I have just started reading Gifts of Essential Oils and decided to use Buddha Wood today. The practice suggests using daily for one lunar cycle and put your feet in the earth to tap in to fortitude, inner strength and wisdom.

As I used this oil, I walked to the front garden and stood with my bare feet on the grass. As I inhaled I turned and saw a tree, really saw it for the first time and the beauty of its bark and shape, so much so that I had to touch it and take a photo

Buddha Wood is thick, dark in colour and sticky and reminds me of walking in to a shop back in Oz with dark wood buddhas everywhere and full of crystals and goods from Eastern Asia.

It can help men metabolise hurt and manage their emotions, plus allowing them to connect with the Divine Feminine.  For women it will help you to connect to you natural cycle as well as stillness guiding you to  a sense of connection, centredness and harmony.

It is known as false sandalwood and is smoky in fragrance. It is a great essential oil to add to a carrier oil and massage in to your sore muscles after a especially hard day working and is very calming, so use the same way you would use calming oils on your skin or back of the neck and feet at the end of the day for bedtime.  It is also said to be effective for helping to calm the mind.

A few ways to use this essential oil are:

Blend with Cedarwood, Vetiver and or Sandalwood for a beautifully calming blend for bedtime

Try with Lavender and Roman Chamomile on your feet, for a relaxing foot rub or replace Roman Chamomile with Wild Orange

Use this essential oil in a massage blend to help relieve sore muscles at the end of the day

Add to your cleaner or moisturiser to help boost your skin’s radiance

As an Australian bush essential oil, add to a diffuser blend with Melaleuca (Tea Tree), Lemon Eucalyptus and Eucalyptus. Perfect for those of us Aussie’s who are far far away from home as it brings in to being the scrub-like nature and the beautifully calming essences of the Australian bush