Gratitude Can Improve Your Life / Issue # 104 - November 21, 2007

Home Spa Lady's
Tips of the Week
Issue # 104 - November 21, 2007
Publisher: Marilee Tolen RN
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Make Every Day A Spa Day!

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In This Issue
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1. Gratitude Can Improve Your Life

2. Gratitude is Good Medicine

3. Do the Gratitude Dance (Watch How!)

4. I'm Grateful for You

5. Essential Oil Tip: Gratitude Oil

6. Success Tip: Gratitude, The Mark of a Noble Soul

7. Recipe of the Week: Grateful Gravy

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


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1. Gratitude Can Improve Your Life
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This is so easy its almost ridiculous.

By simply focusing on what it is we are grateful for we can
significantly improve our lives.

Most people don't even think about this, let alone apply it.
Why is that? Probably because it is so easy and it doesn't cost
a thing!

Thinking grateful thoughts can:

--Diminish negative thinking

A negative thought cannot reside in the same mental space a
positive thought resides. Grateful thoughts are positive
thoughts.

Initially it might feel like an effort to consciously control
what you are thinking, but after awhile it becomes a natural
habit.

--Attracts what you want

Grateful positive thoughts set up a vibrational field that works
with the Law of Attraction, where like attracts like.

If this is something hard to grasp, just try it. Have some fun
and give it a try for the fun of it - and watch it really work!

--Help you heal

Gratitude is a step toward forgiveness, and forgiveness helps you
heal.

Being grateful for adversities, and forgiving those who have hurt
you is the most powerful way to heal your life

--Make you happy

Feeling grateful for so many little things (along with the big
things) that are part of every day life is a most empowering
practice.

The continuous practice of feeling grateful results very
naturally in an elevation of mood and happiness

--Improves health

Gratefulness brings up one's vibration, and the more vibration
and vital force in the body/energy field ~ the greater the level
of health (see next article on a study done on gratitude and
health)


Want a f'ree coaching session on Gratitude? (offered from the
authors of the book "Gratitude Works).

http://snipurl.com/gratitudecoaching


Want to learn more about how Gratitude Works?

http://snipurl.com/gratitudeworks


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2. Gratitude is Good Medicine
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Researchers from UC Davis and the Mississippi University for
Women studied a group of organ transplant patients who were
taking immunosuppressant drugs.

They found that the best medicine for the patients was gratitude.

Twelve females and four males who were organ transplant
recipients were examined. They were split into two groups:

--those who daily wrote down medication side effects

--those who daily wrote down five things they were grateful for

After 21 days a post-test questionnaire was given (pre-testing
was done by a questionnaire as well).

It was found that there was an increase in well-being rose in the
group that kept a "gratitude journal".

(See more on this study: http://snipurl.com/gratitude_study )


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3. Do The Gratitude Dance - Watch How!
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Before you watch me and my doggie Prin do the Gratitude Dance for
you - you MUST watch this 2 minute video which is popular on You
Tube.

This dance is the latest craze and YOU can do it too!

The You Tube video will be fun to watch with your family and
friends and do it on Thanksgiving Day after you eat and you feel
stuffed.

Here is the You Tube video on the Gratitude Dance:

http://snipurl.com/gratitudedance


Here I am doing the Gratitude Dance with my dog Prin who is also
doing the Gratitude Dance. . .to wish you all a Happy
Thanksgiving and to let you know: "We Are Grateful For You!"

http://snipurl.com/marilees_grat_dance


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4. I'm Grateful for You!
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Dear Home Spa Lady Readers ~

I want you all to know how grateful I am
for each and every one of you who take your
precious time to be part of this virtual community.

Many of you send emails sharing your gratitude, and it is
always nice to hear from you ~ but what pleases me the
most is that you take this information and use it in
your daily lives, and share it with others who also
use it to improve their lives in many ways.

Have a blessed and beautiful Thanksgiving!

With love and gratitude,
Marilee


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5. Essential Oil Tip: Gratitude Oil
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This is a soothing blend designed to
foster a grateful attitude.

--Idaho balsam fir
--Frankincense
--Rosewood
--Myrrh
--Galbanum
--Ylang ylang

For more info or to order contact your Young Living
distributor or go to: http://tinyurl.com/aenfp

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6. Success Tip: Gratitude, The Mark of a Noble Soul
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"Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We
like to be around those who are grateful. They tend to brighten
all around them. They make others feel better about themselves.
They tend to be more humble, more joyful, more likable....

If we only look around us, there are a thousand reasons for us
not to be happy, and it is simplicity itself to blame our
unhappiness on the things we lack in life. It doesn't take any
talent at all to find them. The problem is, the more we focus on
the things we don't have, the more unhappy and more resentful we
become."

(Joseph B. Wirthlin, "'Live in Thanksgiving Daily'"
Ensign, Sep 2001, 6.)


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7.Recipe of the Week: Grateful Gravy
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Remove the turkey from the roasting pan and set onto a platter.
Cover the turkey tightly with aluminum foil and set aside until
you're ready to eat.

Place the roasting pan onto the stove top over medium heat. Add 2
cups of water into the pan and stir about 5 minutes or until the
drippings and browned bits from bottom dissolve.

Place a strainer over a fat separator cup or bowl. Pour pan
drippings through strainer. Add enough liquid stock to make 4
cups total.

To remove fat from drippings, add several ice cubes to the liquid
and place stock into freezer for 10 minutes. If you're using a
fat separator cup, pour off stock into a saucepan. If you're
using a bowl, remove hardened fat with spoon and place stock into
a saucepan. Expect to have about 4 cups of liquid. Place the
saucepan onto the stove top over medium heat.

Place saucepan over medium heat and bring to a simmer. Add thyme
and sage to the simmering stock. Continue to simmer until the
stock is reduced by 1/4, or until about 3 cups of stock remain.

Pour milk into a small bowl. Add cornstarch and stir to mix
evenly. Slowly pour milk mixture into the simmering stock,
stirring slowly. Bring sauce to a boil and continue to stir until
stock thickens and has a nice shine, about 3 to 5 minutes.

Pour gravy into warmed gravy boat and serve with turkey.


Want to watch a video on how to make your turkey and gravy?
http://snipurl.com/turkeyandgravy


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8. HSL's Joke or Cute Quote of the Week
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May your stuffing be tasty,
May your turkey plump,
May your potatoes and gravy
Have never a lump.
May your yams be delicious,
And your pies take the prize,
And may your Thanksgiving dinner
Stay off your thighs!

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!



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Denny Waxman - author of "The Great Life Diet"

Click here (or copy and paste) for details:

http://snipurl.com/gtwmdennywaxman

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Dr. David Stewart - author of "Chemistry of Essential Oils Made
Simple: God's Love Manifest in Molecules"

Click here (or copy and paste) for details:

http://snipurl.com/gtwmdavidstewart


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