Homemade Decongestant / Mind-Body Health

I just came across this natural decongestant recipe that sounds wonderful. I'm hoping never to need it but if I do...
http://titus2homemaker.com/2013/01/homemade-decongestant/

As a note on hoping never to need it...
I have found incredibly strong proof (experience over and over and over again) that mental and emotional health are INEXTRICABLY tied to your physical health.
When I am calm, chew well, and am in good company–my digestion is unnoticeable (and so healthy).
When I inhale my food, rush, am not paying attention to it, and am stressed–My digestion immediately fails (read bloating, indigestion, gas, stabbing pains).
When I am stressed, overloaded, overwhelmed–I get sick.
When I take time for myself, breathe, sleep extra, do nice things for myself when I'm getting sick–I get better quickly.
If I stay stressed, overloaded, and overwhelmed when I'm getting sick–I'm sick for 2 weeks.
When I'm feeling like I'm about to have a panic attack and I choose to breathe, settle, and be 5 minutes late for work–I am ok again.
When I'm feeling like I'm about to have a panic attack and I choose to rush to work and stress about lateness–I burst into tears there and cannot stop crying.

Your mind and body are inextricable connected.
Take a moment to pay attention to your body, just a moment, once a day.
See where it can take you.
Your body is full of it's own intelligence, you just need to remember how to listen.

Arts and Sustainability

I started a business running dance and creativity workshops in elementary schools three years ago, with a major revamp to the structure this past summer: www.bodymindconfidance.com 
It's important to me.
Creative dance connects people to their bodies in an age of disconnect.
Creative dance creates community, promotes co-operation, and practices team-building.
Creative dance promotes empathy, understanding, and self-awareness.
Beauty.

But I'm also becoming more and more interested in other sides of self-wellness:
Connecting to nature,
Realizing our place in the cycle of the world, not at the top of a non-existant pyramid,
Understanding where the food that nourishes us comes from,
Understanding that things take time and you can't rush them without consequences,
Taking time and care to feed our bodies with nutritious food that will literally fuel us.
This is the Urban Organic Homesteading Experiment side.

But I had a meeting with the Program Director at Arts For Children and Youth today.

One of the things we spoke about was my interest in sustainability and food.

She suggested creating workshops that merge the arts and topics in sustainability.

BUT OF COURSE!!!

How had I never thought of that?

I'm coming to realize that a thing I want to do is build awareness about subjects that are life-changing and important.

I'm coming to realize that perhaps the side of me that always shied away from the word 'activist' because of the very specific image I had in my head is coming around and expanding her view. 

I'm coming to realize that I'm beginning to advocate for mind-body health, wellness, and awareness.

Maybe the answers aren't changing what you do completely, but changing how you do the thing you do already.  Maybe that's innovation.

I'm not sure how these things I'm doing are going to support me but I trust that they will, somehow.
Things will work out because I will make them.
I will support myself,
Meet people,
Be excited,
Learn,
Be passionate.
Let's see how this all pans out.