Birch

Birch

Birch is the oil of Support and Strength.  Birch invites us to work collaboratively with others by receiving and giving support and strength.

You may want to start by defining what you want and need first.  Then, make up your mind to give yourself that support first.  What kind of support are you looking for in others?  When you have decided and clearly planned the specific support you want, then you will be able to communicate your needs and thoughts clearly with others.  Do you want support in the form of finances, encouragement, collaboration, or something else?  Do you know where you stand in your level of self-support?  Are you loyal to yourself, your goals, and your dreams?  Birch helps you stay committed to yourself.

Sometimes it is hard to be supported and strong because we are unclear and have not made up our minds yet about things.  What are your thoughts and opinions on certain things that are important to you?  Figure yourself out first.  You can change your mind later, but for now decide on something.

You may feel like you are not getting the support you need from others and that the burden is all on you.  The core false belief you may have is that you are not strong enough to support yourself.  This is partly true.  We aren’t strong enough to support ourselves alone.  However, with God’s power and guidance, we are strong enough.  God wants us to be both empowered and interdependent – not independent.  He wants us to partner with Him.

Seek to connect with God first, then receive His divine loving power and support.  With God’s love and your clarity, you will know how to ask for support and how to receive support from others.  Believe that the universe has your back and that you deserve to be loved, important, and strengthened.

Possible Physical Manifestations:  supportive to muscles, cartilage, bones, aches, joints, teeth whitening, connective tissues, spasms, and numbing effects.

Negative Emotional Energy to Release: unsupported, weak-willed, overly flexible, self-betrayal, doubtful, declining help, and unreliable.

Possible Negative Beliefs and Thoughts to Release:

• I am not strong enough.
• No one understands me.
• I need help but people are not there for me.
• I am carrying too much burden (or responsibility); and no one cares.
• I am weak if I ask for or receive help.
• I am a giver, so I don’t like taking.

Positive Emotional Energy to Adopt: collaborative, resolute, firm, strengthened, grounded, settled, content, committed, connected, loyal, and reliable.

New Enlightened Beliefs and Thoughts to Adopt:

• When I connect to God, I always feel supported by angels and divine powers.
• I don’t have to carry all the burdens that I think I need to, at least not all at once.
• I only need to take on one thing at a time and allow divine powers to watch over the things I am currently not carrying.
• I don’t need to please everyone.
• I firmly hold onto my divine commitments (or covenants) regardless of other’s opinion.

Affirmations (Enlightened Declarations):

• With God’s power and guidance, I can support myself on all levels.
• I am firm, strengthened, committed and resolute about where I stand.
• I can have the strength I need for myself.
• I am balanced in giving and taking.

Actions: Dilute and apply Birch on your spine and back. Diffuse.

Possible Substitutions: If you don’t have this oil, here are some other oils with similar qualities you can try: Wintergreen, Cypress, and Deep Blue.  Birch is almost entirely composed of methyl salicylate.  Wintergreen and Birch are the only plants in the world that contain methyl salicylate naturally.  Deep Blue contains Wintergreen.

NOTE: Birch oil may not be available for purchase, but it may be available as a promotion sometimes at dōTERRA’s convention or otherwise.