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There is an action that our bodies do that is automatic and to which we usually give little conscious attention: breathing. There is, however, a way of breathing that’s terrifically more efficient and more relaxing than the way many of us breathe most of the time. We probably don’t want to bother placing any attention on how we are doing our breathing; yet there is a way to take in air that supports well-being and it is quite different from how we normally do breathe. Learning (or re-learning) and practicing this breathing technique can bring us deeper and more full-body relaxation and considerably improved health.

Not that all breathing is the same. It suits the situation: when we’re tense, our breaths might be shallow or gasping. As we approach sleep, our breathing slows and deepens. When we do aerobic exercise, we tend to breathe from the chest, just as when we’re frightened or excited.

But take a look at the way that small children breathe (when they’re relaxed). Next time you have the chance to observe a child peacefully sleeping, watch for what on the child’s body rises and falls with breathing. It’s the abdomen, not the chest.

I went to a chiropractor about 25 years ago now who spoke to me about breathing. She pointed out that we learn as we grow older to breathe from higher up, from our chest. Quite without realizing it, adults tend to hold the diaphragm frozen. Women may get the idea that they look more alluring breathing from their upper torso rather than their abdomen. But I can assure you that it is best to break the higher-chest breathing habit.

In many cultures, breathing is considered synonymous with life, the physical animation we call life and with the spirit. However that may be, it is certainly of prime importance to health and well-being. The action of inhaling is meant to bring in fresh oxygen to be absorbed into the blood and from there circulated to all the organs, to every cell in the body. With every exhale, we emit carbon dioxide into the world and this, happily, nourishes the plants, makes the world greener.

When breathing is shallow, as is upper-chest breathing, we don’t dump as much toxic gas through the exhale and old, stale air tends not to get cleaned out. On the contrary, when we suck in deep draughts of air from lower in the abdomen, the lungs clean out old air faster and the blood gets far more oxygen. Looking at this holistically, at the whole effect of it, breathing naturally (deeply) creates a consistent internal rhythm with which all our systems function in harmony.

Natural, healthful and relaxing breathing is diaphragmatic. It uses the diaphragm muscle, the muscle which separates the lungs from the abdomen. When we breathe from the diaphragm, the ribs expand as the lungs fill with air. Diaphragmatic breathing brings air down far into the lungs. Here it is that the oxygen exchange is most efficient and thus the blood best enriched.  Breathing deeply from the diaphragm relaxes and helps energy flows throughout the body. The rhythmically moving diaphragm muscles can even massage the abdominal organs, helping energize and tone them.

Here is a quick check you can do to see how you are breathing: Put one had on your abdomen and one on your chest. Inhale and exhale and note what moves. You want your abdomen to push outward as you take in a deep breath and to pull in as you exhale.

More on the benefits of diaphragmatic breathing: when we breathe properly, blood pressure decreases and the heart rate slows, our muscles relax, digestion improves vastly and all this goodness may help ease anxiety…we calm down. Diaphragmatic breathing helps reduce the frequency of hot flashes by 50% as per one study. Breathing deeper helps us sleep much better, improves circulation of the blood and increases alertness. Working with the breath can assist people to overcome addictions.

Retrain your body to breathe properly
Here’s an easy breathing exercise that helps teach us the habit of diaphragmatic breathing and after a while makes it once again unconscious, effortless, as it should be.

Find a time and place to do this where you will not be disturbed.

You can do this exercise sitting up straight or lying down. Eventually your breathing will switch over, you’ll have replaced shallow for deep breathing. I suggest that at first you place a hand on your abdomen while you do it. Later you can drop that action out.

1. Take a deep breath through your nose. Feel the air flowing into the farthest, deepest recesses of your lungs.
2. Notice, be aware of the energy from this breath flowing to every part of your body.
3. Feel your muscles relax as your abdomen expands outward.
4. Do not hold your breath, but when your lungs are full, begin to exhale slowly from your nose (some say that exhaling should be done through the mouth but it is more relaxing for the purposes of this exercise to exhale through the nose). As you do so, your abdomen will move inward.
5. As you exhale, be aware of the toxic air leaving the body and stresses dissolving.
Repeat 1 and continue.

Make sure also that you’re well hydrated as dehydration interferes with proper breathing.

You can extend the length of time to inhale and exhale and also how long you do the exercise for. Doing two or three times a day is extremely relaxing and beneficial. Of course, the more regularly you perform this exercise, the easier it becomes to adopt natural diaphragmatic breathing as the body’s normal, automatic breathing method.

This exercise is a helpful way to start and end other exercise routines, too.

See below also for some aromatherapy breathing aid ideas.

A Tip on Singing
As a singer, I took lessons for a short while in order to be able to sing a cappella (without accompaniment) and without a mic for many hours at a time. It turns out that in order to do that at all, I had to move to abdominal breathing and abdominal singing.

I was amazed to learn that when we push up from the deep-down diaphragm muscle to move air out of the lungs up through the voice box, a mechanism at the bottom of the diaphragm engages automatically, causing a natural reflex as irresistible as a knee jerk. This reflex places the vocal cords into proper position, for beautiful and more effortless singing. You want your vocal cords, like two ribbons pulled straight, good and taut, placed right next to each other yet flexible, so they will vibrate in the air stream. This singing produces a naturally better voice, eventually clearer and more powerful.

The other way to sing, where you use the throat muscles to control the vocal cords, may bring tension to the area and may lead to damage of the vocal cords especially if one is singing loudly (as in rock music) or long (as in opera, musical comedies or long performances). Using the throat not the diaphragm can so irritate the vocal cords as to swell them. Singers using their throats like this can get blisters and welts on their vocal chords. These can prevent the vocal chords from lining one right up against the other, where blown air will cause them to vibrate and produce a  tone.

When severe, the vocal chord bumps can be removed surgically but the operation is quite chancy. One risks losing one’s singing voice by abrading the vocal cords and causing blisters and one risks losing one’s voice with the surgery. I don’t know how she is now, but a few years ago I heard that Julie Andrews had lost her incredible voice after a vocal cord operation she chose to undergo. I cried so for her. I’d lost my voice due to fungus taking hold in my lungs several years ago…it was gone for an emotionally torturous three years. (Got my voice back when I created SuperImmune Boost™ Tonic and took it often to handle this, by the way.)

Almost incredible to me is the fact that returning to the diaphragmatic singing method can itself clear up vocal cord sores and return the voice to its natural, resonant sound. Wonderful!

I am very glad after all that I lost my voice after my first day’s singing those 8 or 9 hours. I’d not have found out this great data. See, I’d awakened with no voice and another day’s full performance schedule. Knowing he was being trained by the city’s opera coach, I called our quartet’s bass and whispered my situation to him. With just one exercise he taught me, I took my throat out of the equation and triggered the proper vocal cord position with my diaphragm and voila! about an hour of drilling brought my voice back.

I’ve found that this method, singing from the diaphragm, helps to relax the singer, too.

Again, this is natural for small kids

I also learned then that children sing using their diaphragm, naturally. They later “learn” their way out of this.

Essential oils can help
By the way, there are essential oil blends that help clear and soothe the breathing passages. Certain essential oils can help ease muscles spasms that can occur in the breathing apparatus from tension, allergies and so on. Mrs. Breathewell’s™ Chest Rub is a blend I created which can be rubbed on the chest and throat, also around the nose and sinuses, but best not too close to the eyes, to help open those passages.

The appropriate essential oils also can help clear mucus from the air passages, nose and throat. (Do consult your naturally oriented physician if you’re having trouble breathing, of course.) I make an air freshener called Ice which contains amongst several other good lung essential oils, eucalyptus and peppermint and is great for breathing.

Most people can breathe easily in a forest, So tree essential oils, such as cedarwood, cypress, fir and pine, can help us to breathe easily. When sprayed or diffused into the air, a blend of lung-healing essential oils can help purify the air and make deep breathing easier. The micro-particles of essential oils remain airborne for hours, too, continuing to destroy bad bacteria and viruses. Plus, most people really enjoy their smell. Ahhhh!

Take a deep breath

The old advice for when we’re nervous or frightened — to pause and take some deep breaths — makes good sense. Breathing properly is a super way of defusing stress and helping the body to operate as a harmonious whole to attain greater health.

I hope this information helps you and yours. Write me to let me know, OK?

Love,

Evan

Goals and Dreams, the Stuff of Life

by Evan Symonds

The subject of goals and dreams is at this moment a pulsatingly alive issue for me. I am pushing pedal to the floor to get my music CD completed. I will send you some songs as soon as I have a few that my producer and I have mixed (gotten volume levels right for, taken out wrong sounds like pops and crackles, all the picayune and amazing fixes that take it to sounding juuust right). I’ll share with you guys some songs as soon as I have a few ready!

The happiness that comes on as I get songs done or make distinct progress is well, far above average happiness. It’s wild exhilaration, unbridled joy. That sort of utter blow-out is something only getting closer to achieving a real, live Life Goal can bring on.

This will be my coming out of the art closet, so to speak. My family and friends have all been very aware of my music composing and singing passion, but the point for me is to make it an offering to the world at large. I’ve got to get this done to round out my life with that satisfaction and know I’ve done my best.

Part of doing this is my desire to help bring others out of their own art closets or goal closets. The world needs unadulterated joy and inspiration because, though we hear polite sounds all the time, “Hello, how are you?” “May I help you?” “How was your dining experience?” REAL love and caring is a less apparent commodity and only real love and caring do the spiritual trick of enhancing life and imbuing it.

How better to move up real caring and joy in life than by looking straight at what matters most to us individually. A goal, true-for-you, vibrant, calling-you-to-it goal. Don’t concern yourself now with if it is possible nor if it is acceptable. Not if it is or is not already done. At the stage of finding your heartfelt goal, these others don’t matter.

A goal that sets your heart pounding with purpose. What do you want to get done? What do you want to give the world?

Whatever that is, it is not necessarily yours if it comes from someone else. Might be, but that could be a real longshot. If your mother always felt you’d make a perfect sprong-maker, but making sprongs leaves you lukewarm, it ain’t it. If you husband smiles most appreciatively when you show him a perplagle you baked and he suggests that you take those perplagles to the international market — but making even raw honey perplages doesn’t make you turn into a leaping wild woman for sheer joy, it ain’t it.

I get utterly ridiculous, by any calm standards of demeanor, when I get a song done or record a mean, lean, super-moving vocal line or compose a piano piece. I cry, scream with joy, melt into goose-bumps (is that possible to melt into goose-bumps? No matter you get the idea…). I mean, it’d be embarrassing to have anyone but my closest pals and family witness me in the throes of joy of artistic creation. LOL!! But it’s a piece of real happiness.

I am no exception to the rule. We all want something bad and know that our life revolves around if it gets done. What varies, as I see it, is the particular goal, which can be anything, and the drive or insistence on achieving it and on not paying undue attention to barriers.

When one settles on something to do that ‘s personally thrilling and just right, then on the one hand, spotting and claiming that opens up vast capacity, a great emotional surge, ingenuity and all sorts of creativity.

But it isn’t all uphill. On the other hand, finding one’s goal in life can bring on a backwash, as flood in stops, barriers, excuses, delays, urges to invalidate the goal, to say it’s not worth it or maybe I am not up to doing it or simply the feeling of wanting to give up. These and more can shake the goal-seeker at the foundation.

Barriers are part of the territory. Get going on a goal and whompf, in may zoom some solid objections. In come thoughts or even real comments like: “I’m dreadfully sorry but this is just unattainable at this time by you, you especially.” As long as you recognize that those negative things that come in on one are to be expected as the challenge aspect of this, then you can view that you are just that extra bit more determined and powerful than any barriers.

My eldest daughter had a horrid art teacher. We didn’t know that she was horrid until my daughter made a phenomenally good painting. She did two actually, one of an extreme close-up of some chocolate chip cookies and another of an apple. They could’ve been badly done and the message of this story would still be the same but as it happens, in my viewpoint they were evocative works of art, not just good renderings of objects. Well, when this teacher asked the class who wanted to pursue art as a professional and up shot my daughter’s hand, this creep ridiculed her. The experience was crushing.

I did my part to try to get her to see the truth. Not the “truth” that her art was terrific, though it was, in my estimation, because the quality of art is a matter of opinion anyway — but I wasn’t wanting to settle her on that point as much as this other: that the teacher was to that extent crazy and off her own stated purpose when she detoured or discouraged someone from pursuing art. That doesn’t fall under the stated mission of art instructor, does it?

When it comes to our goals, we wear our hearts on our sleeves. I would like to suggest that we allow our hearts to radiate the glow of self-certainty and on top of that, that we throw some thick armor.

Of what is that armor made? Dogged, unshakable certainty in the validity of the effort and the chance of succeeding. Not that you (or I) are the greatest imaginable in this field but that you might be and that attaining to that (trying for it or what completely pleases you) is a good thing and…the biggie here…that no one, even with all the awe-inspiring credentials, may stop you. It’s a question of integrity.

Sometimes there seems to be an army of discouraging thought all ready to shoot down the intention to impinge on others with one’s art or one’s goodness or one’s anything. Our job is to ignore those and to push on.

The power is in us. Let’s unhinge our lives and unpry our own true goals from the sticky goo of disparagement, doubt and nay-saying. We can do what seems impossible if we decide unequivocally (no other voices, just one) to move ahead despite all and get it done.

Here is a “Hooray!” in advance of even knowing what you aim to do or have been doing, but hooray for you!

I hope you have enjoyed this article. I would love to hear from you!

Hugs to you and yours,

Evan
www.evansgarden.com
727-449-0900

By Evan Symonds

Essential oils are indispensable to me…I’m absolutely hooked and totally head-over-heels in love with them. We owe gratitude to the early geniuses who found how to capture the essences of plants by distillation, etc.. By essential oil, I mean only pure essential oil, not a scent or fragrance which one sees at fairs and festivals, mall stores, sometimes even in health food stores, etc. Grrrr….as if they do any good. No, pure essential oil and nothing less.

The essential oil is the essence of the plant. Some say it is its hormonal fluids. However that may be, the essential oil contains all the plant chemicals in their exact proportions. It reveals to us the plant signature, all its powers and uniqueness, in an elixir of awesome power. I feel it contains the basic being or thought of that plant, too – its emotional stamp, its intentions (and I know I do sound kinda wacky here). I can’t help but conclude that these plants intend something. They are alive, right? The essential oil for me is a living imprint of all that particular bit of life and bears its vitality, its singular beauty and perhaps even its purposes. Thus when I reach for essential oils, I do so with a reverent and quiet universe (my universe, myself). I observe and listen. And I do perceive what I’ve just described. Perhaps some of the most loving, generous communication I’ve ever been privy to. Pay attention in this way when you reach for and use essential oils. I feel that there are simple messages there.

Whenever you dispense an essential oil, keep in mind its concentration: a tiny bit goes a looong way. Sometimes, massive amounts of plant matter go into making an essential oil. A field of roses might distill down to just a few pounds of rose essential oil; thus its ouch-y price. But any essential oil is a strong concentrated essence. You just don’t need a lot. Withe the elderly and children, about half of what otherwise. With babies, a tiny, tiny bit. (Notice my DreamBaby products are not at all as strong in scent as other baby products. I’m not trying to please the mother’s nose…I’m making what’s safe for an infant.)

Essential oils have virtually limitless uses in the home, for travel, for health, hygiene and well-being, for pleasure and perfumery, you name it…an essential oil can handle that area. With a knowledge, one can create safe essential oil blends. Without both wide and specific, practical, time-tested knowledge, I honestly wouldn’t try it. I would love to pass on some info to you guys as I do have lots of hints and good uses to share with you. Let me know when you’re done how you like this topic, OK?

One essential oil in particular has almost universal use. That’s lavender. Gentle, amazing lavender. I would not do without it in my home and purse. I keep some in my kitchen and bathrooms. Lavandula angustifolia. although there are other varieties, is my fav. Only organically grown since pesticides permeate a plant and thus the essential oil. Wildcrafted is usually the strongest in plant chemicals.

Lavender has more uses than just about any other plant and here, without my spending much time now to research or double-check, are some of them. To me, it’s feels motherly, like a loving, caring, calming reliable mother. Lavender makes you feel better mainly because it encourages a healthy, flowing nervous system and immune system, it helps regenerate and heal, and even smelling as beautiful as it does, it cleans up a storm.

While lavender is useful for nearly any- and everything, if you, for any reason do not like its scent, then this is not the oil for you to use, as ubiquitously as I suggest, anyway. Your sense of smell – what you like and don’t like – is an indisputable guide and you’re well advised not to push past it.

You can use lavender, a drop alone or mixed as so: two drops of lavender, one of peppermint… a bit of that mixture, to dissipate a headache, even a migraine. Place it around your head and neck. You can use up to three drops of so on your pillow or hankie placed within smelling-distance to help you fall asleep at night. You can help calm children or anyone stressed or acting hyper by diffusing some lavender. If someone has a contagious illness, diffusing lavender purifies the air incredibly effectively…lavender is one of the very most antimicrobial, antiseptic, anti-yuckies essential oils that exists.

Example: I keep a sponge or wash cloth for washing dishes clean by washing it out with dish soap, rinsing and wringing out as much moisture as I can, then dropping one or two drops of lavender on it, mooshing the cloth all around to spread the essential oil through it. Lavender moves the cloth’s cleanness up from passable to good to awesome. Then, to keep bacteria from growing in it, I let the cloth air dry by hanging the it or placing the sponge tilted against something so that air gets all around it. If this seems silly for me to mention, then you already let your kitchen sponge or cloth air dry. To my surprise I have found few people who do this. Any moisture left in it is a perfect breeding ground for yucky-poos.

Lavender water: This is not the plant water called hydrosol produced by distillation – it’s my loose term for water with a bit of lavender essential oil in it, a disinfectant wash. You can make lavender water by filling a pint bottle with water (I use purified) and adding a drop or two of lavender essential oil. You really don’t need any more essential oil in there unless you’re taking on a really blecchhy job. But this is enough for a lovely job of disinfecting the dinner table, counters and stovetop and knobs, cupboards, faucets, walls, refrigerator door, etc. Lavender is less solvent than, a citrus oil so a very light mix such as this is also great for dampening a dust cloth and if only slightly damp (you know how that goes) safe for furniture (or so it has been for me). I have a thing about window sills and windows collecting dead bugs and such. Not fun to look at. So I put a bit of my lavender water on a paper towel to wipe these down.

For laundry, use Astonishing Powder. It’s more powerful by a lot than only lavender essential oil added to some other laundry soap. But here’s a great laundry tip: if you hand-wash a wool dress, for example, use Astonishing in your cold or cool water to clean it, rinse well, and then fill the sink with water to which you add one drop of lavender essential oil. Now soak your garment in this lavender water. When it is dry, the lavender will help ward off moths, make the wool feel softer, be less prone to smell even if you do underneath it, etc… Astonishing itself would have that effect, but wool clothing needs special tending to.

Here is another benefit: lavender wards off ants and many other bugs. (So do peppermint and several others; I can tell you more another time.) Routinely cleaning with just this tiny bit of lavender dropped on the towel does a lot to dissuade bugs from taking up residence. I also might fill the essential oil bottle’s cap with a few drops essential oil and allow a few drops to fall directly onto areas where bugs might dare to venture.

When you travel, how about fill a smaller bottle of lavender and bring it along in your purse? I always have some lavender on hand. If you feel dizzy, overtired, anxious, tummy-achy, virtually anything bad, open it and take a whiff.

Hope you don’t mind me mentioning public toilets, bathroom door handles and such. I’m not squeamish, I just like cleanliness and am realistic. Lots of people do not wash their hands after going potty these days…notice that? Before you go to the toilet (In public bathrooms, I have mastered the fine art of balancing my body above the seat with careful aim. :o) I’ll first get a bit of toilet paper, put about one drop of lavender (it’s in my purse) on it and wipe the flushing thingee. If you have to sit on the toilet, even if you cover it with a seat cover or toilet paper, first get some TP (enough not to have to touch anything, ewww), apply two or three drops of lavender to it and wipe the seat. Now cover the seat with the paper. The paper is not particularly effective but the lavender is.

Lavender is useful also for wiping your hands if you cannot otherwise wash them or even if you did but you need even more assurance of having zapped germs. Simple soap handles germs adequately. But maybe the soap bar is in a icky, germy setting. Do NOT use antibacterial soap. It is dangerous! Since lavender is one of only two essential oils safe to apply directly to the skin (the other is tea tree oil, melaleuca alternifolia), you can get some lavender from your little bottle and rub a drop or two all over your hands, around your ails, etc.

And guess what? It’s excellent for beautifying your skin, too! If someone doesn’t know which DreamSoap to get, my first suggestion is lavender and it is the variety we put into Intro Kits. That’s because it helps every skin type and situation. Say midday, you’ve been in air conditioning or out getting sweaty or whatever, and you feel your skin either dry, oily, dirty, as the case may be. The solution that makes for the most complexion improvement is to use my Skin Perfection Mist. Keep that in your purse (buy the once-oz., bottle and keep the bottle and sprayer when done, wash ’em out, and fill from your larger bottle to take in your purse). But let’s say you’re camping or traveling and don’t have the mist near. Take a cloth, get it wet with pure water (do not expose your gorgeous mug to chlorine) and a wee bit of lavender, one drop should be enough, and wipe over your face. Very good for a skin pick-me-up. Breathe in the oil, too.

Lavender wards off mosquitos and other pests. There are even more potent bug-repellant mixtures you can make with essential oils but you’re traveling light and lavender will do the trick. Take some onto your fingertips and wipe over ankles, behind knees, wherever you find mosquitos bite you. They will not. I have put this to the test. Under our house (up on stilts) is the laundry room. Moths love to visit as do mosquitos, spiders…we’ve entertained there some of the natural world’s most illustrious luminaries. 😀 If I don’t apply lavender during mosquito season, a trip to the laundry room will leave me badly bitten. If I want to wade through the tall grass in my backyard (I know, I know, I need to cut it more often!) I apply lavender to my feet and legs. I never get bitten when I use lavender. Just don’t splop it all over you…it can be a bit much for the body to deal with a lot of it. It’s skin-safe but in small quantities and fact is, you don’t need a lot. essential oil’s are strong.

Lavender is antiseptic. Apply it directly to an ingrown toe, a hangnail or paper cut, etc. Apply lavender to your skin for basically anything: burns, cuts, bruises, just about anything I can think of. Now, the products I created use lavender but include the other ingredients that assure even more effectiveness. So I don’t want to dissuade you from getting these as I know you’ll be blown away far more than using lavender by itself. Read testimonials for All Better, Honey, BackBetter, Herpules, CrampBetter, PsoriAssist, Athlete’s Friend, and the like. I am so proud of these! But isn’t it comforting to know that you have help for so many thisses and that’s with some plain ole lavender around.

What versatility! I made a concoction for a friend’s child who was tormented with severely itchy chicken pox. It was a tiny bit of lavender and German chamomile added to calamine lotion….immediately effective and the next day, her pox were gone.

You can apply small amounts, as I said, to the skin, but avoid mucous membranes, eyes, ears, etc. You can put a few drops in a bath, diffuse the essential oil, put drops on a cotton ball or hankie, etc.

Lavender is also helpful for heart problems! I am not a doctor. If you have this, see a doctor but a naturally oriented one. Just know that the literature has lavender as good for the heart: palpitations, circulation problems, high blood pressure and other cardiac problems.

If your digestion needs some help, say you have gas, nausea, diarrhea, constipation, etc., lavender can help. This is especially useful for children and the elderly as lavender while effective takes a gentle approach.

Since lavender purifies the air, bring some along if going to the hospital. Also, I once created an essential oil blend to diffuse to help a woman through an easier delivery. The results amazed the family. It’s key ingredient was lavender. Lavender can make quite a difference in the speed, calm and relative comfort of delivery and would also tend to be calming to the staff and…to the baby. Slight amounts in a diffuser.

Also, for womanly discomforts, lavender can help with PMS and menopause.

Lavender in its kindness is analgesic. It can help with pain even to breathe it. Sore muscles, leg cramps (it’s part of CrampBetter), inflammation, arthritis, strains, sprains, lavender can help. The best of all for this is, truthfully, the mixture I created called All Better, Honey. Read its testimonials (and there are lots more not up there yet). But lavender all on its motherly own does magic.

I feel like the “ginsu knives” guy! Wait, there’s more! :o) Lavender stimulates the immune system. It can help protect or heal infections, viruses, bacteria, colds, sore throats, lung ailments even asthma, and so on. You can boil some water, out it in a bowl and drop some lavender essential oil into the bowl and leave that in the sick person’s room. (Of course, other essential oil’s like eucalyptus, thyme, oregano, etc., can help vastly, too.)

The reason I rely so often on lavender is that it is so versatile, if something else is going on along with the known problem, lavender may help that also. And it is calming, reassuring, balancing.

The last thing to tell you about this plant I love so is that it is one of the few that can be used even around newborn babies. Just one word about that: a baby is very sensitive to smell so vastly reduced amounts are needed.

I hope this helps widen your understanding and appreciation of lavender. Let me know and tell me your special uses and ideas!

Much love,

Evan