A friend that I have worked with professionally over the years reached out to me to ask my opinion on this subject. This would be a first of several in a series.

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I am only guessing as to what you are actually looking for. You said that it is related to homesteading/small acreage type stuff from what I recall. There are a few questions that you need to ask yourself. The main one is the overall goal. Next is to what degree you want to participate within the overall society. Are you concerned about being close to family, etc.
Over the years I have observed so many people with high hopes and great theories that just wasn't workable in the end. Perhaps the main reason as to why they didn't make it was because of a lot of stuff that is running in the background, much like with computer stuff, that the people wasn't aware of, that did them in.
So in this part of the discussion, I can only give some general ideas. I will go into more specific details if you want in later...

When I started this discussion, I intended it to be a single discussion. The I realized that it needed to be split into 2 parts. Then after doing the part 2, I then realized that it needed to have part 3 to polish it off. At least I hope 3 parts will end up putting the shine to it all. I also  need to apologize for calling a big group of people some derogatory terms. Even though they are those in reality, I shouldn’t say it out loud. So the nicer term would be to use these: Those who think in terms of one dimension, or those who think in terms of 2 dimensions and those who think and see things in a 3 dimensional form.  In our discussions we are attempting to communicate in this last form, 3 dimensional. In many cases, Aromatherapy is thought of and applied in the 1 dimension form. Sometimes it will be applied in the 2 dimensional form. In this number 2 form, a lot of weird stuff can happen and many times does so. But when you move Aromatherapy into the 3 dimensional...

Well here we are on part #2 of this discussion. In this one I want to go more from the solution side than the shock and awe of getting past the nonsense of the psychopaths and make an attempt to deal with reality. In the previous discussion I tried to explain that a lot of this stuff about our foods being totally devoid of nutrition, as taught by a number of people, is a load of crap. Yes, there are lower levels as compared to the past, whatever the past might be defined as, but the bigger problem is the lack of  ability to work with that issue, as a general rule. In light of this concept, it has produced a system of out of balance ratios. This is mainly where the problem lies and to further make this a serious issue is the herbicides used on these plants. Many of these herbicides are designed to create out of balance ratios in many of the plant’s chemicals. That is their mechanism of how they work. They kill the plant by messing with the chemical/nutrient ratios. Then we...

Sometimes you run across an idea and for some strange reason, it just seems to want to be talked about. So with this article, we will talk about the …drum roll please….the essential oil connection and having it focused around Calcium and some other things too. 

 Calcium seems to be the major focus of many people as they walk the path of trying to up their game when it comes to “all things health wise”. Really, most people are right on the money when it comes to this nutrient. It is important. For the most part Calcium makes up from 1% to 2% of the average person’s body weight. A lot of recommended daily dosages seem to start at around 1000 mg to maybe upwards of 1500 mg.per day. The reason for the spread has a lot to do with.. well it depends.. on the needs and the conditions of the individual person being evaluated. Also, about 99% of this Calcium is stored in the bones and the other 1% is scattered throughout the body in places like the...

Finally we are getting past the ground rules of learning to walk Pavlov’s dogs and begin to see what that walking of Pavlov’s dogs might look like. In this discussion we will be looking at the Hypothalamus. This is one of the most important parts of the human brain as it relates to aromatherapy. Well, that can be argued, but in reality all parts of the brain are important when it comes to aromatherapy. But since we are talking about the brain and aromatherapy. At least in part, and the role the Hypothalamus plays with Hormones, well, maybe it is kind of like the saying goes, “Everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others”. That might be the best way to describe the Hypothalamus in relation to other parts of the brain. I feel like this part of the brain is really influential because of the role hormones play in our actions. 

The Hypothalamus is divided into 3 main parts, namely, the Anterior, the Middle and the Posterior. Each one of these...