There's An Essence For That!
As we launch ourselves into a brand-new year, I want to introduce you to our updated search database on our website! It’s now even easier to search for almost any kind of symptom, experience, attitude, or emotion you would like to shift or change.
In our search bar, you can key in a physical symptom, a mental propensity, or an habitual emotion. You can choose a challenge you want to release, or a new state of being you would like to welcome. It is important to find one key word that clearly describes something you want to release – anger, fear, judgement, uncertainty. Alternatively, you might search for something you want to welcome – self-esteem, joy, love. Then you will see the top five for ten (or in the case of love 24!) Essences that have something to offer in your particular quest for well-being.
Select your Essence of choice, and click on the Repertory tab to reveal a detailed description of the qualities and associations for this Essence. You may need to read a few repertory descriptions to find out which Essence addresses precisely what you want, but it’s worth it. In fact, this specificity is one of the reasons we offer 144 unique flower, tree, gem, and sea Essences!
I am not sure if I have ever shared this story before, but a friend was living in the interior of BC when forest fires caused her small community to be evacuated. Wanting to help, she thought she would give everyone Fireweed Essence because its profile is very much about healing scorched earth and restoring equilibrium after trauma. But first she decided to use muscle testing with each person to confirm that Fireweed would assist them. In fact, Fireweed was only positive for one person! The other folks needed different Essences to help restore their equanimity and get them through the experience, because each one was reacting and responding based on their own unique life experiences and cellular memories of other challenging times.
My point is that while Fireweed would have benefitted everyone, the reality is that there might be a more precise energetic intervention to support an individual, and that’s why it is worth narrowing down the search so that you can achieve optimal results.
All the data we use is based on the understanding of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). So you can search for a physical symptom like breathing or asthma, and it will bring you to all the Essences which have a connection to physical, emotional or mental symptoms that may be part of the experience.
Either way, the critical piece for healing is to shift the energy which is holding the condition in place, whether it is physical, emotional or mental. And this is why I love TCM, because somehow the original barefoot doctors saw human beings as both Body and Mind and understood that in order for healing to occur all aspects of the person needed to be addressed.
Our database will keep evolving as we continue to include data from over 30 years of case studies from around the world. All of it is rooted in the five elements of TCM.
This chart shows the primary emotions which relate to each of the five elements of TCM. None of these are inherently negative emotions, they are simply expressions of our responses to life experience. While each element has only one emotion, the range of expression of that emotion is a lot broader than that one word. For example, anger may seem like a negative emotion but in fact it is sometimes an absolutely appropriate response to whatever is in front of us. However, if we stay in the state of anger it can morph into chronic frustration, resentment and depression – all feelings which are unpleasant and harmful to our health and well-being.
So in order to live the best year you have ever lived, I invite you to check out the magnifying glass on our website. Key in a word that describes a state of being you would like to welcome, or a word that describes a challenge you want to release, and see what comes up. Even though our Combination Essences will come up because of their ingredients, I encourage you to go directly to the single remedies in order to get the best result for you.
I can pretty much guarantee that you will notice huge shifts in your reality if you actually take the Essence. You know I have always experienced these Essences as living conscious energies whose sole purpose in coming into our lives is to bring light and healing to whatever is troubling us. It is a co-creative partnership between each of us and Mother Nature.
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PS - I first heard the title of this blog post from our friend and colleague, Mindy Sampson from Healing Waters. Thank you, Mindy!
