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A stress free existance and a perfume blending evening



It's been ages, I know, and I apologize to readers for my absence. I have been following up on my goals for 2009. Main goal... to make it the best year yet. To achieve this as you can imagine is no easy task in today's world! I have been reading and looking after my family and the rest can just go and take a hike because I ain't buying into anything that raises my stress-o-meter out of the zero zone!
When I was reading I found out some very interesting stuff about females.
Women need a hormone called oxytocin to feel good and to lower our stress levels. The more we have the better we feel. We also need something called serotonin to effectively cope with normal day to day living in a nice happy mood. Women use up serotonin twice as fast as men and men store 50% of their serotonin for emergencies. Men are also able make new serotonin twice as fast as women.
For me the key to a stress free existence is to make more oxytocin and find ways to make my body create serotonin more efficiently. If we take plenty of easy to digest proteins, lots of foods containing vitamin B and our omega 3's we should be able to produce lots serotonin.
As for producing oxytocin there are many ways for a woman to do this. Apparently just writing in my blog is one way for me to produce that wonderful hormone. Women make oxytocin when we feel loved, hugged, cared for and when we do girly stuff with friends. Without this hormone women feel stressed, afraid, angry and negative.
I have a list of over a hundred different things I can do to raise my oxytocin levels. Once my levels are up I can cope with anything.
One of the things I am going to do is organise a perfume blending evening here at my studio. It will be invite only. Just the thought of it is making me feel good. I am inviting 8 friends and we will sit around a big table in my studio. I have pipettes and lots of bottles of diluted essences as well as lots of little bottles and scent testing strips.
We will all smell and talk and compare our reactions to all the different essences. Then we will start to blend one or two of the essences together and talk some more. There will be refreshments and lots of laughing and feeling great. I have lots of samples of other natural perfumers work for everyone to sample and we can all share and compare.

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Justine Crane said…
So what you're saying is that by denying myself that gorgeous pair of red retro style pumps I found in a bargain bin, I dropped my oxytocin levels? Yes? (please say 'yes')

xo
February 23, 2009 at 9:16 AM
Anonymous said…
yes! you definitely need to treat yourself...everytime you do you raise your oxytocin levels and therefore you are in a much more loving and happy mood. Go back and buy the pumps!
February 23, 2009 at 10:33 AM
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