It's no secret… essential oils are great for more than just making your home smell nice. Essential oils have been proven in numerous studies to help support your mind and body through inspiring healthier emotions, which is especially important when you're feeling overwhelmingly isolated and lonely.
9 Best Essential Oils for Feeling Lonely & Isolated:
- Bergamot
- Clary Sage
- Frankincense
- Helichrysum
- Neroli (Orange Blossom)
- Palo Santo
- Roman Chamomile
- Rose
- Sandalwood
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Using Bergamot Essential Oil to help with Loneliness & Isolation:
Bergamot is a citrus oil that is ideal to use to help with your mental health when feeling low, sorrowful, and grief-stricken. Its refreshingly uplifting aroma helps open your heart chakra, inspiring you to radiate loving energy.
When focusing on opening your heart chakra, you'll find that your capacity to love yourself and empathize with others on a deeper level becomes a stronger skill. Opening your heart and letting go the pain associated with feeling isolated and the wandering thoughts that accompany it will prove to be therapeutic to your mental and emotional wellbeing.
** Not ideal to use on children under 6
Bergamot oil blends well with chamomile, cypress, eucalyptus, geranium, jasmine, juniper, lavender, lemon, palmarosa, patchouli, and ylang ylang.
Using Clary Sage Essential Oil to help with Loneliness & Isolation:
Clary Sage essential oil is well known historically to calm your mind and enhance your dream state. This enhanced meditative dream state inspires euphoric emotions, perfect for people feeling pained by their isolation.
** Not ideal to use on children under 6, during pregnancy, or during/after consuming alcohol.
Clary Sage blends well with bergamot, cedarwood, cypress, geranium, juniper, and sandalwood essential oils, along with citrus oils.
Using Frankincense Essential Oil to help with Loneliness & Isolation:
Frankincense is a powerful essential oil when it comes to supporting emotional and mental wellbeing. it deepens our spiritual awareness and meditation connections, which is perfect for reflecting and personal or spiritual growth.
Taking time for yourself to reflect and further develop your spirituality or personal growth practice is a powerful tool to use to help maintain your mental and emotional wellness when feeling isolated.
Frankincense is among the gentlest essential oils and may be used by people of all ages, and blends well with all other oils. You can read more about Frankincense on our All About Frankincense article.
Using Helichrysum Essential Oil to help with Loneliness & Isolation:
While Helichrysum has numerous uses to help with supporting skin, muscles, bones, and cardiovascular functioning, few people realize that Helichrysum Essential Oil is very uplifting to your subconscious mind. Using Helichrysum may help you cut through anger, and help enable you to move through forgiveness and releasing those anger triggers. This is especially helpful as many people who are feeling lonely and isolated often end up angry and frustrated by their circumstances.
** Helichrysum is not ideal to use on children under 6
Helichrysum blends well with essential oils such as geranium, clary sage, rose, lavender, spice oils, and citrus oils.
Using Neroli Essential Oil to help with Loneliness & Isolation:
When we spend a large amount of time feeling lonely and isolated, often our inner self talk becomes abrasive and may enter the realm of self-abuse. Using Neroli's powerful psychological effects, it may help to shift your mindset away from self-abuse and towards self-healing.
Historically, has historically been used by Egyptians for healing the mind, body, and spirit. Neroli may help strengthen and stabilize your emotions, bringing relief to seemingly hopeless situations. This encourages confidence, courage, joy, peace and sensuality, enabling you to see life's beauty.
Neroli is said to help open your Sacral and Heart Chakras.
** Not ideal to use Neroli Essential Oil on children under 6
Neroli essential oil blends well with rose, lavender, sandalwood, jasmine, cedarwood, geranium, and lemon essential oils.
Using Palo Santo Essential Oil to help with Loneliness & Isolation:
Palo Santo, also known as Holy Wood, is a Shamanic oil often used for purifying and cleansing misfortune and calamity. Its soothing aroma may help increase spiritual awareness, and focus meditation.
Using this essential oil to augment your spiritual and personal development routine will help bring you closer to your spirituality and building a relationship with your subconscious and soul. Doing this inner work is ideal when you're isolated, and may produce many rewards throughout your life, including feeling more fulfilled, feeling more aligned, and building confidence in who you are.
Palo Santo essential oil blends well with frankincense, myrrh, and sandalwood.
Using Roman Chamomile Essential Oil to help with Loneliness & Isolation:
Historically, Ancient Romans used Roman Chamomile to help them clear their minds and empower them with courage needed during battle. It is very supportive to your nerve functioning and emotional wellness, making it a great oil to keep on hand or blend with others when feeling isolated and lonely.
Use Roman Chamomile to help you soothe and clear your mind, enabling you to create a more peaceful atmosphere and enhance your patience.
** Roman Chamomile should be used cautiously and in greater dilution with children under 6
Roman Chamomile blends well with lavender, rose, geranium, and clary sage
Using Rose Essential Oil to help with Loneliness & Isolation:
Rose essential oil is stimulating to your mind, and is known for elevating emotions, especially love. When you find yourself in a mental struggle, Rose may help reopen loving energy you expend towards others and yourself.
** Rose essential oil is not ideal for children under 6. If you use rose with children under 6, please be sure to dilute more than normal (1 drop per 5ml carrier oil).
Using Sandalwood Essential Oil to help with Loneliness & Isolation:
Sandalwood essential oil is historically known for awakening your latent life force energy during meditation. Many cultures view Sandalwood as a sacred plant as it is very similar to Frankincense. It is soothing to your nerves, and calming for your emotions.
Sandalwood slowly calms, harmonizes, and balances all your body's 7 chakras, and may enhance your meditation practice by opening your third eye chakra, while also serve as grounding for your root chakra. It may help you accept others with an open heart while diminishing your egocentricity.
** If using on children under 6, be sure to dilute more than normal.
Sandalwood blends well with cypress, frankincense, lemon, myrrh, ylang ylang, patchouli, and spruce essential oils.
DIY Essential Oil Blends for Loneliness and Isolation
- 1 drop Rose essential oil
- 2 drops Frankincense essential oil
- 2 drops Bergamot or Orange essential oil
- 2 drops Bergamot essential oil
- 3 drops Clary Sage essential oil
- 3 drops Bergamot essential oil
- 2 drops Roman chamomile essential oil
- 2 drops Frankincense essential oil
- 3 drops Clary Sage essential oil
Essential Oil Blends for Loneliness and Isolation (without DIY)
Using essential oils to help you through your lonely season doesn't require DIY. There are plenty of pre-made blends you can find that will work beautifully at helping you reconnect with your higher self, and release the pain from isolation.
- Harmony Essential Oil Blend – great for balancing all your chakras, keeping negative thoughts at bay, and growing your love towards yourself
- Inner Child Essential Oil Blend – perfect for healing your inner child from past wounds you may not remember that cause loneliness and isolation to feel exceptionally heavy
- Sacred Mountain Essential Oil Blend – ideal for moving forward in your personal and spiritual growth journey, moving through exceptionally tough life seasons.
- Transformation Essential Oil Blend – an excellent choice when you're in a season of transformation, which often brings on feeling isolated
How To Use Essential Oils (Safely) for Loneliness and Isolation:
There are 2 main ways to use these essential oils for helping you navigate feeling lonely and isolated.
- Topically, on your skin
- Aromatically, through a diffuser or diffusing jewelry
If you're using your essential oils on your skin, please ensure you're using them safely by diluting them. We recommend diluting your oils 1 drop essential oil/blend per ml of carrier oil.
SAFETY WARNING: Bergamot is a photosensitive oil. Please remember to not use it topically on your skin anywhere that will receive direct sunlight within 72 hours. Most other citrus essential oils require not using them on areas of your skin which will see direct sunlight within 12 hours.
A carrier oil can be any cold-pressed, seed-based oil (ideally organic and unrefined). This includes most cooking oil, like coconut oil, avocado oil, and olive oil. Personally, we LOVE using sweet almond oil, grapeseed oil, and the V6 Carrier oil (made by Young Living). This is the best way to dilute your essential oils for topical use.
If you're diffusing, please ensure you're diffusing your oils safely. Think less is more, and be sure to give your body a break as needed. Diffusing too much oil or for too long (or both) can lead to dizziness and other undesirable sensations.
I personally LOVE wearing diffuser necklaces and occasionally wear diffusing bracelets. You can find my favorite beautiful diffusing jewelry at Drops of Joy. Or check out our guide to diffusing jewelry.
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