This is such a great statement on Young Living’s websites at the moment: Your health is in your hands. Keep those hands squeaky clean AND take charge of your own overall wellbeing – not just now but always in life. If you’re not already proactively taking charge of your health as part of your lifelong journey, it’s crucial that you get onto that path now.
It’s up to each of us individually to look after ourselves and in doing so, we can look after the collective whole.
Today, we’ll go back to basics and look at the fundamentals of how to do that. And please click here for Young Living’s awesome infographic guide.
QUICK READ: 6 KEY POINTS
1. Wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water following recommended public health guidelines
2. Clean surfaces frequently and remember the often-touched but forgotten things like mobile phones, keys, door knobs, remote controls, light switches and toilet flush buttons
3. Eat fresh fruit and veges and supplement as needed to target your own body’s particular needs
4. Get plenty of good quality sleep, water and remember to exercise even if you have to stay indoors
5. Stay relaxed and uplift air naturally at home by diffusing essential oils, including fresh fragrances like Young Living Citrus Fresh, Purification™ or a blend of Lemon Myrtle, eucalyptus globulus and rosemary
6. If your favourite Young Living products are out of stock, look at their ingredients and your trusty reference book on essential oils and get creative with seeking alternatives
WASH YOUR HANDS LIKE A SURGEON
Wash your hands like a surgeon!! Good hygiene is essential to our everyday life. We can become a bit blasé about the basics like super-thorough handwashing until all of a sudden, emergencies happen and we realise with renewed appreciation that simple but thorough hand-washing should always be a top priority.
Using plenty of soap and water, scrub those fingers and palms against each other, get right in to all the crevices and under your nails, too, and work it all in for the tune of Happy Birthday twice. Young Living has a range of beautiful soaps, hand washes and shower gels that are infused with the highest quality essential oils and botanicals and help to keep your hands feeling soft and smelling beautiful through repeated washing without any nasty synthetic ingredients.
Rinse very thoroughly and pat your hands dry with a clean towel. Use paper towels that you dispose of immediately or change towels frequently and it’s a great idea for each person in the home to have their own designated hand towel along with their own bath towel.
KEEP SURFACES CLEAN
Keeping surfaces scrupulously clean and watching for those frequently used and often forgotten is vital. Be especially mindful of all food preparation areas and benches, lids on rubbish bins, door knobs, light switches, computer keyboards and mouses, remote controls and of course, taps and toilet flush buttons. Add Young Living Lemon essential oil to your cleaner for an extra freshness boost and citrus fragrance.
EAT YOUR FRUIT AND VEGES
When it comes to your overall wellness, it’s recommended over and over and over again that we eat plenty of fresh fruit and veges. It’s not rocket science. It’s common sense.
Supplement as needed to bolster your own particular weak areas that have developed over time. Smoothies can be awesome for getting a high concentration of goodness in one go. Keep up your antioxidants. Remember that Young Living has a range of Vitality essential oils you can safely add to food and drink by following the labels and using as suggested. These are highly potent and concentrated, so just a few drops will add a lot of flavour and vitality to your drinks and dishes. This delicious Vegan Shepherd’s Pie with Thyme Vitality Essential Oil is a great, nourishing recipe to get you started.
SLEEP, HYDRATE AND EXERCISE
Getting plenty of good quality sleep and regular exercise, drinking the appropriate quantities of good quality, clean water: all of these are fundamentals to building up and maintaining good health and immunity.
When opportunity for outdoor exercise is limited, don’t give up on it! Gentle, calming and relaxing exercise like yoga is highly recommended not just for our souls, but it’s an extremely effective form of exercise for our balance, muscles, inner workings and core. If you have always promised yourself you’ll learn yoga but never got around to it: now is the perfect time.
And for something more vigorous, check out the internet and you’ll find plenty of people demonstrating a variety of workouts you can do at home, with more cropping up all the time as fitness businesses take their businesses online. Be sure to choose something appropriate for your level of fitness.
DIFFUSE FOR RELAXATION AND FRESHNESS
Keeping up spirits and helping your home to feel fresh are easily done by diffusing essential oils around the home for everyone to enjoy. Here are some beautiful oils that we love when we’re feeling a bit unsettled:
- Young Living Citrus Fresh™
- Young Living Purification™
- Young Living Abundance™
- Young Living Peace & Calming™
- Young Living Lemon Myrtle blended with Eucalyptus globulus and rosemary
OUT OF STOCK? GET CREATIVE
If any of your Young Living favourites are out of stock, get creative with looking at their ingredients and coming up with your own combinations inspired by those blends. All essential oils are complex and have plenty of special benefits – sometimes not just the obvious ones. Look up your trusty reference book for inspiration, too. And remember that a little goes a long way.
Essential oils are potent, so as always, please follow directions on the bottle and the usual guidelines for safe use of authentic essential oils.
Please ensure you are choosing a brand with complete transparency from seed to seal, such as Young Living. You can learn in this short video why we only ever recommend and choose Young Living oils and love them so much!
This will also connect you up with The Good Oil Team for our personal support and coaching. We'd love to help you on your journey to vibrant well-being the natural way!
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