A Guide to Essential Oils and the Sensory Child
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mind, body, and soul
Sensory children need rhythm and a plan to help support their mind, body, and soul. By helping your child create a practical daily plan that flows in rhythm, you can empower and equip your child to calm themselves, or alert themselves when appropriate. Young Living essential oils are a wonderful added tool to incorporate into your daily plan. Whether you are using one single oil to help alert the mind and bring focus, or a blend of oils to calm the senses and center the body, essential oils can be a powerful tool for a child needing extra support.
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Oils in daily life; A tiny bodies sense of movement *Vestibular movements such as flipping, climbing, spinning are very alerting to the body's system *Sensory seeking is sought out by my son. This can often go too far. *Use calming oils (see next page) when vestibular activities are first sought out. *Consider using alerting and focusing oils (see next page) when the activity has gone too far.
Sensory seeking children tend to overindulge in vestibular movements, thereby overloading their senses. Using oils can help focus the senses, and empower the child to find calmness and center.
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Oils in daily life; A tiny bodies sense of spacial surroundings
*Proreoreceptive activities empower the body to know where it is in relation to its surrounding space. *This can be done by doing a deep pressure massage focusing on muscles and joints, Wilbarger protocol (DTTP), and the use of weighted blankets. This helps organize the central nervous system. *Paired with a massage and lavender lotion, while diffusing calming oils, or following an Epsom salt or bubble bath with Lavender and Copiaba, the body can become regulated and calmer.Â
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Calming oils
Calming and relaxing oils are wonderful to diffuse to help foster a good night's sleep and during those times of needed rest, relaxation, and peace. These oils can be applied behind the neck, temples, ears, and bottoms of the feet. Place a drop in the palm of the hands, rub the hands together, cup hands over the nose and inhale.
Cedarwood Vetiver Lavender Valerian White Angelica Valor
Frankincense
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Focusing Oils Focusing oils are a wonderful addition to daily activities. Diffusing oils is not only beneficial for homework and reading time, but they can also help support the overly stimulated senses to hone in and find balance. Apply to temples, and back of neck.
Cedarwood, Lavender & Vetiver
Frankincense & OrangeÂ
Rosemary & Citrus Fresh Lemongrass & Basil Vetiver
Clarity & Peppermint
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Emotions are larger than life; Emotional support for the tiniest of souls When little bodies are over stimulated emotions start to run away. Essential oils applied topically and diffused, are strong emotional steering wheels for a young child to grasp to during emotional train wrecks. Inhale, or apply to shoulders and gently massage the shoulder, apply over the liver.
Peace and Calming
Present Time
Joy Digize
when the stomach feels the emotions
Grounding Release
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Starter Kit Recipes for the Sensory-Sensitive Child Rest Your Eye’s Sleepy Head Lavender, Frankincense and Stress Away Wake Up and Take on The Day Peppermint and Citrus Fresh Homework Time Peppermint and Lemon Time to Chill Lavender and Copiaba Relax & Calm (sooth those overloaded senses) Copiaba, Lavender, and Frankincense Wake Up & Breath Easy Raven, Peppermint and Lemon Keep Those Germs at School Thieves and Lemon Happy Day Citrus Fresh and peppermint
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A little boy's oily life
A day in the life of a sensory sensitive boy Morning: Peppermint and Lemon to wake up  Valor for courage to face the day Joy for those big emotions Thieves for the next 8 hours around germy kids Peace and Calming or Citrus fresh for a positive mood on the way to school. Clarity or Genius for concentration and focus. Afternoon: Rosemary and Lemon for 8 hrs of overstimulation to help focus. Lavender to soothe the soul Release for emotional balance and "wash away" Night: Stress Away & Lavender for a relaxing mood Lavender and Copiaba Epson salt bath Sensory roller with deep pressure brushing and massage (Lavender, Ylang Ylang, Lavender, Frankincense, Clary Sage, and Sweet Marjoram White Angelica or Lavender, Frankincense and Copiaba for a restful nights sleep. Oils are alternated out as needed throughout the day and night, however, the rhythm of use for specific needs never deviates. Parentingthatkid.com
To learn more, or to get started using your oils, Contact me. Together we can make this unique parenting journey a little less stressful. ASHLEIGH TOLLIVER ASHLEIGH@PARENTINGTHATKID.COM PARENTINGTHATKID.COM PODCAST: PARENTING THAT KID
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I am not a doctor and am not claiming to cure, prevent or treat sensory processing disorder. These words and uses are from personal experience with my own child. Please seek medical advice and use it at your own discretion.