End Mother’s Day Together Sipping on Chamomile Essential Oil Tea
After spending Mother’s Day (May 13) or Visit a Relative Day (May 18) with your Mom, Grandmother, or any of your dearest relatives, and the day is coming to a close, its time to relax.
As Mother’s day draws to a close, this offers a chance for you and your Mom to sit down and reminisce about the fun day you had over a soothing cup of chamomile essential oil tea.
Know that by taking some time to spend together, you were able to create a special memory this year.
Aromas are the easiest way to bring back memories.
When you have used an essential oil aroma to diffuse, massage or add to tea, this memory will last for many months after your visit.
You will know that every time she opens that bottle and uses it in tea, for a self massage or just breath in deeply, the memory of this day will come rushing back and make her smile..
She can also add more drops whenever she wishes to create a lovely aroma in the home without using chemical filled air fresheners and this will help her remember your special day together.
Give your Mother a gift of health this year that will also evoke pleasant memories of this time spent together every time she uses it.
Learn how else these essential oils can be used to create health for your loved one in my book:
Discover Essential Oils for Optimum Health.
It can be read as an eBook or given as a soft cover book from Amazon.com.
It is the perfect gift for a beginning Aromatherapist or any health conscious person who wants to better understand how to use essential oils to regain or maintain their optimum health.
This is an essential guide for using essential oils to help naturally achieve optimum health while keeping pleasant memories alive for years to come.
Start a New Mother’s Day Tradition this year.
Give a gift to help create or maintain your loved one’s optimum health!
Visit my Young Living Web site to find the best essential oils distilled anywhere.
Gift a Mother’s Day Massage Using Essential Oils
Are you ready for Mother’s Day? Sunday, May 13 is arriving soon.
Perhaps a very personalized gift would be the best Mother’s Day present ever.
You know your Mom, or any of your dearest relatives really want is to just spend some time with you.
BE BOLD! Offer something of yourself that you might not have ever done before.
As we age, our bodies get stiff and achy. Offer to give them a gentle massage.
Having someone massage our neck, arms, back, legs or feet feels “oh so good”.
If you still think you need to give them a gift, you should bring a bottle containing a therapeutic grade essential oil that you can massage on a stiff neck or tired feet.
Peppermint essential oil helps to relieve tired and achy muscles and relieves inflammation. It will help energize everyone that deeply breaths in its aroma.
Lavender essential oil also can be used to relax muscles. It is soothing to the mind and will help everyone who breaths in its flowery aroma sleep well that night.
Massaging chamomile essential oil into arthritic joints is particularly soothing and helps relieve inflammation. Its also helpful for stomach indigestion and can be massaged on a queasy tummy for quick relief.
It probably would be best to have a bit of high quality Olive Oil to use as a carrier oil that you put a few drops of essential oil in to help extend the area you can massage.
Although it is rare that an essential oil can cause a problem, you should take a moment to do a test using a drop of oil on their skin before you begin a massage, just to be sure they it won’t irritate them.
This is the perfect way to introduce her to essential oils that she can use to help relieve her aches and pains by herself, by simply massaging them on her sore points on her body.
Mother’s Day should be a day of pleasure and relaxation.
After giving her a gentle massage, take time for you all to sit down in a comfortable chair . . . indoors or out . . . and engage in conversation filled with memories and tales of what you are doing now.
You can also sip on a healthy drink created using pure water or create a hot tea by adding any of these therapeutic grade essential oils as an added benefit.
Take some time to Enjoy Life and Family! 
Read about how many essential oils can be used to massage away aches & pains and relieve other body-based health challenges in Discover Essential Oils for Optimum Health.
Create Hot or Cold Beverages Using Essential Oils
Did you know that May 6 is National Beverage Day?
National Beverage Day is a chance to kick back with your favorite beverage and enjoy the day.
But that doesn’t mean you can just go crazy and indulge in sugary, diet or alcoholic drinks that will do you more harm to your body and health than good.
The term “beverage” is broadly defined. So, we are talking about celebrating all types of beverages today – Hot and cold.
BE BOLD! Take advantage of Beverage Day to try a beverage that you have never had before.
It is very important to drink pure water, and lots of it, everyday to stay healthy.
On page 27 of Discover Essential Oils for Optimum Health you will discover how you can add food grade essential oils to pure or sparkling water to create a refreshing cold drink on a hot summer day. Or you can add them hot water for a soothing tea to help fall asleep at night or warm your body on a chilly winter day.
Beverage Day should be a day of pleasure and relaxation.
Sit down in a comfortable chair . . . indoors or out.
Slowly sip and savor a healthy drink created using pure water or mineral water by adding an essential oil.
Adding peppermint essential oil to cold water will create a refreshing drink that will help clear your mind and energize your body. This is a great beverage to start the day and much better than coffee for your health.
You don’t need real lemons to make lemonade. Add a few drops of lemon essential oil to cold water as the perfect accompaniment to your lunch
Add a bit of lavender essential oil to hot water for a tea to help sleep at night and end your day in a relaxing way.
Life is good!
Make a pledge to yourself to avoid beverages that are harmful to your health and begin enjoying beverages that create, rather than rob you of health from this day forward.
Use Essential Oils to Cook a Special Meal on Mothers Day
Here’s another fresh idea you can use to create a special memory this Mother’s Day, on Sunday May 13th or on May 18th which is Visit Your Relatives Day.
Give your mom and grandma, or any of your dearest relatives what they may really want. Just to spend some time with you around a table that boasts a healthy home-cooked meal.
If you still think you need to give them a gift. Bring a bottle containing an essential oil aroma that can be used in cooking and will last for many months.
Maybe in the past, you have gone out to dinner. Perhaps it is time to make a change and avoid the crowds.
Try cooking a meal using essential oils to add healthy flavoring easily and fill the kitchen with enticing aromas.
People often find it easier to just relax and have more fun gathered around the family table.
There are many food grade Essential Oils you can cook with to create a unique, healthy addition to many meals. You use essential oils in many ways to create a very special meal for your family.
When you cook rice add a couple of drops of lavender, basil, oregano, sage, rosemary or lemongrass food grade essential oils to create a savory and unique side dish to compliment grilled meats, fish, chicken or stir-fried veggies.
Put a couple of drops of basil, oregano, sage, rosemary or thyme food grade essential oils in the water you use to steam vegetables.
The kitchen will smell wonderful and the veggies or rice will have a unique flavor that no one will call bland.
Purchase one silk flower to display on a table in her home and place a few drops of the essential oil aroma you used in the meal to remind your mother or grandmother of this fun meal for many months.
To recreate the memory of this special day, your loved one can add a few drops of an essential oil to a pan of hot water on the stove any day of the year. This is an easy way to create a lovely aroma in the home without using chemical filled air fresheners and will help her remember your special day together.
Learn more ways these essential oils can be used to create optimum health for your loved ones in my book:
Discover Essential Oils for Optimum Health
It can be read as an eBook or the soft cover version can be given as a gift from Amazon.com.
This book is the perfect gift for a beginning Aromatherapist or any health conscious person who wants to better understand how to use essential oils to regain or maintain their optimum health.
This is an essential guide for using essential oils to help naturally achieve optimum health.
Start a new tradition this year. Give a gift to help create or maintain your loved one’s optimum health!
On my Young Living Web site you can find the highest quality essential oils that are safe for cooking with to create authentic healthy tasting dishes to share with your family on any special occasion.
Essential Oils flowery Aromas Last Long After Mother’s Day is Over
Are you ready for Mother’s Day? It is May 13th.
And did you know that May 18th is visit your Relatives Day?
What do you think your mom and grandma, or any of your dearest relatives really want?
Perhaps all they really want is to spend just a little time with you.
Create a memory this year and spend the day with your Mom or Grandma.
Still thinking you need to give them a gift?
Try something new this year.
Bring a bottle of a flowery essential oil aroma that will last for many months.
Essential Oils can be diffused, worn on the body or enjoyed as a hot or cold beverage or cooked with to create an unique, healthy addition to many meals.
Consider giving a gift of health this year.
If you have given Bouquets of flowers in years past, maybe it is time to make a change, but still share the beauty and aroma that comes with that type of gift.
You can purchase one artificial or silk flower and place a few drops of an essential oil aroma your mother or grandmother will enjoy.
She can also add more drops whenever she wishes to create a lovely aroma in the home without using chemical filled air fresheners and this will help her remember your special day together.
Or purchase a diffuser so she can easily diffuse lavender, jasmine or rose essential oils add a joyful and peaceful atmosphere to her home, while at the same time bring her happy memories of this special day and your love for her.
Considering that even the most expensive of these essential oils costs just about one bouquet of flowers that will quickly wilt, you can give a gift of health and lovely aroma that will last a long time.
Mom or Grandma can diffuse or wear any of these flowery essential oils all year long to evoke memories of their loving relative and enjoy thought of Spring during the darkest days of Winter.
If you, or your mother would like to learn more about essential oils check out my new book:
Discover Essential Oils for Optimum Health.
It can be read as an eBook or given as a soft cover book from Amazon.com.
This book would make the perfect gift for a beginning Aromatherapist or any health conscious person who wants to better understand how to use essential oils to regain or maintain their optimum health.
Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils are good for everyone’s health and the environment. They arrive in glass, not plastic bottles, that can be recycled.
Young Living creates their high quality essential oils using plants that are grown or harvested in areas that they thrive and then get replanted for next year’s harvest.
Start a new tradition this year. Give a gift to help create or maintain your loved one’s optimum health!
Visit my Young Living Web site to find the best essential oils distilled anywhere.
Intrigued by Essential Oils
Perhaps you have been intrigued when you have heard people talking about “essential oils”, but don’t understand what they actually are, where they come from or how to use them safely.
Throughout history and in every civilization around the World, essential oils have been used for cooking, perfume, beauty aids, massage, aroma therapy and medicinal purposes.
Nature offers these amazing healing gifts found inside all plants that can be used to help heal the body, clean homes, uplift a spirit and enhance the flavor of any food.
Essential oils are much more potent than dried herbs.
When you use essential oils, they often yield faster, longer lasting results when used as natural remedies for health challenges than if you used dried herbs. A single drop contains a very potent distillation of each plant’s healing energies.
All plants contain complex and powerful substances that we have defined as “essential oils”.
Each has one, or more, specific properties that can be used for various purposes to live a more naturally healthy life.
These distinctive components are referred to as the “essence” of the plant and they determine its aroma.
Some of these essential oils are easier to distill and access than others. Aromatic liquids can be derived from different parts of a variety of types of plants.
A distillation process is used to distill essential oils using flowers, trees bark or resin, roots, bushes or shrubs and seeds. Different companies use numerous methods of the distillation process. Different methods will create much more pure oils than others. Modern research shows that 100% pure essential oils can provide many natural health benefits for humans and animals experiencing health challenges or just want to enjoy a more natural way of living.
Learn about the three most popular oils by going into the Oils tab.
Each day I will be adding another description for the essential oils on this site.
Birth of a New Holiday Tradition
All of my holistic healers, artist and musician friends would appreciate this as well as everyone who has a business to promote.
Let’s all support our talented friends and think about the true meaning of Christmas.
Christmas 2011 — Birth of a New Tradition
As the holidays approach, the giant Asian factories are kicking into high gear to provide Americans with monstrous piles of cheaply produced goods — merchandise that has been produced at the expense of American labor. This year will be different. This year Americans will give the gift of genuine concern for other Americans. There is no longer an excuse that, at gift giving time, nothing can be found that is produced by American hands. Yes there is!
It’s time to think outside the box, people. Who says a gift needs to fit in a shirt box, wrapped in Chinese produced wrapping paper?
Everyone — yes EVERYONE gets their hair cut. How about gift certificates from your local American hair salon or barber?
Gym membership? It’s appropriate for all ages who are thinking about some health improvement.
Tired Mom’s or your beloved partner could use a gentle massage.
Perhaps Aromatherapy could help get someone you know through a difficult time or ease an achy muscle.
Who wouldn’t appreciate getting their car detailed? Small, American owned detail shops and car washes would love to sell you a gift certificate or a book of gift certificates.
Are you one of those extravagant givers who think nothing of plonking down the Benjamines on a Chinese made flat-screen? Perhaps that grateful gift receiver would like his driveway sealed, or lawn mowed for the summer, or driveway plowed all winter, or games at the local golf course.
There are a bazillion owner-run restaurants — all offering gift certificates. And, if your intended isn’t the fancy eatery sort, what about a half dozen breakfasts at the local breakfast joint. Remember, folks this isn’t about big National chains — this is about supporting your home town Americans with their financial lives on the line to keep their doors open.
How many people couldn’t use an oil change for their car, truck or motorcycle, done at a shop run by the American working guy?
Thinking about a heartfelt gift for mom? Mom would LOVE the services of a local cleaning lady for a day.
My computer could use a tune-up, and I KNOW I can find some young guy who is struggling to get his repair business up and running.
OK, you were looking for something more personal. Local crafts people spin their own wool and knit them into scarves. They make jewelry, and pottery and beautiful wooden boxes.
Plan your holiday outings at local, owner operated restaurants and leave your server a nice tip. And, how about going out to see a play or ballet at your hometown theatre.
Musicians need love too, so find a venue showcasing local bands.
Honestly, people, do you REALLY need to buy another ten thousand Chinese lights for the house? When you buy a five dollar string of light, about fifty cents stays in the community. If you have those kinds of bucks to burn, leave the mailman, trash guy or babysitter a nice BIG tip.
You see, Christmas is no longer about draining American pockets so that China can build another glittering city. Christmas is now about caring about US, encouraging American small businesses to keep plugging away to follow their dreams. And, when we care about other Americans, we care about our communities, and the benefits come back to us in ways we couldn’t imagine. THIS is the new American Christmas tradition.
Peace & Calming Sleep Aid
Recently two friends were talking about having difficulties sleeping.
One was job related, the other one just felt that her many life’s challenges were overwhelming and had her feeling stressed all day long. Neither could fall asleep easily at night. And both woke during the night and had difficulty falling back asleep.
I suggested they both try using Young Living’s Peace & Calming essential oil blend.
I had them put it on the bottoms of their feet at night and on their wrists.
I told them that when they awoke during the middle of the night to put a drop or two on the palms of their hands, rub them together, then hold them in front of their face and breath in slowly and deeply, concentrating on pleasant thoughts, such as walking in a forest.
During the day, I suggested they rub it on their temples and directly under their noses. Or they could rub a drop on their heart area if they were feeling particularly stressed and emotional.
I gave the school teacher a small spray bottle and had her put 10 drops in that. I suggested that when she went into a classroom, that she spray the air with this mixture.
Happily they both told me a few days later that they had gotten some of the best night’s sleep they have had in years.
And the school teacher said she had less disruptive classes than usual.
Peace & Calming has an unusual blend of essential oils that calm one’s nerves, induce sleep at night and the scent brings back pleasant memories to help relieve emotional tension.
Learn more on my Young Living web site.
If you are experiencing sleepless nights, perhaps this is the natural answer to help you fall asleep and get a good night rest. Pleasant dreams . . .
Essential Oils for Stress Relief
Ever experience a series of stressful situations?
Everywhere you turn, you have another challenge to handle and/or someone unpleasant needs to “talk” with you?
This month I have almost used up one of Young Living’s Roll-on essential oil blends called “StressAway™” when I feel my blood pressure rising and my focus on the task at hand lessening.
I roll it on right under my nose, take a few deep breaths, close my eyes and visualize a beautiful mountain scene to take me away from the stressful thoughts running rampant through my mind.
This helps me get back in focus on the task at hand and let the other thoughts drift away into oblivion for at least a little while.
I have been diffusing Lavender essential oil in the house and especially in the bedroom, and have made good use of “PeaceAndCalming™” by applying it to my feet each night as natural ways to help fall asleep.
These essential oil blends and single oil has helped me stay on task and let go of the stressful situations I have found myself in lately.
Many people are experiencing challenging times in their lives right now.
When you recognize you are feeling stressed, that is the first step to take towards releasing stress from your life. Many of us just keep pushing through feelings of stress and not actually acknowledging them so become very inefficient in our daily lives.
When you acknowledge you are stressed, you can take a few more steps to releasing stress and thus be able to accomplish more after releasing the stress.
By taking a moment to inhale the aroma of a relaxing essential oil and even a very short time to meditate on a more pleasant place and time, you will be doing yourself a big favor.
When you use aroma therapy to break the pattern of circular thinking that is keeping you stressed, even when there is nothing you can do about a situation, you can more easily get past the thoughts that are interfering with the task you need to focus upon and become more efficient in your work, or play.
When I catch myself stressing about something that I can’t change, or someone who is annoying me (as soon as I can break away), I grab that “StressWay™” roll-on and run it right under my nose, close my eyes and envision sitting a rock on a mountain top with a clear running stream below my feet, breath in the calming aroma and imagine listening to the flowing water.
Or I take a walk in my imaginary garden with lovely creek flowing through it. I breath in the aromas and listen to the water running by and sparking in the sun.
Adding the concept of listening to a pleasant sound to this meditation helps override the sound of thoughts running wild in my brain.
This helps to remove the negative pattern of thinking about either the circumstances or the person have stirred in my mind.
Then I will diffuse Lavender or Pine essential oil in the work or home space that I am occupying to keep the pleasant aroma reminding me of the beautiful forest or garden space that I can escape to at any time.
There are many essential oils that help balance moods.
Next time you are feeling out-of-sorts and stressed, give one a try and take a short break by visualizing a more pleasant place to visit mentally.
I’ll bet you come back to your current situation much more able to handle the challenge you are working on more clearly, and/or let go of unpleasant thoughts that had been distracting you.
Breath deep, relax and stay centered by relieving stress using essential oils.
Essential Oils Offer Natural Sleep Remedies
There are many people who need to use sleep aids to fall asleep. There are many choices for people to consider when dealing with sleep challenges.
I suggest that people always first try natural ways to help fall asleep before ingesting any products, but when those fail, there are herbal sleep aids that work for many people.
All sleep aids that people ingest are not drugs, nor does any one product work the same way all people who try them whether they are natural or drug based.
Did you know that most of big pharmaceutical’s meds are originally derived from herbal sources? These herbal remedies have been made more potent, more effective, or sometimes safer. They are usually much more expensive in drug form and sometimes may cause more health challenges than they resolve?
Ever listen to the drug ads and shiver when they mention all the possible side-effects you could experience from taking one of them? Natural remedies don’t come with such frightening caveats, though everyone should err on the side of caution when adding anything new into their health regime.
For those of you who dis natural remedies I have a question: Have you ever taken aspirin? Did you know that it originated from White Willow bark.
The property of White Willow Bark that works for pain relief has been distilled into products that work well, but can have other side effects. One of the most common is when taking it daily it can eat away your stomach lining. White Willow Bark may work a bit slower to relieve pain, but won’t harm your body in any way.
And I have a great story about other ways White Willow Bark works in lieu of a very dangerous drug prescribed for me, but that is information to be found in some other post.
There are many natural herbal formulas and teas in the marketplace that may help you with your sleep challenge.
Some contain chamomile, valerian and passionflower. All of these herbs can be obtained at Health food stores and found in teas.
Traditional Medicinals has a tea called Nighty Night that has both these herbs plus others that aid in falling asleep naturally.
But be aware, drinking tea at night can cause one to wake up needing to make a visit to the bathroom in the middle of the night, and then have the problem of falling back asleep again.
Many people will use Melatonin for a peaceful night sleep. This sleep inducing hormone helps many people when they use it alone, or with the teas mentioned above.
My favorite herbal sleep supplement is Young Living’s Sleep Essence™. Unlike taking a drug that may be addictive, it is plant-based and will not have side effects nor is it addictive.
Young Living is a very ethical and environmentally aware company. All of its essential oils and supplements meet the highest quality standards of any similar products found in the marketplace.
The reason I like this product is it works fast and helps naturally resolve my main problem, FALLING asleep. And in the morning, I don’t wake up feeling drugged or groggy. I have more energy at work the next day, as opposed to times when I have taken other pm pills that leave me very groggy in the morning and often find I am tired by noon.
If I do wake up in the middle of the night needing to go to the bathroom, I find that I fall right back asleep.
The ingredients in SleepEssence™ are a bit harder to find separately or combined in any commercial natural tea. It is created using lavender, vetiver, valerian and Ruta graveolens (also know as Herb-of-Grace, is a species of Rue grown as a herb) Essential oils, combined with the hormone melatonin for a powerful natural sleep remedy.
Most nights, I diffuse Lavender in my bedroom, then rub PeaceAndCalming™ on my feet and heart chakra as a natural way to help fall asleep at night. Some nights, I may take a melatonin pill to help me relax if I don’t feel relaxed after my breathing exercises.
But there are some nights when I know I am feeling overly stressed and will have a problem getting to sleep using those natural solutions. On nights such as those, I reach for SleepEssence™ and feel secure that I will fall asleep naturally and awake refreshed in the morning. I feel comfortable that I can use this supplement intermittently and know I will never rely on it or be addicted to it to fall asleep.
Whenever you are considering adding a new natural or pharmaceutical based item to resolve any health challenge, you need to do your homework. Go online to research what others have experienced using any product purported to have solution to your particular health challenge. One should always exercise a little common sense, and carefully experiment with herbal therapies by paying attention to what your body tells you when you use them. When you do these things, I am sure you’ll be pleasantly surprised and pleased with the results from using natural remedies.
Mediation and essential oils are my standard natural ways to help fall asleep every night.
I suggest that everyone experiment using various essential oils, teamed with mediation and breathwork at night to help them resolve sleep challenges before turning to pharmaceuticals.
And when you download the Free Sleep Journal, it will make it easy to track which natural methods work best to resolve your particular sleep challenge.
Rest well and naturally.
