Mind Body Spirit Blog
More and more people recognize the importance of mind, body and spirit integration in your personal and professional life. This blog aims to support greater integration for your healing, wellness, and personal enrichment.
This blog is eclectic. My posts mix informative and fun ideas. Many posts are single topic-focused such as energy healing, mind-body-spirit coaching, natural healing and wellness, shamanism, and subtle aromatherapy. But, increasingly, I weave together a variety of interesting and empowering topics to create an integrated whole.
After all, we are all one integrated mind-body-spirit.
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The best treatment for sunburn is prevention. This is especially true for people with little natural protection and fair skin that burns and freckles easily. This is stating the obvious, but it’s always worth repeating. Avoid direct contact with the sun during the hours when the sun is strongest: from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. […]
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Essential Oils are highly concentrated aromatic plant substances. It’s important to dilute them when you use them. Typically, the dilution of an aromatherapy product will be between 1% and 3% – that’s very diluted. See our blog for a guide to the appropriate dilution of essential oils for different applications.
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There are lots of blogs and other posts about essential oil diffusers and their pluses and minuses. This blog is a little different in that it’s for the person who is just starting to experiment with diffusing essential oils, and who just wants to know about simple, inexpensive essential oil diffusers for beginners such as […]
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What cosmic body is more significant to life on earth than the moon? All plants and animals are entrained to their rhythm. There are cultures that worship the moon and others that gauge time and orient their livelihoods by it. Nearly every culture views the moon as a symbol, and quite logically, many see it […]
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Aromatherapists are mainly interested in the healing properties of essential oils. The flavor and fragrance industries, by far the largest buyers of essential oils, are most interested in the flavor or the fragrance. So, what makes a pure essential oil or a high-quality essential oil for aromatherapy use? When aromatherapists look for quality essential oils, […]
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Why botanical names of plants and essential oils matter. Knowing the family and genus also gives us a hint to the specific plant’s therapeutic properties. For example, pines are warming and antiseptic, and they are notable in their support to the muscular and respiratory systems. Knowing what the specific plant species is tells you what specific and unique properties that plant has – perhaps attributes that other plants in the family or genus do not possess.
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