Oils of the day

Peppermint - Nathan used peppermint on the back of his neck for a headache (he's going off coffee)...he said it really seemed to help.  He didn't take anything else for the headache.

PanAway - I hold alot of tension in my jaw and it often clicks when I open it - which hurts!  I put PanAway on it and, while it didn't make the clicking completely go away, I did notice it relax and stop hurting enough to chew.  Was it the oils?  Or was it the massaging of my jaw?  I'm not sure.  I do know that the area where I rubbed the oil felt strangely...good?  Haha.  How's that for a description?  My jaw did feel more relaxed after I used the oil.  Was it all in my head?  Did my jaw relax because I was thinking about it?  Who knows. I do plan to use this more often as my jaw bothers me and maybe time will tell if it was actually the oil that made the difference.

Lemon - day 2 of drinking lemon oil in our water.  SO GOOD! (*oils should always be used with glass or stainless steel containers)

Levi loves smelling the oils whenever I have them out.  I'm hesitant to let him sniff them all at once because they really are quite potent.  But tonight I let him take a good whiff of the Valor oil, in hopes that he would have a really good night's sleep.  He did settle pretty well, though he often does these days.  It's so hard to tell with oils!  Are they working?  Are they making a difference?  Or is it all in the mind?  So far I'm not convinced, BUT I'm certainly having fun experimenting with them and I'm open to having my mind blown.  :)

*correction...I put Valor on my clicking jaw, not PanAway.  When I used PanAway this morning, it really didn't seem to make much difference, but then I used Valor and that was the feeling I was talking about.  It feels like relaxation just starts on the skin and soaks on down.  Still a little tense, but not clicking or hurting nearly as bad!