THE YLEO FEELINGS KIT AND 7TH HEAVEN KIT:
Many of you know that for more than a decade I've been offering 2-day workshops
on the use of YLEO essential oils, and the YLEO Feelings and 7th Heaven Kits,
to heal emotional trauma and cellular memory, and to expand consciouness.

Another 3-day workshop is coming up Presidents' Weekend (Febr. 17-19) in
Salt Lake City, which combines the 2-day oils workshop using these oils and
Kits as an adjunct to what I call the SelfQuesting Approach, a method of
finding and releasing unconscious parts of the Self, and reuniting them in
wholeness with ones conscious awareness to create well being. I will have my
new SelfQuest website up soon, but for now contact me for more specific info.

What I'd like to share here now are some practical oils uses from my experience
with these Kits.

If you search the oil blends in the Feelings and 7th Heaven Kits and create a
grid of their single oil constituents, as I did a decade ago, you'll find that a
number of single oils are repeatedly used.

One of these much-repeated oils in the Kits is SPRUCE. I want to highlight
my experience with this oil, because it is very powerful in alleviating issues
that commonly are very difficult to relieve and are disruptive to ones life.

Bipolar disorder, formerly called Manic-Depressive disorder, (or its less
extreme form, Cyclothymia) is a particularly pernicious problem for people
who suffer from the highs and lows of mania and depression. It seriously
disrupts the well being of these people making their lives, and the lives of
those around them, miserable. The usual medications and treatments tend to be
expensive and hit-or-miss (at best), producing an unsatisfactory and largely
unworkable treatment program and considerable disruption of their lives.

When I was a psychotherapist I saw several bipolar clients (as well as
those with related disorders) who were on prescription medications, suffering
greatly in a living nightmare that seemed unending. I attended special clinics
and workshops on the treatment of these disorders that were presented by
some of the top medical experts in the field. These clinics and workshops
offered hope to those of us who were trying to help those suffering from
this problem, but they offered very little in the way of actual help.

I can only say that it was "heartbreaking" to see the lives of wonderful
people literally destroyed by the disfunction brought on by this malady.
Ultimately, acceptance and a maintenance relationship was about the
best that the medical and therapeutic world had to offer, as prescribed
medications failed to effect a "cure."

Since then, my experience applying "The SelfQuesting Approach" and
the oil blends of these two Kits that have SPRUCE in them (Valor, White
Angelica, Grounding, 3 Wise Men, Present Time, Hope, Dream Catcher,
Gathering, Inspiration, Sacred Mountain, Awaken, and Harmony) - and
other spruce-containing blends such as Abundance, Motivation, and
Trauma Life - produced amazing results! Of particular benefit were the
spruce-containing blends that also contained lavender and geranium oils
(blends such as Awaken and Harmony) - oils generally known to help
resolve father and mother issues, respectively - issues that particularly
coincide with Bipolar and related disorders.

These spruce-containing YLEO blends offer noticeable alleviation of
the symptoms associated with Bipolar disorder almost from the moment
they are applied. And allow for a stability to be introduced into the
person's life and relationships that previously has been disrupted to the
point of being non-functional. Essential oil use also typically reaches
through the ADDICTION PHYSIOLOGY produced by prescription meds
and street drugs that holds severe body/mind disorders in place.

The preferred sites for applying these oils are those recommended with
the instructions in the Kits - as well as the feet, palms, ears, and solar plexus
for Valor, followed by application of another spruce blend placed on its
recommended site, or on the back of the upper neck where it meets the head
(for quick penetration into the brain stem).

As many of you know, Valor is an excellent oil blend for empowering the
activity of the oils that are applied after it. It is believed that Valor's ability
to enhance the effect of other oils is that it contains frankincense, the "gate
keeper," as Gary calls it, for its ability to open one for healing changes. Yet
the other constituents of Valor also contribute importantly to it's synergy
with other blends, acting together powerfully on all levels of ones being;
body, mind, energy, and the deep causal level of consciousness itself.

I recently observed two clients wean themselves from medications prescribed
for their Bipolar disorder by using essential oils (not something I recommended
but something they chose to do) as a substitute. This switch over to natural
supports can be quite tricky and disruptive itself, but both of these clients
fared very well (better than when they were on meds). What's more their
friends and family reported a dramatic improvement in their relationships
with these clients, noting they were "better than they could ever remember."

In closing on this point I'd like to quote my former medical physician and
friend Julian Whitaker, MD, the founder of the Whitaker Wellness Institute.
"The bottom line is that the answer to emotional problems is not labeling and
drugging patients but getting to the root causes of their complaints and then
offering them safe and effective solutions. Psychiatry as it currently functions
just gets in the way" (Health & Healing Newsletter, Vol.16, No.12, Dec 2006).

Experience shows me that combining essential oils use with dietary
changes designed to address underlying toxicity (inflammation) - combined
with the SelfQuesting Approach to resolve the fragmented Self's contribution
to structuring the problem, thus creating truly whole being - is the most
effective, prudent, and responsible approach to these life issues, whether they
are showing up as physical, mental, behavioral, external, spiritual or any
combination thereof. Future healing modes will more and more reflect this.

ADDITIONAL INFO FOLLOWUP ON BIPOLAR DISORDER:

Below is an article on the importance of Omega 3 oils in
treating bipolar disorder, depression, and mania. I believe
the use of Omega 3 oils from pure sources and combined
with essential oils (to prevent oxidation) is an important adjunct
to essential oils use for Bipolar Disorder (as outlined in my
Essential Oils eNewsletter recently).

Young Living has a product called Omega Blue which
combines omega 3 oils with essential oils - the combo
prevents the omega 3 oils from oxidizing (a problem noted
at the end of the article and common with fish oil products).

Some of you are aware of the difficulties and problems associated
with coming off prescription drugs. Dr Ann B Tracy, PhD has a CD
on her website that informs those on antidepressant drugs on how
to safely come off prescription meds.

http://www.drugawareness.org

The Omega 3 research article is below.

Enjoy,

-Greg

May 6, 1999

Fish Oil May Aid Against Manic Depression, BY MARC KAUFMAN, THE WASHINGTON POST
Scientists believe they have found a surprising new ally in their efforts to understand and treat the sharp mood swings of manic depression -- the fatty acids of fish oil.
A Harvard University clinical trial of 44 patients suffering from manic, or bipolar, depression had such positive results with fish oil that the experiment was stopped after four months and all patients were put on a treatment of 14 capsules per day.
"The group taking the fish oil was performing strikingly better than the placebo group, including significantly longer periods of remission," said Andrew L. Stoll, director of the Psychopharmacology Research Laboratory at Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital. "A decision was made to stop the trial on ethical grounds."
Based on those promising findings, Stoll said, the National Institutes of Health has given preliminary approval for a larger fish-oil trial starting this summer. That trial, at McLean and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, would include 120 people suffering from manic depression and would last for three years.
"If this works, it would be one of the most exciting findings in psychiatry in the past 20 years," said Jerry Cott, chief of the psychopharmacology research program at the National Institute of Mental Health. "This is the first time we would be testing a nutritional supplement that appears to be having efficacy about to the degree of a synthetic medication."
"This could give us real insight into what is the basis of this psychiatric disorder," Cott said. "Right now, we have no clue what it's really about."
In the Harvard study, all the patients continued on their other medications. About half were also treated with fish-oil capsules, while the others got olive oil as a placebo. According to Stoll, 11 of the 15 patients taking the fish oil improved after four months, and only two had a recurrence. Six of 20 on the placebo responded positively, he said, and 11 had a relapse. Some patients were not counted because the trial was stopped before they had completed their four-month treatment.
Details of the study will be published in May in a major medical journal. Stoll presented his findings this month at a meeting of fatty-acid experts at NIH. Fish oil is especially high in omega-3 fatty acids, a family of long-chained polyunsaturated fats that have been associated with reduced cardiovascular disease and other health benefits.
The body's highest concentrations of omega-3 fatty acids are in the eyes and the brain, where neurobiologists believe they are essential to the proper functioning of cell membranes. If levels of omega-3 fatty acids are too low, they have theorized, then essential chemical pathways become overwhelmed and mental disorders can occur.
The Harvard study was the first significant scientific look at the effects of fish oil and its fatty acids on manic depression -- which is estimated to affect between 1 and 2 percent of Americans at some point in their lives. The disease produces swings from the abnormally high energy and mood levels of mania to deep depression, and is generally treated with different drugs than those prescribed for unipolar depression, the more common form of depression. (An estimated 20 percent of Americans suffer from some form of depression during their lifetimes.)
But some researchers believe omega-3 fatty acids play an equally important role in unipolar depression.
Joseph Hibbeln of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism has found a striking correlation between fish consumption and depression. Societies where people eat a lot of fish, he found, have markedly lower levels of depression than societies where people don't eat much fish. He calls his work "suggestive" rather than conclusive.
Stoll said he stumbled across fish oil as a possible treatment of manic depression when he surveyed the literature on compounds with effects similar to traditional drugs such as lithium and valproate. "Everywhere we looked, we came up with omega-3s," he said. "I had heard about omega-3s in medical school, but there hadn't been a lot of attention paid to them since." While fish oil has long been used as a safe dietary supplement, doctors warn that it can oxidize if not properly stored.