Plants possess diverse physical, emotional, and mental health and metaphysical (spiritual) attributes. This makes them a mind-body-spirit approach to healing and wellness. Here we’ll look at the Purple Chakra as a model to better understand how chakra functioning can influence your health and well-being. In this case, how you treat the Crown Chakra naturally.
Physical health issues are manifestations or signs of energetic imbalances. They indicate chakra dysfunction and/or disturbance in one or more of your subtle energy bodies. In contrast, chakra balance supports good health and holistic wellness.
Everything is made of energy, including you. Therefore, energetic healing modalities like sound, crystals, and medicinal plants can tone your energy centers (Chakras) and auric field (aura), promoting good balance, health, and well-being.
Chakra Attributes
The Purple Chakra is also called the Crown Chakra, Sahasrara, or Seventh Chakra. Sahasrara, a Sanskrit word, is another name for this chakra. It’s the Seventh chakra in the common seven chakra system. And, its color or light frequency is purple.
Unlike the other six main chakras of the body, the Purple Chakra is situated off the body rather than within it. It is located directly above the top of your head.
This energy center is the gateway to the subconscious, a connection to the greater universe or universal energy, a window onto non-ordinary reality, and the seat of your spirituality (i.e., an individual’s core beliefs about being and beyond: that which is held sacred and is related to the soul’s purpose or mission.)
In addition, it evokes both mystical experiences and out-of-body experiences.
Well-functioning Crown Chakra (Sahasrara)
When you have a balanced or strong Purple Chakra, you tend to be joyful, purposeful, in touch with your true inner nature, and comfortable with your personal form and expression of spirituality. You tend to have a sense of higher purpose (e.g. humanitarianism), are selfless, able to act without ego, and have a connection with something greater than yourself.
Dysfunctional Crown Chakra (Sahasrara)
When you have an imbalanced or dysfunctional Purple Chakra, you may feel your life is without meaning, or you lack a sense of purpose. You may feel alone or incomplete and possess an intense fear of death.
You might lack spirituality or be spiritually confused or indecisive. An imbalanced Seventh Chakra often leads to or manifests other energetic imbalances. You could feel disassociated from, or to some degree unattached to, your physical body.
On the physical level, the Seventh Chakra is aligned with the pineal gland, the top of the head, the cerebrum, the brain, the nervous system, the pituitary gland, and the endocrine system.
The relationship between the pineal gland and this center is particularly interesting and critical to its function. This gland is the link between the physical and spiritual, and the source of your accessible etheric energies. Thus, the pineal gland is central to the spiritual aspect of this chakra and your spirituality.
Some physical manifestations of Seventh Chakra dysfunction include pineal gland issues, nervous system problems, mental disorders, and depression.
Oils to Treat the Seventh Chakra Naturally
The therapeutic (biochemical) attributes of essential oils are also relevant to energy work because energetic imbalances tend to eventfully manifest in the physical body. Because of this, essential oils and aromatherapy can be said to be inherently multi-dimensional and in essence integrated.
For me, this makes them a wonderful bridge between subtle (energetic) and biochemical (clinical) modalities that promote healing, balance, and wellness.
This post gives you a snapshot of how essential oils and subtle aromatherapy relate to each chakra. Of course, energetic imbalances and other health issues are complex. Typically when one chakra goes out of balance, others do too. And, chakras tend to be just one part of the energy and holistic puzzle.
This blog is meant to open the door just a tiny crack to give you a glimpse of a much bigger body of information and practice.
Select the plant that suits the person and unique expression of imbalance. Based on their medicinal and metaphysical attributes, match them to a chakra according to the energetic, emotional, mental, and physical attributes of the chakra.
I’m not of the opinion that a specific essential oil is always good for a particular chakra, e.g., vetiver, a classic Root Chakra essential oil, is NOT always helpful when working with the Root For me, it depends on the manifestation of the imbalance and the specific intentions.
Common Purple Chakra Essential Oils
Some common essential oils for the purple chakra are:
- Anise Seed (Pimpinella anisum)
- Basil (Ocimum basilicum)
- Benzoin (Styrax benzoin)
- Elemi (Canarium luzonicum)
- Frankincense (Boswellia cateri)
- Galbanum (Ferula galbaniflua)
- Myrtle (Myrtus communis)
- Palo Santo (Bursea graveolens)
- Sandalwood (Santalum album)
- Spikenard (Nardostachys jatamansi)
Specific Applications of Common Oils
The most frequently cited Seventh Chakra essential oils are frankincense and sandalwood. Both promote meditative states, encourage higher states of consciousness, expand this energy center, support spiritual connection and growth, and assist with the transition from life to death (or the afterlife).
Frankincense expands the aura and helps awaken your spiritual or soul purpose. It also works on physical manifestations of Purple Chakra dysfunction such as anxiety, restlessness, nervous tension, and stress-related condition, in general.
Two additional well-known Sahasrara oils are spikenard and galbanum. Beginning with spikenard, it allays fears and prepares you for transition. It also inspires spiritual commitment and devotion and assists with animal communication, which extends to communication with power animals and other animal spirits.
Secondly, galbanum’s unique attributes work on a psychic level, promoting channeling and clearing psychic blocks. It also aids meditation, expands the auric field, creates a spiritual connection, and reveals your life purpose.
Although less well-known than the former two oils, myrtle possesses significant relevant properties. It expands the auric field, creates a connection with the divine, helps access higher vibrations, stimulates and strengthens deep inner wisdom, and provides protection and support during the transition.
Finally, basil and benzoin have both significant subtle and therapeutic attributes. Basil raises vibrations, realigns subtle energies, and stimulates clairaudience and spiritual connection, including the call to service and selfless or humanitarian pursuits.
On the physical level, basil addresses hysteria, indecision, and feelings of vulnerability or lack of control.
On the other hand, benzoin supports meditation and encourages spiritual journeys and astral travel. It addresses tension, stress, other nervous conditions, and depression.
Some Additional Useful Oils
Another oil worthy of note is mastic (Pistacia lentiscus) because it creates a connection and increases receptivity to spiritual guidance. An additional option is anise seed, which promotes and sharpens intuitive, telepathic, clairvoyant, and clairaudient capacities.
Next, opopanax (Commiphora guidotti) and elemi open one to mystical experiences and assist in balancing and integrating spiritual and earthly energies. Finally, palo santo helps you internalize spiritual development and identify your life purpose.
Oils Used Primarily For Crown-Related Physical Issues
Several essentials work primarily on the seventh chakra issues in the physical body. Angelica (Angelica archangelica) addresses nervous tension and weakness, fatigue, and especially fatigue that appears unrelated to physical exertion, feelings of hopelessness and indecision, and other stress-related conditions.
Rosewood (Aniba rosaeodora) is a nervous system tonic. It balances, calms, and uplifts. It’s a good choice if you feel overwhelmed or deadened by life’s burdens.
For More on Treating the Crown Chakra Naturally, See:
- Starchaser’s Mind Body Spirit blog and search for chakra or crown chakra; in particular:
- my Essential Oils For the Chakras ebook;
- Personal Growth, Natural Healing, and Wellness Workshops
Updated June 20, 2022
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