Maureen Connor

A rare and mysterious fragrance Vetiver’s scent is rich, earthy and sweet with spicy undertones.
Its aroma has a powerfully grounding and reassuring effect that can be relied upon to instantly relieve stress, anxiety or panic. Vetiver is open hearted and full of grace, helping us to face life’s challenges!

The strong and hearty roots of this tropical grass reach deep into the earth. Many countries plant Vetiver for protection against soil erosion. Vetiver can tolerate and survive even the severest conditions. Harvesting the roots for a single pound of material for the distillation of essential oil requires removal of 1,000 pounds or more of earth.

A thick, resinous oil with deep, dark and mysterious energies to support and comfort us through our darkest night.Vetiver’s smooth earth scent has the power to resonate deeply within to calm even the most rampant fears and misgivings.Vetiver connects and energizes the natural self.

Helpful for symptoms of shock and trauma!Resonates with the Muladhara or Root (First) Chakra. Promotes sense of belonging and community roots, feeling at home on Mother Earth. Useful when feeling vulnerable and needing help dealing with long term stressful situations. Vetiver’s tranquil and evocative beauty whispers sweetly supporting us to face our shadows.

Strong dislike of Vetiver’s earthy aroma may be the result of disassociation from or rejection of one’s instinctual nature. A powerful immune and circulatory stimulant Vetiver’s neuro-receptor process has been well-documented in controlled experiments explaining Vetiver’s action on the circulatory system. Vetiver’s action to stimulate the production of red blood cells makes it useful for relieving stress and tension held in the body.

Relieves muscle aches and pains and joint stiffness. Vetiver warms and balances the heart, mind and soul! Creates opportunities and attracts abundance. Excellent base note in prosperity blends!
The Wild Crafted hydro-diffused Vetiver is an excellent example of how this oil should smell. It is truly lovely! Most Vetiver is traditionally distilled in cast iron leaving it with a burnt after odor that distracts attention from its full bodied depth and loveliness.

I absolutely love Vetiver and use it frequently in my aromatherapy practice. Vetiver is restorative and revitalizing. It lends comfort and support in any situation. A mild sedative Vetiver promotes rest and relaxation. Helpful as a sleep aid! Vetiver is excellent for skin cell rejuvenation and healing. Use as a hair, skin and scalp reconditioner.

In Ayurvedic Medicine, an ancient system of healing practiced in India, the warm sweet earth aroma of Vetiver oil with its spicy undertones is ideal to regulate and pacify ALL the Doshas. Vata, Pitta and Kapha bodymind types respond well to the balancing effects of Vetiver essential oil. Symptoms of Vata imbalance are premenstrual syndrome, constipation, insomnia, restlessness, nervousness, anxiety and worry.

Symptoms of Pitta imbalance are high blood pressure, anger, frustration and emotional upsets, inability to go with the flow. Symptoms of Kapha imbalance are high cholesterol, low metabolic forces, slow to lose weight, fluid retention, stagnation and blockage, lethargy and depression.

BLEND WITH: Petitgrain or Orange. Vetiver works well as a stand alone, yet blends well with a variety of oils. Use it whenever you need to anchor a blend, or need a lower base note to help your formula sing!

PLEASE NOTE: There are many cheap, synthetic copies of aromatic oils, but these are not recommended for therapeutic use. For best results purchase the highest quality oils you can possibly find. Use certified organic essential oils, or oils that have been tested and are pesticide free.

Aromatherapy is a gentle and noninvasive complementary health care system used for balancing and synchronizing your body, mind, spirit and emotions to enhance your health. Properly administered essential oils are a natural, safe and effective way to enhance your health and well-being and may produce satisfying results where other methods have failed. Please consult with your physician regarding serious health concerns and do not attempt to self diagnose.

Customers should be wary of eye exercise programs such as the widespread See Clearly Method, who claimed that they can eliminate or reduce your need for eyewear. Because of these invalidated claims, all sales of See Clearly Method kits were prohibited and the company was punished to pay $200,000 as a compensation to consumers who had bought the kits. The recently published Power Vision Program by American Vision Institute is another eye exercise program that indicates natural vision improvement. Actually, researches have showed that these simple exercises can not help you throw away your glasses for vision errors such as myopia.

Focusing errors such as farsightedness and nearsightedness involve the irregular ways that your eyes refract lights, which are caused by too short and too long eyeballs respectively. And presbyopia is caused because that aging lens starts to lose elasticity and can not adjust focus at different distances. Eye exercises just provide up-and-down and back-and-forth movements for your lens, which have no relation with the above eye anatomy. These exercises will never change your eyeball shape, your cornea and irregular surface. They also can not restore your lens to its youthful elasticity.

Eye exercises help your eyes function and adapt and certain vision therapy can be used to avoid amblyopia on children. However, no evidence shows that these exercises can alter the eye’s basic anatomy, which determines people’s refractive errors. And no evidence has been found that visual training improves vision loss by macular degeneration, glaucoma and so on.

The ever prevailing program of See Clearly Method charged about $350 retail for each kit. Its website claimed that the vision plan was a safe and healthy alternative to eyeglasses and contacts. But later the website disclaimed that the product’s vision improvement effect will vary among different people. However, aftermath investigation and details showed that the See Clearly Method had no solid scientific basis.

While deluxe version of See Clearly Method contained a CD-ROM, its basic versions only included some videotapes and audiotapes. The program told people to do 30 minutes of exercises every day, in order to strengthen and enhance muscle flexibility that manages the eye’s focusing power. The program also provided some booster techniques and the component of “Visualization”. The vision improvement and glasses elimination from See Clearly Method had never been supported by any clinical study. The practice conducted by the program’s creators was deliberately controlled.

In fact, eye exercise programs occupy an obscure space between medical science and fold remedy, which are dismissed by most optometrists and ophthalmologists. There are still other companies that sell similar eye training programs, some of which even claim to be FDA-approved.

People who want to buy self-improvement eye exercise programs should be careful about their vision claims. Professional advices from ECPs are always helpful. The best way is to keep your expectations in check and your money in your wallet.

Article from: http://vision.firmoo.com/

Some people in this world decide that they are going to devote themselves and contribute as many as possible to the society. There are many occupations that can be related with devotion to the society, such as police, firemen, doctor, nurse, and many others. We can take one example, the nurse. Whether people realize or not, the existence of a nurse is very important around the doctor and in the hospital. A nurse is like an assistant, but a nurse can be more than that. Sometimes, they are demanded to act smarter and faster than the doctor in order to help the patient to be treated well enough. Well, these actions are not based on fictional theories, but all of these nurses purposely studied on how to become a good nurse. They took a college on becoming a nurse and they studied everything that is related with the medical world, how to treat the patients and how to operate the tools around the hospital or other medical tools. For an addition, they can have references from nursing magazines which then they can apply in the real life to treat the patients at hospitals or homes and also for their own knowledge and experience.