THE ESSENTIAL MAMA 2 NANA · FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 2018 So, my journey with Young Living officially began in late November, early December of 2015. When the wife of a new co-worker heard that I had recently tweaked my back muscles with too much sitting/not enough moving, she“gifted” me a small, glass roll-on bottle of an oily concoction she had crafted from a YL blend called Pan-away. It worked miracles on my sore lower back muscles and I needed more information! Flash forward in time a bit and she said she was loving “grapefruit oil in her water” or how nice it was to sleep diffusing the essential oils of cedarwood and lavender...Wait? What? I needed more information! I think we may have met for coffee.... or she brought me something else... I don’t remember exactly, but I was sold. I’m not a newbie to the Land of WooWoo .... which is where essential oils for at least most of my adult life have resided... you know, in the aisle at the health food store, next to the ince
Today marks the beginning of the "New Year" to Christians around the globe; it is the first Sunday in Advent. Here in sunny Kettering, Ohio, it is nearly 55 degrees and the lady across the street is actually mowing her yard as I write this. Mowing, in December, in OHIO. My goal here is to jot down a few words on the matter. But first, I'll place a drop of Palo Santo on my hands, rub them together briskly to release the sequiterpenes and monoterpenes within the essential oil, and then I'll breathe in the richness of this lovely "Holy Wood" (literally, that's the translation, I'm not even trying to be poetic...) My mind clears, the droning of my neighbor's mower fades into the sounds of football dancing up the stairs from the living room. It all disappears and I am able to hear only my own breathing. My eyes closed I now imagine myself on a path in a forest. Here in this imaginary place, I breathe in the scent of Palo Santo a