What’s So Special About Essential Oils?

Jun18

First, what exactly are essential oils? Think of them as the life blood of plants. Modern science is backing up the ancient wisdom of distilling the oils from plants for a wide variety of health benefits. The Three Wise Men of the Bible presented essential oil gifts of frankincense and myrrh to the baby Jesus because their value was highly esteemed in the days of the Roman Empire.

Today we’re breaking essential oils down to their molecular compounds and discovering a wealth of healing power. Take peppermint, for example. Sure, it tastes good in gum and candy, but it is a remarkable multiuse essential oil. Peppermint contains the following chemical constituents: Menthol, Menthone, Terpene oxides, cineole and, coumarins. If you follow the links, you’ll see an amazing array of healing benefits such as anti-septic, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, and invigorating.

Essential oils are packed with energy. Not only do they infuse healing compounds, they also deliver an infusion of pure energy. Look at this Hertz energy table comparison:

I	Processed Foods	0 Hz
I	Fresh Produce up to	15 Hz
I	Dry Herbs	20-22 Hz
I	Fresh herbs	20-27 Hz
V	Essential Oils	52-320 Hz

Peppermint oil has an energy frequency of 78, which is also the optimum frequency rate for a healthy human being. When a person drops in rate below 60, the body develops diseases. Here are the rates for illness:

I	Cold symptoms	58 Hz
I	Flu symptoms	57 Hz
I	Cancer	42 Hz

Essential oils are special because they not only deliver powerful healing compounds, they also raise the energetic frequency of the individual. Whether inhaled, applied topically, or in some cases, ingested, essential oils lift the body to healthier energy levels.

Peppermint oil is a favorite for its many benefits.

Aids digestion and relieves nausea: Soothe indigestion with a drop in a glass of water. Feeling nauseous? Rub a couple of drops in your palms and inhale the fumes. Excellent for immediate post-op recovery from anesthesia.
Muscle relief: Feeling tense? Rub on shoulders or back for a “massage in a bottle.” Can be diluted in a carrier oil.
Headache: Put a couple of drops on your forehead and temples. (Don’t get too close to the eyes. The fumes can make them water.)
Swelling (knees, ankles, etc.): Rub on area to release blockages.

Explore the benefits of essential oils to promote vibrate health. Read more about all the products available at Young Living Essential Oils

Say “No” to Ticks

Jun12

I’ve recently returned from the Midwest, where a soggy spring has produced a bumper crop of insects, including creepy, crawling, blood-sucking ticks. My personal history with ticks began in the summer of 1983. My husband and I rented a house in Oklahoma with a nice backyard for our daughters, ages 1 & 4, to play in. A dog and cat completed our picture-perfect family.

Life was not so perfect when I soon found weird creatures looking like pinto beans dangling on the dog’s skin and reddish, spidery bugs crawling inside the baby’s diaper. When my husband informed this Cailfornia-girl they were ticks, I was totally grossed out.

The arsenal of tick and flea weapons was considerably smaller and less effective in those days. I hesitated at poisoning the entire yard where my children would be playing. (This was before we worried about Lyme disease.) Interestingly, a book came my way at the time about the early Mormons settling in Utah. At one point grasshoppers threatened to eat up their entire food supply growing in the fields. They turned to prayer and asked for Divine help. It arrived in the form of birds. As the story goes, big flocks of feathered friends descended upon the Latter Day Saintly fields and feasted on the bugs. I figured if it was good enough for the Mormons, it was good enough for me.

I began mentally inviting birds into my backyard to feast on ticks. Since it seemed half my life was spent washing dishes and gazing out the back window at the yard, I employed the power of prayer and visualization, imagining a constant stream of birds pecking away in the grass. Much to my amazement, it worked! In a few days, the yard became a natural bird feeder. Robins, sparrows, starlings, and the occasional cardinal swooped in and ate up. The yard was soon habitable for children and animals.

Of course, through the years a few attached had to be removed from a child or fisherman husband. More recently, my grandson had three ticks in three days, and I even had found a tiny one on my thigh. While many websites recommend merely firmly grabbing the tick with a pair or tweezers and yanking hard, I find that’s doing it the hard way. The tick is difficult to dislodge and the after-effect of swelling and scabbing is significant. Here’s my suggestion:

Coat tick thoroughly with clear nail polish, down to the skin. Wait a minute or two for the creature to smother. Then pull off with tweezers. It should be easier to remove and produce less backflow into the skin.
Remove any nail polish from skin. Apply Purification Young Living Essential Oil to kill virus or bacteria.

PURIFICATION and other essential oils also act as a natural insect repellant. Add several drops to a spray bottle water and use liberally before braving the great outdoors. See this article on Natural Bug Repellants.

Here’s wishing you a tick-free summer!

Dana

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JAGUAR JACK: A MYSTIC ADVENTURE

Perfect summer reading fun for your Kindle or I-PAD!

The Aussie Hero & The Lady Marine to the rescue!

“Journey of the Awakened Heart” Free May 23-24

May23

Channelled material appears to be coming through more people as we continue in this interesting era of global spiritual development. In Journey of the Awakened Heart, professional photographer Jeff Fasano shares the messages he has received as a channel for the Archangel Michael.

Description

As we have walked our pathways on the journey of self-mastery we have read many books that have given us valuable information and concepts to think about and we have stored much of this in our minds. Now, many of us are wondering, “What’s next? What do we do with all of the information?” “How do I incorporate these concepts in my life?” The next step is to bring what we have stored in our minds into our hearts, so that we may actually live from it.
Journey of the Awakened Heart is a book that does just this. It contains the teachings of Archangel Michael that in detail guides us step by step to move within our heart to discover who we are, our talents and gifts and our passion and purpose in this lifetime. Contained within it’s pages are messages and lessons that give us tools to put into practice what we have learned so we can love ourselves more and live the life we say we want.
Michael plainly illuminates a path for us in this book. And if we follow it, we can move from being a silent observer of our life to becoming a willing, joyful and excited participant in it.

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An Afternoon with Shirley MacLaine

May19

This afternoon I enjoyed the once-in-a-lifetime privilege of seeing Shirley MacLaine in person for her onstage life review and chat. The setting was simple—a comfortable, cushioned chair on a rug with a side table. A screen hung behind the chair to take us down a pictorial memory lane with the 79-year-old actress, movie star, political activist, author, and metaphysician.

What a life she has led. Born in Virginia to loving parents, growing up with brother Warren Beatty, she danced her way quickly to Broadway. Her life soon copied a 42^nd Street plot where the understudy becomes the star. Hollywood grabbed her. Alfred Hitchcock starred 19-year-old Shirley in
The Trouble with Harry and her film career is still going strong sixty years later.

There were the expected photos of Sammy, Dean, Frank, Jerry, and Liza from the Rat Pack, glitzy years. Shirley MacLaine has pursued so much more than celebrity. She had hopes and dreams for the direction of the country. She gave two years of her life to the George McGovern presidential campaign. But, America went down the road to Watergate, instead. She took a team of American women behind the bamboo curtain of what we still called Red China back then.

Probably, the longest lasting legacy MacLaine will leave behind will be her exploration of metaphysical and paranormal realms. Personally, I remember being fascinated by Don’t Fall off the Mountain in college. Later, while living in the Bible Belt, I secretly read Out on a Limb, which featured her spiritual awakening in Peru. Her public embracing of reincarnation made her the butt of late night talk show jokes, but Shirley continued her course, undaunted.

Today, as audience members lined up to ask her questions, it became clear they were more interested about her ideas on spirituality than her memories of Sinatra. Ultimately, she came across as a very smart lady. Being a famous actress has been her allowed her to globe trot and exchange ideas with many of the greatest minds of our time. She is curious, thoughtful, and always learning. For years she has recorded interviews with scientists, spiritual leaders, military experts and health advisors for her website ShirleyMacLaine.com . A wealth of information is available on her site.

Talent, brains, grace and wisdom, Shirley MacLaine is the whole package and certainly an inspiration to keep growing, laughing and loving.

“Ancient Healing for Modern Women” by Xiaolan Zhao, C.M.D.

May14

Ancient Healing for Modern Women: Traditional Chinese Medicine for All Phases of a Woman’s Life is a wonderful blend of East meets West ideas on women’s health. Xiaolan Zhao was raised behind the closed doors of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. She was exposed in her early life to the time-honored traditions of Chinese medicine and living close to the cycles of nature. Later, she was sent to medical school and became a Western-trained M.D. Her life journey took her to practicing medicine in Canada. She became aware of the struggles Western women have with the normal stages of feminity–puberty, sexuality, pregnancy, postpartum, and menopause.

The Chinese have poetic names for these phases and deal with them gracefully. Women in the West can benefit greatly from the wisdom of the East. The chapter titles are:

Heavenly Water–Menstruation
Lotus Blossoms–Breast Health
Clouds and Rain–Sexuality
Ripening the Fruit–Pregnancy
Golden Month–Postpartum
Second Spring–Menopause

This book offers a very balanced way to look at the phases of a woman’s life. It also offers traditional exercise Chinese foods and teas to ease through what we call PMS and other female challenges. The chapter on looking upon Menopause as the “Second Spring” is particularly encouraging. Xiaolan Zhao has a foot in both Eastern and Western medicine. This book offers a rare opportunity for women to educate themselves and take charge of their female health.

Highly recommended!

Dana Taylor

“Jaguar Jack” FREE May 10-13

May10

Jaguar Jack Campbell, Aussie reality TV star, travels the globe filming escapades in the wild. His charismatic charm conceals an unwanted psychic gift and buried memories.

Major Maggie Savannah, aka Maggie-the-Mouth, is brash, brave and beautiful. She lives to beat the bad guys via covert military operations. The last thing she wants is a pretty boy TV personality partner.

But when a missionary is kidnapped by terrorists on a mysterious island, Jack and Maggie must join forces to secure her rescue and, perhaps, save the world.

The Set-Up: Jack and Maggie are heading into the heart of the island of Paradisio in a small motorboat. A sudden squall comes up and they get a glimpse of their real nemesis.

FREE at AMAZON US AMAZON UK

Excerpt from Chapter 12

A roll of thunder cut short their discussion; gusts of wind whipped up the water. A strange, putrid scent rode the breeze. Branches groaned; shushing, creaking sounds of leaves quivered. Limbs waved overhead from the approaching storm.

Jack surveyed the sky. Tropical storms came swiftly, nothing unusual in that. But these black clouds swirled with rare speed, as if pushed by an unseen hand. Calm water quickly turned into a boiling cauldron. A curtain of fog fell, dark and thick. Along the bank, just behind the first screen of trees, Jack thought he saw a figure pass.

Trees shook in great disturbance.

A lightning bolt split a tree, sending it up in instant flame. The sudden illumination flashed on a long, dark body. A feline shape with a huge head. It reared up on hind legs and revealed front feet with extended bear-like claws. A savage howl tore over the storm’s din; the smell of death permeated the air.

Darkness shrouded the creature in shadow once again.

“Holy shit! What was that?” Maggie yelled. Her exclamation faded in the storm cacophony.

Jack struggled to keep the boat on an even course. Hard rain let loose from the skies. He threw a bucket to Maggie and shouted, “Start bailing.”

Water pelted from every direction. Drenching…sloshing…soaking. Deafening crashes of thunder rumbled overhead, followed by jagged spears of lightning striking the ground.

The little boat bobbed and twirled like a toy in a tempest. Waves slapped his face and chest with stinging force. He fought to keep the rudder steady until his arms quivered with fatigue. Maggie’s soaked figure worked furiously before him against the onslaught of water into their small vessel. At one point a flash of lightning illuminated the magnificent defiance on her face.

Almost as quickly as it came, the rain slackened…

The darkness faded…

The river settled…

Jack righted their course down the middle of the rushing river. Plant debris floated past in the currents.

Maggie pushed a clump of hair from her face and slowed her bailing to catch her breath. “What kind of animal was that back there?”

He didn’t know what to tell her. It was nothing ever mentioned in any zoology books, that’s for sure. It might have been his overactive imagination, if she hadn’t seen it, too.

He’d just glimpsed the stuff dreams were made of—his dreams, his nightmares. Crikey, could such an animal be possible? Surely those tales of mythology were exaggerations.

“I’ve only seen it called one thing. In the Book of Revelation it’s known as The Beast.”

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JAGUAR JACK is currently available as an ebook at Amazon.com.

God’s Grace even in Iran

May9

I saw this pop up on Kindle this morning and thought I would pass it on—

Kindle Daily Deal — $1.99, reg price $22.99

Embark on a chilling journey inside one of the world’s darkest and most dangerous places: Evin, the notorious Tehran prison. Here, prisoners are routinely tortured, abused, and violated. Executions are frequent and sudden. But for two women imprisoned for their Christian faith—Maryam Rostampour and Marziyeh Amirizadeh—this hell on earth was a place of unlikely grace as they reflected God’s love and compassion to their fellow prisoners and guards. Against all odds, Evin would become the only church many of them had ever known.
In Captive in Iran, Maryam and Marziyeh recount their 259 days in Evin. It’s an amazing story of unyielding faith—when denying God would have meant freedom. Of incredible support from strangers around the world who fought for the women’s release. And of bringing God’s light into one of the world’s darkest places—giving hope to those who had lost everything, and showing love to those in despair.

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