Ever since my teens I have believed there are better ways of addressing health concerns and I have always been open to discovering them.
True health, I believe, is based on wellness care, not just illness treatment.
Our medical model does a great job with crisis intervention – acute trauma and critical or life-saving surgeries. If we were to be involved in a car accident, for example, we would get the best of medical care. That, however, is also the problem. The system was developed to do battle with an immediate threat to life.
It has, however, very little success with chronic illnesses, autoimmune disorders, cancer prevention, and a myriad of new and mysterious ailments. Many medical schools still do not teach disease prevention or nutrition and proper diet. So much of our media is focused on finding a cure for many diseases, but little is heard about how to prevent them.
Although many holistic techniques and approaches to health are widely accepted in Europe, many American physicians have not recognized them or downplay their benefits. Often the big guns, or more invasive approaches tend to overkill and even suppress the body’s built-in immune response. Our bodies were created with the ability to heal given the right tools.
While I still have a great respect for the physician’s profession, I find it heavily influenced by the pharmaceutical industry and it’s desire for profit. This desire has shifted the priority of the medical community. In fact, Life Extension Magazine – Death by Medicine (August 2006) reports “the total number of deaths caused by conventional medicine is 783,936 per year” – that’s more deaths annually than those caused by cancer or heart disease!
I believe in an integrative approach to achieving and maintaining optimum health. In raising our own children, I used my grandmother’s imparted wisdom, along with nutrition, homeopathy, chiropractic, acupuncture, herbal and other healing modalities. I was introduced to Young Living Essential Oils in late 1995. For the past 14 years, I have used these precious therapeutic oils as well as the oil-enhanced products with great success in my own family and have seen a great many others benefit from them as well.
The book by Dr. David Stewart, Healing Oils of the Bible, is a wonderful resource to understand how these precious oils were used in biblical times and how much of that wisdom has been forgotten. Young Living Essential Oils is a company that produces and sources essential oils much in the same way, taking great effort to ensure that the healing properties of the plant oils are maximized – not tampered with, adulterated or extended in any way, thereby giving us oils that really are “treasures” .
Proverbs 21:20 ” There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise.”
I see myself as a catalyst for bringing like-minded people together as well as enlightening others who are open to more holistic ways of dealing with health.
Lives are changed when the quality of life is improved. It is my intention with this blog to bring people together with others who can offer help, not only in my immediate surroundings, but eventually, around the world.
Thank you so much for all the help you have and continue to give me! You are a wealth of information and a true blessing!