CEDARWOOD OIL (ATLAS)

PROPERTIES ~ analgesic, astringent, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, anti-rheumatic, Antidepressant, Anti-catarrhal, diuretic, stimulant, expectorant, fungicide, insecticide, Meditative, Personal Protector, Sedative, Energy transformer, Tonic.

EFFECTS psycho - emotional
- Calms anxiety, stress and other psycho-emotional disorders.
- Helps dissolve depression, aggression, anger and fear.
- Increased self respect, integrity, stability, intuition.
- Provides comfort and strength during difficult times and stress, strengthens determination and independence.
- Deepens meditation and visualization.
- Aphrodisiac: bio-electrical energy stimulant, enhances and improves intimacy.
- Eliminates all evil: cleaner and protector - mental, spiritual, physical and environmental.
PHYSICAL EFFECTS - Tonic - stimulating the glandular system and nervous system helps the body restore balance, regulating homeostasis. - It is effective to reconstitute energy and vitality during chronic diseases. - The respiratory system: alleviates conditions such as bronchitis, colds, coughs decreasing the inconvenience of cold and flu. 
The digestive system and genitourinary system: reduces pain and inflammation. - Helps in the treatment of rheumatism and arthritis, reducing aches and pains. - relaxes tight muscles.
Reduces the discomfort and irritation from any cause ie. dermatitis, eczema, psoriasis, fungal infections, herpes, scabies, ulcers, etc.
Stimulates the scalp scalp and hair follicles, good for treating excess dandruff, minimizes hairloss, encouraging growth. 

PRECAUTIONS  
Avoid during pregnancy.

CITRONELLA OIL

PROPERTIES ~ Antiseptic, Antispasmodic, Antidepressant, Deodorant, Diuretic, Insecticide, Stimulant, Parasiticide, Sedative, Tonic, Balances energy.

EFFECTS psycho - emotional - Clarifies and encourages the mind, relieving depression. - Allows silence clearly visualize and conflicts

Personal: Recovers lost energy, reviving the spirit. Relieves chronic state of nervousness.  

Promotes awareness to new levels of consciousness. Balances and harmonizes the chakras, helping to restore health.

Purifies emotions and body, removing negative energies.

PHYSICAL EFFECTS - Tones and stimulates the body.  Aids recovery during convalescence in cases of respiratory, digestive and genito-urinary problems. 

Balances and harmonizes the nervous system and cardiovascular and circulatory systems.  

Clears the mind, relieving migraines, headaches, neuralgia.

Refreshes, Reduces heat and deodorises sweaty and/or tired feet. 

Combat aches and pains of rheumatic and metabolic status. Can be used as compress and poultice.

As an antiseptic - useful against germs, used as an air freshener in the room of a patient.  

Repels insects, also useful for removing fleas from pets. 

Applying diluted oil to mosquito or other bites, will stop the itching and act as an antiseptic.

PRECAUTIONS   

Avoid use in case of heart disease, as when inhaled can speed the heart rate .
Avoid during pregnancy.

SEARCH YOUR HEART

There is no need to run outside 

For better seeing,

Nor to peer from a window.

Rather abide at the centre of your being...

Search your heart and see...

The way to do is to be.

Lao Tzu

There are more pieces to us!

By concentrating on smaller and smaller fragments of the body, modern medicine perhaps loses sight of the patient as a whole human being, and by reducing health to mechanical functioning it is no longer able to deal with the phenomenon of healing.

H.R.H PRINCE CHARLES 

EUCALYPTUS OIL

PROPERTIES ~ Powerful antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, anti-rheumatic, antispasmodic, Antiviral, Anticatarrhal, bactericide, expectorant, stimulant,. Refreshing, Energizing,  Healing, decongestant, deodorant, purative, diuretic.

At a physical level it strengthens the body's immune functions.  
Increases cellular respiration.
It is a natural antiseptic for the respiratory system, relaxes muscles and dilates the trachea, bronchi and lungs, loosening and expelling mucus, reducing inflammation, relieving cough, lowering fever and can also prevent asthma attacks, fights bacterial and viral infections that cause colds, flu, sinusitis, tonsillitis, laryngitis, etc..
reduces headaches and migraines.
stimulates blood and lymph circulation. 
Gastrointestinal and genito-urinary infections. 
Stops excessive skin gland activity.
Accelerates healing of herpes of all types.
Combats congestion and skin irritation, disinfects wounds, abscesses, burns, ulcers, eczema, psoriasis and accelerates healing.
Antidote for insect bites.
Helps balance  blood sugar levels.
Relieves pain and muscle spasms, also very helpful against pain and joint inflammation. 

A MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL LEVEL 
Strengthens and invigorates the mind. 
Restores the balance during periods of emotional overload, increasing energy, offsetting psychic and emotional weakness.
Improves concentration and increases intellectual capacity.
Cools the heat characteristic of anger.
Helps to overcome the indolence and laziness. 
Usage ... inhalations, baths, massage, topical applications, aromatic diffusers, poultices.

Always make sure you dilute with carrier oil before applying to skin.

A HOLISTIC VIEW

The human body, at peace with itself, is more precious than the rarest gem. 

Cherish your body, it is yours this one time only.

The human form is won with great difficulty,

it is easy to lose.

All wordly things are brief, like lightening in the sky;

This life you must know as the tiny splash of a raindrop;

a thing of beauty that disappears even as it comes into being.

Therefore set your goal,

Make use of every day and night to achieve it!

Tsong Khapa

THE HARA LINE (2)

THE HARA LINE IS A COLUMN OF LIGHT WHICH RUNS THROUGH THE CENTRE OF THE BODY - EXTENDING BEYOND THE BODY IN BOTH DIRECTIONS. DOWN TO CONNECT US TO THE EARTH,  AND UPWARD  CONNECTING US TO SOURCE.

 IT IS A PLACE OF "BEINGNESS" A PLACE OF NON-JUDGEMENT AND FOCUSED INTENTION.

 IT IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF OUR PERSONAL POWER.

further information see HARA LINE 21st Aug 2012

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL

HELLO EVERYONE AND THANK YOU What a year 2012 has been - it is hard to believe 2013 is already upon us! I want to thank you all for visiting this blog throughout the year. I will continue to add things I hope will find interesting. Meanwhile, I feel so blessed to be part of your life, even if it is only a tiny part. I would also like to say thank you for doing all that you have done to make this world a better place. (you will have done more than you realise!)  I feel this coming year is going to be a time not only of great healing, but success and empowerment for all of us. It's time for us to take back the power of healing, which is our birthright.  I want us all to be working harder to get the message out to the world, so that our suffering brothers and sisters on this planet can also have the opportunity to heal, as we have had.  I truly believe  that happiness and health is for everyone. We are all human and we all have emotions, no matter what our race, colour or creed! My New Years resolution is to help the world to heal, in any way that I can. I  invite you to do the same.  Helping another person to heal creates so much happiness, both for you and for the person you helped to heal. Can we all do more of that this year and make use of and share the information and the personal power we all have? Together, we can do anything. So let's make 2013 the year we create and bring more light into the world!  No matter where you are or what your situation is or even what your New Years Resolutions are: You are powerful. Believe in yourself.  Have a fun-filled, safe and happy New Year's holiday!  Peace, Love and Light Julie

WHEN YOU KNOW YOU ARE ETERNAL....

"When you know that you are eternal, you can play your true role in time. When you know you are divine, you can become completely human. When you know you are one with God, you are free to become absolutely yourself, individual and holy and my child."

Mother Meera (1960-, India)

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY - don't get overcome

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. 

Norman Vincent Peale

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY -don't lose sight of your dreams

 We grow great by dreams.

 All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening.

 Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

~ Woodrow Wilson

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OUR END OF TERM CHRISTMAS PARTY

A GOOD TIME WAS HAD BY ALL!

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY - you're right!

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. 

~ Mary Kay Ash

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ESSENTIAL OIL BODY TREATMENTS AND WHEN TO USE THEM

An essential oil body treatment is pure oil for maximum moisturising with the right therapeutic drops added for your needs or requirements - and that is all it is. You can use them as often as you like, they are additive-free, pure, simple, non irritant, very inexpensive and quick and easy to mix.
The best time to apply them is after a bath or shower when the skin is warm soft and damp, as the essential oils are absorbed more rapidly into the skin.
Ideally this can be done twice each day, but as most of us don't bath twice a day an alternative is to massage the oils in. Massaging oils into the skin creates friction and warmth so that the oils almost melt into the body.
more to follow...

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY - give thanks

 Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

~ Brian Tracy

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ESSENTIAL MOISTURISERS

An essential oil moisturiser is the best treatment available. To apply essential oils for maximum benefit you need to dilute them with a carrier oil, not just to stop them from being too strong, but also so that they spread evenly, evaporate slowly and are held on the skin while they are absorbed. The carrier oil as much as the aromatic ones you add makes them such good moisturisers.
All moisturising creams work by sealing the suface of the skin to trap the natural water inside the tissues and to stop it evaporating out into the air. As it is the oil and not water that gives the moisturising effect, the more oil in the moisturiser the better. This is particularly so with body moisturisers.
Legs and arms have few sebaceous glands (oil producing pores that help keep skin naturally soft) and this is why you often get rough, dry patches on feet, knees and elbows. However, the upper back area has so many sebaceous glands that they often block causing spots and greasiness.

ESSENTIAL OILS FOR THE BODY

When we think of skincare we often think of areas from the neck upward. However, the skin on the rest of our body is just the same as the skin on our faces, and of course, as there is more of it, it needs more attention. Most people would say their bodies weren't perfect, yet they do little or nothing to improve them. 
Using essential oils on the body achieves more in less time than any other beauty regime. This is because you can treat individual areas with made-to-measure products that are instantly absorbed, inexpensive and extremely effective.
Instead of buying an exfoliator to smooth skin, you can make your own and include an essential oil to break down the cellulite at the same time. Instead of using a body lotion, you can create one moisturiser with an essential oil to treat your oily back, for instance and another to soothe the dry skin on the rest of your body.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY - attitude

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.

~ William James

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BEDTIME TREATMENTS - Aromatherapy

Apply a few drops of your favourite oil to a tissue before going to bed and leave it beside your pillow (I sometimes tuck it inside my pillowcase) so that you can inhale it while you sleep.

You can use oils to relax you, oils with aphrodisiac properties, oils for treating insomnia, colds or headache, and oils that boost confidence or lift bad moods.

For daytime use, apply to a handkerchief as the aroma will linger longer on fabric.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY - dreams come true

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

~ John Updike

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