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It’s only Wednesday, but your body feels like it’s Friday night, 10pm.  You’re exhausted, and everything you own hurts, from your 10 little piggies to the top of your head.  You’re  balancing your checkbook in your head, figuring out the food shopping list, and dreading the weekend cleaning and chores.  As you slip into bed, wondering if you can shut your brain off long enough to get a few hours of sleep, you realize your feet really do hurt, your back is quite sore, and your neck and shoulders are stiff as a board, holding all of your tension.  Great, now what do you do?

A full body massage would be heavenly, but it’s 10pm, so that’s not happening.  Well, if you enjoy the benefits of Young Living essential Oils, you’ve most likely got a case full of oils sitting at the ready.  Now what do you do?   A foot or hand massage is a quick,  fantastic idea, and, if you’ve got a partner or child old enough, they can give you a back, neck, head, hand or foot massage.  But, which essential oils are the best essential oils for your foot or hand massage?

My personal favorite is a foot massage, every time.  We take our feet for granted, they get us where we need to go, and then we promptly forget about them.  We carry a lot of stress in our feet, but really,  very few of us pay them any attention at all.   I can promise you, if you get a foot massage, it feels so good that it can and will relax our whole body, and you’ll want one every day.  When I’m alone, I use a tennis ball or my nubbed hand held back massager to do my feet.  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 »

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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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 »

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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How to use your Young Living Start Living with Everyday Oils Kit

When new members join Young Living, the questions I get asked most often are:  How much does it cost to get started. and,  I have my kit, now what do I do?  I’ll try to answer those 2 questions for you in a concise but informative manner …Essential oils for everyday use

This particular kit is a favorite kit for new members, second only to the Start Living with NingXia Red Kit and Thieves Kit.  This kit offers an amazingly diverse collection of oils to get you started on your path to health and wellness.  Although below is only a small sample of ideas on different ways to use these oils, it is a great starting point as you gain more knowledge and explore each oil and see the way it works best on you personally. Start expiramenting!

The oils in this select collection will provide ongoing support for your home, health, mind and body. Enjoy the relaxing benefits of Lavender and Peace & Calming, the cleansing power of Thieves and Purification, the comforting touch of Valor and PanAway.

This kit was created for every home and every body. Enjoy the benefits of Young Living’s most popular therapeutic-grade essential oils and blends. While single oils may be used as dietary supplements, all of these oils may be diffused; applied topically; applied over the Vita Flex points on the feet; added to bath water in our Bath and Shower Gel Base or Epsom salts; or used for body and foot massage.

Ensure you’ll always have the benefits of a  fantastic variety of Young Living’s therapeutic-grade essential oils on hand with this Essential Oils kit.  

Initial 1 time cost to buy the Start Living with Everyday Oils or the Thieves  kit &  become a wholesale member: $150.00, the NingXia Red kit is $185.00.

Everyday Oils Essential Oil Collection includes:  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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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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Get 2012 off to a good start with your New Years resolutions and Live with Passion essential oil on your side!Happy New Year

Live with Passion™ revives the zest for life and improves internal energy with a combination of essential oils formulated specifically to help people recover an optimistic attitude.

Live with Passion™ contains: Clary sage (Salvia sclarea), ginger (Zingiber officinale), sandalwood (Santalum album), jasmine (Jasminum officinale), angelica (Angelica archangelica), cedarwood (Cedrus atlantica), helichrysum (Helichrysum italicum), patchouli (Pogostemon cablin), neroli (Citrus aurantium), and Melissa (Melissa officinalis).

4 Ways to Use Live with Passion Essential Oil Blend

  1. Diffuse: Follow your diffuser instructions. Diffuse 15 minutes a day, 2-4 times a day.
  2. Perfume: Apply on wrists, temples, chest area, and forehead.
  3. Bath: Add 2-4 drops to warm bath water with approximately two tablespoons of Young Living Bath Gel Base or Epsom salts.
  4. Massage: Add 6 drops to 2 TBSP V-6 massage oil. Massage in and enjoy!

Other aromatherapy articles to help with your New Years resolutions:

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

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.

Further reading:

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

Bedroom a place in the home for relaxation and rejuvenation.Aromatherapy can set the mood for every room of your home. To help uplift occupants mood, prevent the spread of colds and flu, and kill undesirable odors – diffusing your essential oils for 15-30 minutes 1 to 4 times a day will surely make a difference (also see Smelly House to Aromatic Home.

Here are some Favorite Young Living Essential Oil suggestions to Change the Mood Around the Home:

Calm Living Room: use oils like clary sage, bergamot, jasmine, or the blend Peace & Calming.

Rouse Couch Potatoes: try stimulating oils like peppermint, lavender and orange combined in your diffuser.

Bathrooms: to kill odors and germs, and kill embarrassing odors try: lemongrass, thyme, peppermint, and the blends Thieves, Purification or Citrus Fresh in your diffuser or as an air freshener (more on making your own all-natural air fresheners).

Bedrooms: for a restful sleep, try: lavender and valerian, chamomile, hyssop, or the blends Gentle Baby or Peace & Calming.

Sick Room: to prevent the germs from spreading, and to uplift the down feelings colds or flu or cause try: lemongrass, thyme, cinnamon, clove, blends Thieves, R.C. or Ravensara.

Clear Negative Energy: after an argument or hard feelings, try the any of these essential oils blends: Joy, Harmony, Clarity, Forgiveness or Grounding. (read De-stressing the Stressful Home with Aromatherapy).

Uplift Mood: to generally uplift a down mood try lavender and orange (equal portions combined), or the blends Highest Potential, Magnify Your Purpose or Citrus Fresh.

Romantic: try rose, sandalwood with jasmine, Ylang Ylang, patchouli, or the essential oil blend Sensation.

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

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