Today I was working at the market and a mom with her young boy came to pick up a blend I had made for him. The boy was having trouble sleeping and was waking up with nightmares often, also having trouble concentrating, during the day. One of the things that I have learned thus far in my studies and work with essential oils and people is the individuality of our needs. People seem to have an innate sense of what would be healing for them. Even if they are suffering from the same problem as another person, the scents of the oils that they feel resonant are different. It has amazed me time and time again watching this. But,today was very interesting. The mother brought her young son, so that he could tell us which of the blends that I made felt right to him. We went through all of them watching his face and body and narrowed it down to two. I had him smell them each one more time and asked him, where he felt it when he smelled them. After smelling the first oil, he points to his head and says " I feel it here." After smelling the second oil, he finds his heart and puts his hand on it and says " I feel it here." I didn't think too deeply about that, except that he seemed to have noticed what he needed, until I was labeling the bottles and noticed what I had put into each blend. The first blend had been specifically designed to calm the mind. I had chosen oils that would be supportive to calm and ground the thoughts and mental processes. The second blend had a deep component of the heart, designed to create a sense of calm, and openness As I saw that ,I was suddenly struck with the look on this child's face, and his innate sense of which of the oils he needed and where he needed them.
The interesting thing about this was he seemed to be tentative in telling us that it was not good, but both I and his mother could read in his body language his response and encouraged him to find words. I think about how we source out, externalize our own intuitive process of learning, feeling, becoming and healing. We read books that tell us which remedy will work for the malady we suffer, whether that be physical, spiritual, emotional…………..
I have had so many people come looking fro lavender, as though it is the flavor of the day, because their sad or heard from a friend that it would do such and such a thing. Don't get me wrong, lavender is a lovely oil, but there are hundreds of lovely oils that have amazing healing properties, similar and different, just as powerful as lavender. So we want it because someone else identified some great properties int he oil, so we don't us our powers of thought to look any further. There e is further to look, and I could write a whole article on essential pools, with properties similar to lavender that are beautiful, healing and amazing. ONe woman today came up with the same line "I heard that lavender does………." I asked her if she liked lavender. She didn't know, but wanted to do the thing she had heard it did. This is a good start to learning, we hear something that draws us in and makes us curious. We experiment with it, but we must hold the final call on the idea , the opinion, or feeling about what is right for us. We must not delegate our right to learn and find healing in our lives to another person. People are great resources, just as I was a resource to create some blends for a little boy, he had the final say. His intuition, read what he needed. I am just saying, the story of our lives is written by us, thinking for ourselves, taking baby steps to start, but finding out what we need, opening the doors to our own healing, by catching the rays of light that we see peeking under the door, telling us which door to open.
