Date: August 30, 2023

This recording talks about how to incorporate essential oils into a decluttering routine. Valerie provides 8 ways that essential oils can help with decluttering, such as reducing stress, increasing focus and energy, enhancing mood, creating rituals, practicing mindfulness, reducing odors, creating sensory associations, and creating a relaxing environment. Valerie then expands on how to create rituals and sensory associations by discussing the brain’s ability to form habits and neural pathways through consistent cue-routine-reward loops and the role of neurotransmitters like dopamine. She also covers the subject of safety tips for using essential oils and some specific oil recommendations.

So if you are ready to use your sense of smell to lead the way in decluttering then you are sure to learn so much from Valerie’s wealth of knowledge as you smell your way to the life that you want.

IN THIS VIDEO:

0:00:05

8 ways to incorporate essential oils into your decluttering routine

0:01:13

How to use oils around pets?

0:02:30

#1 Essential Oils: reducing stress (lavender, chamomile, bergamot)

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#2 Essential Oils: increase focus and energy (citrus: lemon, orange, grapefruit, mandarin, clementine)

0:05:42

#3: Essential Oils: mood enhancement (peppermint, eucalyptus, rosemary)

0:06:41

#4: Essential Oils: creating a ritual (signal sent to the brain, it’s time to focus on decluttering to establish the routine).

0:07:19

#5: Essential Oils: for Mindfulness (staying present and focused on the task)

0:07:59

#6: Essential Oils: to reduce odors (tea tree, lavender, eucalyptus)

0:09:25

#7: Essential Oils: sensory association

0:10:18

#8: Essential Oils: Creating a relaxing environment

0:11:36

Concept of creating a ritual and establishing routine habits

0:12:18

#1 Habit formation in the brain (Chunking)

0:14:10

#2 Cue, Routine, Reward Loop

0:15:50

#3 Environmental and Sensory Cues

0:17:21

#4 Neural networks and neural pathways

0:20:54

#5 Neural Transmitters and Rewards

0:23:00

#6 Contextual conditioning in decluttering

0:28:14

Associative learning – connect 2 stimulus based on repeating pairing.

0:29:18

Neural Pathway Formation – a chain of neurons finding one another

0:32:45

The linking between the stimulus and the behavior.

0:34:09

Strong neural pathway can anticipate the next behavior

0:35:15

The emotional component

0:36:30

Consistency matters, when using essential oils

0:37:40

What to keep in mind when choosing an essential oil?

0:38:39

Sensory Association – Connection between the olfactory bulb and the limbic system

0:43:10

Choosing the right essential oil