One of these are not the same.

"I spent a couple hours with garlic in my ears," I say to the husband.  He actually sounded surprised.  I zoned (short for footzoned.) my friends little boy the other day and couldn't tell if this is what an ear infection felt like.  I've had a cold for the last couple days and my ear had been feeling kind of funny.  Having recalled from our friend Cam, that his mom used to do this to him when he was little with ear infections, I thought why not? 

Just the day before I took some mashed up garlic, spread it in a cake pan and then sat there with my feet in it for about an hour.  One of my fellow footzoner's put this online.  Garlic is suppose to draw out the bacteria/virus.  This is all after using essential oils and zoning myself. 

Today and yesterday, I was exceptionally grumpy and decided it was because I was just a little backed up.  (Pregnancy does this to ya.)  So I made myself a garlic enema.  

I also made some spaghetti sauce last night...which apparently two garlic gloves was too much.  Because even though I can't breather through my nose, I could totally smell the garlic reeking out of Aiko's mouth and so could my sister. (As she constantly kept commenting on.)

This is more a "typical" week for me.  While I don't always use so much garlic, or maybe I do, my mom always asks me "where did I come from?"  See, I am not like the others in really any of my extended family.  They all think I'm kind of weird, especially when I tell them that "there's an oil you could use for that" or "green smoothies would help," or "you might want to stop eating dairy."  But then, just once a in awhile, my mom will say...maybe you are like your grandma.  Apparently, my grandma was a little more prone towards natural remedies.  Now that I think about it, I remember her drinking vinegar, honey and cinnamon once in a while.  Or making her own sun teas...or picking dandelion leaves from the lawn and eating them.  My auntie actually told me that years ago, when she was trying to have babies, her mom called her and said, "There is this stop on the back of your foot that is suppose to help you get pregnant."   Come to find out, my grandma and great aunt were actually reading some reflexology (while not footzoning...it's kind of similar) books.  So here I am, not that crazy after all.  My mom even found some of my gram's notes.  Grams used to keep notebook after notebook filled with her miscellaneous notes. 

Pinterest has nothing compared to these little nuggets of knowledge:

pinecone

I tell you...I'm not sure where she was going with this one.

cough 

1/2 t garlic?

1 t pine

1/2 anise

mixed in 1 c water and soap for 10 minutes.  strain - may add 1 tsp of honey.

Ummm...soap?  I think I read that right.  I agree with everything except for the soap part. 

place plus toys in a plastic bag-put in freezer  24 hours once/week

Don't germs just freeze?

nightmare

cloves of garlic rub on feet before go to bed - prevent nightmares.

Oh, grams....if only you knew how much we have in common. 

bedwetter -

suck on cinnamon stick after they come home or accupressure - hand pinkie.  Use your thumb nail in each line, press for 10 seconds. 

Not sure which of her kids had this problem...I should probably investigate.

hiccups

hot thread & suck on it and put on babies forehead.

  Well, there you have it, proof that my weirdness came through my mom, well, some of it did anyway. 

Green Smoothies and Pooping. Part 1 to changing my body.

Often times, my conversation are steered towards people's bowel movements.  You'd be surprised (or maybe you won't be) about how many people have issues with their guts.  I find it makes the world go round.  My husband often gets embarrassed about this subject.  

"You've got to stop talking to people about pooping." he says.  

Well, he's just never had problems.  If you don't have gut problems consider yourself lucky, otherwise, read on about ones journey through their bowels. 

Because pooping is a big deal. 

This is just my story and each person's body is different.  

I have been lactose intolerant my entire life.  I didn't really realize it until I was in high school and seemed to suffer some serious gas pains constantly.  (Laugh if you must, but in high school, it wasn't cool.)  I should have known, my mom and most of my aunts are lactose intolerant as well.  (Most Asians can't tolerate milk well anyway.)  

I remember rolling on the floor because my guts her so bad.  My mom would tell me to stretch, so I would.  It didn't really work.  It was finally in college that I decided to cut out milk.  Instead I drank soy milk.  (Which I regret to this day, don't take soy, try almond, coconut, rice) Now, I've never been able to just sit down and drink a cup of milk, never have, and still don't like to drink anything but water like this.  It was mainly for cereal and cooking.  

Flash forward years to when I got married and started taking birth control.  Again, everybody's body's are different and mine DIDN'T like the pill.  I was constipated for years to come.  I went to doctor after doctor, trying to find someone that could help me poop.  I was told to take in more fiber, take miralax, take laxatives, drink hot water with lemon, take laxatives, take suppositories, drink more water.  I had a few laproscopes done.  The Doc found that I had an extra 5 inches of colon.  (This often happens to elder people as waste sits too long and stretches the system because it's took full.)    It seemed to be the same answers everywhere I went. 

 So for the first 2 years I was married and on birth control, my bowels were constantly flucuating between super constipated (like we're lucky if I pooped every 3-4 days) or I was sick from the latest laxative.   As a result, I lost 20 pounds (which I needed to loose anyway) but I was none the happy with my bowel system.   What does bowels have to do with my uterus?  EVERYTHING.  I stopped taking birth control and basically suffered 2 more years of not knowing what to do.  

After having too many miscarriages and not knowing what else there was, I decided to talk to a friend's dad.  

It. Was. Life. Changing. 

(He's a health fanatic (meant in the most serious, complimentory way) and has researched healthy eating and habits his whole life.)  I hadn't really ever had a conversation with him before, and awkwardly, I decided to talk to him about pooping.  After two hours talking with him, I had a new book to read (Tissue Cleansing Through Bowel Management: Bernard Jensen), Apple Cider Vinegar, Black Walnut tincture, my very own enema kit, a recipe for a gallbladder cleanse, magnesium and many other natural cleansers.

He actually went and lived with Bernard Jensen in Mexico.  You guys, this author is a big deal in the health world. 

We discussed in detail my diet.  He told me to clean out my system with the enema kit and stop eating anything that had "tose" in it. (Fructose, cellulose etc.)  Basically, stop eating all processed foods.  Stop using hydrogenated everything.  He promised that if I cleaned up my diet and got my guts cleaned out I would be able to have kids just fine.  

He was right.  It didn't happen over night, it took probably a good year to feel like a completely different person.  Between his advice, Green Smoothies (Everyday), Footzoning (see my tab in the blog), Essential oils, whole eating, our lives have been completely turned upside down.  In the best way ever.  I felt super healthy, I didn't have gaseous pains, I was regular, I was pregnant and I felt like I was who I should have been all along.  I may be considered weird, hippy, anal, extreme (which I'm not even close to what I could/should be) but I know my family is happy and healthier.  I may have to spend more time in the kitchen doing more work, but it's all worth it.  

Think it's too expensive to switch?  Well, we spend $15 dollars a week on our Bountiful Baskets, which you see above.  I don't really buy meat, so it helps keep costs down.  I buy chicken once in a great while, mainly if we are having guests.  We've always had a garden so we dehydrate and freeze everything we can.   You guys, really, I know it seems like a trend, but we've been going strong in this healthy trend for 3 years now and have seen awesome changes with all of us. 

Not sure how to start?  Just ask me.  Green Smoothies are an easy way to start...but that's another whole story.  I was originally going to blog about that too, but this has gotten too long already.   Since we've started green smoothies, almost all of my family has joined in, and then it's gone out to the extended family.  Above is the Juice pack for an additional $8.50 with our Bountiful basket.   Nothing ever goes to waste.  We always eat what we can and freeze the rest.  

I better stop now before this gets any longer. I'm just a little passionate about a happy life. 

Certified Footzonologist

yeah...my cute husband made these for me.  he even designed the flower crest.  i love it.  

japanese families have crests usually with flowers...thought it would be good to keep up the tradition, even if the asian blood is thinning out. 

giveaway

we are part of a giveaway on twistmepretty.com !

fellow footzoner katelyn contacted me about giving away an aromastone and i was pretty excited!  i love that more and more people are finding out about essential oils and using them in their daily lives.

just the other day, my poor husband had what could have been a large accident.  see, he was zip lining in the backyard with a semi-crappy made handle.  it busted as he came zipping down and he landed on our steel fire pit. (which was placed in a very stupid spot, we will be moving it.) luckily, he only managed a few scrapes and a very large bump on his shin (where it collided with the steel edge.) my first thought was, i better go and find some yarrow to put on it.  he was pretty battered people.  i'm usually the one with self inflicted accidents happening in this house.  

so he comes in, mud splattered on his face and everywhere else.  i look at his shin, which is bulging and dump on some yarrow essential oil.  have you ever see yarrow?  it's a deep blue.  BLUE.  so not only is his shin bulging and bleeding, it's now even worse looking blue.

he jumps in the bathtub and i dump in some epsom salt with yarrow, german chamomile and black spruce essential oils to let him soak.  then i footzoned him.

ladies and gentlemen, the next day, it should have looked like a volcano on his leg, now was just a small cut with no bruising. we sure are lucky he didn't bust something worse.

i believe once again.  sometimes, i continually have to be reminded how awesome essential oils are. if you ever want to talk oils give me a jingle and i'll give you some tried and true experience!

see katelyn's blog here!  

the dogs of our lives

get the header? tee-hee.

meet bowser.

he's the heartbreaker of the family. he also has finished off all the birthday cakes for the last year.  pretty sure my brother taught him that. 

meet the kona.  

the worst beggar in the entire galaxy.  she also respects no ones personal space.  we're trying to work on it. 

meet loki.  

my cousins dog and he-who-has-the-largest-head-i've-seen-on-a-dog.  i was footzoning his mom and he felt the need to be part of it. 

like i said, the kona respects no ones personal space. including baby raptor.  the kona likes to make sure we are practicing good hygiene. 

and they...are the dogs of our lives.

something you may not know about me

i am weird

i'll admit it

i just spent the entire last week in Montana

graduating to become a Certified Footzoner

maybe you have heard of it?

no?  

well, let's just say, without footzoning, essential oils, and pretty much vegan meals,

i'm pretty sure my sweet little baby would never existed.

so, you'll probably be hearing about this a lot from me,

you may think it's weird

but you'll get over it. 

what is footzoning?

you have energy signals in your feet for your entire body

and through footzoning, we help balance those signals

so you become who God meant you to be

while helping the body to heal itself

crazy right?

(i know, i am commonly called the witchdoctor, but my name is Harmony.  hippiness here we come!)

so i've been working on graduating for a while

and now it is done!

here are a couple pictures of where you graduate

only seems fitting

being in the middle of nowhere

with the teepees (which had it been summer, i totally would have slept in these)

see the river?  

that's where my teachers would go and move the rocks back and forth, 

just to get some sunshine and exercise 

it's a lovely place

it was very calming (well after passing my tests)

oh, this cat?

well during class he sat down right in front of me and started. . .

uh-hem, cleaning himself

it made things a little awkward.