ever bernie again at soul scaife living where we talk about beauty in the home function in the twenty first century and of course connect you to all local resources well today we have a fabulous guest and her name is mary progress she's a holistic nurse and a wellness advocate welcome mary progress and we're here today to talk about don't tara essential oils and how we can use them in the home mary so happy to have you here on soul scape living i get so excited about essential oils and when you and i first started our conversation about essential oils one of the things we talked about doing is you know soul skate works on five principles and i like when i go into people's homes i like to go into their home and really implement these five principles so what we'd like to do today with essential oils is maybe go through those principles and see how does essential oils you know infuse themselves into these principles so we can pull up fly number one we could start talking about my first principle which i'd like to talk about which is release and honor and one of the things that i feel that people really have a difficult time doing is letting go letting go how could essential oils help us with the letting go well we have so many essential oils and  well part of the letting go process there's you know we have there's purified which is a cleansing oil there's also a guard which is another cleansing oil  and with lemon oils which you can diffuse i mean there are three ways you can use these oils you know there's topical which you can apply and i always recommend that when someone is first trying something they should either up first appl through a variety of testing through a third lab we do not call them organic ok well the reason being that there are they work directly with the growers ok they don't go through a third party and so these growers come from countries like haiti and you know kenya and got amala so there they don't have a lot of money still tarif through their coal impacts sourcing helps them to grow and grow  business and be and have a better life but if these people have to go and pay they would have to pay like two thousand dollars or more for this certification and then in these countries often these inspectors don't come anyway are you know getting rid of the clutter to cluttering our home refreshing our home especially now in the spring that's coming up we want to really bring this into our home what other tips can you share with us so diffusing the oils in the home provides this freshness and when sing and uplifting so there's actually a blend i don't have the formula with me but there is a blend that we call it and it makes a home smell nice it lifts my spirits and it's just that much easier to get into the spirit of cleansing and releasing and honoring so tell me a little bit about the diffuser that we have right next to you  one of my favorites i love the fact that it changes color because i do believe in christmas r p which is the colors in the light as well as the scent and one of my favorite of course is lavender  stress in our lives oh my gosh that's a whole lot of conversation but it's also good it's very intuitive also you know so when i work with someone and they talk to me about you know ease anxiety which a lot of people every time i try also tend to have yeah it's like the first thing out of it when i asked them so waters what are some of the things you want to work on in your home and for yourself and your family and the first thing most people are telling me these days is i'd like to decrease my inside so burgerman is my favorite you know and if you can diffuse it you can apply it topically you know onto your skin i like to put it on the bottom of my feet before i go to bed you know and then i wake up feeling better i tend to diffuse a lot i don't always put things on the bottom of my feet so i think that's a tip i'm going to take with me today and and continue to do that is there are others that are good on your feet oh well  of the all of them balance balance which is our grounding plan and we'll talk about that in a minute but so while we're still on release an honor again one of my principles is to really honor who we are in our homes many of us forget to do that to really honor what we love and to really have things around us that we love in our homes and so having a diffuser is something i do honor i do love it and i  cherish many things in my home but my diffuser is one of them so if we can go to the next slide i'd like to talk about principle number two and my principle number two is to design means to plan so when it comes to the home i always find it interesting when clients go out shopping and they say i need to buy a sofa and i say to them ok well what size sofa and they say i don't know or i say do you need an eighty four inch so far do you need a ninety six inch sofa you want to hundred twenty inch sofa so to me we really need to plan our homes we really need to have kno our our sizes know what it is that we're looking for and organize our ideas even before we go shopping so how can you incorporate principal number two when it comes to  essential oils a lot as a great question and i think what i would love to refer to my client to the person i'm working with is well for instance when you come home from work and you had a stressful day you know what would you like to do when you get home or how would you like your home to feel you know so it's always about the feeling of right how would you like it to feel do you want to feel so if you think of citrus for instance lemon it's you think i think sunshine and uplifting wild orange also you held on yeah those tangerine great for those great oils for very uplifting and sunshine so for really give us that florida feel even uglier here in new jersey but not only not only in terms of you know the feeling is very good also yeah what do you want in your home do you want to detox your home you know because we bring so many chemicals in yet clint cleaners and whatnot us so do you want to detoxify your home do you want your home to be a place where you can boost the immune system for your kids all of those things has the protective plant we call it on guard on guard and it's a great blend to help and again is that something that we put in our water use then yes yes with the oils the one thing w as i said i can only speak to the dog taro is because these are the ones that i've used personally and my family ok so yes you can ingest them so with on guard you can put a drop in water or you or what i like is i put a drop in  especially if you're using it on the kids there is a ratio there is really love and it's coconut oil they can get anywhere on line oh well i shouldn't say they don't tear ourselves fractionated coconut oil but yes you can get in get it on son ok  so how can we create wellness in the home is it just the on guard is there other uplifting like passion or peace oh definitely we want to talk about has the emotional aroma therapy blends with him as a kid or you can buy them separately so for instance if you're coming home and you're feeling you know discourage gloomy then you could diffuse a little bit of cheer because that's got a lot of the citrus oils in it you could put a drop or two on your risk and just you can because i like to take my olds with me you know and that way if i'm a little stress i just put them in my risk and i tend to just breathe one of my favorites is breathed by the way and yeah it's you breathe and i think that when you breathe it just centers me yes when that when you get that freshness so that right scent that goes through you yeah and i have to say it's the one people when they buy a love it will text me or call me oh mary i use this i had a cold and i couldn't breathe and i couldn't sleep and then i remember i had to breathe i started to fusing it and i was able to breathe and sleep i've taken it with me on weddings and i have people who say oh i have a headache and i'll give them a few drops of the breathe and the headache goes away so sometimes it's just about clearing the passages well it's it's great it's a great plant do you so let's let's change the slide to principle number three and again when i talk to my clients  my principals i talk about scale and proportion and you know mary one of the things i find in my business is that most people this is where they make the most mistakes they don't know what size to buy something again as i mentioned they don't know what size sofa to buy but they also don't know what size table to buy or what size lamp to buy you know i can't tell you what size or work you know you you go into these big homes and they have an artwork that's maybe you know eighteen by twenty four where the wall is you know eighteen feet high by twenty feet wide so really understanding poor poor ssion in a home and harmony in the home is crucial when it comes to design so how do we create harmony with essential oils again well we do have like our balance blend which is our ground england so that i like to put that on the bottom of my feet in the morning when i first wake up but you can also apply that almost any of these oils you could apply yeah there are ways ng but in creating so talking about how you work with a client and helping them to understand proportion i lie what's great about being a wellness advocate for adult tara is that when i have someone when i help someone get their own account they're not just getting an account they're also getting me there i become their wellness advocate so if they have a question or they need to know more about something they can come to me and i will help them with that which is what i love as a holistic nurse so again you're going to bring them the harmony but are you giving them what's best for them or helping them through the process because the oils you know there are so many oils so to really figure out the right proportion or the right orioles to use it's an important to have an advocate that will help you through that process just like it's important to have a designer help you through the process of finding the right proportions and the right harmony in your home so i have i had a client who recently purchased a home essential skitt so i immediately say let's set up an appointment so when you comes in i'm going to meet with you and we can go over it so you know how to use it so what is in the home essential kit it's got the ten blends like frankincense lavender and i think something else it's a great it's a great kit you know but i don't want to just have somebody buy it and now now when i know how to use it because that's not good for anybody you want them to use it to feel the benefits of it and then of course to come back and try new ones and try different blends so principle the next scale is principle number four and principle number four we talk about color and the color being the silent language and oh my god i could talk about color i did two shows on color we could talk about the psychology of color and how important color is you know if i have hot pink top on there's a certain vibe that's coming out today right and it's there's a certain vibe coming out of you when you have the teal and it's a nice compliment because we are complementing each other if you look at the color wheel that's what we're doing today we are in balance isn't that that was not intentional but it's not intentional but it always works out that way so how can how can we help people with the psychology of the essential oils  most powerful so when you're inhaling these oils they have compounds and this is very science basis is not new age right so you're inhaling these oils and what happens is the molecules are it could trigger a memory so that's the psychology is that it's triggering right i'm paying right yeah whenever i smell lemon ice think of the lemon cookies now no but it's true whenever i think of lavender  there's a immediately there's a message in my brain that comes the minute i smell the lavender the same thing as the breeze whenever i smell the breed i immediately get the sense of freshness so there is a am i going to get a little more passion in my life if i use pan well it does contain cinnamon and it is known as the oil of sexual harmony sexual harmony well hey there's the psychology and balance of sexual harmony but it's also it's also called our inspiring blend so inspiring inspiring when right so passion is not necessarily about passion it could be passion and in our jobs passion and with our children absolutely passion doing the dishes but i don't know about that have passion in everything that we do in order to have a balanced life we cannot agree on a balance home sure you know so is there some oils that you diffuse while you're cooking to help with cook well i'll tell you  no not necessarily with cooking but but a week ago i made some chicken colors fried and then my apartment smelled like you can cut like oil unifies you know and i couldn't stand it so today is it not peppermint no no what we're discussing today spearmint spearmint which is known as the oil of confidence speech confidence isn't and the end line a little bit of lime as well ok which also by the way the spear n and the lime are great eliminate and lemonade yes yes so we can put these oil is in lemonade this summer ok and we enjoy them again make sure that they are the oils that we can that they're called supplement yet arrest as supplement on the bottle as long as it says that i'm going to say we can digest them so put them in your water and enjoy can we go to principle number five because i can't wait to talk about principle number five and principle number five when i work with clients it's really i say the details tell your story so you know i can go into a home i always like to tell clients that i don't like to impose my design style into my clients i like to do a survey with them i ask them lots of questions and i try to find what is it that they are looking for and i try to figure out their story and bring out the details in their home i know you were telling me about the strength finder and how that correlates to essential oils can you tell me about that well if you've heard of the gallup organization they created this someone wrote a book called strength finder two point zero that's correct ok and then the wife of like one of their i can't remember what his title is jeff  melinda and she wrote a book called anchor anchor to your strengths ok ok and what she did was in her research working with the gallup organization as well disconnectedness ok and the oil for that one is syria would cedar wood is the oil of community ok people things here of what cedar wood it is a great oil it's a great you want to use that inhaling some of this nice spirit always just smell so i wish you could smell it because it's just all so wonderful so you know whenever next time i smell spearmint i might think of this lovely time that i had here with you yeah you know i know what we're doing we're anchoring a memory a memory with our sense so senior we're known as the oil of community would be a great oil for me for instance if i'm going to teach a class or if i'm going to work with a client you know what i use it by itself no i would blend it with some other things that would work so one of my strengths is activator activated so was there or is there  activator yes you know and again for our viewers if you're not familiar with strength finder two point zero i highly recommend that you buy the book and you take the test and it really did help me to embrace my strengths and to really focus on what those strengths are and to become more of them and not and to embrace them and really show them off so what can i use what oil can i use for right activator well believe it or not the three oils that  are mentioned here one is blue tennessee i've never heard of blue tape is one of our new or well it's an oil that was released in september this past september last september that we had to deal terakhir invention so that's one of the oil takes ideas and puts them into action it's spurs the procrastinator toward progress and encourages initiative to think about blue tansey however you don't want to use that during the day unless you're putting it somewhere that's lemon grass and eucalyptus so lemon grass you keep telling me that i have to use the lemon grass mary and i don't use it and i have it so i need to that's another reason for me to stick with my  grass is powerful in helping to shed and oilskin don't know what that means and start renewed it is the antithesis of lester g so this is great and you can look this is a stimulating oil can foster activity a healthy perspective eucalyptus that's another one we used to always years ago we used to actually bring the eucalyptus plants in the house to give the house the aroma that we like and now we can find that very easily in an essential oil so so mary our time is coming up really really quickly and most of my clients are all my clients i always tend to ask them a question but i think i know the answer to your question and that is what is it in your home that makes you happy mary i think i know the answer but you can tell me my essential oil as you know using them and i know people have like for the fuses and for me it's my essential oils i love them yeah you know i have them everywhere in the kitchen in the bathroom and next to my bed i use them and so many ways well mary you no i can talk about essential oils forever and ever and ever as well as i can talk about my five principles and thank you so much for you know having this conversation with us because we can continue to have this conversation and of course reach out to mary pres and how can we find you mary do you have a website the best way to reach you the best way to reach me so that you can work with me personally is just e mail me am are easy zero seven six three yahoo dot com at yahoo dot com mary i hope people call you because essential oils in my home really make a difference from a as an activator as you know my biggest problem is i go go go go and then in the evenings it's hard for me to balance myself to learn to relax and so i love my diffusers i love my oils i love them in my home i hope you guys will realize how important essential oils are in the home and begin to use them as well so thank you again for visiting us here at soul scape living and we hope to see you again thank you mary this a few think you are having me i had a great time thank you