How to use Young Living Essential
Oils for body, mind, and spirit

Young Living gives you an amazing array of ways to feel better, live healthier, and re-connect to the natural heart of life. Taking care of your whole body, from head to toe, inside and out is a creative and empowering process--and that is just what the world of Young Living offers you!

Whether you are using our essential oils and other products for your body, mind, or spirit, here are three basic ways to apply them right away. For more details, go to the Free Training section and learn more about oils.

1. Our first recommendation for using essential oils is to put them on the bottoms of your feet! If this sounds surprising, just consider that for literally thousands of years, Chinese healers have used acupuncture and acupressure on the bottoms of their clients' feet to achieve healthy changes throughout the whole body. (These ancient sciences have been adopted by Western medicine and are even taught in several medical schools in the U.S.) Because of their unique molecular structure, the oils will travel throughout the body, to wherever they are needed, in less than half an hour. If you are doubtful about the power of diffusion through the whole body, try rubbing a clove of garlic on the soles of your feet, or put it between your toes, and see how long it takes until you taste it!

2. Diffuse your essential oils in the air. This is the traditional way that most people think of to use essential oils. It is an ancient way, and very effective. Most important is that you do not use a device that works with heat of any kind.

3. Lastly, you can add certain essential oils to water or food for exquisite flavorings--refreshing, spicy, cooling, relaxing, etc. See the GRAS rating for "food grade" essential oils.

But don't forget: once you get started you'll definitely want to have at least one "how-to" book to help you explore the world of Young Living. You can find these books in the Library.