Managing Emotional Trauma and Personal Healing As We Head Into a New Year
Posted by T. Schuur | Integrative Health Practitioner | Aromatherapist | Herbalist | Botanical Chemistry & Formulation on 5th Jan 2020
Bergamot Essential Oil
Bergamot relieves feelings of despair, self-judgment, and low self-esteem. It supports individuals in need of self-acceptance and self-love. Bergamot invites individuals to see life with more optimism.
Bergamot has a cleansing effect on stagnant feelings and limiting belief systems. Because of core beliefs of being bad, unlovable, and not good enough, they seek to hide behind a facade of cheerfulness. They may fear revealing their true thoughts and feelings.
Bergamot's powerful cleansing properties generate movement in the energy system, which in turn brings hope. In this way,
Bergamot is wonderful for those who feel down and hopeless. It awakens the soul to hope and offers courage to share the inner self. Reigniting optimism and confidence in the self, it imparts true self-acceptance.
Bergamot teaches individuals to let go of self-judgment by learning to love themselves unconditionally.
Bergamot Helps Negate Negative Emotions: Despairing, low self-esteem, self-judgment, unlovable, hopeless
Bergamot Helps Replace Negative Emotional Responses with Positive Reactionary Emotional Properties: Self-acceptance, optimistic, confident, hopeful, lovable, good enough
Bergamot Companion Oils: Cassia, Kumquat, Grapefruit, Copaiba, Beautiful, Pink Pepper
Suggested Uses:
Aromatic: Inhale from bottle or diffuse; use with an Aromatherapy Patch or Personal Inhaler.
Topical: Dilute 1-3 drops with carrier oil and apply over heart, solar plexus (upper stomach), or on forehead.
ArōmaPoint Therapy: Use 1 single drop of 5% diluted Bergamot essential oil on Shen Men acupressure point on either side, holding 5-30 seconds using light to medium pressure to release anxiety and to increase overall peace and relaxation. Use deep breathing techniques to amplify this effect.
Bergamot helps us transfer love back to ourselves. We can be so fixated on wanting other people to make us happy that we forget we can do that for ourselves. Bergamot is uplifting, has natural anti-depressant properties, and helps us to relax and regain self-confidence again.
Bergamot oil helps us in the areas of self-love, self-worth, self-acceptance, self-judgment, and self-loathing. This oil helps do the work necessary to step out of one’s fears of not being good enough, and habits of holding back for fear of rejection.
It instills validation within, allowing us to accept our own authenticity, and not spend so much time worrying about the opinions of others.
It also helps us in processing and releasing fear, blame, the need for approval, toxic shame, and emotional anguish. It may also relieve feelings of incompetence, inadequacy, or worthlessness by helping us step into our own confidence and empowerment.
STUDIES ON BERGAMOT ESSENTIAL OIL:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5434918/