Zen Living

Episode “Holistic Solutions to stress”

 

Nicole Tomlinson: Your tired, stressed and energy where did it all go? Today we are going to explore how holistic medicine can distress your life and give you more energy. I am here with Luisa Mendoza from Nr. Natural and she is going to give us some advice on how to reduce stress in our lives. The natural way. Hi Luisa how are you?

Luisa Mendoza: Hi, I am fine how are you?

Nicole Tomlinson: Very good, we really want to know today about how to relieve stress in a natural way.

Luisa Mendoza: Well, the natural way is really good to do it because then we are having the help of the herbs. Like this herbs that we have here on the table. Like this one is the Tela flower.

Nicole Tomlinson: The tela flower?

Luisa Mendoza: Uh huh, tela flower is a very fine flower that makes a very nice tea. It doesn’t have a bad taste it is very good. This one that I have here is the pepper mint; the smell of the pepper mint is like a chewable gum. Chewable gum has the extract of the oil of the pepper mint tea and is very good. It is very relaxing but also has another benefit. Like taking out the gasses from the intestine or for little kids that they have stress, they can take this tea before they go to sleep.

Nicole Tomlinson: Wait hold on one second, little kids have stress?

Luisa Mendoza: Sometimes they do exactly. I have to mention that sometimes the little ones they watch some movies that they are scared. Or maybe something happen to them like being part of a accident or a family exclusion or any violence that they may be exposed to. Then they can take this kind of herbal tea so they can release all sorts of stress.

And also this one is the hoja anaranjada, or the orange leaf. And its also very good tea. When you take it fresh from the tree it’s very aromatic but so the dry leaf has still the botanical extracts.  I have this, the basil. Basil has the properties of a super relaxant in the herbal system. And the top of them is this one. You don’t want to smell it.

Nicole Tomlinson: No I don’t, but I am going to anyway.

Luisa Mendoza: Ok, go ahead and be brave.

Nicole Tomlinson: This Is Valerian?

Luisa Mendoza: Mmm hmm, Valerian.

Nicole Tomlinson: Ok, I am being brave here; I can smell it from here actually. MMM.

Luisa Mendoza: You don’t have to get so much close. Ah ha I know the smell is strong.

Nicole Tomlinson: This is how they derive the drug valium?

Luisa Mendoza: Yes, that is the extract from this root.

Nicole Tomlinson: But you don’t need a prescription to this and its non addictive.

Luisa Mendoza: Oh no because it’s very well measured by nature. And we have the other one that is poleo. I love this one the poleo because it has also very good taste and is very aromatic and is also relaxing. Which combination do you want to make?

Luisa Mendoza: We can put a little bit…

Nicole Tomlinson: No, no, no, no…

Luisa Mendoza: We can pass up that one.

Nicole Tomlinson: I have a busy day ahead of me I cant be falling asleep. I like that peppermint.

Luisa Mendoza: What about tela, the tela flower.

Nicole Tomlinson: Yes, the pretty one.

Luisa Mendoza: And the poleo, I will invite you to try this one. It’s very little you don’t really need a lot for one cup of tea. Let it steep for awhile and you will see the color changing immediately.

Nicole Tomlinson: Pretty fast.

Luisa Mendoza: Pretty fast exactly, and then you can drink the tea with a little bit of honey before you go to sleep.

Nicole Tomlinson: For a very stressed person you would need to use this entire combination and its also not going to do us much good unless we allow the appropriate time for our bodies to actually rest and recuperate.

Luisa Mendoza: Exactly we need to follow the nature’s advice. When we are overstressed we need to stop and reaccommodate our agenda of activities because otherwise we get over consuming our own energy.

Nicole Tomlinson: So how long does it take for my tea to be ready?

Luisa Mendoza: Your tea is ready. You don’t have to wait too much. Do you want some honey?

Nicole Tomlinson: Please.

Luisa Mendoza: Well this tea may be very good for you and then tonight you are going to have a good night of sleep don’t worry.

Nicole Tomlinson: that sounds good because it has been a very busy week.

Luisa Mendoza: The weeks are always busy. You are taking exams at the school you are working, you have two jobs. You have to relax, let your body to be just happy. There are some vitamins that we can take like the stress b-complex. And b-complex will work wonderful. Just make sure you are taking fresh orange juice. So then you have the vitamin c for the body to absorb the B complex.

Nicole Tomlinson: I see so that will give us energy through our day and this will help us relax and recuperate from those days.

Luisa Mendoza: Exactly.

Nicole Tomlinson: Will we are out of time and you are out of excuses. Be kind to your body and give it the natural medicine that it needs to feel better Thank you so much Luisa for having us in your store today.

Luisa Mendoza: Thank you Nicole come again. 

Nicole Tomlinson: I will and from all of us here at Zen living than you so much for watching and we will catch you next time. Peace.