In this Update

·          Feng Shui Design Tip: Season Change & Clearing

·          Natural Cleaners Work Like Magic, No Toxic Feedback

·          Quick Tip: Natural Pain & Burn Relief

This Month’s Astrological Update

LOTS OF GREAT Astro INFO check here

Feng Shui Home Design Tip:

     Follow the Lead of Nature:

     Get Ready for New Beginnings

Spring is not the only time we are compelled to clear and cleanse.  In fact, for many cultures, it’s natural part of life to detoxify and clear homes and bodies at the changing of each season.  With our current lifestyles, where we are feeling compelled to run faster and faster just to stay where we are, it takes real intention and commitment to get and remain organized, clear and ready to accept all the goodness that can come our way. 

Feng Shui sees our homes as a direct correlation of our bodies and our lives.  You may notice that you feel sluggish as the seasons change, a lot of time it’s a detoxifying reaction.  We have gotten away from the health rituals of the Ancient past (Ayurveda, Macrobiotics, Kabbalah) and are just now beginning to reclaim this knowledge.  And it is a health imperative:  Out with the Bad, In with the Good! 

Here are some things to consider when the bug to get clean hits:  

                                    Start.  Just start.  Clean one drawer, one closet, one anything.  You’ll feel better.

                                    Be ruthless with clutter.  Patty Kreamer,  a local Pittsburgh professional organizer says, “Clutter is just unmade decisions.”  Make the decision to store, throw away or donate and do it! Call a friend, a professional organizer (I can highly recommend this!), turn the music WAY up and get to it.  Invite a friend to keep you on task or set a timer to keep it manageable.  When you are done: take a long cool shower to clear any negativity from your energy body.

                Extremely Important:  Don’t make it hard on the rest of the people in your house…don’t make it a drudge, if you can help it…and for heaven’s sake, don’t make your kids hate you…make it a game if you can and use this formula with kids: 6-10 yrs: 2 minutes for each year of their age, 10-18, 3 minutes for each year.  You are building life skills, not life sentences.  Try to make it a game, and if you don’t have the organizational skills, you can’t teach them.  Get help: I have worked personally with  Jodi Eisner, and friends of mine also highly recommend Vicki Dellaquilla; check the Pittsburgh Professional Organizers web and choose one that suits you.

                                    Walk through the house with a laundry basket and put everything that doesn’t belong in the room into it.  Sort it into personal baskets or piles when you get to the trash can…and don’t look back. 

                                    TIP: Save time sorting the loose pieces or parts of things: have a box or bin for loose parts where every part or piece that is not attached goes.  When need it, you’ll know where to look.

Autumn coming and the Harvest is upon us, but it is important that we are ready to receive it.  Clearing and detoxing needn’t be a hard, but to live a life in balance and joy, it does need to be done. 

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Founder & President

Personal Health Dynamics

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Here is what you can expect from working with Jan:

·        increased vitality, effectiveness, clarity, energy, stamina

·        improved judgment, ability to concentrate, focus, handle stress

·        more harmonious, peaceful emotions

·        alertness of mind and spirit

·        reduced risk for chronic, degenerative disease (e.g. cancer, heart disease, diabetes)

·        a more balanced, effective, healthy life

I have worked with Jan and our philosophy and approaches are the same:  listen to your body, be gentle on yourself, and be aware.  Here’s an excerpt from Jan’s Website:

Your health is your most important personal resource and an essential element at the heart of successful living. Your daily choices about what you eat and how you live affect your mood, energy, health, relationships and ability to concentrate and handle stress. You can look and feel better as you get older instead of living with aches and pains, limitations and health concerns. You can have more energy, be better able to concentrate, manage your moods and stress, and focus your energy and thoughts.

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Time to once again en-JOY your life!  If you call Jan, I know you’ll like her. 

Quick Tip:

Natural Pain & Burn Relief:   

I just have to share this with you:   Lavender Essential has saved me more times than I can count: 

Once I burned myself on the element while taking a dish from the oven.  I grabbed the Lavender Essential Oil I had nearby and doused the area.  I missed a spot but got most of it.  What occurred was, where the oil touched, no burn, nothing!  The small spot I missed stung and blistered.  My sons were there while I did this and they were amazed. 

I recently got a really bad sunburn.  As I was on vacation I only had a bottle of Lavender with me.   I gave it a try and put the oil all over my arms and face.  Not much happened.  So I applied another coat about 10 minutes later.  It WORKED!  The burn faded and no painful sunburn, just a nice little tan. 

Pain Relief:

Another story. While on vacation, my son wanted to kayak. We kayaked for 4 hours in the straits in Alaska looking for (and finding) the running salmon.  I didn’t know how much that would hurt.  When we got back to our ship, I took Arnica but frequently enough.  By 11:00 pm my eyes were tearing, the pain was exquisite. 

I decided to be methodical about it and every 20 minutes I took 4 pellets of the homeopathic Arnica and rubbed Arnica on my arms and neck each 20 minutes also.  I was determined, as this was the ONLY thing I could do.  At one point I dozed and I was awakened by a sensation that felt like removing long gloves from my fingertips to my shoulders, and with that very clear motion, removed the pain completely.  This time I was crying with amazement.

Also, Check out THIS product:   My dear Friend, Linda Jones, introduced me to this.  Linda was amazed at how this worked and so am I.

It used to be called “The Perfect Remedy” but the name as now changed to Topricin.  From the website:

“The Safest alternative to all prescription and non-prescription OTC pain relieving medication. Stimulates and supports the body's desire to "Heal the Damage that is Causing the Pain".

”Topricin's 11 homeopathic medicines are proven to be safe and effective for the elderly, children, pregnant women and all skin types. Experience Topricin's relief for damaged muscle, tendon, ligament and nerve tissue.

Homeopathic Medicine is a truly natural form of working with the bodies innate wisdom.  Check it out.  For Homeopathic Help in the Pittsburgh Area, contact Dr. Franne Berez, MD, at the Squirrel Hill Family Wellness Center or Phyllis Georgic at Back To Health Naturally
4000 Mt. Royal Blvd. , Allison Park, PA 15101-2918.  

Try it! It’s Alive!