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ShareDoTERRA. Advanced EFT Healing Begins NOW - Powerful Intentions: Law of Attraction Community. For a more in depth FREE workshop I have created a healing site just for you. If you care to join click here: familiarize yourself with tapping points When you are asked to tap, you can use most of your fingers I use three, that way my clients are more sure, to be hitting the right spot. Then tap a few times on each spot about (5 to 7 times). Lovely Lavender Lotion made with Coconut Oil. The first product I made using coconut oil and essential oils was lotion.

Lovely Lavender Lotion made with Coconut Oil

I am finally posting the recipe! A few months ago, I went into a local Mother's Market and asked for a lotion for my 6-year old daughter. I had been thinking about the bad chemicals that are in most of the personal care products we use and had decided not to use baby lotion any longer. Mother's Market didn't really have a healthy lotion that smelled sweet for my little girl that was also healthy. When I asked the sales woman, she told me she always just used coconut oil as a lotion. About a month later, I made my first batch of lotion using essential oils for fragrance. So, here is the recipe I love! Lovely Lavender Lotion Recipe 1/4 cup water (either distilled or purified water boiled for 5 minutes then cooled) 3/4 cups extra virgin coconut oil (to make lotion rich and creamy) 2 T beeswax, grated or pellets* 1/2 cup pure aloe vera gel.

Peppermint-Lime Lip Balm Recipe! Make your own Natural Lip Balm with doTerra Essential Oils Peppermint-Lime Lip Balm and Chapstick.

Peppermint-Lime Lip Balm Recipe!

Essential Oils - www.risingearthmassage.com. How Do Essential Oils Affect the Body? Essential oils affect the body through inhalation, application to the skin, and by ingestion.

How Do Essential Oils Affect the Body?

When essential oil molecules enter through the nose, they reach the lungs and find their way into the blood stream and every part of the body. Chemical interactions occur between the oils and our bodies that initiate physical changes. Hormone and enzyme responses to the oil molecules can take place. Our bodies can become sedated, stimulated or relaxed by the action of certain oils. Pain may be relieved, wounds may heal, inflammation and spasms may cease.

How Do Essential Oils Affect Our Minds and Emotions? Essential oils affect our minds and our emotions.

How Do Essential Oils Affect Our Minds and Emotions?

All aromas have a potential emotional impact that can reach deep into the psyche, both relaxing the mind and uplifting the Spirit. Our sense of smell is estimated to be 10,000 times more acute than our other senses and sensitive to some 10,000 chemical compounds. Once registered, scent travels faster to the brain than either sight or sound. Of Science and Anatomy - How Essential Oils Affect Our Minds When we inhale the fragrance of an essential oil, the odor molecules travel up the nose where they’re registered by the nerves of the olfactory membranes in the nose lining.

Essential Oil Desk Reference, 4th Edition The limbic lobe is a group of brain structures situated directly below the cerebral cortex of the brain and includes the hippocampus and the amygdala. Because of their fragrance and unique molecular structure, essential oils can directly stimulate the limbic lobe and the hypothalamus. The Emotional Brain Responds Only to Smell. Essential Oil University. Different Uses of Essential Oils for Your Dog. If you are looking for a more natural, and effective, way to treat many of your dog's common ailments try looking into the different uses of essential oils for dogs.

Different Uses of Essential Oils for Your Dog

Many uses of essential oils for dogs can be found to help both internal and external health problems. Depending on the type of essential oil used they can act as a calming agent for anxious or stressed dogs as well.If you want to read more, check out the resources I used, K.L.Bell (Findhorn Press, 2002) and A.D.Shojai (Rodale Press,1999) Japan Pet Aromatherapy Association If you want to read more, check out the resources I used, K.L.Bell (Findhorn Press, 2002) and A.D.Shojai (Rodale Press,1999) Japan Pet Aromatherapy Association. Aromatherapy for your Dog. If it works for us,it stands to reason that Aromatherapy can probably be beneficial for our pets as well.

Aromatherapy for your Dog

Here's an article by internationally known Françoise Rapp, an Aromatherapist and Alchemist, which I thought you'd enjoy: by Françoise Rapp The trend toward natural health consciousness in humans is gaining popularity in the animal world, too. Many veterinarians are beginning to introduce natural therapies in their practice, including osteopathy, homeopathy, acupuncture, flower essences and more recently aromatherapy. Animals and Safe Aromatherapy. When wild dogs, wolves, cats and horses are sick they seek out certain plants to eat in order to get well.

Animals and Safe Aromatherapy

As we domesticated these animals they lost this instinct and their access to wild plants. Plants combine minerals from the soil, water and energy (in the form of sunlight) to produce certain chemical compounds (a process called photosynthesis). These essential chemical compounds nourish the plant, protect the plant, heal broken parts, counteract infections and fungus, attract insects for reproduction and allow the plant to adapt to harsh environmental conditions. All these healing properties are encoded in the plant’s DNA which is embedded in the plant’s resin or essential oils. To obtain these same healing benefits animals will seek out certain plants, eat them and digest the plant material for the healing chemical compounds. Aromatherapy primarily works on the physical level of animals since animals don’t have many of the emotional connections to scents as humans do.

Animal Health Issues: Alternative Healing Modalities. Thank you for visiting my site, and I appreciate your interest in the services I provide.

Animal Health Issues: Alternative Healing Modalities

Assisting animals and people in various ways brings me great joy! Being of service is a key element of my life’s path and purpose. Following are descriptions of the services I offer, the fees (in U.S. dollars) for such services, and payment options. Emotional Healing Leads to Physical Healing. Step 1: AWARENESS - First and foremost you must realize that there is a problem to be dealt with.

Emotional Healing Leads to Physical Healing

You need to recognize that something is not right in your life. Step 2: DESIRE - Secondly, you must truly have the desire to heal or there will not be enough motivation for you to move forward. If you are lacking in desire, there may be a reason why you may not want to heal or why you are avoiding healing emotionally. If this is the case, you will want to work on the underlying reason before moving on. You can do this by using tapping, the Emotion Code, ZPoint Process, the Healing Code or scheduling a session with a practitioner. Step 3: ACCEPT RESPONSIBLITY - Quit blaming others or circumstances. Aromatherapy benefits are amazing and powerful. Shopping Aromatherapy benefits you in so many ways. It is great for your health and overall well being. An article about the history and use of essential oils - by Sharon Falsetto. Essential oils have been used for centuries in one form or another; today, the use of essential oils (and restrictions on use) vary from country to country.

An article about the history and use of essential oils - by Sharon Falsetto

France is the leader in the "true" use of essential oils and as such has more rigid guidelines on who is "qualified" to administer and sell essential oils. In the UK, essential oils have been popular for a number of years and they are seen in almost every health shopping outlet, in addition to beauty salons. In the United States, therapeutic essential oils are often confused with synthetic fragrance oils, although aromatherapists are seeking to educate the public on the difference between them.

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