Category — Immunity
Why my challengers are getting success
I’m with you… and you will be successful… watch the video and you’ll see why these challenges work. Learn more about this at my fitness site http://www.WeeklyFitClub.com or get started by either signing up at http://bijacoaching.com/Challenge/ or by sending me a message.
April 19, 2012 No Comments
21 Day Detoxification Cleanse – Natural, healthy, safe!
Wanting to find a cleanse that isn’t harsh on your body? Try the all new Beachbody Ultimate Reset!! It’s a 21 day program that will get your body back where it needs to be.
The Ultimate Reset can do ALL this:
Spring clean your insides!
Release years of toxins from your body!
Give your body an internal workout!
Eliminate toxins from your body!
Reboot your body to its optimal condition.
Have more energy and greater focus
Experience better digestion and a more positive mood
Enable your body to function more efficiently
Help you lose weight
Improve your overall health
AND you will still eat 3 FILLING AND HEALTHY meals a day. You spring clean your house why not YOU!? Want to know more, just ask!
April 15, 2012 No Comments
Amazing Blueberry Shake
I love my green smoothies, and I LOVE blueberries – so what better than a blueberry shake. There are a couple of options on how you can make this shake, and is it AMAZING!!
Ingredients:
1 Cup Frozen blueberries (I prefer organic since you are eating the whole fruit)
1 Scoop of Tropical Shakeology or you can use my favorite Sprouted Brown Rice Protein by SunWarrior
1 package of Alkalinize** (or 1 tsp of Ormus Greens)
1/4 cup of So Delicious Plain Greek Coconut Yogurt
1/4 cup of Bob’s Steel Cut oats
2 tsp of fine ground flaxseeds
1 cup of ice
(add water as needed)
Blend the blueberries, Shakeology, yogurt and ice to your blender and blend for 1 – 2 minutes. Add remaining ingredient and blend for an additional 1 – 2 minutes. AMAZING!!! You will love it!!
** Alkalinize is a part of the new Beachbody Ultimate Reset Detoxification program. It is a super-green mixture of grasses, including wheatgrass, alfalfa, kamut grass, and barley grass, in a concentrated juice powder that helps neutralize excess acid and maintain alkalinity, bringing your body back into a healthy pH balance and helping to support your immune system. Alkalinize comes in a convenient single daily-dose packet, which can easily be added into your daily smoothie. The Ultimate Reset is a 21 Day program and you can incorporate the Shakeology smoothie into your reset program. After your reset you will be able to continue to use the Alkalinize product every day to keep your body in a healthy ph state, and keep your immune system boosted to block illness and disease.
April 14, 2012 No Comments
Healthy cleansing for your body
You need to learn to focus on the bodies ability to be supported in it’s daily cleansing ability and eliminate toxins. Learn more at LifeEssentially.com
I bet that you, or someone that you know has a body under toxic stress. There are three things you can do. Reduce the exposure you have to toxins like foods, cleaners, the environment.
Second, manage your stress with healthy choices and exercise. Do you feel like pulling your hair out? Once you workout you will find that your reactions and your stress are going to be completely different from what you felt like before.
Third, eat a healthy organic nutrients. You need healthy food choices, lots of great plant based organics and lots of water to help flush out these toxins we are talking about.
March 5, 2012 No Comments
Chakra simplicity
A great way to improve your health and well being is through chakra balancing. The use of essential oils is one way to achieve this balance. The Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade doTERRA Essential Oils that come from doTERRA ae something that is unique, and often the key to your balance. If you feel like you are struggling in your life, it could be that you are out of balance. Using essential oils will give give your body and mind a boost and help blocked or unbalanced chakras heal. And it’s easy to do.
So you might ask me, what are chakras? Chakras are our energy centers. They are the openings for life energy to flow into and out of our aura. Their function is to vitalize the physical body and to bring about the development of our self-consciousness. They are associated with our physical, mental and emotional interactions. There are seven major chakras. The aura is often referred to as the eighth chakra.
Every feeling and all of our senses are integrated with a different chakra. Each chakra is linked to a different part of the endocrine system. As far back as you look in the traditional Chinese medicine there was this practice. In Chinese medicine, these oils are described as yin nourishing and as such, they nourish and balance our endocrine system helping it to better respond and coordinate our body’s response to infection. The Endocrine Connection is truly important to our Chakras and it’s something you may not have heard about before. This new branch of medicine combines the interaction of our immune system and our endocrine system. We know that our endocrine system acts as a communication system in our body, directing and triggering a number of metabolic activities based on information it receives from all our other physiological systems. And we know that our Chakras are set off by the same things. A number of essential oils are known to balance and harmonize our endocrine system and balance out our Chakras naturally. Why is this so important?
When we experience stress or other environmental factors, the chakras can become blocked making our bodies natural energies work too hard. In fact did you know that a person does not have to look beyond his own home environment to discover which chakra centers may be problematic or blocked. Hoarders are especially at risk of a complete chakra system shutdown. Taking a tour of your living space will help give you clues as to which of your chakras need attention. Blocked chakras can manifest by letting the laundry pile up, with physical ailments, emotional breakdowns, or spiritual issues. Keeping the chakras open and balanced keeps our energies flowing correctly and can help keep us healthy. I recently had to realize this as I found my house slowly breaking down in front of me.
The Chakra Balancing Kit includes:
10 CPTG essential oil blends from doTERRA
1. 15 ML AromaTouch® Blend contains basil, cypress, marjoram, peppermint, and lavender.
2. 15 ML On Guard™ Blend contains wild orange, clove, cinnamon, eucalyptus, and rosemary.
3. 15 ML Elevation™ Blend contains lavandin, tangerine, elemi, lemon myrtle, melissa, ylang ylang, osmanthus, and sandalwood.
4. 15 ML Serenity Blend contains lavender, sweet marjoram, roman chamomile, ylang ylang, sandalwood, and vanilla bean.
5. 5 ML Whisper™ Blend contains rose, jasmine, bergamot, cinnamon, cistus, vetiver, ylang ylang, cocoa, vanilla, sandalwood, and patchouli.
6. 15 ML Breathe Blend contains laurel leaf, peppermint, eucalyptus, tea tree, lemon and ravensara.
7. 15 ML DigestZen® Blend contains ginger, peppermint, tarragon, fennel, caraway, coriander, and anise.
8. 15 ML Citrus Bliss Blend contains wild orange, lemon, grapefruit, mandarin, bergamot, tangerine, clementine, and vanilla.
9. 15 ML Balance Blend contains spruce, rosewood, frankincense, and blue tansy.
10. 15 ML Purify Blend contains lemon, lime, pine, citronella, melaleuca, and cilantro.
I personally find that the best way to bring balance to a clogged or congested chakra is to work directly on the chakra by applying a suitable essential oil blend. This kit is the essential way to do this, and so it will include a step by step instructional guide to walk you through the process of chakra balancing as well as other ways to use these oil blends for your health and well being.
•Wholesale Price for the Kit is $270 + $35 wholesale enrollment
•Retail Price for the Kit is $360.00
Want to find out more about your Chakra? Take this three minute test to learn more. CLICK HERE
January 15, 2012 No Comments
Healing philosophy or the knowledge of long life
Ayurveda is a healing philosophy native to India. Ayurveda in the Sanskrit: आयुर्वेद; Āyurveda meaning “the knowledge for long life” In Sanskrit, words āyus, meaning “longevity”, and veda, meaning “knowledge” or “science”.) I love this, and many of you may not know that Bija is the Sanskrit term बीज bīja meaning literally “seed”. I came the term Bija with yoga a long time ago – yes even though I have a hard time with it I’ve been trying for many decades to get it right. Bija
is used as a metaphor for the origin or cause of things which has been the practice of my business from the start. To get to the root of things. … so back to ayurveda.
Massage and meditation are both considered Ayurveda practices of medicine. It’s what we like to call a “whole medical system” plan. This is based on 5 elements including Ether, Earth, Water, Fire, and Air that compose both the universe and the human body. These elements are grouped together to create three Doshas. This is unique, in fact there are several aspects to Ayurveda that are quite unique:
- Its recommendations will often be different for each person regarding which foods and which lifestyle they should follow in order to be completely healthy. This is due to it’s use of a constitutional model.
- Everything in Ayurveda is validated by observation, inquiry, direct examination and knowledge derived from the ancient texts.
- It understands that there are energetic forces that influence nature and human beings. These forces are called the Tridoshas which we are talking about here today.
- Because Ayurveda sees a strong connection between the mind and the body, a huge amount of information is available regarding this relationship.
When you are unbalanced your body will be unhealthy. If you’ve balanced your body PH naturally, why not try to balance your dosha as well?
Ayurvedic theory suggests that each human possesses a unique combination of the doshas and that they define the person’s character and attributes. Think of it as grandfather time’s philosophy of all of the personality type studies in modern times. I train based on personality types in my personal training sessions – and you will work with others based on your personality traits as well. Personality comes into play so much in our lives, and that is why I think we are seeing such a resurgence in the Ayurvedic practices.
Below I will talk about the Tridoshas. The Vata Dosha is Ether and Air. The Kapha Dosha is Earth and Ether. A person can be strong in any one dosha but have attributes of all doshas. The Pitta Dosha is Fire and Water.
Want to discover your prominent dosha? Take this [dosha test] and find out.
Once you know what your dosha is, you can begin to help keep yourself in balance through following the aryuvedic principles for proper eating, exercise, & meditation. Essential oils also also recommended to help keep your dosha in balance.
doTERRA’s certified pure therapeutic grade oils can be used to help balance the Doshas:
Vata Dosha: Associated with the elements of ether and air, vata types are quick thinking, thin, and fast moving. They are active and creative and have a natural ability to communicate. When unbalanced, vatas can have high anxiety and fast moving emotions.
If you are the Vata type, you may need oils that help to ground, balance, and warm your dosha. Oils such as basil, cypress, frankincense, geranium, and rosewood will help the vata stay balanced. doTERRA’s Whisper Blend and Balance Blend as well as Geranium single oil would be a good fit for Vata types. The Vata Balancing Kit is $71 with a Wholesale Membership or $94.67 Retail. Purchase the retail kit below, or sign up for a preferred customer account for just $10 to get discounts, or a wholesale account for $35 dollars by clicking here.
Kapha Dosha: Associated with the elements of earth and water, kappa types are patient, forgiving and slow to anger. They are loving and become easily attached. When they are unbalanced, kaphas can become lazy or stubborn as well as greedy.
If you are the Kapha type, you may need oils to help help lift and stimulate. Oils such as rosemary, eucalyptus, marjoram, melissa, lemon, peppermint would help you stay balanced. doTERRA has two great blends for the Kapha type. Elevation Blend to lift you up and Breathe Blend to clear the air passages. Grapefruit single oil would also be an excellent to help with balance. The Kapha Balancing Kit is available for $73.00 Wholesale or $97.33 Retail. Purchase the retail kit below, or sign up for a preferred customer account for just $10 to get discounts, or a wholesale account for $35 dollars by clicking here.
Pitta Dosha: Associated with the elements of fire and water, pittas are passionate and intense. They have a joyful disposition but they are subject to anger, jealousy, and short tempers when unbalanced. There is often a need to cool off and clarity the mind.
If you are a Pitta type, you may need calming and cooling oils to keep the fire element balanced. Oils such as Sandalwood, Ylang Ylang, and Lavender would be great for cooling and calming. Oils such as Grapefruit, Sweet Orange, and Lavender would be good for a refreshing massage. doTERRA’s Citrus Bliss Blend and Serenity Blend would be perfect for the Pitta type. As well as Lavender single oil. You can purchase all three Pitta Balancing Oils for $66.00 Wholesale or $88.00 Retail. Purchase the retail kit below, or sign up for a preferred customer account for just $10 to get discounts, or a wholesale account for $35 dollars by clicking here.
A Wholesale Membership is $35 to enroll and you’ll get wholesale pricing on all doTERRA products
January 9, 2012 No Comments
Simplify your life
It’s a new year, and time to simplify so that you can spend more time and effort on the things that matter the most to you. Discovering how easy it is to use essential oils really is one of those things that simplifies a life. For starters, my daughter has a major dust mite allergy, which we now live in the Dust Mite Capital here in the Northwest. The house dust mite has been associated with a range of respiratory and dermatological allergies, such as asthma and eczema. The main component of dust is shed skin flakes, which is the mite’s preferred food source. Areas around the home that are heavily used, such as beds and upholstered furniture, will have higher mite populations. So how do we deal with this? Wash sheets and pillowcases weekly in water hotter than 131° or when washing in cold water, use a commercial product containing essential oils, like eucalyptus or tea tree oil.
Speaking of the wash, I worked for many years as a Restaurant Manager. My clothes always smelled like Chinese Food. Seriously. The new smell culprit in my life is my workout clothes. For good smelling towels, sheets, or even workout clothes just place a few drops of Lemon Essential Oil to the washer will remove greasy/oily/icky smells.
Another little one story, my daughter suffers from the same ADHD symptoms that my husband does. He has a hard time winding down after a long day of programming. SO here is my solution. Place a 2-3 drops of Lavender Oil onto a small piece of terry cloth and toss into the clothes dryer to scent your bed linens with that calming scent. To really preserve the scent of essential oils used in the dryer, add them and run on a ‘no heat’ cycle for a few minutes at the end of the drying cycle. Research has confirmed that lavender produces slight calming, soothing, and sedative effects when its scent is inhaled
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Learn more about essential oils or order online at http://www.doterra.myvoffice.com/bijacoaching/, follow the blog or head over to my Facebook page to keep finding simple solutions to a healthier, happier life in 2012.
As an Independent Product Consultant, you enjoy all doTerra products for 25% off. You can sign up for as little as $35 for the year, or you can jump in and buy a kit such as the Family Physician Kit to get you started. The Family Physician Enrollment Kit includes 10 essential oils: 5 ml bottles of Lavender, Lemon, Peppermint, Melaleuca, Oregano, Frankincense, Deep Blue®, Breathe, DigestZen®, and On Guard™ to help families address a multitude of health issues. It normally retails at about $175 with tax and shipping. For a limited time, it also includes a bottle of Slim & Sassy, a metabolic blend to help with weight loss that retails alone at about $38 including tax. It also includes your complete introductory packet. The cost to sign up for the Family Physician Introductory Kit that gives you the 10 oils, slim & sassy, and what you need to get started as an Independent Product Consultant is $150 plus tax. So it is a huge savings and then you can keep on saving as you build your Medicine Cabinet. Feel free to contact me for details on how the business works.
January 1, 2012 No Comments
Purple Smoothie Delight for happiness
You want to know what my favorite smoothie is right now? It’s a version of Robyn Green Smoothie Girl’s Hot Pink Breakfast Smoothie. Why am I all about the healthy stuff??? I believe. Like I said in my last blog post. I believe. I think that if you follow the stuff below, you will be healthier, you will be in a place of opportunities and that you won’t spend your days thinking about all that you don’t have, but rather all that you do have… at least most of the time.
My happy right now is beets. One cup of raw beets is high in carbohydrates and low in fat. It contains phosphorus, sodium, magnesium, calcium, iron, and potassium, as well as fiber, vitamins A and C, niacin, and biotin. Beets contain folic acid, which is recommended for pregnant women because it may lower the risk of spina bifida and other neural tube defects in newborn infants. And long-term deficiencies have been linked to heart disease and cervical cancer, too.
Beets contain a wealth of fiber — half soluble and half insoluble. Both types play roles in fighting fat. These colorful root vegetables contain powerful nutrient compounds that help protect against heart disease, birth defects and certain cancers, especially colon cancer. Dr Ferenczi in Csoma hospital in Hungary has been using raw beets to cure cancer, and nothing else since the late 1950s.
So I share with you my delight… my happiness in a cup. It’s an amazingly creamy rich smoothie, and just what I need to pick up my spirits at any time of the day.
Purple Smoothie Delight – makes about 1 quart
1 c coconut water
1/2 cup coconut milk
1 large apple cut into pieces
1/4 of a medium beet, raw and peeled (you can freeze these for later use in smoothies)
1/4 c sacha inchi seeds (optional)
1/4 c chopped dates
1 tsp Ormus Greens
3/4 cup frozen blueberries
optional: 1-2 Tbsp flax seed or flax oil, protein powder, quinoa rejuvelac, kefir or yogurt
Place the ingredients, in order listed, into your Vitamix or other high power blender leaving out the blueberries and optional ingredients. Blend for 90 seconds. Add the blueberries and optional ingredients and blend on high until smooth.
I hope that you are getting healthier, and smarter about your foods because of the tips and sometimes the rants I share with you… but I’ll leave you with one of my favorite Green Smoothie Girl blog quotes:
“..I have much more faith in is food and good lifestyle practices. Don’t drink or smoke. Breathe fresh air, find ways to release stress like yoga, let go of anger and guilt and resolve your emotional issues, and drink lots of water”
December 28, 2011 No Comments
My Favorite 10 Daily uses for Essential Oils.
Here’s a short list of some examples of ways to enhance your daily life with essential oils. This can help you save money, live greener and enjoy a better life! Check out the Product Guide to learn more about the Doterra Products.
Light an unscented candle, blow out after a few minutes. Add your chosen essential oil to the melted wax in the center. Do not add essential oil while candle is lit as the essential oils are volatile.
2. Facial Steam.
Add a few drops of oils to boiling water, place your face over the bowl and drape your head with a towel and breathe deeply. Rachel Ray gets her steam on when cooking all of that pasta, and often comments on the great effects of it. This could be your easy spa at home.
3. Spa Treatment.
Add 4-10 drops to your bath or jacuzzi garden tub and soak away the troubles of your day.
4. Freshen stinky sneakers and shoes.
Place cotton balls with several drops of either Peppermint, Geranium, Lemon or Tea Tree into shoes overnight. If you are a gal that loves her workouts, your shoe closet will thank me – and so will your feet!
5. Sleep during a cold.
Put a few drops of eucalyptus oil on a cloth by your pillow at night to help breathing when struck by a cold or flu.
6. Scented dryer sheet.
Add a few drops of your favorite essential oil to a dampened washcloth, toss into your clothes dryer when drying laundry. How economical is that??
7. Tired Muscle Compress.
Hot compresses are wonderful on sore, tired muscles. Add 5-10 drops of oil to hot (not boiling) water. Soak a cloth in the water, wring it out and place on the affected area. Repeat as needed. This is great after a session or two of Insanity or any other new workout.
8. Fever sponge bath.
Add 2 drops each of of Eucalyptus, Peppermint and Lavender into your basin of cool water. Submerge a washcloth into the basin and wring, gently wipe body.
8. Get rid of the adult (or teen) acne.
Just dab tea tree on acne pimples to help clear up the infections twice a day. In laboratory tests, tea tree oil effectively killed a number of the bacteria and fungi most commonly found in skin infections and acne. After the discovery of penicillin and other antibiotics in the late 1940s, tea tree oil went out of favor as an antiseptic until the 1980s, when it was discovered that some bacteria were resistant to certain antibiotics, such as methicillin and vancomycin. Today, there is renewed interest in tea tree oil as an alternative to these antibiotics for skin infections.
9. Increase shelf-life of fresh produce.
Fill a bowl with cool water and 2-3 drops of Lemon oil. Drop your cleaned fruit into the water and stir. Be sure all surfaces of the fruit contact the lemon water.
10. Sanitize counter-tops.
In a 4 oz. bottle filled with water, add 8 drops of Lemon essential oil. Use this to clean off your counters.
Learn more by watching the video below, or by heading over to the Doterra pages.
December 19, 2011 No Comments
Essential Oils & your health
An essential oil is a concentrated hydrophobic liquid containing volatile aroma compounds from plants. Essential oils are also known as volatile oils, ethereal oils or aetherolea, or simply as the “oil of” the plant from which they were extracted, such as oil of clove. An oil is “essential” in the sense that it carries a distinctive scent, or essence, of the plant.
I created a shake for the Shakeology Holiday Recipe contest – because we could all use a little extra immunity in our lives this time of year. All of those parties and germs.
Peppermint Immunity Booster
1 scoop of Chocolate Shakeology
1 1/2 cup of Unsweetened Hemp Nut Milk (or rice, almond or coconut milk)
1/2 cup of Acai Juice
1 cup frozen blueberries
3 drops of peppermint essential oil
1 drop of cinnamon bark essential oil or 1/2 tsp of cinnamon powder
Ice cubes (optional)
Cinnamon Bark – is for anti-Microbial, digestive healing, circulatory simulator. Clients use it mostly internally to heal digestive issues, improve poor circulation, balancing blood sugar levels, help your body metabolize sugar or glucose
Lavender – is for antiseptic, anti-tumoral, combats excess sebum on skin. It is used for clients as a relaxant, heals skin (cuts, scrapes, burns, warts), prevents hair loss
Peppermint – is antibacterial, anti-fungal, anti-parasitic, anti-inflammatory. It is used to promote healthy digestion, pain reliever, proven to curb appetite
Lemon – is antiseptic, immune stimulating (increases white blood cells), anti-tumoral. Clients find it to improves memory, used for acne, urinary tract infections, parasites, and digestion
Frankincense – Is anti-depressant, immune stimulant, anti-tumoral, anti-viral. Clients use it to heal respiratory infections, heals warts, plantar warts and used for depression, inflammation and muscle relaxing. My mother uses it on her hands – she has severe Osteo-arthritis
Geranium – it improves blood flow, liver detoxification, cleanses oily skin, anti-spasmodic, anti-flammatory. It is good for fatty liver, skin conditions, fungal infections like ringworm, balances hormones and help circulatory problems.
Try a drop of any of these in your smoothie or Shakeology and see if it doesn’t make you feel healthier. A have a wonderful friend that turned me onto the best quality essential oils, Heidi from All the Sanity In Me.
December 5, 2011 No Comments
