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The natural properties found in essential oils produce a soothing, uplifting effect on the mind and emotions. When an essential oil containing the optimum level of therapeutic constituents, such as Young Living Essential Oils, is diffused or applied topically, the result fosters a sense of emotional balance and well-being.
When the aroma of essential oils is inhaled, the scent travels to the reticular system of the brain stem where emotions and memories are connected. This enables essential oils to improve emotional wellness in many ways. Those haunted by negative memories can use a cleansing blend, and in times of stress or mental fatigue a rejuvenating oil can remove emotional stressors and leave you feeing mentally invigorated. Other essential oils increase feelings of courage and determination when faced with life’s many challenges.
Cupped hands with a drop of essential oil to inhale for calming.
Essential Oils for Improved Emotional Wellness
Regardless of your emotional health, the therapeutic properties harnessed in Young Living Therapeutic Grade™ (YLTG) oils can help you improve or regain an optimal state of emotional wellness.
When we encounter an emotionally charged situation, instead of being overwhelmed by it, we can diffuse essential oils, put them in our bath, or wear them as cologne. The aromatic molecules will absorb into the bloodstream from the nasal cavity to the limbic system. They will activate the amygdala (the memory center for fear and trauma) and sedate and relax the sympathetic/para-sympathetic system. The oils help support the body in minimizing the acid that is created so that it does not initiate a reaction with the transcript enzyme.
Because essential oils affect the amygdala and pineal gland in the brain, they can help the mind and body by releasing emotional trauma and sharpening focus. People have many distractions in today’s fast-paced world. Essential oils may assist people to stay centered in their goals. Those who are struggling to retain or remember information can breathe the essential oils of peppermint, cardamom, or rosemary to stimulate the brain and memory functions for better concentration.
Essential Oils and the Mind Read the rest of this entry »
Lavender is one essential oil that can be used in every home (60 ways to use therapeutic-grade essential oils). Young Living’s therapeutic-grade lavender is a more natural alternative to many store-bought lavender and lavender products – once you begin using YL therapeutic-grade lavender around the house you’ll wonder how you ever survived without it (20 health benefits of essential oils).
Lavender Essential Oil
One of the first natural remedies to be reintroduced to Western culture, today lavender is used for everything from calming the mind to soothing irritated skin. Here are a few quick and easy ways to incorporate its benefits into your daily routine:
Therapeutic-grade Lavender for Relaxation
• Massage lavender into the back of the neck or bottom of the feet for relaxation.
• Add a few drops of lavender to your bath water for a relaxing soak.
• Diffuse lavender before bed to quiet the mind and prepare for sleep.
A proprietary blend of Ruta graveolens (rue), lavender, and valerian essential oils, Young Living’s RutaVaLa promotes relaxation of the body and mind. Using therapeutic-grade essential oils, such as RutaVaLa, for aroma-therapy purposes can help us create wellness in our lives. As we inhale a therapeutic essential oil, they stimulate the olfactory bulb nerve fibers, which send impulses to the limbic region of the brain. This is often referred to as the primitive brain. Read more about how aromatherapy benefits us in many ways.
Unique to Young Living, RutaVaLa is a proprietary blend of Ruta graveolens (rue), lavender, and valerian essential oils. Although lavender and valerian are well known for their sedative properties, this blend introduces the less recognized, yet efficacious, ruta oil. The Ruta graveolens herb is farmed, harvested, and distilled at Gary Young’s Young Living farm in Ecuador. Use of the rue herb dates back many centuries and is referenced in the Bible as an herb to be tithed (more on the Healing Oils of the Ancient Scripture). When combined with lavender and valerian, this trio of essential oils is formulated to relax the body and mind, counter stressed nerves, and revitalize passion.
Click here to buy RutaVaLa and other YL oils
Primary Benefits of RutaVaLa
+ Acts as a relaxant for the body and mind and counters stressed nerves*
Gift ideas that have thought behind them...
A good reality check this time of year could save you a lot and also help you decide what you may want and what to give others. Many of the ideas are practical, ideas that save money and health – things that we don’t necessarily think of during the holiday gift giving season. Here are some things that we often forget to check or consider if they have been a part of our lives long enough and might be causing a wellness or safety issue. These also make excellent fun and unique gifts for the holidays…
Healthy Gift Ideas
Reduce Allergies
Hair and body oils will have soaked into a pillow’s fabric and stuffing after a year of nightly use, making it a breeding ground for odor causing bacteria and allergy triggering dust mites. Using protectors can double the life of your pillows.
I also like to take my pillow outdoors once every week or two and beat it (like the women once did with rugs) and let sit in the bright sunshine all day – wow! I also vacuum my mattress and spritz my bed at least once a week with my essential oils (20-30 drops Young Living therapeutic-grade essential oils, in a 32 oz. spray bottle filled with water – heavenly!)
Sleep Better
A good mattress lasts 9 to 10 years, according to the National Sleep Foundation, but consider replacing your mattress every 5 to 7 years if you don’t sleep well. A study at Oklahoma State University found that most people who switched to new bedding after 5 years sleep significantly better and had less back pain.
Aromatherapy Roll-On Gift Collection
A portable way to enjoy the benefits of Young Living Therapeutic Grade™ essential oils no matter where you are. The Holiday Roll-On Collection delivers mess-free aromatherapy essential oil application for on-the-go relief and relaxation.
The Young Living essential oil roll-on collection makes a perfect gift for those who are already into all-natural, organic, high quality products that are effective and long lasting. The essential Oil Roll-On Collection features Tranquil™, Valor®, and the new Breathe Again™ essential oil blends, perfect for your essential oil needs wherever you are during the holidays.
Holiday Aromatherapy Roll-on Collection includes:
Breathe Again (fact sheet)
Is a proprietary blend of Young Living’s therapeutic-grade essential oils specially formulated t support respiratory health. Ideal for invigorating the senses, Breathe Again is Young Living’s all-natural answer to fighting the congestion that accompanies winter sniffles. Well-known for supporting the respiratory system, the essential oils in Breathe Again aid in awakening the nasal passages and help reduce localized congestion discomfort.
Valor (fact sheet)
Valor aromatherapy roll-on is an empowering combination of Young Living’s therapeutic-grade essential oils. The essential oils of spruce, rosewood, blue tansy, and frankincense each contribute to this formula that increases feelings of strength and courage. Valor is one of Young Living’s most popular oil blends and is now available as a convenient and portable roll-on. Valor has been found to help the body self-correct it balance and alignment, known fondly in Young Living circles as “chiropractor in a bottle.”
Tranquil (fact sheet)
Tranquil Essential Oil Roll-on is a proprietary blend of lavender, cedarwood, and Roman Chamomile therapeutic-grade aromatherapy essential oils. Formulated to calm and relax the body and mind. Tranquil is also uplifting and restorative, and a wonderful aid in helping get a restful nights sleep.
Whether you’re looking for one gift for three people on your list or a nice collection of practical essential oils for a loved one this gift collection can fit your shopping needs.
Visit my Young Living website to get the Roll-On Collection and browse other therapeutic-grade essential oil products that are practical and useful gifts for the holidays.
This is a very special recipe for the tired, achy body. Turn your bath tub into a healing spa retreat! The Young Living essential oils in this recipe, along with the other ingredients are super healthy and nourishing to the skin and body. This is a terrific recipe to make as gifts for the holidays – be sure to make extra for yourself!
Aromatherapy and MSM Enhanced Bath Salts Recipe
2 cups Epsom Salts* (Magnesium)
2 cups Baking Soda* (Bicarbonate of Soda)
[* good for muscle soreness]
4 cups Milk Powder (to soften skin – Goat’s Milk Powder is best for moisturizing)
2 cups Corn Starch (soothing and softening)
1 cup Sea Salt (minerals)
1-2 cups Rich’s MSM Powder (sulfur – good for skin, joints and muscles)
20-30 drops your choice of Young Living Essential Oils (see ideas below)
4 oz. plastic jar/container
Mix all of the above ingredients together. Divide into 2 separate bowls. Scent with your favorite Young Living essential oils – approximately 20-30 drops in each bowl. Peace & Calming or Abundance make a nice bath soak.
Use a slotted spoon to smooth the drops of essential oil into the dry mixture. Mix completely and then divide into individual containers, or bags of your personal preference.
How to use: add two rounded tablespoons to bath water.
Some Young Living Essential Oils you might choose to scent and enhance your healing bath salt recipe:
Young Living Essential Oil Singles (any combination): Lavender, Geranium, Spearmint, Chamomile, Sandalwood, Frankincense.
Young Living Essential Oil Blends: Gentle Baby, Joy, Valor, Dream Catcher, Abundance, SARA, Motivation.
Here is a list of some ways I use Young Living’s essential oils and products in place of conventional products found in the stores. This is only a partial listing, there are many more ways to use the essential oils and products. I use this list as a guideline for ways to make toxic products in my home a thing of the past. All of Young Living’s products contain therapeutic-grade essential oils no matter which you choose.
Here’s an article I wrote on the 5 ways of applying Young Living Essential Oils.
FIRST AID
Headache/Migraine Relief Tablet…. Peppermint, M-Grain, MultiGreens
Fever Reduction Tablet……….. Peppermint, Lavender, Exodus, ImmuTune, Super C
Burns/Cut/Scrapes…………….. Lavender, Melrose, LavaDerm Mist, Rose Ointment
Sore Throat Lozenges………… Thieves Spray, Thieves Lozenges, ImmuPower, Exodus II Read the rest of this entry »
The French scientist René Gattefossé was the first to discover lavender’s ability to promote tissue regeneration and speed wound healing when he severely burned his arm in a laboratory accident. Today, lavender is one of the few essential oils to still be listed in the British Pharmacopoeia.
Medical Properties of Young Living Lavender Essential Oil
Antiseptic, antifungal, analgesic, antitumoral, anticonvulsant, vasodilating, relaxant, anti-inflammatory, reduces blood fat/cholesterol, combats excess sebum on skin.
It’s harvest time for the Young Living lavender fields. Young Living is known worldwide for their superior quality essential oils. It was Gary Young’s vision to provide the world with the finest therapeutic-grade oils, that’s exactly what the YL farms and company have produced.
Lavender essential oil, Lavandula angustifolia, was used in the traditional medicine of many cultures as a calmative. Studies have shown that the fragrance of lavender is calming and balancing.
Considered the most versatile of the essential oils, lavender can be applied topically or used for aromatherapy to contribute to overall relaxation.
These video’s are only a mere glimpse of what goes into producing and distilling the the best lavender aromatherapy essential oil in the world.
Super Easy Young Living Lavender Essential Oil Recipes
Young Living Lavender (the “all purpose”) essential oil is a favorite of oil lover’s. It is such a versatile oil that you will find us carrying it in our purses, backpacks, First Aid Kits, on our kitchens, all over.
In Young Living circles, it is well known and accepted that if one is not sure which essential oil to use, we start with Lavender oil. It is considered to be one of the most “versatile” oils in its action and application.
Whevenever you’re in doubt, use Young Living Lavender Essential Oil.
Of course quality plays a big factor, do not substitute another lavender for Young Living Lavender in the following tips- people have been known to experience unpleasant results when they have, please heed the warning.
LAVENDER Oil (Lavandula angustifolia)
Young Living therapeutic-grade Lavender Essential Oil
One of the most versatile of all essential oils. Therapeutic-grade lavender oil has been highly regarded for the skin and has been clinically evaluated for its relaxing effects. It may be used to cleanse cuts, bruises and skin irritations. The fragrance is calming relaxing and balancing — physically and emotionally. This plant is grown and distilled at the Young Living Farms.
26 Ways to use Young Living Lavender Essential Oil
Young Living’s new Tranquil Essential Oil Roll-On is a proprietary blend of lavender, cedarwood, and Roman chamomile essential oils formulated to calm and relax the body and mind. Using the new roll-on application, Tranquil provides convenient and portable relaxation.
About the Young Living Tranquil Blend
Recent studies indicate that stress and anxiety have been shown to reduce immunity as well as increase susceptibility to disease. It is important to stabilize and balance our bodies, knowing that good health begins with emotional well-being.
The essential oils in the Tranquil blend have been found to substantially reduce restlessness, anxious feelings, and calm the mind and body. Using the respective benefits of lavender, cedarwood, and Roman chamomile essential oils, the Tranquil blend offers a instant relaxant in a convenient roll-on application. The no-mess, portable roll-on makes it easy to apply Tranquil wherever relaxation is needed.
Key Ingredients
Lavender Essential Oil, Lavandula angustifolia, is used in the traditional medicine of many cultures as a calmative. Studies have shown that the fragrance of lavender is calming and balancing. Considered the most versatile of the essential oils, lavender can be applied topically or used for aromatherapy to contribute to overall relaxation.
Cedarwood Essential Oil, Cedrus atlantica, is best known for its calming and purifying properties. Cedarwood is one of the highest oils in sesquiterpenes which can act directly on the amygdala of the brain to usher relaxation. A conifer oil, cedarwood can be applied topically to combat oily skin or inhaled as a sedative.
Roman Chamomile Essential Oil, Chamomaelum nobilis, has traditionally been use to calm and soothe small children. When used for aromatherapy, Roman chamomile can help relieve restlessness and is highly regarded for as a powerful relaxant. Read the rest of this entry »
Deep Relief Essential Oil Roll-On
A proprietary blend of therapeutic grade essential oils specially formulated to relieve muscle soreness and tension. Peppermint, Wintergreen, Copal, and Palo Santo essential oils as well as others play an integral part of healing in this blend. Deep Relief is offered in the portable convenience of a roll on application. Small enough to fit in purse or shirt pocket – big on helping to relieve pain. Read my story and experience using Deep Relief on my shoulder and neck pain…
Tranquil Essential Oil Roll-On
A proprietary blend of lavender, cedarwood and roman chamomile essential oils formulated to calm and relax the body and mind. Using the new roll on application, Tranquil provides convenient and portable relaxation.
Valor® Essential Oil Roll-On
Young Living RollOn
An empowering combination of therapeutic-grade essential oils that works with both the physical and spiritual aspects of the body to increase feelings of strength, courage, and self-esteem in the face of adversity. Valor is one of the most popular blends – renowned for its strengthening qualities, Valor enhances an individual’s internal resources. It has also been found to help energy alignment in the body. Terrific when applied at the beginning of a chiropractic session or other body work treatment!
Supermodel Christy Turlington Burns cites Young Living Essential Oil’s Raven™ essential oil blend as one of her favorite yoga and lifestyle products.
Christy’s favorite essential oil blend from Young Living – Raven is a combination of deeply soothing therapeutic grade essential oils that will provide comfort when applied topically to the chest and throat or diffused.
How to use: For aromatic use. Diffuse, apply topically on chest over lungs and throat, put on pillow at night.
Dilution not required; suitable for all but the most sensitive skin. Not for children under age 6.
Ingredients: Ravensara (Ravensara aromatica), lemon (Citrus limon), wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens), peppermint (Mentha piperita) and Eucalyptus radiata.
You can get Christy’s favorite Young Living essential oil blend
Lavender essential oil – it’s long been known as the little herb that could. Used by the ancient Romans for its healing and antiseptic properties, lavender has been increasingly recognized for its soothing properties. Pure therapeutic-grade essential oils from Young Living can help with your beauty regimen and overall wellness.
Young Living Lavender Field
Benefits of Lavender
Physical Health Benefits of Lavender:
• Assists the healing process for skin burns
• Induces sleep and relaxation
• Soothes aching muscles
Mental Health Benefits of Lavender:
• Reduces stress and irritability
• Balances, calms, and soothes
• Improves concentration
Make you own aromatherapy bath tea for soft, glowing skin. The dried herbs and Young Living essential oils in this recipe have been known for centuries for their benefits to beautiful radiant skin and for relaxing tired achy muscles.
This Bath Tea recipe is a wonderful way to treat yourself, and makes fantastic gifts! Let’s discuss the quality of our ingredients first – you will want to know about this so that you can make a bath tea that actually does have healthful benefits. Read the rest of this entry »
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