Igniting Our Cellular Intelligence

Here in North America we are heading back to school in September. And with that transition can come all sorts of challenges relative to both learning and social skills.

Back in the day when we only had three combinations – Balancer, Abundance and Heart Spirit – one of our distributors said, “You know Blue Camas is the best Essence in the world for children with dyslexia and other learning challenges with language and numbers. But how is anyone ever going to know that? How is anyone ever going to find Blue Camas? Why don’t you make a combination for learning?”

And so we did! But first, how did we even know that Blue Camas could be useful for learning challenges? I have talked before about the Doctrine of Signatures, which has been used cross-culturally for centuries to identify the healing possibilities of plants. Google say it is “a historical medical theory which proposes that plants, minerals, and animals display physical marks, shapes, or colors that mirror the human body parts or ailments they can cure.” And while many see it as pseudo-science, I have often seen it as providing valuable clues to what the plant might be effective for.

In any case, with Blue Camas (camassia quamashi), what we saw was a green sphere in the centre surrounded by six deep blue-violet petals. The pistil looked like the corpus callosum – the bundle of nerve fibres which link the left and right hemispheres of the brain. The six petals represent balance and harmony.  

Another part of our early research protocol involved using Kinesiology to see which meridians of TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) were impacted by an Essence. It turned out that Blue Camas resonated with both the Kidney and Bladder meridians, which are in the Water element in TCM. They relate to the brain and central nervous system in TCM, and the emotion of the Water element is Fear.

At the time, I was working with children with learning disabilities with a system called Educational Kinesiology and Brain Gym. I noted that children who suffered from dyslexia and other learning challenges often became fearful to express themselves in class, or became overactive and disruptive. So I began experimenting with Blue Camas with great success.

When our distributor suggested creating an Essence Combination, we added two more ingredients and called it Optimal Learning. The two additional ingredients are Blue Lupin (lupinus rivularis) which assists with focus and attention, and Rainbow Kelp (iridaea cordata) which balances functions of the front and back brain – rationality and reactivity. These three Essences together – Blue Camas, Blue Lupin and Rainbow Kelp – became the unique resonance for Optimal Learning.

Over time we discovered this combination was beneficial not just for children with learning challenges, but also for grownups who kept repeating the same mistakes over and over again. For instance, people who keep getting into dysfunctional relationships and always blame the other person when in fact the common denominator is themselves. Or people who are rigidly stuck in black and white logical thinking but find any form of creative expression impossible.  Or the other side of the coin, people who are living in creative expression but can’t pay the bills because they don’t seem to have a practical bone in their bodies or the ability to plan and make fundamental survival choices.

There are a few other Essences in our repertory which have also proven to have a beneficial impact on brain function. One of the most important ones is Coral (pocillopora meandrina) which has repeatedly demonstrated that it assists with neuroplasticity of the brain, especially post-stroke.  

Remember, when we use Essences we are not using a chemical substance to change or to cure some physical dis-ease. We are relying on the intelligence of each cell in our Body/Mind to know how to function optimally to maintain the well-being of the whole. And this innate cellular intelligence is explained by the science of epigenetics - the study of how our behaviours and our environment can change how our genes work. I just finished listening to a brilliant audio course from Sounds True called The Wisdom in Your Cells by Bruce Lipton. This was a coherent explanation of how our Body/Minds function at the level of our cells.

But back to Blue Camas, and what we noticed about children becoming fearful or hyperactive when they made repeated mistakes in the classroom. When they took Optimal Learning, those behaviours changed and they were able to begin to learn with ease and participate more easily in classroom. We have also received stories from people who took Optimal Learning and all of a sudden realized that the common denominator in their failed relationships was themselves. And also from people who lived with their head in the clouds, so to speak, and all of a sudden found themselves creating a budget and living within it.

There are many applications for this 'Good Vibration' as we call our Essence Combinations. And funnily enough in The Wisdom of Your Cells Bruce Lipton refers to the cell membrane of each of the trillion cells that make up our Body/Minds as being able to recognize ‘good vibrations’ and sustain well-being through that capacity.

There’s so much to learn!!