The Sacred Sunflower: Organic, Cold-Pressed Sunflower Oil

I am a great sunflower lover and of all things that are created from a sunflower. It’s pure beauty and sentient way mystifies me. The percision with how it grows in the nature’s creation sequence, as explained by Fibonnaci, leaves me captivated for hours on end. It is truly a breathtaking flower and plant. While over the years there has been a strategic move in the food and health industry to suggest sunflower seeds and many other “seed oils” are bad for you. This is intentional because, guess what, it is GOOD for you. As long as it is not fake or the oil is produced under high heat. Organic, cold pressed seed oils are beneficials for humans. I wrote this for one of my groups and thought this would be a great add to this share here. I will expand upon this further as we head into spring and fall. (Practice: observe when you start repeating sound bites and adopting them as fact without doing extensive research. Sound bites are a intended to control the masses and shape your behavior.)

The Sunflower is deeply acknowledged and scientifically proven to have beneficial nutrition and healing properties in Ayurveda, TCM and in many cultures all over the world. It is actually balancing for all constitutions. In Ayurveda this would be expressed as all three doshas (Vata, Pitta, and Kapha). Its flavor is astringent and sweet. It benefits lungs, liver, skin, heart and more. It is a natural source of vitamin E and color being yellow. . .serves as a friend to assist in healing your life force, engage your will and redirect you to your destiny. In addition, it is a fantastic remediator in the event your skin comes in contact with contaminanted environmental conditions or toxicity build up from medication from within.

Sunflower oil is a carrier oil. I use this often in the custom body oils I hand craft. The oil assists in cellular repair, skin rejuvenation and balancing hormones. Coupled with using it regularly on the body, it will help cleanse your energy channels and eliminate stagnation. Therapeutically, it helps the skin, respiratory, cardiovascular, mental and nutrional well being. If you want to learn more, simply reply to this e-mail. While, we will not see these beauties rise up quite yet. It is always helpful to understand how they are here to support us. Coupled with in their off season (aka now), we are intended to plant them, utilize the oil and enjoy the seeds. Coming into spring the oil and seeds are espeically grounding and helpful in removing liver stagnation.

Bonus you can find this oil in your grocery store. Look for COLD PRESSED, ORGANIC SUNFLOWER OIL. My rule of thumb, if you cannot eat it do not apply it to your body or cook with it.