Essential Oils
Can you recall right now the scent of a blooming rose or lavender? You are remembering the experience of the aromatic qualities of essential oils. Essential oils are the essence of a plant, a gift from the earth, distilled and prepared for you to bring the power of nature into your life. Inside many plants—hidden in roots, stems, seeds, flowers, and bark—are concentrated, highly potent chemical compounds. These natural compounds are essential oils. Essential oil benefits are determined by the unique chemistry of a particular plant and can be used to help you in your daily life.
Clinical research shows that essential oils have the highest frequency of any natural substance known to man, creating an environment inside a human body where everything can work optimally. Each essential oil holds its own unique frequency. Essential oil frequencies are several times greater than frequencies of herbs, foods, and even the human body.
Essential oils can be used effectively for a wide range of mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual wellness applications, as single essential oils or in blends depending on desired benefit. “When you give your body what it needs, it knows how to heal itself” said Dr. David Hill.
dōTERRA essential oils can be used aromatically, topically, and most taken internally. Also, essential oils have long been used for food preparation, beauty treatment, and many health-care practices.
Using essential oils aromatically involves diffusing them into the air or putting them in your palms and then inhaling the scent from your cupped hands. The aroma of an oil has the power to influence your mood and change the emotional environment that surrounds you.
Aromatherapy is the practice of using essential oils for therapeutic benefit. When inhaled, the physical and chemical properties of the volatile aromatic compounds that compose essential oils allow them to quickly move through the air and directly interact with the olfactory sensors in the nose.
The scent molecules in essential oils travel from the olfactory nerves directly to the brain and especially impact the amygdala, the emotional center of the brain. Aromatherapy has been used for centuries and simply inhaling essential oils can have an immediate and profound emotional effect.
Essential oils can be applied topically to promote healthy and youthful looking skin and nails, to treat a specific skin condition, and to produce a soothing, cooling, relaxing or warming sensation in the area you apply it. For this reason, essential oils greatly enhance the face and body massage experience.
Using certain essential oils internally can have a beneficial impact on your organs and body systems, including the digestive, respiratory, and immune systems. For example, when taken internally, dōTERRA Frankincense essential oil supports immune, nervous, and digestive systems, and aids in healthy cellular function. *
Essential oils affect your body system relatively fast. Research has shown that it takes:
- 22 seconds for molecules to reach the brain
- 2 minutes for molecules to be found in the bloodstream
- 22 minutes to reach every cell in the body
