Cleanse The Chakras Using A Sea Salt Bath With Essential Oils

Pure essential oils like lavender, frankincense, myrrh, spikenard, and sandalwood are just what you need to cleanse and renew your chakra energy system and the auric field. Taking a healing bath with these oils and a bit of sea salt is the best way you can go about cleansing your chakras.

The different chakras in your body that the essential oils cleanse are as follows:

1. Muladhara chakra (base or root)
2. Svadhisthana chakra (sexual)
3. Manipura chakra (solar plexus)
4. Anahata chakra (heart)
5. Vishuddha chakra (throat)
6. Ajna chakra (brow)
7. Sahasrara chakra (crown)

How Does A Healing Bath Help?

Healing baths have been used since antiquity for cleansing and restoring the human energy system, body, mind, spirit, and emotions. Natural sea salts have been used as healing soaks and in ritual baths for just as long. And, natural clay and aromatic plants and oils have also been used for ritual purification rites as well as other cleansing and healing practices throughout human history. Using these efficient techniques and ingredients will purify and boost your chakra and the energy system.

Sea salts are readily available, are rich in minerals, and are charged with electrical and healing properties that you can especially benefit from in a warm bath. You can purchase natural sea salt in your local health-food store in the spice section.

Benefits Of Essential Oils

Each of the recommended essential oils is known for its cleansing and restorative properties. Here are a few additional benefits you get from these oils:

1. Lavender Essential Oil

Lavender essential oil is a universal anointing oil for clearing and balancing all the chakras. Its benefits include the following:

• Decongestant: it reduces congestion.
• Restorative: it strengthens and revives the body’s systems.

2. Frankincense Essential Oil

An ancient holy oil, frankincense essential oil is especially useful for balancing and healing the first, fourth, fifth, and seventh chakras. Its benefits include the following:

• Astringent: frankincense oil clears blockages.
• Expectorant: it promotes the removal of cellular debris and relieves congestion.
• Regulator: it balances and harmonizes the chakras.

3. Myrrh Essential Oil

Another ancient holy oil, myrrh essential oil is especially beneficial for the first, second, and third chakras. Its benefits include the following:

• Astringent: myrrh promotes the cleansing of blockages and stagnant chi.
• Expectorant: it promotes the removal of cellular debris and relieves congestion.
• Restorative: it strengthens and revives the body’s systems.
• Tonic: it strengthens the chakras and chakra energy system.

Note: Myrrh may be fetotoxic due to the B-elemene and furanodiene content. Please avoid myrrh essential oil during pregnancy and lactation.

4. Spikenard Essential Oil

Spikenard essential oil is used to balance and nourish the sixth and seventh chakras. Its benefits include the following:

• Spikenard essential oil is excellent for healing any emotional trauma that may congest the chakras and energy system.
• It lifts your spirits, inspires your heart and mind to do selfless acts of devotion, and instills quiet inner peace.
• It is an ideal meditation oil and has traditionally been used in many incense formulas for spiritual enhancement and as a spiritual aid for contemplation and clarity of mind.
• It acts as a regulator and balances and harmonizes the chakras and the energy system.

5. Sandalwood Essential Oil

Sandalwood essential oil clears the chakras and emotional energy centers. Use this oil to enhance your chakra meditation and to open your third (solar plexus) chakra, which connects you to the cosmic desire to manifest your divine soul’s purpose. The third chakra ensures a strong feeling of self-worth, empowerment, and spiritual dominion.

The benefits of sandalwood oil include the following:

• Regulator: it balances and harmonizes your chakras and energy system.
• Stabilizer: it promotes the stability of the entire chakra energy system.
• Tonic: it strengthens and fortifies the chakra energy centers.

How To Prepare The Essential Oil Bath

Ingredients

• Small ceramic or glass bowl
• 1–4 cups of pure, natural sea salts
• 1 tablespoon of an unscented, natural bath gel
• 3–8 drops of pure essential oil or blend (lavender, frankincense, myrrh, spikenard, and sandalwood)
• A sterilized instrument such as a stainless steel teaspoon

Directions

1. Add 3–8 drops of the essential oils to 1 tablespoon of unscented bath gel and blend thoroughly.
2. Then, add the scented bath gel to your sea salts and blend the mixture thoroughly.
3. The bath gel and sea salts act as carriers for dispersing the pure essential oils into your bath water.
4. The water should be warm, not hot – around 98.6º F (37º C) or body temperature and no more than 101º F (38º C) is best for restoring your energy centers (chakras) and cleansing your auric field.
5. Soak for 15 minutes or until your bath water begins to cool.
6. Take a warm shower after your soak and rest afterward.
7. Remember to hydrate sufficiently during and after your bath.

We recommend you make time for some kind of home spa treatment every day! Even 10–15 minutes will give you a welcome pleasure and can be enormously balancing and healing for you.