OilsRUs Essential Newsletter Vol. 1, Number 2                                           August 2007	Oil and perfume make the heart glad, so a man’s counsel is sweet to his friend. Proverbs 27:9
OilsRUs is an Essential Oil Users Group focusing on healthier family lifestyles.
All gatherings at Larry & Lana Ross’ house: 620 Tropicana Drive unless otherwise specified/ RSVP 434-4844 or 270-6577 or email lana@oilsrus.com

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Tuesday, August 7^th FREE Live Webcast: “Keys to Living a Life of Health” featuring Jeff Kaplan, LMT,RN. Listen via the Webcast or by phone. Jeff is a

walking encyclopedia of natural health tips. Combined with his wit and humor, this live Webcast is sure to be a hit! You can register for this at www.godshealingword.org or you can hear the previous 2 webcasts as well. 7:00 pm Mtn time/8:00 pm Central, 9:00 pm Eastern

Tuesday, August 14^th FREE Young Living Event with Dr. Hill. Two Rivers Convention Center 7-9 p.m.

Wednesday, August 15^th FREE Young Living Success Essentials with Justin Harrison at Two Rivers Convention Center 9-11 a.m.

Tuesday, August 21 @ 6:30 p.m. FREE Raw Potluck/Essential Wellness: To support your healthier lifestyle, a potluck dedicated to fresh and raw fruits, veggies, nuts, grains. No refined sugars or flours are allowed! Come see how colorful and nutritious you can make your meals, one dish at a time. A prize will be given to the chef who brings the dish voted “Best Tasting”. Another section of materials received at the Essential Wellness seminar will be available for you to take home. RSVP required by 1:00 pm on the day of the potluck so we have enough copies and seating ready.

 

August is a busy month! Lana will be available to teach Oils 101, Sharing the Oils Through Foot Reflexology, Vitaflex, and Raindrop by appointment for the month of August. Please call if you have any questions or want to set a time for any oils training or talk - we love to talk oils.

 

Sharing the Oils Through Foot Reflexology - Learn to access all systems of the body by applying essential oils to the feet. A wonderful way to work on everyone! Cost is $15 to offset cost of materials and oils we use.

Vitaflex Technique: "Vitality Through the Reflexes" is a modality that can be used with or without essential oils. Both Vitaflex and Essential Oils are enhanced when used together and the Vitaflex Technique is used during Raindrop Technique so we highly recommend taking this class before Raindrop Technique. We do hands-on training for clearing the colon, sinuses, and lungs; leg length discrepancy correction, headache technique (highly relaxing and my personal favorite), ears, heart and lymphatic pump. Cost ($15) includes handouts from CARE (Center for Aromatherapy Research & Education).

Raindrop Training: Raindrop Technique is an anointing with 7 single oils and 2 blends. The oils are layered onto the spine and the feet using the Vitaflex Technique. This is a very relaxing, rejuvenating, healing, detoxifying modality used with Young Living Essential Oils to heal physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Cost is $35 if you use your own Raindrop oils or $50 if you use ours. Handouts are included in the cost as well as laundering. Save $5 and bring your own sheets (2), bath towel and hand towel. Learn with a friend and receive a raindrop as well as learning to give one.

 

Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every month they will bear, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing. Ezekiel 47:12 (NIV)

CHEMISTRY CORNER

 

1. THE BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER & A QUICK COURSE IN CHEMISTRY
By David Stewart, Ph.D.,R.A.

It was thought for years that the interstitial tissues of the brain served as a barrier to keep damaging substances from reaching the neurons of the brain and the cerebrospinal fluid. Instead of a barrier, it would be more accurate to consider it as a sieve or filter through which only molecules of a certain size or smaller can pass.

Most of the molecules of the substances used in chemotherapy are too large to pass through the blood-brain filter, which is why doctors say that chemotherapy doesn't work on brain cancer. Some of the smaller molecules get through, but not the whole suite of drugs intended.

Doctors don't know for sure, but it seems that in order to cross the blood-brain barrier, only molecules less than 800-1000 atomic mass units (amu) in molecular weight can get through. Lipid solubility seems to be another factor which facilitates passing through the blood-brain barrier. Water soluble molecules don't usually penetrate into brain tissue, even when very small. The molecules of essential oils are all not only small, but lipid soluble as well.

In fact, when it comes to essential oils, small molecules (less than 500 amu) are what they are made of. That is why they are aromatic. The only way for something to be aromatic is for the molecules to be so small that they readily leap into the air so they can enter our noses and be detected as odor and smell.

That is why oils for cooking or massage, such as corn, peanut, sesame seed, safflower, walnut, almond, canola, olive and other oils pressed from seeds are not aromatic. Sure, they have a smell, but you can't smell them across the room in minutes as one can when you opens a bottle of peppermint, hyssop, or cinnamon oil. Essential oils of every species cross the blood-brain barrier.

This makes them uniquely able to address disease, not only from a physical level, but from a more basic and fundamental level-that of the emotions which are often the root cause of physical illness.

A QUICK COURSE IN CHEMISTRY
Because of the tiny molecular structure of the components of an essential oil, they are extremely concentrated. One drop contains approximately 40 million-trillion molecules. Numerically that is a 4 with 19 zeros after it: 40,000,000,000,000,000,000. We have 100 trillion cells in our bodies, and that's a lot. But one drop of essential oil contains enough molecules to cover every cell in our bodies with 40,000 molecules. Considering that it only takes one molecule of the right kind to open a receptor site and communicate with the DNA to alter cellular function, you can see why even inhaling a small amount of oil vapor can have profound effects on the body, brain, and emotions. Sometimes too many oil molecules overload the receptor sites, and they freeze up without responding at all, when a smaller amount would have been just right. This is why we say that when using oils, "sometimes less is better." Sometimes more is better, too. Knowing the difference is the art of aromatherapy.

Essential oils are mixtures of dozens, even hundreds, of constituents, all of which are composed of carbon and hydrogen and sometimes oxygen. All essential oils are principally composed of a class of organic compounds built of "isoprene units."

An isoprene unit is a set of five connected carbon atoms with eight hydrogens attached. Their molecular weight is only 68 amu, which is very small, indeed. Molecules built of isoprene units are all classified as "terpenes." Terpenes are what make essential oils unique in the world of natural substances.

PHENYLPROPANOIDS
Phenylpropanoids are compounds of carbon-ring molecules incorporating one isoprene unit. They are also called hemiterpenes. There are dozens of varieties of phenylpropanoids.

They are found in Clove (90%), Cassia (80%), Basil (75%), Cinnamon (73%), Oregano (60%), Anise (50%), Peppermint (25%). While they can create conditions where unfriendly viruses and bacteria cannot live, the most important function performed by phenylpropanoids is that they clean the receptor sites on the cells. Without clean receptor sites, cells cannot communicate, and the body malfunctions, resulting in sickness.

MONOTERPENES
Monoterpenes are compounds of two isoprene units, which is ten carbon atoms and sixteen hydrogen atoms per molecule- molecular weight 136 amu. There are an estimated 2,000 varieties of monoterpenes.

Monoterpenes are found in most essential oils: Galbanum (80%), Angelica (73%), Hyssop ((70%), Rose of Sharon (54%), Peppermint (45%), Juniper (42%), Frankincense (40%), Spruce (38%), Pine (30%), Cypress (28%), and Myrtle (25%).

While offering a variety of healing properties, the most important ability of the monoterpenes is that they can reprogram miswritten information in the cellular memory. With improper coding in the DNA, cells malfunction and diseases result, including lethal ones such as cancer.

SESQUITERPENES
Sesquiterpenes are compounds of three isoprene units, which is fifteen carbons and twenty-four hydrogens per molecule- molecular weight 204 amu. There are more than 10,000 kinds of sesquiterpenes. Sesquiterpenes are the principal constituents of Cedarwood (98%), Vetiver (97%), Spikenard (93%), Sandalwood (Aloes) 90%, Black Pepper (74%), Patchouli (71%), Myrrh (62%), and Ginger (59%). They are also found in Galbanum, Onycha, and Frankincense (8%).

Sesquiterpene molecules deliver oxygen molecules to cells, like hemoglobin does in the blood. Sesquiterpenes can also erase or deprogram miswritten codes in the DNA. Sesquiterpenes are thought to be especially effective in fighting cancer because the root problem with a cancer cell is that it contains misinformation, and sesquiterpenes can erase that garbled information. At the same time the oxygen carried by sesquiterpene molecules creates an environment where cancer cells can't reproduce. Hence, sesquiterpenes deliver cancer cells a double punch-one that disables their coded misbehavior and a second that stops their growth.

The American Medical Association (AMA) has said that if they could find an agent that would pass the blood-brain barrier, they would be able to find cures for ailments such as Lou Gehrig's disease, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease. Such agents already exist and have been available since Biblical times. The agents, of course, are essential oils-particularly those containing the brain oxygenating molecules of sesquiterpenes.

THE TRIPLE WHAMMY
The big triple punch combination of "PMS" (Phenylpropanoids, Monoterpenes, and Sesquiterpenes) found in essential oils is very powerful in addressing many illnesses, injuries, and disease conditions. That is because this combination offers the following:

First, you clean the receptor sites allowing the proper transfer of hormones, peptides, neurotransmitters, steroids, and other intracellular messengers. (The Phenylpropanoids do that.)

Second, you deprogram or erase the wrong information from cellular memory stored in the DNA. (The Sesquiterpenes take care of that.)

Third, you reprogram the cells with the correct information so they can function properly. (The Monoterpenes do this.)

These three classes of chemical components are why essential oils can sometimes affect a healing that is nearly instant and also permanent. What they simply do is to restore the body back to its natural state of balance and health. While a specific oil may have one or two of these three classes of compounds as its predominant chemistry, all the Biblical oils contain some of all of them. This is one secret to their amazing healing abilities.

So there you have it in a nutshell: The way the blood-brain barrier works and the biochemistry of one of the ways essential oils can help achieve a healing.

"Reprinted from The Raindrop Messenger, a free e-line newsletter, with permission from Dr. David Stewart. To subscribe to The Raindrop Messenger, visit www.RaindropTraining.com."

IMPORTANT NOTE:
The information in this newsletter is not meant to diagnose, prescribe, or substitute for professional medical assistance nor is it intended to substitute for competent legal advice from an attorney. It is provided as information Only for your better understanding of holistic health. In case of medical need, please consult an appropriate licensed professional.

Young Living Events

We are excited to announce two FREE events in Grand Junction, CO on August 14th and 15th.

Essential Oils vs. Superbugs

August 14, 2007

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Two Rivers Convention Center

159 Main Street

Grand Junction, Colorado 81501

This exciting and educational event will feature a general overview of Young Living and our product as well as more in-depth education and training. Our Director of Science and Education, Dr. David Hill, will present research on the power of essential oils against Superbugs.

Experience essential oils, product samples, physical and financial abundance, product discounts, new enrollment incentives and more!

There will be a free 5 ml bottle of oil to the first 100 attendees as well as a variety of door prizes. Also, product discounts and new enrollment kits will be available for purchase onsite.

Success Essentials

August 15, 2007

9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Two Rivers Convention Center

159 Main Street

Grand Junction, Colorado 81501

This meeting is designed for those committed to sharing the Young Living message of health and wellness, and are interested in increasing their financial abundance. We will discuss business basics, how to share the products, how to enroll new members, and how to maximize the Young Living commission plan and bonuses. This is a two-hour intensive on our business, how it works, and how to maximize your efforts.

Whether your desire is to earn enough to cover the cost of your personal product use, generate a part-time income, or achieve financial freedom, this event will help you achieve your goal. For more information, please contact Distributor Network Services at 800-371-3515 or Events at 800-371-3686.

 

Coming Next Month - Essential Networking!

If you would like your contact information listed here for other oilers to contact you regarding a service you offer, please let us know. For example, Gloria has beautiful amphoras so you can keep your oil close enough to smell all day long! Christy has lovely skin care products made with YL oils (she is currently moving to Massachusetts or New York so will be unavailable for a short time). If you do massage, raindrop, etc. we can list your name, what you offer and your contact info. This is limited to OilsRus Essential Oil Users Group (our downline).

Sample:

Raindrop Technique, Vitaflex, Essential Reflexology - contact Lana @ 434-4844, 270-6577 or lana@oilsrus.com

Amphoras - Gloria @ 874-9753 or gconstancio@bresnan.net

 

Young Living Specials

10% off Melrose July 16 through August 15. Call YL (1-800-371-3515) or check out their website for the current specials.

 

New Product Price List is on YL’s website in PDF format for you to print - larger type, easier to read!