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ESSENTIAL OILS AS MOOD-ENHANCERS

Posted in Aromatherapy, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

One of the most useful aspects of essential oils is the mood-enhancing properties. Every oil will create some kind of feeling in you.  To realize why this happens you need to know a bit about how the essential oils work through our olfactory system: (Following is taken from Wikipedia – text & picture; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olfactory_system) <<In [...]

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SMOKING – PAYBACK TIME

Posted in Smoking, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on July 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »

When I quit smoking I did all the normal things; checking internet and research for information about what happens in the body. I knew I really didn’t want to gain weight so I embarked on a very good dietary plan with detox and I exercised daily. I knew I could use my essential oils for [...]

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ESSENTIAL OIL QUALITY – Ravensara/Ravintsara

Posted in Aromatherapy, tagged , , , , , on July 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I wrote in an earlier post about an essential oil I picked up: Ravintsara (cinnamomum camphora). I couldn’t really get this oil out of my head so I have been doing some research. As usual there is plenty of misunderstandings between different oils, popular names, botanical names and the chemical properties. What continues to confuse [...]

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SMOKING – the art of quitting

Posted in Smoking, tagged , , , , on July 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I read somewhere; “I don’t stop smoking ’cause I am not a quitter”. I found that really funny and slightly applicable to myself. How many times did I quit? Only to find myself in a state of desperation, sneaking around in the bushes with my illicit smoking, pretending and lying to those closest and dearest [...]

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SMOKING

Posted in Smoking, tagged , , , , on July 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I was always a smoker. The first time I smoked a cigarette was right before I turned 12, and it was the most wonderful experience. I didn’t feel sick, only a bit dizzy and I liked this feeling very much. I was deeply unhappy and lost in this time of my life, and smoking gave [...]

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AROMATHERAPY AND HORSES

Posted in Animals, Aromatherapy, tagged , , , , , , on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This is Jade. She is 34 years old and she did her last mounted-game competition when she was 30. I told you in my last post that I work with horses. Apart from basic groundwork, natural horsemanship style, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_horsemanship I also work with essential oils. Sometimes in combination with training to help keep the horse [...]

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BEING PRESENT

Posted in Lifestyle, Personal development, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Being present or being in the now, is something I have been working on for very long, and it is really not that easy. We think we are present most of the time, but we actually hardly ever are. As I already mentioned in another posting; we judge everything based on something we already know, [...]

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FOODS continued…

Posted in Nutrition, tagged , , on July 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I was astonished to see the movie link in my last post is unavailable due to “terms of use violation”. Hmm, interesting. So I will post you another little film here instead, can’t enough stress the importance of nutrition. A connection is made between additives and ADD in children. ADD has increased enormously over the [...]

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FOOD

Posted in Nutrition, tagged , , , , , , , on July 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »

We need to take a look at how and what we are eating.  So many people are overweight and obese, have problems with; concentration, sleep, hormones, digestion, emotions…the list goes on forever. I have been watching this development for a long time and it took me some time to realize that much of it is [...]

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THANK YOU

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on July 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Thank you people for such nice feed-back on my post yesterday,  I was – again – reminded of the rewards that come when I step past my comfort zone. I received quite a few comments, ideas and questions that led me to believe that there is a great need for communication out there. So last [...]

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