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Looking for bright sides

November 15, 2009 by Jessica 2 Comments

Today I could tell I wasn’t going to get the uninterrupted writing time I needed to work on some freelance work. We had to do some family errands, and I decided to put on my “om” necklace that carries a place for a little cotton disc on which you drop a little bit of an essential oil (okay, I don’t know where the disc are, so I used the paper towel that was still in the necklace from last time). I chose Young Living’s Joy oil. It’s a blend that is supposed to create “magnetic energy and bring joy to the heart.”

I don’t know if it was added benefits of the recent run of bodywork I’ve gotten to heal from running into a glass door or the Emotional Freedom Technique work I’ve been doing or if it was, in fact, the Joy oil, but I am happy to say that I was much cheerier today than a typical rainy November day usually finds me.

Smiley face!

Here are the ingredients of the Joy blend: Bergamot (Citrus bergamia), ylang ylang (Cananga odorata), geranium (Pelargonium graveolens), rosewood (Aniba rosaeodora), lemon (Citrus limon), mandarin (Citrus reticulata), jasmine (Jasminum officinale), Roman chamomile (Chamaemelum nobile), palmarosa (Cymbopogon martinii), and rose (Rosa damascena).

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    […] Okay, this one is a life-long process. But seriously, try to unleash your burden before 1) some of it gets passed on to your baby and 2) you become a sleep-deprived parent. If you are holding a lot of fear or anger, that’s not a good foundation for a new being, and it might be blocking your body from creating one. So free your mind, and the rest will follow. Work with a practitioner who does a meridian tapping technique like Emotional Freedom Technique or Be Set Free Fast, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). Or consider hypnotherapy. Mainstream talk therapy is great, too, but adding in these modalities can energetically re-set you in some powerful ways. So can flower essences and essential oils. […]

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