Does caring for others leave you feeling exhausted? Do you struggle to receive love from others or give love to others? Those questions have to do with your heart chakra which is the fourth chakra. Essential oils are a fabulous way to balance our chakras out.
We are going to be discussing the TOP 12 Essential Oils that balance the Heart Chakra and helps with our sense of love, understanding, compassion, and empathy. We will chat about each oil, the benefits, how to use the Oils, and how to purchase quality oil.
Focusing on the lower chakras? Check out these amazing articles below
Need a refresher about what chakras are? Head on over to the Complete Guide to the 7 Chakras.
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Brief Overview of the Heart Chakra
The Heart Chakra is also known as Anahata in Sanskirt is located in our chest where the heart is. The heart is all about loving yourself as well as loving others.
This chakra governs how you relate to others and how you handle the relationships in your life. How you show empathy and compassion.
It relates to our sense of touch – both physically (skin) and emotionally. The color associated with the Heart Chakra is green. This chakra allows us to feel love, joy, kindness, generosity, and goodwill. The element is it associated with is Air.
Need more of a refresher on the heart chakra? Head over to The Heart Chakra- Everything you need to know about your fourth chakra.
Ok, so now let’s explore the wonderful, amazing world that is Essential Oils; but not just any essential oils, but doTERRA Essential Oils and how they help to balance the Heart Chakra.
This only pertains to doTERRA, please make sure you check your oils to see if you can use yours the same way!
Top Essential Oils for the Heart Chakra
Love understanding, compassion, forgiveness
Bergamot Essential Oil
Bergamot is a sweet, spicy citrus with a floral note that calms, soothes, and uplifts. It relieves feelings of self-judgment and low self-esteem. If you are in need of some self-love and self-acceptance, this is your oil! Beneficial for boosting your confidence, fighting fatigue, while promoting positivity.
Some Primary Benefits of Bergamot
- Aroma that calms and soothes
- Cleanses and purifies the skin
- Great for massages
- Assists in lowering the cortisol levels
doTERRA’s Bergamot Essential Oil can be used many different ways.
Diffusion: Use three to four drops in the diffuser of your choice.
Internal use: Dilute one drop in 4 fl. oz. of liquid.
Topical use: Apply one to two drops to desired area. Dilute with a carrier oil to minimize any skin sensitivity.
Additional Ways to use Bergamot
- Dilute one drop with carrier oil and put over heart
- Put one drop under tongue or in water
Chamomile Essential Oil
Chamomile Essential oil is extremely calming and relaxing with its sweet floral aroma. It helps balance our nervous system as well as our emotional state. Has been used to help tummy issues as well as helps the liver purify.
Chamomile helps us in the discovery process and helps us with our true purpose. Once you tap into your heart center, which this oil helps with, you can start shedding those meaningless thoughts and reframe those into empowering ones.
Some Primary Benefits of Chamomile
- Calms the mind, body, spirit
- Soothes the skin
- Supports immune system
- Calms children
- Calms the heart and allows us to follow our dreams
doTERRA’s Chamomile Essential Oil can be used many different ways.
- Diffusion: Use three to four drops in the diffuser of choice.
- Internal use: Dilute one drop in four fluid ounces of liquid.
- Topical use: Apply one to two drops to desired area. Dilute with a carrier oil to minimize any skin sensitivity.
Additional ways to use Chamomile Essential Oils
- Add a drop in your hands and smell
- Add a drop or two to moisturizer
Lemon Essential Oil
Oh, how I love Lemon Essential Oil, especially in my water. It’s a delightful, yummy citrus that aids in concentration, digestion, cleanses, and purifies surfaces and air around you. Lemon inspires and lifts mood. It opens the heart chakra to self-love and self-nurturing while uplifting your whole self, bringing clarity.
Some Primary Benefits of Lemon
- Cleanses and purifies air and surfaces
- Helps concentration
- Great cleaner
- Cleanses body
- Opens the heart and clears self-judgment
doTERRA’s Lemon Essential Oil can be used many different ways.
Diffusion: Use three to four drops in the diffuser of your choice.
Internal use: Dilute one drop in 4 fl. oz. of liquid.
Topical use: Apply one to two drops to desired area. Dilute with a carrier oil to minimize any skin sensitivity.
Additional Ways you can use Lemon
- Dilute 1 drop with carrier oil and apply to wrists
- 1 drop in water
Rose Essential Oil
Rose Essential oil with it’s sweet floral scent is a high vibe-in oil. This essential oil is a powerful healer and wraps you in so much love when you are ready to just let things go. It invites us to experience compassion and unconditional love and restores us to oneness. Creates a over all sense of well being and calmness while awakening our ability for self love, compassion, and nurturing.
Some Primary Benefits of Rose
- Helps balance out moisture levels in skin
- Stress relieving aroma
- Harmonizing & stimulating scent
- Installs love and heals our hearts
- Powerful healer
doTERRA’s Rose Essential Oil can be used many different ways.
- Diffusion: Use three to four drops in the diffuser of your choice.
- Topical use: Apply one to two drops to desired area. Dilute with a carrier oil to minimize any skin sensitivity.
Additional Ways to use Rose
- Drop 1 drop in hands, rub together, and enjoy the scent
- 1 drop and some carrier oil over heart
Marjoram Essential Oil
Marjoram is a warm woody bottle of happiness that helps us reveal our patterns and helps us with our self-sabotaging issues. Can help restore self-compassion and warmth when you are feeling alone. This essential oil helps with our trust issues and warming us back up. It is also amazing to cook with and adds a unique flavor to soups, dressings, or sauces.
Some Primary Benefits of Marjoram
- Reveals our patterns
- Great for cooking
- Fabulous for digestion
- Great when working on our trust issues
doTERRA’s Marjoram Essential Oil can be used
- Diffusion: Use three to four drops in the diffuser of your choice.
- Internal use: Dilute one drop in four fluid ounces of liquid.
- Topical use: Apply one to two drops to desired area. Dilute with doTERRA Fractionated Coconut Oil to minimize any skin sensitivity.
Additional ways to use Marjoram
- 1 drop to the back of the neck to lessen the stress
- 1 drop over heart
Lavendar Essential Oil
Lavendar Essential Oil is a super light floral scent that is amazing and relaxes like no other. It aids in letting go of stress, releases fear, and allows you to reconnect to yourself with more love. It brings in a different perspective while expanding your awareness around you and maybe your emotions. Helps us address our deep emotions and helps us come out of hiding. Allows us to express our true self as speak from the heart.
Some Primary Benefits of Lavendar
- Great for relaxation
- Promotes peaceful sleep
- Helps in reducing anxious feelings
- Eases tension
- Aids in letting go
- Helps release fear
doTERRA’s Lavendar Essential Oil can be used
- Diffusion: Use three to four drops in the diffuser of your choice.
- Internal use: Dilute one drop in 4 fl. oz. of liquid.
- Topical use: Apply one to two drops to desired area. Dilute with a carrier oil to minimize any skin sensitivity.
Additional Ways to use Lavendar
- 1 drop under tongue
- A drop on back of neck
- 1 drop on feet
Neroli Essential Oil
Neroli Essential oil is a Sweet, floral, citrusy, fresh scent that makes it great for physical connection and romance. This is perfect to open and harmonize your energetic flow. This is a unifying and stabilizing oil that brings nourishment, hope, and grow.
Some Primary Benefits of Neroli
- Acceptance
- Physical connection
- Romance
- opens your flow
- Uplifting atmosphere
- Helps reduce anxiety
doTERRA’s Neroli Essential Oil can be used
- Topical use: Apply one to two drops to desired area.
A few additional ways you could implement Neroli into your life.
- Apply to wrists to uplift mood
- Use Neroli essential oil when experiencing anxious feelings
Jasmine Essential Oil
Jasmine Essential Oil is sweet, floral and warm scent that uplifts and balances our emotions. It is said that it helps soothe anxiety and helps with depression. Jasmine supports us to feel good about ourselves again and it great for romance! It is a symbol of happiness, love, and hope.
Jasmine essential oils helps the heart charka by releasing those negative emotions while bringing in the flow joy. Allows you to move away from the past and brings in more joy and love.
Some Primary Benefits of Jasmine
- Allows us to let it go
- Balances our emotions
- soothes anxiety
- helps depression
- aids in romance
- releases negative emotions
doTERRA’s Jasmine Essential Oil can be used
- Topical use: Apply one to two drops to desired area
A few other ways to use Jasmine
- Apply to bottom of feet in the morning
- Put on wrists in morning to uplift mood
- Apply to wrist and neck to wear as perfume
Green Mandarin Essential Oil
Green Mandarin Essential Oil reminds us to reconnect with our inner child whos heart was open and fearless. This essential oil is slightly sweet and floral but also a citrus aroma to it that brings joy and light and allows us to see what light we once had for life so we can return to it. To dream and dream big.
Some Primary Benefits of Green Mandarin
- Brings hope
- Helps maintain a healthy immune system
- Opens the heart
- Supports nervous system
- Joy and Light to areas
- Great cleaner
- You have all the potential inside of you!
doTERRA’s Green Mandarin Essential Oil can be used
- Diffusion: Use three to four drops in the diffuser of your choice.
- Internal use: Dilute one drop in four fluid ounces of liquid.
- Topical use: Apply one to two drops to desired area. Dilute with a carrier oil to minimize any skin sensitivity
Additional way you can use Green Mandarin
- Dilute 1-2 drops with carrier oil and apply it to heart
- Dilute it in a spray bottle to clean the surfaces of your kitchen.
Yarrow|Pom
Yarrow|Pom, blend of Yarrow essential oil and cold-pressed Pomegranate seed oil that allows the experience to be truly an inside out approach. An Oil of protection by shielding us from the negative forces while helping us release deep anger that we have stored in our bodies for long enough. It also helps us move the energies around and get rid of those that no longer are serving us.
Some Primary Benefits of Yarrow|Pom
- Healing
- Protection
- Ability to relax
- Antioxidant support
- Boost Immune System
- Helps us release and let go
doTERRA’s Yarrow|Pom Essential Oil can be used
- Diffusion: Use three to four drops in the diffuser of your choice.
- Internal use: Dilute one drop in four fluid ounces of liquid.
- Topical use: Apply one to two drops to desired area. May need to dilute before hand
Additional Ways to use Yarrow|Pom
- Apply one drop to the crown of your head
- Massage oil mix a few drops with a carrier oil
Melissa Essential Oil
Melissa opens and lights up the soul with it’s sweet fresh citrus fragrance. It brings you Intune with who you really are. This oil supports you in releasing things that are no longer serving you so you can grow into the person you are becoming. Melissa Essential oil invites you to start seeing your true potential and push past all the crap that is weighting us down.
Some Primary Benefits of Melissa
- Calms tension and nervousness
- encourages a relaxing environment
- teaches the joy of living
- releasing and growing
- true potential time
- Energizing Oil
- Helps immune system
doTERRA’s Melissa Essential Oil can be used
- Diffusion: Use three to four drops in the diffuser of your choice.
- Internal use: Dilute one drop in four fluid ounces of liquid.
- Topical use: Apply one to two drops to desired area. Dilute
Additional ways to work with Melissa
- 1 drop on forehead and ears
- Diffuse to create a relaxing environment
- 1 drop to thumb and press to the roof of mouth for 30 seconds
Immortelle Essential Oil
Immortelle, a spicy, rich, woody scent is fabulous for meditation, prayer, or spiritual work you do. This is a high vibe oil that’s wrapped with grounding to connect above and below. It brings hope, gratitude, and kindness our way. An oil that calms and restores while easing depression and fear. Great for calming the mind and offfers comfort and grace when we get discouraged. Helps us stay present.
Some Primary Benefits of Immortelle
- Fabulous for meditation, prayer, or spiritual practice
- High vibe oil with grounded ness
- Brings hope, gratitude and kindness in
- Calms & restores
- Eases depression and fear
- Aids in spiritual transformations
doTERRA’s Immortelle Essential Oil can be used
- Topical use: Apply one to two drops to desired area. Dilute with a carrier oil to minimize any skin sensitivity.
Additional Ways you may use doTERRA’s Essential oil, Immortelle
- Smell out of bottle
- 1-2 drops on the wrist and heart
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BONUS: Essential Oil Diffuser Recipe for your Heart Chakra:
- 3 drops Rose
- 2 drops Lavendar
- 1 drop Geranium
Diffuse that in your diffuser and see what you notice!
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Sources: my.doterra.com & Essential Emotions Book-9th Edition