My First Encounter with Essential Oils
A New Path to Wholeness
I first heard of aromatherapy from our trusted family counselor. He told me about Kathy Spohn, an experienced essential oils teacher and provider. Aromatherapy sounded airy-fairy to me but I went ahead and talked with Kathy on the phone and made an appointment for a Raindrop session. Then I canceled the appointment because I needed to know more about what I was getting into.
After reading Healing Oils of the Bible I rescheduled. The Raindrop session was wonderful. I not only felt very relaxed and at peace, but I sensed God was working in my body to sort out my physical ailments. A week or so later I went back to Kathy for an Emotional Release session. That was amazing. I have had various forms of therapy over the years, but this was very different because there was practically no talking. The first oil she applied took me immediately back to a room and a situation that occurred when I was four. From then on it was as if I made a review of my life, dropping in on critical events. I experienced pain and sorrow, but also a deep sense of balance. I saw the “bad” things that happened to me, but I also saw that I had survived, that with God’s grace I was strong and well. At the end of the Emotional Release I felt completely balanced and at peace. I had acknowledged the pain, forgiven all involved, and was firm on my feet.
One of the most crucial changes I experienced right away was with sleep. For decades I have had terrible trouble falling asleep. I am famous for listening to the BBC World News in the middle of the night. Now I apply a drop of Peace & Calming blend—or vary it with Lavender or Valor—and I am asleep in ten minutes. For years I have had asthma. It began one night over 30 years ago when I was forced to sleep in a moldy sleeping bag. I had to use an inhaler every night when I went to bed. The wheezing was usually accompanied with mucous in the back of my throat so every night I had a wad of Kleenex under my pillow. This has totally changed. No more inhaler, no more tissue. Occasionally I feel my asthma starting to kick in, but I am able to curtail it by applying Purification on my lung and bronchial reflex points on the top of my feet. For most of my adult life I have taken allergy medicine for hay fever as soon as plants start blooming in the spring. Since using essential oils, I am pill free. When hay fever symptoms start to rear up, I use Lavender on my sinus points under my toes and the symptoms subside.
Since I was introduced to Young Living essential oils in 2005, I have continued to be asthma and hay fever free and have found dozens—maybe hundreds—of uses for the oils to improve my physical and emotional health. I’ve taken classes from Kathy Spohn and learned to do Raindrop and Emotional Release for my friends and family.
