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Sneak Preview at the August Specials
LeAssurance LeBountiful LeDeliverance Basil Ho Wood Manuka |
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LeEndo Relief
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Endocrine balance and support; improve vitality; help with feelings of physical and mental exhaustion; improve metabolism; stimulate natural weight loss; regulate hot flashes and balance hormones; helps us establish, or re-establish, boundaries between ourselves and others; allows us to be both tactful and firm about our personal boundaries: Also use for diabetes, hypoglycemia, bladder infections, candida, regulation of thyroid, lymph congestion, provide support to pineal, pituitary, parathyroid, thymus and adrenal glands; increasing metabolism |
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LeVision
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For dominant personalities who may become unfocused or overbearing; aid our ability to see and grow from mistakes and mis-perceptions; move past over-reliance on other people’s opinions; balances emotions; clears the mind; reduces anxiety and stress; restores inner strength; improves decisiveness; prevents apathy; good for irritability or irritable people; gallstones; insomnia.
Ingredients: German and Roman chamomile, angelica, lemon, spruce, hyssop, lavender Affinity for: nervous system, emotional stability and balance Aromatic Considerations: diffuse to promote spiritual awareness and intuitiveness Application: use in bath - especially at the end of the day Resonance: physical and emotional Cautions: some of the oils in this blend are on lists to use cautiously if pregnant; repeated use, especially undiluted, could possibly result in skin irritation |
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LeVitality
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Excellent for the cardiovascular, circulatory and lymphatic systems; use for all heart related conditions; high blood pressure; stress reduction; varicose veins; shock, and to increase stamina among the sick or the elderly; for use in treating hemorrhoids (dilute well here).
Ingredients: palmarosa, helichrysum, ylang ylang, balsam, cypress, marjoram, geranium Affinity for: cardiovascular system and vein health; root and crown chakras - connection to both Heaven and Earth Aromatic Considerations: use for shock or to increase vitality, energy and stamina Application: apply over the heart; can be applied to heart points on the feet or on the heart points found under left ring finger and left ring toe, on the arm just above the elbow, and on the arteries of the neck; massage along the spine between the 1st and 4th thoracic vertebrae. Resonance: physical |
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Rosewood (Aniba rosaeodora)
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Brings a synergism to all the oils used in a blend; soothing to the skin, appeasing to the mind and relaxing to the body; creates a feeling of peace and gentleness necessary to give and receive; can be helpful in releasing emotional blocks; beneficial for bone and joint pain; recognized for the ability to get rid of candida on the skin and slow the aging process; use for cuts, nausea, oral infections, skin care (eczema, acne, dry skin, etc.), tissue regeneration, vaginitis, and wounds.
Ingredient In: LeAcknowledge, LeBaby Me, LeBelieve, LeBenediction, LeDiscernment, LeEverlasting, LeExhilaration, LeFaith, LeFocus, LeGrateful Heart, LeHeart Song, LeInner Peace, LeMeditation, LeMillenia, LeSego Lily, LeSolitude, LeTrust, LeTurmoil Therapeutic Properties: anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, anti-infectious, emollient, tonic Application: apply to appropriate areas of feet, directly on areas of concern Aromatic: pleasant, evokes a peaceful, gentle atmosphere |
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Spruce (Picea marianna)
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Creates the symbolic effect of the umbrella which protects the earth and brings energy in from the universe. At night the animals in the wild lie down under a tree for the protection, recharging, and rejuvenation the trees bring them; grounding to the solar plexus and stimulating to the thymus, creating the feeling of balance necessary to receive and to give; also helps one release emotional blocks; may be beneficial for bone pain; aching joints; for arthritis, candida, glandular system, hyper-thyroidism, nervous system, prostate, respiratory system, rheumatism, sciatica pain, general tonic
Ingredient In: LeAspire, LeAssurance, LeBenediction, LeConnection, LeDeeper, LeDiscernment, LeDreams, LeEverlasting, LeHoliday Spirit, LeInner Peace, LeMagi, LeMeditation, LeMillenia, LeSanctuary, LeTrust, LeUnity, LeVision, LeWhispering Hope, LeWisdom Therapeutic Properties: anti-infectious, anti-inflammatory, anti-spasmodic, cortisone-like Application: apply to appropriate areas on the feet, directly on areas of concern Aromatic: slightly sweeter and less pungent than pine, calming, encourages communication |
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Tagette (Tagetes bipinata)
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Tagete is useful for respiratory conditions, especially those involving infections; can be used for repelling insects; may rid the body of toxins; may be helpful for use on bunions, calluses, and corns. |
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Meridians
and Essential Oils By LaRee Westover |
| In Oriental medicine the subtle energy that moves throughout the body is considered of prime importance. Blockages in this flow are believed to occur long before the physical problem that will be the result if the blockage is not dealt with and removed. Meridians (sometimes called channels, vessels, or elements)s is the term chosen to describe the overall distribution system of this energy. It must be understood, however, that energy frequently moves between these meridians and back and forth among the chakras also. Each of these meridians (with the exception of 0, which is considered to be Mind and Air) is associated with a season and with the emotional patterns appropriate to that season. These emotional characteristics have been drawn from the observation of nature in the earth and human nature over the centuries. Most of us seem to live quite strongly within one rhythm, or season, while being greatly influenced by the seasons preceding and following it in the Chinese Creative Cycle. Our own basic rhythm is made up of the strengths and weaknesses within our primary rhythm, mixed with a unique combination of the abundance or depletion of the qualities of the others. This is a fascinating, but complicated, topic and too lengthy for in-depth consideration here. Although we seem to live our lives in our particulate rhythm or blend of rhythms, we also move through all five of the seasons many times during the cycles that make up a lifetime. Both your core rhythm and the season through which you are passing at the moment profoundly influence the way your respond to your world and the people in it. Understanding your rhythms can help you to understand your vulnerabilities and your responses to people and situations. A study of the emotional patterns of the meridians can help us identify our faults and our strengths, understand the amazing things we are capable of accomplishing, and point out to us the things in our core personalities that we should be on our guard against. Behaviors that exhibit the out of balance patterns of these season are usually not serving us well or making us happy and should be identified and abandoned. Understanding our children and the people around us can also be helpful, but only if we can contemplate them with love and compassion, while managing to mind our own business and not use our new-found understanding in any manipulative or controlling manner. Professional aroma therapists use personality classifications to help determine which oils from the wide range available will be most beneficial to a person. Of course, it is not ever just one personality type that fits us at any point in our lives, but several layered one on top of another. Sometimes a particular characteristic only becomes apparent in certain stressful situations and when dealing with or associating with certain people. As shown in the previous chapter, the properties of essential oils are very much a part of the plant family they come from, the part of the plant they are extracted from, and the season in which it is harvested. Each oil, and combination of oils, has very strong characteristics and affinities for certain personality imbalances as well as physical problems. Each meridian (rhythm or personality type) is prone to certain types of imbalances, and can be brought back into balance most quickly in certain ways and with the use of the essential oils which have an affinity for or a balancing effect on those problems. The next few pages will give you a brief over-view of each meridian and suggest essential oils that are useful in balancing and strengthening them. When you achieve a deep harmony between a particular person and a particular essential oil physical, mental and emotional problems can clear up very quickly. Choosing oils based only on personality type, without any regard for physical aliments, often brings about very dramatic results, illustrating that certain types or personalities are prone to certain types of physical illnesses. This phenomenon is often seen, and used successfully, in homeopathic treatment programs. It is interesting to ponder on and consider what it is that we inherit from our ancestors. Is it just the shape of our nose or the color of our hair or do we also inherit a tendency to certain personality traits and a vulnerability to certain types of illnesses? Will an oil that has been successful for you also be successful for your children? Is your husband partial to particular oils that you are not fond of and are some of your children fond of your favorites and some fond of his favorites? Is there a correlation between the oils that work for your spouse and children and their various personality types? The goal of this type of study is to help us achieve as many of the abundant characteristics of all the groups as we possibly can. For example, one person might eventually have the enthusiasm of a floral, the good nature of the fruit group, the practical caring skills of the herbal world, the vision that is common to the leaf group, the wisdom and maturity of the resinous oils, the peace making qualities of the roots, the joy and vitality of the spices and the courage of the woods. They would be a pretty wonderful and well-balanced person, wouldn’t they? This life, and the perfection we are seeking, is a journey of a thousand miles that begins with the baby steps we are taking today as we meet our challenges in the best ways that we can. The above information has been taken from Butterfly Expressions’ LLC R book Essential Oils written by LaRee Westover. Over the next several months look for further excerpted information regarding each specific meridian |
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Health Tip
by LaRee Westover |
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A very brief explanation of
Yin and Yang
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| Most of us have been raised in the western approach to health care which deals primarily with the state of the physical body. In western thought, disease is too often considered an isolated entity residing or beginning in one bodily organ or another. Oriental philosophies view human beings as a series of subtle bodies and disease as a disturbance in the energy of one or more of them. These philosophies maintain that healing is a process that must be accomplished throughout these subtle layers, meaning throughout the entire person - body, mind, spirit, soul, etc. Regardless of where in the physical body the symptoms are manifesting, it is understood that the entire body/mind/spirit complex is ill. Western medicine is often considered to be scientific and logical, while the deeply philosophical eastern thinking sometimes seems, to those of us conditioned to western thought, to be metaphysical and even bizarre. Closer examination, however, reveals the underlying principles to be logical, sound, valid and easily observed all around us in nature. Difficulties in understanding, when they arise, seem to be the result of terminology. We in the western world have no appropriate words to describe eastern thinking: we end up using their words and struggling to come to terms with the layers of meaning that are embodied by them. Two such words are yin and yang. An adequate explanation of these two words would take several pages: a very short paragraph will be provided here. Basically, yang refers to the energizing forces that streams down from Heaven above, while yin refers to the receptive, creative, material world of earth. Yin and yang can be seen in every function and aspect of living. We can observe yin and yang in the change of the seasons, the cycle of night and day, the growth of plants, and in the functions of our own bodies. Every function of any living thing manifests these two opposing forces. An understanding of the way yin and yang related and manifest in the body, creating symptoms of sickness or health, as they slide in and out of balanced states is an asset to any branch of the healing arts. To know which oils balance the energies of yin and yang most effectively gives another dimension to your understanding, application and use of essential oils. Many oils, especially ones comprised of several different single oils, seem to affect both energies for the better. The strengthening of one aspect allows a corresponding strengthening of the other, making the entire system stronger. The following is a list of essential oils considered strongly yang or yin. Yang: basil, benzoin, bergamot, black pepper, cardamom, cedarwood, clary sage, frankincense, hyssop, jasmine, juniper berry, lavender, marjoram, melissa, myrrh, neroli, patchouli, peppermint, rosemary, sandalwood Yin: chamomile, cypress, eucalyptus, geranium, rose, ylang ylang |
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We have finaly named our new Essential Oil book and are days from sending it to the publisher. We will announce our contest winner and the name of the book,
(hoping to include a picture) in the next few days so watch your e-mail. |
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