Mom’s Lessons About Healing Gifts of Wool​
If there is one teacher in this lifetime who continually infuses wisdom, healing, and strength into my life, then it is Mom. While many wise and inspiring teachers have enriched my paths in magical and marvelous ways, it is mom’s gifts that always meet me when they are most needed. Then, the time comes to multiply those blessings by sharing them with others.
A Story from
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Healing Properties of Wool
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Wool helps maintain the body temperature so well that its fibers are an excellent choice for clothing items for any season and weather.
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There are many stories mothers and grandmothers tell showing how wool garments bring relief to aches in and tiredness in joints and muscles.
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Some stories from their experiences and friends go as far as examples of relief in struggles related to arthritis, rheum, and sciatica.
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Garments made of pure wool radiate warmth that feels like an embrace boosting the experience of health and supporting the natural regenerative and healing processes in unseen and warm ways. (If you are thinking here that woolen items are not soft, you have not experienced working with finely and masterfully spun wool fibers. 😊 )
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Compresses prepared with herbal oils and applied with a piece of woolen cloth have brought me great relief many times as mom would come to check on me in times of disturbed sleep, aching lower back, neck tension migraines, and more.
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There is something so healing and calming about untreated pure wool that is related to the presence of lanolin on its fibers that brings comfort and healing.
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Vitality of the skin and youthful appearance seem to be nourished and expanded when synthetic garments are replaced with woolen items made of untreated sheep, goat, alpaca or camel fibers which still contain their original waxy substances and traces of lanolin.
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Let's Knit!
Video 1: Casting on & Knitting the Cuff
The nature of our working life these years is very connected to online communications, working at a desk, and sitting or standing for considerable amounts of time. While we continually have to stay vigilant to keep moving our bodies, balancing indoor / outdoor time, and nourishing ourselves correctly, we can also bring into our daily routine healing gifts of pure wool to help us feel better on those long workdays.
Wearing a pair of your handmade wool socks, mother’s lessons explain, will bring not only temperature regulation but will also support the body’s nervous system through its healing effects on our feet.
Draping a wool shawl over your shoulders or wearing a vest or a belt made of pure wool while working at your desk, mom explains, brings relief of neck and back tension that otherwise builds up during the workday. That means fewer tension headaches and more energy for doing fun things with friends and family after your day’s work.
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Video 2: Introductory Colorwork Pattern
Ways of Bringing Healing Properties of Wool Into Daily Life
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Many old folk stories tell about improved circulation, better sleep, improved cardiovascular health, and overall immunity and vitality arising from wearing
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Felted slippers and shoes
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Wool knitted socks
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Video 3: Sock Leg Rib Pattern
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Other stories tell about the benefits that lanolin offers as it melts with the warmth of our body supporting one’s respiratory functions, relieveing muscle and back tension, improving sleep, when one wears
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A woolen shawl
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A woolen vest
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Wool knitted socks
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Let's Knit!
Video 4: Heel and Gusset
Additional personal accounts point to how people have experienced the ways in which the quality of wool which makes it an insulator and a material that wicks away moisture allows its holistic spectrum of properties to assist the body when healing from sprains, strains, fractures, and other situations when body is straining to regenerate and rebuild. Those who shared these experiences say that they found it most helpful to
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Apply compresses of healing oils with the use of woolen cloths
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Wear garments and socks covering the affected areas
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Wrapping the affected area with wool scarves