What's Your Secret Weapon Giveaway

Secret Weapon: Lemongrass

This is my secret weapon: Lemongrass.  I an in love with this essential oil.  I would eat it and wear it as clothing if I could.  I would marry lemongrass if it would have me.

Lemongrass grows easily in Texas, if watered enough.  Just walking up to my lemongrass, pulling a leaf, inhaling its scent and rubbing it on my body is a surreal experience.  Lemongrass not only smells heavenly, but it has so many therapeutic properties:
Antioxidant, stomachic, sedative, fever reducer, anti-inflammatory, nervine and immune booster, as well as many other properties.

Knowing my personality, as a flighty, ADHD, type A personality, it would only be natural that someone like me loves the smell of lemongrass.  But I doused myself in it for 2 years before realizing that the nervine and sedative properties in lemongrass are exactly what my body needed to calm down and focus.  I always felt like I couldn't concentrate enough to write, until I put on my little roll-on bottle of lemongrass and grape seed oil.

It is so funny how when using essential oils, we are drawn to the properties that we need.  It's almost like when you are pregnant and you start craving a certain food, it's because those are the nutritional needs your body instinctually knows it needs.  So when you find yourself using an essential oil almost exclusively, look up those properties.  You will probably find something in that particular oil that is helping you without you even knowing it!

Nature's Gift Lemongrass

Lemongrass oil not only makes me feel great, it has a tummy soother component that quickly can dispel feelings of nausea. This rub recipe, directly from my book, Essential Oils for Healing, is an easy remedy and can be made ahead of time and stored for when needed.  This is a sure bet for an item in your medicine cabinet or to include in your first aid kit.

Tummy Rub

2 drops peppermint oil

2 drops clary sage oil

2 drops lemongrass oil

1 ounce carrier oil

In a small container, drip the essential oils.  Pour in the carrier oil and swirl to mix the oils.  Rub the abdomen area lightly with your fingertips or a soft cloth to ensure that the essential oils are distributed over the skin.  You can also pour it into a roll-on bottle and roll onto the desired area.  Be sure not to get any into the eyes, mucus membranes or sensitive areas.  Store unused portion in a jar with a tight-fitting lid, in a cool, dark area, for up to 3 months.

So the next time you can't focus, have a fever, feel nauseas or just plain need a great smelling oil to diffuse, use lemongrass.  I equate lemongrass with the word "peace."  Peaceful soul, peaceful health, and peaceful energy.

Giveaway!!!!!!!!!

So what's your secret weapon?  I will give away one Essential Oils for Healing book to someone out of the comments below.  The drawing will be held next Monday on 7/18/16 and I will post the winners on my Facebook author page.  What do you have to do to get your name into this amazing drawing?  Comment below with your favorite essential oil and use one word to describe what that oil means to you!

Good Luck!

Much healing to you,

vannoy

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