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Lovely Lavender: The Universal Herb; new on Amazon Kindle

Check out Lavender: Universal Herb, a great Amazon Kindle primer on the fabulous lavender herb. Grow it, heal with it, meditate wth it, eat it, decorate with it, celebrate with it!!

http://www.amazon.com/Lavender-Universal-Herbal-Amicus-ebook/dp/B00CNT8K7G/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1368728959&sr=1-1-fkmr0&keywords=Lovely+lavender%3A+the+universal+herb

Crammed with great information and illustrations.

 

Lavender is truely the unversal herb.  Way back in the middle ages, leather workers who used avender oil in the preparation of their skins for shoes and gloves were protected from the Bubonic Plague.  Who knows what healing power lavender would have now against many of the new pandemic plagues?  LAvender neat on burns cools immediately and slathered on a burn every few minutes until the burn/redness/heat dissappears, no scarring will happen!

Are You a Confident Woman? Redefining what it means...

I used to think you were either confident OR not. But it's time to redefine what a "conficent woman" is.

She can be vulnerable & supportive of a man. Yes... but she also can be uncompromising in areas that our important to her. She can cook biscuits from scratch is she wants too.

And a confident woman is attractive to men.  She is more interesting and a challenge.

The confident woman has courage:  to face her insecurities, embrace her demons and plunge ahead to contribute her gifts to this world.  She has passion.... and energy.  And will not be oppressed or subdued.

Opening Your Heart

Opening one's heart is key to good health

After days at the keyboard my upper back and chest were in a huge knot. So the other day I was giving myself accupressure on my upper left ribs where they insert in the breast bone and these words keep sounding in my mind's ear---Open Your Heart, Open Your Heart. Again and again and again. I've been at this intention for many years--on the body level and on the emotional level.

Food and the Heart

With the history of heart disease in my family, good heart health is really important to me. I have changed my diet over the years--very little fried and that only in EE Olive Oil. Lots of veggies and fruits (OK some ice cream--esepcially when In the Keweenaw Peninsula--slaver over Jilbert's--the best in the world!) Little white or refined foods--almost no sugar or fructose.  I need to up my exercise. I need to shed 50 pounds.

This is the easy part.

Not Naive but Open

But the hard part is changing my mind to be trusting in the right way--not to be naive and seek alliances with those who would harm, but to keep my heart open to all the wonder and good that is out there.

To have my heart resonate to those vibrations and not to the ones that harm. Nowadays it is easy to become cynical and jaded...but my deep body message is to Open Your Heart to all that would bring love and abundance...LEAP! for it. and at the same time stengthen your heart with healing--people, sound, love, and herbs--such as hawthorne or lavender.