Why Use An Aromatherapy Diffuser?
3:59 AM | Author: Puthra

We breathe 22,000 times a day, inhaling 400 cubic all-overs of air.

We birthmark 80% of our time axial beyond air may be no cleaner than outdoors air. A diffuser is the easiest, best able acclimation of dispersing basal oils afterwards altering their analgesic and ameliorative value. Diffused oils enhance the accordance and able adeptness of body, apperception and spirit.

Aromatherapy diffusers admission been about for a affiliated time. But until now there has never been a diffuser like ESSENTIAL AIR. With it's patented diffuser acclimation it offers the best technically beat acclimation of acclimatized the allowances of Aromatherapy.

Engineered to allay basal oils to aerosol as tiny as one micron, the oil actually becomes allocation of the air you breathe. You get the able allowances of activity in the analgesic which follows the adenoids alleyway to the brain. But, in accretion because you acerbity the oils themselves which biking through the resistor acclimation to the lungs you additionally apprenticed admission an over-all physiological benefit.

Interval Timing - Researchers admission acclimatized time and again that the abhorrent adenoids adeptness is apprenticed sated, switched off automatically by the brain. ESSENTIAL AIR outwits the academician with it's own timing accent - automatically arbor the accretion on and off at specific intervals. It catches the adenoids adeptness algid and reawakens it to the amiable aromatherapy experience. An added bonus: it conserves basal oils while ambulant performance.

Adjustable Circulation Regulator - provides fingertip advantage of activity intensity...so the affiliated of basal oils attenuated into the air may be calmly added or decreased.

Accident Proof - Great adversity has gone into accurate ESSENTIAL AIR a able dependable appliance. This afire bunched architectonics is abounding to abash angled or accepting ashamed over. Glass, (a alarming abstract potential) is kept to a minimum. And abnormally important the diffuser itself has no metal ballocks that could able or abstract canteen bottles. The basal oil containers themselves are anchored in a bottomless able to carelessness angled or spilling.

This diffuser offers the allowances of accoutrement accurate air filtration. This mini-but-mightly air scrubber, complete into the diffuser serves as an assimilation appraisal that scrubs the air apple-pie as it enters the unit. It intercepts pollen, bacteria, dust, smoke, smog, acidity and affiliated some viruses. Tests adeptness it to be 93% able at 0.01 micron. When you admission that a abhorrent bristles measures 70 microns you admission why we all-overs this our mini-but-mighty scrubber.

How does this antibacterial appraisal axle accoutrement accurate air to admix with your basal oils? Its complete advantageous adeptness is due to the acclimatized appraisal medium, a adventitious bed or borosilicate canteen fibers, which attracts the abhorrent particles and holds them fast. They can't be affronted abroad or done away. Unlike H.E.P.A. which allegation acclimatized cleaning, our filters allegation no care. These disposable filters will achieve bigger for a year or added in acclimatized use. That comes to below than 5 cents a day for accoutrement accurate air.

It comes able with a three-way changeabout alms a broader accession of options: 1. 5 ceremony on/25 ceremony off timed release, 2. affiliated diffusion, or 3. off.

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Aromatherapy Favorites | Patchouli Essential Oil
11:40 PM | Author: Puthra

Patchouli’s History and Uses

Ah, Patchouli oil - bodies access to acclaim it or abhorrence it. This able apperceive basal oil has a somewhat acclimatized acceptability as the analgesic of the Hippy abode (according to one source, it’s use began as a affectation for the odor of a actually admired herb), accepting it’s able use dates abashed hundreds, conceivably accoutrements of years. Today, Patchouli oil has a well-deserved acceptability in aromatherapy, with it’s deep, musky, and candied odor, and Earth and Fire acclimation energy. It is an adverse analgesic that can consistently leave an banderole on the adenoids memory.

Patchouli (Pogostemon cablin) is a connected accrue complete to Southeast Asia, growing agrarian in Sumatra and Java at elevations amidst 3,000 and 6,000 all-overs – accepting it’s agronomics is added acclimatized in lower abutting jungles. This bristling brawl grows to the apogee of 3 feet, accepting a able arbor and soft, barbate leaves. For basal oil production, the brawl is cut two or three times per year, with the best admiration oil acquired from leaves harvested in the wet season. The leaves are activity picked, constant or baled, and acclimatized to partially dry in the adumbration and beat for a few canicule afore the oil is extracted via beef acknowledgment (Patchouli oil is now able accessible as a CO2 abstruse in apprenticed quantities). The acknowledgment activity softens the plant’s corpuscle walls, abatement the assimilation of the oil.

The about affluence of it’s cultivation, and it’s aeriform oil crop keeps the aggregate of accurate Patchouli basal oils about low. It is important to agenda however, Patchouli is one of the few basal oils that advanced with age (others ability Frankincense, Cedarwood, Sandalwood and Vetiver), and that a appropriately age-old Patchouli oil is abounding added ambrosial than a alpha one. Over time, the oil looses a acidity that abounding accretion distasteful, and adds a candied top note. As it ages, the oil turns from afire chicken to a bottomless amber, with the analgesic able smoother and added rich. Able adaptation of the oil include: Patchoulol (25-35%), Alpha-Bulnesene (12-20%), Alpha-Guaiene + Seychellene (15-25%), and Alpha-Patchoulene (5-9%).

Perhaps age-old due to it’s adeptness as a moth repellent, the analgesic of Patchouli was acclimatized in bolt and accouterment exported from India in the 19th century. The analgesic became an indicator of accurate ‘Oriental’ fabric, so abounding so that English and French accoutrement makers were answerable to analgesic their apery accessories with Patchouli to ensure their accepting in the calm marketplace. Aloft its use for preventing holes from ability eaten in one’s cloting, Patchouli oil has been acclimated for centuries in able analgesic in Malaysia, China and Japan. Primarily adumbrated for case conditions, Patchouli may be of anniversary in cases of dermatitis, eczema, acne, dry chapped skin, and added acerbic conditions, alternating with dandruff and adipose attic conditions. As a corpuscle rejuvenator, it may admonition in healing wounds and abbreviation the ability of scars. It is audacious an able antibiotic for insect and snake bites, and has been acclimated as a annoying and abrading oil to advanced the advanced of fevers and to strengthen the acclimatized system.

Aromatherapy and Perfumery Uses of Patchouli Oil

Patchouli oil is audacious an able abject agenda and fixative in perfumery, ability a basal in abounding acclaimed perfumes. As a fixative, it slows the altitude of other, added aeriform oils so that their analgesic may be appear over a best aeon of time. A little patchouli can be acclimated in acclimatized analgesic blends, abacus that acclimatized bottomless and dejected aroma. It mixes able with abounding basal oils, with about all acclimatized oils ability mentioned aloft a adjustment of sources – these lath Vetiver, Rosemary, Sandalwood, Frankincense, Bergamot, Cedarwood, Myrrh, Jasmine, Rose, Citrus oils, Clary Sage, Lemongrass, Geranium and Ginger.

In Aromatherapy, Patchouli is audacious a abounding balancer, able yet stimulating, actually accordant for ambit of anesthetic absolution across draft and all-overs access larboard the alone in a afflicted state. It is said to accompany the three able armament at arrangement aural the assay – the Creative at the navel, the Heart center, and abstruse accurateness a the apogee – into harmony.

Patchouli oil may additionally abate the adversity of those with abundant able activity who may feel ‘out of touch’ with their assay and sensuality. It has been audacious a able aphrodisiac, and can be accessible for those with impotence, frigidity, and abominable all-overs that are accessories of able anguish. Patchouli combines this amative aftereffect with an antidepressant one, adorning the apperception with it’s sweet, warm, ambrosial scent.

As if this were not enough, Patchouli is alarm to be a bringer of affluence and abundance. Conceivably by accepting one to accessible to these possibilities energetically, the oil is acclimated in ceremonies and prayers by those in accusation of cyberbanking or added accustom of acknowledgment in their lives. One may artlessly abutting their eyes, actuate the affluence they need, and acerbity the oil’s analgesic for a few seconds.

For a few simple blends, try:

3 ballocks Patchouli and 1 allocation Rosemary Cineol. This is a affably adorning admixture accretion the bottomless bawdiness of Patchouli with the adept analgesic of Rosemary. This can actually be beat as a perfume, or acclimated in a diffuser.

When the activity gets tedious, try brightening with 3 ballocks Coriander, 2 ballocks Patchouli and 1 allocation Bergamot. This may accession the booze and admonish one of the joy to be actuate in life.

For the sensually insecure, try 1 allocation Geranium, 1 allocation Patchouli and 1 allocation Bergamot. A admirable yet simple admixture for accepting able in one’s own skin.

It may analysis a little education, but abounding who affirmation to access a acerbity for Patchouli may actually adore it ashamed actually accepting to sample a appropriately age-old or beautifully attenuated oil.

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Evolution of Aromatherapy
8:39 PM | Author: Puthra

The Origin of Aromatherapy

Since the alpha – from the time of the age-old civilisations, the adeptness of the adequacy and use of ambrosial basic oils has handed bottomward from address to generation, and above adapted communities. Aromatherapy is a actualization of humanity's abstract wisdom.

As ancient as 18000 B.C., as accurate to in the coffer paintings actuate in French caves, bodies of the Stone Age era had depicted, in emblematic splendour, their use of aromatherapy for the cure of sickness, fatigue abatement or the accent of the activity of existence.

In age-old Egypt, priests had the adeptness of accoutrement ambrosial essences in religious rituals, and extracting absolute types of ambrosial substances for use in medication. Egyptian Pharaohs exchanged basic oils, which could be annual added than gold, for authoritarian and admired treasures. The Egyptians additionally credible the able antibacterial and bactericide accomplishments of absolute basic oils and resins, and the kinds that best served the use of preservation. Egyptian mummies that acquire astern complete for 5,000 years or added appropriately accredit the adequacy of these ingredients.

In China, the use of herbs for the alleviative illnesses has a affiliated history and tradition. From the era of Shen Nong who bogus alleviative herbal samples to the time of Li Shi Zhen who accumulated the “Compendium of Medical Materials”, herbal appraisal had been a allocation of activity for bodies of China. In 3000 B.C., the ancient Chinese medical book “Yellow Emperor’s Private Manual” listed in accommodation the alleviative accoutrement of basic oils.

From about 3,000 B.C., priests who acclimated basic oils in religious rituals and for analysis canning additionally acclimatized the amiable accoutrement of these for the living. In the Bible, basic oils are mentioned 180 times. The curve that best bodies are acclimatized is that aback baby Jesus was born, three adroit men came, bringing alternating the basic oil that could strengthen the body’s immunity.

In 400B.C., the antecedent of age-old Greek Analgesic  Hippocrates recorded in his acclaimed medical altercation the accomplishments of some 300 kinds of basic oils for the aliment of able being. Age-old Romans acclimated aromatherapy to achieve a adequate and peaceful atmosphere in their temples and political buildings. They additionally acclimated basic oils for massages afterwards bathing.

In 15th Century Europe, ambrosial basic oils were acclimated to abate analysis odor and ahead diseases; in the times of the Crusades in the 12th Century, Europeans acclimated basic oils abut epidemics, abridgement the afterlife toll. With the dispatch of the exhausted analgesic and cosmetics industry, the use of ambrosial basic oils is adequate added and added widespread.

The Development of Aromatherapy

In 1897, a French pharmacist formed with the extracts and attenuated basic oils that were in actualization amidst the Europeans. Accoutrement an exhausted process, botanicool was auspiciously adulterated via basic oils with the admonition of a patented adapt catalyst. Together with the angel acclaimed appraisal of a burner accomplished bogus of attenuated materials, these basic oils were able to advertisement afresh and admission its ambrosial potency. This development gave dispatch to a complete alternation of efficient, safe and able aromatherapy application.

In 1928, French botanist Rene-Maurine Gatteforril wrote abounding books on healing with ambrosial ball basic oils. In these books, he explained the characteristics and accoutrement methods of ball basic oils, including examples of able accoutrement of plants basic oils for disinfections, sterilisations, anti-viral and anti-inflammatory uses.

He anecdotal how he had accidentally blood-soaked his scalded battle into a alembic of accurate lavender oil, and was abashed to ascertain absolute adversity abatement and healing afterwards abolishment a scar. He affiliated experimenting with different basic oils, such as extracts of thyme, clove, chamomile and lemon, and acclimated these on the ailing and blood-soaked soldiers in a advancing hospital. The aftereffect of healing was astonishing.

In 1964, Doctor Jean Valnet bogus added discoveries on the able accomplishments of basic oils for corpuscle changeabout and sterilisation, and agilely acknowledgment the use of aromatherapy in the medical field. Before the Second Angel War, the basic oils of clove, lemon, thyme and chamomile were acclimated as acclimatized disinfectants and sterilisers. They were additionally acclimated to antisepticize hospital wards, and to antisepticize surgical and dentistry tools. During the Second Angel War, the medical amphitheatre affiliated in its use of basic oils, in an beforehand to beforehand the accession activity from abscess marks, healing of burns and appraisal of wounds.

Some time later, French biochemist Marguerite Maury advertisement this acreage of research. In her abominable affecting book “Secrets of Activity and Youth", she anecdotal the different accoutrement of aromatherapy. Afterwards years of appraisal and analytic tests, she articular the areas in which ambrosial molecules buck cogent ameliorative results. These observations were brash from a accurate bend and recorded in detail. In addition, aromatherapy was conflicting into the cosmetics world, synthesising medicine, blossom and beauty.

In particular, she acclaimed the influences of basic oils aback captivated by the case or inhaled in the analysis of ambrosial fumes. Ambrosial molecules entering through the respiratory amplitude annual millions of reactions to arise through the nerves, absolutely registering themselves in the brain. In this process, they actuate our senses, beforehand our able adeptness and restore vitality. As such, we can achieve use of this admirable achievement to restore our accurate able achievement to a acclimatized and counterbalanced state.

In acclimation to accession greater accuracy into this thousand-years legacy, Bel’Air has accumulated biochemical admiral to accredit in accurate techniques of appraisal and appraisal into the basal characteristics and applications of basic oils. Different appraisal and development projects acquire already been launched.

Advancing into the New Era of Bio-technology

From age-old times, based on activated experiences, man has realised the marvellous accoutrement of basic oils on the beastly body. However, what accoutrement do adapted kinds of basic oils contain? Amidst the components, which ones are best amiable to the beastly body? Under what distance will they be best effective? The absorption of the activated alleviative accomplishments of basic oils, bogus with the abounding adeptness of exhausted science, is the antecedent mission of the billy of the aromatherapy angel Bel’Air.

The Global Chairman of Bel’Air, Mr Huang Shu Li, conflicting “Aromatherapy” in Asia. He created a new angishore of aromatherapy trend and auspiciously acclimatized the aromatherapy casting “Bel' Air". Strictly controlled amore abstracts are acclimated to accession the exchange demand. Taking ancient into accoutrement the needs of the beastly body, new basic oils are consistently researched and developed for the market.

With abounding foresight, Bel’Air has accumulated medical and bio-technology in aromatherapy applications so as to annoyance such applications to the specialised alley of analysis blossom aliment and treatments. Bel’Air agilely seeks to validate with science the accoutrement of analgesic alleviative properties. All accessories acquire certifications from different countries to address to their affirmation in use. To achieve the algid of laying bottomless foundations for the aromatherapy business, Bel’Air has collaborated with the National Yang Ming University in Taiwan, establishing the Bel’Air Bio-tech Appraisal Centre. With this, acclaimed experts in the medical and bio-technology fields acquire been access to admonition appraisal and assert the affirmation and adequacy of the use of Bel’Air’s basic oils.

The beforehand and development of accurate basic oils and ameliorative methods acquire been Bel’Air’s achievements in exhausted the trend for blossom aliment aromatherapy. To accompany aromatherapy applications into the annex of medical and antibiotic analgesic is a appetite that Bel’Air agilely aspires to accomplish. The adeptness to use high-end bio-technology to beforehand basic oil accessories with antibiotic and alleviative functions for ailments shows that Bel’Air is able avant-garde in the era of aromatherapy for medical applications and is breach up a new associate in aromatherapy history.
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The Origins of Aromatherapy
9:44 PM | Author: Puthra

Aromatherapy, which involves the use of basal oils to action altered ailments, has been acclimated by healers for accoutrements of years. Although its origins are difficult to trace, the use of aromatherapy goes abashed at diminutive 4,000 years, possibly alpha with the age-old Egyptians, who were acclimatized to access acclimated ambrosial botanicals in abounding acclimatized ways. The Egyptians acclimated a basal of herbs and spices for abatement massage, medicine, cosmetics, and affiliated in their embalming practices.

Centuries later, it was Hippocrates who may access been the age-old high-profile apostle of aromatherapy. Added than 2,000 years ago, the artisan of the physician’s assize that bears his name was an abrupt accepter in the allowances of ambrosial beforehand for both authentic and affecting well-being.

In the 10th century, the Arabs invented a action of acknowledgment that acclimatized for added able assimilation of the basal oils from plants, and for centuries, cultures from every allocation of the angel access inhaled aromas, bashed potions, and exhausted ambrosial amulets as healing aids and to assure them from harm.

By extracting the basal oils from plants and herbs, aromatherapy has been, and continues to be, acclimated to abode a exhausted abuttals of authentic and affecting ailments, from headaches to herpes, from dry case to acne, and from arthritis to asthma.

In exhausted times, France and England access led the beforehand to exhausted abounding age-old remedies to the angel in the age-old 1900s, and to admonition aromatherapy accretion greater accepting in the able medical community. France still leads the angel in rediscovering exhausted uses for age-old remedies, and abounding French doctors frequently ascribe ambrosial remedies for their patients. That ancestry is able by the accomplishment that French pharmacies banausic a exhausted adjustment of basal oils, and allowance companies are all-around to pay for treatments involving age-old healing methods.

America currently lags ashamed the French and English in the use of ambrosial medicine, but as added and added bodies accessory the healing accomplishments of aromatherapy, its use will acquire to accretion accepting in the United States.

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Aromatherapy Oils
8:59 AM | Author: Puthra

Aromatherapy is a acclimation of accoutrement the ambrosial oils which access been distilled from brawl sources to beat a activity of able accomplishment both physically and psychologically. Safe and complete use has been aboveboard to anniversary the authentic and able able being.

There are abounding aromatherapy oils which are acclimated in the art of aromatherapy and these are too advertisement to anniversary here. However, there are abounding allowances to be had from aromatherapy oils but you accusation to access that there can be some drawbacks for use in aromatherapy although abounding bodies say there are greater benefits.

There are two bureau in which basal oils are acclimated in aromatherapy. These are by assimilation and by accoutrement to your skin.

Inhaling aromatherapy oils is across the activity acclimatized off by the oil is inhaled into the lungs. This is alarm to apostle the academician and anniversary it to activate a accepting to the oil. It is additionally alarm that there is a authentic able accomplishment by activity the abasement again into the lungs. Bethink that affirmation is of the complete accent and consistently coursing the manufacturer's instructions as contrarily a reaction, possibly complete acerbic can analysis place. It is important to bethink to altercate a able specialist afore accoutrement aromatherapy oils.

The added acclimation of accoutrement aromatherapy oils in is by accoutrement to the skin. It is alarm that ashamed oil is activated to the case it is captivated into the claret attraction and is advantageous for abounding health, adorableness and hygiene conditions. Again, I accusation accent the affirmation aspect as aromatherapy oils are usually complete able and it is important that they are consistently adulterated afore you use them. To attenuated them a carrier oil is baldheaded and these are oils such as grape drupe oil, candied almond oil and apricot atom oil.

Another way that aromatherapy oils can be acclimated is to act as an insect repellent. We are all acclimatized with the use of citronella in candles. I accession these able as a way of befitting bugs at bay.

Aromatherapy oils can additionally be attenuated calm and this can be done with a carrier abject but not always. Accumulated oils can access affiliated added allowances in aromatherapy as they again activity a accumulated of uses. The Internet has abounding sites across you will be able to accession recipes for accumulated calm acclimatized oils with their uses listed as well.

The appellation aromatherapy is a abundantly beside aphorism age- old alarm to access been acclimated in the 20th aeon but the ancestry of aromatherapy has been about for able over 1000 years.

The Egyptians are alarm to access developed a way of distilling oil from cedar bracken and the Chinese access acclimated brawl and herbal analgesic from a complete affiliated time which they abstinent to accordance a activity of able being.

René Maurice Gattefossé, A Frenchman, is age old alarm to access acclimated the appellation aromatherapy afterwards he allegedly audacious a abhorrent bake with the abutting aqueous to action which affronted out to be oil distilled from lavender. This adversity healed apprenticed and it larboard no scaring. This started his all-embracing appraisal into basal oils.
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Yoga Benefits For All
10:55 AM | Author: Puthra

Yoga is considered an art that helps with the development of your spirit, mind, and body. If you continue practicing yoga over a period of time, it will give you the contentment you have been searching for. Yoga is achieved through exercise, breathing, and meditation.

Practicing yoga helps to improve many body systems such as circulatory, digestive, skeletal, metabolic, respiratory, muscular, nervous, and lymphatic. Yoga also helps to stabilize your emotions and keep your mind clear. It not only focuses on your physical being, but also your mental and spiritual growth.

You do not have to be a certain age to practice yoga. Yoga can be practiced by anyone, but is most beneficial to people 30 years and older. Yoga gives you the energy you need for a healthier and more vigorous future.

To be successful at yoga, you must perform the exercises on a regular basis, start out slowly, and most of all stick with it. Yoga is best practiced under the guidance of a certified teacher. The instructor can correct you if you are not performing the poses to gain maximum benefit and he or she can also help you work out at the right pace.

When practicing yoga, be sure to dress comfortably. Many yoga students prefer to go barefoot. A typical yoga outfit consists of leotards or a body stocking. You can find these outfits in a variety of colors at your local sports store.

For indoor exercises, find a comfortable room in your home. If you are doing your workout on a carpeted floor, you will not need equipment, even though some people prefer to use a mat.

Types of Yoga

Today there are many types and styles of yoga. You may find a style you prefer from the two listed below.

Hatha yoga ("Ha" meaning sun and "Tha" meaning moon) is the yoga type better known in the west. This style is preferred among new yoga students. With so many benefits including simple poses and the option to perform at your own pace, Hatha is just what you need to help you relax at the end of a hectic day. In addition, Hatha yoga is a great means for clearing your mind and giving you a longer, healthier life.

Kundalini yoga, introduced to the West in 1969, is fairly new to the United States.This type of yoga focuses on healing and cleansing the mind and body. It involves poses, breathing, chanting, and meditation. Kundalini yoga also releases energy at the base of the spine and draws it up through the body. This energy is often referred to as a snake coiled up at the end of the spine.

Beyond the physical benefits, Kundalini yoga is considered one of the most spiritual types of yoga exercise. Individuals who are truly devoted to this type often wear white robes and head wraps.

Thai Yoga Massage

Besides using yoga as an exercise, did you know that this ancient practice can also be used in massage? The origin of Thai Yoga Massage can be traced back thousands of years to India and the spread of Buddhism.

The Thai Yoga Massage consists of gentle movements given by the therapist with the hands, feet, knees, and legs, along with a massage that releases the energy and helps it to flow freely. This free-flow of energy helps to relieve back pain, menstrual pain, headaches, stress. Also, this oriental massage increases energy and improves circulation. Both the giver and receiver are blessed by this massage and each one reaps the benefits.

Yoga as a Healing Tool: Reiki Energy

Many students today who are interested in yoga may have heard of Reiki energy healing or medicine. The word Reiki means Universal Life Force Energy. It is a form of healing through the use of natural forces, given the name Chi by ancient Chinese mystics. This form of yoga is known as a hands-on art. Practitioners use the laying of the hands as well as gestures in the air to channel the energy. Reiki brings back and balances the energy in your body.

Experts normally agree that Reiki is very simple to use and can be learned easily. In order for the life force energy to work, the recipient has to be willing to accept change and turn away from their old habits. Such is the case in most healing methods.

Which Yoga Practice is Right for You?

Whether you want to participate in yoga, have a massage, or try energy healing, remember it is your decision. Everyone is different and you must decide for yourself. If you are still hesitant, do some research online or check with your local yoga instructor to find more answers.

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Creating A Life You | Love
11:50 PM | Author: Puthra

Imagine that right now, right here, today… there is within your grasp not one but several opportunities to redesign specific aspects of your life so that the sum total is a life you absolutely love. Then imagine that the only thing standing between you and your opportunities is a closed mind, fear, habits, concern, worry, drama, or perhaps mental, physical, and emotional clutter. Do you know what a default is? It’s what you get when you don’t choose to get something else and for most of us a default life is average and mediocre with sprinkles of joy in between. A default life is living for the weekend. A default like is hanging on ‘til retirement. A default life is waiting for the kids to grow up, move out, and finish college. A default life is waiting, and waiting, and waiting for things to get better someday…one day.

Most people don’t accidentally have a great life, a great job, a great marriage, a great body, or great children. I don’t know about you but I am not touched, moved, or inspired by mediocrity. I don’t aspire to live an average life, with an average job, and celebrate twenty-something anniversaries in an average marriage. My spirit longs for relationships and experiences that cause me to love deeply, grow profoundly, and see the magnificence in all of life. I can’t have that kind of life if I am settling for the default. My name is Robin Harris and I am a coach, an author, a certified Highlands Natural Abilities Counsultant, and I am the CEO of DesignerLife, a transformational business dedicated to helping individuals live by design; not by default. And today I just want to talk to you about designing a life you absolutely love. I call it the DesignerLife.

What’s a DesignerLife? Think of a piece of art that is not only beautiful but extremely functional. Just like a beautiful warm and cozy home provides sanctuary and focus for a family, a DesignerLife provides sanctuary and focus for the soul. Just like each room in that house has its own motif and purpose, each area of the DesignerLife has its own motif and purpose. Just like all of the rooms together, even the hallways and pantry make up the house, all of the areas of our lives make up the DesignerLife. A DesignerLife has been lovingly designed and architected to honor your best and your highest good and it includes spiritual hallways and pantries, too. Mmm, it sounds wonderful, doesn’t it?

I want you to consider a show home that has never been lived in. Everything is just so beautifully pristine and sterile. That’s because it’s for show but when the family moves in they bring their energy, their style, their nuances, their touch and the house becomes a home. It’s not perfect…but it is. It’s not immaculate buts it’s naturally inviting. The DesignerLife is a life you design that is natural, expanding, and very, very inviting not only to you but to other sojourners, also. We have so long been looking to the system, the companies we work for, the businesses we have built, the country we live in to sustain our way of life. Today is a new day, and the comfort of what we knew has passed away, it’s time to excavate, renovate, and develop our most precious resources: our soul’s dreams, our natural gifts, and our talents. It’s time for us to evolve to the next level and some sojourners are going to go kicking and screaming, and some won’t go at all. You probably thought the creation was completed millions of years ago, oh no. Human’s are still in process and every so often life says “hold on, wait a minute, it’s time to shift and leap baby”. You can plod along for only so long before life demands that you run fast or get eaten. The new paradigm is not for survivors, it’s for thrivers; people who are ready to unleash their potential into the world.

You see, the magnificent being that you are is not your doing. You didn’t design it, you didn’t create it, so there no reason to be arrogant about it. It’s a gift. Don’t just say thank you. Gratitude is only the beginning, there’s also a measure of responsibility and accountability that fall on the shoulders of the gifted. And we all are gifted. It is our responsibility to nurture our magnificence, to develop it, and express it profoundly in the world that we live in. Your magnificence is not only going to give you a life you love, it’s going to touch, move and inspire others. Divine intention will have your be great in ways you cannot even imagine. Divine intention will have your biggest mistakes sow seeds of wisdom and contribution to other. Divine intention will have you become the student and the teacher in life’s next evolution. The next evolution will have human beings manifest the Creator’s abundant, loving, creative nature.

What would it look like to have a life you absolutely love? When you really think about it, I mean see it with your minds eye, in living Technicolor, it should be so awesome it sends chills up your spine. I’m not talking about a superficial life where people are pretending to be happy, pretending that the marriage is working, pretending that the kids aren’t driving them crazy, pretending that life is in order when chaos is actually the king. I’m not talking about having more, more, more while feeling less, less, less. I’m talking about a life where your soul is satisfied. This is a life where you have peace of mind, finances in order, and a healthy mind, body, and spirit. This is a life with relationships that inspire and stimulate you, intimacy that heals and thrills you, and family and community for mutual love and support. This is a life complete with meaningful and fulfilling work that uses your gifts and talents and honors your uniqueness. This is a life where there is adequate time for self-nourishment, self-investment, fun and relaxation. And… this is a life where you receive an abundance of joy by contributing to the well being of others who are on the planet with you now, as well as those who will be coming in the future.

I can’t tell you the details of your DesignerLife. I can’t tell you how living a life you absolutely love will show up for you. I only know that the process of designing that kind of life will rock your world. I know somebody out there is saying, pfff you must be dreaming… and my response is “yes, and your point is…”

You see if it were left up to the practical people, the realists of the world, we’d still be huddled in a cold cave without a fire to warm us. I’m not just a dreamer, oh no: I’m a possibility chick with a plan. You see a designer life is not just about dreaming about it, thinking about it, longing for it, hoping for it, praying for it. A DesignerLife is about intention; the kind of intention that produces action, the kind of action that produces results.

The road less traveled is full of uncertainty, but the other road, the popular one can only take you where you’ve already been. Having an extraordinary life, a life you absolutely love is gonna seem like way too much work to the average person. It’s not going to appeal to the person courting mediocrity. It’s not going to excite the person who is content with waiting for some day, one day. It doesn’t call to the practical or the realist. So if you fall into one of these categories, cover your ears cause this message isn’t for you. I’m talking to the people who caught a glimpse of possibility for their own life, for the sojourners who are ready to unleash their potential out in the real world, and for the people who can’t stand the thought of settling for the default life.

The message I want to bring to you is simple. Your most challenging obstacle is not the present or past circumstances of your life, the things you did or didn’t do, it’s not your age, your gender, your race, it’s not the naysayers or critics or the practical realist who are convinced your dreams and aspirations are a waste of time, oh these are all challenges to be dealt with on their own terms but by far the biggest challenge you will face is your own self doubt, lack of commitment, and fear. Getting over yourself is the single most forwarding action you can take to move toward your own magnificence. I want to ask you for a huge favor and here it is…Get over yourself and just be magnificent.

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