory senses - a rockin' essential oil blend!
The most important step in a creating a successful essential oil blend is to set the stage.
Setting The Stage for Blending Essential Oils
Most people who like to use essential oils have their own favourite method of pulling them together to create the ultimate symphony for the olfactory senses - a rockin' essential oil blend!
The most important step in a creating a successful essential oil blend is to set the stage.
Get Clear
The first thing to do is to get clear - create a "blank canvass" to work with. This step is actually universal to starting any task at all.
In the arena of blending essential oils, getting clear means a few things.
First of all, it is important to have a clear space. Surprising to some, this means both physically and emotionally. No family, pets or other noisy types running around your work area, unless they are your partner in the project and will be sharing in the adventure - if it is your dog, I'd like to hear about it!
Set The Atmosphere
In the arena of blending essential oils, getting clear means a few things.
First of all, it is important to have a clear space. Surprising to some, this means both physically and emotionally. No family, pets or other noisy types running around your work area, unless they are your partner in the project and will be sharing in the adventure - if it is your dog, I'd like to hear about it!
Set The Atmosphere
Setting the atmosphere can give an amazing boost to the creative process, especially, as in this case, where you are not depending so much on your thinking ability as on the ability of your own senses... and catching the reaction your own body has to them... in a split second as they can be fleeting. Sometimes it's just that subtle nuance that will give you the idea that you need to make that special blend.
ON SITE RESEARCH
ON SITE RESEARCH
A shower before hand not only cleans the body - including the aura, which may interest some of you, I find it is the perfect place to "feel" for a blend inside of your subconscious memory. If you haven't tried letting go and blending by instinct and visualization, give it a try, it's very much like a meditation.
Just clear your mind, think of the end result that you would like your blend to be, and if you have made yourself familiar with your oils, something will come to you.
Or you can take it from the other direction. Meditate on the oils that you would like to use, and you will start to create the end result in your mind as the water cleanses all other thoughts from your mind.
Just clear your mind, think of the end result that you would like your blend to be, and if you have made yourself familiar with your oils, something will come to you.
Or you can take it from the other direction. Meditate on the oils that you would like to use, and you will start to create the end result in your mind as the water cleanses all other thoughts from your mind.
Along the same lines, you can brainstorm a blend in the tub, you don't have to shower again :0)
If you have an oil or two in mind, it can help to add a few drops to a carrier oil and put it in the tub so that you can consider it. Sometimes a faint whiff of a top, middle or base note will set you off to remembering another oil that will match well.
One word of caution, if you are using soap or a shower product, don't use anything with scent, especially synthetic as it will skew your sense of smell. The only exception to this rule is if you are using an essential oil product that contains the oil you would like to blend.
Another interesting aspect of cleansing in the shower is the concept that a shower cleanses the aura as well as the body. Everyone feels better after a shower! Let any thoughts of conflict or negativity that may distract her wash right down the drain.
Now that we are clear, there are a few steps we can take to set the stage for the perfect essential oil blend.
If you have an oil or two in mind, it can help to add a few drops to a carrier oil and put it in the tub so that you can consider it. Sometimes a faint whiff of a top, middle or base note will set you off to remembering another oil that will match well.
One word of caution, if you are using soap or a shower product, don't use anything with scent, especially synthetic as it will skew your sense of smell. The only exception to this rule is if you are using an essential oil product that contains the oil you would like to blend.
Another interesting aspect of cleansing in the shower is the concept that a shower cleanses the aura as well as the body. Everyone feels better after a shower! Let any thoughts of conflict or negativity that may distract her wash right down the drain.
Now that we are clear, there are a few steps we can take to set the stage for the perfect essential oil blend.
Mood and Music
Relaxing music will do wonders, I encourage you to try it even if it sounds hokey. Have some fun with it!
The type of blend you want to make can help you to choose the music that you want to work with.
The type of blend you want to make can help you to choose the music that you want to work with.
I often work with Mozart and some of the various new age type music out there these days, it's amazing how the state of relaxtion really does put you into a creative mode where you can forget all the hussle bussle of *other things*. Many ideas can come from a whiff here and a whiff there that you'll find floating in the air around you, if you are distracted you could miss it.
If you want to do something really fun and lively, you may want to choose something a little more upbeat and fun, but not something that will take your attention away from your reactions and opinions at every additional drop of essential oil you may blend, or to each essential oil that you may consider.
Wear something comfortable, put anything away that you don't need to use and give the area that you will be working in a quick wipe.
If all of this sounds unnecessary, try it the next time you get ready to play around with a blend. You might be surprised.
If you want to do something really fun and lively, you may want to choose something a little more upbeat and fun, but not something that will take your attention away from your reactions and opinions at every additional drop of essential oil you may blend, or to each essential oil that you may consider.
Wear something comfortable, put anything away that you don't need to use and give the area that you will be working in a quick wipe.
LISTEN WITH YOUR EYES, FEEL WITH YOUR EARS, TASTE WITH YOUR NOSE (and never diet again!) - Janice Ferrante on Blending Essential Oils :0)
If all of this sounds unnecessary, try it the next time you get ready to play around with a blend. You might be surprised.
Continued Part Four...
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