Journey's Genesis

 

       Finding my way to Young Living Oils started recently but, the journey that led me to this point began in the early 60's when I was a child. My mother was either a pioneer or a left over student of an era when essential oils, homeopathy and Grandma's homemade prescriptions were the mainstay in human health. Before modern medicine most of our Grandma's best remedies for health came from one of these sources.


Me and my husband of 26 years

     My mother studied under one of Detroit's only reflexologist where she learned the technique of homeopathy and reflexology. My youngest brother and I were her guinea pigs. Our medicine was not typically asprin or pepto bismal but, tiny beads we'd happily put under our tongues until they disappeared. I loved how it felt as she rolled her knuckles into the bottoms of my feet, kneading the tips of her fingers into the tops of each of my toes.  The fact is I didn't appreciate what a wonderful health educated person had a hold of my feet.

       Years later, I was exposed to another "health nut" who poo pooed the American Medical norm while dating my high school sweetheart. His father was the Jack Lalane in our circle of friends. He daily drove home the benefits of nutritional health, vitamins, minerals and fish oil supplementation. It was no surprise when thirty years down the road, he and his son opened a chain of health food stores. I learned a lot from him, yet stubbornly refuse to adopt the healthy way of living saying "if this were so great, all the doctors would be preaching about it."

     Fast forward to 2002 when I witnessed first hand the destruction of a human soul by modern medical techniques. Watching as my fifty year old brother succumb not to the cancer that spread through his body but, the ravages of chemo "therapy", tortured me.  It made no sense to me to introduce a chemical that kills everything good, in efforts to achieve health.  Bomb the whole house to clean out the rats is ridiculous reasoning.  There has to be a better way. If anything good came from Jon's death it is this: It put me on a path to understand all those things my mother tried to teach me. It opened my heart and mind to gain a better knowledge of what  "the health nut"  was trying to instill all those years ago.

      Years later, with hundreds of books under my belt, so many health oriented videos that I can't count, oodles of personal interviews with people who swear by one natural health regimen or another, I have found great faith in many alternative modalities. Of course, everyone must choose for themselves who and what they will put their trust when it comes to health. However, I feel strongly that you do yourself a huge disservice if you do so blindly. We must take charge of our own medicinal destiny. Doctors are not gods. There are many non destructive alternative medicines to "heal thy self."

     Educating ourselves first of all takes an open mind, open heart and a thirst for knowledge. I had to live a little to learn to appreciate life and it's fragility to feel a need to know and understand something better.  I continue to have the desire to understand my body in relation to healthy alternatives to allopathic medicine.

     This is an introduction to me, Julie, and my journey through the medical mire which is our health care system. Telling how I find myself with a reflexology book in hand and a kit of 12 most used essential oils on my lap.  I am confident in alternative medicines. Young Living Essential Oils being my latest alternative endeavor of understanding. Join me in my next blog page to learn why I want to "get into" Essential Oils as an alternative to my usual medicine cabinet.