Essential Oil Resources for Beginners
Beginning with Essential Oils
I’m passionate about essential oils for myself and for my clients – they augment the Reiki energy healing extremely well, and support us in our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual bodies. In just the past week I’ve been asked three times to share some resources I use for Essential Oils – from people wanting to add them to their healing practices: a child psychiatrist, a Reiki practitioner specializing in Elder Care, and a therapist working in a stressful workplace counseling people in crisis, as well as clients wanting to use them for themselves. I realized many have these same questions, so I’m sharing some of my personal recommendations here for books I love, brands of essential oils I use, and how I use EO’s on myself and clients. Please let me know in the comments below or by email if you have specific questions and I’ll try to help. If you’d like to know more about how I use essential oils in my Reiki Healing sessions, you can read more here.
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Books
I have a few books I love. My favorite one that is always close at hand is the “Reference Guide for Essential Oils” (12th Edition) by Connie and Alan Higley, around $30. It is full of easily accessible information, organized by issue/symptoms/illness, as well as single oil information, and all the Young Living blends, which I have had excellent results with.
You can find it here: Abundant Health for You, along with a great selection of books and other EO related products.
Another similar one is called “Essential Oils Desk Reference”, by Essential Science Publishing. It is also aimed at buyers of Young Living oils, and has a lot of the science and research on EO’s as well. I don’t find it as useful and accessible as the Reference Guide, above, but it is very thorough!