Thursday, April 29, 2010

How to Use Essential Oils

Frankincense Essential Oil

* Inhale frankincense essential oil after lunch to spiritually refocus.
* Rub frankincense essential oil on the bottom of your feet to help alleviate
nervous energy.

Lavender Essential Oil

* Soothe minor burns by applying 2–3 drops of lavender essential oil to the
affected area.
* Rub lavender essential oil on dry or chapped skin to moisturize the affected
area.
* Add a few drops of lavender essential oil to a cotton ball and place it in closets and drawers to scent linens and repel moths and insects.
* You may be able to minimize the appearance of scar tissue by massaging lavender essential oil on or around affected areas.
* Place a few drops of lavender essential oil on a wet cloth or dryer sheet to deodorize and freshen your laundry.
* Diffuse lavender essential oil to minimize seasonal discomforts.
* Rub a few drops of lavender essential oil onto your hand and spread over your child’s pillow to help him/her sleep.
* Diffuse lavender essential oil to set the mood for a baby shower or social gathering.
* Diffuse or inhale lavender essential oil to calm your mind, body, and spirit after a hard day’s work.


Lemon Essential Oil

* Use 1–2 drops of lemon essential oil to remove gum, oil, grease spots, glue or adhesive, and crayon from most surfaces.
* Combine 2–3 drops of lemon essential oil with water in a spray bottle to help cleanse and sanitize surfaces.
* Place a drop of lemon essential oil on oily skin or blemishes to help balance oil glands and minimize oil production.
* Soothe corns, calluses, or bunions by rubbing lemon essential oil on the affected area morning and evening.
* Massage lemon essential oil into cellulite to help improve circulation and eliminate waste from cells.
* Add lemon essential oil to your morning tea or breakfast shake for a refreshing pick-me-up.
* Inhale lemon essential oil or place a few drops on a cotton ball to replenish your mind, body, and spirit.
* Add 10–15 drops of lemon essential oil to a gallon of carpet cleaning solution to help pull out stains, brighten carpet and rugs, and leave a fresh smell in the room.
* Add several drops of lemon essential oil to a chicken marinade for a delicious dinner.
* Place a few drops of your favorite citrus essential oil on a cotton ball and put in the refrigerator to help eliminate odors.


PanAway® Essential Oil Blend

* Rub PanAway essential oil blend across your lower back if you feel discomfort from sitting in front of a computer.
* Rub PanAway essential oil blend on muscles to help alleviate stressed muscles or other physical discomforts.
* Rub PanAway essential oil blend on your temples to ease minor head tension.


Peace & Calming® Essential Oil Blend

* Massage Peace & Calming essential oil blend on the reflex points of the feet and back of the neck for a soothing and relaxing effect.
* Rub Peace & Calming essential oil blend on feet to release tension and promote a good night’s rest.
* Rub Peace & Calming essential oil blend behind overactive pets’ ears after an afternoon of playing with the kids.


Peppermint Essential Oil

* Add a drop of peppermint essential oil to herbal tea to help aid normal digestion.
* Massage several drops of peppermint essential oil on the abdomen, place a drop on wrists, or inhale to soothe the minor stomach discomfort associated with travel.
* Rub one drop of peppermint essential oil on the temples, forehead, over the sinuses (careful to avoid contact with your eyes), and on the back of the neck to relieve head pressure.
* Place 2 drops of peppermint essential oil on the tongue and rub another drop of oil under the nose to help improve concentration and alertness.
* Apply peppermint essential oil to the back of the neck and shoulders throughout the day to keep energy up.
* Inhale peppermint essential oil, apply topically to your temples or neck, or put a drop on your tongue or in water to jump-start your morning routine.
* Diffuse or inhale peppermint essential oil mid-morning to curb the desire to snack.
* Inhale peppermint essential oil or rub a drop on to your abdomen to soothe minor stomach discomfort.


Purification® Essential Oil Blend

* Dilute several drops of Purification essential oil blend in a spray bottle and spray to repel insects.
* Apply one drop of Purification essential oil blend topically to soothe existing bug bites or scratches.
* Add Purification essential oil blend to your washing machine to freshen laundry.
* Add a couple drops of Purification essential oil blend to shoes to help neutralize odors.
* Add a few drops of Purification essential oil blend to a cotton ball to help eliminate stale air in the office or your child’s room.
* Diffuse Purification essential oil blend to dispel unpleasant odors and clear the air of impurities.
* Diffuse Purification essential oil blend to eliminate odors after the dog returns from playing outdoors in the rain.


RutaVaLa Essential Oil Blend

* Apply RutaVaLa essential oil blend on the back of neck, base of spine, the feet, or just under the nose before bed to overcome negative feelings and lull the mind into a sense of comfort.


Valor® Essential Oil Blend

* Massage 1–2 drops of Valor essential oil blend on your temples or neck to ward off negative energy and increase inner strength when it’s time to have a serious talk with your boss, friend, or teenager.
* Add Valor essential oil blend to your back following a massage for an uplifting experience.
* Rub Valor essential oil blend on wrists to ease anxiety and yield confidence.


Thieves® Essential Oil Blend

* Put a few drops of Thieves essential oil blend in a capsule and swallow with water to support your immune system.
* Put in a few drops of Thieves essential oil blend in your dishwater or dishwasher to thoroughly clean dishes and eliminate odor.
* Diffuse Thieves essential oil blend for 15–30 minutes in your home or office to help eliminate airborne bacteria.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Lift the Senses with Therapeutic Essential Oils

According to Gary Young, “99% of life’s decisions are made from feelings.” When you are in a state where your feelings and emotions are balanced and positive, you will be able to move toward success. If the opposite, you get the opposite. We all need to be aware of and in control of our feelings and also be able to release the repressed emotions of the past. Most of our feelings from day to day are not responses to current happenings. They originate from the programming in cellular memory that was imprinted by the emotional experiences of our past that we were unable to understand, process, and resolve at the time.

These forgotten traumatic experiences function as live programming in our bodies, affecting every aspect of our lives. When our thoughts are limited by fears, lack of self-worth, and not feeling good enough for more or better, we make decisions that limit our success. If you can affect your feelings in a positive way, you will affect all aspects of your life - - - physical, mental, and spiritual.
Essential oils can do this because their molecules pass directly to the Limbic part of the brain which controls those emotions, releases the stored up feelings and helps clear our emotional baggage. Or one could spend thousands of dollars and many years doing talk therapy, regression work, etc. I worked with young abused males in a residential program, and there we provided many hours a day of therapy doing just that. Essential oils can do the same thing/release and let go. When we let go, life will become more Vital!
According to Gary Young, “Thought equals frequency." I agree, I have always heard, change our thoughts, change our outcome. If we hold on to "only if" thoughts, poor me thoughts, judgements, anger, frustration, or any other low frequency thought, we create a low frequency in our body which is fertile ground for disease, cancer, heart disease, low immune system - - - and that is what we will grow, undesired outcomes.
Now essential oils, not oly have these wonderful high frequencies, they can also hold intent energy. There have been studies to show how prayer and intent over food, over oils can positively affect how they are absorbed into the body. When you apply an intent-energized oil on your feet they can saturate all of your cells within 60 seconds, pushing negative energy out of the cells, thus increasing the frequencies of the cells throughout the body. Now your body, mind, and soul can become what it is intended to be.

Gary Young has formulated six oil blends with oils that promote emotional clearance and self renewal and is called THE FEELINGS KIT collection. They are listed below. For the specific oils of each blend, please email me and I will give you more indepth information.

VALOR: Put Valor Oil on the soles of both feet at nighttime along with Highest Potential Blend. These blends are effective to erase limited thinking. Valor balances and equalizes the body’s energies thereby increasing oxygen intake to the pineal gland­the seat of our higher intelligence and intuitive faculties. You will wake up in the morning more self assured and more alive to start the day.

HARMONY: Put one drop of Harmony Oil on each of the energy center points of your body. There are seven of them along the spine: Coccyx, Sacrum, Lumbar, Dorsal (heart), Cervical (where neck meets shoulders), and Medulla (hollow place at center base of skull), and Pineal (center of forehead). You can also massage Harmony on the crown of the head. Harmony balances the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems which, in turn, gives us progressive creativity and feelings of confidence. “The biggest sin is not having confidence in yourself,” says Gary, “He who lacks confidence lacks life.”

FORGIVENESS: Apply Forgiveness Oil around the navel with the right hand going clockwise several times and think of situations where you need to forgive yourself or others. We beat up on ourselves, but everyone makes mistakes. Yet we struggle to forgive our own mistakes and those of others. Unforgiveness is one of the most common roots of physical, mental, and spiritual disease. Unforgiveness does not make the offending party sick. It makes us sick. Forgiveness is for our own benefit. It is accomplished in five steps. (1) Forgive yourself for allowing the person to affect your health and happiness. (2) Forgive the other person for any harm he or she may have caused you. (This need not be done directly with the person being forgiven, but is an inner adjustment on your part.) (3) Give the other person permission to forgive you. (4) See the good in the situation. (5) Be thankful for the experience and the lesson it taught you. Inhale and apply Forgiveness Oil while going through these steps and repeat as often as necessary toclear the feelings of unforgiveness.

RELEASE: Negative energy goes into the blood and then into the liver for cleansing where the toxins can remain trapped. Thus, the liver becomes a storage place for anger, resentment, bitterness, hatred, jealousy, envy, addictions, and a host of destructive feelings. Apply a few drops of Release Oil on your tongue to release the poisons of stored emotions from the liver. Rub Release over the liver area. Drink lots of pure water and do a liver cleanse.

PRESENT TIME: When we live in the past or dwell on the future, we are not being productive in the present. Energize three drops of Present Time by making clockwise circles on the oil in the palm of your hand and then apply it to your thymus (the gland just under your sternum or breastbone). Besides keeping you focused on the tasks of today, this can also help you financially by increasing your abundance consciousness in the present.

INNER CHILD: “When you are a child all things are possible. There are no limitations,” says Gary Young. “When you find your inner child, you have found your true self. The child in you is your creativity.” Apply one drop of Inner Child onto the pad of your thumb and then place your thumb onto the roof of your mouth. This opens the cranial sutures and stimulates the pineal, pituitary, and other organs of the emotional brain that occupy the space just above the roof of your mouth. Walking backwards while you have your thumb in your mouth looks stupid but it changes the rotation in the pelvis, elongating the spine, and decompressing the discs in your back. Thus, you can clear the nerve channels for energy to flow smoothly throughout your brain and body.

"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

Ingredients in Each Essential Oil Blend of the Feelings Collection:

Forgiveness:
Melissa (Melissa Officinalis), geranium (Pelargonium Graveolens), frankincense (Boswellia Carterii), rosewood (Aniba Rosaeodora), sandalwood (Santalum Album), angelica (Angelica Archangelica), lavender (Lavandula Angustifolia), lemon (Citrus Limon), jasmine (Jasminum Officinale), Roman chamomile (Chamaemelum Nobile), , bergamot (Citrus Aurantium Bergamia), ylang ylang (Canaga Odorata), palmarosa Cymbopogon Martini, helichrysum (Helichrysum Italicum), and rose (Rosa Damascena) in a base of sesame seed oil.

Harmony: Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia), sandalwood (Santalum album), ylang ylang (Cananga odorata), frankincense (Boswellia carteri), orange (Citrus aurantium), angelica (Angelica archangelica), geranium (Pelargonium graveolens), hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis), spruce (Picea mariana), Spanish sage (Salvia lavandulifolia), rosewood (Aniba rosaeodora), lemon (Citrus limon), jasmine (Jasminum officinale), Roman chamomile (Chamaemelum nobile), bergamot (Citrus bergamia), palmarosa (Cymbopogon martinii), and rose (Rosa damascena).

Inner Child: Orange (Citrus aurantium), tangerine (Citrus nobilis), jasmine (Jasminum officinale), ylang ylang (Cananga odorata), spruce (Picea mariana), sandalwood (Santalum album), lemongrass (Cymbopogon flexuosus), and neroli (Citrus aurantium).

Present Time: Neroli (Citrus aurantium), spruce (Picea mariana) and ylang ylang (Cananga odorata) in a base of almond oil.

Release: Ylang ylang (Cananga odorata), lavandin (Lavandula x hybrida), geranium (Pelargonium graveolens), sandalwood (Santalum album) and blue tnsy (Tanacetum annuum) in a base of olive oil.

Valor: Spruce (Picea mariana), rosewood (Aniba rosaeodora), blue tansy (Tanacetum annuum) and frankincense (Boswellia carteri) in a base of almond oil.
Emotions and the Brain

Neuropsychology and neurophysiology research has made the compelling case that, as humans, we feel before we think. It has been shown that success in life and can be attributed or related to emotional wellbeing.

The Limbic System is the emotional part of the brain; the Neocortex is the technical highly efficient learning part of the brain which relates to thinking, IQ, analytical technical skills,

Recent neurological studies have shown that human emotions relies on connections with other people. Studies have repeatedly shown that emotions spread irresistibly whenever people are near each other, even when contact is completely nonverbal. This contagious quality of emotions has particular implications for the perceived leader in a given situation. In studies where leaders were observed in groups, the other individuals in the room watched the leader more closely, concurred most readily with the leader’s ideas, and ultimately “caught” the leader’s mood.

We’re able to empathize with a person who needs understanding and help.
The ability to empathize, stems from neurons in extended circuitry connected to and in the emotional brain that read another person’s face and voice for emotion. These neurons continually attune us to how someone else feels when we speak to them, and the circuitry sends out a steady stream of information which the emotional brain areas use to fine-tune what we say or do next. We feel like we’re “on the same wavelength” with someone.

Circuitry in the emotional brain attunes our own biology to the dominant range of feelings of the person we are with, so that our emotional states tend to converge. Scientists call this neural attunement “limbic resonance.” But it’s essentially what we mean when we say we’re “in synch” or “on the same wavelength.”

We get a “gut feeling” about something. When we face a complex decision that goes beyond the data at hand, the emotional brain activates circuitry that runs from the limbic centers into the gut—giving us the compelling sense that “this feels right.” A section of the brain called the amygdala lets us know its conclusions primarily through circuitry extending into the gastrointestinal tract that literally creates a “gut feeling.”

The thinking brain evolved from the limbic brain and continues to take orders from it when we perceive a threat or are under stress. Emotional impulses follow extensive circuitry that goes from the amygdala up to the thinking brain, just behind the forehead. This prefrontal area receives and analyzes information from all parts of the brain, then makes a decision about what to do. When this circuitry is working correctly, when a person has emotional wellbeing, the prefrontal area can make a more effective response. But when emotions have not been handled, our decisions or actions can be detrimental.

Whenever we face decisions, we actually draw on a lifetime of silent learning, often without realizing we’re doing it. Cumulative learning takes place in a primitive part of the emotional brain called the basal ganglia—it’s where our “life wisdom” is extracted and stored via experience. In addition, the circuitry involved in puzzling decisions involves the amygdala,where the brain stores the emotions associated with our memories. So when a course of action suddenly “occurs” to us—it is delivered by the part of the brain that wields our feelings.
We feel motivated to accomplish a difficult goal.

There is a neural pathway in the emotional brain that is responsible for reminding us how satisfied we’ll feel when we accomplish a goal, helping to keep us motivated and moving in a positive direction. This neural pathway pumps out a stream of good feelings as we do work we feel passion for. It’s also responsible for quieting the feelings of frustration or worry that might discourage us from continuing toward a goal, helping us to take setbacks, frustrations, and failures in stride.