Kathryn Scott

The body has five major paths of elimination; the colon, kidneys, liver, lungs, and skin. Of these, our skin is the largest elimination organ, which is sometimes referred to as the “third kidney” (the second being our lungs). In fact, up to one third of all body impurities are excreted through the skin. It releases a pound of waste each day and will be the first organ to show symptoms of imbalance or toxicity. If your skin cannot efficiently release toxins you may experience rashes, acne, hives, itchiness, body odor, or even eczema and psoriasis.
Dry skin brushing is an important therapy you can add to your detox program. Daily dry friction brushing is far more cleansing and eliminates more waste material than any soap could, another added benefit is that the skin is not robbed of its natural oils needed to keep it from becoming too dry. Dry skin brushing tones the skin, improves surface circulation to keep pores open, encouraging the bodies discharge of metabolic wastes. It aids in relieving skin conditions such as acne, hives body odor, eczema and more. More importantly it helps your lymphatic system to rid itself of toxins that collect in the lymph glands. Altogether helping your skin to look and feel healthier and more resilient.
How dry skin brushing will benefit you:
• Tightens skin
• Regulates and increases blood circulation and lymph flow
• Revitalizes and increases your skins ability to eliminate toxins out of the system
• Rejuvenates the nervous system by stimulating nerve endings in the skin
• Contributes to healthier muscle tone and better distribution of fat deposits (yes, with continued use it can break down cellulite)
• Gently removes dead layers of skin and other impurities (keeps pores open)
• Stimulates the hormone and oil producing glands responsible for keeping your skin looking and feeling young, smooth and strong
• Helps in digestion
• Strengthens immune system

How to choose your brush
Choose a dry skin brush that has natural fiber bristles and a long handle for reaching all of your back. The bristles may feel to firm at first, but your skin will adjust to this over time. If you have very sensitive skin, you may want to start with a softer brush or a dry towel.
How to “dry skin brush”
Dry skin brushing means brushing the skin without the use of water or soaps. Use a separate brush for face and body. Brush before showering or bathing at least once per day twice if possible.
When dry brushing the body, brush the limbs with an upward movement. Every brush motion should be directed towards the heart. Start by brushing skin gently until it becomes conditioned. Avoid brushing the parts of your body that are irritated, damaged or infected. The scalp should also be brushed. It can stimulate hair growth by increasing blood circulation and will keep the scalp clean from dandruff, stale oils, etc.
• Lighter strokes over and around breasts, and do NOT brush the nipples.
• Brush over each part of your body several times vigorously.
• Always brush towards your heart
Start with the soles of your feet first, because the nerve endings there affect your whole body. Next brush your ankles, calves and thighs. Then brush across your stomach with circular counter clockwise strokes. Then onto your buttocks and lastly brush your hands and arms.

For the face, start by washing with a gentle cleanser, then dry with a towel. Start brushing using gentle upward movements from the center to the temples on the forehead then work down over the eyes, along the nose. Next make gentle counter clockwise movements on the right cheek, and clockwise on the left, always moving along the cheek muscles Be careful never to stretch the skin. Move down to the chin, the ears and finally the neck, using a firm, brisk rotary motion. If your face is too sensitive to use a dry brush, use a loofah or a special facial brush instead. Smooth upward strokes lift the muscles of the face instead of dragging them down. We don’t need to give gravity any extra help! Your facial brushing strokes should move up the neck and along the contour of the face.

After you have brushed the entire body then take a warm bath or shower which should be followed by a cool rinse at the end to invigorate blood circulation and stimulate surface warmth.

During the first couple of months be extra gentle while brushing! The sensation should be pleasantly stimulating. Stop immediately if it doesn’t feel good and increase the brushing intensity more gradually.

At first, the whole procedure should not last more than 30 seconds. Gradually increase the time to one, two and finally, three minutes.
Cleaning your brush
Keeping your brush clean is important; you need to wash out all of the dead skin cells and debris. Wash your dry skin brush with non-toxic soap every two weeks or so. Dry it in the sun or a warm place.
Being Consistent is the key
Dry skin brushing stimulates and invigorates the entire body. When done consistently (3-5 minutes morning and night), it will drastically improve the look of your skin and give an overall feeling of well being.

Like the water we must be always moving, always changing, always becoming more then we were a moment ago. But it is in the stillness we see who we really are. Love.

Five Short Chapters on Change

Chapter 1.
I walk down a street and there’s a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. It takes forever to get out. It’s not my fault.

Chapter 2.
I walk down the same street. I fall in the hole again. It still takes a long time to get out. It’s not my fault.

Chapter 3.
I walk down the same street. I fall in the hole again. It’s becoming a habit. It is my fault. I get out immediately.

Chapter 4.
I walk down the same street and see the deep hole in the sidewalk. I walk around it.

Chapter 5.
I walk down a different street.
-Portia Nelson

Are you falling into the same hole time after time? What patterns do you keep repeating? What experiences do you get repeating? Same ole traps in relationships, work and play? Do you keep having the same ole negative thoughts about yourself and others? How many times do you have to keep reliving the same issues over and over, like in the movie Ground hog day! Repeating the same day over and over, until he finally gets it right.
What are you creating you your life, and what would you like to recreate. The emotional energy from our past affects us in our present experience. It comes up over and over because your body and mind wants it to be cleared and replaced with something better. So, ask yourself what emotional energy keeps repeating itself in your life. What repeating feelings and experiences are you having? They might be different faces, and a different day but it is probably the same ole feelings and emotions that keep arising.
Is it time to fill up the hole in the street? Is it time to find a new street? It is time to stop thinking about it! It is time to choose different thoughts when the old ones arise. This year is the year for new streets and new avenues of a better life. It is time to put up a detour sign on the street with the hole and finding the quicker route to happiness and joy.
Start to first own these feelings and then tell yourself you are done with that street, let go and change. Tell yourself that you are sorry for having these repeating thoughts, feelings and experiences that are not for your highest and best. Tell yourself how much that you love and honor yourself, and that you are happy with yourself for being on a new street.
If these feelings are stuck and seem like they go deep and you would like to find the root cause, and be rid of them and to change them out of your DNA, and out of your cells feel free to call and schedule a time with me that I can help you change, with grace and ease, with laughter and tears.
It is the year of endings and the year for new beginnings and it is easier to let go and change than ever before.

One of the most versatile oils, if all else fails and you don’t know what to use Lavender.
From the beautiful high altitudes hills of France, the flowering tops of DoTerra’s lavender are lovingly steamed distilled.
Traditionally it has been known to balance the body and will work wherever it is needed in the body. It is one of the best oils to help calm the body and the mind, helping to reduce stress and anxiety from the mind and body as well. It promotes the consciousness of health, love, peace and a general sense of wellbeing. It can also enhance your creative center. Diffuse and breathe in the aroma and connect with your Naval Chakra and your creative nature flow.
The following is a list of many of the wonderful things Lavender is good for:
Bee Stings: apply on location
Burns: apply on location
Bruises:
Skin irritations and allergic reactions:
Headaches: add peppermint and frankincense and it works wonders!
High Blood pressure
Cold Sores
Hay fever
Depression
Infections
Insomnia
Laryngitis (mix with Melaleuca it is even better)
Cardiovascular system
Nervous system
Candida
Skin
Just to name a few…
Lavender can be applied topically, one of the best ways. It can be taken internally as well as diffused into the air.
To take internally make sure your oils are CPTG “Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade”

Animal Bites
Lavender, Eucalyptus

Bumps and Bruises
Lavender

Burns
Lavender

Cleaning
Lemon

Colds
Lavender, Peppermint, Eucalyptus

Cold Sores
Lemon

Constipation
Peppermint

Cough
Peppermint, Lemon

Dry Skin
Lavender

Heat Exhaustion/Stroke
Lavender, Peppermint, Eucalyptus

Fevers
Lavender, Peppermint, Eucalyptus

Fractures
Lavender

Fresh Breath/Teeth
Lemon, Peppermint

Cuts and Grazes
Lavender, Eucalyptus

Hay Fever
Eucalyptus

Headaches
Lavender, Peppermint

Indigestion
Peppermint

Infections
Lavender, Eucalyptus

Insect Bites
Lavender, Peppermint

Itching
Eucalyptus, Peppermint

Mood
Lemon, Lavender

Muscles
Lavender, Eucalyptus

Odors
Lemon

Rashes
Lavender

Sleeplessness
Lavender

Sprains and Strains
Lavender

Sore Throat
Lemon

Swelling
Lavender, Eucalyptus

Toothaches
Peppermint

Vomiting
Peppermint, Lavender

HUGS
The need to touch and be touched is established early in our lives, as we develop and grow in the omnipresent embrace of our mother’s womb. Once we are born, separated from that sanctuary of connectivity, we begin to crave the physical embrace of our parents. As we age, we become more independent. Yet during times of triumph or trouble and during those moments when we are in need of reassurance, we can’t help but long for a hug.

Because a hug requires two active participants, each individual taking part in the embrace experiences the pleasure of being embraced and the joy that comes from hugging someone. As both individuals wrap their arms around one another, their energy blends together, and they experience a tangible feeling of togetherness that lingers long after physical contact has been broken. A heart hug is when you put your left arm over someone’s shoulder and your right arm around their waist. As they do the same to you, your hearts become aligned with one another other and loving, comforting energy flows between the two of you to flood your souls with feelings of love, caring, and compassion.

A hug is a pleasurable way to share your feelings with someone who is important to you. Depending on your relationship with the other person and the kind of message you wish to send to them, a hug can communicate love, friendship, romance, congratulations, support, greeting, and any other sentiment you wish to convey. A hug communicates to others that you are there for them in a positive way. In an instant, a hug can reestablish a bond between long lost friends and comfort those in pain. The next time you hug someone, focus all of your energy into the embrace. You will create a profound connection that infuses your feelings and sentiments into a single beautiful gesture.

Did you realize that when you hold onto resentments, regrets, and feelings of rejection, it uses copious amounts of energy? And don’t forget about bitterness and grudges. They steal your energy as well. The neurons in your brain spend an incredible amount of time and energy in order to keep these issues alive. Around and around they go embedding themselves deeper and deeper into your consciousness unless you can find a way to let them go. No wonder negative emotions eventually create illness, and no wonder these emotions prevent you from being truly happy. They literally get in the way of positive emotions.
Cells have receptors for emotions. Once a cell has been imprinted with an emotion it wants it all the time. It’s like a drug—a fix for the cell. If a cell has been imprinted with depression, it resonates with depression, drawing it into your life to maintain the “fix.” On the other hand, if a cell is imprinted with feelings of happiness, it will draw events that continually create happiness in your life. Ideally, emotional release work not only releases negative emotions, it also teaches your cells what it feels like to live with another (more positive) emotion. Your cells can let go of “poor me” and replace that feeling with what it feels like to live in joy and happiness.
When clearing resentments, you can pull or delete the resentment, but if you are holding a grudge, the resentment may come back. The unconscious mind is powerful. It will protect you in many ways—even if it has to create grudges, anger, and resentments to keep you from being hurt again. You may have resistance to releasing these—and with good reason—they are keeping you safe. You may have been involved in abuse or there may be abandonment issues. Simply pulling the resentment or the grudge may leave you vulnerable. This is why it is paramount to teach your subconscious mind and your cells that you are safe by providing the alternate imprint of what it feels like to live in joy–without the resentment or the grudge.
People and situations come into our lives to show us the beliefs and feelings that need to be released. If you have something going on in your life that you are not particularly happy about, you might want to look at it a little closer. Ask yourself: What is this trying to show me? What are my feelings about it? What is the root issue that has brought this to my attention at this particular time? Why do I feel the way I do about it? You might want to ask yourself how this person or situation is serving you? You might be blaming a spouse or a situation just so it will keep you stuck and from moving forward. What fear is keeping you in this present situation? What lesson is your higher self teaching you? Another nice question to ask yourself is, Who will I be when this is cleared from my life?
Take a few minutes and write down as many resentments as you possibly can. Then examine each one closely. How deeply does each particular resentment affect you? Use a scale from one to ten. For those issues that have a bigger charge, look deeper and write down your thoughts and feelings. Then do the emotional release work.
If you would like assistance clearing old unwanted resentments, feel free to give me a call and we will dig together and clear them in joy.

The day has finally arrived. Melanie and I are so happy to announce the release of our new book, Dancing with Water: The New Science of Water. We’ve received a lot of great feedback from water enthusiasts and from the scientific community as they have reviewed the book. Both are nearly as excited as we are to finally have this book in print. The book represents a unique blend of science and esoteric wisdom written in an effort to help anyone treat, structure, enhance, and revitalize their water. A recent book review makes this comment: The authors have produced a compelling treatise for any reader who is truly interested in understanding the depth of their relationship with water.

Dancing with Water has taken us nearly 3 years to research, write, re-write, edit, index, and prepare for print. It is filled with the essence of our hearts and souls. We are slowly building a Website http://www.dancingwithwater.com/ where the book can be purchased and where we can offer further information on many of the concepts introduced in the book. There you will find a short video that briefly explains the New Science of Water.

If you feel so inclined, we invite you to pass this email along to any who might be interested in the book, and to share it on Facebook or other social media websites. One way or another, please join us in the “dance with water.”

MJ Pangman

Our imaginations were at our best when we very young. We were encouraged to imagine with games and books. Most of us believed in Santa Claus, the Easter bunny and even the tooth fairy. We wondered and dreamed in our little minds how Santa came down the chimney, and how the Tooth Fairy knows that we have lost a tooth and that its under our pillow. We are encouraged to draw and make up stories, we played make believe, and played house, or cowboys and Indians or any number of make believe games.

Then all of a sudden things started get “real”! Reality starts to set in. “Sigh”. Society starts to mock the dreamers, story-time ends up being history lessons. Make believe turns into real life. I don’t know about you, but life wasn’t fun anymore! If we used our imagination we are called day-dreamers, idealistic, naive, immature, and we begin to forget how to dream, and what the freedom of dreaming feels like.

We go to use our intuition, we approach it with seriousness, thinking I need to be inspired to create something profound and wonderful pursuit in our life. There is a heaviness to it, the flow is not there.
We then begin to realize that we are having a difficult time letting our intuition come in, soon realizing that it takes our imagination to connect to our intuition. It is the key to unlocking the doors the other worlds. We may be able to open some of the doors, but with the key of imagination we are able to unlock the doors of untold possibilities.

For you see, what you imagine is real, it is the secret to unlocking and receiving the intuitive information. It is the same channel you used to play house, or cars when you were little. Now you can use it for receiving boundless possibilities and it is the greatest vessel for intuitive connections and your creative power.

In my classes I teach that what you imagine is real. That many of us can “feel” it or “sense” it, or even feel it. I ask them to put pictures to what they are feeling. One of the biggest fears is that they are “making” it up. Wonderful I say, make it up, until you trust enough to know that it is real. Learn to trust, what you are seeing!

Meditating is a good way to start dreaming, picturing yourself on a beach or by a mountain stream. Imagine if you will that your mind is a big picture screen, letting wondrous scenarios come across the screen of your mind. Notice the details to what you are thinking about, what are the colors, are there people, who are they, what are they wearing? Where are you in your own picture show, Ask yourself the questions, and then notice. We become the artist of our own intuitive realms.

Once we start to dream and be a day-dreamer again we move into discernment and interpreting. This can sound so cut and dry, but you must remember that the world of the intuitive is not made up bricks and mortar, but of watery imagery, vast and interconnected.

Come out of the dark corners that create fear in your intuition and go through the back door of your imagination for it leads to the beautiful gardens full of blossoms of magic, choices, chances and hope.
Travel the roads to wonderment, and take flight into your blue vastness of creativity!

Be a witness to your own imagination, and to your own intuition.

Just Imagine it!

I love essential oils, I guess you could say I”m a bit addicted to them. Hey, at least they are good for the body and soul, there are things we are all addicted to that are not! I thought I would share some of my favorite oils and what you can do with them and what that are good for. So pop on over to the page for Essential oils and find out what my all time favorite is!