Home Spa Lady Tips Issue # 3 Aromatherapy Soothes Cancer, Hospital Spas

HomeSpaLady's Natural Wellness NewsletterIssue # 3 - December 12, 2005Publisher: Marilee Tolen RN
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In This Issue
1. Natural Home-Made Holiday Ideas for Decorating and Gifts
2. Spas in Hospitals - The Next Trend?
3. Aromatherapy Soothes Cancer Patients
4. 'The Continuum' - Movement that Heals and Helps Aging
5. Give Yourself a 'Bath Kiss'
6. A Channeled Message by Barbara Brennan
7. 'Your' Topics of Interest
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1.Home Made Natural Holiday Ideas for Decorating and Gifts
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* Scented Pine Cones Pine Cones hold scent - even therapeutic grade essential oils that have no additives and fixatives. Christmas Spirit Essential Oil Blend (YL) is a great blend to use for the holiday. Drop several drops of oil into a spray bottle with water. Spray your pine cones.

* Natural Moth Chaser Combine 2 cups of cedar chips and 2 cups of lavender buds. Add 3 drops Lemon Oil, 5 drops cedarwood, and 5 drops of lavender Mix in glass bowl Place mixture in basket and set in closet or make sachets and hang in closet

* Natural Dry-Itchy Skin Eliminator A great gift for your 'itchy friends'. Mix this blend in a pretty blue bottle and tie it with a red ribbon with a tag 'For your bath'
Mix together:
6 drops hyssop oil
9 drops lavender
6 drops of geranium oil
1/4 cup sweet-almond oil

Instructions: Add to warm bath water and soak for twenty minutes (this makes about 3 baths)
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2. Spas in Hospitals - The Next Trend?
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Some of you read my blog posting on December 10th(www.HomeSpaLady.com/Blog) about the "Chuckle Channel" - a 24 hour television station that plays at Honolulu's Queens Medical Center to bring in Humor Therapy for the patients. These CAM(Complementary and Alternative Medicine) Therapies are becoming more popular at progressive institutions. Now there are 'spas' in hospitals. The Oasis Spa Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa, Arizona, is a hospital based spa that makes services available for staff, volunteers, and patients. This hybrid facility offers massage, waxing, pedicures and other holistic therapies.
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3. Aromatherapy Soothes Cancer Patients
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Many of you HomeSpaLady readers are body workers, hospice nurses, energy healers, and the like, who are familiar with using therapeutic grade essential oils with people with diseases such as cancer. Some of you are even spawning programs in facilities and organizations using this modality. It's always good to know that some of the 'giants' are behind you also doing what you're doing - it can make leaps easier.

The MD Anderson Cancer Center at The University of Texas is using aromatherapy in their 'Place of. . .wellness'http://www.mdanderson.org/departments/wellness/ along with over 70 CAM Therapies. They report that aromatherapy offers the greatest help with anxiety and sleeplessness.

The National Cancer Institute also has a report on Aromatherapy and Cancerhttp://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/cam/aromatherapy/healthprofessional
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4. The Continuum - Movement that Heals and Helps Aging
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It's not easy to explain and understand what The Continuum is, but when you hear that it is helping people with spinal cord injuries get out of their wheelchairs and walk - it gets your attention enough to investigate.

The Continuum is a form of movement that was created by Emilie Conrad who was a movement specialist in research studies led by Dr. Valerie Hunt at UCLA in the late 1970's. Emilie is from NYC and has a background in ballet.

After Afro-Haitian dance in Haiti, Emilie started to make discoveries aboutprimary movements and how the fluid systems in our bodies communicate it's 'bio-intelligence' with it's environment. Her continuing study is bringing insights into healing disease, paralysis, and the aging process. Having been a former dancer myself, I loved taking a workshop with her. The movements are spiral, arc, curve, and undulate. Some primal sound is also used. To me this was simply and profoundly just like natural 'unwinding' in the body. In my opinion, there is nothing greater than stimulating the natural healing mechanisms in our bodies - and this certainly does that. The best part - you can do this movement at home, but you need to invest in an 'Explore Board' and 'Flight Plan'.

Emilie has a private practice in Los Angeles focusing on the treatment of connective tissue disease and spinal cord injuries.

For more info: http://www.continuummovement.com/overview_fs.htm
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5. Give Yourself a Bath Kiss
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Bath Kisses are a good thing to give to yourself. Yes, it would be a good gift idea for someone else, but it has to be kept in the freezer! My friend who recommended this to me said that although there are many oils you can use, a really good combination is Frankincense with Orange.

Melt 1 ounce of cocoa butter and 2/3 ounce shea butter. Separately blend 4 drops of Frankincense with 4 drops Orange and mix with the butter mixture. Pour into small candy molds (or tiny ice cube trays). Place in the freezer for 30 minutes. Just drop 2 - 3 pieces in your hot bath!
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6. A Channeled Message by Barbara Brennan
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As a graduate of the four year Barbara Brennan School of Healing Science, I receive a beautiful holiday card every year with a wonderful message channeled by Barbara.
I want to share with you this years channeled message: "Love is the most powerful healing tool in the universe, for it is only by its absence that illness, strife, or any kind of problem or issue arises."
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7. 'Your' Topics of Interest
What topics do you want to read about along the lines of Natural Health and Healing and how you can empower yourself? Send me an email and let me know how you would like to 'spa' in your every day life !!!
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Happy Holidays !
I wish you lots of love and joy in this holiday season. Don't forget to take care of yourself and remember to take a deep breath and say "SPA-AHHHHHHHHHHHHH".
Yours with Spa-Filled Seasons Greetings,
Marilee
HomeSpaLady
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Disclaimer: The information contained in this newsletter isintended for educational purposes only and is not meant to be a substitute for medical care nor to prescribe treatment for any medical health condition. The publisher and subscriber assume no responsibility to or liability for any person or group for anyloss, damage, or injury from the use or misuse of any information in this newsletter.
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