Oil of the Week: Abundance

This oil is in heavy rotation in my life right now because I'm looking to really ramp up the financial abundance in my experience. This oil reminds me to begin to let you all know that oils work, not only on the physical body but also on the mental, emotional and spiritual bodies. Abundance is an oil blend that works mainly on the spiritual and emotional level. This blend works to balance the root and heart chakra bringing about an uplifting feeling of abundance. In addition, the blend is healing to the immune system, anti-fungal, antimicrobial, anti-viral and works to support the healing of bronchitis and depression. It also decreases one's sense of denial, enhances feelings of joy, increases magnetic energy, positive feelings and wealth. 

Abundance is one of my favorite oils. I wear it in lieu of perfume. The fragrance is earthy and flowery at the same time. 

Oil of the Week: Ocotea

This week, I'm featuring an oil that I haven't experienced outside of a quick sniff from a friend's bottle. I'm featuring Ocotea because it's one of Young Living's free oils this month. Yes, I said one of. I'll feature the other free oil next week. Since I do not have personal experience with this oil, I found this picture to share this information with you all. I pray it's beneficial. I certainly learned some things.

Oil of the Week: Lavender

I was super concerned about using lavender as the oil of the week because I blog and post about it so much. This blog, however is about my family's experience as oilers and right now during allergy season in the Midwest, our experience involves a LOT of lavender. LOL! For those of you who aren't familiar, my son Lei and I have quite severe allergies. Lei's are much more severe than mine are and this time of year, we go through lots of lavender, peppermint, lemon and Purification oil.

During allergy season, you want to arm yourself, not with an OTC drug, but with lavender, peppermint, lemon and Purification oils in order to support your body's natural ability to manage allergens.  Lavender is God's antihistamine. It works to block the effects of histamine in the body. Immediately upon noticing my son  rubbing his nose, I send him to put a drop of lavender oil in the roof of his mouth. By the time he's done complaining about how disgusting it is (Lol! It does NOT taste good, y'all), he's stopped rubbing his nose. Even the fastest OTC drug doesn't work that fast. ;)

So, if you're experiencing allergies this lovely spring season, grab you some lavender, peppermint, purification and lemon and skip the drug store this year. Rub lavender on your face, put 1 drop of peppermint oil in your hand and cup your hands before your face and inhale deeply, place lemon and purification oils over your liver and support your body in purifying itself.

Ask Lila About Oils

This weeks question comes from Tahira West of Pure Peace Life Coaching (www.purepeacelifecoaching.com). Tahira is hosting a Spring Forward coaching program and asked, "What are some good oils for springing forward?"

Immediately, my mind went to orange, Citrus Fresh & other cheerful, perky oils. Then, I realized that she was looking for recommendations for the participants of her coaching practice who are going to be springing forward into bigger goals. That's when I realized that we need emotional oils. We need oils for fear, anxiety & self doubt. Below are general recommendations for oils to work through these challenges. For more specific to you recommendations, email oils@lilasimmons.com to schedule a FREE oils consultation.

Anxiety: orange, Roman Chamomile, ylang ylang, lavender, Valor, Hope, Joy, Citrus Fresh, Surrender, Believe...

Self-doubt: frankincense (one of my favorites), geranium, marjoram, jasmine, orange, peppermint, rosewood, rose, sandalwood, thyme, ylang ylang, Joy, Harmony, Valor, 3 Wise Men, Hope, White Angelica, Motivation, Live With Passion, Highest Potential

Fear: Bergamot, clary sage, Roman Chamomile, cypress, geranium, juniper, marjoram, myrrh, spruce, orange, sandalwood, rose, ylang ylang, Valor, Present Time, Hope, White Angelica, Trauma Life, Gratitude, Highest Potential

If any of these challenges are keeping you from springing forward, grab some of the oils from the lists above (use your gut to choose or schedule a oils consultation), slather them on & blossom into your fullness.

Oil of the Week: Joy

This week's oil of the week is near & dear to my heart. This is the oil that changed my life & started my oiling journey almost 6 years ago. I was wandering around a holistic expo when I came across this amazing smell. I followed it to a booth. Turns out I'd been following a woman who was wearing essential oils. She smelled soooooooooo good. We chatted for a few moments, then scheduled an appointment for her to come over & share the oils with me. Turns out she lived 7 minutes from my house.

So, she came over with this massive bag of oils on the worst day ever. I had hypoglycemia so when I got hungry, I became a monster. Also, stress made things worse and boy was I stressed. Not only did I hate my job but my finances and my marriage were a mess & she came just as I was returning from work, hungry, to a messy house and dinner wasn't ready either.

Being the people-pleaser that I was at that time, I put on a smile and did my best to be a good hostess. She handed me oil after oil to smell and I half listened to her spiel. Then, she handed me something that I liked cause I didn't give it back right away. I kept sniffing the other stuff she handed me but I sniffed this oil in between. she noticed that I wad holding onto this one oil and she gave me a sample vial of it along with her contact info and she left.

Obviously that oil was Joy. Here's the miracle: I sat on the floor & played with my babies while I waited patiently for my husband to finish making dinner.

What I later learned was that I'd been depressed (well, I kinda knew that but not to what extent) and that day in my livingroom with that oil that I kept sniffing, the depression that I'd nursed for 6+ years started to lift. Thus began my love affair with the oils.

If you think you may be experiencing depression, try Joy. It is known as the #1 oil for depression. It changed my life.

Oil of the Week: Orange Oil

Spring has sprung and that means happy, floral oils are hitting the diffuser. Lei (my 5 year old) is all ready with his orange oil in the pic below.

In doing research for this post, I found that orange oil is highly antitumoral. It is a relaxant, an anticoagulant and a circulatory stimulant as well.

I like to use orange oil as a general mood booster. I've recently paired it with Valor to lift me out if a deeeeeep depression. Even though the spring equinox was last well, we got almost a foot of snow here last night. Today, I'm inviting spring into my home & head today with some orange oil perfume. I invite you to do the same. Get your orange oil today.

Ask Lila About Oils

This question came from A Curious Reader. What's the difference between the Stress Away roll on and the new 15 ml bottle of Stress Away?

This is a great question because I didn't realize there was a difference in the two until I placed my monthly order last week & the lovely man on the line outlined all of our new oils. Stress Away is a yummy blend that I like to call a Margarita for your nose. This blend was formulated to relieve daily stress. It is an excellent massage blend as well.

Oh, I didn't answer the question. The difference is that the roll on contains coconut oil. This means that the 15 ml bottle is going to be more potent and is going to last longer than the 10 ml roll on bottle. So grab yourself a bottle of Stress Away today and rub your days away.