**#4 in a series of 5 articles**
Meeting my business partner in that small business class seemed like a simple coincidence at the time. She introduced me to essential oils, and I thought I was just learning about natural perfumery. I had no idea I was about to discover a bridge between the biology that moved me through my days and the consciousness I was beginning to witness.
My respect for essential oils deepened as my curiosity grew. Often disappointed because they didn’t seem to work like people were suggesting. Lavender did not relax me and peppermint did nothing for my energy levels. I credit my education in neurobiology and pharmacology with keeping me in the game of essential oils, otherwise, I wouldn’t be here today. With a scientific approach, I became methodical in my process of ‘figuring them out’.
What I discovered challenged everything I thought I knew about healing.
The conventional approach to essential oils treats them like natural pharmaceuticals: this oil for headaches, that one for anxiety, another for sleep. It's the symptom-relief mindset that dominates both mainstream and alternative medicine. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and most people assume the suggested remedy is ineffective at best and never question why.
But I was starting to see patterns others missed.
Why did the same oil work brilliantly for one person and fail completely for another?
Why did some people experience profound shifts while others felt nothing?
The answer wasn't in the chemistry alone—it was in the intersection of chemistry and ‘inner unity’.
Essential oils, I realized, don't just act on our physical bodies. They affect our biofield, our frequency, our very essence. When used with attention and intention, we discover they are key to helping us reconnect with consciousness so that we can observe our thoughts and emotions rather than be manipulated by them.
The cumulative effect becomes the real revelation. Unlike pharmaceuticals that often lose effectiveness over time, continuous use of essential oils increases people's capacity for self-observation. The more consistently someone uses oils with awareness, the more they can step back from their automatic responses and choose different reactions.
This wasn't symptom suppression—it was consciousness expansion.
People constantly asked me what oils I recommended for various conditions. But their setbacks always came from the same source: they were stuck in the symptom-relief mindset. They wanted a quick, natural, magic bullet to fix the problem.
A common way of thinking that I understood—that used to be me.
I felt like a ‘broken record’, repeatedly explaining that oils aren't the cure—they're the catalyst. The only thing that heals the body is the body itself. Essential oils create the neurobiological conditions that calibrate a person so that healing can occur. This inner ‘fine tuning’ unites—defragments—us so that we can go through life with integrity. Honoring ourselves beyond the trauma, patterns, or inherited pain.
My understanding exceeded what any marketing company teaches. While multilevel marketing giants push "protocols" and "systems," I discovered something far more profound. Essential oils are a key to what I began calling our "essential nature"—the being within the human, the consciousness that exists independent of our stories and wounds.
This essential nature isn't something we need to create or achieve. It's there, beneath layers of conditioning, trauma, and inherited patterns. The oils simply help us reconnect and reveal with what we've always been.
The frustration I felt wasn't about the oils themselves—it was about the limited paradigm surrounding them. People wanted to stay safely within the box of "flavors and fragrances" or, at best, natural symptom relief. But stepping outside that box meant questioning fundamental assumptions about healing, consciousness, and the nature of reality itself.
Every time someone asked me for an oil recommendation, I saw an opportunity to plant seeds of a different understanding.
Yes, this oil might help with your headache, but what if we explored why you get headaches in the first place?
What if we used the oils not just to feel better but to observe the patterns that create dis-ease?
The intersection of essential oils and essential nature was becoming clear: these plant compounds work because they speak a language our bodies recognize—a frequency-based communication that bypasses our mental defenses and touches something primordial within us.
But explaining this to people required patience. The conditioning runs deep, the symptom-relief mindset is entrenched, and the idea that healing involves consciousness shift rather than symptom suppression challenges everything we've been taught.
Still, for those ready to hear it, the message was transformative. Starting with me.
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I’m Tammy Davis. a ‘wound care’ and essential oil integration specialist and founder of Revolutionary Aromatherapy with extensive experience in addiction and trauma recovery, emotional wellness and biological communication. My specialty is healing hearts.
This is the fourth in a series exploring how understanding addiction patterns, consciousness, and essential oil chemistry can transform generational trauma into profound healing. Next: "Following Your Heart Inward: The Real Healing"