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Growing Pains

Mama — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:46:03 +0000

Simon (5 years old) occasionally gets growing pains. They are mainly in his legs and they tend to be at bedtime or even in the middle of the night. I just wanted to share the quick little remedy I've come up with that seems to help him. We have a health food store where we can purchase homeopathic remedies and there is a Kids First Aid Kit that I got made by Boiron. It has a few different remedies in it, but one that is used for Growing Pains, Calcarea phosphorica 6C.

I always use a combination of some V-6 and PanAway right on his legs and either put long pajama pants on him or make sure I snuggle him up really well in his blankets. He always calms down immediately when I put the oils on him and I think the combo seems to really do the trick.

I also like to put a couple of drops of Peace and Calming on him too, just to help calm him down and he is always able to go back to sleep - at least so far. I'll keep you posted if things change. Peace & Calming always seems to help the boys to sleep if they are having troubles. We just got back from a weekend away and they struggled a bit with falling asleep, until I massaged some Peace & Calming onto their backs. Ahh... Nighty Night.

Oh and one more thing I'll touch on is the pairing of aromatherapy and homeopathy. There are different beliefs about this combo. I have always have great results pairing them, but some believe they don't pair well together. My suggestion is just to try it for yourself. Here is a good link that talks briefly about this subject. If you are concerned about pairing the two maybe just don't use them at the same time - take your remedy and maybe use your oils a couple of hours later, or even a few days later.

Copaiba for March

Mama — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:32:49 +0000

February flew by, I can't believe it is already time for another oil message. I guess it was a short month. I hope this finds all of you well. I should have picked Joy for March since you can get it and the Stress Away roller free with a 175PV order this month. PanAway is on sale this month 10% off the 5ml bottle - and you still get the full PV (for those of you on Essential Rewards Autoship). If you aren't an "autoshipper" but are considering it, please let me know, there are all kinds of perks! One biggie is the bulk shipping rate, plus you acquire points toward free oils! Nothin' better than free oils!

Now for the March oil - I decided I'd choose one of my favs - I've been using a lot of Copaiba these days and since it is a really new oil to Young Living I thought I'd talk about the different ways we use this Brazilian oil in our family. It is product number 3431 Wholesale $39.75 Retail $52.30.
This oil contains the highest amount beta caryophyllene (55 percent) of any known essential oil. I've just recently been learning about what exactly this means from Anna since she's becoming a certified aromatherapist. Beta Caryophyllene is an anti-inflammatory and great for pain. The reason I got this oil in the first place is because it is said to aid in digestion. I used it on tummys around here until I learned that you can pair it with another oil and it really enhances that oil, making it more potent. I started using it a lot in combination with Thieves throughout the winter, on everyone in the house, because it is essentially like using Thieves x3. It smells amazing, it isn't a very powerful smell though - pretty mild. I use it all of the time it is just one of those really great oils for me. We've been using it on Shane's inflamed shoulder in combination with PanAway, the Deep Relief Roller, Clove and others. I use it on my kiddos bellies if they have stomach aches. It is much less intense than Peppermint (no tingles). This oil can be taken internally as well, which I haven't personally done, but you can. I'm sure there is so much more about that I'm not even touching on but that's it in a nutshell.

Sorry I'm a bit late sending this message out this month. If you want some oils but don't want to place your own order please let me know, I can get them on someone's order for you, or mine by the 7th, I'm happy to add things all weekend.

Discussion Group will be on a Tuesday this month, March 23rd, probably at Walking Stick Toys again but the location will be announced. Sorry we are bouncing around with dates on discussion group so much. We decided we'll try and hold discussion group on the 3rd or 4th Thursday of the month, this month is an exception to the new rule.

Still rollin' with the Deep Relief roller for free for hosting a party, so let me know if you'd like me to come and do a party for you and your friends you'll get a deep relief roller and you'll be able to share these amazing oils and have me talk your ears off.

As promised I said I'd have a contest in March - so here it is. To qualify you must be a member of my downline and have an Essential Rewards Autoship of 100PV (or more) for the month of March. If you have a qualifying autoship this month you will automatically be entered in the drawing. The drawing will take place on April Fool's Day 2010.
The prize will be a bottle of Aroma Life - this oil is another oil I've been loving lately! It is a blend of Cypress, Helichrysum, Ylang Ylang and Marjoram. It is great for your heart and circulation and it just makes me feel really really good, so I want to share it with someone, maybe you'll be that lucky someone?

Kindergarten Bug

Mama — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:46:11 +0000

Simon came home from school hacking the other afternoon, it was a really dry cough that got progressively worse into the evening and night. His eyes started to look punky too - just like he wasn't feeling good at all. He coughed ALL night long. I kept checking on him and had his humidifier going with some Eucalyptus Radiata in the medicine cup to disperse throughout the room. I put Frankincense in his diffuser and RC on his chest and back (where his lungs are), and Thieves on his feet. When he got up in the morning he wasn't doing any better...I was worried he might even be worse. He hadn't gotten a fever of any sort yet, so I was kind of hoping that might come to help burn whatever it was out of his system. He stayed home from school and we just relaxed all day. He told me he thought I'd better put some more oils on him if he was going to get better. Thanks Simon.

I didn't use too many oils the next day but pumped him with Vitamin C and gave him a concoction my Dad used to make me when I was little and afflicted with the same bug and my Granny used to make it for him when he was little as well.

Orange Juice, Hot Water, Lemon Juice (I replaced this with Lemon Essential Oil), Honey and Lots of Love!

He willingly drank the first cup and then resisted the second time it came around. He was just feeling lousy I think. He was happy to eat his chocolate cake though. Who wouldn't be though, right? I also made some chicken noodle soup from scratch with a whole lot of garlic in it! He ate some of that, but I truly believe even the aroma of chicken soup is healing. The little bit he ate was chock full of carrots, onions, celery and goodness so I'm sure it helped a bit.

Later in the afternoon we decided a hot bath might be a good thing, so we started the bath, he got in and was out within a minute standing at the toilet peeing and suddenly yelled out in pain. He doubled over and wasn't even quite done peeing yet so it must have really hurt! He was complaining of a horrible pain in his side. I had Shane check on the internet to see what side your appendix was on - all the while thinking the last thing we need is to put this poor little guy under who can't stop coughing that will be BAD! Luckily after a bit Simon had calmed down a bit. We did a little bit of pressure testing and I had him lay down in bed. He told me that when I rubbed his side it felt better, so I massaged some Di-Gize (in case it was gas) and Lavender in and it made him calm right down. I put some Thieves on his feet and RC on his back and chest again since I hadn't been using oils all day. I also put some RC in his diffuser and turned his humidifier back on. We scrapped the bath and he took about an hour long nap.

On a completely unrelated note I put some Lavender on his finger because he has a couple of warts on his finger right now, and earlier in the day Shane put some Oregano and Lemon on those and covered them with a band-aid. Well apparently the band-aid got wet in the brief bath and was stinging a bit. Everything was happening at once for this poor little guy. So we put Lavender on it to take the sting away which worked immediately. We'll worry about the warts later right? Sheesh. Enough is enough.

So I heard Simon cough after about an hour so I went and checked on him and he looked right at me and just said "Much Better" and fell right back to sleep. I checked his temp and he finally had a little bit of a fever only about 100 degrees...burn that sick out! So I let him sleep a little longer and made him some food and went and woke him up to eat, and he ate like a champ.
He's a lot better today and really wanted to go to school but I told him we should probably hold off just one more day. He wasn't happy about that and he's been fighting with his brother all day, which always tells me he probably could have gone to school, but I'd rather be safe than sorry.

I love that this Kindergarten bug, that could have lasted a week, only lasted a day, I LOVE our oils!

Dig This Chick hearts Mama Loves Oils

Mama — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:24:29 +0000

And Mama Loves Oils Definitely Hearts Dig This Chick!

My very dear friend has a little blurb on her blog today about Mama Loves Oils - she did a small interview for me and is using Young Living Essential Oils so if you want to check out the interview and see her sweet blog I can guarantee you'll love it! She's a Mama of two little girls, was born and raised in MT, and is a fantastic gardener, cook, seamstress and writer, among other things of course. Her blog is pretty magical and so is her life.

Thanks Nici!

Cough, Cold and Lung Oils

Mama — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:47:41 +0000

My good friend, also a Young Living Distributor, wanted to share her most recent experience with us - a cold - a cough - two kiddos and some good stuff:

"I have been plagued with lung issues my whole life. When I was 2 I was hospitalized for 2 weeks with a severe case of pneumonia. Since then, I have struggled with asthma and other bronchial related issues. I started using oils when I was 15 and was able to completely come off of a rescue inhaler with the use of RC. I also stopped drinking cow's milk. But then I lost my oil connection and when I started college again after the birth of my first daughter I began to have lung issues again.(stress and being around lots of people). Almost every semester I would get a cold and it would turn into Walking Pneumonia. An awful, super icky, nasty, sickness. Well that has changed... I found my oil connection again WHOOP WHOOP! So here's the scoop... I can usually tell if I am going to get the nasty....So I start with RC and Balsam Fir all over my chest and neck pulse points ( as many times as I can at least 5 throughout the day), I also diffuse it as many times as my diffuser will allow! Then I take oregano and thieves internally (once a day). I also use peppermint and Sacred Mountain all through the day. I drink a ton of Lemon water as well. I still have the cold part, but no fever and the feeling of a million bricks on my chest! Oils are truly a blessing in my life, and never again will I lose my connection!"

Thanks for sharing Sarah!

Tendonitis or Bursitis

Mama — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:47:27 +0000

Shane has a sore shoulder - and has for weeks. He seems to think it could possibly be Tendonitis or Bursitis (inflammation of a soft-tissue structure). We aren't sure where it started but it doesn't seem to be going away. There are a lot of treatments out there, but the main thing he read is that he needs to ice it and take Ibuprofen. This is the perfect time to use some anti-inflammatory oils. Wintergreen is a great anti-inflammatory. PanAway has Wintergreen in it and is an anti-inflammatory. Of course the Deep Relief Roller is a great option. Copiaba is another great oil. Of course icing is key...but using oils to bring the inflammation down is one method of healing we'll use. I think - as usual - it is key to be consistent with applications.

We'll hope he can sleep on that hurt shoulder again soon.

Healthy Heart Oils

Mama — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:33:51 +0000

I decided in lieu of the 'holiday' (if you can call it that) I wanted to share a heart story! I got permission from the source, so thank you Jan for letting me share. We talked a lot before she went in about oils that might be good for her to have on hand so I asked around and gathered quite a bit of information. Anna was at convention at the time so she had access to all kinds of amazing information from doctors, specialists and upline oil users from over the years. So I put a bug in her ear and had her ask about what oils might be good for open heart surgery. She was actually with someone that had direct experiences with what I was asking so she found some good info for me. Before Jan's heart surgery she'd been using oils for several months. She'd used that HRT supplement that Young Living makes on and off as well as all kinds of detoxifying and oxygenating YLEOs. She really decided to use Thieves religiously before she went in to hopefully avoid contracting some sort of virus or bacterial infection in the hospital setting. The surgery went very well and Jan actually made a super speedy recovery. She was able to go home only three days after open heart surgery which is pretty unheard of. Hospital stays are usually at least 5 days after open heart surgery. She brought her diffuser with her to the hospital and the recovery nurses were very supportive. My sister told me she was diffusing Peppermint almost constantly. The nurses all wanted diffusers in the hospital all of the time after Jan was their patient. I think the Peppermint probably helped post-op with nausea.

Jan got home and used Thieves a couple of days later and she wanted me to mention that she was a bit sensitive to it. It was just a bit too intense to use so soon, some oils are stronger than others. She used a lot of Lavender on her scar and rash (often times the surgical tape used leaves irritated skin - in her case it was very irritated) and had fairly good results with that. We also made sure she was stocked up on Joy because often times after such a major surgery depression is fairly common, of course there are a wide array of oils that can be used for this...but Joy smells delicious. The other oils we made sure she had were Aroma Life (which is great for a healthy heart) and Ylang Ylang which regulates your heartbeat and is great for calming and tension and another wonderful emotional oil. She had Helichrysum which is wonderful for healing, it supports the circulatory system, skin, liver and nervous system. Helichrysum is also great for scar tissue and has amazing restorative properties. We also made sure she had PanAway and the Deep Relief Roller as back pain is common after heart surgery and the spreading of the breastbone.

I'm sure there are plenty more that I'm forgetting but essential oils are a big part of Jan's life and health and I wanted to share a little bit of her story on Heart Day.

Potent Essential Oils

Mama — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:38:47 +0000

I wanted to post a follow-up in regards to a post a bit back on deodorant a fellow Young Living Distributor ended up having a bit of an issue with the oil she was using in addition to her Mountain Mint Deodorant. She was applying some Grapefruit oil and just discovered that it has actually been burning her underarms. She uses oils all of the time but wasn't aware of just how potent this particular oil was on the sensitive skin under her arms. So, I guess what she'd like passed on is to make sure you are diluting your oils if they are too potent in particular areas. These oils are STRONG so use them cautiously. You can simply dilute your oils with V-6, olive oil or another edible oil.

Essential Oils for Mama and Newborn

Mama — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:36:33 +0000

There is nothing in the world like a newborn and that time is the most precious time for bonding and there are some oils that can be used. Smells bring back such strong associations for humans...so why not link some of your essential oils to that special time.

One of my favorites is Gentle Baby. I still use it on my babies that are almost 3 and 5. I like to put it on them when I get home and maybe I wasn't home to put them to bed that night. I go in and kiss them goodnight and rub some on their little feet. It is such a sweet smell for me, just brings me to a good space, and I like to use it with my kids so they get a comforting feeling from it. It is a blend that consists of Rosewood, Geranium, Palmarosa, Lavender, Roman Chamomile, Ylang Ylang, Lemon, Jasmine, Bergamot, and Rose. You can use this oil in combination with other oils and you can use this oil for many particular things. Diaper Rash is one (you should definitely dilute before applying to a rash), stretch marks is another, it is great for skin regeneration (try and use it everyday for the best results). It is a comforting, soothing and relaxing oil and great for bonding with your newest family member. It makes a great baby gift for baby and parent(s).

Lavender is another great oil to use with your new baby.

Colic: So I didn't have my oils when I had a little baby with some colic 5+ years ago but I wish I had. I would just do some research on this subject as well. Since I've had such amazing results with Di-Gize I might really really dilute it and use some of that or put it on my baby's feet if I was desperate. I am not recommending this but if you're feeling comfortable with your oils then you can make the informed decision on your own. The magical potion called Gripe Water, that you can get at health food stores, I had some success with so that's worth a shot. Some other essential oils that might work are Bergamot, Ginger, Roman Chamomile, Rosemary, and Ylang Ylang. I would dilute as I mentioned before or even mix with some V-6 and create a little massage oil. I did do lots of belly massaging with my little colicky fellow. You can make your own blend and just massage the belly in a clockwise direction (was what I was always told). Back massages may be beneficial as well to get things moving along the digestive tract. Warmth is also beneficial.

There are all kinds of oils you can use if your baby gets a cold or the flu or has respiratory difficulties but that I'll save for a different day.

Milk Production Oils: Clary Sage (can help to bring your milk in), Fennel (for no more than 10 days) or Basil could help to increase production and Peppermint could decrease your production.

Postpartum Depression is a very serious condition so by all means talk to someone if this seems to be happening to you. The following oils maybe help to prevent the baby blues - Bergamot (is one of my favorites!), White Angelica is another oil that I use for anxiety and to make me happy all around and I love the effects. There are may other oils that could work really well - Valor is another one that would be awesome - I always say you should start everyday with Valor! Gentle Baby, Frankincense, Joy (is another great blend that smells delicious and really brings what it is called). Citrus oils are also very uplifting so Grapefruit, Orange, Tangerine, Lemon, and Citrus Fresh could all be good candidates.

So the most important recommendation is to just be present and cherish every moment (even those hours in the middle of the night wide awake) you'll never get the time back, so embrace it. I better go hang out with my kids instead of typing on this darn blog. Happy Baby!

Joy for Winter

Mama — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:50:10 +0000

This time of year people might need a little Joy in their lives, so I decided that'd be my oil of the month. Winter starts to get long right about now, and most of us are pining for some sunshine. This oil is a great mood lifter. It is a blend of oils: Bergamot, Lemon, Palmarosa, Ylang Ylang, Mandarin, Rose, Geranium, Jasmine, Rosewood, Roman Chamomile. This oil is also great for this month since good ol' Valentine's Day is coming right up. - The Young Living Catalog says this fragrance "inspires romance and togetherness" heh. Just thought I ought to throw that tidbit in. I put it on whenever I need a little happy boost. It makes me feel good and the smell is pretty awesome. It would make a great perfume - just look at that list of oils in this blend. Yum! And it would make a great gift!
This oil is great for anxiety and depression. We actually were recommended to get it for my step mom for her to use after her open heart surgery (see a more detailed post about this on Valentine's Day on www.mamalovesoils.com). This oil is a great self-love oil and just an all around positive emotional oil.
According to the Reference Guide for Essential Oils - when there is grief the adenoids and adrenal glands shut down and this oil opens these glands. This oil also instills confidence.
You can put this oil in your bath, rub over your heart, put on your ears, neck, heart chakras, and wrists (among other places).
Since it contains Lemon oil you'll want to be mindful of the sun - avoid direct exposure for 12 hours after use.
You can pair this oil with Valor for a more heightened affect.
Joy comes in the Essential Seven Kit (Retail $91.78 Wholesale $69.75) and individually in a 15ml bottle it is $49.34 Retail $37.50 Wholesale.
I LOVE this oil!

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