Myrrh Essential Oil For Fear and Hypersensitivity
The history of Myrrh is long and vast! Its most famous appearance is when the three kings brought Myrrh along with Frankincense to celebrate Baby Jesus.
But why? What makes it so great?
By its nature of being a resin, it is viscous and helps us ground and center, helping provide an overall tonifying effect on the body and mind. It helps promote inner security and stability while strengthening the mind and the body. This can result in building resilience and even promote inspiration.
What I love about Myrrh is its relevance to the Water element emotion of fear. As such, it a powerful remedy for fear and hypersensitivity.
So much of our deepest fears that we hold on to have underlying emotions of rejection, abandonment and fear of death. Although many times they go unnoticed consciously yet it has a profound impact on our behaviors.
We can unintentionally project fear and respond out of fear. We can also perpetuate karmic patterns based on fear.
But it’s not the fear itself, it is the clever ways we hide and manipulate ourselves into not feeling fear that we actually perpetuate it which is more damaging than facing it.
And…its not our fault. These deep patterns that have been set in our auric field without our knowing can wreak havoc in various parts of our lives. How do we clear them if we don’t know about them?
We go inward and allow the emotions arise and see how it is linked to deep seated fears that may not even feel like they belong to you. Yet, there they are and they are effecting you in negative ways.
Myrrh has the amazing ability to quell fear and nourish and help rebuild our inner resilience so that the fears, known and unknown don’t have the hold or power over us.
It brings suppleness and vitality to places where we may have degenerated and been oppressed by fear. Deep spaces within us that have gone long deprived because of the blockages of our own and our genetic line of fear. It helps the ‘dead bury the dead’ releasing us from the shackles of what truly is dead weight and helps heal the wounds born from fear.
Physical Benefits
Myrrh is primarily a restorative and decongestant.
It is a strong astringent and mucosal restorative, as well as a decongestant and mucostatic for issues such as bronchitis with lots of phlegm, diarrhea that is mucous, and even vaginitis.
Myrrh has antimicrobial actions such as anti-infectious and immuno-stimulation and anti-inflammatory. All can be used to assist with common fungal infections, viral infections and intestinal parasites.
The best way to use Myrrh for these application is in the diffuser.
Lastly, Myrrh as wonderful applications for the skin. It has astringing and antiseptic quality and can be used for mixed and mature skin types, wrinkles and scars.
Precautions: Myrrh oil is a dry astringent and contraindicated in all types of dry conditions especially with dry respiratory conditions with dry and un productive cough. it is contraindicated during pregnancy and breastfeeding. Myrrh is powerful and should only be used for a short term because the oil as well as the resin are both somewhat cumulatively sensitizing to the skin. It should always be combined with other oils when used topically such as coconut or other synergistic oils such as patchouli, or atlas cedar-wood, depending on your needs.
Preparation: Diffusor: 3-4 drops in water
Massage oil: 2-4% dilution in carrier oil
Liniment: 5-10% dilution in carrier oil
Mental and Emotional Benefits
On the mental and emotional levels, Myrrh supports the para-sympathetic nervous system which helps us slow down so we can fully digest life and its accumulations resulting in deeper psycho-spiritual integration.
It reminds how to let go of the pent up tension and give it to the earth. To let go of the nervous system holding on to the tension and to restore our system.
As such Myrrh can help calm shock, panic, overthinking, worry and hypersensitivity. It helps quiet monkey mind and revives general fatigue within the mental and emotional body..
Try it on these points
With the long history of fear being used as a manipulation to disempower, Myrrh is a powerful and precious ally.
Use it on the AromaPoint of KD24: Spirit Burial Ground to help resurrect your spirit, dispel unproductive fear and create a new legacy.
Place the oil on the points and breathe until you feel a shift (usually 2-3 minutes).
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