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Less medicines/drugs. More of the good stuff.

I was in the breakroom at work yesterday talking about the cold I got last week. Tabitha got a sore throat Fri night and I'm thinking "great, now she's going to her dad's for a week, with a cold, and I don't have any oils to send with her". I have some on order that are on the way. And I had a bit in the house but not Defense which is my primary oil for colds and flus.

I was talking about this in the breakroom and someone asked me what oils I use for a headache (peppermint oil, mostly). It struck me as we were talking that I probably use 1/4 to 1/2 as much over-the-counter medicine and prescription drugs when I'm taking my liquid vits and mins and using my oils as opposed to when I'm not.

Also, I'm happier. As I've been researching the oils for my essential oil blog it struck me how there is always an emotional component to the benefits of the oils. Some of the oils are more for the emotions than others, like frankincense and geranium to mention just two, but all of them help me stay emotionally healthy. And the vits and mins, too.

I was telling someone the other day at work how I feel like two different people. One person when I'm drinking my vits and mins and any other supplements I have, that person is happier, calmer, has more energy, and is more social. The other person, without my vits and mins, is sad, angry, afraid, isolates herself, takes naps everyday, and wants to stay in bed. The longer I go without my vits and mins the less I feel like me.

That's why I no longer consider my vitamins and minerals, and the oils, a luxury. They are as essential to my life as food and water and the other necessities of life.

Keep it fresh. Keep it fun.

Tylenol

I did a whole post about tylenol yesterday and then my computer shut down before it published it. So I'm now trying to remember what yesterday's point was.

Mostly it was a news article I heard on Armstrong and Getty, the talk radio show I listen to in the morning, saying something to the effect that tylenol is easy to overdose on, or a lot of people do overdose on it.

Here's my theory as to why. Once I have a headache or other serious pain, I will start doing anything I can to stop the pain. If that means taking 4 tylenol instead of the recommended 2, then that's what I'll do. I'm not thinking "wow, if I take too many of these I'm going to have liver damage later" No, I'm thinking "Stop the pain, stop the pain."

So what needs to be done is stopping the pain, illness, discomfort before it develops. Make the body healthy so there is no pain. Or rarely pain. Plus, let the brain remember how to help control the pain without the pain pills. I've taken so many pills over the years I think my brain forgot that it can create the chemicals needed to fight the pain for me.

One last point. We need to listen to our bodies when they talk to us. When we experience pain or illness or discomfort, our body isn't expressing a tylenol deficiency. It's telling us there is something it needs that it's not getting. Something natural, whether that's sunshine or vitamins or minerals or fresh water or more exercise or rest. We need to learn to listen.

Keep it fresh. Keep it fun.

Today's Post-My Cold

I definitely have a cold. I have so far only been using natural stuff to deal with it. Lots of my liquid vitamins and minerals, and lots of my essential oils. I've been able to continue functioning so far so I'm just going to keep on doing what I am doing. The oils I'm using are eucalyptus, peppermint, rosemary, the tiny bit of defense I could get out of an empty bottle and I think that's it.

I have taken some tylenol because I have a hecka bad sinus headache, and a claritin every night. The claritin was partly because I thought I was having allergies at first. I keep sneezing and sneezing. Katrina went to the store and bought some cough syrup. She has lung issues, and couldn't sleep for coughing. Mine is more sinusy than lungy.

Tomorrow (or the middle of the night tonight if I can't sleep) I'm posting about what Armstrong and Getty were saying about Tylenol on talk radio this morning.

Keep it fresh. Keep it fun.

Natural vs Chemical

Is there anything we ingest that is better for us if we use a synthetic form of it rather than the natural form? I don't think so. I've been considering this for days, trying to think of something.

Butter or margarine? Butter. Sugar or fake sugar? Sugar. I think the chemical version of products we eat started because the natural version isn't all that good for us either. Really, we all know eating copious amounts of butter or sugar is not good for us. But most of us really like butter and sugar. So, come up with a form of it that tastes similar and is not as bad for us and market that.

Problem is, the fake, chemical laden, carcinogenic form of it is so much worse for us than the natural version we are killing our health and ourselves with the fake stuff.

I understand that part of the reason that we consume the fake foods is because we are trying to lose weight. The fake sugar, or the fat-free whatever has so many less calories. I understand that. The thing is, if we ruin our health consuming products that aren't healthy for us, our bodies can't figure out what a healthy weight is for us and we can't go there. If we give ourselves the gift of a healthy body, our body will give us the gift of the perfect weight for us.

That would be so much better than consuming carcinogenic chemicals in place of real food.

Why I Blog

This is one of the many reasons I’m blogging.  Talking back to the T.V. and radio just wasn't doing it for me anymore.  Like yesterday, when there was a doctor on The View saying that studies have shown that you lose calories just by adding milk and other dairy products to your diet. And you particularly lose fat cells around your middle which seems to be a problem for us women. Okay, and what about the damage done to your body by drinking a product that was created for baby cows? What if you took a really good calcium product, like the coral calcium New Vision sells, wouldn't that have the same effect without the side effects of mucous, colds, ulcers, stomach-aches and headaches? To get the right answer you have to ask the right question. So here is my question(s) for the day. What is health if you are living in poverty and can't enjoy it? And what is wealth without the health to enjoy it? What do our bodies need to be strong, fit, healthy, disease-free, and full of the energy we need to accomplish the things we want to accomplish, to be the person we want to be? This quote was on the Franklin-Covey website. It's a good philosophy to adopt. I love Franklin-Covey. "I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."

Etienne de Grellet

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Getting Started

I had these big plans for what my blog would look like. I actually designed it during a boring seminar. Then when I started this, although I've been doing a personal one for a couple of weeks, I realized that it wasn't going to work. It looked like a website. Or a newsletter. Which I've always thought would be fun to publish, also, so I had all kinds of ideas about what it would look like. Doesn't work with a blog.

So I'm just going to write. Like I do in my personal blog.

But this one is about health, network marketing, and business.

I sell nutritional products through New Vision. I'll get links to my New Vision websites on here as soon as I get those up and running. Friday morning, is the projected date for those.

Off the top of my head, we have an essential oil line. 100% pure, third-party tested, essential oils and related products. We have nutritional supplement products, that include the best liquid vitamins and minerals you can buy anywhere. We have a weight-loss line, I think that includes some products for more sports-minded people, or maybe that's considered separate. Of course, we have excellent skin care products, because who doesn't want to be pretty?

This is my goal, besides making it fun and entertaining and informative. Share this with as many people as I can. New Vision is doing it's part to improve people's health and finances and I want to do my part to help people with the same goals. Health, wellness, financial stability, time freedom. I believe we all can be healthy physically and financially. It's takes making choices that serve us and our goals, and making those choices a habit. It takes commitment and dedication to break the old habits and create the new habits. It's not easy, but it's simple.

A smart man I was listening to said,  "We are designed to succeed, programmed to fail." Let's change that programming to succeed, also.  Together.

Okay, this sounds like a good start. Next time I'll profile a product and share a testimony. Unless something more urgent comes up.

TTFN