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Ten Tips For Winter Wellness

November 8, 2010 in Anxiety, Calming, Cold / Flu, Detox, Emotional Release, Immune System, Inspirational, Longevity, Men's Health, Menopause, Natural Health, Spirituality, Women's Health by Curt Siters | No comments

A friend of mine sent me this article about 10 tips for staying healthy during the holiday and winter season. They are simple tips for men, women and children to stay well.

The wonders of nature do not end with the last leaf falling from the tree – they are year round. Being outside or bringing plants into the home can go a long way to beating the holiday and winter blahs. Being active outside is a wonderfully therapeutic experience. It helps tone the muscles, enhance the cardio-vascular system, sharpens the mind, increase awareness and is spiritually cleansing.

No matter the time of the year, there is always something that can be done – the winter is no exception – go for walks, build snowpeople, ski or snowboard, take classes, plan next years garden – the list is endless.

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Government, Religion, Business, MLM and Network Marketing – Which Is A Pyramid

October 4, 2010 in Additional Income, Common Questions, Home Business, Make Money, Young Living Distributor by Curt Siters | No comments

Pyramid schemes abound. How can you tell what is a pyramid scheme and what isn’t? Can a pyramid be good, or are they all bad? (See the FTC website for more information about pyramid schemes as applied to businesses.)

Here is how you can tell what a pyramid is…

A pyramid has a broad base and tapers as it rises to the top where it meets at a point. It is a three dimensional triangle.

Any government is a pyramid – it doesn’t matter whether it is a monarchy, empire or democracy. It is a pyramid. You have the masses as the base, followed by a bunch of bureaucrats, then fewer bureaucrats above them, etc. until you reach the top where there is one or a select few.

Most religions are a pyramid – I don’t know them all so I cannot sweep it across the board. You have the masses as the base, followed by a religious bureaucrat, followed by others until you reach the top where the is a single religious leader or a select few.

Businesses are a pyramid – at least most of them are, with the exception of a sole proprietorship that has no employees. You start with the employees as the base then managers, department heads and so on until you reach the top where you have a single person or select few that control the business.

“BUT WAIT! I can see that the population of people at each level contribute to a triangular shape but that doesn’t make it a pyramid. But how does this shape make a pyramid in the legal sense?” Read the rest of this entry »

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Multi-Level-Marketing is a Viable Business Model

October 3, 2010 in Additional Income, Common Questions, Education, Home Business, How do I use, Make Money, Young Living Business / Sharing, Young Living Distributor by Curt Siters | No comments

Many people fear that MLM (multi-level marketing) is a scam/pyramid/non-working business model. Granted there may be businesses out there that use MLM as a business model that are scams or pyramids. Most are not. However, as a business model, MLM is a viable business model.

I am going to take you on a brief trip through the history of business models so that you will see that the concept of MLM as a business model is valid.

Survival/Self-sufficiency

While not exactly a business model this is where business would have started.

In this form you must produce everything for yourself. There is no one else that will provide anything for you. Everything you do or produce is geared only toward your survival and your success in making things to help you survive will vary greatly.

You may not have the time to study your materials to figure the best way to use them. You work to make them fit what you think is best. Read the rest of this entry »

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Autoship Programs – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

September 27, 2010 in Aromatherapy, Buy / Purchase, Common Questions, Education, How do I use, News, Shop, Wholesale / Member, Young Living Distributor by Curt Siters | No comments

Autoship is system whereby a company rewards loyal customers with lower prices. Many companies make use of it to provide a constant stream of product to their customers. It is used mostly by companies that sell consumables, however, some companies that do not sell consumables use it as well.

It comes in many guises. Young Living has an autoship program. Time magazine has an autoship program. The Wall Street Journal has an autoship program. Anything you have delivered on a regular basis is an autoship program. A book of the month club, the cheese of the month club and others like them are autoship programs. Even your home delivered newspaper can be an autoship program. Some of the names are autoship, continuity, home delivery, club and others.

Companies such as Guthy-Renker (having products like Wen by Chaz Dean, Principle Secret by Victoria Principle, Natural Advantage by Jane Seymore and others) and Young Living excel at the autoship program. The important thing is to understand how the program works and to use it to your benefit.

The Good

The benefits of autoship are many and varied, but they all have the same basics. Read the rest of this entry »

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What are essential oils and how do we get them?

September 3, 2010 in Antifungal, Aromatherapy, Best Essential Oils, Carrier Oils, Chemicals / Toxic, Common Questions, Distillation, Essential Oils, Insect Pests / Repellant, Jasmine, Orange Oil, Quality / Pure, Young Living Distributor by Curt Siters | No comments

What are Essential Oils? Strictly speaking essential oils are the aromatic volatile lipid-soluble portion of the fluids of a plant containing odiferous compounds. They can come from any part of a plant including, but not limited to, the stems, branches, fruits, flowers, seeds roots, bark, needles and leaves.

Essential oils can contain hundreds of different compounds and to date no essential oil has had all of its compounds identified. They can contain an infinite combination of alcoholc, esters, aldehydes, ketones, acids, mono-, sesqui-, di- and tetra- terpenes.

For example orange oil (Citrus sinensis) contains:

34 alcohols
30 esters
20 aldehydes
14 ketones 10 carboxylic acids
36 varieties of terpenes

This is not all of components as no essential oil has had all of the constituents identified.

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Why Essential Oils (Don’t) Work

September 2, 2010 in Alternative Therapies, Aromatherapy, Back Pain, Blends, Essential Oils, How do I use, Muscle Tension / Fatigue, PanAway, Young Living Essential Oils by Curt Siters | No comments

Hope essential oil with rainbow. I have heard stories that essential oils don’t work. Guess what, allopathic medicine doesn’t always work either. Have you heard the news that antibiotics, such as penicillin, is at the end of the road? Have you heard about MRSA and other resistant superbugs (which, by the way, have evolved because of the overuse of antibiotics)?

Briefly, allopathic medicine takes what is found in nature (mostly from plants, like the white willow), extracts what it believes is the key component(salicylic acid) to create a new drug (aspirin) to fight some disease. This is kind of like removing everything from a car except the engine – it may run but it won’t get you anywhere and after a while it will just stop working.

Each and every one of us is on this planet for a reason. I don’t know what it is, but I believe we are. We each have our unique challenges to overcome and goals to accomplish. While we all share the same basic body shape and body chemistry, each of us is slightly different. We are different ages, have different stresses in our lives, consume different foods and drinks, have different genetic makeups and genetic history. Because we are just a little bit different, each of our bodies react differently to the same situation, condition or food.

Allopathic medicine is now discussing and trying to develop medicine that is targeted to each individual – meaning that the medicine I would get for the flu is created just for me and wouldn’t work for you (I smell something fishy going on here). This is called - Pharmacogenomics. Read the rest of this entry »

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My Introduction to Essential Oils and Aromatherapy

September 1, 2010 in Alternative Therapies, Aromatherapy, Common Questions, Education, Essential Oils, Science by Curt Siters | No comments

Essential Oils were not an option for maintaining health, prevention or healing where I grew up – which was a fairly isolated cove in central Pennsylvania where there were three towns of 2-3 thousand people in each and a smattering of smaller towns and villages. It is conservative by nature there and yet old ways were supplanted by new ways a long time ago.

I have always been into science (which may be related to my father being a science teacher.) Science has helped us to accomplish many things, the internet being one of them – which allows you to read my articles from anywhere in the world. I explored all aspects of science – biology, chemistry, physics and so on. I was an avid reader of Science Digest, National Geographic and any science publication I could get my hands on. I have a degree in computer engineering and am about halfway through a degree in education (majoring in physics).

As a young child when the doctor said I needed a shot I trusted my parents who trusted the doctor. But when I got older I started to subconsciously avoid taking [allopathic] medicine and got to the point where I would only take aspirin for a headache if it was a severe one. If I got the flu or a cold I wouldn’t take medicine. Instead I would just curl up under a lot of blankets and sweat like crazy for a few hours and be almost good as new. Read the rest of this entry »

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