This month is all about heart! But it isn’t all about hugs and kisses! In this very moment, the Heart and Stroke Foundation estimates that 600,000 people are living with heart failure. Modern medicine is working tirelessly to come up with solutions, but we can also look to natural remedies like essential oils to lead us on the road to better health. For example, Rosemary improves circulation and works to help strengthen blood capillaries. Marjoram helps lower blood pressure and Ginger may lower cholesterol and prevent blood from clotting. Ylang Ylang not only reduces anxiety and regulates heart rate, but also helps alleviate hypertension. Helichrysum (from the sunflower family) is somewhat of a natural blood thinner! So perhaps Mother Nature is the best Valentine of them all! Let this month inspire you to look after your heart and open yourself up to new ways of creating a healthy life; mind, body, HEART, and soul by incorporating essential oils into your daily health regime.

Sylvia Provenski, Young Living Essential Oils, www.canadianmoms.ca