Hello Readers,

Registration for the Fall session of "Emotional Wisdom with Essential Oils" ends September 22. This 12-week online course is taught by me and LeeYen Anderson. This course is designed for Practitioners seeking certification as well as individuals wanting a much deeper understanding of "Releasing Emotional Patterns with Essential Oils."

Are you constantly looking for new experiences? Do you expand physically if not expanding in other areas of your life? Then you might be an Intestinal body type.

Has Tired been a theme with you lately? Tired transmutes into Rejuvenated with Humility essential oil.

As always, I hope and trust that these newsletters help you enjoy a happier, healthier life.


Health and Happiness,
Dr. Carolyn Mein

Our busy schedules are often even busier in September – back to work, back to school or college, resuming gym or yoga classes, and after-school activities or sports. Proper nutrition is vital to maintaining the focus, energy and stamina that we and our children need for successful, productive days. Fast food, grab-and-go snacks, and highly processed cafeteria foods contain too little of what we need and too much of what we don’t want in our bodies. With a little planning, it’s easy to prepare healthy meals and snacks to power us through our busy days.


Nutritional Basics

Let’s start with universally supportive nutritional tips that apply to everyone:

• Water – hydration is essential to metabolism. Only water is water – just because it’s served in a cup doesn’t mean it hydrates. Tea, soda, juice, and other drinks are treated as food by the body. Be sure to drink enough quality water daily. When you must drink tap water, add lemon juice or peppermint oil – more hydration tips here.
• Rotation – variety of foods is essential for all of us. Eating the same foods at the same time for days depletes pancreatic enzymes and stresses the digestive system, affecting assimilation. Avoid rut eating – treat your body to a wider variety of foods. The food lists in your body type Profile & Diet book provide many suggestions.
• Fruit and sugar – any foods containing refined sugars can spike blood sugar levels, deplete minerals and slow us down. Read more about sugar in your diet. Also determine the best times of day to eat fruit – more on that below.

Optimizing Breakfast


Breakfast truly is the important meal of the day. It can get us off to a great start, or it can slow us down for the entire day. The food choices we make for breakfast are well worth a closer look.

The breakfast that works well for one person is problematic for another. A powerhouse breakfast of carbs and protein – basically having a “dinner” for breakfast – works well for the Pituitary body type – but an Adrenal body type consuming a heavy breakfast like steak and eggs will overstimulate their Adrenals, causing them to be hungry and wanting more food all day, generally leading to excess weight gain. An ideal breakfast for an Adrenal type would exclude dense protein in favor of vegetables or fruit, adding yogurt or cottage cheese for a busy morning.

The best time to eat breakfast varies by body type. Pituitary body types do well with a large breakfast between 7:00 – 8:00 AM, while the Brain body type prefers a moderate breakfast around 10:00 – with no protein consumption until after 11:00. Other types including Eye and Thyroid are more flexible in the time and size of their breakfast.

Fruit, being a natural whole food, is often considered an “anytime” food. In reality fruit – and fruit juice - contain concentrated sugars which can raise blood sugar levels if eaten when your body cannot handle it. In my research for the 25 Body Type System, I found that there are recommended times of day to consume fruit, and these times vary by body type. Five body types (Adrenal, Eye, Pituitary, Spleen and Thyroid) can eat fruit any time of the day, while those having a Stomach body type should avoid fruit at breakfast or may experience fatigue or sluggishness. Read more about consuming fruit.

Families that include multiple different body types may have more of a challenge in planning breakfast together, depending upon which body types. Comparing the Sample Menus in the Profile & Diet book for each type in your family can provide helpful ideas and show where there is overlap between types. Learn more about breakfast.


Healthy Snacks & Smoothies

Pre-planning snacks for yourself or your family is worthwhile. A healthy “quick fix” can alleviate the sugar cravings that tempt us into unhealthy convenience foods.

Cravings indicate the body isn’t receiving, or isn’t assimilating, enough protein. Sugar is the transport mechanism to get protein across the blood-brain barrier, which is a reason we sometimes crave sugar, especially after dinner. Sluggishness also indicates a drop in minerals and nutrients, which can be the result of too much sugar. Fruit after dinner can provide sugar without depleting minerals. If your body type doesn’t do well with fruit in the evening, use Re-Vita – I find that just a small fraction of a teaspoon of Re-Vita is usually enough to satisfy the sugar craving.

Nuts and seeds provide concentrated fat and protein – providing an instant energy “lift”, without needing to eat that much. Add dry fruit, or veggies. These are quick and easy snacks to prepare and carry.

Cashews and pumpkin seeds are good for most body types. Celery with almond butter or cashew butter is an easy snack that works for most. Sunflower seed butter with honey (to sweeten the taste) is good on celery, while slices of apples and cheese is another tasty snack idea that’s easy to prepare. Pineal body types are better with seeds rather than nuts. If pre-roasted, look for unsalted, then add Pink Salt. Or, you can roast them or soak them yourself. Here are instructions on soaking and roasting nuts.

Almond, pecan or hazelnut milk with honey or avocado also provides quick, concentrated protein and fat.

After schools snacks for kids may be meat slices and veggies – such as turkey with cucumber. A little Pink Salt adds flavor to veggies while aiding digestion and providing trace minerals.

Smoothies can be a healthy snack or a good meal replacement. If including fruit, ensure the time of day is good for your body type. I have found several high quality protein powders that can be added to a smoothie or simply blended with water or a beverage. For suggestions about other creative and healthy additives, read more about making healthy smoothies.

I encourage you to experiment and come up with your own combinations and variety. Having easy-to-carry, and pre-prepared, options that are healthy, tasty and satisfying will reduce the cravings for less healthy convenience foods.


Eating healthy – especially as a family – would be much easier if our nutritional needs were the same. But different body types have very different needs. The 60 page Profile & Diet book for each body type includes food lists, sample menus, and nutritional guidelines to help optimize your weight, health, focus, energy and stamina. Discover your body type and “eat right for your body type.”

Has “Tired” been a theme for you lately? Tired is when we don’t feel we have the energy or stamina for what we need or want to do. We may feel tired mentally (too much to think about), physically (overworked or not enough sleep), or emotionally (unresolved emotional stress).

Humility essential oil can be used to transmute Tired into Rejuvenated. The emotion of Tired is stored in the Pancreatic duct, which is accessed by applying Humility essential oil to the acupuncture point just below the sternum and to the left. Use the statement “I am renewed” – watch the demonstration video (below).

Not Good Enough is a common emotion that most people deal with or have dealt with in one form or another in their lives. When an emotion is a Core Emotional Issue it shows up as a central theme, being more of a challenge than otherwise. The gift of a Core Emotional Issue is that when mastered it becomes a strength. Not Good Enough is a Core Emotional Issue for the Intestinal, Gonadal and Heart body types.

Additional emotions Humility transmutes are Insulted and Less Than. While these emotions are similar, each has specific nuances which can help to reduce the charge on the strongest ones. These are all components of a feeling of inferiority, which affects self-image and inhibits one’s ability to live up to their highest potential.

Understanding an emotion and a pattern that its associated with is important because if you do not fully get the message or lesson you are destined to repeat it.

Humility was formulated to promote forgiveness, humbleness and humility. It will help you arrive at a place of peace, forgiveness and deeper spiritual awareness. If you feel stuck in a situation or relationship, Humility may help you transform, change, or make a dent, as you get clarity, stronger and grounded.

Humility is a blend including Coriander, Bergamot, Ylang Ylang, Geranium, Melissa, Frankincense, Myrrh, Northern Lights Black Spruce, Vetiver, Orange and Rose.

Applications:

• Diffuse or directly inhale
• Apply 1 to 4 drops over heart, neck, forehead, temples, and crown of head
• Put 2 drops on a wet cloth and put in clothes dryer
• Put 4-8 drops on cotton ball and locate on vents
• Add 2-4 drops to bath water

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