HealthiaCynthia

A Good Night’s Sleep

Filed under: Health & Wellness, Good Sleep, Essential Oils, Peace, Mental Health, Emotional Wellbeing, Young Living by healthiacynthia on September 18, 2007 7:26 pm

 We have all the felt the effects of sleep deprivation: that zombie-like feeling that consumes us the moment we roll out of bed.  Our eyes are heavy, we can't think straight, everything in a blur.  Like mechanical robots, we go about our day not fully comprehending what is going on around us.

The negative effects of sleep deprivation are quickly becoming an alarming issue.  According to the National Sleep Foundation's 2002 Sleep in America poll, 58 percent of adults in the US experience symptoms of insomnia several nights a week.

Sleep-deprived individuals find it hard to concentrate or feel productive during the day.  Perhaps worst of all, more and more are driving drowsy.  In fact, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that 100,000 of reported crashes occur as a result of drowsiness.

Young Living Essential Oils feels strongly about promoting good sleep.  Not only is it mandatory for mental health and normal functioning, but it's pertinent for maintaining a healthy lifestyle.  That is why we offer products that promote restful sleep.

Single essential oils such as valerian, spikenard, and lavender are known for their ability to relax, calm, and emotionally ground a person.  Peace & Calming and Gentle Baby are soothing essential oil blends that have similar effects.  These oils can be diffused, inhaled, massaged into the feet prior to retiring to help ease tension and settle the mind. 

DURING THE DAY: 
+Consume less or no caffeine, particularly late in the day

+Avoid alcohol and nicotine, especially close to bedtime

+Exercise, but not within three hours of going to bed

+Avoid naps, especially in the late afternoon or evening

+Establish a regular sleep schedule; don’t try to make up for lost sleep
  BEFORE BEDTIME: 
+take a warm bath using Evening Peace Bath & Shower Gel to soothe away stress and tension before retiring at night.

+Rub a drop of essential oil such as lavender on your palm and smooth over pillow to aid with sleep

+Apply Peace & Calming or another soothing oil to the feet before bedtime to promote relaxation.

 

 Valerian                1

VALERIAN

Item No. 3648

5 ml

Whsl. $32.50/Pref Cust. $37.63

Retail $42.76

Spikenard2

SPIKENARD

Item No. 3640

5 ml

Whsl. $29.75/ Pref. Cust. $34.45

Retail $39.14

Lavender                      3

LAVENDER

Item No. 3575

15 ml

Whsl. $19.75/Pref Cust. $22.87

Retail $25.99

Peace & Calming            4

PEACE & CALMING

Item No. 3393

15 ml

Whsl. $26.25/Pref. Cust. $30.39

Retail $34.54

Gentle Baby                  5

GENTLE BABY 

Item No. 3345

15 ml

Whsl. $29.75/Pref Cust. $34.45

Retail $39.14

 Evening Peace Bath & Shampoo Gel                      6

EVENING PEACE BATH & SHOWER GEL

Item No. 3742

8 fl. Oz. (236 ml) Whsl. $23.50  Pref. Cust. $27.21  Retail $30.92

The above article is taken from "Essential LifeStyle" Magazine Vol. 2 No. 2 .  Reprinted with permission of Young Living, Lehi, UT 84043 USA

**info provided by National Sleep Foundation


Peace in our Time

Filed under: Health & Wellness, Emotional Freedom Technique, Peace by healthiacynthia on February 5, 2007 8:04 pm

Peace.  What is it?  Is it an absence of noise? of violence? of fighting?  Or is Peace an entity, something on its own?

Peace derives from the Latin word "pax."  Peace can mean freedom from war or mental calm.  When we talk about "making our peace" we imply a return to a state of friendliness or harmony.  

Because I have a friend who is a Benziger personality assessor, meaning that she is trained and certified to measure brain function and energy consumption in the brain, I know that I am a Double Right Brain Lead.  I also know that I am a fairly  extreme Introvert.  Put all of this together and you find someone who is happiest burrowed away in a home office or propped up in bed with a book.

The issue of Peace is personal for me.

I am, by nature, a conflict avoider and a harmonizer.  When I was a much younger woman– a social worker stuck in a government bureaucracy– I spent some twenty-odd years as a Domestic Abuse Counselor.  I believe I was drawn there because of my inability to "fix" a violent situation in my own personal background.  

I really thoroughly enjoyed working with women who had experienced violence in their relationships– found meaning in encouraging them, was excited when they escaped the bleak and dangerous worlds they inhabited and started living  safer, new lives. 

I also worked with children who had observed their mothers being beaten, and for a while I co-ordinated parenting programs for the city I lived in.  

As long as I had an office of my own, with a door on it (my last office didn't have windows), I was able to retreat for a couple of hours a day and shore up the passion and knowledge to continue my work.

Parent education, counseling, and group facilitation all worked for me.  But  when I was assigned supervision duties, I experienced severe anxiety, and something like resentment.  I experienced most calm in my work life when I was able to work one-on-one with women or children who were grappling with issues around changing their family dynamics from chaos and violence to security and harmony.

Among other therapeutic techniques, I practiced and taught my clients an energy therapy called Emotional Freedom Techniques . EFT was developed by a Stanford-educated Engineer, Gary Craig through the use an easily learned method of 'bringing down' anxiety and other negative emotions by 'tapping' on certain energy meridians.  I was thrilled at how the technique worked in my personal life, purchased the inexpensive DVDs , and eventually passed a test and became an EFT Advanced Practitioner.  EFT was very significant to the Peace bridge between my work life and my personal life.  If I left work feeling stressed, I 'tapped' until the anxiety and tension dissipated.

Working in the Domestic Violence field provided consonance for me only if in my after-work life I believed in, lived, breathed, and stood up for the non-violence I had pretty passionately enjoined my clients to embrace.  Peace. 

One set of my ancestors includes soldiers, another set were Pacifist Mennonites who left Russia to protest conscription during the Bolshevik Revolution.  My paternal grandfather, Bill Rempel, didn't have to make a choice around war service, and neither did my father, for that matter.  It seems clear, however, that the idea of non-resistance runs in my veins as a legacy of my Mennonite forbears.

I  married a man who became a Seventh-day Adventist, and 23 years after him, I was baptized.  Seventh-day Adventists do not bear arms in wartime.  You can check out their history in this regard at the Adventist Peace Foundation.

Surprisingly, there are Adventists who strongly believe in spanking, but I'm not one of them.  I believe that "spare the rod" has an interpretation that has more to do with good discipline (emulating the 'Master') than it does with punishment.  I don't believe that spanking teaches much more than "might is right".  I encourage parents (including the parents of my grandchild) to read widely in the area of creative parenting (attachment parenting, for example) to learn how to have a mutually respectful, loving relationship with one's child that is not tinged with fear.  I know that Adlerian Parenting is a good workable style of parenting that strives for democracy and mutual respect.

I  have a 'womanist' viewpoint, mostly because I am a woman.  Women are not traditionally war-makers.  Women are biologically equipped as nurturers, the opposite goal of the usual testosterone-driven warbodies.  I want to be seen as a nurturer, an encourager, an affirmer.  I want to grow my attitude and my vocabulary in that regard.  I am working to replace militaristic, competitive words with words that are drenched in the love of the Lord Jesus .  This is a work in progress, and I apologize for having missed some obvious militaristic words, no doubt, somewhere in this blog entry.

And now I have come to a place and time where I can read about the world and attempt to have more understanding about what I can do as a global citizen to promote real peace outside of my home and neighborhood.  I am not sure what I will be doing, but it will be something.   

**YOu might also be interested in checking out my Everything EFT blog site at http://everythingeft.blogspot.com 

 

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The Menacing Mathematics of Multiple Meds

Filed under: Health & Wellness, Emotional Freedom Technique, Good Sleep, Peace by healthiacynthia on December 14, 2006 7:45 am

By Gary Craig

In the 15+ years I have been involved in the health field I have had the good fortune to count many physicians as my personal friends.  With few exceptions, they agree that it is our lifestyles, diets, and emotional stresses that cause most of our health problems… and… the vast majority of these problems would vanish if people would live commonsense lives.  Yet patients repeatedly abuse their bodies and ask for more and more "miracle drugs" as a convenient solution.  I don't envy the docs at all as I often hear them complain that this is a highway to NobodyWinsVille.
 

Maybe what we really need are good salespeople to persuade folks to take care of themselves.  I suspect that, if truly persuasive, they would do more good than the ocean of drugs at our disposal.

Love, Gary

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