My Oil Collection (Part 4) – Joy and Peace and Calming

In this post, I am going to talk about 2 oils which I didn’t enjoy at the start but now I am loving it and diffusing them every other night!!  Here is goes…..

One of the recommended oils that my friend intro me to purchase when I first get to know about Young Living Essential Oils is Peace and Calming. She told me that it has helped her alot in terms of dealing with a child having a tantrum and herself losing her temper. Peace and Calming keeps them both calm. It was her favourite oil.

Alright, so I got Peace and Calming. I didn’t really like the oil at first because I am not a person who is very into flowers and Peace and Calming contains a flowery kind of scent (I believe it is ylang ylang, because my hubby hates the smell ylang ylang when I diffused it and so does my colleague who says my bottle of ylang ylang smells Indian). Well, I didn’t totally dislike but it wasn’t a preferred fragrance.  But after diffusing it occasionally during these 6 months, hoping to get my boy to sleep earlier (still haven’t found a solution yet haha), I have start to love this oil and cant get enough of it. Normally, I would diffuse Lavender over Peace and Calming for bedtime, but now I would make Peace and Calming my first choice.

They have a saying that if you dislike a oil, it means that your body needs it as it lacks the component that the EO contains. If you start to love the oil, it means that you have achieved balance with the oil.

So how true is it? Another oil that I didn’t really enjoy is Joy. I find that the scent is even more powerful that Peace and Calming because it is much more a flowering scent than Peace and Calming. Joy is a oil blend that consists also of Ylang Ylang, Rose, Jasmine and other eos. But I read that Joy has also helped with kids with their negative thoughts and feelings. My boy has been crying to school for almost a week and we had totally no idea what happened. He was usually fine, although he never was enthusiastic about going to school. I saw a testimonials where the mom diffused Joy at bedtime, and the child didn’t fuss the next day to school. So without much luck with Peace and Calming, I tried Joy. Surprised, it did helped a little and he didn’t fuss the next day.

Sometimes, the application of the essential oil makes a difference. Some people uses a eo for a long time and see no benefits, but later when they tried applying on a different location and wah-la! problem solved! Using essential oils requires alot of trial and error and everyone’s body is build differently!

After using Joy more regularly, I start to love the scent. Especially in the morning when I wake up, the sweet sweet scent still lingers in the room. I am really surprised, because no other oils that I diffused at bed time lingers around like Joy. It helps my day with a delicious sweet fragrance. Simplify loving it. I am definitely going to purchase my Joy again.

 

Thankfully, I had my everyday 10 oils which comes with a bottle of 5ml Joy. Otherwise, I would never would have considered Joy as my first option, knowing I am not a flowering person! The premium starter kit is a great a kit for starters and I got it free when I signed up! Contact me to find out more.

How I recovered from sore throat and cough

As a teacher, sore throat and throats infection is the last call for us.. Without our voice, we can’t teach.  I try not to miss any of my classes unless I’m so sick that I can’t deliver.

So one day I started coughing. I tried using RC and applying it on my chest. I didn’t use it diligently because I was still very new to the oils and didn’t know that frequency plays a part too. My lungs and throat was ticklish and irritated that I kept coughing at night andI couldn’t sleep. It lasted for almost 2 weeks, till I couldn’t take it anymore. I went to see the doc, as it has come to a stage that it was disturbing my sleep and people sleeping around me.

The doctor prescribed me antibiotic because I have been coughing for way too long. The bill came to like $80+ if I remembered correctly, the antibiotic costed me a bomb! While I was collecting my medication, the nurse wanted to explain to me that if I have diarrea after taking the antibiotic…. then another nurse cut her off before she could finish, she said that the antibiotic is okay. Okay, I took the first dose and the next day I was having diarrea!! I remembered I was going to Young Living to attend a class, and I couldn’t hold on to “it” and there wasn’t a toilet in sight because in Singapore, there are no toilets in the MRT stations!! (read more about my incident here and how peppermint saved me) When I felt better, I called the clinic because the nurse did tried to warn me. She told me over the phone to take half a dose instead. After finishing the originally 5 days of antibiotic (then became 10 days), I still didn’t recover at all…. What a waste of $, my time and gave me a terrible diarrea experience. I continued oiling after that with my RC and I took “Pi Pa Gao” to help soothe my throat. It took me a long time to totally recover, that my colleagues kept asking me why I am still coughing!

 

Well RC somehow didn’t worked so much for me. But it did helped with my MIL and she told me it helped her to sleep better at night, RC reduced her cough. So the second time, when I felted another sore throat coming, this time I did more research and asked around. I gave thieves a try. I put 1 drop of thieves into a cup of warm water, gargle a little and drank it. The taste was “unique” and if you didn’t drink it properly, it will burn your lips a little. Then someone recommended me this Thieves Tea. I didn’t have honey, so I used 1 drop of thieves and 2-3 drops of lemon to a cup of warm water, the taste was much better and easier to take. I remembered the first morning after I drank my first Thieves with water, the sensation of a sore throat was gone. I continued to take the Thieves Tea for about a week and it did helped with my cough. I stopped drinking thieves when I felt that my cough was getting better.

 

 

 

RC didn’t helped that much and my friend recommended me this Cough Mixture. Luckily, I had all these oils with me at that time. Raven, RC, Peace and Calming, Lemon and V-6. Whey, I blended a bottle for myself and my boy. (The whole family was coughing at that time). I applied for my LO in the morning and at night because he goes to Child Care. If I have the chance, during the weekends, I would apply more frequently. My LO was having a quite a lot of phlegm with his cough. I put 1-2 drops of lemon in a big glass of water and I would share it with him. He would usually take a few sips when he is in a good mood. (Remember to stir it well, otherwise the EO would be floating on the water, it burned his lips a little the first 2 times I gave him because kids have more sensitive skin, I applied V-6 oil to help dilute his pain). I am happy to say that my boy survived the cough without having to see the doctor. Now every time, he starts coughing, I would make this blend again. And for myself? It was a slow recovery I recovered naturally without the help of medication and I saved money on Doc’s bills!