Is Your Water Bottle Killing You? / Messages from Water / #85 July 11, 2007

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Issue # 85 - July 11, 2007
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In This Issue
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1. Is Your Water Bottle Killing You?

2. Messages from Water

3. Flavored Water Recipes

4. Essential Oil Tip: They Eat Petro

5. Success Tip: W.H. Auden

6. Recipe of the Week: Water Recipe

7. HSL's Joke or Cute Quote of the Week


Time Sensitive Notice from Marilee:

Don't forget the f'ree teleseminar tonight (Wednesday, July 11,
2007) on the Law of Attraction with author Michael Losier who
wrote "The Law of Attraction Book". You must register to get on
this call: http://tinyurl.com/32bfjo



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1. Is Your Water Bottle Killing You?
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Should we be drinking water out of plastic bottles?

This is a hot topic these days. And hot is the operative word.

With summer upon us its not uncommon for someone to drink bottled
water that has been previously sitting in a hot garage or a trunk
of a car. Its also not unusual to have a water bottle that lives
permanently on the car seat and is used for frequent re-fillings.

Heat can leach chemicals out of the plastic bottles into the
water. These chemicals can disrupt the endocrine and hormonal
system. Known as xenoestrogens, these chemicals mimic estrogen
and send the body's estrogen levels way up. Estrogen
dominance is believed to be responsible for age related weight
gain and many metabolic disorders in women and men - including
cancer.

A few years ago while teaching one of my essential oil classes, a
woman pleaded with me to share information with other women
about the dangers of drinking water out of plastic bottles. She
was Director of Hospice for a local prestigious university
hospital and she said that the plastics leaching into
the water from the plastic bottle was a top causes of breast
cancer in women.

This past week Sheryl Crow was on the Ellen Show and made a
statement to this effect. She felt that her breast cancer was
related to drinking water out of plastic bottles.

Also this past week a former client of mine - a healthy, vibrant,
holistic nurse - visited me after being diagnosed with breast
cancer. She mentioned to me that she often drank water from
plastic water bottles that she kept on her car seat.

For three years an email has be circulating through cyberspace
allegedly from Johns Hopkins University about plastic bottles
and cancers. Johns Hopkins has a webpage specifically addressing
this issue ( http://tinyurl.com/2u92ds ). They are calling it an email hoax.

Johns Hopkins has selected a credible researcher to dispel the
myth that has circulated with their name attached about dioxins
and plastic water bottles. On this site researcher Rolf Halden
PhD explains what dioxins are and where they come from. He says
that there are no dioxins in plastics. He also says that freezing
a water bottle will actually prevent a release of chemicals from
the plastics. This dispels the myth that frozen plastic water
bottles release chemicals.

I noticed he didn't mention the polyethylene terephthalate, high
density polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, low density
polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, and all other resins
and mixed plastics that carry food and water.

He does admit however that heating plastic releases chemicals.
He even says that microwaving some plastic packaging materials
releases chemicals and that people should be careful of certain
plastics they are heating. Halden mentioned that the warning
label using sip straws and with hot beverages is not a
preventative from getting burned, its a warning that certain
chemicals will be released when the straw is used with a hot
beverage.

To learn more about "migrating chemicals" from plastics into
food, read Harvard's Family Health Guide
http://tinyurl.com/2dd62m

Here is a great alternative to plastic water bottles to carry
your water: http://shop.greenfeet.net/z/4272/CD238/


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I am interviewing Ori in a "Green Tea with Marilee" Teleseminar.

Ori is so passionate about this topic. And extremely
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He also has the support of prestigious university medical
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Please come on this teleseminar and learn more about this for
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2. Messages from Water
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This is an excerpt from my blog two years ago after I attended
the American Holistic Nurses Conference that was held in
Philadelphia!

June 23, 2005
HomeSpaLady about 'Messages from Water'

"Actually - I like the idea of "Messages TO Water".

This morning I decided to write the word LOVE on a big piece of
paper and tape it to my 5 gallon bottle of spring water that is
in my kitchen. I taped it so the word itself was facing the water
and that I could see the word through the other side of the
bottle.

Now, you may be thinking that is crazy and curious as to why I
would do that - and what effects this could possibly have. Well,
if so - here's what it's all about. . .

A Japanese researcher, Dr. Masuru Emoto, has been fascinated with
the mystery of water and has been studying the differences in
crystalline structures of different waters.

The results of his work have taken scientific and spiritual
communities by storm.

Emoto came upon an idea of photographing water crystals of water
from different places (such as a toxic environment, or Lourdes in
France) and found the crystals to be extremely different.
Different in the way that the more toxic the waters, the more
distorted the shape of the crystal - and the more vibrant the
waters, the more beautiful the form of the crystal.

A good description of his work can be found at www.hado.net.
Emoto's work goes on to show how external influences such as
sound can affect the crystals of water. When water was exposed to
music such as Beethoven's Pastorale - the crystal form was
exquisite.

When it was exposed to heavy metal the crystal form was
fragmented. He also found that exposing water to certain words
such as Love and Appreciation - the crystal was beautifully
formed. When exposed to the expression 'you make me sick, I will
kill you' - the crystal didn't even exist - it looked like
sludge.

You can see pictures of these water crystals in his book:

MESSAGES FROM WATER, Volume 1
$25.00
ISBN 4-939098-00-1
8×10 inches, 147 pages in full color

Besides reading this book, I have also attended a few lectures
and seminars on his work by people who have studied it either
with him or in depth.

This past weekend at the AHNA conference, one of my colleagues
and friends, Jane Hershey RN, MSN, HNC did a fabulous
presentation of Dr. Emoto's work. I was highly inspired
by her story and presentation and obviously influenced enough to
write the words of LOVE on my water.

Hey, I figure - we are over 70% water ourselves - and if we drink
this 'infused' water - what a profound impact it can have on us.
As a matter of fact, when you start to think of the implications
of all of this - you can even track the importance of how your
thoughts affect everything around you. Thoughts are vibration and
Emoto's work shows us how water is very receptive to vibration.

We can use this concept to literally transform our lives. It
makes sense to me from an energetic perspective - because water
is a powerful conductor of energy - and our thoughts are energy.
The more I've pondered this the more it is clear to me that water
is a great tool to heal and transform our lives. It is the
perfect element in which to 'infuse' positive thoughts and energy
- because it flows to us and through us, and eventually becomes
us.

So, the next time you drink, bathe, shower, swim, or use it
therapeutically - bless it with your thoughts, and infuse it with
a positive suggestion to lift you to a high level of wellness in
body, mind and spirit."


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3. Flavored Water Recipes
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These were written in 1881~

From "The Household Cyclopedia of General Information"

You Young Living folk will love these!


--Cinnamon Water

Take of bruised cinnamon, 1 lb.; water, 2 galls. Simmer in a
still for 1/2 an hour, put what comes over into the still again;
when cold strain through flannel.

--Eau Sans-Pareil

Take 2 galls. of fine old honey-water, put it into a still
capable of holding 4 galls., and add the thinly pared rinds of 6
or 8 fresh citrons, neither green nor mellow ripe. Then add 60 or
70 drops of fine Roman bergamot; and, having luted the apparatus
well, let the whole digest in a moderate heat for 24 hours. Draw
off, by a water-bath heat, about 1 gall.

--Jessamine Water

Take 6 lbs. of the white sweet almond cakes from which jessamine
oil has been made abroad; beat and sift them to a fine powder,
and put to it as much fresh oil of jessamine as will be required
to make it into a stiff paste. Let this paste be dissolved in
about 6 qts. of spring-water, which has been previously well
boiled, and left until it has become about half cold. Stir and
mix the whole well together, and when the oil and water have been
well combined, let the whole stand until the powder has fallen to
the bottom of the vessel. Now pour the liquid off gently, and
filter it through cotton, in a large tin funnel, into the glass
bottle in which it is to be kept for use. The powder or sediment
which has been left at the bottom of the vessel, when dried by
the heat of the sun, answers very well for making almond paste
for the hands.

--Jamaica Pepper Water

Jamaica pepper is the fruit of a tall tree growing in the
mountainous parts of Jamaica, where it is much cultivated because
of the great profit arising from the cured fruit, sent in large
quantities annually into Europe. Take of Jamaica pepper, 1/2 lb.;
water, 2 1/2 galls.; draw off 1 gall. with a pretty brisk fire.
The oil of this fruit is very ponderous, and therefore this water
is made in an alembic.

--Myrtle Water

Infuse 8 or 10 lbs. of the cuttings of green myrtle in nearly 20
galls. of rain or river water, and add thereto a pint of fresh
yeast, after it has stood for 24 hours. At the end of another day
and night, put the whole into a still, with 1 lb. of bay-salt.
Draw off the whole of the water, and next day infuse more myrtle
leaves as before, and distill again. Repeat the same a third
time.

--Orange-flower Water

Take 2 lbs. of orange flowers, and 24 qts. of water, and draw
over 3 pts. Or, take 12 lbs. of orange flowers, and 16 qts. of
water, and draw over 15 qts.

--Orange-peel Water

Take of the outward yellow rind of Seville oranges, 4 oz.; water,
3 1/2 gals., draw off 1 gal. by the alembic, with a brisk fire.

--Peppermint Water

Take of the herb of peppermint, dried, 1 1/2 lbs.; water, as much
as is sufficient to prevent burning. Distill off a gallon. This
has been known to allay sickness when nothing else would succeed,
and is used in flatulent colics. A wine glassful may be taken,
and often repeated.

Another.--Take of oil of peppermint, 1 lb.; water, a sufficient
quantity. Draw off 30 galls. This is stimulant and carminative,
and covers disagreeable flavors.

--Portugal and Angel Waters

Take 1 pt. of orange-flower water, 1 pt. of rose water, and 1/2
pt. of myrtle-water; to these put a 1/2 oz. of distilled spirit
of musk, and an ounce of spirit of ambergris. Shake the whole
well together, and the process will be finished.

--Rose-water

Take of the leaves of fresh damask-roses with the heels cut off,
6 lbs., water, as much as to prevent burning. Distill off a
gallon. The distilled water should be drawn from dried herbs,
because the fresh cannot be got at all times in the year.
Whenever the fresh are used the weights must be increased; but
whether the fresh or dry are made use of, it is left to the
judgment of the operator to vary the weight, according as the
plants are in greater or less perfection, owing to the season in
which they grew, or were collected.

--Small Snail Water

Take of balm, mint, hart's tongue, ground ivy, flowers of the
dead nettle, mallow-flowers, elder flowers, each a handful;
snails freed from their shells, and whites of eggs, each 4 oz.; nutmegs,
3 oz.; milk, 1 gall. Distill in a water bath to dryness.

--Strawberry Water

Take of the bruised fruit, 20 lbs.; water a sufficient quantity.
Draw off 23 galls.; this water is very fragrant.


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4. Essential Oil Tip: Eats Petrochemicals
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Essential oils (therapeutic grade only) eat petrochemicals.

They "sacrifice" themselves to clean up a toxic environment. The
good news is that they clean up the petrochemicals in our bodies
too.

Here is my favorite demonstration:

I take a styrofoam cup - the epitome of a petrochemical.
I put a drop of lemon on it. The same lemon that I put in my
drinking water. We watch how the lemon eats the styrofoam cup.

When you try to think of ways to clean your body up of the
petrochemical exposure that it gets - think of the essential
oils. Especially Young Living.


Order your essential oils from your Young Living
distributor or by going to http://tinyurl.com/aenfp


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5. Success Tip: W.H. Auden
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"Thousands have lived without love, not one without water."

~W.H. Auden

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6.Recipe of the Week: The Water Recipe
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Keeping yourself hydrated is important for your health and
beauty.

Drink 1/2 your body weight of water in ounces, daily.

Example: 180 lb = 90 oz. of water daily.
Divide that into 8 or 10 oz. glasses and that's how many glasses
you will need to drink, daily.
Use 1/4 tsp. of sea salt for every quart of water you drink.
Use salt liberally with food.
As long as you drink the water, you can use the salt.
Avoid caffeinated or alcoholic drinks.
These are diuretics and will dehydrate you.
Every 6 oz. of caffeine or alcohol requires an additional 10 to
12 oz. of water to re-hydrate you.



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7. HSL's Joke or Cute Quote of the Week
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Water into Wine

A minister is driving down to New York to see a show and he's
stopped in Connecticut for speeding. The state trooper smells
alcohol on his breath and then he sees an empty wine bottle on
the floor, and he says, "Sir, have you been drinking?"

And the minister says, "Just water."

The sheriff says, "Then why do I smell wine?"

And the minister looks down at the bottle and says, "Good Lord,
He's done it again!"