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10/31/2024

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10/28/2024

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10/23/2024

Tips for Managing Stress and Cultivating Calm
Stress affects more than just our mood—it has a direct impact on our physical health, immune system, and even our risk of chronic diseases. Unmanaged stress can contribute to heart disease, digestive issues, and a weakened immune system, making it harder for your body to stay healthy.
Today, we’re sharing research on how stress impacts your wellness and tips to manage stress and cultivate calm in your daily life.

The Impact of Stress on Wellness and Disease:
Chronic Stress and Heart Disease: Stress triggers the release of stress hormones like cortisol, which can raise blood pressure and increase your heart rate, leading to a higher risk of cardiovascular issues. Over time, chronic stress is linked to heart disease, hypertension, and other serious health conditions.

Stress and the Immune System: High levels of stress suppress the immune system, leaving you more susceptible to infections and illnesses. Research shows that people experiencing chronic stress are more likely to catch colds and experience slower recovery times.
Mental Health and Cognitive Decline: Stress is closely tied to mental health challenges, such as anxiety and depression, and long-term stress can impair memory and cognitive function. Managing stress can help reduce the risk of cognitive decline and improve mental clarity. Chronic stress is also associated with an increased risk of developing neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's.
Stress and Sleep: One of the most significant impacts of stress is on sleep quality. Stress increases the production of cortisol and adrenaline, which keeps your body in a state of alertness, making it difficult to fall asleep or stay asleep. Research has shown that people with higher stress levels are more likely to suffer from insomnia, fragmented sleep, and reduced deep sleep cycles. Poor sleep can create a vicious cycle, where lack of rest makes it harder to manage stress, which in turn disrupts sleep even more.

The Good News: By managing stress and focusing on calming your mind, you can significantly improve your sleep quality, mental clarity, and overall health. Reducing stress has been shown to lower blood pressure, strengthen the immune system, and promote deeper, more restful sleep.

Tips for Managing Stress and Cultivating Calm:

Practice Deep Breathing:
How It Helps: When you’re stressed, your body goes into "fight or flight" mode, making your breathing faster and shallower. Deep breathing helps activate the parasympathetic nervous system, which calms your body and mind. Research shows that deep, slow breathing helps lower cortisol levels and reduces heart rate.
How to Do It: Spend 2-3 minutes practicing deep breathing. Inhale through your nose for 4 seconds, hold for 4, and exhale slowly through your mouth for 6 seconds. Repeat several times to feel more grounded.

Set Boundaries and Say No:
How It Helps: Constantly saying yes to demands can lead to burnout. Setting clear boundaries and learning to say no when necessary helps create mental space and reduces feelings of overwhelm.
Action Step: This week, identify one commitment or task you can say no to or delegate. Protect your time and energy by setting boundaries with your schedule and obligations.

Schedule “Me Time” Daily:
How It Helps: Dedicating even 5-10 minutes each day just for yourself is essential for mental well-being. Research indicates that regularly taking time to unwind helps reduce stress hormones, enhances mental clarity, and improves emotional regulation.
Action Step: Carve out a small block of time each day—whether it’s reading, meditating, taking a walk, or simply sitting quietly. Use this time to recharge, without distractions.

Practice Gratitude:
How It Helps: Focusing on gratitude has been shown to reduce stress and increase feelings of well-being. Gratitude practices can shift your perspective and help you focus on the positive aspects of life, even during challenging times. Studies suggest that practicing gratitude regularly can also improve sleep and reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression.
Action Step: Each night, write down three things you’re grateful for. It could be something small like a good meal or something bigger like support from loved ones.

Unplug from Screens in the Evening:
How It Helps: Research shows that too much screen time—especially at night—can increase stress and disrupt sleep. Blue light from screens interferes with melatonin production, making it harder for your body to wind down. Too much social media or news can also increase feelings of anxiety and overwhelm.
Action Step: Set a time each evening to disconnect from screens, ideally 30 minutes to 1 hour before bed. Use that time for calming activities, like reading, meditating, or taking a warm bath.

Engage in Physical Relaxation Techniques:
How It Helps: Activities like yoga, tai chi, or progressive muscle relaxation are proven ways to lower stress levels. Physical relaxation helps reduce muscle tension, lower blood pressure, and improve overall mental well-being. Studies show that people who practice these relaxation techniques regularly have lower levels of anxiety and stress-related disorders.
Action Step: Try spending 5 minutes each day doing gentle stretches or a quick yoga session, focusing on your breath and how your body feels.

Incorporating these tips into your daily routine, even in small ways, can lead to big improvements in managing stress and calming your mind. Remember, it’s about finding what works for you and making stress relief a regular part of your wellness routine.
Which of these stress-relief tips resonates with you the most? What’s one small step you can take today to reduce your stress and cultivate calm?
Share your thoughts and let’s support each other in making stress management a priority!

10/15/2024

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T-Away has been my jam the last two months, and that I was going to do a post to tell y'all why... here it is! Grab a cup of Ningxia Red or Slique Tea, because you've got some reading to do. 😮😍

Really.

I don't typically do long posts this long, but this is too important and took me a LONG WHILE to research - so please read it! PLEASE? 🤣

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The Synopsis (because some just won't make it through):

➕ T-Away is a ROCK STAR oil for all things emotional

➕ Yes, it's in our Animal Scents line, but we can and SHOULD use it! Same pure oils that humans get!

➕ It is in a coconut/glycerin carrier - which is AWESOME! No need to dilute - just pop a roller top on and go. Or pour into your hand and slather on because....

➕ It's INCREDIBLY affordable. At $19.00 (14 PV), this fits in everyone's budget!

➕ Item # 5273

➕ Hint: You're going to fall in love.

Think we are 10 kinds of cray-cray with all of this oil + emotions talk? 🤔 It's okay - I thought it was nuts too. 😂Then I did lots o' research.

Alright, onto allllllllll of the details! Ready? Get comfy!

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Oils in T-Away

💚Carrier Oil - Coconut Oil and Glycerin
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💚 Royal Hawaiian Sandalwood Essential Oil is emotionally balancing and grounding.

🔅It is valued for its skin moisturizing properties.

🔅Royal Hawaiian Sandalwood assists in quieting the mind so that individuals may hear the subtle voice of the Spirit.

🔅For those who are ready to leave behind attachment to fame, wealth and the need for acceptance, Sandalwood teaches true humility, devotion and love for God.
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💚 Frankincense Essential Oil is high in sesquiterpenes and naturally occurring constituent boswellic acid.

🔅It helps to uplift mood and brings feelings of relaxation.

🔅It may help smooth the appearance of healthy-looking skin, and is useful in combination with massage after exercise.

🔅When one has felt abandoned or forgotten, Frankincense reminds them that they are loved and protected.

🔅While this oil is incredibly powerful, it is also gentle, like a loving father who nurtures, guides and protects.

🔅Frankincense shields the body and soul from negative influences and assists the soul in its spiritual growth.

🔅Enhancing practices of prayer and meditation, this oil opens spiritual channels that allow an individual to connect to God.
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💚 Valerian Essential Oil from the root has been used for centuries.

🔅During the last three decades, it has been clinically investigated for its relaxing properties.

🔅Researchers have pinpointed the sesquiterpenes, valerenic acid, and valerone as the active constituents that exert a calming and restorative effect on the central nervous system.

🔅German health authorities have pronounced valerian to be an effective aid for the body's needs.
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💚Black Spruce Essential Oil is grounding and releasing.

🔅Through their wise use of energy, Spruce trees are able to retain their vitality, color and brilliance all year round.

🔅Spruce helps individuals regulate their physical energy by listening to their body's rhythms and needs.

🔅It offers a model of vitality and longevity through living in harmony with nature's cycles and seasons.

🔅Spruce can also assist individuals who feel depleted of energy to regenerate and renew themselves.

🔅It helps those who struggle with extreme moods to find balance and moderation.
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💚Davana Essential Oil It helps ease stressful feelings and nervousness.

🔅Known by Ayurvedic practitioners for calming racing, anxious thoughts.
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💚 Lavender Essential Oil can help you relax, wind down before bed and let go.

🔅Its balancing properties can harmonize an environment when diffused.

🔅Great for the appearance of skin.

🔅Lavender supports individuals in releasing the tension and constriction that stems from fear of expressing one's Self.

🔅Due to past experiences, they may believe it is not safe to express themselves.

🔅Strong feelings of being unlovable, unimportant, or unheard can accompany this condition.

🔅The individual's fear of rejection paralyzes their true voice and traps their feelings inside.
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💚 Geranium Essential Oil helps you relax and beatify your skin!

🔅Used traditionally to support the circulatory and nervous systems, a great deal of its strength lies in its ability to revitalize body tissues.

🔅Geranium facilitates trust, especially when an individual has lost trust in others due to difficult life circumstances.

🔅When there has been a loss of trust in relationships, geranium encourages emotional honesty, love and forgiveness. It fosters receptivity to human love and connection.
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💚Helichrysum Essential Oil known for its restorative properties for the skin and emotions!

🔅Wonderful oil for individuals that with a history of difficult life experiences, trauma, addiction, abuse or loss.

🔅Helichrysum helps people see the good that came from difficult situations and have gratitude for their trials
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💚 Limette (Lime) Essential Oil contains aldehydes and esters that have calming properties.

🔅Lime imbues the soul with a zest for life. When an individual has been weighed down by discouragement or grief, Lime helps elevate their thoughts above the mire.

🔅It instills courage and cheer in the heart and reminds them to be grateful for the gift of life.
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💚 Rose Essential Oil has an intoxicating aroma that opens the spiritual heart.

🔅Used for skin care for thousands of years, it is perfect for dry or aging skin.

🔅It helps bring balance and harmony with uplifting properties that create a sense of well-being.

🔅Rose invites individuals to experience the unwavering, unchanging, unconditional love of the Divine.

🔅This love heals all hearts and dresses all wounds.

🔅It restores an individual to authenticity, wholeness and purity.

🔅As one feels unconditional love and acceptance, the heart is softened.

🔅As the heart is fully opened, a fountain of love flows freely through the soul.

🔅 In this state, one feels charity and compassion.
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💚Tangerine Essential Oil contains esters and aldehydes that are calming.

🔅Rich in d-limonene it helps to maintain a healthy lifestyle regimen.

🔅Tangerine's strong qualities of cheer and joyfulness can lift the darkest of moods.

🔅It can assist those who feel cut off from the lightness of heart often manifested by children.

🔅Those who feel overburdened by responsibility would benefit from Tangerine's uplifting vibration.

🔅It encourages a person to be creative and spontaneous.
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💚Ylang Ylang Essential Oil has a long history in skin and hair care products, particularly in Asia, where it is used to promote healthy, luxuriant hair.

🔅It also restores confidence and equilibrium.

🔅Ylang Ylang is a powerful remedy for the heart.

🔅Ylang Ylang reconnects an individual with the child self and the pure, simple ways of the heart.

🔅It encourages play and restores a childlike nature and innocence.

🔅It assists in accessing intuition or "heart knowing." Ylang Ylang is also a powerful remedy for releasing emotional trauma from the past.
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💚Orange Essential Oil is rich in the d-limonene and may support cellular function.

🔅Also has calming effects and may be used for feelings of peace.

🔅Orange addresses a wide variety of emotional issues.

🔅It inspires abundance, fosters creativity, supports a positive mood, restores physical energy and aids in transitions.

🔅Orange also reconnects individuals with their inner child and brings spontaneity, fun, joy and play into one's life.
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💚Angelica Essential Oil the "Oil of Angels" and helps to provide a feeling of safety and security.

🔅It is emotionally balancing, incredibly grounding, and is helpful for those who feel a sense of spiritual distrust in, or who have an unholy fear of, God.
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💚Hyssop Essential Oil supports a healthy immune system and is noted for its purifying properties.

🔅Hyssop helps individuals who are over-identified with the pain and trauma in their life by assisting them to find their true identity.

🔅Everyone experiences emotional pain, but when pain has persisted for extended periods of time, a person may struggle to envision their life without it.

🔅They may feel they are their pain, losing sight of their True Self.

🔅Hyssop supports those courageous souls who have weathered the storms of life, but have lost contact with their carefree nature and come to perceive life as serious and painful in the process.
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💚Sage Lavender or Spanish Sage Essential Oil is emotionally balancing and can be used for relaxation.

🔅Sage is considered a holy plant by many ancient peoples. It has traditionally been used for cleansing home environments and sacred places of worship.

🔅Because Sage purifies the body and the environment so effectively, it creates a safe space for individuals to open spiritually.
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💚Coriander Essential Oil has been used since Ancient Egypt.

🔅It may support healthy digestive and circulatory system functions and has been studied for the support it may offer to a healthy pancreas.

🔅The person in need of Coriander oil may be trapped in a cycle of serving others while neglecting their own needs.

🔅They may also have a strong need to do what is right or correct.

🔅Often the mind's perspective of the "right" way is too limited and seen from only one perspective.

🔅Coriander reminds individuals that there is more than one way to do something, and that fitting in often requires betraying the True Self.

🔅Coriander moves the individual from doing things for the acceptance of others to honoring and living from the True Self.
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💚Bergamot Essential Oil This essential oil has a calming aroma which relaxes the mind and body.

🔅It has a long history of use for oily and troubled skin. Bergamot has a cleansing affect on stagnant feelings and limiting belief systems.

🔅Because of individuals' core beliefs of being "bad," "unlovable" and "not good enough," they seek to hide behind a façade of cheerfulness.

🔅They may fear revealing their true thoughts and feelings. Bergamot's powerful cleansing properties generate movement in the energy system, which in turn brings hope. In this way, Bergamot is wonderful to powerfully uplift emotions.

🔅It awakens the soul to hope and offers courage to share the inner-self.
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💚Lemon Essential Oil has cleansing and purifying properties.

🔅While Lemon supports the emotional body, its major effects are experienced in the mental field.

🔅The crisp scent of Lemon oil improves one's ability to focus.

🔅Lemon is a wonderful aid for children struggling with school.

🔅It helps individuals to be mentally present by focusing on one thing at a time.

🔅Lemon dispels confusion and bestows clarity.

🔅It counterbalances mental fatigue due to too much studying or reading.

🔅Lemon restores energy, mental flexibility
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💚Jasmine Oil has a wonderful aroma that relieves stress and uplifts the mind and body!

🔅It is also beneficial for the skin and supportive of women's challenges.

🔅It has been used throughout history for romance and attraction and for balancing the feminine energy of the body.
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💚Roman Chamomile Essential Oil creates inner peace.

🔅It is a calming oil that resonates well with adults, children and animals! Soothing to all types of skin, it is used extensively in Europe in skin preparations.

🔅Roman chamomile is also beneficial when added to massage oil for relief of muscle discomfort after exercise.

🔅Roman Chamomile supports an individual in discovering and living their true life purpose.

🔅Regardless of what they do for a living, Chamomile helps them find purpose and meaning in their lives.

🔅They feel more at peace and more calm.

🔅Chamomile softens the personality, easing the overactive ego-mind.

🔅It restores one's confidence to do what they came here to do.
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💚Palmarosa Essential Oil also been known as Turkish Geranium or Indian Geranium Oil.

🔅Supports a healthy digestive system and is soothing to the body and mind.

🔅Palmarosa invites individuals to overcome their emotional barriers by letting go of their immature and unhealed childhood story and perspective.

🔅It empowers them by leading them beyond the helpless child or victim mentality.

🔅Palmarosa assists individuals who unconsciously repeat childhood drama in adulthood.
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💚Patchouli Essential Oil has a sweet and rich aroma that is very beneficial for the skin.

🔅Use to reduce wrinkled or chapped appearance. Patchouli is a general tonic that supports the digestive system and soothes occasional queasiness.

🔅Patchouli tempers the obsessive personality by bringing them "down" to reality and teaching them moderation.

🔅It is grounding and stabilizing.
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💚Blue Tansy Essential Oil has a slightly sweet and herbaceous aroma.

🔅Tansy plants have several species and this one is also called Moroccan Chamomile or Annual Tansy.

🔅Emotionally, it combats anger and negative emotions. Blue Tansy inspires those who resist acting on what they know to be right.

🔅Instead of heeding their conscience, they vacillate and procrastinate.

🔅Their will becomes paralyzed as they deny their intuition. 🔅The repression of conscience causes a loss of vital energy.

🔅Instead of being energized from within, the individual feels lethargic, drained, apathetic, sluggish and exhausted.

🔅Blue Tansy helps move people to purposeful action.
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💚Rue Essential Oil - Emotionally, it is relaxing and releasing.

🔅Incredibly powerful to help soothe nervous energy and racing thoughts.
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💚German Chamomile Essential Oil made from German chamomile flowers contains chamazulene, a compound studied for its ability to support the body’s natural response to irritation and injury.

🔅It clears the mind and creates patience and peace.

🔅Incredible for the skin!

🔅German Chamomile is a powerful oil for women to use for the 1-2 weeks leading up to menstruation to help support balanced emotions.
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💚 SOURCE 💚

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This book is my ABSOLUTE GO-TO BOOK for emotions and essential oils!
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07/24/2024

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