April first is April Fool’s Day, a day we traditionally play jokes on one another for fun. Well this is no joke—pure Essential Oils ARE for real—the best thing we can do to optimize our health. Lately we have observed our politicians trying their best to take away healthcare as we know it. You might say “Oh no, what will we do? How can we afford health insurance?” But take a breath, this may not be all bad. It will force many to look around and see that there are holistic alternatives to the expensive healthcare options that we have now. For example, research is showing that more people die from the effects of chemotherapy then are actually helped. And, the airways are filled with ads for one drug or another and when you look into them, the side effects are worse than the problem you want to solve with the advertised drugs. Something is wrong here. We are putting profits ahead of caring for humanity.
Many years ago, I was trained as a traditional allopathic nurse working in intensive care. I believed modern medicine was the only panacea for good health. But then something happened that caught my attention and made me question all that I had learned. It was a pain in the neck, literally. Western medicine said it had the answer to my muscle spasms in the form of steroid injections. Only this remedy did not help but made my situation worse. I secretly sought out a chiropractor and the problem quickly resolved. When other stress related symptoms developed, again the chiropractor helped. I began taking supplements for my health at the encouragement of my new doctor. Eventually I realized I needed to get out of that stressful environment and went into administration—now I really had headaches! Again, massage, chiropractic and supplements came to the rescue. Years later I discovered Healing Touch and was convinced that Western Medicine as I had learned it was not the best path to health for me or for others. Eventually I was led to essential oils and it all began to come together. Since my first educational degree was in history, I discovered that it was in the 1700’s that we veered away from a holistic understanding of body/mind/spirit to a philosophy that all we had to do was come up with a new drug or a new surgery to cure what ails you. Since then, we have gone down a dark path that does not recognize the role of good nutrition, exercise and healthy ways of dealing with stress. We let go of the “old ways” rather than look into why they had worked for 5,000 years.
Essential oils—that is, the really pure ones like Young Living Essential Oils is the real deal when it comes to maintaining good health. Don’t get me wrong—there is a time and place for allopathic healthcare. If I have sustained trauma, I need a doctor and a modern hospital to patch me up like last year when I fell and broke my arm. Recently I moved to South Carolina and had to find a new doctor. I chose one who is a Doctor of Osteopathy (DO). When I presented her with a long 2-page list of supplements I take along with their ingredients and why I was taking them, she was genuinely pleased and asked to keep the list. That is an open-minded doctor I can work with to stay healthy.
So, it is no joke—we need to take personal responsibility for our health and that means eating well, exercising, taking supplements and using essential oils for our health. And when aches and pains develop—rather than reaching for a pharmaceutical pill, search out a massage therapist, Healing Touch practitioner, or aromatherapist to advise and help.