Life is a risk. Some people are certainly more comfortable with it than others, and the level of what we are ready, willing and able to risk varies but that said – we all take risks, everyday.
How do you approach risk?
Where is your edge?
Have you jumped off that ledge yet to see whether you would fall or fly? How many times?
Imagine the scents in the air as you are walking through a summer garden .. or the deep forest .. or grass just after a spring rain … or your place of business … or your home. Do they all bring up pleasant images and uplifting thoughts as you take in a nice deep breath of the air? Ideally, they do. If not, you can affect a change relatively easily.
Aromatherapy is the art and science of blending essential oils to calm, balance and rejuvenate the individual. The art applies to blending, the science applies to understanding the chemical therapeutic properties of each oil.
When applied topically, they are absorbed through the skin and are transported through the body via the circulatory system. It is at the cell level that they can affect the physical body. When inhaled, the molecules affect the limbic system, via the olfactory nerve receptors. The limbic system is the core of emotion and memory, among other things. The connection between our emotional health and physical health is well known. Commercially, many companies use aromatherapy to influence customers buying habits, to increase productivity and accuracy at work and to keep people relaxed and calm in potentiall stressful situations.
This is a wonderful way to improve the quality of everyday living on many levels (physical, emotional, spiritual). Aromatherapy is a natural way to feel better, both on the inside and the outside, using pure, safe essential oils extrracted from naturally aromatic living plants. These botanical esences help us to balance, support our well-being and contribute to our inner harmony.
Many people use store bought air fresheners to enhance their environment. And that can work, but you may be dumping a lot of toxic chemicals into the air which may cause more harm than good in the long run. Perhaps it is time to switch to something that not only smells good, but is good for you too!
I will be re-introducing a few well loved products and a few new ones in the upcoming months so stay tuned! I’m jazzed!!!!
A common belief used to be that you could provide healing work to others without taking care of your own healing. That has shifted into a common belief that you must do your own healing work in order to be effective with others.
Doing your own work, expanding into the more that you are, has always made sense to me no matter what profession you are in. Those “interesting things” from our past can shift from baggage we carry around that weights us down and holds us back, to nuggests of wisdom that we can draw on for wisdom and strength.
Retelling old drama’s over and over only serve to keep us stuck. Let it go, get the help you need to support yourself in moving beyond the stories so that you can be here now, in all your strength and glory.
Freedom from the past, being present in the moment and enjoying what life has to offer is a juicy way to live. And as you are more “whole” or present in your life, your creations – whether that is web design, client sessions or latte art – will be that much better!
If you are new to business you will find this site full of helpful information to get you started. Cherie Sohnen-Moe’s book, Business Mastery, is used in many massage schools for their business classes. It’s considered a classic for new touch therapy businesses. She also offers a free marketing service which emails you monthly goals and weekly reminders to help you build your business. The book, Ethics of Touch, co-authored by Cherie, is also used by many schools and comes highly recommended. It addresses the difficult and confusing dilemmas confronting touch therapy practitioners.
If you have the basics down, a wonderful next step is Mark Silver’s Heart of Business: when you want to make a difference, but need to make a profit. He also offers a lot of very useful and insightful help on his site and has a weekly newsletter you can sign up for. With this work, you learn to connect, deep within your heart and your business flows out of that place. Your jewel, the essence of what you have to offer, can then shine more brightly. Juicy stuff!
Our Quantum Touch Instructor pilot group has just finished up a 6 month exploration of how to support practitioners and instructors. Led by Brian Whetten, Selling by Giving: how to give your way to a soul-centered, six-figure practice, he is offering courses to help you fly forward, stepping through the beliefs that are holding you back.
Have you ever had the experience of all of a sudden feeling hands on your back or neck? You turn to see who it is, and it’s someone you’ve never met? How did you feel? Were you comfortable with the touch?
I remember one workshop I attended. During lunch I sat down next to people I didn’t know. The woman on my left was chatting with those on her left, so we didn’t initially speak. All of a sudden I felt a strong hand rubbing my back and digging into my muscle tissue.
“Excuse me” I thought, “we haven’t even met.” I was a bit put off by her assumption that I would enjoy her touching me. I did not invite her to touch me, nor did she ask – heck, I hadn’t had any interaction with her at all. She just jumped in and set about getting to know my muscle tissues. I’m sure her gesture was intended as a warm way to say hello, but it felt inappropriate.
I had a chat with a friend of mine the other day about relationships and limitations. We all have limitations, whether we’ve created them ourselves or have adopted those created by others. The freedom comes in recognizing that we have the power of choice to live within them or expand them to suit our needs.
For instance, I prefer to abide by the law. Most of those limitations are ok with me and I can play happily within them. Kevin and I are in a monogamous relationship – those limitations work well for us. The belief that doctors will take care of all our ills and we have no responsibility in it, is far too limiting a concept to me as I believe health and wellness is more than the absence of disease and we need to be responsible for ourselves.
For our children we set the limitations, or boundaries, for them to explore and grow within. As they mature and begin to accept responsibility for their actions, we can expand their boundaries. In this way, they are able to grow up in a size-appropriate environment as safe as we can provide, and explore their ever expanding world.
As adults, we create our own limitations or adopt those of others to live our lives. There isn’t one right way – what is right for me may not be right for you and what is right for you may not be right for me. Some “limitation boxes” are small and made of steel, other are large with perforated sides so that one can peek beyond their structure, but remain in their safety zone, some have doors so they can go out and explore but have a safe place to come home to and some have no sides or walls at all and anything goes. We create them to make order of our world and to function within it. And we all have the power to change them at any time. It is all simply choice.
How do you feel about what you’ve created?
And if there are areas where you feel stuck or limited, how do you break free? Or do you?
Once I was called out to work on an injured racehorse. The veterinarian had already been there but wasn’t able to get close enough to the horse to do what he wanted to do, so the owners decided to try me. I was able to reduce the pain and inflammation considerably – to the point that the veterinarian could do his “doctoring.” I thought it might be the beginning of a business relationship – or at least the occasional referral.
But no. As it turned out he tried to discredit me in the community.