February 15, 2009
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February 15, 2009
Hello,
This issue has a guest article about the Raindrop Technique, a type of massage using essential oils. Of course, there's the standard disclaimer: This information is intended for educational purposes only, and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
Given the current economic environment, I'm also continuing my financial wellness series with an article introducing you to a way to create supportive financial thinking.
Carol
All About Raindrop Technique
I've been practicing Raindrop Technique (RT) since 2001 and it always amazes me how much better I feel and others feel after receiving a treatment. The essential oils used in RT are very powerful, more so than we can ever imagine!
The essential oils used in RT are only Young Living's essential oils. I do not use nor recommend any other essential oils for this technique. If you receive/give RT with oils other than Young Living's, it's not Raindrop Technique.
ANYONE can learn how to perform RT. You don't have to be in the health industry to be able to give a RT session. If you have a desire to assist people in their healing process you can learn this technique.
What is Raindrop Technique (RT)?
RT is an amazing healing technique using nine therapeutic grade essential oils that are dropped like raindrops along your spine from about 6 inches above your body. The essential oils are worked into your back using light strokes and gentle massage. The essential oils are dispersed throughout your entire body via your nervous system.
The essential oils are also applied along the vita-flex spinal points on your feet. Applying the essential oils on these points on your feet aid in removing toxins released during the RT session.
RT will help to reduce spinal inflammations which can cause pain, illness, and vertebral weakness. Studies have validated that RT can help correct spinal curvatures like scoliosis. Check out Dr. David Stewart's book called A Statistical Validation of Raindrop Technique
The essential oils used in RT are anti-bacterial, anti-viral, anti-microbial, and anti-inflammatory and easily penetrate your skin. They assist your body in its self healing process on physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels.
RT was developed by Gary Young, CEO and founder of Young Living Essential Oils, due to his extensive research with essential oils and study of certain healing techniques of the Lakota Indians in South Dakota.
What essential oils are used in Raindrop Technique and what are their healing properties?
Oregano - Properties include anti-aging, powerful anti-viral, antibacterial, anti-fungal, anti-parasitic, anti-inflammatory, and immune stimulant. Oregano is helpful for arthritis, rheumatism, respiratory infectious diseases, infections, tuberculosis, and digestive problems.
Thyme - Properties include anti-aging, highly anti-microbial, anti-fungal, anti-parasitic, and anti-viral. Thyme is helpful for infectious diseases, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's disease, and hepatitis.
Basil - Properties include powerful anti-spasmodic, anti-viral, anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory, and muscle relaxant. Basil is helpful for migraines, throat/lung infections, and insect bites.
Cypress - Properties include improves circulation and strengthens blood capillaries, anti-infectious, anti-spasmodic, and discourages fluid retention. Cypress is helpful for diabetes, circulatory disorders, cancer, and grounding and stabilizing.
Wintergreen - Properties include anti-coagulant, anti-spasmodic, highly anti-inflammatory, vasodilator, analgesic, anesthetic, reduces blood pressure, and relieves pain. Wintergreen is helpful for arthritis, rheumatism, muscle and nerve pain, hypertension, arteriosclerosis, and hepatitis.
Marjoram - Properties include helps to relieve muscle and joint discomfort, soothes digestive tract, anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, vasodilator, lowers blood pressure, promotes intestinal peristalsis (movement), and expectorant. Marjoram is helpful for arthritis, rheumatism, muscle and nerve pain, headaches, circulatory disorders, respiratory infections, PMS, fungal infections, ringworm, shingles, sores, spasms, and fluid retention.
Aroma Siez - a blend of essential oils, including basil, marjoram, lavender, peppermint and cypress. Aroma Siez contains a variety of anti-inflammatory and muscle relaxing essential oils that promote circulation and help relieve tight, inflamed, aching muscles resulting from injury, fatigue, or stress. Also relieves headaches.
Peppermint - Properties include anti-inflammatory, anti-tumoral, anti-parasitic, anti-bacterial, anti-viral, anti-fungal, gallbladder and digestive stimulant, pain reliever, and appetite suppressant.
Valor - a blend of essential oils, including rosewood, blue tansy, frankincense, and spruce. Valor balances energies to instill courage, confidence and self-esteem. It helps the body to self-correct.
In some instances, other essential oils can be used depending on the condition being addressed.
What should I expect during and after a Raindrop Technique session?
RT is most often performed on a massage table. However, it can be done in a seated position (leaning forward and resting on a pillow) with your back exposed. Usually elderly clients who can't maneuver on a massage table will opt for the seated position.
Your RT practitioner will drop the essential oils (one by one) along your spine and lightly massage them into your back. After the application of the essential oils, a warm towel will be placed over your spine to help drive the oils deep into your body.
People usually feel very relaxed and often enter a meditative state during a session. Your practitioner will make sure the essential oils do not create a burning sensation, but sometimes a warming sensation means that the oils are attacking the bacteria and viruses along your spine.
Your practitioner will also apply the oils to the bottoms of your feet with a reflexology technique called Vita-flex.
A session typically lasts 45 minutes to an hour and the essential oils will continue to work in your body for a week or more following the treatment.
After your RT session you will feel quite peaceful so it's best to take it easy for the rest of the day and drink LOTS of water. Try not to shower off the essential oils for at least 24 hours, if possible.
Who can benefit from receiving a Raindrop session?
Everyone!
From those who are completely healthy to those suffering with terrible back pain, disease, or other health challenges. RT supports your immune system and helps to bring your body into energetic and structural balance. RT helps to release toxins and disease, and assists your body in its healing process.
The RT practitioner benefits, as well! You will receive the benefits since you are using your hands to apply the essential oils. The essential oils will penetrate the pores of your hands and work into your body via your circulatory and lymphatic systems.
How can I learn to perform Raindrop Technique on others?
Young Living offers the Raindrop Technique Kit. including all 9 essential oils plus an instructional DVD. The instructional DVD is very easy to understand and was made for lay-persons and health professionals alike.
The book Essential Oils Desk Reference
The Center for Aromatherapy Research and Education provides workshops on how to learn RT and also other essential oil applications such as Vita-flex, releasing emotional patterns with essential oils, healing oils of the bible, and detailed learning on the chemistry of essential oils.
If you intend to offer RT as a service and you're not a licensed health professional, please check your state's regulations regarding physical touch on others. Some states require you to be a licensed health professional to perform any touch therapies.
Where can I find a Raindrop Technique practitioner?
Many spas offer RT. Search the spas near you for those who offer RT. Make sure to ask if they use Young Living's essential oils.
Many massage therapists who don't work in spas also perform RT. If your massage therapist isn't a RT practitioner, ask them if they are open to learning RT and lend them the instructional DVD from Young Living. Most LMTs are excited to learn new techniques to expand their practice.
What if I can't find a RT practitioner?
You can easily give yourself a treatment by applying all of the RT essential oils to the bottoms of your feet. Granted, this isn't as relaxing (or thorough) as having someone else properly apply RT on you, but your body will absorb the essential oils through the pores of your feet and you will receive benefits.
Just apply 3 drops of each essential oil (one by one) on the bottoms of your feet and cover your feet with socks.
When I feel myself coming down with a cold or flu, I grab my RT oils and apply them to my feet. This boosts my immunity and I remain healthy. Also, if my back is sore, this technique helps to alleviate my back ache.
While this article is a brief overview of the aspects of Raindrop Technique, I invite you learn more about it by becoming a member of Young Living and purchasing the Raindrop Technique Kit and using the oils. You will see for yourself the amazing healing benefits of the Raindrop oils.
© 2008 Christa McCourt is an aroma "therapy" enthusiast, green-living advocate, and licensed massage therapist, Christa is passionate about showing others the way to live a healthier lifestyle using therapeutic grade essential oils. View Christa's website and subscribe to her free weekly email newsletter about the benefits of therapeutic grade essential oils for good health and natural healing.
Get the Raindrop Technique kit from Young Living. (When you arrive at the site, click Products, then click Essential Oils, and look under the heading Essential Packs.)
Financial Wellness: Develop a Millionaire Mind
A millionaire mind is one that is programmed for success in all areas of life. Most of us have limiting beliefs and thoughts that keep us from sharing the abundance that is part of the universe. According to T. Harv Eker, author of Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, supportive beliefs include
- I create my own life. (No victims here.)
- I play the money game to win. (Playing not to lose is a sure-fire way to lose.)
- I am committed to a rich life.
- I think big.
- I focus on opportunities. (If you focus on obstacles, you only see more obstacles.)
- I admire other rich and successful people. (If you don't admire rich people, you mind will never let you be one, because don't you want to admire yourself?)
- I associate with positive, successful people.
- I am willing to promote myself and my value.
- I am bigger than my problems.
- I am an excellent receiver.
- I choose to get paid based on my results. (Working for an hourly wage rarely leads to wealth.)
- I think "both." I live in a world of abundance.
- I focus on my net worth (not income).
- I manage my money well.
- I have money work hard for me.
- I act in spite of fear.
- I constantly learn and grow.
Because these thoughts may seem unnatural at first, get support. I have attended and can recommend the Millionaire Mind Intensive.