Healthy Skin

DID YOU KNOW that your skin is considered to be the largest organ of your body? Knowing what you are putting on your skin is very important. Using all-natural products, with no fillers or chemicals is crucial to your long-term health.

DID YOU KNOW that women absorb nearly five pounds of chemicals through the skin and into the blood stream every year as a result of the makeup they apply? Women use an average of nine personal care products per day. Those products contain over 120 dangerous chemical ingredients and many of those ingredients have been linked to cancer, infertility, damage to developing babies within the womb, hormonal dysfunction, and other disorders!

Drug Medications

"Drug medications consists in employing, as remedies for disease, those things which produce disease in well persons. Its materia medica is simply a lot of drugs or chemicals or dye-stuffs, in a word poisons. All are incompatible with vital matter; all produce disease when brought in contact in any manner with the living; all are poisons."

R.T. Trail, M.D., in a two and one half hour lecture to members of congress and the medical profession, delivered at the Smithsonian Institute in WashingtonD.C.

Raindrop Therapy

Raindrop Therapy is different then a regular massage. With this relaxing therapy, Ten Essential Oils are layered along the spine and stimulated with special massage strokes. After all the Oils are applied, they are followed with hot towels placed upon the spine, to send the oils deep into the body.
This therapy stimulates circulation, helps to eliminate viruses and bacteria that are harbored in the spine, and is a great oxyginator and nerve stimulator. It strengthens the immune system, reduces inflammation, and is a very therapeutic and relaxing treatment.

Almond Butter Balls

Here is a healthy alternative to Holiday sweets and treats. It is wheat and glutton free, and easy to make.

1 (11 oz.) jar almond butter
5 Tbsp. chopped walnuts (or your choice)
5 Tbsp. oatmeal
5 Tbsp. honey
5 Tbsp. coco or carob powder

Mix the almond butter in a food processor for a few minutes to incorporate the oils back into it. Then blend all the other ingredients together with the almond butter. Roll into 1" balls. May store in the refridgerator to keep them firm.

Seven Steps to a Stress Free Holiday

During the holidays, when times are busy and hectic, we often wonder why are we buying into all the holiday hype. These tips will help you function more efficiently, and give you a new outlook on life. They will be even more helpful if you incorporate them all year round. If it is too overwhelming, add one step each week.

1. Pure Diet – Eat whole foods that are untainted by chemicals, hormones, antibiotics, or genetically altered, eaten according to your blood or body type.

2. Adequate Rest – 10PM being the latest bedtime. There is nothing you can do to make up for the loss of sleep, other then to sleep. Eight hours of uninterrupted sleep is recommended.

3. Exercise – Participate in 30 to 45 minutes, of exercise daily. You can choose to involve yourself in, and rotate anything from yoga or stretching, to walking or running, to strenuous aerobic exercises, pilates, rebounding, or weight lifting, all according to your own bodies requirements.

4. Natural Hygiene - Bathe daily, and be well-groomed, using natural care products. The skin absorbs what you put on it. Make sure you are using safe products. Daily dry skin brushing helps to opens the pours of the skin. .

5. Right Occupation – Be happy doing useful, productive work that gives you joy and satisfaction. If you don’t have that in your life right now, doing something to change it.

6. Function in Positive Environments – Live and work in a clean, orderly, and tasteful environment, and surround yourself with positive, loving people.

7. Spiritual Cultivation – Begin each day with 30 minutes of spiritual practice. Use prayer, meditation, reading, journaling, or any other rituals you use to connect with Spirit. .

These 7 Steps will help to create a firm foundation of balanced health so that we can bring love and good energy to the people we meet and love. Whether you are new to the journey of bringing balance into your life, or if you have been following this path for a long time, the following steps will certainly be rewarding. Make all of your daily activities sacred by adapting and engaging in the following practices. The more disciplined you are, consciousness of participating in the steps as outlined, and doing so in loving reflection of your Creator, the better the results.

Failing to follow these 7 Steps toward better health and happiness, you will find that your energy and attention will have to go to problems that will develop in the body and mind, resulting in energy sucking activities.

What Is The Most Relaxing Fragrance?

It has the greatest calming, relaxing, and balancing effect on your entire nervous system, affecting you both emotionally and physically. It will send you into a deep, relaxing sleep by adding just a few drops on your pillow at bedtime. It is the greatest sedative fragrance of all time. The answer? Lavender Oil.

But, the benefits of Lavender Oil are even greater than that, and it has many other beneficial applications. It is excellent in the treatment of burns, (including sunburns), stretch marks, and helps with tissue regeneration, which speeds up wound healing. It is also beneficial for other skin irritations such as bruises, hives, insect bites, and it helps cleanse cuts because Lavender has antiseptic properties.

Lavender Oil’s calming effect can relieve asthma and bronchitis by rubbing it on the chest. It gets oxygen quickly into the bronchioles. It will lower blood pressure, and help with heart palpitations. It helps to lift depression, soothes nausea, and tames PMS conditions.

So, the next time you are suffering from stress or insomnia, consider reaching for a bottle of Lavender Oil to relax you or send you off to sleep.

De-Stress For The Holidays

Is your lifestyle already busy with work, family, and other functions? Then adding a holiday into the blend can become over whelming. But it doesn’t have to be.

Why do we sometimes get overloaded? People handle stress differently, and some stress in our lives is actually good for us. Stress keeps us on our toes and our creativity flowing.

The stress response can create a coordinated series of events in the body by triggering the neurotransmitters, (chemical messengers) that can increase emotional response, memory, concentration, inhibition, and rational thought. Can you relate to any of these symptoms?

With Holiday stress, you know it is short term, and will end in a few weeks. However, consistent stress over long periods of time, with no relief, can become a more serious threat to maintaining good health. Think of those who have lost their homes and/or jobs. Let’s start with the basics.

When a body is under stress, the first nutrients that are burned up are Vitamin C, and the B Complex Vitamins, because they are water soluble and your body can’t store them. You will be amazed what taking these supplements alone will do for your wellbeing. Nutritional support can take the edge off.

My second recommendation is a good multi-mineral combination supplement, with a good amount of calcium and magnesium, or just a balanced calcium/magnesium tablet. They offer more minerals then your normal everyday vitamin. A calcium deficiency creates more then bone loss. Calcium allows you to form a muscle, and helps to control rage. Magnesium nourishes the nerves and relaxes the muscles. Carbonation in soft drinks depletes these two important nutrients. Most Americans are magnesium and calcium deficient.

If you don’t fall into this category, perhaps you can know of others in your life with some of the above symptoms that could benefit from extra nutrition during times of excess stress. Give the gift of health to your friends and loved ones. Peace on Earth, Goodwill to All!