I've been on vacation the last week or so, and took time off to relax from writing the business plan. This growing of a business is going much more slowly than I thought it would, but I'm trying to take baby steps and grow along with it. I want to create a business that is compatible with a holistic healthy lifestyle, and I'm not going to do that by diving in obsessively. So the business will be slow-growing, and my energy for it will grow slowly along with it.
The exciting news about the dough is that I had verification from Jim Crabtree that the formulas for each chakra really do activate the chakras they're intended to activate. Jim was trained at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing and is the founder of the Corestar Energy Healing School in Kansas City. He'll be writing up his impressions of the aromatherapy dough in a later guest post. Full disclosure: Jim is my father and the person from whom I learned the most about the human energy body and chakra healing. He has conducted over 9,000 energy healings and is the author of Seven Windows to Wholeness, so I'm excited that he could verify the aromatherapy dough's efficacy.
We have 8 houseguests this coming week in an already-crowded household of 6, so I'm not able to use the kitchen to make much dough. I am going to make a batch of serenity dough for myself today though. I think I'll need it.
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Add Aromatherapy Dough to Acupressure to Counteract Addiction
This video is of a self-administered acupressure exercise to counteract addiction. Add The Comfort Kit's Vitality Dough - a small ball in the palm of each hand, and you are adding dimension and potency to this meditation. Go ahead! Give it a try:
Comment with how this exercise works for you.
Comment with how this exercise works for you.
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Empowerment Meditation - 4 minutes
Next time you are facing a meeting with your boss, a tough negotiation, a confrontation, a first date, a job interview or even just an ugly Monday morning, try this:
1. Stand with your feet slightly wider than shoulder width apart.
2. Work with the Empowerment dough for a minute or so with both hands, just exploring how your own power manipulates the physical environment. Bring the dough close to you and observe the color and smell and how they make you feel.
3. Now roll the dough into a ball, and cup it in your left hand (in some traditions, the "receiving" hand). Leave your hand open, palm upward. Bring your hand with the aromatherapy dough up to the level of your heart to the middle of the breastbone.
4. Now form the Ahamkara Mudra with your right hand. The Ahamkara Mudra is a hand position that looks like this:
Note that the thumb is touching the outside of the index finger at the first joint.
(Click here for an introduction to mudras. )
5. Bring your right hand, maintaining Ahamkara, to a spot about an inch from your body, and two inches above the navel. You can hold your hand palm up as long as you are maintaining the position.
6. Spend 1-2 minutes in this position, breathing deeply and being aware that you have some power in this moment to affect the environment around you. Experiment with saying or thinking an affirmation like: "I value myself and add value to others." "I love and approve of myself." "I deserve good things." See what works for you.
7. When you are ready, relax your hands and begin working with the dough again, noticing how much power you have over the moment you're in. End the meditation by putting the Empowerment dough back in its tin and go forth knowing that you are equal to what meets you today.
1. Stand with your feet slightly wider than shoulder width apart.
2. Work with the Empowerment dough for a minute or so with both hands, just exploring how your own power manipulates the physical environment. Bring the dough close to you and observe the color and smell and how they make you feel.
3. Now roll the dough into a ball, and cup it in your left hand (in some traditions, the "receiving" hand). Leave your hand open, palm upward. Bring your hand with the aromatherapy dough up to the level of your heart to the middle of the breastbone.
4. Now form the Ahamkara Mudra with your right hand. The Ahamkara Mudra is a hand position that looks like this:
Note that the thumb is touching the outside of the index finger at the first joint.
(Click here for an introduction to mudras. )
5. Bring your right hand, maintaining Ahamkara, to a spot about an inch from your body, and two inches above the navel. You can hold your hand palm up as long as you are maintaining the position.
6. Spend 1-2 minutes in this position, breathing deeply and being aware that you have some power in this moment to affect the environment around you. Experiment with saying or thinking an affirmation like: "I value myself and add value to others." "I love and approve of myself." "I deserve good things." See what works for you.
7. When you are ready, relax your hands and begin working with the dough again, noticing how much power you have over the moment you're in. End the meditation by putting the Empowerment dough back in its tin and go forth knowing that you are equal to what meets you today.
Monday, July 16, 2012
Mission Statement Updated
Our mission is to promote
mental, physical, and spiritual health through the development and use
of innovative products. We also believe that healing happens in a
planetary and community context, so our mission includes seeking out
organic and free trade products where possible, and donating products to
under-served populations.
Mission Statement
I'm working on getting a mission statement in place today, something I've resisted in the past because they seem so...abstract. Of course I want to o promote mental, physical and spiritual health. I want to provide innovative products (invent stuff for comfort kits) and teaching people how to use them.
Mostly I want to promote the use of comfort kits. To help people with invisible disabilities, and to connect and make a meaningful difference to people with chronic illness whether mental or physical. I have a special place in my heart for people who have mental health challenges, as well as for those who have lupus, or MS, or fibromyalgia, or Lyme's disease. I want to help people who have disabilities, and I want to help people who are stressed-out ("to the max" as we used to say in the 80's). I want stay-at-home Moms to have something that they can use to relax for a few seconds in a locked bathroom when they have a screaming kid on the other side of the door. I can see myself growing in my own energy level to the point where I could do something significant for the mental health community in the Seattle area...thus the idea for donating 10% of the aromatherapy dough to mental health institutions and art therapists in this area. Treatment centers might be a good place to donate as well -- people need to learn how to play all over again, how to take care of themselves in recovery.
I want to help people in recovery who are discouraged and on the verge of relapse decide that they can make it one more day. I want to help people remember their best and highest selves, by actually providing tools and information that help them interrupt unhealthy thinking/feeling habits. I'm only beginning to imagine the way in which this company and this particular product can make a difference in my corner of the world...Seattle, the Pacific Northwest, the U.S.
So how to get all that in a mission statement is the challenge before me today. If anyone has any thoughts, please feel free to comment!
Mostly I want to promote the use of comfort kits. To help people with invisible disabilities, and to connect and make a meaningful difference to people with chronic illness whether mental or physical. I have a special place in my heart for people who have mental health challenges, as well as for those who have lupus, or MS, or fibromyalgia, or Lyme's disease. I want to help people who have disabilities, and I want to help people who are stressed-out ("to the max" as we used to say in the 80's). I want stay-at-home Moms to have something that they can use to relax for a few seconds in a locked bathroom when they have a screaming kid on the other side of the door. I can see myself growing in my own energy level to the point where I could do something significant for the mental health community in the Seattle area...thus the idea for donating 10% of the aromatherapy dough to mental health institutions and art therapists in this area. Treatment centers might be a good place to donate as well -- people need to learn how to play all over again, how to take care of themselves in recovery.
I want to help people in recovery who are discouraged and on the verge of relapse decide that they can make it one more day. I want to help people remember their best and highest selves, by actually providing tools and information that help them interrupt unhealthy thinking/feeling habits. I'm only beginning to imagine the way in which this company and this particular product can make a difference in my corner of the world...Seattle, the Pacific Northwest, the U.S.
So how to get all that in a mission statement is the challenge before me today. If anyone has any thoughts, please feel free to comment!
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Product Label
I'm looking at product label and packaging options. Trying to go for inexpensive, but without sacrificing professionalism. I mean, I could just label everything with masking tape and Sharpies, but that would lack something, wouldn't it? So here's the proof of the label I'm considering. Will be using metal tins, round, about 4 oz. The label would be on the lid:
Let me know in comments if you have any suggestions.
Let me know in comments if you have any suggestions.
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