'Tis the season for feasting! With holiday get togethers abounding, it can be challenging to keep our digestive systems happy!
Two Strategies for Feeling Great After Dinner (even if we ate too much...)
While we endeavor to make good food choices and eat reasonable portions, holiday gatherings can make that challenging on many levels. Often, we don't have control of what food is available. And, even when we do, the menu is often different than our normal, everyday fare.
To keep the tummy settled, we have found these to be helpful!
1) Essentialzymes-4
These digestive enzymes have a broad spectrum to address the four types of food: protein, carbohydrates, fiber, and fat. On typical days, we take them with our biggest meal. On feasting days, I take them before AND after the big feast -- and again if the food isn't digesting efficiently after an hour, or so.
2) DiGize Essential Oil Blend
We like to rub this essential oil blend on our tummies after a big meal, especially if the food isn't sitting quite right...
It's a great way to enhance massage for the abdomen. This video highlights abdominal massage using JuvaFlex (over the liver area) and DiGize (over the stomach area).
Massage enhanced with oils can help all along the digestive system!
DiGize also comes as a Vitality oil, meaning as a dietary supplement. It can be added to water (just a drop will do) to soothe the digestive system. We like to make a capsule with 3-4 drops and take with a meal.
Got Kids?
1) MightyZymes
There are digestive enzymes designed especially for kids - they're CHEWABLE. These MightyZymes changed our lives and helped our kids be able to manage eating out of the house at restaurants and other people's homes. We still have to be diligent in our food selections, but the enzymes helped smooth out any unforseen dietary issues!
2) TummyGize essential oil blend
This blend is part of the KidScents line -- designed especially for kids! The name says it all. TummyGize is already diluted, so we can feel confident to use with kids, even on the go!
Enjoy your feasting through the holiday season! Make good choices - and use these awesome tools to keep things moving smoothly!
Check out these yummy holiday recipes that include Vitality Essential Oils -- add some zing to your recipes!
You can take care of the delicate skin around your eyes!
Do you have
- puffy eyelids,
- dark circles,
- wrinkles?
Here are some ideas to support your body and your skin!
Delicate
The skin around your eyes needs a little extra care! Young Living's Wolfberry Eye Cream is a thick moisturizer designed specifically for that!
Here's a quick video demo of how I use it:
It utilizes the powerful antioxidant (and anti-aging) benefits of wolfberry seed oil.
Some other ingredients of note are herbs that tone the skin, such as witch hazel, cucumber, and green tea.
It also features sodium hyaluronate -- a water-soluble salt of hyaluronic acid... both of which are helpful for connective tissue elasticity and supporting collagen production.
AND, it has amazing essential oils, such as sandalwood, frankincense, lavender, ylang ylang. geranium (and more).
Notice the technique of dot-dot-dot application of the moisturizer, as opposed to stretching the skin around the eyes! This helps to maintain elasticity and tone in the connective tissue.
Dark Circles
There are many reasons that dark circles can be occurring. One is lymph (or fluid) pooling... scroll down to the section on "Puffy."
I have found that when my digestion is inefficient or I'm experiencing a food sensitivity, the dark circles can get more pronounced. That's when I use Young Living's Essentialzymes-4 with my biggest meal to support the process of digestion.
When I'm not sleeping well, those circles can become darker (and bigger). Essential oils help me relax to go to sleep! There are so many options (a subject for another blog post...), but one of my favorites is Valor! I put it on the bottom of my feet, do the Valor hold, and then put a few more drops on the back of my neck!
Puffy
You can help the fluid in your face (and around your eyes) keep moving! Here's a demo video of a face massage focusing on lymphatic drainage:
Wrinkles
Wolfberry Eye Cream is designed specifically for the skin around the eyes. It pairs well with Young Living's Boswellia Wrinkle Cream! As massage therapists, when we do a face massage with clients using the Boswellia Wrinkle Cream, we can literally see a difference!
Utilize these strategies, techniques, and products together to optimize your results!
This is the time for cooking (and eating)! Add some zing to your traditional holiday recipes with the Vitality line of essential oils from Young Living -- labeled as dietary supplements, they add a depth of flavor that is unparalleled!
Here are some recipes!
Just getting started? The Premium Starter Kit with essential oils (& diffuser) comes with many Vitality oils -- including Lemon Vitality and Thieves Vitality (that contains Cinnamon Bark & Clove) that are both versatile additions to recipes!
Relax with the lovely, light citrus scent of Bergamot essential oil!
Diffuser Blends
From Young Living's blog: How to Use Bergamot Like a Pro
As the seasons change this fall and then to winter, we stock up (like the squirrels) and make sure we're ready!
Here's are our MUST-HAVES from Young Living to weather the seasons AND the "sugar season."
--> And, I'll add a note that we're ALREADY needing them this week; I'm sooooo glad that we ordered early!
All Things Thieves
- Hand Sanitizer
- Spray
- Household Cleaner (make it into Pumpkin Spice!)
- Foaming Hand Soap
- Cough Drops
- Lozenges
- Thieves Roll-on
Supplements to Support Your Immune System
- Thieves Vitality essential oil blend
- Lemon Vitality essential oil
- Inner Defense gelcaps
- NingXia Red
Fire up your Diffuser
Here are some great diffuser blends for the Autumn season, but in reality Use What You Have! Just get that diffuser going!
Already a member, be sure to stock up! Order today and take advantage of the monthly freebies!
Ready to become a member? The Thieves Premium Starter Kit is a great way to start to stock up on all things Thieves! Or the Premium Essential Oils Starter Kit with a diffuser is a rock solid way to start!
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