Naturally Green Life Coach

Here in the US, we have this wonderful holiday called Thanksgiving.  It’s the one day of the year where we celebrate all the things we have to be grateful for.  For me the gratitude list seems almost endless.  So I’m wondering, why do most of us only show the gratitude once a year?

It has been proven that showing gratitude lowers stress levels.  As we all know, stress leaves us open to other illness moving in and taking over.  So why not show gratitude everyday of the year, if for no other reason than to lower our stress levels?

Maybe it’s because we don’t know how to show gratitude?  Maybe it’s because we feel so little to feel grateful about?  Or maybe it’s because we do not see what we have to be grateful for?

No matter who you are or what you do, you have something in your life to be grateful for.

Having a hard time finding something to be grateful for?  Then I’m going to put a challenge out to you.  Start a gratitude journal.  No matter what, or how bad Murphy’s Law has attacked you during the day, write at least one thing in your journal that you are grateful for, even if it’s something as simple as “I made it home from work today without a fender bender.” or “I’m grateful that my coffee was hot this morning.”  Just write something everyday.

Before long you will start to see more that you have to be grateful for, and before you realize it your life is a life of gratitude for all the wonderful things you have been blessed with.

Have a Wonderful Thanksgiving everyone!!!

It seems like the flu is running rampant this season.  Needless to say it hasn’t skipped our household either, so I thought I would write today’s post on ways to take care of yourself and family should the flu decide to make a visit to your home.

The first two suggestions are no brainers, drink plenty of fluids and get lots of rest.  The reason for these are simple.

Our bodies heal while we are resting.  Plenty of rest just means, stop, let your body do it’s job to take care of itself fighting the virus, without having to multi-task.

When we are sick, especially with the flu, it’s easy to become dehydrated.  Since most of us are already dehydrated to a degree, this will certainly put us into the severely dehydrated category.  You want to drink lots of clear liquids.  When I say clear liquids that doesn’t mean liquid you can see through.  That means fluids that do not have caffeine or heavy sugars.  Stick with water, herbal teas, kool-aid, or Gatorade type drinks.  I drank loads of green tea (great antioxidant) with honey to keep me hydrated while flushing toxins from my body.

This week while we were fighting the flu we added a couple of other steps to this.

I dosed myself with garlic.  Garlic is antibiotic, antiviral, antimicrobiotic, so it actually helps fight the viral flu bug.  I know some people who will eat the whole clove of garlic or take a spoonful of minced garlic.  I’m not one of those.  I buy the garlic oil capsules and took 2 capsules 3 times a day.  Not hard or gross.

I also had a diffuser burning with the essential oil blend of Eucalyptus and Rosemary.  The Eucalyptus was to help keep sinus passages clear so breathing was a little easier.  The Rosemary to disinfect the air to keep the virus from spreading.  You only need a couple of drops of each in a base oil (such as veggie oil) in a tea light oil burner will do the trick.

Hopefully you won’t get the flu this season, but if you do, I hope these tips help you to be a little more comfortable.

Have a Wondernous day!