Releasing Emotional Patterns with Essential Oils: 2015 Edition

by Carolyn L. Mein

Are you bogged down by your emotions? Do you feel trapped in emotional ruts? Are you frustrated trying to rationalize your way around your emotions? Happily, the process to clear stagnant emotional blocks and patterns is easy! Emotions are stored at a cellular level in specific organs within the body. They must be cleared at this level in order to be released. Essential oils access these stuck emotions at their deepest level, by accessing the limbic portion of the brain, which is the seat of emotions. This is not a new technique - it was employed by the ancient Egyptians. "Releasing Patterns With Essential Oils" is a practical, step-by-step guide providing a natural remedy for emotional cleansing. It offers over 130 pages including charts, diagrams, and easy-to-follow instructions. Join the thousands of people who have removed the emotional roadblocks to a happier life!

Genres: Health, Reference, Alternative Medicine, Nonfiction, Unfinished, Emotional

51 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1998

Reviews

[Beverly Buttram claussen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is one of my everyday books to use with my Young Living Essential Oils. So much info, approaching healing from many directions. LUV it!

This is a book I use as a textbook in teaching essential oils and healing / releasing emotional patterns.

[Luna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Personally I wouldn't recommend this book to somebody just starting with essential oils - but if you have some practice and know how to customize things to your body's preference, it can be an incredible resource! It addresses A LOT of complicated emotions (even the heavy ones that relate to serious trauma). It's important to note that, as with any mental health related book, this is just one view of emotions and how they affect our bodies (though many claims in this book have strongly researched background and are common knowledge in holistic medicine, Chinese traditional medicine, etc.). I found a lot of value in this book - it's not a book that you read once and learn everything there is to know. It's a book where you bookmark pages & charts to consistently return to in the future.

The downside of the book is the fact that most of the advice is built upon specific essential oil blends that are sold by one specific MLM brand. I don't use this brand, but I googled their blends and jotted down the main essential oils used in those blends, whenever it was relevant for me. I still found it helpful but I would have loved the book much more if it addressed more individual essential oils, rather than branded blends.

[Ann · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another required book for my Essential Oils Certification. This is a great reference....she lists the physical cause the emotional mental cause and the oil to use and the alarm points to place it on. Along with affirmations to say..really a great reference book and a great tool for applying Essential Oils! A short chapter in the back on muscle testing. I use this book frequently when doing Emotional Release Technique on clients.

[Nise' · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great reference book. Use it along with my essential oils.

[Iliyanarosli · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book. Easy to read and understand.
If you’re wondering why your life full of emotional stuff, how to tackle and clear it, this is the book.

[Heidi Holford · Rating 2 out of 5]

A friend loaned me this book since we both use essential oils and I have a history with Major Depressive Disorder. I found this book to be well-meaning nonsense. The psychological models Mein cites are not used in any effective therapy program. This is so egregious that she several times cites things as emotions that are not emotions (i.e., laughter, which is a behavior; beliefs of inferiority, which are thoughts) and uses a model of the human personality (mental vs. emotional, physical vs. spiritual) that is incomplete, and not used on its own in current psychology. Further, labeling emotions as either positive or negative contraindicates psychological best practice under the DBT model for those with depression and bipolar depression--a serious oversight in a book that claims to help direct the reader to use essential oils as a part of a therapeutic regimen for depression. While there is solid science behind the use of lavender, jasmine, and other oils as part of a depression recovery and maintenance program, none of this was cited. Instead, the reader is treated to the fuzzy science of body types, electrical frequencies, and some woo-woo spiritualism. I have no doubt that following her regimen is effective--the "apply many times a day and repeat the 'way out' would be an effective reminder that one would like to experience this emotion instead of that one, with or without the use of EOs. Simply repeating the 'way out' statement with the application of oil but without any deeper analysis and reasoning through the root causes for emotions such as anger or guilt could lead to an effective regimen of repression. Good mental health relies on our ability to identify, observe, and take responsibility for all of our emotions--not to avoid those emotions that are uncomfortable for us. The current clinical gold standard for treatment in the area of maladaptive emotional and behavior patterns (as judged by duration of recovery, rate of recidivism, and significant behavioral change) is cognitive behavioral therapy, a psychological model that is nearly universally contradicted by the precepts of Mein's program. I strongly believe in the therapeutic use of EOs as part of a holistic regimen to maintain and support good mental and emotional health. I even believe there is likely to be a certain amount truth in the oils Mein selects for various emotional states (I do know, for instance, that the oils she recommends for depression, anxiety, and mental states associated with both are independently suggested by other sources that do cite scientific evidence), but I find the psychologically basis she cites and the "feel this, not that" method of changing emotional states to be dangerously faulty. My advice: use her oil suggestions, but be very careful of pretty much anything else this book says about the human psyche.

[Crystal · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was quite an interesting read and not entirely what I expected. It is full of information and lays a good groundwork for those that may be completely new to the concept that we can actually have control over our emotions and subsequent afflictions. I participated in one emotional release and was amazed at how well it worked, so I had to learn more. I am anxious to try all the techniques mentioned in the book on myself as the guinea pig and then share with as many people as possible. My background in psychology is a perfect setting to implement what I learned through Dr. Mein's book. It's not just for the intellectuals though, this book is ideal for everyone who has emotions and body parts.

[Cara · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tons of information on using essential oils to release emotions that have gotten stuck. If I had some essential oils, I’d try it. Even without them, I was fascinated by the chart of emotions, their opposites, and the bridge phrase that will help you move to the positive one. That seems super helpful.

Overall, the information was poorly organized for actually putting into practice and doing the technique, but there was a lot of information, and most of it was very interesting.

[Kari Joly' Estill · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has really helped me a lot. I love learning new things, and there is plenty of practical information in this book. My favorite section is the emotions chart which shows the 'way out' from each negative emotion. I've used this chart many times in my personal life and it's played a big part in my growth!

[Diane Mueller · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent! Well written my only disappointment was to find out body type you have to go to her website and spend additional money after already purchasing the book. You can still learn without the body type but it does limit you if you aren't willing to pay for the test. It would be nice to have a one time code when you purchase the book that you can use to get your body type for free.

[Amy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Super crunchy but so interesting. I took her online test as well ($20) to learn my body type and found that it was spot on. Still diving into different emotions and releasing those and can't wait to find out more.

[Michelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Real practical applications

[Wendy Herman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Complicated, but worthwhile. Once you sift through all the info you, as an individual, will probably never need, the rest is gold. It helped me through a very tough time.

[M.Mercè · Rating 4 out of 5]

Muy bueno!!

[Lee Bowden · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing and highly recommended for anyone and everyone for emotional healing

[Casey Tabor · Rating 4 out of 5]

It does talk specifically about Young Living, but you can still use it even if you use a different type of oil. It would have gotten 5 stars if it wasn't slightly biased to a specific brand.