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Manage Your Mood, Mind, and Sleep
Sobering statistics:
• 100 x's more likely than 100 years ago to have significant mood problems • 4x the people have depression/anxiety since 1990 • 80% of doctor visits--complaints of excessive stress • 1 out of every 10 kids have mood disorders • Autism - 1 in 10,000 in 1970; now 1 in 88 2012 Critical unmet needs:
• Used up your budget coping with stress  Suffer for no justifiable reason - change in  Typical y pass - experience anger at our kids for a time, but it passes and we move doesn't make sense, but I feel helpless to  Pain of broken heart doesn't mend; can't recover from grief, loss--believe it or not, that's not normal--we have the capacity to  Rest, psychotherapy, prayer, meditation  They can usual y be relieved through True Emotions Serve a Purpose:
• True grief moves us through our losses • True fear warns us of danger • True anger can defend us from abuse • True shame can teach us to grow and change
Experience your true emotions:
• Validate your true emotions • Al ow yourself to experience emotions • This al ows you to release vs. suppress
"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in
considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them--every day begin the task
anew." -Saint Francis de Sales
Signs of False Moods:
• Poor self confidence, overly introverted • Easily irritated, agitated, or angered • Consistently lack or lose ability to • Feel anxious or phobic, frequently or • Chronic lack of enthusiasm/apathetic • Have a vice such as chocolate, caffeine, • Overly critical of self and/or others • Consistently lack a sense of well-being
Restock and nourish the brain so that we can:
• Respond to life free of false moods • Get through life's obstacles faster, deeper, and more successfully • In healing efforts, access critical memories/cope with those memories • Easier to pray, meditate, concentrate/focus • Easier to exercise, rest, relax • Easier to face whatever lies ahead with strength, serenity, and sense of humor
Chemistry correction
• Be self aware • Engage in self-care • Do proactive personal work  Therapy, Journaling, Spiritual nurturing • Make necessary dietary and lifestyle changes

Supplementation is important to success:

Life Long Vitality Pack:
 Plant nutrition: brain needs B vitamins for brain chemistry, calcium, magnesium, Vit D
 Essential fatty acids- Omega 3s
o Assist in function of glands and hormones o Deficiency symptoms include:  learning difficulties  changes in personality and behavior  Antioxidant/anti-inflammatory--great for brain health Terrazymes:
 Amino acids must be bioavailable to produce endorphins
 Improved digestion is critical to assisting this process
Ginger:
 Supports conversion of tryptophan into serotonin
 High in sesquiterpenes to cross blood brain barrier
 Excel ent for digestion

To be or not to be - Selective
 Synthetic compounds: alter  Side Effects: The isolated compound is taken out of "context" and no longer has  Natural compounds: restore  No Side Effects: Al the compounds are present and they complement each other  Selective activity of essential oils Essential Oils are capable of selective activity:
 Frankincense and cancer cel s  Cells are selective to destroy only unhealthy cel s • Monoterpenes in Frankincense promote: o Apoptosis-stimulates appropriate cel ular death o Stimulates DNA repair
Prescription Drugs for Depression:

o Stops serotonin from being broken down o Floods body with high levels of serotonin o You MUST HAVE some serotonin to work with before you can see an effect o Serotonin -- Immune system and Digestive system Essential Oils for Bio-Chemical Support
o Support balance of brain chemistry o Reduce and eliminate toxicity o Support digestion o Promote utilization of nutrients o Balance hormones Essential Oils are Messengers
o Essential Oils bind to cell receptor sites to deliver a message • How to grow and regenerate • How to reproduce and sustain life • How to ward off infection  100 to 10,000 times more concentrated than the plant material  Solicit a specific response
Limbic system: emotional control center from which al emotions emanate
 Aroma travels a quick unfiltered route  Amygdala - storage of emotions and memories Aroma for survival:
 Sense of smel is 10,000 more sensitive than seeing or tasting  Only sense directly linked to limbic brain  Aroma affects: • Mental/emotional responses of brain • Body chemistry
Solutions to Manage Mood, Mind, Sleep:
Essential oils promote selective activity and cause improved cel ular messaging which creates positive
responses in the body, body systems and cel s to promote healing and wel ness.
Rather than depressed, hopeless, resigned, in despair, pessimistic USE: Elevation, Frankincense, Melissa, Citrus
To Feel Determination, Initiative, Passion
Rather than having a lack of productivity, dreams not coming true, lack of initiative, lethargic USE: Wild Orange, Lime, Ginger, Lemongrass, Vetiver
Poor Sleep = Poor Focus
"When you're tired, you're deprived of oxygen, which is necessary for the production of chemicals
such as dopamine and adrenaline. .Even one night of tossing and turning can give you symptoms that
resemble ADHD, such as forgetfulness and difficulty maintaining concentration."
-Kathleen Nadeau, Ph.D. Director of the Chesapeake ADHD Center of Maryland, in Annapolis

To Enjoy Peaceful Sleep:
Rather than poor sleep, insomnia, restlessness, tossing and turning Rather than anxious, phobic, irrational fears, "what ifs", worried, obsessive, compulsive, USE: Peaceful Child Blend (see recipe below), Vetiver & Lavender, Roman Chamomile, Serenity &
Balance, Wild Orange & Frankincense, Basil, Bergamot with Patchouli
Attention Deficits Rising
• As many as 20% of school children exhibit ADD or ADHD behavior patterns. • Over the course of the last ten years, the average attention span has dropped from 12 minutes Rather than attention deficits, apathetic depression, unmotivated, lack of drive, lack of focus, thyroid issues, emotional flat line, lack of passion USE: InTune, Vetiver & Lavender, Peaceful Child Blend, Lemongrass & Clove, Frankincense with Wild
Orange and/or Peppermint
Oxygen = Energy
• Start moving • A quick burst of aerobic exercise relieves stress and improves concentration by flooding the brain with oxygen and activating brain chemicals such as dopamine. Rather than adrenal fatigue, high strung, wound up, mental chatter, voices in your head, burnout, exhaustion, lack of short-term memory
*Imbalanced cortisol levels:
• Too high - blood sugar imbalances, abdominal fat or weight gain • Too low - poor recovery or lack of recovery from il ness/disease Rather than crying easily, not getting over things like death, loss; have "melt-downs", can't cope with life's stresses, thrill-seeking behavior USE: Lime, Geranium, Ylang Ylang
Peaceful Child Recipe:
85 drops Vetiver (1/3 bottle)
15 drops lavender
30 drops Ylang Ylang
20 drops Frankincense
15 drops Clary Sage
10 drops Marjoram
Blend essential oils in a 10ml rol -on bottle. Then top off with coconut oil. Shake. Apply morning and
evening or as needed.

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