336: Using Essential Oils for Defense, Openness, and Evolution w/ Josephine Spilka
Today on our show we talk with Josephine Spilka who works in private practice using essential oils and Classical Chinese Medicine. We dive into all sorts of topics -- from proper essential oil storage to using oils to expand the heart.
Living with and loving essential oils and Chinese medicine for over 25 years, Josephine Spilka has a private practice in classical Chinese medicine. Her studies included food therapy, essential oils, herbal medicine, stone medicine, and classical chinese medicine. You can join her at thenectarofplants.com for essential oil education and application.
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0 (41s): Welcome to the essential oil revolution. I'm your host, Samantha Lee Wright. And I hope that you are having a fantastic day on today's interview. I talk with Josephine spica and we get into all sorts of topics from the proper way to store and preserve your essential oils to the evolution of humanity, to openness and so much more. I hope you enjoy today's interview. Before we get to that, though, let's pull a recipe out of our D IY dugout. This is the segment of our show, where we pull a recipe that has been submitted by you. Our amazing listeners, and I absolutely love this recipe.
0 (1m 24s): This one comes from Shaina ARB in Hermitage, Tennessee, and it is for autumn taste, good toothpaste to make the autumn taste good toothpaste you'll need four tablespoons baking soda, four tablespoons, coconut oil and five drops, orange oil, five drops, clove oil, simply mix them all together in a glass container and use like regular toothpaste. Thank you so much for your recipe Shaina. We really appreciate it. If you have your own recipe that you've invented, if it's a diffuser mix, a straight up replacement for a cleaning product, anything that you use essential oils for just make sure it's original and send it to us at DIY revolution, oils, podcast.com.
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0 (5m 53s): While I'm here with Josephine SPKO, who is living with and loving essential oils and Chinese medicine, and has been for over 25 years, Josephine SPCA has a private practice in classical Chinese medicine. Her studies include food therapy, essential oils, herbal medicine, stone medicine, and classical Chinese medicine. You can join her at the nectar of plants.com for essential oil education and application tips. Welcome to the show Josephine, how are you?
4 (6m 25s): Well, I'm delighted to be here. Thank you so much.
0 (6m 29s): Thank you for coming. I always really relish chatting with people who have knowledge in Chinese medicine specifically. I don't wanna play favorites or anything, but Chinese medicine just has such a rich history. Can you just give us a little brief insight into that?
4 (6m 47s): Sure, sure. So Chinese medicine, which these days is sometimes called east Asian medicine, Oriental medicine. I think the best way to talk about it is it's energetic medicine and it's relational medicine, meaning in the Chinese medical view of our bodies and our lives. We see ourselves in context, as in always in dynamic with whatever circumstances we find ourselves in. So rather than isolating aspects and studying them in, in that very specific or narrow way, Chinese medicine is all about how can we see ourselves in this larger world and how can we see our relationships with all the different things in our world?
4 (7m 39s): And it originated with people who investigated that themselves, who actually sat down and sort of tried to understand what was happening in their bodies and in their world, from the inside out. And they always see themselves in that almost you could say cosmic relationship in a way, which to me is very exciting.
0 (8m 2s): Yeah. What do you mean by that? Yeah. Cosmic relationship, like our relationship between us and, and the stars and how that impacts our bodies. Like, are you talking yes. Are getting into astrology here. Well,
4 (8m 14s): And astrology is certainly included because this way of looking at medicine doesn't exclude almost anything. Nothing is really excluded. So we are looking at our relationship to the earth, to the air, to the sun, to the plants, to all the different things in the world. And at any given moment, you could say it's well, roughly 50%, what we bring our bodies and then another 50% what the world brings to us.
0 (8m 51s): Ooh, I've never thought about it in that way. I really love that. How do essential oils tie into Chinese medicine? It doesn't really tie in traditionally, does it, is it kind of more of a modern adaptation kind of influencing it?
4 (9m 6s): I'm actually essential oils can be found in very ancient texts because it was, there's been the science of sort of steam, distillation of plant essences for a long time. And the way they were used in Chinese medicine, they were, they were distilled and kept in the monasteries because this is where the traditions could be kept alive, sort of from generation to generation. And so, you know, they keep the plant lore and the, the living or current plants you could say, but they also distill and use the essential oils in a very different way.
4 (9m 54s): I guess the, the thing that is really amazing about essential oils is that their substance is this almost DNA of the plant. And then their aroma for us is part of our relationship with the world of what we call way Chi or some people call that defensive Chi. So like I said, we're always thinking about that relationship. In fact, Chinese medicine Chi itself is a relationship and there's all different kinds of relationships. So the aroma has the relationship with the external world and the substance itself has the relationship with your core, your essence, your own essence, what we call gene essence, which makes them amazing to, to work with.
0 (10m 45s): Yeah. Do you have any tips for people who are working with essential oils at home and keeping that in mind that gene in that essence,
4 (10m 54s): Oh, well these, these are things you probably already know, but you know, the thing about essential oil is because of their aroma. They're so volatile, meaning their, if they get exposed to heat or light, they, their essence, their essence will remain, but their aroma will evaporate. So their ability to move our relationship with the external world will decline where the substance, the actual liquid, you could say, won't won't necessarily decline.
0 (11m 32s): So your tip is essentially safeguard your oils from sunlight and heat and exposed air,
4 (11m 38s): Which probably everybody knows anyway. But I think
0 (11m 41s): It's interesting to know, you know what I feel like not, I feel like a lot of people don't know that. I think it's been a while since we've really talked about, you know, the storage of essential oils and how important that is. And, you know, a lot of people get really excited when they get a bunch of oils and they wanna, they wanna put 'em out in the, all the pretty places and there's nothing wrong with that per se, unless that pretty place happens to be right in front of a really bright window. Right.
4 (12m 4s): Oh yeah. You don't wanna, you
0 (12m 5s): Wouldn't wanna have those oils under that direct sunlight constantly. And you know, preferably we're putting them in a cool dark place.
4 (12m 14s): Oh yeah. I keep all of mine in the closet and you know, I mean, it's true. I open the door and look at them a lot because I like to see them, but definitely they're gonna keep better and be more powerful if we don't allow that aroma to escape. I mean, it's also the aroma reducer on the top that you wanna be sure is, is in place. And a lot of times what I notice is there's some distributors that, that don't put in the aroma reducer, particularly if they're for perfumery or cosmetic application
0 (12m 49s): And, and by aroma reducer, you're talking about that little plastic thing that the
4 (12m 53s): Little plastic thing on the top that helps to prevent some of that aroma from escaping right away. Cuz if you, I mean, some oils depends on the oils too. If they're top notes, they're gonna, they're gonna be right up there, run at you right away. So they're gonna, they're gonna degrade much faster the base notes, the things that don't, don't come popping right up, like Chuli or sandalwood, these kinds of things, they're gonna be less volatile in that way. They're gonna keep longer, actually.
0 (13m 30s): Yeah. Well, this is so hard because for me, and I'm sure a lot of people out there it's like an outta sight outta mind kind of thing. You know, like the same with my vitamins, my supplements, like if they're not right there staring me in the face all the time, then I just, I just don't use them as much. So, you know, what I've found to, to help me, you know, is a, if I, if I do have my oils out, I wanna make sure they're at least in a dark bottle, like an blue or brown bottle, you know, I buy from a brand that happens to know this. And so they put all their oils in a dark glass bottle, but they also go a step further and protect the whole bottle really with their labeling label.
4 (14m 10s): Like
0 (14m 11s): Let's not an accident, you know, they're like, no, we there's some brands that like to put, you know, just a clear label all around because they know people like to see the liquid inside and it's like, well, you know, it's really not the best for your oils. But I also like to try to keep my stockpile of oils, at least in a dark cool place. And then just sort of bring out the ones that I'm actively using. And preferably put those into smaller containers that are maybe like a pre-diluted mixture with a carrier oil or a roller ball. And this is something I never thought to ask myself until this conversation, but do you know if mixing the essential oils with a carrier oil, does that help prevent that volatility because does the carrier oil kind of trap it in for lack of a better word?
4 (14m 57s): You know, I think it can, depending on the carrier oil, you know, some of the carrier oil, especially the lighter seed oils are nut oils. The they're gonna be more, those are gonna react to oxygen, right? They're gonna react to being exposed to air, so they're gonna degrade themselves. So they're not gonna be that helpful. But if you add a little vitamin E and you could also add sometimes Rosemary things like this that actually preserve other, they act like preservatives.
4 (15m 37s): So if you have something like Rosemary in your blend, it's gonna help keep it for longer.
0 (15m 42s): Is that because of the sort of antibacterial properties of Rosemary specifically? Or is there something else about Rosemary that makes it a particularly good candidate for preservation?
4 (15m 52s): I think it's the antioxidant quality.
0 (15m 55s): Okay. That's great. Well, I love these tips. I mean, this is super, super helpful. I think it's a great reminder for people to, to know, because yeah, if you're, you're investing a lot of money in these oils, you don't wanna waste them. You wanna keep them healthy, keep them, yeah. Keep them vibrant. Now Josephine, one thing that you're here to talk to us about today is your work around openness, which I'm really excited about that. Something that you say a lot is that make openness your best defense. So let's, let's dive into that. It's just, that's a, SCRM just saying right there. I wanna hear more.
4 (16m 31s): Yeah. So I, of course I began to think about this a lot in the last couple of years because of our pandemic, but always in, in teaching about relating with the external world and how we stay strong and how we stay healthy. I always say openness is our best defense because if you imagine being inside and all the windows shut and all the blinds shut, you can imagine that when you hear or, you know, sense things that are happening outside, that that produces fear in you because you can't see what's going on.
4 (17m 17s): So in a way we're talking about opening the senses so that we can make a relationship with the moment and therefore we can actually respond accurately rather than respond out of fear or confusion. And the thing that essential oils Excel at because of the aroma is opening the senses and awakening and enlivening us, bringing us into the moment with their aroma. So immediately then we have the potential to make a very powerful and precise relationship with whatever is happening. And we can't do that. If we're closed, we can't do that. If we go in with a rigid idea either, which is a way of being closed, you know, there's the physical closing, like having your eyes closed or your blinds closed.
4 (18m 6s): And then there's the emotional closing, which is going in with a projection or an idea about how things are. And
0 (18m 16s): Yeah. What is that? What's an example of what that looked like, like during the pandemic, for example.
4 (18m 21s): Well, I think, I think a lot of people were feeling afraid obviously, and, and working with their fear and not knowing how to relate with people from the place of you might be contagious. You might be, you might be making me sick and which is really hard for us because we actually are social beings. We actually want to relate with other people, but then we develop this whole fear of actually having, even having a conversation, being in proximity to somebody.
4 (19m 5s): So I am suggesting, or I'm thinking that when we well with essential oils, especially we can feel that we have the capacity to meet those situations with strength and, you know, looking at the person in the moment, rather than saying, I can't talk to anybody because everybody is a threat and you may not know whether or not this person is contagious, but you can still care for yourself and be open to that person.
4 (19m 47s): They may have to stand six feet away from you and they might be wearing a mask and you might have ideas about what is going on underneath their mask. But in fact, well, I think we can be available as human beings to each other, without that overlay of wondering what might be going on under their mask and just relating directly with what we sense, what we smell, what we feel, what we see. And I think that's challenging. I think it's very challenging with a mask on, to be honest, I think people are so used to seeing people's faces and seeing the mobility in people's faces.
4 (20m 27s): And some people have more mobile eyes than others, but when you lose the mouth and the, what we, what we in Chinese medicine, mostly what you see around the mouth is what we call the stomach channel. It's how we take in a lot of information. So yeah,
0 (20m 46s): It's been, it's been hard. I think everyone's exp I mean, no matter where you, you know, lay on, I don't wanna get into a debate about mask mandates and vaccines, you know, all that stuff, whatever your feelings around the pandemic, you know, without a doubt, it's the, the mask wearing has been really difficult on everyone because of that, that we are social, social creatures aspect, especially, you know, not being able to see faces. I always think about babies that are growing up during the pandemic and going, oh my goodness, like, what is this doing to their brains? This has gotta be, this is the weirdest blip in our human history, you know? And, and it's just for, I'm such a social creature too.
0 (21m 28s): And I, at first I was like having a hard time understanding, like, what is she talking about really this sort of openness, you know, in this scenario, but I'm kind of thinking back and you just remembering that there was certain days that if I would go out and I would see, you know, everyone in their mask and you're seeing signs everywhere and you know, you're wearing your mask and it was really easy to kind of fall into this, this emotion. I'm having a hard time putting a name on it, but just this sort of, I guess closedness would be a good, a good word for it of just, okay, I'm here to do my thing. You know, I'm not gonna, you know, look at people. I'm not gonna interact with people.
0 (22m 8s): I'm not, I'm not gonna be open to those around me, but for, for the most part, I would, I would sort of take an extra effort to, to try not to do that to, okay, even though, you know, we're in this really weird situation right now, I'm still gonna, I'm gonna hug people from afar, you know, make that you kind of hug yourself symbol, you know, or, you know, I would just do that with people all the time. Like I see you, you know, I wish I could hug you or I would open my arms even though we wouldn't necessarily embrace and, and do that with people. And that made a huge difference, I think, for myself, for them and, and that, that openness. So, yeah, it's really interesting.
4 (22m 49s): Yeah. And I think, again, it's, it's our capacity to sense that and feel that in our, in our own bodies that we even behind mask have, have exactly what you're describing, which is perfect, right? The openness, the willingness to be available as a person, you know, just as a person in that situation and we're all in it together.
0 (23m 15s): Yeah. Now what we briefly touched about essential oils on this and how it relates, but, you know, tell me more, what, what kind of essential oils would you recommend for someone who is trying to embrace this openness more and how would you use them?
4 (23m 30s): Yeah, I'd love to, I'd love to share that because these, the two, what I call frontline for this are eucalyptus and tea tree, and they're so easy to get. And they're so perfect. And I'll, I'll
0 (23m 43s): Share a little bit about there species of eucalyptus you would recommend
4 (23m 47s): Well, so from my point of view, eucalyptus Glos is the best for this, particularly for this current virus, pretty much for most viruses, the Citri ado, the lemon eucalyptus better for different types of infections like that have a heat quality. So we say in my way of thinking about things that that virus has wind and cold, and certainly with COVID, we've seen a lot of cold natured symptoms, you know, loss of smell, loss of loss of any sense is a cold blockage from my point of view, loss of function.
4 (24m 33s): So eucalyptus lobbyist, which is warming is great for that. It's a little harsher than say Radita, which is the one I like to use for kids and kids tend to run a little hotter. So, so we, and we want something a little gentler for them. So Radita, which is also a little bit cooling can also be used, but I really like the Glo for this, this situation for virus and eucalyptus is all about opening up and letting go and allowing, allowing things to move in and out of your portals, you could say it opens your eyes and ears and nose.
4 (25m 21s): And, and another way of talking about that as it resolves flam, and so will help get rid of runny nose Orle in the lungs or in the ears. And so those two things are kind of synonymous and, and the other piece about eucalyptus that's so beautiful is that it helps us relate with change. So for us in my language, wind is equivalent to change or the invitation to change. And so when we, when we breathe in that eucalyptus, it's like we get, we get this just blast of oxygen that these trees can bring us.
4 (26m 3s): And it allows us to be so much more available, so much more open to what's here in the moment. And then to let go to not stay stuck, you could say, and, you know, stuckness looks like closed down and also stuckness can look like blockage of your orifices, your, you know, Stucky nose or your block ears, or your I'm in your throat kind of thing.
0 (26m 32s): Yeah. I've been thinking a lot about stuckness lately. And I, I love that, you know, one of the things we wanted to talk about with you as well, was evolution and change. And I don't know, I think I've been kind of thinking about stuckness. The opposite of that is unstuck this, but really I like, there's much better words for that is evolution. I love that you just use that word relate to us essential oils and evolution or change.
4 (27m 5s): Yeah. So plants, you can see plants the way they, their form response to circumstance. Like you can see, I have a Jade plant here in my office and literally it turns to face the sun, you know, so quickly that I have to turn the pot literally every three or four days, because it's just moving to meet the sun. So, so this is a quality of a plant that, that actually helps us adapt to circumstances. And this is evolution. And actually, if you do that enough, the, the DNA, the structure will change.
4 (27m 47s): Like, I mean, we've all seen this like plants growing in these bizarre places and they develop this very bizarre shape. They kind of like turn the corner and then they, you know, and you're like, how do they, how do they maintain that shape? Well, actually their structure has, has adapted over time. And it's, it's, you can read about epigenetics. It happens to human beings as well. You can take a pair of identical twins and over their lifetime, their experiences will change their structure. And by the time they're 40, well, you are a twin you a twin.
0 (28m 22s): I just
4 (28m 23s): Realize, I just realized that you look different than your twin. Yeah. And that is a evidence of that epigenetic change. So the essential oils embody that for us, they bring us that message of adaptability and structural movement because they themselves come from, you know, come from that in their growth and their, their life cycle. Right. So then particularly the essential oils that come from the seed or the root, because these are the things that resonate, you could say with our own essence in our bodies.
4 (29m 4s): So the, the carrot seed, the cer seed caraway seed, all of these have a, a profound effect, fennel seed, an seed on our, what in my world is the kidney system, the, the essence and the gene systems, kidney and bladder, and allow us to, to mobilize our ability to grow and change, which, you know, that's a, that's a huge factor in our healthy ness, you know, and being able to stay healthy.
0 (29m 45s): Yeah. I love that. Especially when you were talking about your Jade plant as well, and just how automatic that ING for the sun is. Right. And we think of plants as these very still things, cuz they're rooted, they're literally rooted to the ground. You know, they can't run. And I think about humans, oh my goodness. We have so much freedom of movement. Yeah. We can go anywhere. We want, I mean, we can go up in the sky, we can dive down into the ocean, we can run up Hills, we can swing, we can Cartwheel and we can flip. There's just all of these things, but I've never really stopped to think about, you know, what, what are those things that we are yearning for that maybe we're not recognizing the way that the plants just automatically go
4 (30m 32s): Towards the sun? Yeah, well we do too. We yearn for, we yearn for the sun, which in, in my world is we yearn for sovereignty for the capacity to sort of see our world from the big perspective, which that, that word to me, it's an, I like that word, even though I guess it conjures things for people that might be, I don't know, not as nice as the way I think of it, but I think of each of us gaining sovereignty over our lifetime, you know, that we become more and more of who we are and more and more taking our seat in our world, but not losing our adaptability or losing our capacity for change, which is our strength.
4 (31m 21s): It's our, it's our strength. The fact that we are mobile, the fact that we can change that we do change
0 (31m 27s): Josephine. Do you wanna give any last tips before we move on to our closing questions about how people can, can mesh essential oils and Chinese medicine together or, or use these tools for aligning the heart for that heart centered interactions or for that evolution of change that we've been talking about?
4 (31m 49s): Yeah. I think that, I think the, the last thing I'd wanna say is that just to remember when you use them, how powerful they are for the spirit, as well as the structure, you know, that we are simultaneously getting this aroma, but we're also particularly if you put them on the body getting the, the message from the plant and how precious that is, how precious that is for our own connection in ourselves. And the ones that I was thinking of for aligning the hard and will, are narrowly and rose, the flowers, the flowers are like the, the full expression of the plant, but they embody the fact that they're temporal and that they will go back to the root back to the seed.
4 (32m 42s): So they have like this beautiful fullness and openness, and then they have this, I don't know, you might call it sadness or letting go, but that goes back to our core. And this is, you know, life cycles. So, so important for our health and for our range, you could say in our life that we, we gain range of emotion and range of feeling that way. Yeah,
0 (33m 15s): No, I couldn't agree more. I mean, we are Des we are designed to, to grow, you know, we're not meant to just be born and you reach maturity at the age of 18 or 25 or whatever you wanna call it and then just stay. So it's just not, not what we're meant to do. And so yeah, if you find yourself feeling like I haven't grown, I haven't changed, you know, embrace the tools that you've got embrace the essential oils, embrace the sun, embrace the movement of your body and, and you have the power to change.
4 (33m 52s): Yeah, exactly, exactly. And they're so supportive, the essential oils again from Chinese medicine point of view, they, they awaken and make the relationship with both the inner world and the outer world, right? The inner world of your core with their substance and the outer world of relationship with their aroma. So they have the power to activate both of those.
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0 (36m 1s): Josephine. This has been, oh, just yummy. I love it. I love it all before you go. We always love to ask our guests a couple closing questions. And the first is what's just one or two self care practices that you try to do every day to stay healthy.
4 (36m 18s): Hmm. On the number one is feet on the ground, bare feet on the ground for me just to yeah. Connect with earth energy. And the other one that I try to do every day is nothing do nothing. For some period of time, I have a have an open space, a free space with no input other than your senses and your body.
0 (36m 46s): I love that. And with the feet on the ground thing I wanted to ask, have you, what do you, what's your feelings on those sort of replacement things that you can buy for that? Like, for example,
4 (36m 58s): Grounding pads
0 (36m 59s): And things like the grounding pads or the shoes that have like the copper and them or the things you can kind of, you can plug it into like the grounding plug of your home.
4 (37m 10s): Yeah. I gotta say I'm a fan of bare feet on the unobstructed ground, whether that be sand or rock or dirt, I'm kind of old fashioned that way. I I'm sure that some of those things are helpful, but I think nothing replaces your, like your skin on the ground the same way, like skin on skin for babies and, and bonding. Yeah. I just want
0 (37m 38s): Really no replacement for that
4 (37m 40s): Skin on the earth. It just seems. 0 (37m 43s): Yeah. Especially skin on the earth too, does require you to actually go outside when it's amazing how people are going outside these days. So
4 (37m 52s): Back when I was in acupuncture school, literally I got frostbite in Los Angeles because it was 50 degrees at night and I was wearing very thins old shoes. And I was sitting very still at some event. And I went to school the next day and my teacher said, yeah, you need to walk barefoot on the ground and pull that young chief from the earth. And I'm like, even in 50 degrees, you know, even in the cold weather and he's like every day and literally I've done it ever, ever since then. 0 (38m 24s): Wow. I bet you have really tough feet.
4 (38m 28s): Actually. I try to make them pretty. I try to, I try to, you know, get off all the rough stuff in the bath, but they're happy to walk on the ground. Yeah. Yeah.
0 (38m 41s): Well finally, Josephine, what's just one thing that we should all ditch completely and replace with something healthier today.
4 (38m 48s): I think we should ditch judgment and domination and replace it with what I call power with or collaboration, and really, really enjoy working with other people, working with the people on the planet together.
0 (39m 8s): I love that. That's a great thing to replace judgment with. Could use a lot more of that. Absolutely. Awesome. This has been great Josephine for those that wanna be more part of your world or get started with what you do. What's the best place for them to go. The
4 (39m 23s): Best place to go is the nectar of plants.com. That's the focus on essential oils and education and Chinese medicine together. And if you want, you can sign up on the mailing list there to hear about new courses and things that I do. And you'll get a free, you'll get a free two hour video. If you do that, featuring me talking about three real life clinical cases with some students and you can see how, how I employ them. If you want to understand more about that,
0 (40m 0s): That's really cool. I love learning from case studies. So I'm definitely gonna check that out and props on the domain, the nectar of plants.com. I love it. I love when I come across really good domains, I'm like good for you. Youn a good one. I
4 (40m 14s): Was shocked it was available, but it was a long time ago. I started, I started officially teaching under that title in 2014. So
0 (40m 26s): Wow. Good for you. Yeah, I love it. Well, thank you so much. This has been wonderful. And we really appreciate you coming to share your wisdom with us here on the essential oil revolution. Thank you. Thank 4
(40m 37s): You so much. Been delightful to talk with you.
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