My first Introduction to DoTERRA and what happened

Almost 4 years ago I was introduced to a new Essential Oil Company...Have you heard of it?  It's called DoTERRA...I fell in love with the first drop I experienced.   The oil was Balance and the presenter at the class I attended asked if she could put a drop on the back of my neck...

I don't know why I attended that class...I am glad that I did attend though.

I knew it was a sales presentation.  I was really hoping it wasn't high pressure...I hate those.  I never take any money to these kinds of things in case of the high pressure tactics that I have experienced.  I was super resistant to any suggestion that I might want to buy anything.

The home smelled amazing, I thought it was just because it was really clean, which it should have been; there were a lot of people coming over.  I was really glad I wasn't the one hosting the event.

About 10 people showed up at that class and we squeezed into the formal sitting room to hear about "essential oils".  I knew what they were and had experienced some before but I hadn't liked the way they smelled or felt on my skin.  My friends' description of her oils was so positive, I was interested.

And then Jenn put that drop of  Balance on the back of my neck.  At first I didn't notice anything.  She went right on teaching the class and passing around oils that she was talking about .  Then I started to really pay attention.  The best way I can describe my experience was, it was like someone had come in and carried me away to a really peaceful place where it was quiet and still.  My senses were clear and the noise in my head had stopped within 30 sec.

You know the noise we always have?  The negative back comments about everything under the sun.  The judgments about everything and everyone we come into contact with.  The self judgement that we don't want to address or pay attention to and hope everyone else isn't thinking about us?  That noise---it was GONE....

Then Jen Garrett passed around Peppermint Oil.  I thought I had died and gone to Christmas Heaven.  Everything (well almost everything--Melaleuca still doesn't smell very good) smelled so good...so much different from the blend I had purchased a dozen years before to help my child fall asleep...it didn't work and it smelled yucky.

I knew I wanted to buy...of course I wanted to buy but there wasn't any high pressure selling going on...Just a  presentation about what the oils did, some of their properties and an invitation to come and do what Jen was doing.  

So Simple...So Awesome. .....

To Be Continuued.....

Neuropathy and a Hint of Blessings

Yep--I have been kinda busy--I don't have a habit of posting--I don't even think about it.   The last three sentences make me think about that line in the Princess Diaries where she says: and just look at all the times I use the word I....

I woke up this morning with a pinched nerve in my lower back that made my legs feel like they were just waking up from a long sleep...It scared me--I thought--oh no--neuropathy!  Crap!

A visit to the Chiropractor helped get the bone off of the nerve and I have had lingering numbness all day.  I am going to my neck doctor tomorrow to complete the move because my upper spine is out too...I hope this takes care of the problem.

It made me think about how having neuropathy would seriously mess up someone's quality of life.  If you can't feel your feet or the condition of your skin on your toes or you nails, how will you know when there is a problem?  Would your feet die? --

Even worse--if your blood sugars are not controlled enough to cause end stage neuropathy, they are also bad enough to cause nephropathy (kidney damage)--I don't know the -opathy word for liver damage...

I have thought about what having diabetes actually means in a real sense for an extended lifetime, if you live that long.  The negative thinking way to see this is:  a disease where your body dies one body part at a time and it's just a matter of time.

The positive way to look at it is:  I am not Diabetes and I can overcome it--I can choose my actions and my responses to the things happening in my life and I can be proactive in taking care of my blood sugars and doing something about them immediately. I am smarter than diabetes.

I tend to be positive--but I have had periods in the time I have had diabetes that I have been very negative about it; yes it has blessed me in my life, but.....That is what I sometimes--well maybe--a lot more than sometimes...think.  Tomorrow I will tell you about a blessing I experienced a couple of weeks ago that was a direct result of how I have taken care of my body because I have diabetes.