Cedarwood: The oil of Community

Cedarwood brings us together to experience the strength and value of community. We can use Cedarwood when we aren’t able to form bonds within social groups, often due to an over-developed sense of individuality. Rather than allowing support from family, friends or a community, we may be living by excessive self-reliance. On the other hand, this inability to form social roots may stem from feeling disconnected and separate from the human family. Cedarwood inspire the feeling of belonging and assists the heart in opening to receive the love and support of other people. It invites the strong willed individual to couple the strength of individually with the supportive power of community.

Cedarwood supports us in seeing that we are not alone, life is a shared experience. Cedarwood also assists in opening awareness to the support systems that are already available, such as friends or family that have been overlooked. It invites us to both give and receive, so we may experience the strength of groups and the joy of relationships.

Negative Emotions: Inability to form bonds or social roots, loneliness, feeling disconnected or separate from the human family, antisocial.

Positive Emotions: Connected, belonging, supported, social bonds, neighbourly, joy in relationships.