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We all want our homes and workplaces to smell good.  We subconsciously let scents directly affect our mood.  Typically, this is a good thing, except when we are inhaling toxic cancer causing chemicals disguised as innocent air fresheners.  Many health hazards were discussed in part 2 of this series.  If you have not yet read it, I encourage you to do so before reading about the safe, organic, non toxic choices below. Read part 2 here , read part 1 here

When I became involved with Young Living Essential Oils, I was ecstatic to learn about all of the safe non toxic, chemical free air freshener choices that were now available to me!

Today, much has been theorized regarding the effects of diffusing essential oils, which can be considered similar to the aromatic smoke used by Hippocrates. It has been hypothesized that when essential oils are diffused, they can increase atmospheric oxygen by releasing oxygenating molecules into the air. Not only can essential oils increase oxygen in the atmosphere, they also increase the body’s ability to transport oxygen into the cells. The lipid-soluble structure of essential oils allows them to easily penetrate the cell membranes of the nose and enter into the bloodstream. Once in the bloodstream, the oils can help transport oxygen and nutrients into the cells. Young Livings Feelings collection was designed to lift negative impressions and allow openness to new beginnings.  Everyone has experienced lasting adverse impressions that scar our inner self, prohibiting self growth and accomplishment.  “Negative experiences and ideas are recorded in our brains and locked into our memories throughout our lives.  These memories range from mild to extreme and have a profound effect on our health and happiness.  In order to become who we are intended to be, we must erase these negatives and reprogram our thoughts to make positive ideas our reality.” D. Gary Young

Primary Benefits of Diffusing Non Toxic Chemical-free Essential Oils:  Read the rest of this entry »

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Air fresheners are a huge business. We all want our homes, cars and workplaces to smell fresh and clean, vibrant or relaxing.  So, when we’re shopping and smell a fragrance like vanilla, or one that reminds us of our childhood home or garden, instinctively we reach for it and put it in our cart, because the smell made us happy, or maybe relaxed.  Not once do we stop to read the list of ingredients in that scented candle or spray air freshener. After all, if it says “vanilla” or “lavender”, we expect we are in fact smelling real vanilla or lavender.

Sadly, nothing could be farther from the truth.

If you are not using pure essential oils, like Young Living Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils   to freshen up your room, by default you are using a synthetic air freshener, and, unbeknownst to you, you are inadvertently putting your health at risk from one of these very concentrated sources of poisons in your home.  This is because some of the chemicals needed to make the products effective are harmful. The problems are compounded when the products are mixed.  Far from freshening the air in your home, they just interfere with your ability to detect smells or simply cover them up, all the while adding considerable toxic chemical indoor pollution. http://www.mcs-america.org/airfresh.pdf.  In 2002, EPA researchers testing air freshening units that plug into electrical sockets determined that when the fragrance chemicals in these products react with common indoor air pollutants they produce serious health hazards. These chemicals include toxic substances such as benzene derivatives, pinene and  limonene, aldehydes, phenol, and cresol.

Body Burden – Body Solvent Levels  Read the rest of this entry »

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Thieves essential oil productsThieves Essential Oil, Household Cleaner and Product Line ~ A truely Green non toxic chemical free pet and child safe cleaner.

Young Living has an entire product line dedicated to their Thieves Essential Oil Blend.  3 of the products are edible!  Edible toothpaste, mouthwash and Essential oil.

The cost to dilute the concentrated household cleaner can literally cost pennies, and the outstanding health and wellness benefits are unmatched by any other product to date.  Thieves Oil can safely be taken internally, used around and on pets and children, diffused, topically applied, and diluted to make every possible cleaning product currently on the market except for glass cleaner without streaks.  You can use it on glass, like shower doors with lime scale build up, and it will clean those doors, however, you will need to use a made for glass cleaner to make the glass or mirrors shine.

In the September/October edition of Mothering magazine, Candace Walsh featured the Thieves® blend of essential oils in her “Strokes of Genius” article highlighting helpful products to try during pregnancy.”  Another essential-oil goodie: Young Living’s Thieves, a blend of cloves, rosemary, and more that protects the wearer from most airborne bacteria .”

Young Living Featured Once Again in The New York Times Style Magazine   December 21, 2011  Read the rest of this entry »

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Tammy Baile

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I'm looking forward to helping you get "on with living" in a happy, healthy, chemical and pain-free way as I, my family and our pets have.

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Before I get into this article, I’d like to remind everyone that our skin is an organ, and it is the largest organ in our body.  Additionally, a great portion, 83%, of what we put on our skin is absorbed into our bodies.  This includes chemicals we spill on ourselves or put our hands into, etc.

You clean and you clean and you clean, every day, every weekend, because we have been taught that a clean home will help keep us healthy. Because we clean so thoroughly we believe that the cleaner our home is the healthier our home is, and therefore, we are.

Then, one day we overhear a snippet on the 6 o’clock news, and we realize that the different cleaners we’ve been using in our home are most likely toxic, cancer causing and hazardous to our health, the one thing we were trying to achieve!!!!

We, John Q. Public, believe that our government and Medical monitoring agencies have out best interest at heart, and will protect us and keep us safe from harm.  Sadly, that it not the case many times.  Many of the household cleaning products we use in homes are actually health hazards.

The sad but factual truth is that many ingredients in our everyday common household cleaning products that we trust to be safe are absolutely harmful to our health. As consumers why would we want such products around us, our families, especially our children, and our pets?  I believe that this continues to occur because our monitoring and protective agencies bank on that fact that most consumers are not educated in, or aware of the hidden dangers and severe health issues, including cancer, that these popular household cleaning products present to our health. Additionally, most of us are not aware as to how pervasive, chronic, long term and life threatening these health threats are to our families and pets.  Additionally, even if you do read the label, non food products do not have to list the chemicals they use in the processing to make the chemical that you are reading the label of!

Every day we strive to live a healthy, happy and balanced life, to do the right thing by our children and family because we care about our health and our world.  Yet, right under our noses, Big Business is completely undermining our efforts to get and stay healthy by polluting our indoor air environment with toxic chemicals known to cause a multitude of health problems, including cancer.  They trick us into thinking we are making a healthier choice by adding a key word to their product like “natural”, or an ingredient we perceive to mean it’s safe and healthy like “orange” or “lemon”, etc.

DON’T LET THEM FOOL YOU!

Adding Orange to poison still makes it poison.

Adding 1 “natural” ingredient to poison still makes it poison.

Here are some basic facts most people are not aware of:

FACT:  Within 26 seconds after exposure to chemicals, in this case cleaning products , traces of these chemicals can be found in every organ in our body.

FACT: According to theAmericanCollegeof Medical Toxicology, use of household cleaners containing toxic chemicals should be discontinued whenever possible.  Read the rest of this entry »

Tammy Baile

Tammy Baile

Young Living Essential Oils Distributor, # 1156558

I'm looking forward to helping you get "on with living" in a happy, healthy, chemical and pain-free way as I, my family and our pets have.

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A powerful essence connects us to the spiritual, to the divine. A sacred fragrance can open pathways, encourage self-love, and clear distractions. Now our hearts can communicate with that which is holy. Now our minds can hear the whisper of peace that will bring us comfort and enlightenment.

Embarking on a spiritual journey of transformation by aligning and balancing your energy through the use of therapeutic-grade essential oils is a powerful way to bring yourself into emotional balance. Integrating awareness of the physical through the application of these essential oil blends from Young Living Essential Oils formulated to help you attain a higher spiritual frequency.

For centuries, spiritual seekers have used essential oils, incense and fragrances to help them focus and create sacred spaces that enhanced their ability to connect with the Divine. It is an interesting fact that diverse ancient cultures that had no way of mingling chose many of the same fragrances and aromatherapy oils to intensify their communion with the Spiritual Realm.

The essential oils listed below are Young Living blends that are specifically chosen to enhance a person’s ability to become more aware and receptive to Spirit. These blends are believed to possess vibrational frequencies that affect the physical and energetic bodies, removing blocks and balancing energies to experience greater “vision” or to “hear” with more clarity. The frequencies of these oils enhance perceptions that enable you to feel a greater Oneness with Spirit.

7 Aromatherapy Oil Blends to Enhance Awareness and Accelerate Connection with Divine Self

  1. Awaken – helps you realize you have the ability to set and achieve lofty goals; opens the heart and mind to hearing the guidance needed during difficult life transitions that eventually lead you to your highest potential.
  2. Dream Catcher – opens the mind to choices and possibilities that you possess; may enhance dreams and visualization to determine your true desires and find your life’s purpose; can promote a greater potential for realizing your dreams and staying on your path as well as protection from negative dreams that might cloud your vision.
  3. Gathering – assists you on your journey to find spiritual enlightenment; focus on truth and filter out misinformation which can distract you from your true spiritual path; gathers emotional and spiritual thoughts to achieve our potential.
  4. Humility – helps remove negative blocks and emotions that prevent you from being in a teachable place such as anger, stress, sadness, fear, arrogance and similar emotions; an integral ingredient in offering forgiveness and obtaining deeper spiritual awareness; through its frequency and fragrance, find that place where your own healing can begin.
  5. Inspiration – creates a sacred space for communication; opens the heart and mind, enabling you to ask for direction and increases your ability to hear the answers; a combination of oils used by native people in the East and North America for increasing spirituality and enhancing prayer, meditation and inner awareness.
  6. Sacred Mountain – a blend of oils extracted from conifers which represent the sacred feeling of the mountains; protection, strength and security; represents the sacred space, the point of communication between the human and the Divine; creates physical and emotional alignments to access your divinity and communicate at the spiritual level. This is one of my most favorite YL oils.
  7. White Angelica – a combination of oils used during ancient times to increase the aura; shields against the bombardment of negative energy; used to “seal” you to your spiritual path.

5 Ways to Use Aromatherapy in Your Practice

  1. Inhalation: this is perhaps the simplest way to gain benefits from aromatherapy. open the bottle and either inhale directly or place a drop in your palm, rub palms together, then cup palms over the nose and inhale deeply a few times.
  2. Diffusing: put several drops of your chosen aromatherapy oil in your diffuser, diffuse 15-30 minutes, 3-4 times a day. More on Diffusers and Diffusing.
  3. Topical: place a drop or two of your chosen essential oil on pulse points, Chakras, or on the soles of the feet.
  4. Massage: combining massage with essential oils is one way to get powerful releasing results. Mix 4-7 drops of your chosen essential oil with 2 TBSP of a carrier oil, such as V-6 Massage Oil.
  5. Bath: mix 4 drops of your chosen essential oil with 1 cup of Epsom Salts or Sea Salt, pour salt mixture under running bath water, soak for 20 minutes.

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Chakras are spinning vortexes of energy, which both take in and emit life-force energy. There are eight main chakras down the centerline of the body, from the top of the head to the bottom of the torso. When all chakras are spinning evenly and in concert with one another, the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual systems of the body are in balance. Therapeutic-grade essential oils are excellent for balancing and blending the chakras.

The following is a basic reference on how to use essential oils for activating and balancing the energy centers – chakras – of the body.Chakra color chart

You may find an eBook I wrote with David Zarza, C.Ht. to be useful in addressing the Chakras, Working with Emotions: Aromatherapy and Your Shadow.

First Earth: The Root (or Base) Chakra

Essential Oil Blends: Valor®, or  Abundance

Apply topically to the bottoms of the feet and sacrum.

The root (or base) chakra is the first and most important chakra for yoga or any kind of healing work. The key words here are courage, security, safety, grounding, and boundaries.

Second Water: The Sacral Chakra

Essential Oil Blends: Peace & Calming®, or Harmony

Apply topically below the navel.

The sacral chakra is the center of your creativity, desire, emotion, sexuality, and intuition. This is where you learn how to give and receive pleasure.

Third Fire: The Solar Plexus Chakra

Essential Oil Blends: Harmony™, or En-R-Gee

Apply topically below the sternum and behind the stomach.

The solar plexus chakra is the center of personal power, ambition, intellect, astral force, desire, and emotions based on intellect and touch.

Fourth Air: The Heart Chakra

Essential Oil Blend: Joy

Apply topically to the center of the chest at heart level.

The heart chakra is the center of compassion, love, group consciousness, and spiritually associated with “oneness” with “all that is.”

Fifth Ether: The Throat Chakra

Essential Oil Blends: Believe™, or Valor®

Apply topically to the posterior neck and the base of the occiput (the back part of the head or skull).

The throat chakra is the center of communication, sound, and expression of creativity via thought, speech, and writing.

Sixth Light: Third Eye Chakra

Essential Oils: Frankincense, or Peppermint

Apply topically to the middle of the forehead and above the eyebrows.The t hird eye chakra is the center of physic power, higher intuition, the energies of the spirit, magnetic forces, and light. This center is about Divine Thought, balanced intuition, and intellect.

Seventh Crown: The Crown Chakra

Essential Oils: Frankincense, or Lavender

Apply to the crown of the head.

The crown chakra is the center of spirituality, enlightenment, dynamic thought, and energy. The keyword is inspiration. This is the connecting link to your highest and finest self.

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Dry cracked skin on the hands or feet are a problem for many during wintertime. Skin on hands and feet can become painful and can also make some feel self-conscious when sandal season comes along.

The recipe will address the issue of dry cracked skin on the hands and feet and provide you with perfect pretty sandal feet this winter and spring! The essential oils in the recipe are well known for centuries for their skin healing properties. Using therapeutic-grade essential oils, such as Young Living oils, brings better results than most aromatherapy oil products because of the high quality and purity.

Aromatherapy Recipe for Dry Cracked Hands and Feet

  • 1 drop Rosewood Essential Oil (#3629)
  • 1 drop Patchouli Essential Oil (#3608)
  • 1 drop Geranium Essential Oil (#3554)
  • 1/2 teaspoon Young Living V-6 Mixing Oil (a carrier oil) (#3031)

Mix all ingredients together, then rub or massage onto hands and/or feet evenly.

More on Skin and Foot Care and Aromatherapy

Additional Skin Care Tip: for very dry cracked skin, seal in the above mixture on your hands, knees, elbows or feet with the tiniest dab of Young Living KidScents Tender Tush Ointment (#3689). Tender Tush is absolutely terrific for sealing in the benefits of the above essential oils and promote moisture to dry skin. Adding Tender Tush is one of my favorite additions to provide quick soothing healing to my dry skin.

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"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." ~ R. Buckminster Fuller

Working with Emotions: Your Shadow & Aromatherapy eBookThe Shadow Side of our personalities is an essential part of all of us and as natural as our memory or our emotions. Within our Shadow, we store away those parts of us – whether emotions, thoughts, beliefs, experiences or characteristics – that we and others deem as bad, unacceptable, shameful, unlovable or dark. Fortunately, the Shadow isn’t all bad, in fact its quite good as it is one of the easiest routes for us to reach our goodness; our Light.

In this ebook, Evelyn Vincent and David Zarza C.Ht. teach you about your Shadow and Aromatherapy, as well as instructing you on how to use essential oils when working with your Shadow. In a safe and gentle way, you will be lead through a process of uncovering some of what is in your Shadow with the intention of integration and harmony. This is for you to appreciate yourself in a new light and perhaps even embrace your Shadow side.

Generally speaking, we rarely explore our darker nature with a smile, much less with excitement and enthusiasm. However, Evelyn and David will show you how rewarding and fulfilling exploring your Shadow with Aromatherapy can be!

On the path towards your Light, you will always encounter your Shadow. Find out what a blessing this really is!

Working with Emotions: Your Shadow & Aromatherapy eBook Table of Contents

I TRANSFORMING EMOTIONAL PATTERNS WITH AROMATHERAPY

II THE SEAT OF OUR EMOTIONS

III PORCUPINE MEDICINE AND THE OPERA SINGER

IV OLFACTORY: STEPPING OUT OF THE BOX AND SMELLING

V WHAT IS AN ESSENTIAL OIL AND A CARRIER OIL

VI INTRODUCING THE SHADOW

VII SHADOW ASSESSMENT

VIII WHO WE ARE

IX GLOSSARIES AND SHADOW/BALANCED EMOTION TABLES

X INTERACTIVE SHADOW EMOTION / BALANCED EMOTION WORKBOOK

XI RESEARCH

The eBook is 129 pages at $19.95 instant download, to get yours click here.

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