Home Spa Lady Tips #59/ Natural Remedies for Overwhelm and Fear

Home Spa Lady's
Tips of the Week Issue # 59
January 10, 2007
Publisher: Marilee Tolen RN
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In This Issue
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1. Natural Remedies for Overwhelm and Fear
2. Eight Tips to Handle Fear
3. Essential Oil Tip: Oils For Fear
4. Success Tip: Eleanor Roosevelt
5. Recipe of the Week: Aduki Beans & Squash
6. HSL's Joke or Cute Quote of the Week

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1. Natural Remedies for Overwhelm and Fear
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Stress is the norm these days.

Somehow people have adapted to hectic lifestyles with more things to do and less time to do them in. Our attempts now are to avoid the serious side of stress -overwhelm and fear.

We can do natural things on a daily basis at home to prevent getting into this state - or allay the problems that arise when overwhelm and fear do take over.

Many times overwhelm and fear originate from the physical body, and have nothing to do with emotional or mental issues. We would call this "metabolic in origin".

In Chinese medicine fear is associated with the kidneys. When there is a lack of "chi", "energy", or "vital force" in the kidneys, the feeling of fear can result.

If you have ever had any experiences of irrational fear, or feeling overwhelmed when things don't seem to warrant it, you might have low "kidney chi" or stressed kidneys.

Besides overwhelm and fear, there are other things that low "kidney chi" can create in the body:

--Bags under the eyes
--Always feeling cold
--Low back aches (area over the kidneys)
--Confusion, mental fog
--Difficulty sleeping
--Feeling insecure

Along with a prolonged state of stress, there are many foods that negatively impact the kidneys. They are:

--Sweets
--Dairy
--Too much salt
--Too many cold foods (or not eating enough hot foods)
--Caffeine

We need to take care of our kidneys (who ever thinks of that?), especially during the winter months when they are more prone to stress than any other time of year.

Here are simple, nurturing, at-home, remedies that can help support your kidneys:

--Warm your kidneys

Keep your back warm at all times. You may want to take a "home-spa" break and lay on your bed or sofa with a hot water bottle under your back. A hot water bottle is better than a heating pad because it doesn't emit electrical frequencies.

--Take a healing salt bath

For these baths you want to use Sodium Chloride and not Epsom Salts (Epsom Salts are magnesium sulfate)

This may sound like alot of salt but its because the goal here is to affect the osmotic pressure. The high salt content in the water can facilitate excess toxic body fluids to leave the body through the skin and take the work load off of the kidneys: Add 2-3 pounds of Sodium Chloride (some people use watersoftener salt) to 24 gallons of warm, but not too hot, bath tubwater.

--Walk barefoot in the early morning dew for 5 minutes

--Exercise

--Eat the following foods: aduki beans, winter squash, brownrice, dark leafy greens

--Use these Young Living Products: K & B Herbal tincture (internally), Juniper essential oil (topically over kidney areaor on the kidney reflex area of the foot)

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2. Eight Tips to Handle Fear
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Eight Practical Tips - From Prevention Magazine

--It doesn't matter why you're scared. Stop trying to figure it out.
--Learn about the thing you fear.
--Train. Slowly building familiarity with a scary subject makes it more manageable.
--If there's something you're afraid of, find someone who is not afraid of that thing and spend time with that person.
--Talk about it.
--Play mind games with yourself. If you're afraid of speaking in front of groups, it's probably because you think the audience is going to judge you. Try imagining the audience members naked -- being the only clothed person in the room puts you in the position of judgment.
--Stop looking at the grand scheme. Think only about each successive step.
--Seek help

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3. Essential Oil Tip: Oils to Alleviate Fear
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Here are single oils and YL blends that are indicated for fear:

--Roman Chamomile
--Geranium
--Juniper
--Marjoram
--Myrrh
--Orange
--Sandalwood
--Ylang ylang

--Valor
--Present Time
--Hope
--White Angelica
--Trauma Life
--Gratitude
--Highest Potential

You can use these in a variety of ways. Inhalation, on relevantpoints on bottom of the feet, on pulse points

Order your essential oils from your Young Livingdistributor or by going to Young Living's Website

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5. Success Tip: Eleanor Roosevelt
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"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experiencein which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must dothe thing which you think you cannot do."

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6.Recipe of the Week: Adzuki Beans and Squash
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--1 cup dry adzuki beans
--1 strip kombu (sea vegetable) 6 - 8 inches long
--1 cup butternut squash; acorn or other winter squash, cubed butnot peeled
--1/2 tsp sea salt

--Wash beans, cover with water and soak for 6 - 8 hours
--Put kombu on bottom of pot and cover with the squash
--Add soaked,drained beans
--Add water to just cover the squash layer.(Do not cover the beans at the beginning)

--Place the bean mixture over low heat - bring to a boil slowly.--Cover after about 10 - 15 minutes.--Cook until beans are 70 - 80% done, about 1 hour or so (thewater will evaporate as the beans expand, add more cold water asrequired to keep level constant and make beans soft)--When beans are nearly done, add sea salt,--Cook another 15 - 30 minutes.

--Serve with brown rice.

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7. HSL's Joke or Cute Quote of the Week
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Silly Ways To Handle Overwhelm and Stress

* Drive to work in reverse.
* Use your Mastercard to pay your Visa bill.
* Make a list of things you have already done.
* Pop some popcorn without putting the lid on.
* Bill your doctor for the time you spent in his waiting room.
* Jam tiny marshmallows up your nose and try to sneeze them out.

While shopping:

* Challenge other customers to duels with tubes of gift wrap.
* Re-dress the mannequins as you see fit.
* Test the fishing rods and see what you can "catch" from the other aisles.
* Put M&M's on layaway.
* When someone asks if you need help, begin to cry and ask, "Why won't you people just leave me alone?"
* Switch the men's and women's signs on the doors of the restroom.
* Dart around suspiciously while humming the theme from "Mission Impossible."
* Set up a "Valet Parking" sign in front of the store.
* Hide in the clothing racks and when people browse through, say things like "Pick me!! Pick me!!" and scare them into believing that the clothes are talking to them
* Go to an empty checkout stand and try to check people out.
* Go into the dressing room and yell real loud..."Hey, were out of toilet paper in here!"

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