Vibrant Blue Oils 10 Foundations of Resilience Updated

10 Foundations
of Resilience
Enhance Your Capacity to Heal
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Welcome!
I’m Jodi Cohen, Founder of Vibrant Blue Oils. I
also suffer from some brain related challenges,
including auto immunity and have had great
success integrating essential oils into my
protocol.
Buoyed by my own positive experience, I began

creating proprietary blends of organic or wild-
crafted, therapeutic essential oils to support
different organs in the body. These blends laid
the foundation for Vibrant Blue Oils practitioner-
tested blends designed to balance the underlying
issues in the body, brain and emotions so we can
heal!
I am also a nutritional therapy practitioner, certified

herbalist, yoga instructor and a mother. I fell into this
field through my own personal health issues and those of
my children, including ADHD, anxiety, hormonal imbalance,
depression, fatigue and brain fog.
Essential oils have been an invaluable tool in managing my own brain related issues and keeping my
family healthy! That is why I’m so passionate to share my story and advice with you to help you keep you
and your family healthy, happy and vibrant!
When I was first diagnosed with an auto immune disease, I tried conventional protocols with marginal
success. It was only when I began integrating essential oils into the mix that I started to notice the
dramatic health improvements I was seeking. My fatigue dissipated, mental focus improved, mood
lightened and weight started to finally drop back into my normal range. Don’t get me wrong. I am not
claiming that essential oils by themselves are a magic bullet against auto immunity. But I do believe that
when combined with other dietary and lifestyle modifications they can dramatically bolster and improve
your health.
I hope you find the information in this guide as helpful in your life as I have with mine, and I hope you are
inspired to learn more about integrating essential oils into your life!
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10 Foundations
of Resilience
Introduction
The morning of August 27, 2018 began like any other. My 12-year-
old son woke me up early to snuggle and share how excited he was
to go white water rafting with his dad and his friends.
Sadly, there was a car accident on the way to the rafting site. My
son died instantly and my life as I had known it died with him.
I was suddenly faced with brand new hurdles, including overwhelming legal challenges, that I had
no previous experience navigating. On top of that, my ability to solve new problems was severely
compromised by overwhelming grief which undermined my mental and physical energy.
In other words, I had a big problem. I need to figure out how to survive these new circumstances, while
experiencing and feeling a loss of the greatest magnitude.
I had no idea how I was going to do it. I needed a roadmap. But none existed.
So I decided to create my own.
Every day, when I woke up, I willed myself to get out of bed, exercise, shower and commit to exploring
different strategies to navigate the day.
Every night before I went to sleep, I would review the day, in reverse, and assess what strategies seemed
to help me feel better and which strategies made me feel worse.
For example, I started to notice that clove and lime essential oil applied behind the earlobe on the
mastoid bone always helped to calm the overwhelm. So I choose to keep and repeat that tactic.
I also started to notice that a certain friend would always catastrophize and make me feel worse about
myself and my situation, so I started to limit my interactions with that individual.
Over time, a clear roadmap developed – I was able to identify certain strategies that always helped. As my
mental and physical energy improved. I also began to seek out experts to research and understand why
these particular tactics seemed to help.
This Resilience Roadmap Summit is the compilation of that fieldwork and research, sharing the best
strategies to help others find their inner strength in the face of any challenge and BUILD their resilience
muscle so they have it to employ whenever needed.
Table of Contents
This guide is a starting point, sharing the
10 Foundations of Resilience that helped me survive
the darkest hours of my darkest days.
1. Sleep.............................................. page 5
2. Diet and Healthy Digestion..... page 7
3. Movement.................................. page 10
4. Detoxification........................... page 12
5. Stress Management................. page 14
6. Heart Coherence...................... page 15
7. Mindset....................................... page 16
8. Personal Responsibility.......... page 17
9. Healthy Relationships............. page 18
10. Emotional Regulation............. page 19
1
Sleep
Sleep is one of the foundations for resilience.
Restful, restorative sleep has been shown to increase resilience, making it easier to cope with stress and
regulate our emotions. Sleep even impacts how well your brain adapts and how you are able to process
emotion.
More specifically, your brain cleans house while you are sleeping. During sleep the metabolic activity
of your brain goes up about 10 times. Research shows that the neurons in the brain actually shrink by
about 60% to make room for the movement of cerebrospinal fluid through our brain to remove toxins
and deliver oxygen and nutrients.
This cleanup function strengthens and recharges your brain’s capacity for resilience, helping you adapt
and change by building new connections which enhances your ability to regulate your emotions and
behavior.
Sleep deprivation compromises your ability to focus, connect and make thoughtful decisions. Resilience
requires energy and poor sleep depletes your energy reserves.
When you don’t get enough sleep, small day-to-day stressors like coping with work pressure or
relationship hiccups can feel more overwhelming. Simply put, when you are physically exhausted, you
have less capacity for resilience.
How Sleep Makes You More Resilient
Sleep helps to enhance mental strength and resilience. This is one reason it may feel easier to respond
to life’s difficult times when you are rested.
Research shows that sleep enhances cognitive function. A study at UCLA has shown that sleep
deprivation negatively impacts brain maintenance and repair and compromises mental acuity and
optimal brain activity. This impacts your ability to focus, slows your reaction time, compromises your
ability to make decisions, to multi-task and store new memories.
The Better Sleep Council found that 79% of people would feel better and more prepared for the day
with an extra hour of sleep. Sleeping only 6-7 hours, you are twice as likely to be involved in a car crash,
and sleeping less than 5 hours increases your risk 4-5 times.
Additional research has found that continuity of sleep is important for memory consolidation. This
study found that during restorative sleep, important memories are consolidated and creativity is boosted
as well.
Sleep also appears to restore our emotional brain circuits, supporting healthy levels of mood supporting
hormones, including serotonin, dopamine, and cortisol, that affect your tools of resilience, including your
thought, mood, and energy.
Healthy sleep patterns are also associated with positive personality characteristics. Research found that
those who suffer from sleep challenges also report lower levels of optimism and self- esteem.
Similarly, research on sleep-dependent emotional brain processing found that sleep helps with support
healthy emotional-memory processing. Poor sleep can contribute to anger, impatience, irritability, and
lack of energy. As a result, poor sleep may make you more likely to remember negative events, and less
able to focus on the positive.
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Diet
The nutrients you consume as part of a healthy diet
are the building blocks of resilience.
When you consume a varied, nutrient-rich diet, including essential macronutrients (protein, fat, complex
carbohydrates) and micronutrients (vitamins and minerals), you’ll have more strength to bounce back
from challenges and take on stressful situations when they come along.
Sadly, when you are stressed, you may eat whatever is quick and available, and often crave high carb,
high sugar foods. These choices might feel good in the short term, but have a negative impact on overall
health and resilience.
Similarly, skipping meals or consuming sugary foods can send our blood sugar levels soaring and
crashing which can interfere with your ability to handle challenges and stress. Maintaining stable blood
sugar levels helps support resilience.
Healthy food choices, including lots of fruits and vegetables, can do two very positive things for your
resiliency: the can improve your health and also add to your sense of taking charge of life where you can.
That said, when you are under stress, it can be unrealistic to try to spend hours shopping and cooking
complicated homemade meals. Some simple ways to boost dietary resilience include adding more
vegetables, avoiding foods that trigger inflammation (including grains and dairy) and focusing on how you
eat as well as what you eat.
Your body needs food and water
as raw materials for all processes in your body.
This means that you not only need to consume nutrients, but you need to digest,
absorb and assimilate them. This can only happen in the Parasympathetic state.
That’s right. How you eat may be more important than what you eat. You need to invest not only in a
pristine diet, but also in taking the time to eat in a calm, relaxed atmosphere to get the most nutrients
from food and ensure that nutrients are properly delivered to your cells. If you eat under stress, the
nutrients in your food will not be properly digested, absorbed, or assimilated. Think of an ambulance that
is stuck in traffic and can’t make it to the person in need. That is what is happening in our bodies when
we eat under stress –nutrients aren’t making it into the cells to help us heal.
When you eat in the parasympathetic state, the brain activates all of your digestive functions, including the
production of saliva and the release of stomach acid, enzymes, and bile. The parasympathetic state supports
nutrient assimilation and motility. Peristalsis, the muscle contractions required to move food and waste
through your system, also relies on a parasympathetic state. The inability to drop into the parasympathetic
state is a primary cause of constipation. What’s more, the parasympathetic state allows the gut to signal the
brain about hunger and satiety, helping you recognize when you are truly hungry and full.
Finally, if your stomach doesn’t release acid and enzymes to break
down proteins, they can trigger an immune response.
Essential oils to stimulate your Parasympathetic response before meals helps to drop your body absorb
nutrients more which helps heal digestive disorders including:
• SIBO – The parasympathetic state triggers peristalsis, a wavelike motion in the gut that moves food,
mucous, bacteria, and fungi along the digestive tract. The “housekeeping wave” normalizes mobility to
resolves small intestine bacterial overgrowth.
• IBS – Poor communication between the gut and the brain may contribute to the abdominal pain,
constipation and/or diarrhea that are the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome. The parasympathetic
state turns on optimal bi-directional communication between the gut and the brain.
• Constipation – Peristalsis, the muscle contractions of the intestines that move the stool, is triggered by
the parasympathetic state.
• Acid indigestion or gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) – The parasympathetic state signals
the sphincter between the stomach and esophagus to close, preventing acid reflux from stomach to
esophagus.
• Bloating – Bloating is an indication of a stomach acid or enzyme deficiency. The parasympathetic state
supports the body’s production of adequate acid and enzymes for digestion.
• Bile stasis – The parasympathetic state triggers bile production and signals the gallbladder to release
bile into the intestines to digest dietary fats.
• Dry mouth – The parasympathetic state initiates the production of saliva, which is critical to good
periodontal health and digestion.
• Anorexia/Bulimia – The parasympathetic state allows the gut to send to the brain signals of hunger
and satiety.
Your vagus nerve serves as the on/off switch for the parasympathetic state. Anything you do to stimulate
your vagus nerve helps to turn on your parasympathetic state.
asiest and most powerful ways to turn on your ability to heal is to stimulate your vagus nerve by topically
applying a synergistic blend of Clove and Lime essential oils where the vagus nerve is most accessible
through the skin – behind the earlobe on the mastoid bone.
The Parasympathetic™ combination of clove and lime helps you activate and detoxify your vagus nerve.
Apply just a tiny dab to the vagus nerve (behind the earlobe on the mastoid bone) on one or both ears,
depending on how stressed you feel. All you need is a tiny drop behind each ear. Topical application also
helps detoxify any congestion and inflammation in the nerve that compromises the flow of nutrients into
the brain and toxins out of the brain.
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Movement
Physical movement is crucial to increasing resilience.
Any kind of movement, including walking, yoga or more intense exercise, offers numerous health
benefits – enhancing the flow of blood and lymph, releasing natural feel-good chemicals known as
endorphins, and strengthening your body. It also helps route blood flow to your brain to increase your
physical and mental energy levels.
Research
Research has found that moderate and regular exercise decreases cortisol levels and reduces anxiety
and increase daytime energy. “ The association between stress-energy and salivary cortisol was affected
by vigorous physical activity,” according to the research.
How Movement Enhances Health
Since your body is comprised of interconnected layers, movement benefits the following organ systems:
Brain: Movement and exercise help support healthy brain chemistry by increasing the release of
happy hormones like endorphins, energizing hormones like epinephrine (adrenaline) and uplifting
neurotransmitters like dopamine and serotonin. Movement can help increase brain circulation, which
helps calm inflammation, improve memory and enhance mood.
Heart: Exercise improves your cardiovascular health, resulting in lower blood pressure, healthier
cholesterol levels, and better blood sugar regulation. Research finds that exercise also promotes
positive physiological changes, such as calming the sympathetic nervous system, strengthen muscles and
encouraging the heart’s arteries to dilate more readily.
Exercise improves your muscles’ ability to draw oxygen from the circulating blood. That reduces the need
for the heart—a muscular organ itself—to work harder to pump more blood to the muscles.
Lungs: Exercise improves your respiratory endurance. The rhythmic motion of the lungs during normal
breathing is a critical regulator of the clearance of bacteria and other noxious materials (Study).
Research found that “regular endurance exercise training results in significant increases in increased
work capacity of the ventilatory musculature.” Similar research found “a significant increase in
respiratory muscle endurance.”
Lymph: Exercise and movement help get the lymphatic system moving. Your lymphatic system and
lymph fluid helps to transport wastes and toxins out of your tissues and your body. Lymph fluid flows
through the lymph nodes where toxins are filtered out. Unlike the cardiovascular system, the lymphatic
system does not have a heart to pump the fluid through the body. The more you can help the lymph
fluid flow by moving your body, the more quickly you can move toxins out of the body.
Muscles: You have more than 600 muscles in your body that contribute to about 40% of your total
body weight. By moving, you are strengthening your muscles, which improves stability, balance, and
coordination. Your muscles are attached to bones with tendons
and tendons connect to two (or more) bones across a joint.
When your muscle contracts, or shortens, the tendons pull
on the bone, causing the joint to flex (bend) or extend
(straighten). Exercise enhances muscle tone, strength and
resilience.
Bones: Movement helps build more durable, denser bones.
Bone-building activities like resistance training (weights),
weight-bearing exercises (jogging, walking, hiking), and
balance training (yoga) can support better bone density.
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Detoxification
Toxicity drains your energy reserves.
Resilience requires energy. You need energy to make any and all positive shifts in your life
The more you detoxify the food, chemicals and emotions that are draining your resilience, strength,
energy and vitality, the more you free up energy to be used in a positive fashion.
While physical detox is all about releasing toxins (like chemicals and heavy metals), emotional detox
involves letting go of the past and releasing the emotions, beliefs, and experiences that no longer serve
us.
Dr. Daniel Pompa refers to this build-up of chemical, emotional, and physical toxins as the “stress bucket.
He notes, “Every drop of stress builds up in the body until the metaphorical bucket begins to overflow.
This overflow s why some people hit a wall out of “nowhere”: your stress bucket has been accumulating
for years. So the final event that tipped the scale might not have seemed like anything major, but in fact,
it’s the cumulative effect of stress over a lifetime.”
To enhance your capacity for resilience, you need to not only reduce your exposure to environmental
toxins, irritants and negative energy that deplete your resilience, but also support your innate
detoxification systems – the organs that help eliminate the toxins stored in your body – to help free up
your physical, mental and emotional resilience.
What is Detoxification?
Detoxification is a natural, daily process that allows your body to eliminate toxins.
Detoxification usually includes both limiting your exposure to and intake of environmental toxins and
giving your digestive system - including the liver - a break by eliminating foods that are high in toxins or
difficult to digest, absorb and assimilate (think sugar, dairy, grains, caffeine and processed food).
Once your body has more energy freed up, it can then start on the work of housecleaning (i.e. cleaning
out the toxins that have been stored in fat cells). Sadly, when your toxic load overwhelms your capacity
to handle it or when you lack nutrients or energy, detoxification can be compromised and toxins may
accumulate in the body.
Toxins can limit the ability of cells to function, so the body safely stores them away to avoid any harm.
For example, when your liver cannot adequately handle your toxic load, it and stores them in fatty tissue
like your brain and nervous system. This is because toxins love cellular fluids and the brain. Toxins store
in fat and affect endocrine health.
For this reason, toxins are a huge energy drain, stealing your energy while simultaneously stimulating
and exhausting your system. The impact is additive and cumulative, often presenting as disease in old
age.
Your ability to detoxify determines your resilience and resistance to disease.
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Stress Management
Resilience has been defined as the ability to mentally or
emotionally cope with and recover from stress.
Stress is considered to be the root of all disease – it shuts down digestion, detoxification and immune
function and undermines resilience. Stress triggers the following responses in the brain:
“Fight or Flight” Response
The Autonomic Nervous System has two branches – the Sympathetic “Fight or Flight” branch and
the Parasympathetic “Rest and Digest” State. Stress activates Sympathetic survival response, which
effectively turns off everything not relevant to immediate survival - including digestion, detoxification and
immune function – and undermines resilience.
When you are operating from the “fight or flight” survival mode, your Sympathetic branch of your
nervous system prepares you for action. Your muscles tense and your vision narrows, allowing you to
narrow your focus and pay close attention to the external, physical world.
Selective attention, a process where you identify and survive threats before dedicating your attention to
anything else, helps you focus on what’s important while ignoring irrelevant, outside information. It turns
off your capacity to access critical thinking and problem solving skills, by shutting down your ability to
focus on anything outside of the pressing danger.
Unfortunately, when the sympathetic state locks you into a state of constantly scan for threats, it shuts
down your ability to thoughtfully contemplate different perspectives that might feel threatening to
your safety. This hyper-vigilance can save your life when you are under threat, but also restricts your
emotional regulation and undermines your capacity for resilience.
It is critical to shift out of the Sympathetic, survival mode, branch of your nervous system as it is not
conducive to making wise, thoughtful choices. The easiest way to do this is to literally force yourself
to pause and activate your Parasympathetic nervous system. My favorite way to stimulate the
Parasympathetic nervous system is to apply Parasympathetic™ blend behind the earlobe on the
mastoid bone.
Once you are able to calm your nervous system, you may notice that you immediately feel less triggered
and far less reactive. It is far easier to practice restraint in the Parasympathetic state.
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Heart Coherence
While heart health is often associated with the physiological
function of pumping blood to every cell and every organ in the
body, your heart plays a much larger role – It integrates and
balances the physical, emotional, and mental body.
This is known as Heart Coherence, or “the state when the heart, mind and emotions are in energetic
alignment and cooperation,” according to Dr. Rollin McCraty, the Research Director for the HeartMath
Institute. McCraty elaborates that heart coherence “is a state that builds resiliency – personal energy is
accumulated, not wasted – leaving more energy to manifest intentions and harmonious outcomes.”
Your emotions are reflected in your heart rhythm patterns. When you are in a state of fear or anger, your
heartbeat reflects that negative energy through a chaotic heart rhythm known as an “incoherent heart
rhythm pattern.”
HeartMath research demonstrates that the heart actually sends more messages to the brain than the
brain sends to the heart, which influences your mental and emotional experience. More specifically,
the type of chemicals released into your body depends upon the quality of the emotional signal sent
from the heart to the brain. Incoherence of the rhythmic activity of your heart inhibits higher cognitive
functions such as attention, perception, memory and problem-solving.
Conversely, when you’re experiencing positive emotions like love, joy, gratitude and compassion, you
creating a state of heart coherence or “coherent heart rhythm patterns” that look smooth, ordered and
stable. Coherent heart patterns help your body’s systems synchronize and work better, enhancing your
resilience along you’re your ability to think clearly, learn, remember, reason and make healthy, thoughtful
decisions.
In this way, heart coherence is a powerful tool for resilience.
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Mindset
A mindset is a collection of thoughts or beliefs that orients the way you navigate situations - how you
think, what you feel, and what you do.
In other words, your mindset determines whether you choose to give up or push through when things
get hard.
Those who are able to push through see better results than those that give up. The ability to push
through does not reflect strength or character. It is a simple decision.
You simply need to decide “Is this the hill I am going to die on?” or not. If not, then you need to find a
way through. Which means you need to be open to brainstorming options for making it through that you
might not yet be aware.
Mindset helps support healthy problem solving, the ability to make realistic plans and carry them out, all
of which contribute to resilience.
A practitioner friend who works with thousands of patients recently shared that primary indicator of
success with her clients is there openness to enhance their resilience. Those who participate in resilience
boosting mindset programs consistently see better lasting results.
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Personal Responsibility
Resilience requires that you take responsibility
for your actions and choices, without assuming responsibility
for other people’s choices or feelings.
The word “Responsibility” breaks down to “response” and “ability” or “the ability to choose your response”
to external circumstances. When you are able to accept responsibility for your circumstances, you are
better able to change your circumstances.
I believe this is because when you are able to release thought patterns that make you feel disempowered
like the victim mentality, blame, judgment or virtue signaling, you allow yourself the mental and
emotional space to change your circumstances.
As Stephen Covey notes, “Until you are able to say, ‘I am what I am today because of the choices I made
yesterday’, you cannot say, ‘I choose otherwise. ”
Personal responsibility gives you clarity over what part of a situation is your responsibility that you need
to carry and what responsibility falls to others. Both blaming others and staying stuck in the role of victim
or taking responsibility for other people’s actions can negatively impact your health. They are both are
forms of avoidance, keeping us stuck in the role of victim, surrounded by negative emotions including
anger, fear, resentment, shame, guilt which can contribute to physical and mental health issues, including
anxiety and depression.
The Victim Mentality

Whenever we choose to focus external blame on others or choose to see ourselves as a powerless victim,
we are allowing ourselves to step into the victim mindset. While I do recognize situations where we
have very little control over the actions of others, including this current situation and cases of one party
abusing another, we always have control over our own response to the situation.
As Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl notes “When we are no longer able to change a situation- we are
challenged to change ourselves.” Changing ourselves means releasing any blame or judgement we might
feel toward others and stepping into personal responsibility.
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Support Healthy Relationships
with Boundaries
Supportive and caring relationships help enhance resilience.
That means embracing helpful and supportive relationships
and releasing anything we are carrying for other
people that is not our responsibility.
You do not need to be anyone else’s punching bag or set yourself on fire to keep others warm. You have
to prioritize your own time and emotional energy to support and sustain resilience.
Ayn Rand asks in Atlas Shrugs, “What would you do if you were carrying the weight of the world on your
shoulders?” “Shrug”. So many of us carry the weight of other people’s emotions for them. When we allow
others to blame, shame, guilt or otherwise manipulate us, we allow them to project their emotions upon
us. They refuse to take responsibility for their actions, so they project that responsibility onto us. We do
not need to carry this for them. Just like Atlas, we can choose to shrug. To stop assuming responsibility
for the emotions that others are unwilling or unable to carry for themselves.
This can be incredibly challenging, especially in long standing relationships where the other party benefits
from the current dynamic and pulls out every weapon in their arsenal to try to undermine your attempt
to instill healthy boundaries.
It is not uncommon to experience pushback when you begin to clean up boundaries. When people are
benefitting from your poor boundaries, it is in their personal interest to maintain the status quo and they
might employ below the belt strategies – like shaming, blaming, gas lighting or gossiping to others to try
to keep you entrained in that unhealthy dynamic.
This can feel awful, especially if you are an empath. But at some point, you have to learn that you cannot
keep setting yourself on fire to keep others warm.
Setting clear boundaries not only with what behavioral modifications you are willing to embrace, but
also in terms of information that you are willing to allow into your space, either through the media or
even conflicting views from friends or family. I have found that the more I am able to establish clear
information boundaries and drown out the background noise, the better able I am to access my own
intuition and resilience.
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Emotional Regulation
The ability to manage strong emotions and impulses
can help you deal with whatever comes your way with more
balance, clarity, and self-assurance rather than with anger,
impatience, frustration, or anxiety.
You think of resilience as energy stored in your inner battery. Emotions have a powerful effect on your
inner battery and your resilience. Some emotions, the lousy-feeling ones, drain your battery and your
resilience, while other emotions, the ones that feel good, recharge it.
Depleting emotions like anger, fear, grief and sadness drain your inner battery, leaving you with less
energy to support your resilience.
When you don’t have much energy in your inner battery, meaning your resilience is low, it’s much more
difficult to be your best no matter what you’re doing. When your inner battery is drained, it is difficult to
show up as your best self rather than simply react to a situation.
Processing or resolving these emotions helps to free up your energy reserves.
The first step is taking a pause to become emotionally aware, identify and acknowledge the depleting
emotion, which helps to slow the emotional energy drain.
For example, blame burns through a lot of emotional energy. Blame can be internalized or externalized
and typically comes in 3 different flavors:
• Blaming others = Anger
• Blaming yourself = Guilt
• Accepting others blame of you = Shame
At its root, blame is a form of avoidance. By transferring responsibility to someone else or carrying the
blame of others, you stay stuck in the victim space. The longer you stay stuck in these emotions, the
longer these emotions stay stuck in your body, creating stagnation which can impede resilience.
Essential Oils for Letting Go
Essential oils for letting go can help you release all the emotions that keep you stuck and unable to move
forward. This is because your sense of smell links directly to the limbic lobe of your brain which stores
and releases emotional trauma. Smelling essential oils can help you mobilize and release the negative
emotions that no longer serve you like anger, fear, shame, guilt or grief so that you can move forward
and heal.
Anger
Excessive anger activates your stress hormones and can take a toll on both your health and your
relationships. In fact, research reveals that a 5-minute episode of anger can impair your immune system
for more than six hours.
Intense anger can also prevent you from experiencing valuable learning that allows you to move forward
and heal. For example, when you project anger at others, it allows you to abdicate responsibility for all
the difficult things that may happen to you. This keeps you stuck in the role of victim, which allows you to
repress or deflect your emotional pain.
By making everything everyone else’s fault, you are actually choosing to remain powerless to change,
grow or learn from challenging situations. Similarly, trying to control the problem only keeps you more
attached to it. If you can let go of your attachment to what went wrong or what should have happened,
you can create the possibility of growth—and pave the path for more positive results.
When you choose to blame others in situations where you also played a role in the outcome, you often
miss a powerful opportunity to grow and expand. When you let go of anger, you can acknowledge your
shortcomings, accept responsibility for your choices and open up to the possibility of making different
choices that can result in different outcomes.
What’s more, your anger doesn’t do anything to fix the situation. It just holds the negative energy in
your field. Liver Support™ allows you to release anger, blame and shame that are often stored on very
deep cellular level. Just place the bottle under your nose and breathe deeply, fully inhaling the oil for 3 – 7
breaths, then slowly exhaling while intentionally releasing the anger. It helps you breathe into and work
through the emotion. You will know that the essential oil for blame is working when you stop smelling it.
Fear
More than any other emotion, it is fear that keeps you stuck. Fear of the unknown is often more
paralyzing than the certainty of remaining in an unhappy situation.
The common phrase “better the devil you know than the devil you don’t” illustrates this point that
most people would rather continue to deal with a difficult person or situation they know as opposed to
changing the situation and risk dealing with a new person or situation that could be worse. This fear can
keep you stuck and unable to move forward.
This fear activates your stress response with anxious or fearful thoughts triggering the release of stress
hormones, like cortisol and adrenaline. Fear of physical threats is a survival mechanism meant to protect
you. It throws your body into the flight or fight sympathetic response necessary to survive.
Emotional or thought driven fear are often based on anxiety, worry and resulting thought patterns
about all the things that could go wrong in an imaginary future. Unfortunately, your body, and its stress
response, cannot tell the difference between physical fear and emotional fear. You release the same
flood of hormones in both cases. For those of you who suffer from anxiety, worry or fear, this often
means that your bodies are stuck in a constant stress response.
Emotions, like fear, are processed through the amygdala which is part of the limbic system, the primitive
animal part of the brain. Read More about Essential Oils for Fear HERE.
Fortunately, the body has a relaxation response which is the counterbalance to the fight or flight stress
response, shutting off sympathetic nervous system and switching it over to the nervous system is relaxed
state known as the parasympathetic nervous system.
In this naturally relaxed state, you can release your fear, allowing your body to return to balance. This
point was driven home on the challenge courses, when the ability to breathe and relax allowed my
friends and I to move out of paralysis (also called the freeze response) and complete our physical
challenge.
To help trigger the body’s natural parasympathetic response, you can apply Vibrant Blue Oils
Parasympathetic™ blend on the vagal nerve (behind ear lobe on mastoid bone). When your body is
relaxed in the parasympathetic state, your fear response often subsides.
Grief
Grief can negatively affect your physical health. For example, grief can weaken your immune system,
leading to illness or infection. In one study, those who had lost a loved one had weaker immune systems
compared with those who had not suffered a loss.
Emotionally and physically, your lungs and your large intestine help you release and “let go” of whatever
you don’t need. This includes both intense emotions and metabolic waste.
Your lungs are sponge-like organs located near the backbone on either side of the heart. They function
as a fundamental source of life energy –transporting oxygen from the atmosphere into the capillaries
so they can oxygenate blood – as well as an important channel of elimination – releasing carbon dioxide
from the bloodstream into the atmosphere.
Feelings of grief, bereavement, regret, loss, remorse can obstruct ability of the lungs to accept and
relinquish, impeding their function of “taking in” and “letting go”. Grief that remains unresolved can
become chronic and create disharmony in the lungs, weakening the lung’s function of circulating oxygen
around the body. When lung function is impaired, it leads to shortness of breath, fatigue and feelings
of melancholy. Sadly, many chronic respiratory diseases and conditions develop after a major loss or
bereavement.
In order to grow, we often need to move on from old behavior and thought patterns as well as
individuals, places and possessions. There is often a deep sense of loss and grief associated with the
process of letting go. Lung Support™ helps you release grief when topically applied over the lungs. You
can also inhale the oil the oil through the nose, letting the oxygen flow deeply into the lungs, then exhale
or apply directly over the lungs.
Guilt
Guilt turns blame inward, a concept known as self-blame, where you attribute any negative outcome to a
personal short-coming or deficiency. Guilt also has to do with control. You may like to believe that things
should go your way and when they do not, you feel guilty about it.
The energies of guilt can create stagnation in the body, which may cause problems in the physical organs
of the body, physically affect the back of your body, including your heart and pain in the back of the head
and neck (where your skull joins to the spine) where guilt and self-recrimination hides. A pain in the neck
often means you believe you have made mistakes and haven’t forgiven yourself.
Guilt can also weaken your immune system. A study compared those who had high guilt levels with
those who had lower guilt levels related to pleasurable activities. They found higher levels of illness-
fighting immunoglobulin A levels in those who took pleasure in activities with less guilt.
Heart™ applied over your physical heart (left side of chest) or on the back of the neck helps amplify
feelings of self-love and gratitude, helping to balance and heal feelings of guilt.
Shame
Shame results you receive negative messages from others, leading you to believe that you are bad,
defective, or unworthy and somehow helpless to change that deficit. Feelings of helplessness and
powerlessness often accompany shame, producing high levels of stress-related hormones, like cortisol,
that wreak havoc in the body. Others may feel justified in showering you with mental, physical, emotional
or verbal abuse, in effect shaming you for something you are doing or not doing. If you choose to accept
that as your truth, you allow yourself to suffer unnecessarily.
Poor boundaries are correlated with shame, especially when you believe you lack the power, skill,
knowledge, or capability to manage the expectations of others and continually seek validation through
serving their needs and wants. Not surprisingly, your body holds shame in your digestive system,
primarily the small intestine which is also associated with boundaries. Small Intestine Support™ may
help you support positive boundaries and confidence to assist in bringing a sense of peace to our lives.
When you are struggling with negative emotions, like shame, it can be uplifting and help release and clear
any residual negative emotions. I find it best to apply in a clockwise direction around the belly button
or massaged into your ears for emotion related issues. You can start on the bottom of the ear at the
earlobes and gentle massage upward along the exterior of the ear, hitting many of the major reflexology
points. This article and chart show specific points on the ears for specific issues. Bladder Support™ is
another excellent blend for releasing shame, especially any shame related to sexual assault.
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About
Jodi Cohen
Jodi Sternoff Cohen is a bestselling
author, award-winning journalist,
functional practitioner and founder
of Vibrant Blue Oils, where she has
combined her training in nutritional
therapy and aromatherapy to create
unique proprietary blends of organic
and wild-crafted essential oils. She has
helped over 50,000 clients heal from
brain related challenges, including
anxiety, insomnia, and autoimmunity.
Her website, vibrantblueoils.com, is

visited by over 500,000 natural health
seekers every year, and she has rapidly
become a top resource for essential
oils education on the Internet today.
Her first book “Healing with Essential
Oils” is available on Amazon.com. Her
new book “Essential Oils to Boost
the Brain and Heal the Body will be
released March 16, 2021.
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Buoyed by my own positive experience, I began

I am also a nutritional therapy practitioner, certified

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So I decided to create my own.

Your ability to detoxify determines your resilience and resistance to disease.

“Fight or Flight” Response

In this way, heart coherence is a powerful tool for resilience.

The Victim Mentality

Processing or resolving these emotions helps to free up your energy reserves.

• Blaming others = Anger

• Blaming yourself = Guilt

• Accepting others blame of you = Shame

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