Do you communicate effectively with others? Do you have an issue listening to others? The throat chakra is all about communication and how we express or don’t express ourselves. We need to honor our truth and overcome the obstacle of lies. Essential oils can help us balance our throat chakra and emotions that deal with this chakra.
We are going to be discussing the TOP 12 Essential Oils that balance the Throat Chakra and helps with our sense of communication, expression, and voice. We will chat about each oil, the benefits, how to use the Oils, and how to purchase quality oil.
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Brief Overview of the Throat Chakra
The Throat Chakra is also known as Vishubbha in Sanskirt is located in our throat where the dip is. The throat chakra is all about speaking your truth and communicating effectively.
The Throat chakra or fifth chakra deals with communication of all types- both verbally as well as nonverbally.
The throat chakra is responsible for expression, listening, empathy, touch, etc. It also manages how we communicate and is where our self-expression and creativity come out.
The Throat Chakra governs how our self-expression manifests itself through verbal and nonverbal communication through touch or body language. The throat chakra is where our creativity comes out, which means that creative endeavors such as public speaking or singing are governed by the Throat Chakra.
The Throat Chakra deals with the color blue and the element it is associated with is ether. The sense it deals with is smell.
Need more of a refresher on the throat chakra? Head over to The Throat Chakra- Everything you need to know about your fifth 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 Throat 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 Throat Chakra
Communication, expression, and truth
Geranium Essential Oil
Geranium is a sweet floral aroma that restores confidence and trust in ourselves and others. It encourages us to bring honesty, love, and forgiveness into our lives and softens the emotions and wounds we have so we can heal.
If you are one that has a difficultly understanding your emotions, Geranium is there for you with its warmth and heals the heart and trust. It also helps with the appearance of skin and hair and creates a relaxing and calm atmosphere.
Some Primary Benefits of Geranium
- Aroma that calms and relaxes
- Helps with the appearance of skin
- Restores confidence
- Builds/restores trust
- Emotional support
doTERRA’s Geranium 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 Geranium
- 1-2 drops in shampoo or conditioner
- 1 drop under the tongue
Chamomile Essential Oil
Chamomile Essential oil is extremely calming and relaxing with its sweet floral aroma. This I feel is like a Universal oil just like Lavendar. 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. Great for the throat chakra too, because you will then be able to communicate and work on speaking your truth from your heart!
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
- Allows us to speak our truth clearly and effectively
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
Clove Essential Oil
Clove Essential Oil is a spicy, warm, woody scent that has a powerful antioxidant benefits. It’s known for it’s ability to clean the teeth and gums well. It’s a energizing essential oil that allows you to let go of the victim mentality. It helps you stand up for yourself by putting in some fire and you can let the patterns go that are keeping you stuck.
Clove can also assist in the regulation of the thyroid gland, moving and clearing of energy, and helps with blood clots.
Some Primary Benefits of Clove
- warm inviting aroma
- Powerful Antioxidants
- powerful teeth and gum cleaner
- energizing
- Break free from the chains
- Installs courage
- Protector oil
- promotes good sleep
doTERRA’s Clove 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 Clove
- 1 drop on toothbrush to clean teeth and gums
Eucalyptus Essential Oil
Eucalyptus Essential oil encourages us to take charge of our own life. To calm wholeness. We hold all these emotional issues inside of our bodies that we need to deal with, and this oil allows you to do just that. Eucalyptus reveals our patterns, so we have the chance to identify and break them. It creates a calm peaceful atmosphere that may energize you.
Eucalyptus has purifying properties that can help the skin and it great for cleaning surfaces as well as the air around us.
Some Primary Benefits of Eucalyptus
- Take charge of our life
- allows us to heal
- Encourages
- calming aroma
- Energizing
- purifier
doTERRA’s Eucalyptus 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 Eucalyptus
- 1 drop in hands while in shower and smell
- Combine with lemon essential oil in a spray bottle and clean kitchen and/ or bathroom
Frankincense Essential Oil
Frankincense essential oil is warm and spicy and is known as the “King of all oils” because it has so many darn benefits. This is another Universal oil that is good for so much.
First, it is great for all your charkas, not just one. Second, this oil invites you to let go of the lower vibration items such as lies and negativity. It opens your mind and creates new perspectives and possibilities. Third, Helps you tap in and deeply connect to yourself and cleanses darkness away from you.
It helps you see the truth while showering you with love and protection. Shields and protects you and your energy and assists you in meditation or prayer because it opens us up.
Some Primary Benefits of Frankincense
- helps align each chakra
- Allows you to release
- Perspective shift
- cleanses
- Protects you
- Promotes cellular function
- Uplifting atmosphere with a side of comfort
- healthy skin
doTERRA’s Frankincense 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 or take one to two drops in a veggie cap.
- Topical use: Apply one to two drops to desired area. Dilute with a carrier oil to minimize any skin sensitivity.
Additional ways to use Frankincense
- 1 drop on forehead and throat
- put a few drops in spray bottle and spray when needed
Diving into the Upper Chakras
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 and use your throat chakra effectively
Some Primary Benefits of Lavendar
- Great for relaxation
- Promotes peaceful sleep
- Helps in reducing anxious feelings
- Eases tension
- Aids in letting go
- Allows you to communicate more effectively
- 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 in water
- 2 drops in a spray bottle and mist over pillow at night
- 1 drop on feet
The bridge between the upper and lower chakras:
Sage Essential Oil
Sage essential oil is a woody scent that has calming properties. It’s a master healer and is excellent for the throat chakra because it gives us the courage to see the truth.
It is a great cleaner for the mouth, just like clove. Sage helps with fatigue, depression, and allows us to open our energy up. It helps us see our beliefs and gives us new perspectives to see from. Sage essential oil opens up our creativity and allows us to explore.
It gives us permission to expand our vision.
Some Primary Benefits of Sage
- calms
- Master healer
- Courage
- Cleaner
- Opens up new perspectives
- helps with sleep
doTERRA’s Sage 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.
A few additional ways you could implement sage into your life.
- 1 drop behind the ears or on forehead
- a few drops in a bathtub with a mixer
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. When it does that it allows the throat chakra to open up and aids in you expressing your authentic self.
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
Cypress Essential Oil
Cypress Essential Oil is a clean, fresh, woody scent that creates a powerful energetic flow. It moves the energy that is stagnant and teaches us how to let it go by moving with the flow of life vs battling it each step of the way. It allows us to give up the control we think we need to have and trust the “FLOW”. Then we can watch the transformation happen.
Some Primary Benefits of Cypress
- clears built up toxins
- allows more flow
- Moves the energy
- all about motion
- Uplifts
- Helps skin
doTERRA’s Cypress 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 Cypress
- 1-2 drops on the bottom of feet
- 1-2 drops on spine
- 1 drop to toner
Peppermint Essential Oil
Peppermint essential oil is so minty and fresh and really helps us FOCUS and brings joy into our souls! I love peppermint oil for that reason! It brings joy and happiness to all who smell. LOL Stimulates the mind and helps with our creativity. It’s a big helper for headaches, respiratory function, and clears breathing ways. Repels bugs too.
Some Primary Benefits of Peppermint
- Focus
- Brings joy and happiness
- stimulates the mind
- brings out our creativity
- strength to face emotional issues
doTERRA’s Peppermint 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 Peppermint
- 1 drop with 1 drop lemon and add some water for a mouth rinse
- drop of peppermint in your water
Tea Tree Essential Oil
Tea Tree Essential Oil clears old negative issues and is known for its purifying qualities. I feel this essential oil is for everything gross. LOL It helps with fungal, viral, and bacterial infections. It is a strong natural antiseptic and helps builds up the immune system.
Some Primary Benefits of Tea Tree
- clears the old
- purifying qualities
- helps fungal viral, and bacterial infections
- natural antiseptic
- helps builds immune system
- cleanses the skin and rejuvenates
- purifies air
doTERRA’s Tea Tree Essential Oil can be used
- 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 work with Tea Tree
- 1 drop on the bottom of feet
- apply to nails after showering to purify
Spearmint Essential Oil
Spearmint Essential oil is sweet, fresh, and minty that uplifts anyone and just brings the confidence and clarity. It helps you speak your truth and find your voice while promoting confidence while you do that. For those that have a problem communicating, this is said to help because it helps us tap into ourselves and shine our true light with confidence. A aid in digestion as well.
Some Primary Benefits of Spearmint
- Evokes confidence
- Uplifting aroma
- Allows you to find your truth
- Clear communication
- Digestion
- Cleanses mouth
- Energizing
doTERRA’s Spearmint 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 Ways you may use doTERRA’s Essential oil, Spearmint
- on toothbrush before brushing teeth
- a drop in water to drink (only use oils in glass glasses– NOT PLASTIC)
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BONUS: Essential Oil Diffuser Recipe for your Throat Chakra:
- 2 drops Tea Tree
- 3 drops Rosemary
- 3 drops Sage
- 1 drop Spearmint
Diffuse that in your diffuser and see what you notice!
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Sources: my.doterra.com & Essential Emotions Book-9th Edition