Lavender Essential Oil Spiritual Benefits and Energetic, Subtle, and Magical Uses

If you want to use essential oils in your spiritual or energetic practices, it's important to choose oils that resonate with your personal energy and intentions. Understanding lavender essential oil spiritual benefits can help you decide if this oil fits into your practice.

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• Lavender Essential Oil Spiritual Benefits
• Spiritual Uses for Lavender (meditation, prayer, visualization, spiritual journaling, angels and spirit guides; purifying/cleansing, energy clearing, and aura cleansing; releasing what you no longer need; dreamwork; and subtle energy healing)
• Lavender and the Chakras
• Lavender Magic Properties

Lavender Essential Oil Spiritual Benefits

The calming effects of Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) on the body and mind help move your conscious ego out of the way during spiritual and energetic work. Lavender is believed to have a high frequency that increases vibrational energy both within you and your environment. Thus, the oil helps create balance, harmony, mental clarity, and inner peace and will support any spiritual practice or energetic technique.

"Lavender embodies the warm, protective love of Mother Earth," writes aromatherapist Valerie Ann Worwood in Aromatherapy for the Soul. This caring, cherishing, and nurturing oil is "energetically very active in the auric field, closest to the body, incorporating heavenly energies into the physical with great efficiency."

Worwood says the spiritual benefits of lavender are to encourage acceptance, awareness, compassion, clarity, comfort, gentleness, reconciliation, security, vitality, and emotional balance.

The healing, soothing, and cushioning vibrations of lavender harmonize more aspects of the human condition than any other essential oil, according to Essential Oils in Spiritual Practice. Lavender encourages you to deeply engage with the world and share your unique gifts and light. This oil also supports spiritual growth by helping you integrate your experience and expand your awareness and perspective.

Spiritual Uses for Lavender

Lavender assists with many spiritual practices, including meditation, prayer, visualization, spiritual journaling, and connecting to angels and spirit guides.

Use this oil to ground and center yourself for meditation or prayer, according to Llewellyn's Complete Book of Essential Oils, and to help reach a deeper state of meditation, according to Subtle Aromatherapy. Using lavender during meditation attracts blessings and the sweetness of love, states The Essential Guide to Aromatherapy and Vibrational Healing.

Diffuse lavender during spiritual practices to help clear your mind, enhance focus, and uplift your sense of inner peace. The aroma raises your vibration, clears energetic blocks, relaxes your body and mind, increases your awareness, and creates a peaceful, grounded energy field. As a result, you become more open to and aware of signs, messages, synchronicities, and communications from the spiritual realm.

Another way to use the oil for spiritual practices is anointing. To make an anointing oil, blend 3 drops lavender in 1 tablespoon carrier oil in a small dark-color glass bottle with a cap. To use, apply 2 to 3 drops to pulse points or chakras and set a specific intention (for example, cultivating inner peace, opening to intuition, or connecting to your higher Self).

Purifying/Cleansing, Energy Clearing, and Aura Cleansing

Use lavender in purification rituals to cleanse people, spaces, and objects of negative energy. Also use the oil to consecrate an altar, create sacred space, or invoke a serene and harmonious environment conducive to spiritual work or relaxation.

Lavender is an underrated spiritual tool to cleanse the aura and clear energy, according to the Intuitive Soul Blog. By helping clear heaviness from your energy field, the oil's soft, floral frequency lets you reconnect with your light, power, and intuition. Reasons to use lavender for spiritual cleansing include:

• To disperse draining energy from others that has stuck with you.
• To clear scrambled thoughts or a foggy-feeling third eye.
• To clear your energetic space before a ritual, reading, or manifestation session.

Diffuse lavender oil to cleanse the space, clear negative energy, and attract positive, loving energy. Aromatic sprays/mists serve the same purpose, plus you can spray them around your body to cleanse your aura.

Lavender Cleansing Energy Spray

• 2-ounce glass spray bottle
• 10 drops lavender
• 5 drops tea tree essential oil
• Distilled water

Drop the essential oils into the spray bottle. Fill bottle with distilled water. Cap bottle and shake.

To use: When your energy feels off or cloudy, spray around your body, aura, or space. Source: Island Lavender

Release What You No Longer Need

Lavender essential oil can help you see clearly what you no longer need and release it. This oil symbolizes rejuvenation and renewal and encourages embracing new aspects of life, letting go of the past, and making journeys of self-discovery, according to Island Lavender.

Using lavender to create a relaxed physical and mental state supports you in letting go of energetic blocks and cutting cords to unhealthy relationships, situations, and past events (including hurts and traumas). You may open to possibilities you never imagined.

Dreamwork

Lavender promotes restful sleep and may help you remember dreams. The oil may guard against bad dreams and enrich meaningful dreams, possibly connecting you to unconscious or spiritual insights. If you want to connect with angels in your dreams, ask the angels to appear in dreams as you drift off to sleep using lavender. You can use the oil in a diffuser, by anointing, or as a spray to mist on your pillow.

Subtle Energy Healing

Lavender is useful in all subtle healing techniques, according to Aromatherapy Anointing Oils. The oil balances the energy centers and subtle bodies, clears and cleanses to promote balance, brings in positive energy, and supports comfort peacefulness, well-being, and healing on all levels.

Reasons to use lavender oil include:

• Feeling unable to forgive or accept
• Feeling unbalanced, uncomfortable, anxious, or agitated
• Helping recover from trauma or restoring your balance after an intense emotional experience
• Increasing mental clarity
• Releasing negativity or anything preventing you from being balanced or fully in the present
• Wanting support to verbally communicate in a helpful way
• Wanting to feel more compassionate
• Wanting to feel more positive

Lavender and the Chakras

In the context of chakras, lavender essential oil spiritual benefits include "[honoring] the higher, spiritual realms and [weaving] fragrant, mauve magic through a spiral dance between the chakras," according to The Blossoming Heart.

This essential oil helps bring the lower and upper chakras into harmony with each other and benefits all the chakras with a both calming and energizing effect, according to Subtle Aromatherapy. The oil has a strong affinity for the fourth (heart) chakra and the strongest affinity with the seventh (crown) chakra.

Crown Chakra

Energetically, the crown chakra connects you to the divine. An overactive or blocked chakra might leave you feeling disconnected, ungrounded, or spiritually foggy. Lavender opens and balances the crown chakra, nurturing your sense of connectedness to the universe and strengthening spiritual awareness and intuition.

The oil is particularly useful when you feel energetically overloaded or spiritually disconnected, you want angelic or intuitive guidance, or you want to let go and trust what’s developing in your life

To open, clear, and cleanse the crown charka, anoint the top of your head with a drop or two of diluted lavender. Sit quietly and imagine white light flowing in through your crown, suggests the Intuitive Soul Blog.

Heart Chakra

Lavender helps calm, comfort, and steady the heart and promote compassion, forgiveness, gentleness, gratitude, and acceptance, according to Aromatherapy and Subtle Energy Techniques. To bring love in, anoint the heart chakra by applying anointing oil using a clockwise motion.

You can also anoint your crown or heart chakra to support breathwork, reiki, or energy healing.

Third Eye Chakra

Some traditions associate lavender with the sixth (third eye) chakra, related to insight and perception. When a blocked third eye chakra has your head feeling foggy, lavender quiets the mind's incessant chatter, creating peaceful focus and clearing a connection to wisdom and higher perception. (Source: Island Lavender) 

Lavender Magic Properties

Essential Oil Magic: Natural Spells for the Green Witch: The magical intentions of lavender are to calm, ground, sooth, and support healing, love, peace, intuition, and dreams. As an energetic cleanser, the essential oil purifies and consecrates. The oil's relaxing properties makes it useful in spells and potions to relax the body and mind, quiet the conscious mind's chattering, and invite intuition to speak more clearly. The oil is useful in divination spells, and its gentle, loving energy means lavender works well in heart-healing spells.

Enchanted Aromatics states the main magical properties of lavender involve dreaming, psychic enhancement, protection, and love and attraction rituals. Other magical uses of lavender essential oil include:

• Banishing and cleansing
• Calming rituals
• Luck rituals
• Manifesting change
• Peace rituals
• Spell enhancement
• Success rituals

Blackthorn's Botanical Magic: The Green Witch’s Guide to Essential Oils suggests this purification diffuser blend:

• 5 drops lavender
• 4 drops frankincense essential oil
• 1 drop peppermint essential oil 

Labyrinth Photo by Ashley Batz on Unsplash

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