Why Essential Oils
Essential Oils: The Foundation of Your Business
Why do you want to share essential oils? Why not something else? As you work towards your dreams, the most important thing next to understanding why you want to build a business is to know WHY you chose to follow THIS particular path. Let’s dive in to understanding the amazingness that is essential oils! This way, when your family or friends give you "the look” once you begin sharing them, you have some solid facts to back up your decision and passion. Their “What Are You Doing?” look will turn in to a “ME TOO!"
"Why Essential Oils" was inspired by a youTube video recorded by Dr. Jim Bob Haggerton, a chiropractor and Young Living Diamond in Texas. He is really fun, and he teaches about why Young Living's oils and products work so well with our body. Here are nine of the reasons why essential oils are so amazing.
Reason #1: Essential Oils Can Bypass Digestion
This works when you diffuse the oils or use them topically. Without the aromatic or topical use of oils, you are relying fully on your digestive system (no matter how good or not-so-good it is) to process everything you consume, including food and supplements. Essential oils increase your ability to process what you need. The chances of you taking something in orally and fully digesting it are slim. So, let's bypass that, shall we?
Here’s what you really need to know: Your body will experience positive changes from using essential oils whether your gut is perfect for not!
Reason #2: Essential Oils Are Fat Soluble
What the heck does that mean and why is it important? When you put a drop of oil on your skin and you rub it in, it DISAPPEARS! You don’t see it on your skin, you don’t see it on your fingers. Underneath your skin, there is a little fatty bi-layer that soaks it right up and shoots it all into the bloodstream so it can get to work.
FUN FACT: It takes your body only 20 minutes to get oil: into your body, into your bloodstream, taking care of business, changing all the frequencies it needs to and then out of our system. Twenty minutes!
Now, if your body is working overtime to stay above the wellness line (healthy and operating perfectly, as it should), this means that you want to apply oils continually throughout your day to assist it along the way. Essential oils, herbs, and supplements are NOT medication. They are natural substances to help your body do what it was made to do. The reason you only need to take some medications once a day or once every 12 hours is because they are an artificial fix to a natural problem. It artificially, synthetically changes the body in a direction that they body was not going to go on its own. With oils, herbs and supplements, you are SUPPORTING the body to do what is was made to do in the first place!
There is no need to medicate yourself with essential oils. YES, they can help the body to work better! And if you help the body to work better, some things will go away naturally because that’s what they body is made to do. We were created to have 100% function. Essential oils help in pushing you toward health and keeping your body normal! SUPPORT YOUR BODY SYSTEMS!
Reason #3: Essential Oils Cross the Blood-Brain Barrier
The blood brain barrier is a protective layer of blood vessels that wrap around the nervous system and the brain to keep toxins and negative things out of it so they don't create damage. Now, get this! The cell particles of essential oils are SO small and so powerful that they can cross right through the blood-brain barrier, though the blood vessels and capillaries, and drive themselves right into your body to help you right away.
To understand a little bit better, let's look at our bodies like an onion. There are many, many layers of defense when it comes to our immune system. Each layer is a line of defense. The outermost layer of the onion, just like ours, is the skin or mucous membrane. This is the first line of defense until something (an invader) tries to get through, then comes the second layer to protect us and so on (think of how many layers an onion has, we have them, too).Each layer serves to make the invader weaker and weaker as it works its way further into our system.
Now, the invader that is trying to attack our immune system gets further and further down past each layer until it makes its way to the very center and LAST LAYER. That’s where the most important control center of your body and immune system is, your brain and spinal cord, layered deep below all of our lines of defense. This is essential. You cannot operate without the brain and nervous system working properly. If the invaders are trying to get to the core, they must REALLY, REALLY want it. Invaders should NEVER GET HERE. Essential oils help support your body so it can do what it was designed to do, fight off any invaders.
Summary: Oils cross the blood brain barrier so their amazing super power can get deep into our system neurologically and affect every system of the body QUICKLY.
Reason #4: Essential Oils Work Off of Frequencies
Every single living thing has a different vibrational frequency. Every plant, tree, water, cell in your body has a different frequency, and they are all literally vibrating. You can research this more on scholar.google.com, which will pull up scientific, scholarly studies for you to study.
There has been a ton of scientific research done on plants and essential oils, so Young Living knows the vibrational frequency of each plant/oil. They ALSO have researched how the body’s cells function off of different frequencies. They match the plants that help to stimulate and support that area of the body and create specific changes. Based on that, they use oils and create blends to help your body to operate exactly as it’s supposed to!
That’s why you can have an oil called JOY. Because they know that the frequencies of these specific plants/oils in that blend work with the right parts of the body to:
· Support emotional well-being
· Give a feeling of happiness
· Promote a more joyful outlook
· Calm down
· Reduce normal daily stressors
Scientifically, the essential oil is helping our body to experience joy! The cells oschilaate, hit another cell, and pass it on down the line… this is what happening! It’s literally vibration and it’s physics! Nothing crazy odd going on here, people. It’s just physics. Okay, I feel a little smarter, don’t you?
Reason #5: Essential Oils are Adaptogenic
Essential oils are adaptogenic, which means that essential oils can change and adapt to what the body needs, because it’s a natural substance. It does for my body WHAT my body needs, and for your body what YOUR body needs. Essential oils are a natural, living thing used to help your body work better. To work AS IT SHOULD.
Let's say that we open a bottle of Lavender together. For me, it might calm me down and make me want to take a nap. You might get a little burst of energy! This happens because the oil is adapting and doing what your body needs it to do for you.
Another piece of the term adaptogenic is that the essential oils you are using are not going to do anything beyond what your body needs it to do. If you are supporting a certain organ in your body, imagine a vertical line down the center that represents optimum function. Perhaps you are currently operating on the right side of that line. Using the essential oil will assist your body in bringing itself back to the center to perform optimally. Maybe you are operating on the left of that normal line. That same essential oil will do what it needs to do, even if that is different than what it would have done had you been on the right side of the line, to bring you back to center. The whole purpose is to bring your body back into balance.
Reason #6: Essential Oils Work in Therapy Localization
Therapy localization is the phenomenon where when you touch an area of your body, all of the neurology of the brain turns its focus and its attention to that area: brings more blood supply, increases sensitivity to the nerve endings, and helps to improve function in that area. Touch is specific and needs to be intentional.
Putting an essential oil on topically over an area you want to specifically address does not drive the essential oil straight into that organ. It actually works like this: it activates the nervous system in that area to increase blood flow and circulation in that area which draws the essential oil into the blood and allows it to reach that specific area more quickly and the frequencies go to work to do their thing.
FUN FACT: Every square inch of our skin contains at least 19,000 nerve endings. Get the essential oils on three square inches of skin, and you’ve reached 57,000 nerve endings! You are stimulating a lot of nerves!!
Reason #7: Essential Oils Clean Receptor Sites
Oils are made up of chemical constituents called phenols, monoterpenes and sesquiterpenes. You know what they do? They CLEAN the receptor sites on our cells! When a receptor site has corrosion, the connections are not good. Consequently, the signals from the brain to the body are not clear and the brain cannot properly process the information it receives from the body. It is essential that communication is clear for our bodies to function properly! Fortunately, we have essential oils to clean out the corrosion so our brains can properly communicate with our body systems!
Reason #8: Essential Oils Are Easy & Safe to Use
Therapeutic grade essential oils improve function! Sometimes that process can be uncomfortable. This is why carrier oils are so awesome! They help make this comfortable by slowing down how quickly the essential oils work. Carrier oils are fatty oils such as coconut oil, jojoba oil, olive oil, etc. Do NOT use items such as petroleum jelly, butter, margarine, or vegetable shortening. Also, use common sense!! Start slowly. A couple drops goes a long way. Don’t dump a whole bottle on you or down your throat! Follow the label guidelines.
Reason #9: Everyone Can and Should Use Essential Oils
Can’t stand the smell of an oil? Apply it to your feet instead! Don’t like using essential oils on your skin? Diffuse them! There are three applications of therapeutic-grade essential oils. You have options. Do what you are comfortable with.
You need to know that PURITY MATTERS! Young Living has what is called the Seed-to-Seal promise to ensure that what the oil says on the label is actually what’s in the body. If an oil does not meet our therapeutic standards, they don’t give it to us! They put it back into the soil to nourish the soil and what it grows. It HAS to live up to therapeutic-grade standards.
Here is Dr. Haggerton's video if you'd like to watch it.
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