Crown Chakra Essential Oils to Balance the Seventh Chakra

When the sahasrara (seventh or crown) chakra is balanced with the other energy centers, it unites inner and outer life, promotes healthy detachment and divinely guided actions, and supports a spiritual, thoughtful, wise approach to life. Using crown chakra essential oils can help bring balance.

What Is a Balanced Crown Chakra?

A balanced seventh chakra releases you from ego-driven desires and increases self-trust, selflessness, and superior consciousness, along with a refined sense of empathy, according to Llewellyn's Complete Book of Chakras. Your experience more inner peace and satisfaction and have an increased ability to live in the moment.

• Symptoms of a deficient (too little energy) crown chakra include lack of purpose, ethics, joy, or trust; loss of meaning or identity; inability to close unfinished business; apathy; materialism; selfishness; unwise decisions; learning difficulties; fear of religion or spirituality; fear of death; feeling alone and separate from others; and ignoring bodily needs.
• Symptoms of an excessive (too much energy) crown chakra include being overly intellectual and "living in the head," feelings of superiority, manic-depressive behavior, hysterical behavior, addiction to religion or any spiritual idea, and dissociation from the body.

Crown Chakra Essential Oils

Aromatherapy and Subtle Energy Techniques suggests the best crown chakra essential oils:

• Angelica connects you with angelic guidance and helps you align with your higher Self.
• Elemi balances spiritual practices with worldly responsibilities.
• Frankincense focuses and strengthens spiritual consciousness and aspirations. This oil also helps you see your spiritual purpose, supports healing spiritual wounds, and boosts your knowing that you are deeply accepted and loved by the Divine.
• Myrrh helps strengthen spirituality and promotes spiritual calmness.
• Rosewood gently opens you to spirituality.

Other suggested essential oils include cedarwood, eucalyptus, fir, jasmine, neroli, orange, rose, and rosemary.

The book lists common imbalances and symptoms of congested energy, along with additional essential oils for crown chakra balance. I recommend this book for the most comprehensive guidance about essential oils for chakras.

According to Subtle Aromatherapy, lavender's higher vibrations resonate with the crown chakra. Frankincense can connect you with the Divine within and without. Rosewood facilitates opening of the crown chakra, allowing both the outpouring of radiant light and the acceptance of Divine light into the Self.

A different choice of oils comes from Essential Oils in Spiritual Practice: lime, red spikenard, rose, and white lotus.

Blends of Essential Oils for the Crown Chakra

Here's a sampling of blends of essential oils for crown chakra balance suggested by Aromatherapy and Subtle Energy Techniques:

• Mists: To make a mist, drop essential oils into a 4-ounce dark-color mister bottle. Fill with distilled water. Shake well before each use. To use, spray around the chakra or your body in general. Avoid eyes and other sensitive areas.
• Anointing oils: To make an anointing oil, blend oils and store in a small dark-color glass bottle with a cap. To use, apply 2 to 3 drops around the chakra.

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To bring all the chakras into balance and unify them with the Divine:

Mist

• 4 drops frankincense essential oil
• 4 drops lavender essential oil
• 2 drops douglas fir essential oil
• 4 ounces distilled water

Anointing Oil

• 1 drop frankincense essential oil
• 1 drop lavender essential oil
• 1 drop douglas fir essential oil
• 1 tablespoon jojoba oil

To develop a sense of spiritual purpose:

Mist

• 4 drops frankincense essential oil
• 4 drops German chamomile essential oil
• 2 drops basil essential oil
• 4 ounces distilled water

Anointing Oil

• 1 drop frankincense essential oil
• 1 drop German chamomile essential oil
• 1 drop basil essential oil
• 1 tablespoon jojoba oil

To ease fear of death:

Mist

• 4 drops bergamot essential oil
• 4 drops orange essential oil
• 2 drops frankincense essential oil
• 4 ounces distilled water

Anointing Oil

• 1 drop bergamot essential oil
• 1 drop orange essential oil
• 1 drop frankincense essential oil
• 1 tablespoon jojoba oil

Balancing Anointing Oil

• 1 tablespoon jojoba or olive oil
• 1 drop orange essential oil to be embraced by the joyous light of heaven
• 1 drop lavender essential oil to integrate spirituality into everyday life
• 1 drop frankincense essential oil to help you know you are deeply loved by Spirit

Source: Aromatherapy Anointing Oils

Crown Bath Salts

• 8 drops angelica essential oil
• 5 drops niaouli essential oil
• 5 drops myrrh essential oil
• 2 tablespoons carrier oil
• 5 drops vitamin E oil
• 3 cups salts (your choice, such as sea, Epsom, or pink Himalayan)

1. Blend all the oils in a small glass container.
2. Place the salts in a dark-color glass container (minimum 3-cup size) that has a tight-fitting lid.
3. Stir the oil blend into the salts.
4. Place lid on container and let sit in a cool, dark place for 24 hours.
5. Stir mixture again.
6. Use 1/2 cup in a bath. Store salts in a cool, dark place for up to 3 months.

Source: Essential Oils for Emotional Wellbeing (This book suggests angelica, benzoin, frankincense, jasmine, lavender, myrrh, niaouli, and sandalwood for the seventh chakra.)

Balancing Blend of Crown Chakra Essential Oils

Combine these essential oils in a 10-ml roller bottle.

• 2 drops lavender essential oil
• 1 drop frankincense essential oil
• 1 drop sandalwood essential oil

Fill the remainder of the bottle with extra virgin olive oil.

Suggested application: on the pulse points, behind the ears, at the base of the skull, and inhalation.

Source: April Kurtyka, IAC. "Aromatherapy for Chakra Balancing." NAHA Aromatherapy Journal, Summer 2014.2, p. 18.

Further Reading

Chakras: Energy Centers of Transformation by Harish Johari, an Indian author who was a Tantric scholar. 

Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System As a Path to the Self by Anodea Judith.

Vibrational Healing Through the Chakras by Joy Gardner covers color therapy, sound therapy, and crystals in addition to essential oils. (Bookshop | Amazon)

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