“Get yourself grounded and you can navigate even the stormiest roads in peace.” Steve Goodier (Companion oil: Young Living Grounding™) When we talk of someone we know as being a grounded person, have you noticed how solid and reassuring that sounds? Do you feel a sense of kinship, or a smidge of longing and envy instead? [...]
“The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.” Marcel Proust (Companion oil: Young Living Inspiration™) “I’m not feeling very inspired today.” This from a young child talking to her mother as I was standing in a queue behind them. [...]
“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.” Friedrich Nietzsche (Companion oil: Young Living Gathering™) We tend to think of chaos as an arch villain threatening our wellbeing, our safety and our sanity. Chaos could do with a good PR agent. Today’s quote and these other beauties [...]
"Out of clutter, find simplicity.” Albert Einstein (Companion oil: Young Living Joy™) There’s nothing like moving home to make you spectacularly aware of the volume of your belongings — and the mysterious power of just one small cupboard of them to fill half a dozen packing boxes. It certainly ups the ante on any half-baked de-cluttering [...]
“There are receptors to these molecules in your immune system, in your gut and in your heart. So when you say, 'I have a gut feeling' or 'my heart is sad' or 'I am bursting with joy,' you're not speaking metaphorically. You're speaking literally.” Deepak Chopra (Companion oil: Young Living ImmuPower™) Here’s a ‘chicken and the [...]
“Life is a moving, breathing thing. We have to be willing to constantly evolve. Perfection is constant transformation.” Nia Peeples (Companion oil: Young Living Transformation™) If I held up a flash card of a chrysalis, what’s the first word that pops into your head ? I’m hoping you said, “Butterfly”, because I’m no psychologist and if [...]
“The most effective way to do it, is to do it.” Amelia Earhart (Companion oil: Young Living Motivation™) I was walking the other day within earshot of a couple of suited up blokes. They were nursing takeaway double shot tall macchiatos — no sugar — and looked stressed as they headed back to their office feeling [...]
“People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.” Leo J. Burke (Companion oil: Young Living Gentle Baby™) It’s been a long, long time since I had babies keeping me awake at night. But it only feels like yesterday in some ways. (A lifetime ago in others. Funny how that works !) Sometimes [...]
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” Albert Einstein (Companion oil: Young Living Awaken™) You might have heard it said that the word ‘educate’ comes from the Latin ‘educere’, meaning “bring out, lead forth.” And with one thing leading to another, the notion has been translated loosely [...]
“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.” Dr Seuss (Companion oil: Young Living Joy™) It’s been pretty chilly here this week, but the magnificent blue skies make it worth shuffling around wearing half your body weight in jumpers. Does it make you feel alive when you pause to appreciate a glorious, sunny and clear [...]
