Healing emotional trauma with essential oils

Essential oils clear emotional trauma

Today I want to share a couple of case studies that illustrate how essential oils can help animals let-go of emotional trauma or blockages. This is an area I work with frequently, as often even 'physical' problems can be traced back to one traumatic incident. Trauma causes the 'electric circuits' of the body to turn off momentarily, this can cause a blockage in the flow of energy which later leads to disease. Essential oils can clear the blockage and jump start blocked systems, clearing health and behaviour problems as if by magic.

Solving a horse's bucking problem with benzoin

Among other things, benzoin (Benzoin styrax) clears emotional trauma held around scars. One of the first times I used benzoin was with a horse who had injured himself some years before and seemed unable to reconnect with the injured area, where the scar ran along his side. Anything that caused him to think about this area such as being groomed, the rider’s leg touching it, or turning to the right, could cause an angry reaction and he regularly bucked his rider off. It was so extreme that when I first stood and looked at the scar, from about 2 feet away, the horse became fidgety and tried to bite his owner. I offered the horse benzoin, which he breathed deeply, going into a slight trance, then with a few drops of diluted benzoin on my hands I brushed the scar very lightly, two or three times, not even touching the skin. The horse breathed out loudly turned to look at me and touched the scar with his nose. From then on he was happy to be handled from the right, as if there had never been a problem.

Helping a dog with essential oil of cypress

I was giving a talk at a dog-groomers convention once, and in the front row was a small dog who had come to help demonstrate how to use oils. All we could see of this dog was his nose as he hid under a chair. This dog’s person had recently died. He had been adopted by her friend straightaway, but he had lost confidence in himself, was very timid and scared of his surroundings. This was new or exaggerated behaviour.

It is difficult to do a demonstration when your subject won’t come out from under the chair, however I held the open bottle of cypress in my hand at an unobtrusive distance and slowly the dog's head crept forward until we could see his nostrils twitching as he inhaled the oils. When the head withdrew, I closed the bottle and continued talking, until I was seriously upstaged by the little dog walking along the front row and greeting everybody; a heart-warming moment indeed. In a case like this where the behaviour is the outcome of one specific event, a few minutes of sniffing the oil is often enough to re-balance the mind, like turning on a light switch in a dark room.

Just two examples of the versatility and effectiveness of essential oils.