My Oily Life

I went in search of information regarding the old wives tale that oils will smell differently based on your body’s needs. I spent the morning trying to differentiate between an energy oil and an oil directed at PMS.. they should have completely different aromas but to me they smell the same.. and neither of them smell great.. supposedly that means I need them both? But why?

I found this old blog post by a seasoned aromatherapist:

“Some essential oils you will have a love affair with the fragrance, and others you think you will be happy if you never smell again. Essential oils work on all four levels, Emotional, Mental, Physical and Spiritual. They are a powerful tool for bringing the body back into balance.
So when you have an essential oil that has a “horrid” smell, its just a signpost along the way to showing that there is something out of balance or unresolved in your life.
If you Love the smell thats great, I use that oil to help bring me back to myself because it makes me feel like I’ve come home. (Note: this rule only applies to a pure therapeutic grade essential oil like Young Living’s, because if its not therapeutic grade, its possible that you will be experiencing negativity from the synthetics or unbalanced constituents in the essential oil.)

How does it work?

When you inhale an essential oil, the fragrance travels via the olfactory nerve and sends an electrical pulse directly to the limbic region of the brain, our emotional centre. This area is known as the amygdala and it plays a major role in storing and releasing emotional trauma. The interesting part is that the only way to stimulate this gland is through your sense of smell. This means that the emotional brain only responds to smell and not to words read, spoken, heard or felt by touch ie: braille.
So it shows how powerful a tool essential oils can be for releasing or clearing emotional stress or trauma in your life.
The other thing that happens when you inhale an essential oil is that particles travel through the nose and into the lungs, where they are absorbed into the blood stream. Chemical interactions can occur between oils and our bodies that also result in physical changes. Our bodies can become sedated, stimulated or relaxed by the action of certain oils. Pain may be relieved, wounds may heal, inflammation and spasms may cease.
So as much as I love rubbing oils onto my body, the smell alone is VERY powerful and can bring effective permanent transformation in your life.

So back to the stinky oil.
My secret to dealing with the oils I can’t stand the smell of is to rub 1-2 drops on the soles of my feet, put my shoes and socks on and then go and wash my hands. It means that I’m getting the essential oil into my blood stream and its gently shifting my frequency and helping to unlock/unblock the issue that I have, with out the smell assaulting my nose.
I’ve found that after using the oil for a period of time that the smell becomes less abhorrent and moves into the “its not my favourite, but I don’t hate it realm”.
Its up to you how long you choose to use the oil but I’ve found that the smell is a great indicator of where I’m at emotionally.

This weekend we has a last minute get together with a few of the other couples in the building for what was supposed to be a poker night for the boys and a wine night for the girls! No cards were ever brought out.. the boys made duck and bao, the girls brought desserts, and we all ended up in a circle scream-singing lyrics to old 90’s rap songs for the better portion of the night. AMAZING.

Since we didn’t have time to go grab dessert – I decided to make brownies! And of course I had to find a way to oil them up. PEPPERMINT. Now, I don’t want you to think that I was unable to run to the store but totally had time to make brownies from scratch.. false. I grabbed a brownie box and added two drops of peppermint oil. Big hit. I also didn’t have time to take photos (thank goodness, since the brownies were baked in a circle cake tin – not the prettiest brownies) so here is a photo of brownies to make you hungry and some info about the amazingness of peppermint! If you want to try this “recipe” Peppermint has 100 drops in a bottle that will make over 50 brownie batches! Plus there are 1000 other uses for peppermint, some of which I’m sure don’t involve food.. but it is so so delicious!

**WARNING** This post may be a little bit heated.. I started diffusing peace and calming before I wrote this but I don’t think there is anything out there that will make me any less sad/mad.😡

Two weeks ago, Friday morning apparently someone broke into (snuck into) (freely gained entry into) our “secured-access” loft complex.. We found out TUESDAY. How you ask? By email? no. By word of mouth? no. By the police? NO. I got all dressed up and ready to ride and went downstairs to the basement and into the LOCKED bike room to remove our chained bikes from the cement bike rack.. only to find that they were NOT there. I ran up to the front office.. their response was not shock.. or concern.. just “oh, yeah.. there was a break-in”🙄

Let me explain what it would take for someone to get in. You would have to use a remote to scan into the back gate, then again to get into the building. THEN you would have to go ally the way down the hallway to the staircase/elevator that leads to the basement. THEEN find your way through the labyrinth that is the basement to the opposite side of the building where the (supposed-to-be) locked bike storage room is located. Then pull out your bolt cutters to cut both of our bikes free… then transport those bikes up a back staircase (which I can’t find and I live here) then get BACK into the building to steal another tenant’s bike and power tools out of his storage unit.. Totally seems like random strangers did this right..😒

I cannot express the anger and disappointment that we’ve experienced in dealing with our southtown loft complex. There are no words.. There are no oils. But there is a community with Young Living. The day after I found out, I also had to contact Young Living in their amazingly helpful live chat. Iva helped me figure out a Young Living question, but also asked me about my day. I couldn’t help but express my sadness for my missing bikes and her response was priceless. “Bikes are replaceable, don’t let them take your joy”, and she was right, they don’t deserve to take everything. They already took our bikes, they don’t get my happiness.

So today we choose to forgive.. but not to re-lease.

Can you believe it is already February 28?! I feel like I blinked and this month is gone.

At the beginning of February, I was moved out to jail court! So instead of going to the courthouse for work everyday, I go to the jail. I packed up all of my things, loaded them all into a pliable chariot (Costco’s fancy name for a wagon) and off we wheeled!

One of the first things I grabbed was my diffuser and purification oil, because I was sure that an office on the inside of the jail was going to be gross and terrible.. but its not! It is great, I love the people and the office (which is 2 desks and 1 couch larger than my last office!) I DID wipe down every surface with lemon oil and ran purification for at least a week, cause safety..

I like the opportunity to confer with defense attorneys in my office. Every time someone walks in they say.. mmm, what is that smell. OILS. it is always oils. It gives me the opportunity to explain the amazing benefits of purification or stress away! Every attorney in the world could use these (insert busy attorney joke here..)

Stay tuned!