Wellness on the Mountain

07/31/2025

Just in case you're undecided, this very relevant article by Dr. Alan Greene, a pediatrician, and Anna Lappé, co-founder of the Small Planet Institute and a nationally best-selling author, explains why organic is the best choice we can make for our families.

By definition, organics cannot be grown from GMO seeds. Organic agriculture does not use synthetic pesticides and our organic farmers work hard to avoid contamination from GMOs. Thank an organic farmer for doing what is best for our families and our environment. And plant a garden, grow your own. Let's take back control of our food. BOYCOTT Roundup drenched, pesticide producing GMOs.

Note: Here is the link to the TIME magazine article. All of the statistics and data referenced in the article are supported with live links to the source information:
READ: http://time.com/2914155/organic-food-children-health/

07/31/2025

Are you concerned about your HEART ❤️
Lavender. The fragrance of a beautiful purple flower with healing powers. A clean essential oil in a diffuser allowed to sprinkle into your air. Simple enough. I can do that. Join me in caring for my heart whether you have heart issues or not. Love yourself, your 💜 heart with some Lavender.
Attain your Lavender here. https://wellnessonthemountain.com/store/ols/search?keywords=Lavender&sortOption=descend_by_match

High blood pressure (HBP; hypertension) is one of the major modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease. The prevalence and severity of HBP tends to increase with age, showing that about 70% of adults 65 or older have HBP. A recent clinical trial evaluated the effects of inhaling lavender essential oil from a diffuser in men and women 60+ years old with HBP. What the researchers found was that inhaling lavender essential oil significantly reduced HBP. All of the participants with severe HBP moved to moderate or mild HBP and nearly 20% of participants had BP that was normal at the conclusion of the study.
https://pubs.aip.org/aip/acp/article-abstract/2595/1/090003/2890706/Decreasing-blood-pressure-with-lavender?redirectedFrom=fulltext

07/31/2025

07/31/2025

When we experience traumatic incidents in our lives (or an accumulation of repeated similar incidents) such as pain, loss, abuse, & so on, the strength of the corresponding emotional quotient turns on a survival center in our brains. That center is called the amygdala. Bc the experience was painful, the activation of the amygdala serves to protect us from the situation happening again. It’s an unconscious response to an external situation designed for self-preservation.⁣
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The more times you experience the trauma, or revisit on a daily basis the emotions of the suffering caused by it, it’s as if your brain continuously sets itself to a new baseline—a baseline that is not connected to love, joy, balance, or homeostasis. Instead, it’s based in the hormones of stress, & as we all know, living in the hormones of stress for extended periods of time has serious health consequences.⁣
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If your senses are always sweeping the environment to determine what is safe and/or what is not, if something in your environment triggers an association to the memory of that trauma, as the amygdala switches on, you’re back to living in your past & anticipating that future event happening again.⁣
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My friends at the HeartMath Institute showed me some interesting research. They pointed out that there are afferent nerve fibers that go directly from the heart to the brain. Not only do they go directly to the brain, but they go directly to the amygdala. Why is this important? Bc the research demonstrates that when you open your heart & feel love—I’m talking really surrendering fully to love—the power of that profound love can create a new baseline in your brain & body’s survival systems. This means that the heart is also the command center of the body, as well as the brain.⁣
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When we truly open our hearts, let go of the past, & forgive, we reset our baseline into a more harmonious, more elevated state. This, in turn, brings us into a state of homeostasis, & by returning to a state of homeostasis, we free ourselves from the past. And when we free ourselves from the past, we gain a new freedom to create our future.⁣
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I’d say it can’t hurt to put your heart into everything you do❤️

07/31/2025

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07/31/2025

05/07/2025

🐝 Bee or Wasp? Know the Difference!
Some pollinate flowers 🌼, others crash your picnic 🍗.
Not every flying insect is a threat — many are essential!
💛 Save the bees, respect the buzz.

05/02/2025

Our food cannot nutritionally support us like it used to! Supplementation is necessary.
Begin with a quality Multivitamin
https://wellnessonthemountain.com/store/ols/products/cellcore---core-nutrient-multivitamin-120-ct

03/24/2025

Visit your App Store and download the EWG Healthy Living App
Ratings for more than 120,000 food and personal care products, now at your finger tips.

Rating for more that 120,000 food and personal care products, now at your finger tips.

03/21/2025

Here is a simple and yet great recipe for homemade toothpaste.

This homemade baking soda toothpaste recipe has all the nutrients that support building healthy teeth. Plus, it's easy to make. Get the recipe here!