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I am Nelly Grosjean.
I am passionate about aromatherapy and natural health.
What brought me
to grow and participate to this whole natural life,
to this transformation that we can do on ourselves.
When I was 14 years old, I had the chance to have parents
that had one of the first health spas,
we could say that at that time, more than 50 years ago.
I was passionate about a yogi that came one day at our house.
From the moment he started make his Om,
everybody stopped talking,
including cats, dogs, children and babies.
It enthralled me.
At that time, my parents already used essential oils.
We had the "Bar À Teint",
with hyssop, geranium and pine. My father was asthmatic.
We already had essential oils.
We used to drink essential oils and we rubbed ourselves.
We walked bare feet in the forest in the morning.
Shower under the cascade. It was like a training.
We were four children, and we still are.
The four children were kind of the parents' guinea pigs.
I wanted to orient my life towards sports,
that I practiced a lot when I was young,
then aromatherapy, smells.
Something called my mind deeply
with the fact to smell odours that reminded me...
It is the usual effect, especially with children.
I was 14 or 15 years old.
I lived in a log cabin.
I decided to quit school,
to live in a log cabin on the property
and to pray, meditate and build my own small wooden house.
My father gave us the remarkable possibility
to say: "My children, you are grown up and I trust you.
"Here is a stack of wood, learn how to make mortises and tenons
"and then you'll handle things."
I built the sauna over the river, it was my first...
My first exile, I could say, out of this life.
Then I as was eager to learn new things about aromatherapy,
to learn all I could learn.
At the time, I was 14, 15 or 16 years old.
I decided to quit school, I was loosing my time at that time,
to the great displeasure of all my teachers
that believed I could not do anything with my life if I did not learn
normally in the traditional system.
So I left and explored life.
I did my HEC studies differently,
traveling, meeting people,
all of them were interested by essential oils,
whether they were researchers, scientists, shamans,
veterinaries and research professors.
When I was 20, my father died.
I was propelled...
again in active life.
I founded my first health spa...
It was a dietetics store at that time,
with a health spa that I called
balneotherapy centre in marine environment,
In Avignon and in Nîmes, then in several places.
I founded the first essential oil firm, I was passionate.
I got married, at that time.
I had worked until I was 27-28.
At that time, I decided to leave for an exile.
I has lived alone in a mountain for 19 months,
to pray, meditate and work on myself.
I did not know why I was doing it. It was already a desire for a path.
I had read that if we do not change our lives at 28,
it was over for the rest of our lives.
I think that unconsciously I wanted to
do something, watch...
watch myself, look inside myself,
what I could be useful for,
and what was my path in this life on Earth.
After that, I have been travelling for 2-3 years in the Caraibs.
I wanted to approach the Americans,
i wanted to create a remarkable health spa,
which I did and was proposed to me in several places.
At that time, I practised much digitopuncture and respiration.
I was mainly focused on healing.
At that time, I made miracles. A house was given to me.
I reached people.
I became aware that I had a special capacity,
like many of us, by the way, to help
feel and correct what happened.
I was not doing it myself. I was pretty aware
that this great white tube which is linked to the universe
was sending through me its healing power.
I must say that miracles happened.
Than I came back in Europe, I had decided
to find a big house, a nice old Provencal farmhouse,
with huge hangars.
As the thought creates, in a few days,
I found this beautiful property, which was abandoned at the time.
Given the circumstances, in the 15 days that followed,
I decided to make a museum of aromas and perfumes,
to show, to get the message out.
What can I do to send the message to the greatest number of people?
Receiving 60,000 to 80,000 people per year
in this nice place,
I was lucky to obtain it by talking to trees.
I love trees, I plant trees, I am connected with trees,
I care about trees, I hug trees.
I provided courses in Japan 15 years ago,
in which I taught to the Japanese to connect to trees.
Hundreds of people were taking pictures constantly,
and they said: "Who are those marginal tree huggers?"
I deeply connected to trees.
This property was proposed to me.
I could say "offered by the universe".
I don't believe, I am sure.
I decided to make a paradise of it.
No need to wait to have paradise some day,
we all can make our own paradise.
I started to plant, clean, work and renovate
for a few years.
We are going to visit it in a few minutes.
This wonderful place tells the story
of aromas, perfume and essential oil.
In this path, what am I most interested in?
What guides me?
Recovering health.
I am moved by all the men and women
that struggle to live well, happy,
to stand up in the morning in shape,
to do some workout, to feel well in their physical bodies,
to reconnect... to life,
and to enjoy living.
To my mind, in order to help other people
and to participate to the planet and the universe
as we are made to do it,
it matters to feel well in our physical bodies.
There are simple basic rules,
that I summarized so that a child can understand them,
because I am a child
and I also need to understand things simply.
I thought up a balance,
this balance being health,
between what we absorb and what we eliminate.
This balance makes health.
What elements and foods do we absorb every day?
The air that we breath.
I practise yoga for many years.
I encourage everyone to work one's respiration,
with the belly, that is the centre of our emotions.
It is also the trash of our organism
and we have to clean it on a regular basis,
in order to make it clean.
This is for the respiration part.
We can stop eating for 40 days,
stop drinking for three days and stop breathing for three minutes.
But most human beings are not aware of their respiration.
Woman have a tiny collarbone breathing,
rarely with the belly, rarely with the chest.
I have a very simple exercise
which explains how to inflate the belly and the chest.
We do three respirations in the morning and in the evening.
Just three respirations to change one's life.
Three conscious respirations.
The great trick to change and to go on the path of one's personal success,
is imagining that every time we breath in the morning
inflating the belly and the chest,
we inspire the sun, the new day and life,
with a nice song in the mind.
And every time we expire, we expire all the negative things
that do not belong to us, that are sent to us,
worries, bothers and disturbances, we expire them automatically.
We also know that our remarkable brain
is able to engram, like a new software,
provided that we repeat the operation for ten days and ten times a day.
Quite easy.
If I breathe consciously ten times a day,
inspiring the positive and expiring the negative,
in ten days, if I do it ten times a day,
my brain will accept automatically this new piece of information,
it will take it over and change my DNA.
If tomorrow I was still able to have kids,
then my children would already have this program
"I inspire the positive, I expire the negative" automatically.
Everybody can do that. For me it is the first element,
the first step towards health.
We enter the world of alembics,
distillation and copper.
Until 1950-60,
all aromatic raw materials were distilled
in copper alembics.
We are lucky to have a magnificent collection,
about 40 alembics of all sizes,
laboratory alembics,
the moor's head alembic with its long straight neck,
the traditional Provencal lavender alembic.
I will explain the production process of perfume
and essential oil.
Perfumes are created with the perfumer's palette.
Each perfume creator, called "the nose",
had his own perfumer's palette that included
about 80 to 300 different aromatic raw materials.
Secretly, we create the perfume,
writing down everything quietly, without showing our recipe to anyone,
in order to elaborate, to create
a sonata, a composition, that will be the perfume.
These aromatic raw materials come from aromatic plants,
they are distilled in an alembic
or they come from fragile flower essences.
We use essential oils,
hence aromatic essential oils of plants mainly from Provence,
as thyme, rosemary, savory, oregano, marjoram, tarragon,
and other plants with this same principle of alembics.
In the past, we carried the alembics, each one grabbed a handle
and we went from field to field
in order to distil essentially lavender next to the water.
Distillation requires lots of water.
We set fire to the lower part of the alembic.
This is a naked fire alembic.
Lower part of the alembic, hence the fire.
Here, plants.
Here, there is a small basket, like a sieve.
Water will turn into steam in the gooseneck.
We cool it down with this device called a cooler,
the quench tank.
We cool down this steam
and there is a flask at the exit of the alembic,
the essential oil floats at its surface by density difference.
In the flask, we'll get the hydrosol, floral water or hydrolat.
These aromatic raw materials, that have become essential oils,
will be a part of the perfumer's palette.
We also extract fruit extracts, fruit aromas,
that are added,
like vanilla, for instance,
citruses like lemon, orange, bergamot orange, grapefruit,
which we extract and distil under pressure,
in a big press that I will show you,
we squeeze the zest,
knowing that the juices were first extracted.
All these aromatic raw materials
will be the base of the perfume.
They will realize, make the perfume.
The base of this perfume, which will be mixed with alcohol,
and depending on the alcohol and aromatic raw materials percentage,
we will obtain an eau de toilette, an eau de parfum or a perfume,
depending on the amount of aromatic raw materials,
which varies from 3 % to 12 %,
and even to 18 % for perfume extracts.
At the beginning of the century, we used to collect
and keep very carefully
rose essential oil in estagnons.
Roses came mainly from Turkey or Bulgaria.
They all had this round shape.
Of course, they were not made in glass. This raw materiel was so expensive.
We used to transport it in copper, iron or tin,
never in glass that could break.
By custom in the history in perfumery,
as a process,
they kept floral waters in blue flasks,
extracts and ointments in earthenware,
essential oils in brown, yellow or green flasks.
Now we are in front of
the display case and the collection of Florentine vases or essence jars.
This Florentine vase or essence jar
will be filled with water from distillation.
Water will come out of this hole. At the surface,
we will recover the essential oil with a teaspoon.
Every distiller was looking for a way
to collect as much essential oil as possible,
not to loose any precious drop.
That was the purpose of glass essence jar
These are 150 and 200 years old.
For fruit extracts, we have found
teaspoons, and all of them still smell
vanilla, strawberry, raspberry or coffee.
Every perfumer also used to have
in the entrance, before the offices,
the top secret laboratory,
a miniature representation of the factory.
This miniature factory shows a steam engine
that works with several alembics.
All the items date back to the beginning of the 19th century.
Except for the small tiles, replaced identically to the original,
all the rest works, including the steam engine.
Here is a little game for kids,
we call it the smell table,
used to train one's nose.
The nose is also creativity.
The nose is also sexuality.
The senses awakening while we awake to perfumes.
In general, the adults recognize three or four smells.
Children recognize five or six of them.
The game is to seek and watch what happens and what we win.
I was talking about a small collection of laboratory alembics,
the most precious in this collection being this one, which is authentic,
the other laboratory alembics are made demonstration.
This one is working.
Of course, to contain this precious perfume,
there were flask craftsmen,
Mr. Lalique was one of the most important flask craftsmen,
who made flasks for different major brands.
His flasks were absolutely stunning and work of art.
Matchabelli, the fist, this one that looks like a crown,
is my favourite, with a little buddha that we have in another show case.
The perfume flask alone, even empty, can cost up to 80 000 €.
This selling was made with a flask
called "Faun kiss" made by Lalique
a few years ago at this price.
If you have old perfume flasks, don't throw them,
bring them to museums, they can be useful.
In the aromatic bar, you can taste hydrosols.
I offer here some geranium.
It is good for cleaning the liver and the gallbladder.
I offer you a few mixtures.
Juniper, of course. Elderberry for kidneys.
Sage and mugmort for circulation.
Camomile and neroli for the nervous system.
Rosemary and geranium for the liver.
Eucalyptus for the airways.
Mint, kids love it, it replaces syrup favourably.
I also make mixtures for...
its name is striking, it is for menopause,
some ladies still need it.
Sage, mugmort, geranium, cypress...
Or "souple" (flexible) for joints, made with juniper.
There is also "Circule" to improve blood circulation.
"Élimine" for those who need to loose volume and weight.
"Détox" also.
"Purify" for airways.
"Relax", as its name suggests, for sleep and relax.
It is a nice concept for...
Let me give you a few tricks.
Before to do a good tasting, whatever be the wines,
as people visit Provence
for tasting wine and olive oil,
I always offer
some geranium, elderberry or sage hydrosol,
that will help prepare the palate.
I was talking about aroma diffusers that diffuse
essential oils without water, without heating and without flame.
The system is simple. It is a small device
that has a small engine with a computer fan.
You put some essential oil on both sides,
about 20 drops once or twice a day
and the room becomes amazing with the smells we added there.
There are compositions. Each one has different properties.
Of course, we have tonic, relax,
convivial, communication or respiratory compositions.
We continue visiting the aroma shop.
There are books, I wrote most of them,
which correspond to aromatherapy.
"La grande bible de l'aromathérapie".
"Recettes aromatiques d'urgence" (emercency aromatic recipes)
If I have this problem, what should I do, for how long?
I open the book at: early childhood diseases,
pregnancy, cystitis, cramps, circulation, angina.
Yellow pages like in a phone book, it is easy to find something in it.
"L'aromathérapie beauté" How to make your own products.
We have also talked about food today. "Graines germées" (sprouted seeds)
We also have them in Japanese, Chinese, and Brazilian.
Aromatherapy, woman, kids, beauty...
The use of essential oils and hydrosols.
Also raw recipes by Le Chou Brave and Irène Grosjean.
I use to say: "I spray love".
With different types of compositions,
mainly exotic verbena.
Now I use some Harmonie or Adagietto,
so we feel amazed...
Staccato, Respiratoire, Pianissimo...
I named them after music,
in order to cheer up the atmosphere.
These ones are BBS, which means "bio body synergy".
They are my compositions, I named them "frictions",
they are mixtures with 100 % essential oils.
You put about 20 drops on the main and you rub it
on the solar plexus, the neck, la base of the spine
and the sole of the feet, in the morning and in the evening,
depending on your needs.
Stress-relieving composition for example,
rather applied to the forefront and the neck.
All these compositions can be drunk,
to show that these essential oils are totally natural,
certified organic
and that my mixtures can be drunk easily.
My miracle drug against digestive troubles.
I have mentioned this DIG composition:
caraway, cumin, cilantro and nutmeg.
We rub it directly on the stomach and the belly after each meal
and we are relieved, deflated, in the next half hour.
My awesome composition called APH, the adrenocortical stimulator,
which replaces coffee without coffee inconveniences.
If you have to drive all night,
you drink one drop every two hours, for instance.
It is easy if you are driving a car.
You can take your small amount of magical potion regularly.
A set of compositions that help, in a few weeks,
correct physiological system disorders.
I have also thought about men who shave,
who have razor burns and irritations,
and who want to know if they can use essential oils.
Yes! This composition is called Enzo.
I can apply it, even if I am not a man.
Women can also use it.
This is a nice regenerative serum
that women can use in summer, as it is very refreshing,
and men all year round can use whatever is their serum,
notably this one,
which is made with geranium and lavender essential oil,
it will help sooth all irritations,
eczemas, irritations and rashes,
for kids and adults.
We have just enter Aroma Cocoon which is a place for massage
and Zen respiration inspired from Japanese fashion.
Everything is feng shui here.
We use essential oils, obviously,
crystals, as you can see,
sheep wool energy, ecological paints,
special lights, an endearing music.
Before to enter a massage session,
we start with a respiration session.
We could call it the massage anteroom,
this room is entirely made of clay.
Clay can absorb the negative elements.
We learn how to breathe here.
Still in the Japanese style,
I showed how to learn to breathe.
In this beautiful room, a massager specialized in shiatsu
will work on the ground, on Japanese tatamis.
All manipulations will be made on the ground.
In this lovely and warmly decorated room
people will receive the aromatic massage,
as well as cuppings.
We have eight massagers who relieve each other.
Each one of them has his own specialization.
This is a chi-machine session.
Chi-machine is a special random movement
which brings you into the fish vibration.
You feel weightlessness.
In a few minutes, in less than seven minutes,
the machine will stop
and the vibration will enter,
reach the kneels, the hips
or the top of the head if the person is well relaxed,
and suddenly you feel like you are in an other world.
We are in my alchemist laboratory.
For 25 years, in this room,
I make, I create new compositions.
I have a few aids in addition to essential oils.
A crystal bowl, my favourite crystals.
I use a pendulum.
I have beautiful pendulums to look for the doses
to be added in a given composition, to correct myself,
to check if my composition is good and perfect.
I can also...
This is a healing place. It was formerly a wine vat.
This room is very cold.
We kept wine, now we keep essential oils here.
We have remarkable compositions
and astonishing essential oils.
You can smell it.
You can see and feel it.
The process is simple. I normally have a small list,
for example, a small fabrication list.
I can alternatively imagine I have to create
a special composition for haemorrhoids, headaches,
or a composition for a wedding, for instance,
I often do this.
I will imagine it, I think about it for a few days.
And then, usually, two or three days before the full moon,
the idea comes to me, I go back to this room,
I mix things, I test them.
I love that, it is part of my life. Everything starts from here.
Everything we ship throughout the world
was first designed in this small space.
The garden, the "carré des simples",
in a former monastic place
and healed people in the past.
As this property is linked to monastic places,
I imagined making again a "carré des simples".
We can find there
all Provencal plants that we distil with great pleasure.
Walking by some santoline.
Lavender, common lavender, lavandin...
The magical plant from Andes.
Wild thyme, savory and tansey.
We took some white santoline, here is some green santoline,
Camomile.
I will get some sprigs of gruta graveolens,
which is the plant that Andeans used
to make compositions and ointments
against pain and circulatory problems.
They say this plant drives away negative elements said "demons".
Its smell is particular, strong and acrid.
Its essential oil is toxic and abortive, we do not use it.
Some green manure, since this place... this garden...
is aromatic and organic.
We make the manure, the mulch and green manures.
In winter, we add in the squares
manures that will feed the soil.
Lots of spontaneous borages,
cute little blue flowers for salads.
This is a nice place, next to the fountain.
We receive here many young married couples,
people who come here to celebrate their wedding
next to the fountain, surrounded by hazel trees,
it is also a high energy site.
We say it is a place of light, a place to find light,
to recover light.
We were asked to revive this vortex,
to work on it
quantumly, in thoughts, in prayers, in meditations
and adding elements like a flower of life
and also giant quartz that I buried
and which have a powerful effect.
It is a healing place.
It is funny to see...
that some visitors approach the fountain,
they come here, attracted by this place, and say:
"What is happening here? What is that on the stone?"
This is how we participate to the grid.
I think it is one of the ways to participate to peace on the planet.
After learning again how to breathe,
it is important to consider water,
the importance of water, with water memory,
Masaru Emoto's work done these last years.
Water cleans the physical body,
as well as the mind, the soul and the spirit.
We use water to clean our hands after we touch someone.
We need to drink a lot of water during the day.
About 1 to 2 litres depending on the physical activity.
Making smart water, drinking water...
Water is the gold of tomorrow.
Energized water...
A very simple trick, use blue bottles,
because blue colour energises water,
and you can write on this bottle:
"I love you, love, joy, peace, health", etcetera,
knowing that the words used on the bottle will impregnate water.
We do this exercise this way,
and we can see and taste a normal water
and water from this special bottle
with nice positive words
that will impregnate and integrate our physical body.
Drinking lots of water,
checking urines amount and colour.
I always say: golden pee, gold pee.
It is important to be conscious, to accept and watch
what we drink, what we eliminate and how it happens.
Then, of course, food. The food I absorb and eliminate.
We live in a constipated world.
We can see it on gloomy and tense faces.
We eat thrice a day, we should eliminate thrice a day.
The first thing is to have the healthiest foods.
The first element is to watch our elimination,
so that we absorb food only after we have eliminated,
and not accumulate and gain belly, stocks,
that are not real stocks, by the way,
they are excesses, embonpoint, slowness,
and neuronal slowdown.
Do you know the weight of chemicals
each person absorbs per year in a standard diet?
10 g, 100 g, 1 kg or 10 kg?
The answer is an average of 4.6 kg of pure chemicals
per person and per year, only from food,
including pesticides, chemicals.
Processed food also makes lots of chemicals
in supermarket foods or traditional foods.
Therefore, it is important to go back... to cut, first,
chemicals excesses, reduce them as much as possible,
and to eat organic food, natural food from the garden.
We can all cultivate our own garden in the kitchen,
with 3 small jars of sprouted seeds, it is easy.
With 1 m² of arugula that we cut every day,
we feed one family of 4 for one summer.
With only 1 m² of arugula salad!
Simple things.
In the foods we can eat,
that are good for our health,
there is first of all,
as we are nearer from the monkey than pig or lion,
there are fruits, vegetables, everything that grows,
some seeds, provided that they are sprouted,
seaweeds.
This is a simple diet, a discovery diet.
We call it now "raw food", it is very trendy.
It was marginal 30 years ago.
Now it is remarkably appreciated.
Incidentally, the top chefs now use lots of sprouted seeds,
organic vegetables and organic foods.
Why? Because their taste and texture are better.
We can all become top chefs in the kitchen.
There are a few poisons foods.
The 2000's diet or the third millennia diet brings us,
besides chemicals in huge amounts,
also violent poisons which is firstly sugar:
sugar and sweet beverages.
Kids dragging themselves along the floor in shops,
who learn nothing at school,
who are called hyperactive while they are hyperexcited.
This is the fruit, the result of sugar excess.
When someone drinks a sweet beverage,
I must say the name, the most famous,
Coca Cola and others, is equal to six lumps of sugar and five coffees.
If we give that to a kid, who is 2, 3, 5, 10 or 15 years old...
If we give that to an adult who has never drunk this kind of beverage,
he will be hyperexcited, hence a fortiori, the kid.
It is a destroyer...
Added sugars, chemical sugars,
destroy the nerve cells.
Consequently, we make anxiety, dread, fear,
incapacity to do things: I would like, I am indecisive,
but I cannot go through things. All the issues are due to excess sugar.
To my mind, this is the most insidious violent poison.
Candies, chocolate cakes, sweets, rice, pasta... All of this is sugar.
Nowadays, kids...
accept and adapt more or less easily.
A consequence...
Back in the old days, the elderly people had aneurysm ruptures.
Now, kids who are 5, 10 or 15 have aneurysm ruptures,
which is totally curious.
The main cause is sugar excess.
Pasta and pizza diet, sugar and sweet beverages,
do not make smart brains
nor healthy bodies.
I work for a long time in Japan,
I have seen the Japanese diet degrade,
it belonged to the healthiest diet,
ethnically speaking.
Why? Because the Japanese eat a lot of seaweeds.
They eat lots of heirloom vegetables,
smart mountain veggies,
seaweeds and rice.
They are very frugal, they do not eat big quantities.
There was no obese Japanese 20 years ago, nor pains.
Japan had no dairies until about 20 years ago.
Then, some passionate big international groups, the milk lobby,
offered yoghurts to the Japanese,
one yoghurt a day per child in all schools in Japan.
I have seen this because I have gone to Japan for 25 years.
In 20 years, I could see destruction.
Now, people have pain problems,
arthrosis, arthritis, rheumatisms, that did not exist there in the past.
There are so many atopies.
Teenagers who are covered by red or purple blotches,
they don't bear anything, their skin is extremely irritated.
This is very widespread.
Many of them walk with crutches because their legs cannot support them.
This is sugar excess.
Very recently, during one of my press conferences,
with journalists... All the journalists were there...
At some point, someone asks what they can do to sleep better.
So I talk about essential oils, lavender, marjoram, neroli...
But I find this strange.
Why do they not sleep anymore? The Japanese work too much,
but still...
What is happening?
I say: "It is strange because in Japan you do not drink coffee."
A woman says: "That's not true,
now we drink coffee, it is very chic,
we all have a small Italian espresso machine
in the offices because it is very chic,
it's trendy and it comes from Europe."
I answer: "I beg your pardon. So you drink coffee in Japan?"
The traditional green tea is replaced by coffee.
They drink 8, 10 or 12 coffee cups per day.
I add: "That's it. That's the cause.
Do you know coffee is a super stimulant that prevent you from sleeping?"
"No."
None had realized it. Not even me, I had not imagined
that the Japanese, advanced for many things,
could have been carried away by this destructive coffee movement
and make anxieties and fears that take the world down,
and mainly in France.
We hold the record for the amount of all kinds of tranquillizers,
We are at the top of the list,
we know this record is not brilliant.
But the excess of...
The excess of everything, generally speaking,
and additionally very acidifying products
like coffee, tea, alcohol and sugars,
that are the civilized country appanage.
Indians or Aborigines in Australia
consume much less of these products
and they stay fit much more than us.
That was about diet.
In short, sugar is truly a violent poison.
The second is excess of red meat.
We are not lions, our kidneys are not made for eliminating ammonia.
We are not made for eating meat.
A priori, if we were forced to kill animals to cut it up,
many of us would not eat meat anymore.
We can live very well without meat, I am a good example of it.
Many people are vegetarians,
who do not eat meat for a long time.
Mimoun was a good example,
Patrick Edinger also, he was holding on a finger in mountain climbing
in the 5 Sup.
He practised yoga, meditation, was vegetarian, ate raw food.
Mimoun was a great marathoner and was also vegetarian.
There is a very long list
of athletes and great thinkers, philosophers and others,
who are vegetarians.
Today, it has become ecological.
It has become eco-chic not to eat meat
to participate to caring for the planet.
The fourth main element after air, water and food,
is the thought, the mind.
We make thoughts today, we make our now,
right now.
Here and now is important.
The product of our thoughts makes our well-being, our success,
our positive desire and our joy,
just as the thought can make disasters.
Hence the importance of the thought, to focus on...
The importance do be aware of the words we use,
as much as possible,
to correct ourselves. I correct myself constantly.
During some periods I correct my words.
There is a remarkable book called
"Le pouvoir des mots" (the power of words) by Jacques Martel,
which tells insidious words, negative words,
what we should do and what words to replace them.
I played a game with my family and people I work with,
Now the kids use to say:
"no problem" and "no worries".
We know the brain...
The professor Stoddart studied the brain,
about 40 years ago, he is Australian.
We know the brain
does not make the difference between negative and positive.
When we say "no worries", the brains hears "worries".
When we say "no problem", it hears "problem".
It remembers: worries, problems, worries, problems.
200 times per day.
Hence the current difficulty for teenagers and young people
to feel well in their skin.
Not many feel good. There are serious disturbances.
They make constantly, in addition to sugar,
a bad diet and a bad life hygiene,
they make at the same time a negative serenade
that traps them into worries, problems and negativity.
So many people start their sentences by "No, no, but..."
These are insidious words that can be fixed easily.
I am a fervent enthusiast of positive thinking.
I know, as I lived it
several times and many times in this life,
that the mere fact to be centred on one's thought,
one's thought connected via the planet universal thought,
that can be called God, Universe or Sun,
depending on one's ideological, religious or philosophical aspirations,
this great connection with universe is made at every moment.
The conscience that we put into words in the moment
that makes today or tomorrow.
When I was 14, I offered to my mother a book written by Marcelle Auclair,
called "Le livre du bonheur" (the happiness book),
it was the bedside book
or rather the WC book.
Everyone could read this book.
It was our first interest.
About positive thinking work, it is important to me
to consider that what I do for my health,
I do it for myself, because I need to be in shape for the others.
I worked out at a certain level when I was young,
and I was already vegetarian.
We woke up at 5 am for the Olympic games,
there were also chocolate bars,
and already dried fruits. High level athletes' diet
was already quite healthy.
I did not eat ham, meat and sausages,
but fruits, dried fruits and concentrated fruits
already belonged to the athlete diet 40 or 50 years ago.
It has always been easy for me to be vegetarian,
even if I went out a lot, lived outside a lot
and travelled a lot.
There are always fruits everywhere in the world.
There are salads everywhere.
It has become chic to drink carrot juice or beet juice as a pre-dinner drink.
It was more delicate 30 years ago, it did not exist.
It existed in vegetarian restaurants,
and these places were so gloomy
that I did not like them, I did not use to have dinner there.
There was good food, but the atmosphere was a bit heavy.
People counted they rice grains in their plate with 4 grams of yeast.
Do I add soy maybe? Do I add lemon maybe?
It did not make me want to sing,
to be happy and accept the food,
food as I see it.
I grew up in this approach of a healthy diet.
I fell in the magical potion when I was young.
It was much easier for me.
My parents stopped eating meat
and changed their diet when I was 5 years old.
I am the firstborn, and my siblings have never eaten meat.
For what reasons have we become vegetarians, vegans,
macrobiotics, rawfoodists?
At that time, vegetarians
used to eat a lot of cereals.
I remember I was covered by pimples at 14-15 years old
and I did not understand.
All my friend that ate anything had not as many pimples as me.
My brother and me were covered by pimples.
Obviously, we used to eat tarts, pies, wholewheat bread,
bread and butter, lots of cereals in excessive quantities.
As teenagers, we did not accept this well.
Anyway, our physical body manifested it differently.
After that, we were rather macrobiotics, then rather vegan,
then without eggs, then with eggs and honey,
More than 20 years ago... My diet has been 80 % raw for 25 years.
It is part of my life,
with fruit sauces in the morning or fruits.
It is exceptional that I am in Europe during winter.
Usually I am in warm countries.
I believe we should live in sunny places,
naked in the sunlight, happy, singing,
and not necessarily working, dressed,
locked in a heated house, etc.
I do the maximum to spend winter in sunny places and to eat fruits.
For a long time, I have had fruits as a breakfast in the morning.
I've just come back from Bali, were I handle a foundation for children,
I participate to the construction of a new orphanage,
where children will have healthy food,
because the Balinese eat rice all the time and everything is cooked.
They pray, meditate and do ceremonials.
They are nicely happy,
not poverty-stricken, although there is poverty in the North,
some people do not even have money
to eat rice alone.
There are bananas everywhere, there are mangos, there are fruits.
All children eat fruits, fortunately, it saves them.
For lunch and dinner, I first drink a big glass of vegetable juice,
or a salad, seaweeds or sprouted seeds.
It is simple. It is varied.
There are so many possibilities with all the veggies existing on Earth.
I find this much more fun, pleasant and tasty
than eating a steak and fries
or potatoes in their skins with something.
The set of vegetables that are proposed to us
under their different possibilities,
whether grated finely, coarsely, etc., mixed differently,
is so pleasant, joyful, cheerful and tasty
that when someone asks me if I miss eating like everyone else,
I answer: "No, on the contrary, I believe I can make you discover
flavours, odours and colours that you are not used to.
What further validates the choice of raw food diet,
raw food, living food?
Maybe because people are realizing that they do not feel well
after they have feasted with five dishes and heavy things
and they feel much better after they have eaten healthy raw living food.
There are great examples and we can do the test every day.
We can feast,
with a festive meal that makes us heavier,
the next morning we can stand up,
with headaches because we have drunk and eaten anything.
The next morning, we cannot be efficient.
That was also the purpose of business lunches.
We invited people, we made them eat and drink a lot,
their attention was limited, diminished, generally speaking.
It was easier to sign a contract after you drink a lot.
It has changed. Now, it is also very chic and normal
to invite people in trendy, eco-chic, organic or new cuisine restaurants,
that advocate what we use, what we choose as food
for a long time.
About diet, a few years ago,
an insidious disease called cancer went through my physical body
and then I received the real treatment given by my mother.
Everyone knows her now, she is Irène Grosjean.
I purged for 165 days, it is five months and half.
The tumour on an ovary was already as big as a ostrich egg.
Five months and half after that, the tumour was gone.
What were my lifestyle and my diet
during this period? I received the usual triptych
of the three purges, i.e. cleaning deeply the physical body,
first the intestines, then the blood, the kidneys, the gallbladder,
the main emunctories, making them work properly again.
As everyone knows, degenerative diseases
and mainly cancer, arrive at a moment, on a shock.
It is the trigger factor.
It is also showing the organism it is able to...
it has already decided to heal.
As if the disease said: "Stop! Now take care of me.
"I need you take care of me, of this physical body.
"You are not pure mind neither a working machine.
"You need to take care of this physical body.
"Pay attention to me, please."
My diet in the five months and half
was vegetable juice all day long,
two litres, one or two bottles of vegetable juice,
because I travelled a lot. I was well only in car,
with my small mother that brought me everywhere.
I needed to see the sea, the countryside, to be outside,
and I could not stay inside.
My head was not well. It was a very sad period.
Deep sorrow, an unhappy love affair, as everyone has.
It was the trigger factor.
Six months and half after that, I had lost two dress sizes,
I was perfectly well.
We did not talk about the tumour anymore that has disappeared.
It is possible, I am not the only one.
It happened the same way for many people.
I was allowed to have vegetable juice, one avocado or sprouted seeds.
That was my diet for the day.
When we speak about purge, we have questions.
We say that purges are not good, that they are hard and complex.
We have three purges, that we use for a very long time.
I grew up with Celnat Nigari, which was called magnesium chloride.
We had a magnesium chloride cure ten days per month regularly.
20 grams in one litre, and we drank 3 glasses of it per day.
We did this during my childhood. It reinforces the immune system.
It is good in all situations for humans and animals.
There are 2-3 other purges.
The purgative limonette, the San Pellegrino magnesia,
the chlorumagene,
and the one I have called HDR for a very long time,
I could not pronounce its name anymore, it is castor oil.
Castor oil removes phlegms
for people with respiratory problems.
My father was asthmatic, hence genetically
I am a bit affected.
I have had very nice HDR cures, castor oil cures.
Some people love it, it taste like hazelnut oil.
This drastic purges, this great cleaners,
allow eliminating
acids, glues and crystals
that we have accumulated for years,
to do major clean-up. When the body is cleaned,
our cells are happy, they work so much better.
When they are disturbed by a set of chemicals
or foods that are not conform to human diet,
which is the case for most current standard diet,
then the body reacts and says: "No, I do not want it anymore!
"As you do not want to listen to me, I will manifest physically,
make a disease to force you listen to me,
to hear me, the physical body.
This is the story of great purges and great cleaners.
There is also the simple cure diet.
My major principles are: cut the sugar,
it is a true poison, and add a big glass of vegetable juice
before every meal.
Once a week, as all religions said in the past,
religion means "link to", link to the universe.
It was about one day fasting, one cleaning day, one break day.
It was the day for meditation, for resting.
It was a physical, mental and digestive rest.
We can do it easily in our civilisation
by drinking juice for one day, it is easy.
It is a powerful remineralizer, it gives vitality,
we are not weak and we can even work during that day.
Also one day per week having a good laxative infusion,
something that cleans intestines,
so that we gradually get rid of excesses
and not to gain embonpoint, pains, etc.
It is not worth it. We have the wherewithal to do it.
It exists and it is possible to do it.
I travel a lot, almost 8 months per year,
as I dispense what I consider as a lesson,
how to learn again to live cleverly.
I speak about ten golden rules. Three days to change your life.
In three days of new information and practical application,
people already start being able to change their life.
I have carried out, in privileged countries,
Japan, China, Malaisia, Indonesia and Brazil,
different types of experiments.
I was living
with the most isolated people in these countries.
I also speak to journalists
and to the general audience,
about the way to recover health
depending on our country.
In Brazil for instance, people eat fruits, it is normal.
There are fruit bars everywhere, it has always existed.
They eat a lot of sugar, chocolate and coffee,
it is the inconvenience.
We can...
We can compromise with what already exists.
In Japan, it's not possible to eat as many fruits.
Fruits are excessively expensive in Japan.
One apple costs 3 € and a melon costs 60 €.
So...
During the first year, when I told them to eat fruits, etc., in the morning,
people said to me nicely after the course:
"It's not possible, Nelly-san, it is too expensive.
"We cannot do that."
So we make compromises. We can eat other things.
More seaweeds, less rice and more vegetables.
It has to match with the inherent temper of people in their different countries.
This diet is immediately improved.
I use to say something.
Do we usually wake up joyful in the morning?
For most of us: "I do not want to go to school,
"I would like to stay in my bed,
"and I am grumpy and cranky."
In 10 days, 15 days, 3 weeks
changing our diet, adding raw food and living food,
adding essential oils that will help remarkably,
help us get rid of this state
to switch to the second state, another state.
One morning, we'll wake up with a song in the head.
It is just a humming at first.
It is not an open heart and body song.
This is how it starts. And then, we think:
Now I start recovering the path towards health.
It's quick, so quick.
I am amazed to see how quick
just a few changes in our lifestyle
enables us to recover this happiness in the morning,
that is for me the simple diagnostic for:
"I start getting in better shape."
After that, we feel lighter,
our body does not feel stuck everywhere.
At the age of 60 or 80, we can be fit,
have a totally normal life, live.
Living means having physical activity
do some gardening, going out for a walk,
prepare a meal with pleasure,
travel, take a walk,
we can do so many things, we can be useful for other people.
If we spend most of our time complaining:
"It hurts here and there. What can I do? What is it?"
So much time lost seeing doctors constantly,
the doctor who will...
Waiting for the miracle doctor that will solve things for us.
People have become very dependant.
Most of them
would like to leave their health at a doctor's office,
and take it back a few weeks later
with a miracle pill and say:
"This is it, I am healed, I am cured."
No, it does not work this way.
I am sure that everything we do every day
makes our health.
So we breathe cleverly, we drink cleverly,
we eat cleverly and we think cleverly.
The consciousness we put into these four elements
enables us to change our life
and to progress on the path of our personal success.
What is the path of our personal success?
It is feeling happy, it's feeling joyful,
doing what we want to do,
having this capacity, these possibilities to do it.
I'm constantly marvelled at what life can bring us,
benefits, wonders, on condition that we are open
and on condition that we cease shut ourselves away, saying:
"No, I can't. I will not make it.
"It's not possible. I have worries and problems."
We can change immediately, here and now.
Everyone can change one's attitude saying:
From today on, I start breathing.
Maybe I am interested in this message. I will try.
More than trying, I will apply it...
"Don't try it, just do it."
Trying is giving a chance for doubt and failure,
while doing and applying is "I do".
I do and I earn what I do,
I earn what I am doing.
Life is magical.
I am permanently admiring
and thanking life's magic.
I have a young Chinese agent, she is Taiwanese,
she works in China with me,
and she wrote on her business card
"Consultant of Magic Affairs.
I asked her why. She answered:
"Since I met you, everything in my life is magical.
"You are magical.
"So I am Consultant of normal Magic Affairs."
I laughed a lot. I said: "It is daring."
She said: "No, it is normal."
She has made such a classy business card,
this girl has an impressive background,
she is also a designer from Grandes Écoles among other things.
I was enthralled, I found it fantastic.
It made me smile.
Everybody asks what is Consultant of Magic Affairs.
Yes, affairs are magical.
I am lucky to have a nice business.
Thank to my joy, my faith and my guidance.
I feel guided, I do not do anything by myself,
I feel guided by the universe, by gods in which I believe,
by my guides, the guides I got to know,
I listen to them more and more, this is called intuition.
It is easy to listen to it.
It is also very easy not to listen to it
and to get straight a negative result. Well...
I asked you to take this path and you picked the other one.
Itr was not quite the same result.
I am lucky in this life...
I am still lucky, luckier and luckier,
to have exactly what I want. When I came back from Caraibs,
I wanted a big Provencal house, with huge hangars.
A few days after that, someone came and said to me:
"There is an opportunity to buy a factory that closes
"in Grasse and it does..."
I said: "I do not have the money to buy this property."
Money fell from the sky after a few days.
I had no idea how I would get it.
So I bought the factory cleaning.
I took the mission to clean the factory.
With all I could recover with these ten big tough tattooed guys
who dismantled the electric wires...
With this small amount of money and three objects I recovered,
I started to make collections.
I did not know what to do.
I had to do something with these huge hangars.
I got the idea immediately.
I bought one of my first firms
when I was 28 years old, I signed for buying a store while I had no penny.
I asked for a sign to heaven and my fathers in heaven
and I received a sign, I was sure.
By the way, my appointment with the two notaries
was on the exact day and hour of my father's death.
It was a sign for me. I could do it, so I did it.
I signed the check, it was on Friday.
I was married at that time. My mother said:
This check will send you to prison, you are reckless.
I said: "No, something will happen."
A miracle will happen necessarily, since I had a sign, I know it.
My family and friends disagreed, but I carried on.
It was on Friday. On Tuesday, there was a bank error on my account.
I got money for some time.
With this money, I could take out a loan in another bank.
Then I gave back the money that was not mine,
thanking gratefully the banker and I said:
"Thank you, this money is not mine, you can take it back."
This money allowed me to take out a loan at that time.
I had zero penny and I made this check,
I knew something would happen.
When I bought this property here,
it was the same thing, I had no money.
I lived from travels.
I asked for a sign,
I wanted to know for sure
that it was a good operation for me to buy this house
and with it do something that I ignored yet.
For the first time in my life,
I saw a UFO in the sky. I had asked for a strong sign.
On the day it happened, I was terrified.
Terrified, but it was my sign.
Likewise, I signed my check
thinking that a miracle would happen.
The miracle happened two days later.
Someone came to me and asked:
Do you need anything? This is magnificent."
I said: "Yes, I would need to be able to pay what I signed for."
"Yes, of course, I lend you the money."
A few days later... A few weeks later, I was able,
by some magic
to repay this money.
I found this fantastic.
I wanted to make ecological houses.
And I wondered:
"How will I do that? I do not know anything in construction or renovation.
"Just a bit, but not enough."
Hup! My steps led me to Bali.
I met a designer who told me:
"We make a pilot hose, I send it to you, etc."
This is how it happened.
There is always some magic, some wonder... magic...
as soon as we act with our hearts, for others,
as I think we live our lives
to be in fit, it is normality.
It is not exceptional at all to be fit.
It is abnormal not to be fit.
Gregg Braden gives a wonderful message
about the influence of thoughts and words
on our personal DNA.
He is one of my main current thought leaders.
He expressed things scientifically
he has to approaches: he is a scientist
and he has become a shaman.
He joins both approaches explaining clearly
simple things,
and giving back liberty to the being.
My purpose in this life, is to recover
my true freedom of thought, the freedom to be,
and to be able to share this message with those who want to listen.
I said that breathing was important earlier.
The first way to absorb essential oil properties
is to breathe them, even outside, even in the open air.
What do well chosen essential oils?
First, it opens.
When we enter a room that smells good, we are open.
We open ourselves, which is not the case if it smells bad.
Most of them cannot be put directly on the skin, but mixtures exist.
Luckily, I dreamt of mixtures 30 years ago.
Dreams often give me formulas.
It is called intuition, let's call it like that.
The second way is making an aromatic grog.
We put a few drops of essential oils
in a cup of hot water with some honey.
And we drink this tea.
5-6 drops of essential oils,
for example basil, marjoram, mandarin, petitgrain.
This will make a remarkable tonic grog,
a relaxing aromatic tea.
We can do this with cinnamon, savory, nutmeg,
and mandarin for a tonic morning beverage.
The third way is adding them in dishes.
We prepare a fruits sauce, it is summer, the weather is warm,
we add a drop of mint in the fruit sauce.
It gives a taste of mint.
We can make ice cubes too with it.
In salads, we can add basil, tarragon or cilantro
as essential oils when we do not have fresh herbs.
We can also add caraway, cumin and nutmeg as essential oils
it is delicious,
but use with caution, in small quantities obviously.
We can also prepare sorbets and desserts
with orange, mandarin, grapefruit,
bergamot orange, geranium, rose,
lavender, very chic,
now it is usual and trendy to prepare desserts with lavender.
Hydrolats, hydrosols, hydrosol-therapy,
for me it is aromatherapy's homeopathy.
It is a complement when we use essential oils,
for sensitive persons,
we add them in water more easily
than when we can use essential oils.
There is also alchemy, the plant's full memory,
it lies in this aromatic water.
In the essential oil... In these aromatic components,
that could be sorted in about ten large categories,
each one of them corrects and improves one of our metabolic functions.
We can wonder what are the results.
The first one is: "I'm breathing."
For instance, I use exotic verbena,
which is the plant for communication.
If I want to ask something to my husband or my boss,
if I want someone to accept something,
or if I want to seduce a journalist,
I use exotic verbena, a pleasant plant,
for 99.99 % of the people and they say: "It smells good, what is it?"
Not everyone likes mint, geranium, rosemary or others,
but everyone likes verbena consistently.
I give you this trick to seduce whoever you want.
I have a rib tickler at some time in my life.
A young man said that he was in love with me
and he wanted to date me.
He said: "You will come without your usual smell of I-do-not-know-what."
I said: "Pardon?
"I normally smell geranium and rose
"because they are my favourite essential oils. Why?"
We did not date in the end.
Some that cannot bear my smell, what I wear
or convey, is someone I have nothing to share with.
I had funny games like this,
after I met a man, M. Poujade,
a wonderful man, who told me when I was 25:
"My girl, essential oils tell you life. What do you like?"
I answer: "I like three oils, these in summer and those in winter."
- What does your husband like? - This, this and this.
- Four years. - Pardon?
"Four years. You will live in harmony for four years."
- Why do you say that? - Because there are incompatibilities
and there are compatibilities between the smells we like,
and they tell a part of your life."
He asked me the same question for my siblings
and my mother... what they liked.
I noted that 10 or 15 years later
all what he said to me was true.
In these compatibilities
and this moment of life we had,
depending on the smell we liked.
One day in Netherlands, I saw a therapist
place essential oils on the table
and ask the person to choose.
According to the choice...
He said that
the oils or essential oils we pick
are those we need and they reflect a real need,
to correct a physiological need,
or a current physiological disturbance.
It is an alternative method.
In addition to these large categories of essential oils,
that allow to correct, which is the purpose,
they are remarkable aids that allow to help,
to reinforce the immune system,
all essential oils are known to have these properties,
to help detoxication in the organism and in the cell,
common properties for all essential oils.
All of them are revitalizing, they bring a new vitality,
a vitality from the plant provided to our cells,
inside of us.
Moreover, they are all...
magically, remarkably...
attracted by the weakest organ or function
at a given time in our physical body,
as if they were magnetized.
This is the fourth property of all essential oils.
We can sort them.
Some essential oils clean the blood for example,
like cypress or sage, that will correct blood perturbations.
Lemon also...
For the liver and the gallbladder, mainly geranium and rosemary.
For the kidneys, juniper first,
with elderberry hydrosol,
but first juniper and wintergreen essential oils.
We can regenerate and fortify the nerve system
with basil and marjoram, it is really
my twin-pack against anxiety and nervous breakdown.
I made a grog that I call relax tea.
Basil and marjoram.
Some of my clients keep in their pocket
their flask for years and say:
"I do not go anywhere without it."
We can make an anti-infective tonic
with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg,
savory and oregano.
Certain essential oils require precautions.
I explain this in my books.
I indicate precisions, posologies, dangers,
accurate information about how and when use them.
Most of my books can be downloaded
freely on my website.
This is how we participate to broadcast the message as much as possible.
What are the results with essential oils?
I've started telling it earlier.
As soon as we change our diet, the way we think and our lifestyle,
generally speaking, adding some essential oils,
in three weeks,
your friends and colleagues will tell you:
"You look great. What have you done?
"Something has changed."
Our appearance, we look fresher, more radiant and more open.
We walk differently, we are lighter.
Gradually, essential oils transform us and make us beautiful.
We visibly become more beautiful.
When I give a conference to 100-200 persons,
I can see a few people out of these 200 persons
that are already doing something for their health, on the path of health.
They stand out from the crowd. Everyone is grey
and some people are lighter in the room.
I am not a psychic, but I can see that on their faces.
Our face also shows which organs needs to be cleaned.
Here is a trick. Look at yourself in the mirror in the morning.
If the chin is redder than the rest of the face,
the liver and the gallbladder
give a warning: "Take care of me, please, look, it does not look good."
You can learn other easy tricks like this.
I explain all those things in my books.
We can also walk with correctors or aids.
I am fond of the importance of the flower of life.
"The flower of life" is a wonderful book written by Drunvalo Melchizédek.
It is the principle of life of the tiniest cells.
This geometric shape represents,
is represented or is the base
of the tiniest cells and the biggest galaxies.
Our world is made on the flower of life.
In addition to books, I give seminaries aromatherapy,
I call them "Two or three days to change your life."
My extraordinary assistant, Sylvia, trained to teach my method,
also gives regularly introductory courses of aromatherapy.
It is the essential day.
You can find this information on our websites.
I give a lot of conferences in the world.
As I love Japan, Asia, Brazil and Switzerland,
I tend to give conferences in the countries I like.
I am also totally open to answer to other offers,
I do it on a regular basis.
I answer if someone asks me to give a conference somewhere.
I have another ongoing project in Switzerland.
I live and spend my time in travels,
Provence and Switzerland.
I am currently renovating another wonderful property
that was also a godsend,
with a group of five therapists
and "healers".
It will be a healing centre, a resourcing site,
where people can spend three days or one week.
Leaning to treat oneself, to eat properly
and to rebalance the physical body, the mind, the heart and the soul.
The ingredients will be brought by different therapists
that will belong to this site.
Its name is Moulin de Vie, located above the Lac de Neuchâtel.
It will open at the end of the year 2014.
I really enjoyed implementing this project.
There are three foreign therapists
that will participate to this set.
This place will have enough capacity for seminaries,
as we do in Provence.
Seminaries, where people already interested
in personal development and natural health
and wish to have a reception area,
We have here in the museum
a nice reception room, a large outdoor room,
a bamboo cabin, it is an organic coffee,
an organic restaurant for summer,
where we can give raw cuisine courses
and taste at the same time during the two months of summer.
In Switzerland, along the water, along the river,
We will add things I do not have here,
water cares that are the hallmark of spa, "salut per aqua",
including Kneipp baths, foot baths, hand baths,
trunk baths, derivative baths, etc.
will be involved in this place
along the river,
where people can be massaged
in a small wooden house directly above the river,
oriented towards the solarium,
with a view of the Alps.
In this lovely place, there are more horses than inhabitants.
For years, I buy essential oils in all countries of the world.
Consequently I know all our producers and distillers.
As I am loyal, I have the same for 30 years,
a bit more than 30 years by the way.
As I am older than 60, I have worked for over 30 years.
For about 40 years,
whether in Java, Sumatra, Vietnam, Asia, Brazil or Uruguay,
I know our distributors
and I am keen to start replanting trees consistently.
Since Rio Summit in 1992,
I have been increasing my awareness. I wanted to do something too.
Everytime I buy oils in a country,
I look for a way to help plant trees,
or I look for someone who does it or I do it myself,
lately in Bali I was planting teak forests.
In Brazil, I have conducted research with a university professor of São Paolo
concerning rosewood leaf distillation.
There is almost no more rosewood essential oil,
because trees had to be cut for it,
whereas if the leaves are distilled,
hence the branches are used without to cut the tree,
we get an identical product, there is no use cutting the tree.
At first, perfumers cut trees, it was more convenient.
As we destroy the Amazonian forest so fast...
I also replanted in Australia with tea-trees.
I took part to several operations in Bali.
I love bamboos.
Bamboo is green material,
regenerative for the planet, its growth is the fastest.
Bamboo and hemp
give the highest amount of material in one season.
This capacity to make greenery,
is important and necessary for oxygenating our planet,
so everyone wants to plant bamboos in their garden.
The more bamboos we plant...
We can direct bamboos, we can talk to them.
Unlike everyone says,
"Be careful, it gets everywhere, it is vermin", etc.,
bamboos can be directed.
I ask them to grow upwards and not sideways.
After some time, they listen.
Moreover, it gets in places where we do not want to see them.
Bamboos grow gradually.
We know well that plants
hear, correct and can help us,
as animals do.
We make so many objects in bamboo, like houses.
There is a splendid Steiner school in Bali,
fully made of bamboo, it is a pure marvel.
We make a construction of 5,000 m²,
that currently receives 200 to 250 children,
fully made of bamboo, built in seven months, it is remarkable,
with a cost much inferior compared to a standard construction.
We seek our love of life, we want to be fit,
share our joy with someone,
and share this with a greater number of people.
It seems a laudable goal to me.
Anyway, it is mine.
I like to be an example. I do the maximum
to be this health, vitality, joy and dynamism example.
I am happy to be 60, with a few wrinkles, colossal energy,
to still have projects, desires,
to help, to be appreciated when I arrive somewhere,
because I bring something.
Indeed,
the vibration, the essential oil,
all it can bring, its concentrated actives principles,
aromatherapy, living food and positive thinking.
I will tell you that the mere fact
to start practising,
learn again to breath and to open
will allow everyone, as it was the case for me,
to open to life and gain their personal success.
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