Everyday Use: Grounding

Grounding is an important oil because you need to be grounded to have balance in your emotional life.

Grounding

This blend helps to create the feeling of grounding. When you disconnect, you become elevated in your feelings. Grounding helps stabilize a person in order to deal with reality in a logical, peaceful manner.

People drawn to this oil are sometimes the ones in their own world, who tend to “space out” and can’t focus on their work 100%.

Oils used in this blend: White Fir, Black Spruce. Ylang Ylang, Pine, Cedarwood, Angelica, Juniper.

It complements feelings of stability, clarity, and spirituality. Grounding’s warm and entrancing aroma can create an atmosphere that is perfect for finding self-awareness and confronting negative emotions.

How to Use Grounding

• Diffuse in the evening or during meditation for a relaxing, grounding aroma.
• Dilute and apply it directly behind the ears and on the wrists, back of the neck, and temples to help you feel grounded and ready to face everyday decisions.
• Apply it topically in the morning to help start your day with a healthy perspective.
• Inhale it directly or add 2–4 drops to your bath for a warm, comforting aroma.
• Close your eyes, inhale this warm aroma, and meditate on life’s blessings.
• Muscle through rush-hour traffic with this grounding scent.
• Find comfort in the arms of loved ones and in the calming atmosphere this deep aroma provides.
• Breathe in this blend to find a moment of calm when your day overwhelms you.

Tidbit: If someone starts exaggerated crying, wailing or screaming, go right to this oil.

10 Uses for Grounding

1. Mental clarity: When there are so many thoughts in my head, I have a hard time focusing.
2. Calming: Work, family, relationships can be the cause of distractions and leave you feeling unbalanced. Diffuse grounding to get back in focus.
3. Emotional Balance: Ever feel torn and pulled in multiple directions at once? Grounding can help.
4. Personal loss: Everyone handles personal loss differently. Grounding can help you find an outlet for that grief.
5. In a rut: Grounding is good for when I feel like I’m stuck and lack the motivation to move forward.
6. Renew Focus: When I forget what’s really important in life.
7. Chaos: When I feel control slipping. Again, for me, grounding isn’t giving me control but letting me see that my perceived control is an illusion. Just like a mighty river, there are things I can’t control.
8. Family obligations: Family gatherings, dinners, in-laws can be sources of increased tension.
9. The to-do list that won’t quit: When I have so much on my plate that I feel that it will never get done.
10. Impending big decisions: When I feel frozen by indecision because I don’t know the “right” decision to make, Grounding helps me be at peace with the decision that I make.