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Black Spruce Over the years I've had a number of clients come to me with painful bone spurs and mineral deposits in their joints.  Some have suffered from this for years with little or no help from modern medicine.  While some report relief from cold lasers, others have resorted to surgery for bone spurs and joint impingement.  In my readings I keep coming back to one treatment for these painful and debilitating conditions - Black Spruce Essential Oil!

This deep and woodsy oil started showing up in my readings a few years ago and I spent some time trying to find a pure enough source for my clients.  Young Living to the Rescue! 
Wintergreen When I was a kid I spent many a summer at A.R.E. Camp in the mountains of rural Virginia.  The camp was situated in a valley filled with wild rhododendrons, sassafras and wintergreen.  The wintergreen would grow along the sides of the paths and we would chew the leaves and the occasional berry.  The taste and smell of fresh wintergreen always brings back sweet memories.
Pine When I first moved into my current home I walked to the back yard and gazed across it and the neighbor’s yard and thought, “I gotta get me some trees, block that view out.”

Ten Pine trees, two red pines and eight white pines, later and a graceful screen is growing, beautiful and beneficial. 

The soft needle pines are amazing trees. All year round they filter and clear the air, produce oxygen and add negative ions to the air (the point of each needle acts like a gentle negative ion generator).
Mint I love mint. When I was a kid we used to go to Texas every summer to visit my grandmother. She lived in this big southern house surrounded by gardens with one bed filled with tiny wild strawberries and tons of mint. She would make up big batches of extra strong, sweet, mint tea and serve it over lots of ice. Even on the hottest summer day that crisp tea would cool you down. Even after she moved out of that big, old house into a condo she kept a little pot of mint by the window. It never did very well inside, just enough to crush a few leaves into a tall glass of iced tea in the summer.
Lavender Lavender is making a comeback.  After years of perfumeries pumping out cloyingly sweet "lavenders" with that bizarre, powdery top note, people are rediscovering the crisp, almost slightly medicinal smell of pure Lavender, and it's showing up everywhere.  
Ginger I've loved ginger for years, cooking with it, nibbling candies ginger for snacks, sipping ginger tea for stomach upset and unsuccessfully trying to grow it (too far north).  It's an amazing herb with a long history of use. Modern research has shown ginger to be effective in preventing motion sickness, and soothing digestion.  It also has mild stimulant properties, increasing circulation and invigorating the body.  A few drops of ginger essential oil in some warm peanut oil makes an invigorating massage that promotes blood flow and circulation.  A warm compress of lightly steamed ginger is a traditional oriental hangover cure - use a clean cloth or bandanna to tie it around the forehead or the back of the neck.
Blue Dragon Beauty and Young Living - Living Young, Naturally
Friday, 17 February 2012 07:52

Further Up The Stairs KickStarter!

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Sometimes you need a little bit of a Kick.  I've been "working" on my next meditation cd (working title - Further Up The Stairs) for almost a year now.  I picked a format, that's about it. I needed a deadline and a budget and Kickstarter has given me the opportunity for both.

 

You can Help Make This Happen by joining in on the fun and backing this project!  Kickstarter is a way for artists, creative types and psychics (me) to get venture capital and distributed financing for creative projects on a deadline, cuz nothing gets done without a deadline.

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All or nothin Folks.  Either the project gets fully funded or it doesn't happen and I need your help to creat this meditation cd.

But Wait, There's More!

You can receive Fabulous Prizes!  Yes, every donation and every backer gets something and I've put a lot of thought and effort into these rewards, but I may have missed something.  Whadda want?  If there is a creative reward I haven't offered and you want (within reason) let me know. 

This Project Will Succeed With Your Help!

Tell your friends, make new ones and tell them too. Here's the skinny:

 

I am incredibly excited to share my new Kickstarter Project with you - Further Up The Stairs!  Kickstarter is a great new way to fund creative projects and recieve Fabulous Prizes - it's like your own PBS pledge drive.

The way Kickstarter works is once a project has been created anyone can donate to the project and at each donation level (10, 17, 23...) are reward prizes created by me for you.  It is only after the project is fully funded that donations are collected and rewards are sent, so I need your help! 

About the Project

I started working on this the moment my first cd was finished.

Ideas chased each other around my head and I kept thinking, how can I make this next project be More?  More ideas, more journeys, more exploration for you and me.

In this 4 track CD, Further Up the Stairs, I will be talking about why we meditate, how we can expand our understanding of our place in the Universe and leading two mediations – Broken Pieces and Further Up the Stairs.  This new CD will have new music from local musicians, original photography and incorporate everything I have learned in this past year about spirituality and our connection to the Divine.

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This time I want to go deeper into your soul, gathering up the broken pieces, clearing away the damage and loss of your past and helping you to live in the ever unfolding now.  Healing those parts of your past broken by pain, loss and strife and helping you to be healed and whole.

I also want to take you out, into the wider Universe, going further up the stairs to meet with Spirit Guides, commune with your Higher Self and sit with your connection to the Divine.

You are so much greater than you ever imagined ~ More intuitive, connected and powerful than you know.  Your path may be rocky, smooth, straight or windy, but it is yours and yours alone, not mine or anybody else's.  I am here to help you along your path, and we can start walking it together.

The Rewards

PLEDGE $1 OR MORE

Thanks, You're Awesome!

PLEDGE $10 OR MORE

A digital download of the CD and a Thank You on my website, http://johnmichaelthornton.com – Anyone who donates $10 or more is welcome to a digital download and will be thanked on the website!

PLEDGE $17 OR MORE

An autographed photo from the album photo shoot, a digital download of the CD and Thanks!

PLEDGE $23 OR MORE

An autographed copy of the CD, an autographed photo and Thanks!

PLEDGE $50 OR MOREsuperpsychict

An exclusive "Super Psychic" t-shirt, autographed CD and Thanks!

PLEDGE $75 OR MORE

A thank you in the CD liner notes, an autographed copy of the CD, an autographed photo and Thanks!

PLEDGE $90 OR MORE

T-Shirt hand painted with the chakra symbol of your choice, liner note thanks, an autographed copy of the CD and Thanks! You can choose both the chakra and the shirt color/size, but I will tell you that 6th chakra on black is a bit of a miss.

PLEDGE $125 OR MORE

A personalized, meditation recording, (I'll give you a quick mini reading on any topic you want to work on and then create a meditation recording just for you) liner note thanks, an autographed copy of the CD, and Thanks!

PLEDGE $176 OR MORE

An original chakra painting (the chakra of your choice), liner note thanks, autographed CD and Thanks!

PLEDGE $200 OR MORE

Dinner with me featuring a home cooked meal with veggies from my garden and Darling, for you I'll even bake, plus an autographed copy of the CD and Thanks! You can come from anywhere in the world, but dinner is here in Youngstown, OH. - it's much nicer than the news makes it out to be.

heartchakraPLEDGE $500 OR MORE

A psychic party and meditation for you and 4 friends within 150 miles of Youngstown, OH. The meditation will be recorded - you and your guests will all get copies of the CD and the onsite meditation.

PLEDGE $1,200 OR MORE

A psychic party and meditation for you and 4 friends, anywhere in the continental USA – anywhere in the world if you pay airfare and lodging. The meditation will be recorded - you and your guests will all get copies of the CD and the onsite meditation.

PLEDGE $2,000 OR MORE

Explore your psychic potential with a weekend retreat. We will do yoga, meditate and explore your spiritual path.

Saturday, 03 April 2010 23:52

Welcome to Blue Dragon Beauty

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BDBYoungLivingLogoSince closing Blue Dragon Beauty in 2009 I've been searching for a source of essential oils, soaps and natural products good enough to offer to my clients and friends.  Young Living is good enough.  In fact, it's better than good – These products are fantastic. 

I use these oils, I recommend them and the Young Living Products have started showing up in my readings.  If you've been missing Blue Dragon Beauty, Young Living has the natural beauty and health solutions for you.

Check back often, or join the new BDB newsletter, to find recipes from my readings, product reviews and classic content from the BDB archives including new and classic articles by StarBeam, the Magical Typing Pony.

BlueMorningWelcome Back to Blue Dragon Beauty and Young Living – Living Young, Naturally.

 

Naturally Yours,

John Michael Thornton

Saturday, 03 April 2010 23:59

A brief history...

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BlueBeautysmallIn 2003 I started Blue Dragon Beauty as a hobby.  I'd always loved herbs and natural products and, trapped in a NYC apartment where I couldn't garden, soaps and herbs seemed like a fun idea.  I was good at it.  Finding combinations that were not only fragrant and wonderful, but also helped people turned this little hobby into a business that began to take much of my focus and when I moved back to Ohio in 2004 I made Blue Dragon Beauty my main business.

deepforestLooking back now, Blue Dragon Beauty was my stepping-stone back into the psychic world.  I started giving psychic Readings professionally in 1993 (I got paid $10 for that first Reading to my Mom's best friend.  Prices have increased since then.), but moving to NYC was my attempt at being a normal person.  I did very little psychic work and didn't teach or lecture – I worked in an office and wore a tie.  It was awful.

My talents and abilities still leaked out in strange and new ways and Blue Dragon Beauty was one of those ways (reading minds on the subway was another).

 

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    I love Essential Oils and the herbs they come from.  As I continue to explore the Young Living Oils I will be adding more articles and herbal profiles.  Here are a few of my favorites. Peppermint Essential Oil by Young Living When I was a kid we used to go to Texas every summer to visit my grandmother. She lived in this big southern house surrounded by gardens with one bed filled with tiny wild strawberries and tons of mint. She would make up big batches of extra strong, sweet, mint tea and serve it over lots of ice. Even on the hottest summer day that crisp tea would cool you down.
    Read More Lavender Essential Oil by Young Living Lavender is making a comeback.  After years of perfumeries pumping out cloyingly sweet "lavenders" with that bizarre, powdery top note, people are rediscovering the crisp, almost slightly medicinal smell of pure Lavender, and it's showing up everywhere.
    Read More Pine Essential Oil by Young Living The soft needle pines are amazing trees. All year round they filter and clear the air, produce oxygen and add negative ions to the air (the point of each needle acts like a gentle negative ion generator).
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