Archive for January, 2010


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What Are Essential Oils

Published on January 14, 2010

Essential Oils

Used for medicinals and anointing by ancient cultures, essential oils were considered highly valuable — certain oils even more valuable than gold. Today, modern science continues to rediscover what some cultures have known for centuries: oils have revitalizing, energizing, and therapeutic powers. Essential oils are fragrant liquids distilled from seeds, bark, leaves, stems, roots, flowers, and fruit. When pure, they are highly concentrated and can be far more potent than dried herbs. Imagine-the distillation of an entire plant may only produce a single drop of essential oil!

Chemically very complex, essential oils consist of hundreds of different chemical compounds. For this reason a single oil can help a wide variety of disorders. Consider two of the many benefits of essential oils:

Penetration

Essential oils have a minute molecular structure that gives them the ability to penetrate cell membranes quickly and diffuse rapidly throughout the blood and tissues. When you apply oils to your skin, the benefits can affect your body in a matter of minutes. Inhaling the aroma of the oils also allows the molecules to enter the bloodstream through capillaries in the lungs, giving you all the health benefits of essential oils.

Immune Defense

Essential oils have properties that make them ideal for healing and stimulating immune defense. Essential oils work as the chemical defense mechanism of the plant, with their potent antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral properties. They contain chemicals that work as hormones to bring balance to many physiological systems of the human body. Oils like clary sage and fennel, for example, have an estrogenic action.

Why Young Living Essential Oils?

Young Living was the first in the United States to distill oils in a stainless steel vertical distillery. This proprietary system uses low pressure and low temperature, preserving the delicate chemical constituents of essential oils. Also the first to distill herbs harvested directly from our own fields and the first to include essential oils in supplements, Young Living is on the cutting edge of groundbreaking new uses and production methods of essential oils. Most importantly, Young Living guarantees that all of our essential oils are of the finest quality. Because inferior-quality oils are unlikely to give therapeutic benefits and could be toxic, it is important to know that your essential oil is undiluted, unadulterated, and absolutely pure.

Early in his naturopathic practice, Young Living president Gary Young began to study the healing properties of melaleuca oil but was disappointed by the early results. When he learned that there are different grades of essential oils sold in America, he found and tested a top-grade melaleuca oil. This time, the results were remarkable. And so when Gary began growing herbs and distilling oils, he went to great lengths to ensure that every essential oil sold by Young Living meets the world’s most rigorous standard for the label of therapeutic-grade.

The herbs, trees, and other plants that give us our essential oils are grown on organic soil: land free from pesticides, herbicides, and other harmful chemicals. The plants are then cut and distilled in stainless steel vessels, which do not react with essential oils like other metals can. Every batch of oil-whether from herbs grown at Young Living farms or in a foreign country-is quarantined, inspected, and tested for purity and quality with both organoleptic and chemical analysis. Samples are sent to independent laboratories for analysis by state-of-the-art, high-resolution gas chromatography, mass spectroscopy, and infrared spectra analysis. These tests unmask the chemical anatomy of each oil to monitor quality. Altogether, Young Living oils can go through five separate levels of quality analysis before they are released.

Message from Myswizard: Click on the link Essential Oils under “Myswizard’s stores” on the sidebar of the Homepage and have fun on the site. There’s so much to see and learn about essential oils. I’ve been using these oils for years. The uses for the oils are unlimited. Many have amazing healing and immune boosting powers! After you’ve made the journey to the site and you wish to place an order please follow the links on my Young Living Essential Oils home page. E mail me with any questions. Check back here for future articles.


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Is there a point to life or existence?

Published on January 31, 2010

This is an excerpt/preview from my next book.

Life just is. You are the vehicle for what your life can become. Your very beingness is the point or the reason for life. The choices you make along the way, dictate what your life is essentially. Your decisions are a reflection of your level of consciousness. In other words, below level 200, life reflects pride, anger, apathy, hopelessness, cravings, etc. Addictions, chaos, despondency, and irresponsibility have dominion.

Above 200, affirmations of willingness, reason, love, joy, and inspiration fill life. There is a sense of being complete with what you have or are. The higher you go the greater the general serenity. Although a belief or knowing of God has the effect of giving one peace, even non-believers can live a purposeful life for its own sake. God, however, imparts a power far greater than an ideology, belief, theory, or even disbelief. Where the rubber meets the road so to speak, is Divinity. There can be no other substitute for the divine.

The KISS method for living life as a point, purpose, or reason would be to…

• Make your life a personal journey of love, optimism, and wonder.
• Be the best you, you can be.
• Share that best you with others through work, play and charity.
• Be kind.
• Be responsible.
• Not blame others for anything.
• Know there are questions which have no answers other than, “That’s just the way it is; and trust that God knows.”
• See everything as being whatever it is being (at its own level of consciousness), perfectly.
• Hold your own…Pull your weight.
• Love with all your heart that which reflects the highest you.
• Not give up on life or yourself. It’s how you handle the struggle, that is the point.
• Remember God sees all. Atone for your transgressions and forgive yourself.
• Surrender what you cannot handle to God. It’s The Higher Power that sees you through.
• Realize if you don’t have God in your life, or you have no faith, belief, or knowing of God, then the only difference between “knowing” and “not knowing” is one has recognition of an eternal companion/creator. This one thing could be the difference between salvation (recovery) or not.


Weekly Kabbalah Tune Up…1/24/10-/1/30/10

Published on January 26, 2010

You Are Special

…You came into this world to help all of us do our jobs.

”A few hundred years ago there lived an innkeeper. He would always offer scholars, sages and teachers a clean place to stay and a warm meal to eat. Later in his life he felt compelled to study spirituality and immerse himself in meditation and prayer. He gave the inn to his son so he, himself, could pursue what he thought was a more spiritual life.

His son was more business-minded than charitable, and as time went by, it became clear that the son was not following in his father’s compassionate footsteps.

One of the greatest kabbalists of that generation tracked down the old innkeeper and asked him about the sudden change in management of the inn. The innkeeper explained, “I’ve taken care of this inn for decades, as my father did before me. But now, in my old age, I worry about my own spiritual advancement and wanted to take time to connect with the Creator before my time is up in this world.”

To that, the kabbalist responded: “When people would come to your inn, you invited them in, fed them, and gave them a respectable place to rest on their journey. You made a great effort to see to their comfort and ease. This, my friend, was your purpose in this world. When you get upstairs no one will ask you why you didn’t memorize ancient texts or achieve spiritual greatness.”

“You came into this world to help all of us do our jobs. And because you allowed us to do our jobs better, you receive all the blessings, energy and connection to the Creator, from the study and spiritual work that we do. For you, 100 years of studying will not reveal as much goodness and Light as one night of care that you gave these sages.”

The innkeeper thanked the kabbalist, and returned to work at the inn. He cultivated in his son a respect for spirituality, as well as the bottom line.

Each and every one of us has a specific task in this world. If we accomplish this task we reveal maximum Light for ourselves and the world. It’s not everyone’s destiny to be a scholar or a spiritual guide. Each person has to find their spot, their unique piece of the puzzle, where they’re doing and giving their most.

That’s often in the most ordinary ways, and ordinary places.

We always look at what we’re not doing. Instead, let’s consider how we can do more good in what we are doing.

All the best,

Yehuda


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