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7 Great Benefits of CBD for Your Pets

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by Jessica Mcfly

Cannabis offers many great benefits for people. However, you can also use CBD for pets. Many studies have shown that making CBD a regular part of a pet’s diet can have many advantages. Here are seven health benefits of CBD for your pets.

Increased Immunity Towards Diseases

Many pets often face a lot of pathogen-based infections that might scar the pet for a very long time. Studies show that CBD helps the dog fight these diseases and infections. Similar to the way CBD helps us, humans, in maintaining better immunity, it also reinforces the front line of defense in pets against such diseases. Also, CBD makes the pets less susceptible to weather-change based infections and make the pets healthy and active in all the seasons.

Fight Against Cancers

The development of tumors and cancers in pets can go undetected for a very long time. In this process, the animal often undergoes torment. CBD helps these animals deal with all the symptoms of cancer, these also have cannabinoids that help the pets to cope with chemotherapy and its detrimental side effects. In addition to this, it helps in preventing the tumors from growing in the first place, by isolating the cancerous cells and killing them, while protecting the healthy cells in the vicinity.

Reduce Anxiety and Stress

Blue Moon Pet CBD
Blue Moon CBD tinctures for pets

New pups and pets often feel anxious and are scared of the unique atmosphere they are brought into. Not just new young pets but older pets that get anxious often face tremors and shake a lot. Commonly, this might be accompanied by aggression. CBD oil has found to counter this and has made the pets calmer. It has helped them deal with phobias and stress while subsequently reducing anxiety and becoming more friendly. Also, it shows promise to replace the conventional anti-anxiety and anti-depression drugs for its ability to show minimal side effects as compared to the traditional medication. For more information about CBD oil and pets, one can View here and find out the right CBD oil for their furry friends.

Help Provide Essential Nutrients

CBD is rich in many essential nutrients that your pet needs for the day to day activities like calcium and magnesium that keep the cognitive activities of the body at an active state. CBD treats and tinctures can prevent them from becoming malnourished. Treats and tinctures can be given to them at any point of time during the day. This not only helps them live longer but makes them energetic and cheerful at all times.

Relieve the Pet of the Pain

Muscle strain and pain, as well as suffering from different orthopedic conditions such as arthritis, can have a detrimental impact on the life expectancy of the pet. It might get unbearable for them. Often the painkillers that are given just provide a sedative effect. CBD helps in this context by actually reducing the reason causing this torment rather than sedating it. It also dampens the pain signals to the brain and suppresses the pain in the first place. This helps the body to loosen the muscles and helps in the growth of healthy bones and muscles.

Prevent and Reduce Inflammation

Like how CBD helps humans top prevent and reduce inflammation, it also similarly helps the pets. In particular, inflammation and irritation caused by unusual bowel movements, and other swellings can be seen recovering at a faster pace with the consumption of CBD. This is because CBD has anti-inflammatory properties that tackle the neural receptors and offer relief from the uneasiness. It can further prevent all the pain and other side effects associated with this inflammation pets face.

Help to Remove Skin Disorders

Dog and cat together
Have you tried CBD with your pet?
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All pets play in the outside dirt and enjoy that process. However, there is always the issue and constant threat of skin infections and redness. CBD helps in keeping these skin diseases away. It also prevents dermatitis and helps the pets have healthy fur and good skin. It does not even require a heavy dosage of CBD to be administered. Instead, a very minimal amount of regular consumption of CBD based food can prevent these deadly skin diseases from happening in the first place.

One thing is clear, CBD has its pros based on the dosage, the breed, and size of your pets. Keeping your pet safe and healthy is the a priority, and CBD has shown promise in that direction. Contact Seeds of Wellness or visit their CBD Products webpage to learn about the products they offer for your pets.

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Author Bio:

Jessica is a passionate writer & guest blogger. Writing helps her to improve her knowledge, skills & understanding about the specific industry. She loves writing & sharing his knowledge mostly in the Cannabis industry. Apart from writing, she loves traveling and exploring new places.

How Gratitude Can Improve Your Life

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At least once a year in November, we celebrate what we are thankful for in our lives. Why is gratitude important, and should we be doing it more than once or twice a year?

What is Gratitude?

According to the world’s leading scientific expert on gratitude, Robert Emmons, there are two key components. “First, it’s an affirmation of goodness. We affirm that there are good thing in the world, gifts and benefits we’ve received. …The second part of gratitude is figuring out where that goodness comes from. We recognize the sources of this goodness as being outside of ourselves.”(1)

What Are The Benefits of Being Grateful?

There are 7 scientifically proven benefits of gratitude(2):

  • “Opens the door to more relationships” – many times, saying “thank you” can lead to new opportunities, and saying “thank you” to others shows you appreciate them.
  • “Improves physical health” – according to a 2012 study, people who are thankful take better care of their health. They have fewer aches and pains.
  • Woman smiling as she thinks about what she is thankful for today.“Improves physical health” – according to a 2012 study, people who are thankful take better care of their health. They have fewer aches and pains.
  • “Enhances empathy and reduces aggression” – according to a University of Kentucky study, grateful people are less likely to retaliate and show more empathy towards people.
  • “Grateful people sleep better” – a 2011 study about gratitude journals found people who wrote grateful statements before bed slept better and longer.
  • “Improves self-esteem” – appreciation of other’s accomplishments is an essential aspect of peak and better job performance.
  • “Increases mental strength” – many studies over the years prove that being thankful and showing gratitude makes the person more resilient. The person is quicker to overcome trauma and have lower stress levels.

Many of these same benefits are listed in a Times article, “7 Surprising Health Benefits of Gratitude”. For a larger list of benefits, visit “The 31 Benefits of Gratitude You Didn’t Know About: How Gratitude Can Change Your Life” by Amit Amin on Happier Human.

Ways to Explore Gratitude

Here are some suggestions to cultivate gratitude(3):

  • Keep a grateful journal – every night before going to bed, write down a couple of sentences about one or two things you’re grateful for today.
  • Write a thank you note – thank a person for something they do, which improves your life and send it to them or give it to them personally. You may consider writing a thank you note to yourself.
  • Mediate – as you clear your mind, focus on something you are grateful for like the warmth of the sun, your pet(s), a favorite food, etc.
  • Pray – say prayers of gratitude, thanking the divine for people and things you have in your life that bring you happiness.
  • Say thank you to someone – tell a person “thank you” even if it is a stranger who held the door open for you.
Write a gratitude note to someone

Like any new habit, taking time to be grateful every day will not come easy at first. The benefits not seen right away. However, the more you do it, the easier it will become, and the more you will see the benefits it has on your life.

 
Sources:

1. “Why Gratitude Is Good”, by Robert Emmons, Greater Good Magazine

2. “7 Scientifically Proven Benefits of Gratitude” by Amy Morin, Psychology Today

3. “In Praise of Gratitude” from Harvard Health Publishing, Harvard Medical School

Difference between Commercial and Handmade Soap

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You can buy many varieties of bar soap, but not all bar soap is the same.  The differences between commercial and handmade soap begin with how the soap is made and the additives to the soap.

Making Soap

Soap is made from fats or oils and lye.  Most soaps are made with the cold process method: heating the fat or oils, slowly adding lye and water mixture until it thickens, adding fragrance and color and then pouring the liquid into molds.  The soap is removed from the molds once hardened, about 24 hours.  After it has cured for about four weeks, it is safe and ready for use.  During the soap making process, the lye is neutralized with a chemical reaction that turns the fat and lye into soap.

Commercial Bar Soap

Washing hands with soap

Much commercial soap is made using the cold process method.  However, instead of pouring the liquid into molds once it thickens, they add salt to the mixture.  The salt causes the liquid to curdle.  The curdled soap floats to the top and is skimmed off the liquid to put into molds.  The remaining liquid is mainly glycerin which is distilled and sold to pharmaceutical and cosmetic companies to make a profit.

By removing the glycerin from the soap, the bar soap is more like a detergent.  A detergent is a surfactant that helps water and oil to combine instead of separating.  This allows a surface to be cleaned with water even if the surface contains oil.  The skin contains oil which is removed when a detergent is used.  Therefore, commercial bar soap dries out the skin. It removes the skin’s natural oils that provide the body protection from weather, viruses, bacteria and other disease-causing substances.

In order for commercial bar soap to provide more moisturizing than drying to the skin, other ingredients need to be added to the soap like lotion and cream.  Many commercial soap ads say “it won’t dry your skin” because they added moisturizers.  These additives also contain many harsh chemicals and chemical preservatives.

What Is Glycerin?

Fats (both vegetable and animal) contain glycerin. It is a thick odorless and colorless sweet tasting and low toxicity liquid that is an ingredient in foods, medication, soap, antifreeze and other products.

Glycerin is known for its main property, humectant, the retaining of water.  When glycerin stays on the surface of the skin, it helps seal the moisture in the skin because the moisture cannot be released into the air.

Glycerin is also hygroscopic, meaning it absorbs moisture from the air.  Therefore, it draws water to the skin from the air which increases the amount of moisture in the skin.

Handmade Soap

Spanel Run Farms Skin Care Products

People who make soap can buy unscented glycerin bars or soap bars that they meltdown and add their own fragrance and color to the liquid and then put into molds.  However, the glycerin content in the soap depends on the amount contained in the initial melted down bar soap.  If the soap is made from scratch, many people use the cold process method.

When making soap from scratch, the glycerin remains in the soap, and the artisan can choose to add natural or artificial fats, oils, fragrances and colors to the final product.  While the handmade soap may not last as long as the commercial soap, it doesn’t contain as many chemical preservatives or other harsh chemicals.

As a consumer, you need to look at the ingredient list of any soap you purchase, even the handmade soap.  The ingredient list of a natural handmade soap shouldn’t contain chemical names like Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS) and Sodium Laureth Sulfate (SLES) or artificial colors like blue number 1.

To learn more about natural soap and other natural skin care products, please go to our Skin Care Products webpage.

Tarot Decks, Oracle Cards, and Runes for Divination

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by Sooraj Sudevan

For centuries, people have used many different tools for divination including tarot decks, oracles cards, and runes. “Humans have always looked for the answers to the great mysteries of life and the answers to questions such as “who controls our destiny?” There is evidence that some form of divination has been in existence since the earliest times. Many cultures around the world have used divination tools dating back thousands of years.”(1)

“What is divination? This is the term for a type of energetic communication drawn from ancient practices to seek guidance, knowledge, and inspiration straight from a higher power or spirit. There are many different methods of engaging in divination, but some are more popular than others.” (2)

We know that everyone felt lost in their life at a certain point. Our mind filled with questions, and we didn’t have the answers. Tarot decks, oracle cards, and runes provide guidance during these times.

Tarot Decks

These cards measure potential outcomes and evaluate the influences surrounding a person or event. The 78 tarot cards represent the spectrum of the human condition – the good, the evil, the light, and the dark. Tarot decks are not magic; its pure science. However, the symbols and illustrations on the cards hold a deep meaning that a reader interprets.

Using tarot cards help the reader be in contact with their higher self. Some believe the reader gets a picture of the client’s psyche as the client shuffles the cards. This helps the reader reveal the client’s past, present, and future to them.

“Tarot is able to tap into hidden thoughts, feelings and truths and bring them to the surface so you can use that information to make decisions about life, love, emotions, health, career and more.”(3)

Tarot deck and oracle cards
Tarot deck and oracle cards

Oracle Cards

Oracle cards also play an important role in divination because they give a positive and motivating reading to a person and can boost their confidence. Most oracle cards contain an image and a positive message or affirmation written on each card. “Oracle cards are easy to read right off the bat for most people since the meanings are usually written on the cards.”(4) The oracle cards also give us a way to focus our spiritual energy and access divine knowledge.

Like a tarot deck, oracle cards often reveal things about ourselves. However, the cards are more open to interpretation and are a kind of directive tool that offers guidance, clarity, and a new perspective. The artwork can be symbolic or reality-based; while many decks are illustrated with angels or symbols. The imagery on the cards is often inspirational, eliminating the darker mood that some tarot decks present.

Runes

Runes are an early writing system used for German languages dating back to 150 AD. In ancient times many rune writing systems developed but became replaced around 700 AD by the Latin alphabet which we use for writing today. “The Vikings believed runes were created when their chief god Odin speared himself to the cosmic world tree, Yggdrasil in hopes of receiving secret knowledge.”(5)

Runes with bag

“Runes can be made of various materials, but are most commonly made of stone, and feature a symbol from the runic alphabet on them. There are various different types of runic alphabets used on runes, with one of the oldest ones being the old Germanic runic alphabet known as ‘Elder Futhark’. The Elder Futhark contains 24 runes, the first six of which spell out the word ‘futhark’…

The runes can help guide you through problems or issues and help show you what is likely to happen. They’re not a form of fortune-telling and don’t offer exact answers or give you advice – rather they offer different variables and suggest how you could behave if the event does occur. Runes are known for hinting towards answers, but leaving you to work out the details, which is where intuition is helpful.”(6)

Do Divination Tools Predict the Future?

“Short answer: nothing can “predict” the future with 100% accuracy as the future isn’t set in stone and we have free will to change it. Tarot and oracle cards do however show the most likely outcome based on what is happening in our lives within the present moment.”(7)

Comparing the three divination tools, oracle cards take little time to learn, offer positive messages, and open to interpretation. On the other hand, tarot decks contain rules, structure, and common meanings. This makes it easy to read any tarot deck once you know the meanings of each card. Lastly, runes give blunt answers and take time to understand the meaning of the symbols.

Stop into Seeds of Wellness to explore the variety of tarot decks, oracles cards and runes we have in stock.

Sources:
(1) “A Brief History of Divination” on Tarot Prophet
(2) “Top 10 Divination Tools” by Alissa Monroe on Psychics 4 Today
(3) “Tarot 101: The Basics” on Tarot
(4) “What’s the Difference Between Tarot & Oracle Cards?” by Kate on the Daily Tarot Girl
(5) “Runes: Facts And History About Odin’s Secret Language” on Ancient Pages
(6) “Rune Guide – An Introduction to Using Runes” by Rachel Newcombe on holisticshop.co.uk
(7) “How to Use Oracle and Tarot Cards for Deep Inner Word” on Lonerwolf
“Reading Tarot Cards: Divining Our Life Path” by Katalin Jett Koda on Llewellyn
“Oracle Cards ~ The Complete Guide” on Ask-Angels

Cannabidiol Hemp Oil (CBD) – What Are the Benefits?

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Cannabidiol (CBD) hemp oil is extracted from the hemp plant, a relative of marijuana. The hemp plant contains only trace amounts (- 0.3%) of THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol), a psychotropic compound that causes a high. CBD offers many medical benefits with minimal side effects by interacting with the Endocannabinoid System (also called the Endogenouse Cannabinoid System) in our body.

The Endogenouse Cannabinoid System (ECS)

Discovered in the 1980s, “the ECS regulates a variety of biological processes, like relaxation, eating, sleeping, certain inflammation responses and even cognitive function. In a nutshell, your ECS is responsible for making sure your entire body is working optimally—no small task!

Endocannabinoids (and plant-based cannabinoids) link with protein molecule receptors—called cannabinoid receptors—on the surface of cells. CBD has also been shown to strengthen and improve the efficiency of mitochondria, the ‘powerhouses’ of your cells that are responsible for ensuring that your cells work the way they should.

When a person ingests cannabidiol hemp oil (CBD) or other cannabinoids, these cannabinoid receptors are activated. CBD appears to have a greater affinity for CB2 receptors than CB1 receptors. Research indicates that when you supplement your ECS with non-toxic, non-habit-forming cannabinoids, you may create a healthier endocannabinoid system and, almost certainly, a healthier you.” [Source: “A Simple Guide to the Endocannabinoid System” – Healthline]

What does this mean? By ingesting CBD, you help balance and maintain the ECS within your body. It also helps improve the body’s control centers ability to communicate with every other system.

“In the past decade, The Endocannabinoid System has been implicated in a growing number of physiological functions, both in the central and peripheral nervous systems and in peripheral organs… Modulating the activity of the Endocannabinoid System turned out to hold therapeutic promise in a wide range of disparate diseases and pathological conditions…” [Source: The Endocannabinoid System as an Emerging Target of Pharmacotherapy – National Institutes of Health]

CBD Benefits

The nutritional benefits of CBD include omega fatty acids, amino acids, protein, antioxidants. CBD also contains minerals like iron, zinc and copper as well as calcium, magnesium, potassium, carotene, thiamin (vitamin B1), riboflavin (vitamin B2), vitamin B6 and vitamin E. [Source: “What Are the Health Benefits of Hemp? – MedicalNewToday]

The documented health benefits of cannabidiol hemp oil (CBD) in medical journals and research publications:

  • Epilepsy – some evidence that CBD works as an anticonvulsant
  • Chronic pain – especially nerve pain and pain due to inflammation
  • Anxiety – research show CBD reduces anxiety in humans and animals
  • Depression – small doses have an “active” effect that helps with focus and activity, but large doses result in a “sedative” effect.
  • Arthritis – shown to reduce joint pain both orally and as a topical
  • Diabetes – early findings, show slowing down cell damage related to diabetes
  • Drug Addiction, alcoholism, and smoking – found to help curb the desire, especially for nicotine

Source: What Are the Actual Benefits of CBD – Ministry of Hemp

Note: These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA and are not intended to diagnose, treat, or cure any disease. Always check with your physician before starting a new dietary supplement program.

Is CBD Legal?

CBD for the People
Our full-spectrum dark CBD
by For the People

Since the 2018 Farm Bill, CBD products became legal in the USA. Therefore, you can purchase CBD without a prescription or permit.

Seeds of Wellness sells CBD by Blue Moon Hemp, 3CHI, For the People, and Zuri. Our products include full-spectrum CBD, broad spectrum CBD and CBD isolate. Talk to us to find out which type of CBD and products will work best for your situation.

Bayberry Candle Christmas & New Year’s Eve Tradition

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Giving and lighting a bayberry candle on Christmas Eve and/or New Year’s Eve has been a long-time American tradition. The history dates back to colonial times.

The early colonists of North America discovered bayberries gave off a greenish-white waxy residue when boiled. By saving the bayberry wax, they used it to make taper candles. However, it was time-consuming and took many bayberries – “nearly 18 pounds of the berries to get about 2 pounds of wax” – to make enough wax for a single candle. “Some communities passed laws to protect the bayberry crop from an early harvest. The result was a high value; bayberry candles became a luxury item, saved for special use.”

Adding beeswax to the bayberry wax helped the candles hold their shape and not break due to the brittleness of the pure bayberry wax. Most of these candles were only burned during the darkest times of the year. Therefore, a ritual of burning the bayberry candle at Christmas Eve and/or New Year’s Eve became a tradition.

This candle was lit at a specific time, so it stays burning after midnight.  The candle remained alight until it burned out on its own. “If the candle burned down to the socket, abundance would bless everyone participating in the ritual,” according to the tradition.

Candle Poems

Verse 1

Bayberry votive and pillar candles

This bayberry candle comes from a friend
So on Christmas Eve burn it down to the end.
For a bayberry candle burned to the socket,
Will bring joy to the heart and gold to the pocket.

Verse 2

Here’s a Bayberry Candle that’s meant just for you,
With Holiday Tradition that’s tried and true.
When you light this candle on Christmas Eve Day,
Love and Luck come to you when it’s burned all the way!

Verse 3

To bring good luck for a year,
you must burn a Bayberry Candle on Christmas Day.
And if the flame burns bright, and the light shines clear,
then heaven will bless you all the year.

“A slightly different version of the invocation delivers the same message: ‘A bayberry candle burned to the socket brings luck to the household, food to the larder and gold to the pocket.’”

We hope that burning this candle on Christmas Eve and/or New Year’s Eve will bring you good fortune and prosperity for the coming year.

If you are looking for this candle, Seeds of Wellness sells bayberry votive and pillar candles made by Sacred Path Candles.