Focus on the essentials -
the 4 Essentials for Life: Food, Water, Air, and Love.
Dr. Peter Minke shares that if something is essential for life, then it is powerful for healing. We tend to spend a lot of time on food. However, we can live weeks without food, days without water, but only minutes without air. As powerful as food is for our healing, water is more powerful, and air is even more powerful. (And the greatest of these is love....)
To start our Wellness Renewal, we start with AIR... and add LOVE along the way.
Dr. Minke has provided videos to help you get in touch with your Respiratory System:
1) learn the anatomy and how it functions,
2) utilize breath to become more self-aware,
3) find out how specific nutrients and supplements support the basic functions, and
4) be trained in do-able massage and movement techniques to facilitate optimal function and increase comfort levels.
These videos are FREE. You can sign up to receive weekly emails with links.
These are greatly enhanced by adding in Young Living essential oils and supplements. You can choose what fits your needs, as well as time and money budget.
Action Steps for the month:
- Stop the Poison - Get rid of artificial fragrance in your living space (FREE)! Replace with natural, premium essential oils from Young Living. Get your diffuser out!
- Diffuse daily with Young Living essential oils and blends; try oils that are typically known for helping breathe easy.
- Focus on your breath for at least one short period of the day. Increasing your breath volume and oxygenation by even a little bit can have profound benefits! (FREE)
- Massage your ribcage to optimize your breath volume. This takes about 5-10 minutes and can be done daily or weekly. (FREE or add a massage oil)
- Take supplements to support and get in touch with your respiratory system.
- Apply Young Living essential oils topically to your chest and back to feel your Respiratory System.
- Build self-awareness skills, especially targeting your Respiratory System. (FREE)
- Speak powerful positive affirmations about your breath and body! (FREE)
Minimum
If you don't yet have a diffuser and Young Living essential oils, that's the place to start. Replace your artificial fragrance (candles, sprays, plug-ins, etc.).
You can use the essential oils and blends in the Premium Starter Kit for other parts of the Wellness Renewal -- making a massage oil, rubbing on topically to feel your Respiratory System, and even supplements to support the Respiratory System.
If you already have your diffuser and some oils to play with, you can choose to branch out and try some new oils.
If your budget allows, I would get Sulfurzyme, as well. Focusing on breathing and breath volume can get things moving in the body... Sulfurzyme provides basic nutrition to support the cleansing process. (Here's a video to explain.)
Basic
The Minimum plus I would highly recommend investing in the "Calm it Down Trio" of Sulfurzyme, Super C, Allerzyme. I find this trio helpful to manage cleansing reactions.
Complete
Oils and supplements to support your process of getting in touch with your Respiratory System!
- Choose a couple of essential oils or blends to apply topically and diffuse (RC, Myrtle, Breathe Again, etc.).
- Massage Oil to relax the ribcage and muscles around the Respiratory System (OrthoSport or OrthoEase)
- Release essential oil blend to manage emotional issues that may come up when focusing on breath.
- Supplements to support the Respiratory System:
- Laurus Nobilis Vitality essential oil
- Sulfurzyme
- Allerzyme
- Super C
- NingXia Red
Here's a video explanation of what to order and why by Dr. Peter Minke.
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Supporting healthy liver and gallbladder function is so important for your wellness journey! Here's what we use in three categories: immediate, short-term, and long-term!
Comfort in the Moment
This is what works for us!
1) Epsom Salts
Dissolve 1 teaspoon of Epsom Salts in some water. (It tastes vile, in my opinion, so I just put it in about a quarter cup of water and chug it. Then, chase it with something that tastes good -- even plain water works.) The theory behind this is that it supposedly relaxes the bile ducts.
The is essential oil blend comes in a Vitality label. So we sometimes take it as a supplement and put a 3-5 drops in a capsule. It also comes in a topical label -- and I use it with massage over my liver area.
Take the Pressure Off
These are supplements we use for immediate support. We do use them long term, but we find them helpful in the short-term.
The liver and gallbladder help digest and process the food we've taken in. Adding digestive enzymes as part of our food helps the digestive process along -- and lightens the load on the liver. Essentialzymes-4 has a spectrum of digestive enzymes that address all 4 major food groups (carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and fiber). We take it with our biggest meal.
2) Sulfurzyme
The liver utilizes nutritional sulfur to help bind toxins to cleanse them from the body. Supplementing nutritional sulfur can give the body resources to be more efficient with this process. I take 4 capsules of Sulfurzyme before bed.
Long Term Strategy
1) Stop the Poison
Implementing Dr. Minke's full 3-Part Wellness Strategy is key. Most of the ideas listed above are in the "Flood the Body with Nutrients" category. "Stop the Poison" helps other parts be more effective and lightens the load on the body. Clean up your diet; eliminate trans fats, chemical additives, refined & artificial sugars, and refined grains. If you're new to that process, we encourage that process over a year's time in the YL Wellness Program.
2) Liver and Gallbladder Flush
Over the years, we have done many of the liver and gallbladder flushes (utilizing olive oil & lemon juice) and experienced a great deal of benefit. Dr. Minke has a booklet that lays out the process, as well as the preparations we've found to be helpful before the cleanse. Just contact us for more info.
Month 3 of our year-long YL Wellness Program focuses on the digestive system with special emphasis on the liver. You can watch the videos and learn more about your liver and gallbladder and how to support them!
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Happy Wellness! - It's February - Month 2 of the YL Wellness Program!
Let's focus on the Fluid System or Circulatory System (aka the blood and the lymph)!
Lymph Drainage for the Neck & Head
Antioxidants for the Blood
The Goals
1) support the Fluid (or Circulatory) System
2) ditch the toxins in your personal body care products
3) continue ditching trans fats from your diet
Check out our sister blog at Minke Wellness with all the video resources in one place!
What to Order & Why
Taking Our Supplements for the Fluid System
Make sure you're optimizing your savings and your FREEBIES using Young Living's Loyalty Rewards program!
100ish PV Option
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* Master Formula
* Rehemogen tincture
* choose either Clove Vitality or Grapefruit Vitality
For the full program (300ish PV Option) -- add these
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* Grapefruit Vitality or Clove Vitality (the other one)
* Cel-Lite Magic Massage Oil
* Allerzyme capsules
* Slique CitraSlim capsules
--> Be sure you keep plenty of Sulfurzyme on hand -- if you need to reorder that, it takes priority!
Then, choose A or B:
A: #StopthePoison with your personal care products (This is top priority if you haven't done it, yet.)
---> Ex. Lavender Shampoo, Lavender Conditioner, Lavender Hand & Body Lotion, and Lavender Foaming Hand Soap (choose your favorites from Young Living)
B: NingXia Red 2-pack (if you've already ditched & switched for your personal care products)
