Lemon Myrtle

Lemon Myrtle has come to my attention recently and I love using. It has a wonderful citrus-lemon scent. When I sniff it cheers me up.  It comes in many forms and can be taken in a variety of different ways so you are not limited to a boring routine. It can be used in cooking to spice up a recipe, taken as a tea or applied topically in the form of essential oils. Its rich lemon aroma is both pleasant and soothing. Lemon myrtle is used to treat a diversity of ailments from throat disorders to gastric problems, and it is sold in many health and supplement stores.

I put lemon myrtle herbs in water and I also make it a tea. In the summer loved it as Iced Tea. Now that the weather is cooling, I drink it as a tea, and it soothes and helps me feel at peace. Lemon myrtle makes a great antioxidant herbal tea.

The lemon myrtle is a tree that grows naturally in the Australian coastal regions like Queensland and New South Wales. The tree can reach heights of 60 feet or more, though its average height is approximately half of that. The tree is now grown in other parts of the word, including in South Africa and the southern sections of the United States and Europe. While the tree’s flowers and fruits can both be eaten, it is the leaves that have gained a reputation for having the most uses and health benefits.

Despite its citrus scent and flavour, lemon myrtle is not acidic, giving it a wide range of options when used to enhance or complement a meal. It is sold in the form of herbal tea, essential oil, powder or spice. The leaves can be ground or sold individually.

Lemon myrtle has a reputation as a powerful antiseptic and anti-virus agent that can destroy disease-carrying microorganisms. It has been used to treat allergies, colds, sore throats, gastric disturbances and infections.

Lemon myrtle promotes a healthy immune system and can be applied topically to treat problems like warts, cold sores and acne. It is a highly potent antioxidant that can help fight diseases such as cancer. It is high in minerals like calcium, zinc and magnesium, and it has a healthy helping of vitamins A and E.

To sum up lemon myrtle is a fragrant antioxidant herbal supplement that can be used in different ways every day to intensify food flavours, enhance your personal care routine and promote better overall health.

Colour Therapy and Its Benefits

Colour is powerful, whether we are eating it, wearing it or looking at it!

Colour is a living energy whose power affects us on all levels. We are all beings of light, therefore light is essential for our well-being. Light is colour and colour is energy and not only is it everywhere but all around you.

It can be used to bring balance and harmony within the psyche and the body, it influences our moods, and it affects our homes, our workplace, our schools, our hospitals, and our very existence. No matter what our focus, colour is a part of it.

When we study the origins of art, science and healing, we can see the influence colour has played as far back as ancient times, the influence was strongly felt in ancient civilisation, but slowly disappeared and was lacking for many centuries.

As you become more aware of colour, you can choose colours effectively in your daily life (in your clothes, gardens, environment and your car) to keep you balance. Colour can play an important role in your personal growth. The colour system Aura Soma is a tool you can use to assist with your personal growth.

It is also known that certain colours can affect certain diseases, build new tissues, burn out (cellular) corruption, cure certain nervous troubles and eradicate certain nervous tendencies. We see this in our hospitals where we use blue light on newborn babies with jaundice. We also know that some prisons use pink rooms to calm the more violent criminal as this colour depletes energy and many police stations use blue rooms for their interrogations, as the suspect is more apt to tell the truth in a blue room.

By becoming aware of the power of colour and its effects on us, we can learn to make positive changes in our lives.

The primary colours of red, blue and yellow, from which all colours of the spectrum are formed, are reflected in plants, trees, flowers, rocks and crystals.

Each colour serves a unique purpose in our lives. Purple calms the consciousness and allow us to get in touch with our deeper thoughts. Blue is the colour of peace and communication. This is why some hospitals have painted their walls blue. It was found that it does aid to the healing process.  Green is also for peace, but more importantly for the balance of the heart.  Yellow is the colour of the digestive juices, as well as the colour of the intellect. Orange is a warmer colour used to help restore and balance ourselves; it is associated with reproductive system. Lastly red is the closest to the ground for us; it represents our gross energy or physical movements.

No matter how we use colour in our lives to express ourselves – be it thru clothing, furnishing, flowers, crystals or oils, eating - the colours we choose will have positive and negative qualities.  Understanding the power behind colour simply allow us to make better choices, to add the quality of colour to our daily life that will help us achieve what we want to project.

Colour also has an important place in food; both to please the eye and stimulate digestive juices. It also can be used to bring about an improvement in our health.

As a healing tool, colour is used by colour practitioners who work with coloured lights, healers work with crystals and colour on the chakra system to rebalance the body’s energies. Aroma therapist will select and use the essential oils they feel are most appropriate and massage them into the body. However Aura-Soma practitioners ask the client to select from the whole range of coloured ‘Balance’ oils to bring the body, mind, and spirit back to a state of harmony.

Colour therapy is an enjoyable, low-risk form of complementary and alternative medicine. Its benefits are sometimes remarkably obvious: we feel calmed by our favourite cool colours and stimulated by bright, warm hues. The colours you surround yourself with will affect you deeply. Applying the carefully considered principles and psychology of Colour Therapy to your home or can benefit you and your loved ones in the long-term.