May is coming in a little cooler after that hot 'splat' the end of April ~ and we welcome all those plants in abundant bloom! My desert willow is opening up, which will make the hummingbird who's been checking it out for days more happy!

If you're like me, you are outside puttering in the yard, going for walks, or generally enjoying nature. Which means – there's more occasion to have bumps and scraps and ouchies.

Join me for our Wellness Wednesday with Essential Oils:

Creating Your First Aid Kit 

with Essential Oils

*Wednesday, May 9th, 7:00 pm at the Herb Shop

RSVP at frostline7@yahoo.com or call/text 480-840-4783

SWHerb Shop and Gathering Place

148 N. Center Street, Mesa, AZ 85201

Weds: May 9th~ Creating Your First Aid Kit  with Essential Oils

7:00-8:30 pm / $25

This is an “essential” class ~ giving information on essential oils and how you can assemble your own basic care kit (with 10 suggested basic oils)  to care for you and your family. Many formulas and protocols for various home ailments, injuries, and sicknesses will be shared.

Come enjoy learning more about these precious gifts.
I hope to hear from you and see you soon!
For your best health and wellness,
Julia Frost, CH Aromatherapy

Wellness Wednesday in April

We had a wonderful group at our March Wellness Class, where we explored non-toxic alternatives for everyday cleaning, including use of essential oils. Everyone went home with the know-how to cleaning chemical free; including dealing with seasonal allergies using all natural ingredients. We even made some home-made laundry soap! We laughed and shared stories. It was great! Looking forward to another great class in April. 

 

Wellness Wednesdays with Essential Oils

At SWHerb Shop this Spring!

Each month we will explore the health benefits of Essential Oils.

                                        *Safe and effective                *Relieves pain

                                        *Aides healing                       *Calms and soothes

*From Nature's pharmacy

Wednesday, April 11: 7:00-9:00 pm / $20

Wellness Wednesday w/ Essential Oils: "A Gift of the Earth: Our Healing Trees”. 

There are many essential oils that come specifically from the leaves, stems, bark, flowers, and fruit of various trees, which have amazing health and wellness benefits for us. We will also note some of the trees of the desert southwest and their native and traditional uses. 

April = Earth Day, Arbor Day

Blue Mist from Eucalyptus Trees

Look for more Wellness Wednesday topics to come!

Essential Oils with Children

Creating Your First Aid Kit with Essential Oils

Various Body Systems care using Essential Oils (multiple classes)

Scents of the Season – Our Healing Holidays

Spa-cific De-Stress

Wellness Wednesdays with Essential Oils

Coming to SWHerb Shop this Spring!

Each month we will explore the health benefits of Essential Oils.

*Safe and effective 

*Relieves pain

*Aides healing 

*Calms and Soothes

*From Nature's pharmacy

Wednesday, February 8: 7:00-9:00 pm / $35 includes take-home project.

Wellness Wednesday w/ Essential Oils: "Spa-cific De-stress"

Pamper, destress, and rejuvenate yourself or someone special! Stress can be a serious health hazard that affects both mental and physical well being.  We will explore easy things you can do at home, including some ideas for Spa related pampering. Enjoy some time out before Valentine's Day!!

 

Instructor: Julia Frost, CH, Aromatherapy

Julia has been with SWHerb for over 4 years. Her search for answers

to her own family's health challenges led her to study herbalism and essential oils. With these synergistic tools, she has found them to generate health, wellness, and wholeness. 

 

SWHerb Shop and Gathering Place

148 N. Center Street, Mesa, AZ 85201

Call SW Herb 480-694-9931 to register

Mental Health Aide from Nature

I have known people who have suffered with mental health illness for years. It seems that every family is touched by it to some degree, from light depression to severe.  Science coupled with plain, ole practicality seems to win out over just science every time. Why don't we get it?

This link of an excerpt of the DVD was sent to me by an acquaintance. Think what is it about the B-vitamin niacin that makes this solution possible. And just niacin!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K2tqxKf2EE


I typed the below out, listening to the piece......

To watch the full length film please visit: http://www.foodmatters.tv

 

 [BTW - if you are interested in purchasing this video - go to Amazon. It's cheaper.]

 

[transcript of excerpt above]

“I worked with a lady once who was suicidally depressed. She lived at home with her family. She was in her 50s. And she spent all day sitting in a corner, faced the corner. She wouldn't talk to anyone; she wouldn't eat with anyone; she was totally uncommunicative. She was under the care of a psychiatrist, of course; as she should be. And the psychiatrist had her on a variety of medications, which you would expect. The family was wondering about nutrition.”

Gentleman mentioned Dr. Hoffer's (?) work with Niacin – “and they wondered how much she needed to take.... this person was very seriously ill. And I mentioned that Dr. Hoffer normally gave about 3000 mg a day of Niacin, but some people need a lot more, especially very sick people. And they should give her as much as it takes to make her better.”

“At 11,500 mg of Niacin a day, she was sitting at the table and talking to them like nothing had happened. So they went to the psychiatrist, showed the psychiatrist this recovered person, and [he] said, well, I don't think you should take all that Niacin. It might be harmful.”

“So they stopped giving her the Niacin. And she was back in the corner.”

“Safety with Niacin? There's not one death from Niacin per year on average. There's been one or two attributed over the last 15 or 20 years. But there's not even one death per year from Niacin.”

“And how many people that are suicidally depressed actually go and end their lives?”

Happy Thoughts Benefit Health

As we look at the whole person - there is no way we can separate our body's health and the way we think! Here are two segments from Dr. Bruce Lipton whom, I think, really has done a lot to bridge the gap between science and the unseen part of ourselves........

"Happy Thoughts"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lf1iAAO9Yo&feature=related

Dr. Bruce Lipton shares how he began walking his talk by changing his thoughts which then brought about positive changes in his outer life. He is considered one of the pioneers in bridging science and spirituality..
(30 sec black screen)

The added benefit of positive thoughts are they can also negate toxins in the outer world from harming our bodies.


A little about Dr. Lipton:

• Dr. Bruce Lipton, a cell biologist, in his research at Stanford's School of Medicine between 1987 and 1992, revealed that the environment, operating through the cell membrane, controlled the behavior and physiology of the cell, turning the genes on and off. His discoveries presaged one of today's most important fields of study, the science of epigenetics (control above the genes). His research shows that energy impacts cells as much as the physical (chemical), substantiating and validating the efficacy of alternative therapies and spiritual healing. Lipton is currently regarded as one of the leading voices of the new biology.
  • “When I first recognized that the brain of the cell was the cell membrane, rather than genes, I was blown away, for the mechanism revealed that life was controlled by signals from the “environment.” The significance of this finding is that the identity of the “self,” distinguishing one individual from another, would also represent an environmental (external) signal.... If the cell (organism) dies, its identity [spirit, intelligence] signal is still present in the environment. At that moment or awareness, I realized that we have an externalized “identity” and are immortal. The realization of a transcendent “identity” brought an amazing sense of peace into my life, for I had truly lost the greatest of all fears ...death. It was the most profound experience for me, a non-spiritual scientist that wasn't even looking for that particular understanding.”

• Dr. Bruce Lipton on The New Biology: part one of several video segments.

  Recent advances in cellular science are heralding an important evolutionary turning point. For almost fifty years we have held the illusion that our health and fate were preprogrammed in our genes, a concept referred to as genetic determinacy. Though mass consciousness is currently imbued with the belief that the character of one's life is genetically predetermined, a radically new understanding is unfolding at the leading edge of science. Cellular biologists now recognize that the environment, the external universe and our internal physiology, and more importantly, our perception of the environment, directly controls the activity of our genes. This video will broadly review the molecular mechanisms by which environmental awareness interfaces genetic regulation and guides organismal evolution.

  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8506668136396723343#