Young Living Success: Travel

When I travel, I always take a box of Thieves soft lozenges
with me on the plane, and I chew 6-8 of them while I'm on the flight
which may be why I never get sick after flying. I figure that if I
can keep Thieves in my mouth during the flight, it will probably
alleviate any microbes that I get exposed to in the air system. I
also always either double up on my Longevity caps or take Inner
Defense for a few days before, during, and after a trip. I haven't
had so much as the sniffles for well over 5 years now.

I also carry StressAway Roll-on with me at all times. The oils in that blend
are amazing for many, many health conditions! I also usually have
frankincense or sacred frankincense in my purse, and peppermint for
potential digestive issues.

I try to be respectful of people on planes because not everyone likes
the smell of our oils. So I don't put any oils on during a flight
except for StressAway. Its vanilla-smell is familiar to people and
never offensive.

Vicki Opfer

Dear Healthy Readers, (from Pat Crosby)

I just returned from a two week trip to rural India, attending a multi-thousands-of-year-old spiritual gathering called the Kumbha Mela (great spiritual gathering). Over 35,000,000 people gathered and lived in a specially designed tent city of 18 square miles. The daily temperature averaged 100-110 degrees Farenheit. There was a lot of dust in the air, and sanitation was good by rural Indian standards, but certainly not what our bodies are used to in the more sanitized western worlds. I also walked up to 10 miles daily within the Mela grounds, in the heat and dust, to attend different activities going on, so my muscles got a lot more workout than at home. (PS: Yes, I lost 10 pounds! Yea!) The little transportation that was available within the grounds were either rickshaws, hand pulled carts, or pony-pulled carriages...none of which had shock absorbers! You get the picture: bumpity bumpity bumpity! Also, most Asian cities do not yet have emissions control, so there is a lot of black diesel fumes pumped into the air by trucks, and buses, etc.

Such a trip would be unthinkable for me without the protection of the Young Living products. Here is list of what I took with me, and how I used them. This list is appropriate for any international travel into third world situations, for camping, and for rural living anywhere.

Remember that each person's biochemistry is unique, so what works for one person will be modified for another. This list is just to get you thinking on what would be good for yourself.

I also fasted for 5 days before leaving with the lemonade cleanse to help my body discharge a lot of the toxins it had picked up from the winter months here in the Catskill mountains of New York state - to help my body be able to handle the change in climate, food, living conditions, etc.)

For 2 weeks before departure, I also applied several drops of JuvaCleanse oil over my liver, and put 1 drop daily in some drinking water.

TO BUILD IMMUNE SYSTEM:

Immupro: Chewed several capsules daily.

Longevity Capsules: 1 daily

OILS FOR VIRAL/INFECTION/FUNGUS/MOLD PROTECTION Applied to bottom of feet daily: Several drops each.

Oregano

Thieves

Exodus II

Cistus

Mountain Savory

Eucalyptus globulus

FOR TRAVELLER'S SORE FEET

Relieve It (Rubbed on sore feet before bed each night...wake up with feet feeling heavenly!) PanAway

FOR PREVENTING INSECT BITES (Lots of flies by day, mosquitoes by night) Lemongrass (Several drops rubbed on hands, then quickly wiped all over body and hair 2 X's daily.) Purification (Same as above.)

FOR RELIEVING INSECT BITES (I only had 4 in 2 weeks) Purification - 1 drop rubbed on swelling Lavender - 1 drop robbed on swelling Can also use a drop of Panaway if above is not sufficient.

FOR RELIEVING TRAVELLER'S WEARIES

White Angelica - rub on hands, inhale, wipe hands through aura Peace & Calming, inhale, rub behind ears Joy - always lifts the spirits! I like it behind ears, all over ears, on heart, and deeply inhaling for several minutes til my mind relaxes, and I feel release spread through my body tension.

TO PREVENT INTESTIONAL PROBLEMS

Parafree - 1 capsule EVERYTIME I ate or drank something.

Comfortone - 1 capsule with every meal (2 times daily only).

Di Gize - several drops rubbed on belly daily. Added to liter of drinking water on days when stomach felt like it was going to get queasy.

FOR CLEARING THE DUST OUT OF MY THROAT, NOSE AND LUNGS Rubbed on lungs, deep breathed.

Purification

Eucyluptus globulus

SKELETAL, MUSCLES SUPPORT

Valor - Daily rubbed on feet, spine, mastoid bone behind ears BLM - 2 capsules daily (really keeps my joints loose and mobile and pain free - and I am a former serious arthritis patient! - BLM keeps me feeling mobile and comfortable. I have noticed when I don't take it, I feel very tight and stiff.)

TO SUPPORT LUNGS AND BREATHING

Rubbed lungs each morning and each evening with Eucalyptus globulus and purification and lemongrass. Several drops of each.

Also deeply inhaled these oils to help clear dust and mucus from nasal passageways. When doing this, you can also snort water up inside your nose til you feel it trickle down the back of your throat. Then snort it out several times through your nose til you feel clean and unclogged inside.

DETOXIFICATION OF DIESEL FUMES

Lemon oil breathed several times daily, rubbed behind ears and at base of skull twice daily, 1 drop added to water bottle daily.

STAMINA

I made a special blend and put it in a zip-lock plastic bag: Power Meal, Coral Calcium. I took a half scoop of this each morning just mixed with some plain water. Not too tasty, but it sure gave me excellent stamina for the day.

NinXia Red Blend. I have found by adding CLOVE oil to NR, it stays without refrigeration even while travelling in hot climates. In a 1 liter glass bottle, I put 1/2 NR, some unsugared grape juice, several droppers of mineral essence, about 20 drops Clove oil, 10 drops Thieves oil, 10 drops Highest Potential, and 5 drops White Angelica. I carried 2 bottles of this blend, one for each week. I poured 1/7th of the bottle into a liter water bottle each day, and then filled the daily bottle with purified drinking water. I sipped this throughout the day, and have found it keeps me from feeling faint either from the heat, or from my own variations in blood sugar level. A sip of this blend immediately rejuvenates my energy and my stamina.

Vitagreen - 2 capsules daily.

HEAT FATIGUE

Peppermint oil, rubbed on base of skull, inhaled, and added to drinking water.

Being back at home now, assessing my incredible spiritual journey, and allowing my body to re-adjust from the long and eventful trip, I am eating very lightly, drinking lots of lemonade cleanse, resting, hot soaking, and enjoying tremendously the refreshing rejuvenating properties of the Young Living skin care products and shampoos. And pure NinXia Red is so cooling and refreshing and energyzing in a very good way.

As always, when I travel (or at home for that matter) so many opportunities arise to share the oils with others. The camp I stayed in had two beautiful white bulls. One of that had some kind of an eye problem that caused the eye to be weeping constantly. I had the handler apply lavendar oil all around the eye - about 2 inches from the eye itself. Within 2 days, most of the weeping (which had been copious) was gone.

One day, I visited one of the holy men and explained I had some natural "medicine" with me. I spent the next several hours anointing all kinds of people with everything from badly infected leg infections, to joint aches, to sore necks, to sad feelings. It is always a joy to see how rapidly our oils can bring relief to many long standing problems for people and animals.

The lovely family who made me fresh pineapple and orange juice daily lived across from our camp. One evening when I went for my juice, the mother was streched out on the floor with a bad headache. I vitaflexed Peppermint, Relieve It and Panaway and Joy into her feet, gave her a few drops of each to put on her temples and back of neck and inhale. Within 5 minutes, she was up and smiling, and saying her headache was all gone. She was one of the event health directors and was very impressed with our medicine! She continued to talk about this event for the duration of my stay.

Two of the holy men were setting up hospitals to provide for rural local villagers in their home locals. I spend several hours with the doctors (trained in western allopathic medicine) explaining some of Gary's principles of natural health and healing and explaining some of the biochemistry of essential oil practice. I will have ongoing contact with these people by email to support them in discovering how they can incorporate many of Gary's health-promoting principles in their public health education outreach. It is interesting that many many many of Gary Young's findings are exactly aligned with the ancient medical tradition of India called Ayurveda. - knowledge which was blown from the mind of God to the mind of the sages