March 17 marked seven years since my late husband Steve's passing. For those new to Alaskan Essences, you may be interested in learning how his essence-making journey started. Steve Johnson began making flower essences 41 years ago in the wilderness of Alaska, where he worked as a wilderness firefighter. Immersed in seemingly endless wilderness, extreme wildfires, massive storms, and acres of wildflowers, Steve sensed an abundance of support available in the vast and pristine land. Alaska's vibrational purity and aliveness and the plants adapted to thrive in extreme environments inspired him to make his first flower essences.
In the summer of 1983, he was guided to make eight essences, of which Jacob's Ladder was the first. The following year, he created the business to focus more on this advanced form of natural healing and facilitate better collecting and researching of new flower essences. His job as a wilderness firefighter provided him with many unique opportunities to observe nature and prepare essences in remote areas of the state. In 1991, after 21 seasons of fighting fires, he retired to concentrate on the processes of preparing, researching, and teaching about the essences. You can read more about his journey HERE.
I used to join Steve in Alaska to assist during his practitioner training and go on essence-making trips together. We enjoyed road trips to discover new places, hiking, finding flowers, listening to music, and spending quality time together. Little did we know that while we were on these adventures, Steve was teaching me how to continue his work. Now, I explore and create essences independently, but I still feel Steve's constant presence and guidance, and I never feel alone when I am there.
~ Judith Poelarends, Director
]]>As we mature emotionally and spiritually, we learn to recognize and understand our emotions, yet understanding anger can be difficult. Anger is a normal human emotion, but many people find it challenging to deal with. It’s not something all parents model well, let alone teach us to understand anger or how to express it assertively. Consequently, we may not know how to move through these powerful emotions or stay open and present with others when they are angry.
One popular strategy we acquire is to suppress and avoid uncomfortable emotions. Suppression and avoidance can perpetuate inner turmoil until we become overwhelmed, bitter, and resentful. Another strategy channels unresolved anger into aggression and violence, which never ends well. Whatever our strategy, living with unresolved resentment and anger can consume our life force and negatively affect our mental, emotional, and physical well-being.
The following essences can help us learn and grow from our anger and resentment while freeing ourselves from its constraints. They can take us into quiet, inner spaces to question the evidence supporting our anger and consider different perspectives that better meet our needs. Staying present with our anger, we can intentionally break through layers of armoring, enter into the pain we are avoiding, and discover what lies beneath the feelings. These essences help us feel safe with powerful emotions so we can focus on what serves us best—releasing resentment and embracing forgiveness. These essences also help us recognize when our buttons get pushed so we can make different choices, and when anger seeks to divide us, they support a path to connection—clear and heart-centered communication.
Mountain Wormwood - releasing resentment towards self and others.
Mountain Wormwood flower essence helps those carrying deep disappointment and grudges. Perhaps a friend betrayed us, a partner left us suddenly, or disagreements erupted among siblings after the parents were gone. Holding onto resentment requires a lot of energy. We waste even more energy when we attempt to justify our pain by pushing against the situation that created it or by trying to prove ourselves right and another wrong. Mountain Wormwood helps us become aware when defending ourselves or holding energy against someone. It allows us to identify the thoughts that keep us engaged in an us-versus-them dynamic. It provides the gifts of forgiveness and resolution to release the ‘worms of discontent,’ clear out resentments, and allow our judgments to dissolve. When this happens, we can reclaim all that energy for ourselves.
Blue Elf Viola - understanding and releasing anger through the heart.
Blue Elf Viola is essential for expressing strong emotions, primarily anger. When unable to express anger in a clear and nonviolent way, we may have difficulty resolving conflicts and unintentionally hurt the people we care about. It takes a lot of our vital energy to keep anger bottled up. Still, it can be difficult to release if we have isolated ourselves for protection or to avoid confronting emotions that arise with others. The calming vibration of these cheerful Blue Elf Viola flowers supports the process of understanding and releasing deeply held anger and frustration. This essence utilizes the heart's energy to help us understand the core issues at the root of our emotions so we can positively express ourselves and forgive those responsible, including ourselves. Blue Elf Viola empowers us to create a new foundation of emotional honesty that is clear, open, and always supported by the heart.
Bloodstone - releasing emotional tension and promoting grounding.
Bloodstone gem elixir is an excellent remedy for those with unresolved emotions who tend to express emotional negativity or are prone to outbursts of anger and rage. It also helps when we have a pattern of avoiding uncomfortable emotions, relying too heavily on our mental process. Bloodstone opens and harmonizes the connection between the heart chakra and the Earth by clearing and releasing emotional blockages in the lower chakras. Clearing away this dense energy opens the energetic pathway between the heart and the Earth. With improved energy flow, sticky emotions get washed away as earth energy flows through what was once blocked, and divine healing energy returns to our body.
Sweetgale – improving emotional interactions and communication in relationships.
The essence of Sweetgale is essential when emotional communication with others is defensive, lacking clarity, and characterized by conflict, guilt, and the assignment of blame, especially when our reactive ‘buttons’ get pushed. This plant manifests healing energy through the unique relationship between its male and female catkins that occur on different plants, communicating with each other through a vibrational link. Similarly, Sweetgale flower essence strengthens our ability to relate to others on a feeling level. Its stimulating and vibrant energy penetrates our emotional energy centers to help us confront old layers of pain and negativity affecting the quality of our emotional interactions. Once we identify these feelings, we can begin to understand and complete the lessons connected with them, allowing any corresponding energy blockages to be released. Sweetgale also helps us reclaim our emotional space after an argument or upset and restores calm and strength to our emotional centers to respond directly and appropriately to one another regardless of the situation.
Tiger's Eye - maintaining a strong sense of self when relating to powerful emotions.
Are you comfortable interacting with people who express anger? For those who are highly sensitive or have an undeveloped or ungrounded sense of self, it is easy to take on the emotional energy of others. Tiger's Eye helps by strengthening the energetic boundary between our emotional experiences and true nature, reinforcing the inner aspects of self-knowing by grounding how we perceive ourselves. With a strong and protected sense of identity, the intense emotions of others can't sweep us away. This essence also helps us maintain the strong sense of self-identity we require when facing uncomfortable emotions within ourselves.
Twinflower – promoting presence and neutrality in crucial conversations.
Twinflower is an excellent essence for anyone who tends to be reactive, impatient, or defensive in crucial conversations. When communicating with others about things that make us upset or angry, staying present enough to hear and understand what someone is saying can be challenging. If we are agitated or distracted, we aren't available to receive their words or understand what they need us to hear. And, if they choose words meant to elicit an emotional response from us, it can be difficult to stay neutral and not react. Twinflower essence encourages us to be present and calm within crucial conversations to hear the message, not just the words, a requirement to speak and be heard by others. It also helps us choose words with focused intent and project them with clarity to help others hear and understand the essence of what we have to say. Twinflower's support encourages the creation of heart-centered objectivity so we can maintain neutrality even when receiving emotionally charged words from another person.
Do you like working with oracle cards or angel cards? You may like our Flower Energy Cards as well. I like to describe them as '72 flower friends in a treasure box' :-). They connect us to our intuition and provide insight and advice any time of the day or night.
How to use the Flower Energy Cards:
Set a healing intention and select an inspirational card for the day, or use the cards to find answers to questions like:
Choose a card intuitively, either by shuffling the deck and picking one from the middle or from the top, or you can spread them out and select the image you’re most attracted to. Once you select the card, look at the flower and notice how the flower makes you feel. Notice how the energy is working with you.
Read the keywords and the affirmations and allow their meaning to sink in. When you read or speak the affirmations, you are training yourself towards the positive vibrational patterns they represent.
Place the card on your altar, on your desk, or under your pillow, wherever you feel the healing energy can best support you.
It is always helpful to read more about the flower’s indications and healing qualities to better understand why it came up. This process may provide some interesting ‘aha’ moments and help you find peace with whatever is going on. You can do this by looking up the flower in our Reference Guide.
Play with the cards and enjoy the magic!
"These beautiful cards are a delight to work with. Sometimes, they reveal very profound insights. I enjoy picking one in the morning as an affirmation and thought for the day." ~ Christina
]]>"To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment." ~ Eckhart Tolle
When we finally slow down and check in with ourselves at the end of a busy day, we can see how far we have disappeared into identifying with our thoughts and the day's unfolding. The power of distraction can steal our attention, while chaos and turmoil are like giant magnets that pull us away from our center. Before we know it, we've entered a mental hamster wheel of intrusive, repetitive thinking that keeps us from fully engaging with life. From the other end of the spectrum, presence and stillness allow us to respond to life with clarity and intention instead of reacting without conscious thought or consideration. When we quiet our minds, we can simultaneously be present in our inner stillness and aware of outside distractions. Experiencing' being' and 'doing' in unison invites more peace and joy and allows us to engage more fully with life.
When we experience the stillness behind our thoughts, we are more fully connected and aligned with our true selves. There are many tools to help us relax and detach from our mind chatter and invite more presence in our lives, like meditation, mindfulness apps, and being outside and connecting with Nature. The essences we are featuring this month help quiet our overactive minds and allow us to remain present and calm within moments of mental noise and chaos so we can stay on a mindful track instead of a mindless hamster wheel. They teach us to be present and centered in a world of distractions while accessing the silent watcher, our conscious observer of reality.
Cassandra - encouraging stillness of mind
Cassandra is helpful when we have difficulty shifting our attention and perspective from the outer world to our inner world or when we feel distracted and unable to relax into a meditative state. Cassandra encourages stillness of mind that helps us 'be' while we 'do.' It also promotes sensory relaxation so our perceptual focus can turn inward and align with the ebb and flow of our life essence. Cassandra is also helpful in space clearing to bring calm, quiet energy into a work environment, which is very beneficial for people who have jobs that require a strong mental focus over long periods.
Aquamarine – returning to a state of calm mental alertness
Aquamarine gem elixir brings a calm, cooling clarity to an overactive mental body. When there is too much mental stimulation, we may lose focus and become irritable and agitated. The preventive action of aquamarine creates a mental oasis of clear receptivity, reversing the effects of overwhelm and overstimulation. It does this by helping us monitor the degree of mental stimulation we allow into our lives like a temperature gauge while providing non-reactive energy to slow down and calm our minds before they become wired or overheated. It is beneficial when the mind, and consequently the nervous system, has been in a prolonged state of excitation and arousal. Children and adults who are behind screens a lot are particularly susceptible to this. Aquamarine counters overstimulation by stabilizing and re-grounding the connection between the soul, mind, and heart. It encourages us to move our focus inward, which in turn slows down the rate of input. We can then easily return to a calm state of mental alertness.
Valerian – encouraging comfort and relaxed alertness
Valerian flower essence is calming and energizing when we feel agitated and scattered and have difficulty relaxing the mind and body. It brings a feeling of relaxed alertness—of being at rest and having energy simultaneously. This essence is essential for those of us who are regularly too busy and often push ourselves past the point of tiredness. Valerian can help us find a natural balance between action and rest to be mentally focused when we want or need to and then return to a state of peace and relaxation. Valerian advocates the enjoyment of the moment over worry about the future. It encourages a heart-based sensory experience of life over a thought-based mental experience. As we slow down and sense the moments of our day, our appreciation of everything increases.
Red Elder – returning to center when we're unfocused and scatttered
Red Elder flower essence brings feminine, nurturing, gentle, and soft energy to those who try to manage and keep track of everything in their lives. When we rely primarily on our mental forces, we can disassociate from our bodies and become unfocused. This essence helps contract an overly expanded state of being to view life from our center rather than the periphery. It improves our grounding and physical presence by releasing mental and emotional tension into the Earth and inviting us back to our center to enjoy the bounty of life within our bodies. Most importantly, this essence radiates a message from the Earth that all is well to help us participate more fully in the co-creative life cycle. As we receive more nourishment from our physical environment, we are better equipped to nurture the Earth and others.
Jadeite Jade – encouraging peace, balance, and presence
Jadeite Jade gem essence offers an energy of ease, simplicity, and protection that allows the heart to be at peace and rest. It also works on the mental level by helping us open to the timelessness of the present moment. This essence reveals how relaxation moves us back to our center and how anxiety, stress, and struggle move us away from the present moment. In more extreme cases, Jadeite Jade can help reverse an over-identification with chaos and addiction to drama by penetrating through our tendency for striving, busyness, and confusion. Jadeite Jade reminds us that we can rest in our center because there is nowhere else we need to be. When we are centered and content with where we are, our soul, personality, heart, and mind resonate in a symphony of being that is uniquely beautiful.
Star Ruby - focus, grounding, and awareness in the present moment
Star Ruby gem elixir is helpful when we are easily distracted or have difficulty focusing due to a lack of grounding and when we lose sight of the bigger picture from being caught up in the emotions or mental details of a situation. Star Ruby brings more focus to the body and the present moment. When our focus is in the present moment and aligned with our physical bodies, our capacity to comprehend and process information is greatly improved. Being more grounded and focused in the body helps us attune to our senses—we hear better, see better, and notice more, making life interesting, enticing, and enjoyable.
More Essences for Embracing Stillness and Presence:
With so much turmoil going on in the world, like natural disasters and wars, we'd like to put the spotlight on an important essence made from Reindeer Moss.
Reindeer Moss essence addresses deep archetypal grief when our connection to our homeland is severed by natural disasters like wildfires and hurricanes and the human-caused displacement of warfare. The essence of Reindeer Moss helps us acknowledge and heal our suffering and eases the grief of being uprooted.
Reindeer Moss is actually not a moss at all. It is a lichen, a short, spongy, thread-like ground cover that thrives throughout open rocky areas in Alaska. Slow-growing pillow-like mats grow only 3–5 mm a year yet live for over a century. These mats spread over countless miles, providing abundant nourishment for reindeer and caribou. This ancient plant has seen and measured our collective evolution through the ages. It expands our awareness of the continuum, the constant, eternal nature of life, to help us understand ourselves and our history—what has been, what is, and what will be.
In this video on YouTube, Steve Johnson, the founder of Alaskan Essences, talks about the Reindeer Moss essence. He explains how it helps humans and animals after disconnecting from ancestral homes and habitats or losing one's home or business due to circumstances beyond one's control. Reindeer Moss opens awareness of life's constant and eternal nature and reconnects us to the planet and our place in the world during and after significant and sudden changes.
]]>Challenging events and life choices may trigger fear we are unaware of. Making important decisions can be especially daunting if we don't know the outcome and consequences. When we realize that a once safe and familiar path actually leads to unhappiness, an unconscious fear of the unknown can prevent us from changing direction. We often aren't aware that fear is holding us back because we have grown so accustomed to our fear responses they seem a part of who we are.
Since how we perceive the world impacts our life experiences, world events can contribute to our fear and uncertainty about the future. Reading or watching news reports of disasters and possible threats can worsen the uncertainty. We can stop this fear-feeding cycle by intentionally tracking and limiting our time online and filling our time with more things we love, including outdoor activities, spending time with friends, family, and pets, focusing on hobbies and creative projects, meditating or reading a novel.
Lucky for us, fearful feelings arise for reexamination each day.
Flower essences are the perfect tools for increasing self-awareness and restoring inner balance. They help us understand whether fear is present, what triggers our fear and why, how fear affects our well-being, and how to break through self-imposed limitations. Flower essences empower us to take control of our lives by helping us tap into our innate strengths of calm, confidence, and trust when outside distractions and fear-based thinking make life difficult. They help us create more ease by building trust in ourselves and our chosen path and knowing we will be okay. They help us transform fearful thinking into life-affirming courage and boldness to move through uncertainty, where the unknown does not hold us back, and we can explore all life offers.
Are you aware of the thoughts going through your mind and how they make you feel? Is fear holding you back from what you desire? The following essences can help you understand and transform fear-based patterns by identifying negative and fearful thoughts and replacing them with realistic, positive thinking.
Bog Rosemary - releasing fear by trusting spiritual guidance
This flower essence is helpful when fear of the unknown immobilizes us. Any authentic experience of transformation requires us to transcend our known reality and venture into unexplored regions of ourselves. A deeply held fear of the unknown can block our ability to move into and occupy these new inner spaces. The essence of Bog Rosemary strengthens the virtue of trust and extends its energy to our hearts so we feel divinely supported while present with our deepest fears. Fear is released when we shine the light of awareness onto it. Each time we confront and embrace a new part of ourselves with the light of understanding, we build more trust in ourselves and the light itself.
Aventurine – cultivating the courage to face unknown adventures
Aventurine gem elixir connects us to our inherent power and heart-centered courage, inspiring us to open ourselves more than ever to the joy and excitement of living. It is essential when we lack stamina and fortitude or want to quit when faced with obstacles, especially our limiting belief systems. When life tests our resolve with significant changes, this essence provides the strength and stability we need to move into and through new experiences with grace, stamina, and perseverance. This a powerful essence for spiritual trailblazers and pioneers because it helps us gain a new level of trust in ourselves, move past our control zone, and become more comfortable exploring the edge of the unknown.
Foxglove – transforming thoughts and beliefs that cause fear
Foxglove flower essence empowers us to live fearlessly by strengthening our hearts to remain open in response to conflict or challenge. This essence helps when we have lost our perspective because our fear is so intense our perceptions close down, and we don't know what to do or which way to go. The more we identify with the predicament, the more potent our fear becomes. Foxglove relieves the energetic tension around the heart accompanying this experience while restoring clear breathing and energy flow. This essence expands our perspective to see beyond fear into the underlying thoughts, feelings, and belief systems responsible for it. Foxglove provides the insight that while fear is real, love is more potent — and the quickest way to move through any fear is to open our hearts to love.
Soapberry - facing fearful situations with an open heart
Soapberry flower essence is helpful in case of fear of animals, fear of going out in Nature and fear of the power of Nature, including natural events outside our control. Soapberry teaches us that we are also part of Nature, and fear can limit us from fully experiencing life and all the beauty that Mother Earth has to offer. Soapberry encourages us to move beyond the limitations we set for ourselves and others, including our children, so we may all live more fully. While natural events can wreak havoc on our lives, Soapberry invites us not to let that fear define our lives or well-being. This essence asks us to consider the dimensions and activities our lives might hold if we did not let fear guide us.
False Hellebore - releasing fear from our heart
False Hellebore flower essence promotes the release of false concepts and old ways of viewing life that may cause us to become inflexible and stuck on our path. This essence is helpful when we feel insecure and are holding back because of a fear of moving forward. It catalyzes movement from the old to the new and helps us face our deepest, darkest fears. It is helpful when we resist being in a physical body on the earth. False Hellebore helps us understand that fear can only appear when focusing on the past or future. This essence helps us maintain a strong and profoundly nurturing connection with the earth, making it easier to stay in the present moment where fear cannot manifest.
Yellow Violet - confidence to express yourself and your truth
This flower essence is helpful when fear blocks our self-expression by anticipating others' judgment or ridicule or when there is a challenge or controversy around a topic of discussion. Yellow Violet is all about fearlessness. It restores a deep-seated belief in and confidence in our abilities. The message of this essence is, "When your Soul and Spirit reside within, there is no room for fear. It is very simple: just BE!" This essence also promotes a more robust inflow of communication from the higher self and the angelic and spiritual realms. This support helps you be present in the world and encourages you to express yourself truthfully and without compromise.
More Essences to Encourage Fearless Living:
Larimar – promotes safety and peace to help us relax and receive nurturing without struggle
Tundra Rose – helps us overcome the fear of death, restores hope and courage
Round-Leaved Sundew – builds trust in the unknown and unknowable
Lavender Yarrow – strengthens and balances the flow of spiritual energy into the heart
Crowberry – helps us overcome the fear of our shadow self to accept the whole of who we are
Spectrolite – refreshes and renews our perspective on life; builds discernment
Lapland Rosebay – encourages going within for wisdom and a deeper perspective
The following four essential formulas and sprays benefit everyone living with the challenges of our modern times. Soul Support is our go-to formula for anything stressful or traumatic, helping us stay grounded and centered when chaos surrounds us. Fireweed Combo combines the transformational qualities of four fireweed species to help us stay present and engaged with any process of healing and change. Calling All Angels connects us to Divine Nurturing energy that lifts us up to know all is well when we feel troubled and unsupported. Easy Learning helps us stay focused on whatever task or job is in front of us, whether it’s a day at the office or school, improving all aspects of learning and processing information.
Soul Support Emergency Formula is our #1 remedy for stress, emotional upset, trauma, or whenever life feels overwhelming. It provides strength and stability and helps us remain present and grounded to process what is happening around us and within us. In times of upheaval, we tend to keep moving forward while blocking and ignoring stressful energy and emotions. Soul Support helps us keep our energy moving so we don't need to deal with a backlog of stuck, unprocessed energy and emotions later.Our Soul Support Spray contains this formula plus the soothing, clarifying properties of a high-quality organic Lavender oil. This spray is beneficial for calming, grounding, and centering the energy in your environment and your personal energy field.
Use Soul Support to:
Fireweed Combo Transformation Formula contains four different fireweed species growing in unique ecosystems: Fireweed, White Fireweed, River Beauty, and Dwarf Fireweed. Fireweed is one of the first plants to grow after the soil has been disturbed by wilderness fires and floods and where glaciers are receding. It thrives in nutrient-poor soils to restore balance to disturbed and damaged environments. In turn, these flower essences reconnect our physical body to the life force of the Earth and her etheric network of restorative vital energy. This connection provides the grounding and stability we need to cope with constant change and allows us to view adverse circumstances as the potential for cleansing and growth. As the old falls away, we can create experiences filled with beauty and joy.
Use Fireweed Combo to:
Calling All Angels Divine Nurturing Formula helps us feel embraced, uplifted, and know all is well on this rocky ride called life. It is like a big hug from the angels! The essences in this formula bring uplifting and protective energy, allowing us to experience the support and love from the angelic kingdom and all of Nature. It delivers a soft, loving, and serene embrace to your heart, physical body, and environment.
The Calling All Angels Spray contains this formula plus precious essential oils to enhance its energetic qualities. The joyful and calming scents of Bulgarian Red Rose Otto, Alpine Lavender, Pink Grapefruit, and Carnation Absolute encourage the release of tension in our hearts so we can open and receive loving peace from the angelic realms.
Use Calling all Angels to:
Easy Learning Focus & Integration Formula is for those heading back to school, the office, or when you struggle to complete your to-do lists. Easy Learning helps us stay focused in the classroom and behind the desk! It supports our ability to process and integrate information, increasing our understanding and the logical application of knowledge. Easy Learning clears our minds to methodically prioritize our tasks and eliminate distractions, making it easier to find a productive workflow.
The Easy Learning Spray contains this formula plus the organic essential oils of Basil, Coriander, Fresh Ginger, Laurel, Lemon, Rosemary, and Spearmint. These bright and refreshing oils enhance memory and mental focus, relieve mental fatigue, and promote inspiration.
Use Easy Learning when:
How to use these Formulas and Sprays
Take two drops of the formulas four times daily, straight from the bottle, or put the drops in your water or tea whenever you need support. Using them continuously for a few weeks can be helpful to shift your feelings and related behavior. Use the sprays in your home, places of work or study, or wherever you need to invoke immediate support in your energy field and environment. Using the formulas and sprays simultaneously provides a robust system of energetic support.
]]>Wellness practitioners are passionate about helping others increase their emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. They are often highly intuitive and devote a lot of time and energy to their work. Many dedicated practitioners give quality care to clients and extend the same care to friends, family, co-workers, and neighbors, often leaving insufficient time and energy to nurture themselves. When we feel consumed by life's demands, we may imagine there isn't enough time to give our healing gifts to others and care for ourselves. That's a loss for us all.
Juggling many balls at once is expected when you're self-employed or run a small business. And if we worry that one of those balls might drop with any lapse in our attention, it places self-care and me-time on the back burner. Using essences can counteract this cycle and help us feel vitalized at the end of the day, but we must also stay mindful of where our energy goes. Noticing the thoughts and activities that refuel our batteries and those that deplete our vitality is essential when creating a sustainable work-life balance.
Essences can also help us create and maintain functional boundaries, which is crucial for energy workers who naturally tune into other's state of being. Without boundaries, subconscious patterns can drive us to blend and empathize with others, causing us to take on energies that are not ours. When both rested and energized, we can be fully present for what lies ahead. We would all benefit from the simple habit of checking in with ourselves several times daily: How am I feeling? How is my attitude? How did I sleep? How are my energy levels? Am I finding joy in all aspects of my life?
The following essences help protect your energy and increase your ability to stay centered and present when working with others. Whether you are a flower essence practitioner, massage therapist, counselor, energy worker, or any job where you give yourself to others, these essences will help replenish your precious energy reserves, supporting a positive mindset and more joy in your work.
Scroll down to read more about how you can take care of your workspace!
Fire Opal replenishes vital energy reserves after overwork and poor energy management.
When we become chronically tired and depleted because our lifestyle and work habits are not nourishing our physical bodies, Fire Opal gem elixir clears blockages between the Earth and the base of our energy field to create an upward flow of planetary energy. This flow replenishes our reserves and opens and clears the energy pathways and connections between the chakras below the heart, including those in the feet and legs to directly connect us with nourishment from the Earth.
Aragonite helps us be fully present and connected to the Earth, spirit, and another person during healing work.
Aragonite gem elixir is helpful when we experience difficulty shifting back to the physical dimension after visiting or working in the higher dimensions. Aragonite strengthens our center so we can maintain a dual perspective to operate in higher and lower dimensions at the same time. It helps people who tend to get energetically enmeshed with others by facilitating the release of interpersonal energy connections so both can return to a state of energy independence.
Hematite supports healthy boundaries while witnessing the intense emotional experiences of others.
This gem elixir helps create and maintain appropriate emotional boundaries to feel safe and self-contained while emotionally connected to others. When around someone in extreme emotional pain, we may think it is our fault or feel uncomfortable because their pain is like ours. Hematite unravels the energetic entanglements that can occur when we encounter the pain of those around us. It strengthens our emotional energy field so we can respond by being present and connected with neutrality.
Carnelian teaches us about energy efficiency and how to be our own source of energy.
Carnelian gem elixir is vital in case of burn-out or fatigue, especially when there is a pattern of unconsciously helping others, giving to receive, and seeking validation and energy from others rather than from within. It recalibrates the third chakra to draw life force energy already present in the body through appropriate channels and the aura. It increases the etheric body’s ability to access pranic energy and clears and energizes the pathways between the etheric body and the meridians.
Stone Circle introduces protective energy into the aura, inviting us to relax, rest, and replenish our vital forces.
This environmental essence replaces necessary resources we lose through stress, misuse, and the trials and tribulations of life. Stone Circle is beneficial for those doing healing work, as it helps us maintain openness and sensitivity without absorbing or taking on any outside energy. Stepping into the stone circle brings a feeling of belonging and safety. It is a place where all is possible, and we can return for protection, rest, and nurturing after our journeys and adventures. We feel at home in this energy because it represents balance—elemental energies in their natural, harmonic state.
Grass of Parnassus offers a fountain of white light nourishing all levels of our being.
Grass of Parnassus is effervescent, joyful, uplifting, and liberating. This flower essence cleanses and charges our energy fields, bringing the light of purity into the aura to help us attune more clearly to higher energy frequencies. It facilitates meditation practices and can also cleanse the meditation room. This powerful essence is beneficial for those who live and do their work in crowded or polluted surroundings. It increases protection for the human energy system while helping us attract energetic nourishment from nature. Grass of Parnassus has a strong family signature. It can assist groups working together for a higher purpose, where each person's light must be allowed to shine brightly within a larger dynamic.
Taking Energetic Care of your Workspace
Another aspect of creating a healthy work-life balance is the energetic care of your workspace and treatment rooms. It is vital to check in at the beginning and end of the day or between sessions to notice how your space supports you. How do you feel when entering your space for the first time each day? How does the room feel between client sessions? Does it need an energetic cleanse?
Use Purification Sacred Space Spray at the end of the day to cleanse your energy field and the energy in your workspace. Use it after a session if the energy in the room feels heavy.
Use Beyond Words Communication Spray to support free expression, mutual understanding, and communication.
Use Calling All Angels Sacred Space Spray to invite angelic support for yourself and your client.
Use Guardian Sacred Space Spray to support healthy boundaries and a safe, centered workplace.
Use Easy Learning Focus and Integration Spray when you need to check some stuff off your to-do lists!
Our Souls are wise, vast, loving, and joyful, but our personalities and circumstances often get in the way. With the help of the flowers, we can see things in a new way and see ourselves for who we truly are. The plants encourage us to be 'here and now,' even when we'd rather be 'then and there,' helping us accept and embrace the present moment with the added understanding that aligning with our true self is the easy and joyful way forward.
The following flower essences support you in allowing more of your spiritual selves to shine through. Many of us know how to tap into the spiritual realm, but we may still find it challenging to allow more spiritual energy into our bodies and day-to-day lives. As our Soul energy flows through us and connects with the Earth, we can hear our guidance and trust enough to let our lives unfold.
Fairy Slipper – strengthening the flow of spiritual energy through the body
Fairy Slippers are fragile flowers that stand firmly in their power, radiating beauty. This flower essence supports us with self-acceptance so we can stand in our power and unique individuality. As its gentle yet powerful energy flows through us, it helps us to relax and allow the essence of our true spiritual selves to fill our hearts and body. It strengthens our vertical alignment and energy flow and gives us a sense of being at peace with ourselves and with being seen by others.
Cloudberry – inner value instead of low self-esteem
Cloudberry flower essence softly and gently helps us become aware of the Light within ourselves. It shifts our attention from outer busyness and the frustrating mental exercise of figuring things out to focusing on inner sight and calm attunement to the Source. Cloudberry reminds us that the answers we seek won't come through the mind or from extraneous things. Solutions come from listening and being present. This essence promotes the realization that the easiest way to move forward is to surrender to our inner guidance and allow our newfound awareness to inform our actions.
Willow – becoming aware of how we create our lives
Willows are so flexible and resilient that they fully recover even after being eaten by moose. Willow flower essence helps us connect with our innate flexibility and resilience by making us more aware of our mental processes and any limitations we place on ourselves. It helps us see and understand what is beneath our resistance. Working with the energy of willow, we learn to embody the attitudes of flexible minds and resilient understanding. We can relax, be at peace, move with the flow of life, and find joy in living. The Willow Deva told me this summer, "As a shrub, we're not super beauties, but we noticed you were admiring our soft and beautiful catkins! We are here to remind you there is beauty everywhere. Where is your focus?"
Blue Poppy – perceiving the world with joy, strength, and integrity
Blue Poppy flower essence improves the connection between our spiritual and physical selves by finding a balance between our earthly and spiritual realms. It does that by teaching us how to live in the seen and unseen worlds simultaneously: glimpsing the sacred, being immersed in it, and being present with the denser and sometimes profane aspects of daily life. And it helps us maintain a more joyful outlook by releasing any heavy or sluggish perspectives we have on life and replacing them with higher attention, focus, and stamina.
Comandra – opening our intuition to the plant kingdom
I was delighted to see Comandra blooming this spring. A small plant with tiny flowers, Comandra flower essence is helpful when our perception is limited to the material aspects of life. It is valuable for anyone who'd like to develop an awareness of the subtle realms of nature or would like to deepen their attunement to healing plant energies. At this time on our planet, it is of prime importance that we consciously join in a co-creative partnership with nature. Nature is ready for this partnership, but the human kingdom faces the perceptual challenge of learning to see and hear nature's wisdom. Comandra helps by clearing perceptual blockages that interfere with our ability to sense and experience subtle energy within the plant kingdom.
Cow Parsnip – peace and contentment during times of change and transition
Cow Parsnip flower essence heightens our awareness of inner strength, promotes contentment with the present moment, and encourages peace of mind, even during transition and change. Cow Parsnip helps us create a sense of being at home anywhere on the planet by helping us master the qualities of flexibility and adaptation. Through awareness and acceptance of the perfection of each present moment, we can access the support and energy we need wherever we are and translate this into strength and stability in our daily lives.
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Black Tourmaline Master Quartz – balancing the relationship between the 1st (base) and 7th (crown) chakra
Sugalite – brings depth and physical richness to spiritual life
Kunzite – awareness of the angelic realm; seeing yourself as the angels do
Columbine – to be uniquely ourselves and appreciating that uniqueness
Lilac – balancing the flow of spiritual energies in the body
Citrine – harmony between the mental body and higher spiritual laws
I often get caught up in the busyness of life, especially when the world seems to have gone a little crazy. Still, I know that the crazier things get, I can find relief by slowing down, checking in with myself, being present, relaxing my body, noticing my thoughts, and tapping into my inner guidance.
I was reminded of this during my time in Alaska this spring. I was out in Nature each day, far away from day-to-day business. As I walked, hiked, and looked for the first trees and flowers to bloom, my whole being became calm and peaceful. It was easy for me to connect with the wisdom of Nature. I felt that the energy in me was the same as the energy in the plants and trees surrounding me.
The best conversations I've had are with the plants in Alaska. The devas (the spirits of the plants, trees, stones, rivers, mountains, etc.) are pure expressions of Source energy. Many devas convey that human life would be much easier and more joyful if we were more like the plants: aligned and connected to our true source, rooted, accepting of ourselves and whatever is in front of us, and aware we are constantly creating life.
While making essences this summer, I enjoyed feeling the different qualities of each Deva. Some are brutally honest and witty, while others are compassionate, comforting, and loving. Still, they all share the same unique trait of mirroring the healing I needed through the flowers I was most attracted to. Tuning into the energy of the Deva, or using the essence, will reveal the same innate quality within ourselves. These may be qualities we didn't know how to access, but they are always there. The profound wisdom of Nature is not outside ourselves. It is within us.
My most joyful summer experience was finding Fairy Slippers while hiking up a mountain. The hike was quite the workout, and I knew tomorrow would be the perfect sunny day to return and make an essence. The next day I woke up, packed my backpack with everything I needed, left the cabin, and hit the trail with my heavy load.
Thinking about the steep hike ahead, I realized I could ask Fairy Slipper for help! So I connected with the Deva of Fairy Slipper and asked if she could show me a good spot to make the essence, preferably a bit lower on the mountain. I heard a big YES, and shortly after that, my attention was drawn to a sunny clearing in the woods with an interesting tree stump just a hundred yards further up the trail. I was already there before I decided to go there.
Behind the stump, I found the largest patch of Fairy Slipper I had ever seen! I cheered and jumped like a little kid, in awe of this magical occurrence and the beauty of the flowers. They were in perfect bloom and so stunning! And there were so many! It felt like pure magic. If I had not asked for help, I would have worked my way up that mountain trail with my heavy pack to where I'd seen the flowers the day before. Instead, my journey was easy and joyful, reminding me that Nature is always there to help, but we must ask for it.
Fairy Slipper told me, "You are right where we want you to be today. When you ask for help and believe it will come, things line up easily, just like this!"
The deva also told me that I was too serious and not playful enough. "You need to appreciate yourself more! You are always over the moon when you see us, and so are we when we see you!"
The devas like it when we see, feel, and appreciate the flowers. Our deep appreciation invites an energy exchange with the devas, where we can sense their energy, and they can see our most authentic selves. Our Souls are wise, vast, loving, and joyful, but our personalities and circumstances often get in the way. With the help of the flowers, we can see things in a new way and see ourselves for who we truly are. The plants encourage us to be 'here and now,' even when we'd rather be 'then and there,' helping us accept and embrace the present moment with the added understanding that aligning with our true self is the easy and joyful way forward.
]]>Essences from nature help us achieve balance and well-being. When used in sprays, essences infuse our personal energy field and environment with clarity and freshness, making everything easier. If the spaces you regularly occupy do not feel nurturing or leave you feeling drained, let our Sacred Space Sprays uplift and support you!
The sprays are made with focused and intentional potency to clear out stagnant energy and restore our auras and spaces with positive and vibrant energy from nature. Each spray contains a unique combination of Alaskan flower, gem, and environmental essences, plus carefully selected high-quality essential oils to enhance the energetic effect of the essences. They combine the best of both worlds, the healing energy of nature, plus her stimulating and calming aromas, creating a unique synergy in action.
The Sacred Space Sprays cleanse, harmonize, and uplift our body’s energy field and environment, enhancing our well-being no matter where we are. Spritzing the sprays over your head so the mist falls around your shoulders cleanses, energizes, and strengthens your energy field — the impact is instantly powerful yet gentle and centering. Just as we clean our rooms physically, we can energetically cleanse and revitalize them so they support us instead of drain us. You only need a few spritzes throughout any room, including bedrooms, offices, or vehicles, to transform your spaces into nurturing and supportive environments.
You can use the Sacred Space Sprays daily either on their own or to complement your work with flower essences and any other intentional and energetic practice.
Purification Sacred Space Spray (2 oz / 4 oz) cleanses and purifies our energy field and the environments we occupy. Use this cleansing spray to break up and clear stagnant energy patterns. It washes away tiredness and invites vital aliveness with a refreshing blast of ionic energy and a feeling of cool winds blowing off glaciers. This spray is a must-have for travelers!
Purification spray combines the cleansing and refreshing qualities of the following four essences:
The Purification Spray also contains the essential oils of black spruce, frankincense, lavender, and peppermint to enhance the purifying function of the formula and add clarifying, sanctifying, and refreshing qualities to the spray.
Calling All Angels Sacred Space Spray (2 oz / 4 oz) brings a soft, loving, and serene divine energy into our hearts, physical body, and environment to help us connect with the angelic realm's love, guidance, and protection. Use this spray to invite joy and peace into your life and strengthen the knowledge that the angels guide, support, and protect you.
This spray combines the healing quality of the following four essences:
The Calling All Angels spray also contains the essential oils of lavender, grapefruit, rose otto, and carnation absolute to complement the essences. These calming oils help us release tension and open our hearts to angelic joy, love, and peace. This spray brings sacred and peaceful energy into your spaces. Children (and adults) love to spray their bedrooms before sleeping to create a feeling of protection and ensure a deep, restful slumber.
Guardian Sacred Space Spray (2 oz / 4 oz) is our go-to formula of protection and support for the highly sensitive. It invokes positive, harmonious energies to help you claim your energetic space, maintain your grounding and feel the protection and security of strong and healthy boundaries. Spraying your aura and immediate surroundings will invoke calm, stability, strength, confidence, and safety while maintaining openness and sensitivity.
This spray combines the healing quality of the following six essences:
The Guardian Spray also contains the essential oils of Himalayan cedar, lime, litsea cubeba, melissa, and tangerine. These oils enhance the protective and grounding qualities of the essences while adding uplifting notes of joy and playfulness.
Lighten Up Sacred Space Spray (2 oz / 4 oz) expands our energy pathways and dispels stagnant emotions to encourage the efficient circulation of light in the body. This direct action uplifts, energizes, inspires, and nourishes our energy system and spaces. Use this spray to bring light and energy into your aura, especially when tired and overwhelmed by too much work or during the long winter months. Use it in your surroundings to bring the power of sunshine inside and enhance and increase energy circulation in your living and working environments.
This spray combines the healing quality of the following four essences:
The Lighten Up Spray also contains the essential oils of blood orange, Bulgarian lavender, combava petitgrain, lemon myrtle, and ylang-ylang extra to enhance the enlivening qualities of the essences and add refreshing, sparkling, and uplifting notes to the spray.
Find all Sacred Space Sprays here. Click here for the spray kit.If you have a dog, cat, or other pet, you may not be looking forward to the 4th of July! My dog Suzie is 15 years old and getting pretty deaf, so she does not hear the fireworks so much, but in the past, when she did, it was very unsettling for her. Many pets find the 4th of July the most anxiety-ridden and frightening time of year. On those days, having essences on hand to support your furry friends can help them remain calm and feel safe and protected.
Read more about these helpful essences for animals here.
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Everything we want to heal and transform connects to our hearts. Gem essences are able to clear dense energy, heal old wounds, and open our heart chakra. Living more heart-centered makes feeling safe, peaceful, and connected to inner guidance easier.
Unaddressed emotional pain can lead to being triggered and reacting in ways we wish we hadn't. We may build protective walls around our hearts with the hope of never getting hurt again, but these walls prevent us from being our true selves with others. Our defense and coping mechanisms can make our most meaningful relationships challenging, causing us to feel lonely, disconnected, and as if we don't belong. In some cases, we may avoid any relationship at all. Transforming fear and pain from the heart can lead us back to our truest destiny.
Fortunately, we will continually encounter new situations and relationships to reveal what we need to mend, making heart-healing part of a lifelong journey. The following gem elixirs will help us heal and release old emotional pain. They cleanse and strengthen our heart chakra to maintain an inner haven of safety where we can access limitless spiritual guidance and support.
Amazonite - improving the Heart's flow of emotional communication
Amazonite is helpful when we feel burdened and defeated by a backlog of unprocessed emotions we don't know how to process. This essence works with the heart to release emotional congestion in our hearts and emotional energy bodies. It helps us build emotional strength through a joyful cleansing of old emotional burdens so we feel lighter and able to communicate more easily with others.
Montana Rhodochrosite - creating safety within the Heart
Montana Rhodochrosite is helpful when we feel unsafe and cope with a wounded heart by closing down or escaping into our heads. It helps us receive trustworthy and nourishing love from the Earth, release our pain and suffering into the Earth, and open our hearts again with the trust that love will always be present. The support of this essence goes beyond the uncomfortable stories and painful details of our lives. It reconnects us with the openhearted trust we had as children, providing a sense of calm and safety that makes it easier to be in a relationship again after a painful loss or separation. It encourages us to believe in our capacity to give and receive love and to find the courage to ask for what we want and need in our relationships.
Rose Quartz - opening energy flows to and through the Heart
The primary gift of Rose Quartz essence is to strengthen and stabilize our hearts to allow more love into our lives. It gently clears the heart of protective and defensive energies to increase the flow of loving energy, making the old defenses unnecessary. Rose Quartz is helpful for any adult or child who did not receive enough childhood nurturing. When our inner child does not receive the attention and nurturing it needs, our hearts can close down, making creating and maintaining intimate connections with others challenging. Rose Quartz helps us provide love and nurturing to our inner child by surrounding us with a constant vibration of love, protection, and a deep trust that all will be well.
Green Tourmaline - creating Heart-centered connections with others
Green Tourmaline encourages an openhearted approach when fear or low self-esteem blocks intimate, heart-centered connections. It brings stability and support to new heart-centered relationships with people, animals, and nature by stimulating and relaxing the base chakra while facilitating grounding and simultaneously offering gentle and constant support for the heart. It expands our capacity to continually give and receive love by helping us be present with our heart connections. Green Tourmaline is especially helpful when intense feelings of love from an initial encounter bring up fears and feelings of low self-esteem that prevent us from forming a deep, loving relationship. It helps us release doubts and fears to create a clear and stable place in our hearts to stay present and able to address whatever comes up as our loving connections intensify.
Kunzite – opening the Heart to an awareness and experience of angelic love
Kunzite opens us to a more profound level of angelic love, an essential part of the support matrix we require to live a heart-centered life. When pain and suffering from the past close our hearts to the world, others, or even aspects of ourselves, it helps us reestablish a quality of purity. As we see ourselves through the eyes of angels, without judgment or condemnation, we can overcome the guilt and embarrassment associated with past actions. It doesn't matter what happened in the past or what is or isn't present in our hearts; what matters is reestablishing a loving connection with ourselves and the angels. Kunzite also increases the transparency of the heart. As we receive divine love, barriers fall, and we become openhearted around others, allowing even more love to flow.
Blue Green Tourmaline - clearing, expanding, and aligning the Heart chakra with the higher self
This gem essence is helpful when distracted or suffering from excess mental energy, as it opens the downward flow of energy from the sixth chakra (third eye) to the fourth chakra (heart) and into the Earth. It helps align our thoughts with our hearts and the Earth and the energy behind our speech with the words we choose to express ourselves. When it seems we don't have space in our hearts for anyone else, it breaks up and clears away old, ingrained patterns of fear and resistance to make room for others. While breaking these patterns can be painful and exhausting, we will emerge stronger and more able to radiate our inner beauty and light into the world. A vital essence for our current times, this gem gives us the strength and courage to transform inner turbulence without losing our grounding and inner peace so we can contribute to peace on the planet. And it helps us fearlessly open our hearts to take up our rightful space on the Earth, softly, with clarity and grace, purity and strength, and without pushing others away.
More Gem Elixirs for Heart-Centered Living
We usually celebrate the new year in winter, but Nature celebrates the new year in spring when the soil's microbes awaken, melting snow feeds rivers, lakes, forests, and gardens, birds weave their nests for a new life, and flowers begin to grace our meadows. In the northern hemisphere, we rejoice as refreshing and inspiring impulses from Nature help us burst out of our stagnation to try something new, exciting, and joyful! As the days get longer, it's easier to deepen our relationship with the Earth and follow Nature's biological rhythms, to come out of hibernation inspired to birth something new. We at Alaskan Essences celebrate these changes and encourage you to embrace the momentum of Nature’s joyous example and begin something new or challenge yourself in a new way.
We have all experienced difficulty following through on our best intentions and good ideas, and we often look back after a few months and wonder what happened. We can get stuck when creative thoughts and intentions get lost because we unconsciously push against them with self-imposed obstacles. For instance, when we feel like changing or trying something new, but we don't know where to start or how to get there, or our insecurity feeds self-doubt, and our programmed behaviors and beliefs get in the way.
The Alaskan flower, gem, and environmental essences reveal solutions to these problems and inspire us to get unstuck and find our way back to our highest path, where our heart leads the way and the mind helps us get there. They remind us that each moment is an opportunity for new beginnings, and we can start right now with small steps, whether we have a new idea or project, a change in life direction, enhanced self-care, or want to learn something new.
Peridot – support for new cycles of growth and experience
Peridot is the stone of new beginnings. This gem elixir provides gentle structural support when we start something new or move into a new phase of our lives. It creates a fresh, clear space in our hearts to give birth to our dreams when insecurity or fear of failure prevents us from moving forward. When we are challenged by transition and change, Peridot's soft and protective energy helps us feel safe and secure enough to move beyond our usual safety zone into new areas of life.
Bog – support for your creations from Mother Earth
Bogs are semi-swampy habitats that nurture a rich diversity of life. Being in Nature is grounding, but when visiting a bog, you feel one step closer to the Earth Mother. Bogs are alive with an abundance of elemental energies, the fresh new energy of potential, and nurturing and grounding feminine earth energy. Bog environmental essence captures that energy to introduce a unique and vibrant creative power into our lives, helping us realize our potential and increase our ability to hold the promise of new creation. Bog essence helps connect our hearts to the heart of Mother Earth, opening us to her love, wisdom, and unlimited support.
Sticky Geranium – getting unstuck
Sticky Geranium flower essence is ideal when we feel caught in a web of procrastination. Its vibrant and catalytic energy can help us move from a place of lethargy to decisive and focused action. This essence stimulates a higher degree of cooperation between the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels of our being, enabling us to move with clarity, focus, and a sense of order to the next level of an experience. Whether writing the next chapter in a book or making a more substantial commitment to a job or relationship, Sticky Geranium encourages us to tune into our inner knowing where we can release old levels of programming and resistance that hold us in a place of stagnation. It empowers us to free up our inner potential and go beyond previous stages of growth and self-definition to jump into life with energy and enthusiasm.
Aventurine – the courage to face unknown adventures
Aventurine gem elixir connects us to our inherent power and heart-centered courage, inspiring us to open ourselves more than ever to the joy and excitement of living. It is essential when we lack stamina and fortitude or want to quit when faced with obstacles, especially our limiting belief systems. When life tests our resolve with significant changes, this essence provides the strength and stability we need to move into and through new experiences with grace, stamina, and perseverance. This a powerful essence for spiritual trailblazers and pioneers because it helps us gain a new level of trust in ourselves, move past our control zone, and become more comfortable exploring the edge of the unknown.
Wild Rhubarb – leading with the heart
Wild Rhubarb flower essence promotes mental flexibility and creative problem-solving by clearing and expanding the communication channel between the higher self, the heart, and the mind. It is vital when our mind thinks it can run the show, resulting in stubborn, controlling, and uninspired behavior. When we receive and follow impulses from our higher self, a relaxation of inappropriate mental control will follow, resulting in new thoughts, perspectives, plans for action, and solutions to our problems. This essence also teaches us to lead with the heart when considering our future, especially the challenge of setting priorities for our life. It reminds us to start the process by asking the heart what it thinks about the situation and how it would like to proceed.
Go-Create – taking creative action
Our Go-Create abundance formula and spray are designed to help you co-create what you want, need, and desire in your life with less resistance and more ease, efficiency, and effectiveness. This formula will help you clear limiting beliefs from past experiences, enhance your ability to feel worthy to receive your heart’s desire, and find the trust, faith, and gratitude to empower you to hold a vibration in alignment with what you truly desire to create in your life.
Use the Go-Create formula to:
Use the Go-Create Spray whenever you want to ignite inspiration and feel empowered in your capacity to create. Use it in your home, office, studio or during meditations, classes and workshops. The spray contains our original Go-Create Abundance Formula and the essential oils of Rosemary, Coriander, Lavender, Laurel, and Fresh Ginger. These refreshing oils are well known for their ability to support self-esteem, inner fire, enthusiasm and creative boldness, liberating you from doubts about your ability to manifest a flowing abundant life.
]]>We've all had moments when we felt so socially awkward that we would rather disappear than continue a conversation. Maybe we didn't know what to say, thought we said something stupid or blurted out something silly, followed by an awkward silence. And once we immerse ourselves in an uncomfortable social situation, we may pay more attention to the pets in the room and the paintings on the wall than the people we came to see. If the idea of small talk at networking events, small or large gatherings, or talking to strangers increases your heart rate, you are not alone. Research shows over half of the population experiences some aspect of social distress or shyness. If you consider yourself shy or socially awkward, you are most likely encountering an even more tragic paradox; you desperately want to make friends and feel part of a community, but self-conscious thoughts and feelings keep you from connecting with others.
Feeling like you don't belong or lack community can be painful. It can eventually result in loneliness and isolation. We are social beings, and being fully ourselves amongst peers is essential for our health and happiness. Still, it can be challenging if we feel most comfortable alone in nature or with our four-legged friends. While reading a book and snuggling with your dog under a cozy blanket are nurturing, meaningful interactions with other humans boost our moods, reduce stress, and improve self-esteem.
The following essences encourage us to believe in ourselves, stay heart-centered, and not be distracted by what we imagine others may think. They encourage us to feel more confident in our communication and social skills and help us create healthy boundaries to feel safe and secure enough to share our authentic selves with others. Some of the flowers we chose seem to hide in the forest, like Fairy Slipper and Lace Flower, but these elusive flowers can teach us how to be ourselves and connect with our fellow human beings. And they remind us that we all contribute something unique to this world.
Wild Sweet Pea – giving the best of ourselves in service to others
Wild Sweet Pea promotes confidence and ease in our interactions with others. When we lack confidence in our social skills and tend to isolate ourselves, this essence will encourage us to make meaningful connections. It will help us to look inside to find and embrace what we have to offer others and become more confident that our unique talents and abilities are worth sharing.
Lace Flower - releasing negative self-image for strong self-worth
One can easily walk by without noticing this little flower, but even the tiniest plant, insect, or mineral is a marvel of creation, adding significance to the whole. The same is true for us, even if we feel insignificant and unsure about how our personal or professional contributions fit into the whole. The essence of Lace Flower is beneficial when we have issues of extremely low self-esteem and self-worth that arise from cultural bias, prejudice, favoritism at work, or when a family member dominates us. Lace Flower helps us reconnect with the core of our inner worth to express our unique talents and abilities with grace, poise, and humility. Belief in ourselves and the quality of our expression holds more value than artificial and capricious approval by the people around us.
Fairy Slipper – standing in our spiritual wisdom and power
This attractive orchid features a unique pink and magenta-colored flower on each stem. The genus name, Calypso, is from the sea-nymph daughter of the titan Atlas. Calypso means concealment and refers to this flower's habit of hiding amongst mosses and other plant growth in the deep shade of dense spruce forests. It, therefore, makes an excellent essence for those who usually avoid being noticed. Fairy Slipper essence supports standing in our power and beauty and projecting individuality. It helps us manifest spiritual wisdom through our physical bodies and promotes clear communication by aligning us with Earth and spirit.
One-Sided Wintergreen - aware of our energetic interactions with people
The flowers of One-Sided Wintergreen symbolize how we can exist in close physical proximity to other people and still maintain the integrity of our energy field. The essence expands our awareness of the naturally occurring and harmonious energy exchange between people. By understanding this principle, we can become more sensitized to how the energies and actions of others impact us and, in turn, how our actions and energy affects others. It makes it easier for us to align with our Divine purpose and helps us refine our self-expression to project the truth of who we are to attract people and situations that support our truth.
Vesuvianite - building deep heart-centered loving relationships
Vesuvianite improves and magnifies our strength and stability by opening the heart chakra to a robust flow of loving energy coming up from the Earth and down from the higher realms. It is helpful for people with a strong spiritual focus who often feel lonely and find it challenging to form nurturing relationships in our three-dimensional human world. Vesuvianite increases our awareness of how we can embody our love for others and their love for us. It helps us feel more at ease in our hearts, making connecting with others easier and giving us the confidence to create and attract relationships.
Beyond Words – confidence in our best communication
Beyond Words is our Communication Formula. It helps us feel more present and safe to share ourselves with others. The formula contains the following essences:
More helpful essences for sharing the best of ourselves with others:
The longer we live, the more often we say goodbye to people we know and love. When a loved one passes away, whether a friend, family member, parent or partner, a period of our life ends. We have our memories as we continue on our path without them.
We all deal with loss differently. Many of us believe on a spiritual or intellectual level that our Soul lives on and death is merely an end to this one physical lifetime. Some of us feel the presence of our loved ones after they've gone, and they may even visit us in our dreams. If the future means suffering for the person we love, we think, "it is better this way." Whatever we believe or say, it is crucial to know whether we are allowing ourselves to feel or resist the pain. Focusing on the spiritual perspective or the end of suffering helps us through the initial rush of grief. But if we want to heal our broken hearts, we must look at and be present with our pain and grief.
The opposite is true as well. Living with prolonged and overwhelming grief can leave us feeling shattered and lost and unable to see the bigger perspective that our Souls are eternal.
Grief unfolds in stages over time; initially, our emotions can be all over the place. Whatever we are feeling, staying present in the moment will allow the natural flow of emotional energy to move through us instead of taking up residence. How we respond to and process our emotions determines how well we regain control of our thoughts and healing. Approaching our grief from a place of presence and surrender, we can find the inner peace that is the essence of who we are.
How Essences Can Help
Flower essences help us balance our emotions and increase our present-time awareness by harmonizing intellectual understanding with inner knowing. They help us perceive life's continuum and understand why we're here: spiritual beings in human bodies gradually awakening to spiritual truth while having an earthly experience. Our experiences include thoughts and charged emotions, and grief's difficulty can often trigger a spiritual awakening. Gem elixirs stabilize and mend our hearts when they break into pieces, while environmental essences support and energize our healing process. Essences show us how we identify with our physical experience and help us reach the stillness and peace of our inner being.
The following essences help us surrender to the sacred journey of grief, leading us to peace, love, and gratitude.
River Beauty – supports and balances the emotional process while grieving
River Beauty renews the land after a flood like a field fireweed helps the soil regenerate after a fire. Floods are symbolic of great cleansing and radical change. In our lives, we may experience the washing away of a relationship or the tragedy of the passing away of a loved one. The River Beauty flower essence helps soothe the effects of such traumatic events. It supports the necessary process of emotional reorientation and recovery we must go through after the shock of the experience has passed. When the emotion of loss overwhelms us, and we can't stop crying, River Beauty helps us to stop over-identifying with suffering to regain our sense of self. It also helps when we want to shed tears but can't, to help us move through the grief so we don't become stuck in pain.
Rhodochrosite – soothing and nurturing after an emotional shock
Rhodochrosite gem elixir helps when our heart feels shattered, raw, and in pain. It increases energy, balance, and stability in the heart and the physical body after an emotionally shocking or traumatic experience. This essence softens the edges of sharp pain resulting from the experience and helps us release any energy of conflict so our healing can proceed. In all cases, Rhodochrosite strengthens the heart so we can move past our pain and trauma to feel whole again.
Chrysocolla – strengthening the heart chakra
Chrysocolla gem essence connects the heart chakra to the loving energy of the Earth, so our emotional energies can flow through the heart into the Earth. When unresolved pain from the past causes us to close down our hearts and build walls of protection to prevent further emotional injury and wounding, Chrysocolla increases openness in the heart, mind, and body, allowing the vibration of love to flow to experience the safety of an open heart.
Tundra Rose – from hopelessness to a renewed interest in life
This flower essence is for those who have much to offer but have lost hope and are close to giving up on their dreams and desires for this lifetime. With bright yellow flowers, Tundra Rose communicates a love for life that resonates deep within the heart. It restores hope, courage, and inspiration when we feel lost and hopeless and don’t have a healthful perspective. As we continue on our path without our loved ones, it guides us to a more expansive and inclusive view that helps us understand the spiritual basis for our most challenging life lessons by gently bringing our most profound fears into the light of love, so we are motivated by a love of life rather than a fear of death. This higher alignment strengthens our ability to complete challenging tasks with more joy. It opens us to new possibilities and ways of perceiving our problems and challenges, so we can see the spiritual gifts contained within them instead of feeling victimized by them.
Glacier River – letting go of resistance to change
Glacier River environmental essence helps us surrender to change and feel divinely supported when transition or extreme consequences occur, and we feel the need to hit the breaks and resist. Many of us find change uncomfortable, especially if we didn't ask for it. We may also think we need more energy to make the transition before us. Glacier River tells us that life's changes are inevitable and constant and gives us a gentle push in the direction of change, helping us let go of our resistance. As we surrender to the elemental power within this essence, we cease to worry about what might happen if things change. Instead, we trust our inner compass, sit back, and enjoy the passing scenery.
Round-Leaved Sundew - surrendering attachment to the known
Grief can trigger spiritual awakening; we suddenly see how we identify with our physical form and become aware of the stillness and peace of our inner being. Round-Leaved Sundew flower essence is helpful when we struggle with letting go of our identification with form. This essence teaches us how to connect with the wisdom and guidance of the higher self, bringing us closer to our reunification with the source of all life. It gives our ego appropriate acknowledgment and harmonizes the strength and tenacity of the ego with the wisdom and guidance of the Higher Self. These flowers are like tiny periscopes seeking a better view, reaching up from the bog into the light, helping us gain a higher perspective when we are attached to the known and fear the unknown. The natural course of personal growth provides endless opportunities to venture into the unknown. When we surrender, we can release limitations to identify with the unlimited source of our being.
Additional Formulas and Sprays to Support you on the Sacred Journey of Grief
Calling All Angels Divine Nurturing Formula & Spray helps us contact the love, guidance, and protection of the angelic realm. It brings soft, loving, and serene energy into your heart, physical body, and environment. The spray contains the Calling All Angels formula and the essential oils of Lavender, Grapefruit, Rose Otto, and Carnation Absolute. The oils promote the release of tension and help us open our hearts to the love and peace of the angels. This spray is also great to use in Hospice situations as it creates a sacred and protective space for the one passing over. It also supports the family members in strengthening the knowledge that we are all guided and supported by the angels.
Soul Support Emergency Formula & Spray brings strength and stability to emergencies, stress, trauma, and transformation. The drops are significant to use whenever we are overwhelmed as it helps us stay present and grounded. Keep a bottle in your purse or pocket so you have it on hand when the wobblies arrive without notice. The spray contains the Soul Support formula and utilizes the soothing, clarifying properties of high-quality, organic Lavender oil. This spray is beneficial for calming, grounding, and centering the energy in your environment and your energy field.
]]>We most often use essences internally by making a dosage bottle or adding drops of the essence to our water, but they are versatile and useful in many different applications. We have some ideas to stimulate your creativity as you begin to experiment.
Baths, hot tubs, and foot baths are blank canvases for creativity. Try Emerald and Chalice Well to feel deeply nourished and Portage Glacier for deep cleansing after a busy day. An energizing bath might include Fireweed, Fire Opal, Opal, and Solstice Sun.
Massage oil, lotion, body cream, shampoo, and facial products are enlivened by adding essences. Highly sensitive people benefit from using Guardian Healthy Boundaries formula in shampoos and body lotions for extra protection before starting the day. Fluorite, Dandelion, and Smoky Quartz will ease tension and improve grounding when added to massage oils. Columbine and Gold in face creams will enhance self-appreciation and radiance, allowing our natural beauty to shine.
Essences in Places and Spaces
Enliven your environment and everyone in it with sprays! Add essences of your choice to a spray bottle with drops of your favorite essential oils. Sprays can be beneficial in treatment rooms, hotels, rental cars, hospitals, and while traveling. You can also use one of our Spray blends.
Add essence drops to water-based house paint to transform your environment and make the rooms come alive with the energy you choose. Bunchberry enhances the ability to focus and study. Wild Iris enhances creativity, and Beyond Words supports communication and mutual understanding.
Broadcast uplifting, inspiring, energizing, and nourishing energies into your home by adding essences to indoor fountains, humidifiers, the water of cut flowers and potted plants, or even a few drops in a bowl of water strategically placed in a room. Try Calling all Angels Divine Nurturing Formula or Go-Create Abundance Formula.
Deepen your cleaning with drops of Purification Space Clearing formula in your wash water, washing machines, and cleaning products. Spritzing Guardian Sacred Space Spray on clothes when you iron provides a sense of protection and privacy.
Use when transplanting your house, garden, or greenhouse plants. Use a spray bottle with drops of essences to mist over new transplants, or place drops in the watering can and sprayer for foliar feeding. Grove Sandwort strengthens the energetic bonds of communication between the earth and its inhabitants.
Deepening Your Spiritual Practice
Enhance your prayers of support with essences. Place drops in a small bowl of water as you pray, or place a bottle of Soul Support emergency formula on a photo or anoint objects on your altar to send much-needed healing energy and support to the animals and humans you love.
Connect to the spiritual realms and the benevolent blessings of light by placing drops of Sweetgrass essence on space-clearing and ceremonial tools such as drums, rattles, feathers, chimes, crystal bowls, and tuning forks.
Essences are the perfect companions for mindful awareness practices like yoga, Qigong, and meditation. Aquamarine helps quiet the mind, while Valerian encourages relaxed alertness, and Monkshood creates a sacred inner space.
Include Friends, Family, and Pets
Adding essences to children's bubble solution is a fun way to uplift and enhance the warm weather bubble-blowing experience! Kids love our Calling All Angels Divine Nurturing formula. You can even select essences for an upset between siblings. Blue Elf Viola helps ease upset by releasing anger and promoting positive expression. As they play, they heal!
Send a vibrational message of love and inspiration to friends and family by spraying essences on correspondence such as invitations, birthday cards, love letters, and sympathy cards.
Our animal companions appreciate being petted when you have flower essences on your hands. Animal Care Rescue Formula is for every animal that needs extra support. Add drops of essences to your pet's food and water and spray around their sleeping area.
Enliven your creative process by adding essences to water-based paints or clay, and don't forget the kids! Wild Sweet Pea and Wild Iris encourage the free-flowing outward expression and sharing of our talents and abilities.
]]>The Renewal of the Divine Feminine
Menopause is the end of the female reproductive years and a time of new beginnings. It marks a time when a woman's lifetime of experience and wisdom culminates into who she will be in the next phase of life. This transformation can be challenging as bodies adjust to changes in hormone levels, and minds take note of past achievements and failures and what is yet to come. Emotions can be erratic as we let go of the past and allow our spirits to soar and align with an unknown destiny and the purpose and reason we are here.
The following essences can facilitate an emotionally rich, physically balanced, mindful, grounded, nurturing, and protective transition for women experiencing menopause.
Bloodstone gem elixir opens and harmonizes the connection between the heart chakra and the Earth. Bloodstone uses the heart's power and the Earth's support to remove stagnant energy to expand and increase the flow of energy through this pathway, relaxing the lower body and allowing more energy to circulate throughout the entire system smoothly and consistently.
Moonstone gem elixir helps women obtain and ground feminine power and grace into their bodies to achieve emotional stability and acceptance of what is in the present moment. It balances the increased energy and heightened sensitivity episodes that begin at puberty and continue into menopause, cleansing and circulating our feminine power to nurture our emotional cycles with calm and gentleness.
Pearl gem elixir soothes and smooths the emotional body when there is irritation, frustration, and emotional upset. Pearl helps us connect our irritability to the mental and emotional patterns responsible. Frustration derives from wanting things to be different. When we resist what is occurring, Pearl encourages us to look inward with new eyes and understanding to promote acceptance versus resignation and apathy.
Redoubt Volcano environmental essence calms and soothes our doubts, anxieties, and fears as we confront the inevitability of change. It helps us learn how to surrender to the natural forces beyond our comprehension and control, aligning us with their magical and transformative power.
Purple Poppy flower essence helps us maintain balance during rapid phases of evolution when our entire vibrational makeup transforms from one thing to another. This poppy enables us to experience deep integration and rest while allowing the transformative process to continue.
]]>“Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes — every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man." ― Orison Swett Marden
Most of us have experienced how revitalizing it feels to be out in Nature. Whether walking down a sun-dappled forest path, watching waves lap upon a shore, witnessing a meadow in its glorious bloom, or breathing in the cold mist of a waterfall, each place provides us with nourishing gifts. Some places help us feel refreshed and energized, while others help us to breathe deep and sink into stillness. Spending time in Nature enhances our well-being and resilience.
Each time we co-create an environmental essence, our awareness of the enormous healing energy in Nature’s elemental forces of air, earth, fire, and water expands. Preparing our environmental essences is often a response to a spontaneous event, such as Northern Lights and Full Moon Reflection. We make some environmental essences in locations with unique energetic expressions, such as Portage Glacier and Liard Hot Springs. The particular blend of the elemental and spiritual energy of different environments or natural events provides us with unique healing energy.
Environmental essences are a powerful addition to our work with flower essences and gem elixirs. While flower essences facilitate growth in spiritual consciousness, and gem elixirs help us anchor and embody these changes, the gift of environmental essences is energy for change. Environmental essences bring the earth's life force into our healing process, supporting the change and transformation initiated by flower essences. Use them whenever you feel resistance or lack of energy in your healing or spiritual journey and want to feel embraced by Nature.
Northern Lights: healing the heart
Prepared under a green aurora, the focus of Northern Lights is to support deep levels of re-patterning in the heart. When our heart forces feel scattered and disoriented, this essence can help us create an energetic matrix of connection based on Universal Love. This essence is supportive, cleansing, and rejuvenating. It is beneficial after an experience of deep transformation, especially when the experience has changed how we relate to others and the world.
Greenland Icecap: support for deep inner change
This essence embodies energy created by the natural, subterranean movement of the Earth’s crust. We prepared it in an area where two of the Earth’s continental plates slowly pull away from each other. This ongoing movement provides a profound example of surrendering to the inevitability of change. We need resistance in our lives to maintain stability, but we also need a balance between holding on and letting go. Greenland Icecap helps us find this balance so we can move forward in our lives.
Stone Circle: strength and definition for the energy field
This essence introduces protective energy into the aura, inviting us to relax, rest, and replenish our vital forces. It helps us replace necessary resources we lost through stress, misuse, or through trials and tribulations of life. Stone Circle is especially helpful for those doing healing work, as it helps us maintain openness and sensitivity without absorbing or taking on any outside energy. This essence is part of our Guardian ‘Healthy Boundaries’ formula and spray.
Liard Hot Springs: reclaiming our original innocence
This essence helps us cleanse the layers and layers of energetic grit and grime we have collected during our lifetimes on this planet. This cleansing brings us back in touch with the innocent truth of who we are—spiritual beings who have come to this Earth to experience being human. This essence is capable of clearing ancient patterns of self-blame and condemnation from our energy field, mind, and emotions—helping us begin again from a place of innocence.
Polar Ice: staying present with no anticipation of what is to come
This essence provides support when we are impatient and want to be in a different time of our lives. Such as when we are concerned with aging or are waiting for surgery, or if we are uncomfortable with being in-between relationships or jobs. Our challenge is to remain present with ourselves and to accept where we are in each moment. This essence empowers us to stay in a place seemingly suspended in time, where we can wait with no ties to the past and no anticipation of what is to come.
Rock Spring: restoring optimism for life
Rock Spring is the essence of hope and miracles. It embodies the constant proof that everything is possible. It is an essence that can help us find our way through seemingly insurmountable obstacles with infinite patience and never-ending trust. It opens us to the abundant generosity of Nature while encouraging us to open to unexpected gestures of flow: pleasant surprises, windfalls, and altruism from others. This essence is part of our Go-Create ‘Abundance’ formula and spray.
Chalice Well: awareness of spiritual support and guidance
This essence connects us to the profoundly personal and eternal support of the angelic, elemental, plant, and mineral kingdoms. Its message is that we are not alone; we are a part of the entire web of life and all-that-is, and we can draw upon this matrix of support whenever we need support to take the next step in life. This essence is part of our Calling All Angels ‘Divine Nurturing’ and Soul Support ‘Emergency' formula and spray.
Full Moon Reflection: bringing suppressed issues into the light
This essence is helpful for relationships, especially when we hold the other person responsible for our discomfort. It provides clarity and recognition of subconsciously projecting our needs and fears onto others. The full moon's light affects us all, and not always in subtle ways. This essence penetrates deep into our shadow selves to illuminate what lies unresolved in our consciousness. It allows us to release subconscious patterns that negatively affect ourselves and others.
Solstice Sun: opening to receive more light nourishment
Solstice Sun is a transformational essence and can have a powerful effect on our ability to access and move energy through our physical bodies. It is often indicated for those who suffer from light deprivation. It works by opening the energy pathways in our bodies so that we can receive more light and efficiently use the energy contained within it. This essence is part of our Lighten Up ‘Energy Flow’ formula and spray.
Portage Glacier: rejuvenation on all levels
All glaciers are massive generators of negative ions. They release negative ions into the atmosphere, where they cleanse, renew, and revitalize the air we breathe. This essence facilitates the cleansing and release of outdated thoughts, beliefs, and emotional patterns that are not useful, necessary, or contributing to our health and well-being. This essence is part of our Purification ‘Space Clearing’ formula and spray.
Tidal Forces: resiliency for living
Alaska has a quality of drama and extremes. The Cook Inlet and Kachemak Bay are particularly dramatic because of their extreme tidal fluctuations. Tides are a force of the sea. They are constantly changing, giving and taking, persisting in all seasons and weather, both wild and calm. Tidal Forces is an essence of rhythm and balance, loss and gain, of adapting oneself to the swiftly changing currents of life. It helps one release the old and receives the new with constant and unyielding fluidity.
Glacier River: embracing change
This essence helps those attached to the current form of life, even though every indication suggests that change is needed. Humans dance around this truth, thinking about and planning to change, but often favor the status quo. This essence is for those who don’t feel supported enough to make a change. It provides the strength to trust and let go of control, encouraging us to ride the current of the river of life.
Essences co-created with nature provide potent gifts from the plant, mineral, and elemental kingdoms. This month we are placing the spotlight on the healing energy of the mineral kingdom. Minerals are comprised of chemical elements and crystalline and geometric patterns that generate unique healing qualities. An infusion made from the energy imprint of a specific mineral is called a gem elixir or gem essence. At Alaskan Essences, we use mineral specimens to make essences in the same way we make flower essences. We co-create each gem essence in a pristine Alaskan environment with a conscious consideration of the elemental qualities the location embodies, utilizing the energy of bogs, meadows, glaciers, rivers, and glacial lakes to support and anchor the healing quality of each stone.
Gem elixirs complement and enhance the therapeutic use of flower essences, making them invaluable for any healing process. Flower essences awaken and expand our consciousness and raise our vibration for increased awareness and understanding. Still, if our physical body is not prepared for or aligned with this increasing vibration, we may be unable to maintain and balance the resulting spiritual growth. Gem elixirs anchor and embody these changes in consciousness by stimulating the release of tension accumulated in our energy field and body due to physical, mental, and emotional stress. They cleanse, activate, and recharge the chakras and subtle bodies (etheric, emotional, mental, spiritual) to encourage a deep inner alignment that allows our physical body to regain its natural balance and resilience.
The following essences help us feel more grounded, present, safe, and fully aligned within ourselves. They provide stability and strength for all phases of our personal growth and are invaluable as we go through challenging times.
Smoky Quartz – synchronizes our energy with the EarthSmoky Quartz is one of the primary gem elixirs in our system for improving the vibrational connection between our physical bodies and the Earth. This gem elixir is helpful whenever we feel disconnected from our environment, especially when our relationship with the Earth has been weakened or compromised due to trauma or when our emotional experiences overwhelm our body's capacity for grounding. In all such cases, this essence brings a calming influence to help us realign our energy fields and reconnect our physical body to the balanced energy of the Earth. This gem elixir also helps us readjust to new time zones and daylight savings time.
Black Tourmaline/Master Quartz – improves grounding, circulation, and strength
Black Tourmaline/Master Quartz gem elixir is perfect for these intense times when it is difficult to stay connected to the Earth and Source simultaneously. The essence of Black Tourmaline/Master Quartz powerfully moves into our energy field, releasing blockages that constrict energy flow and grounding to the earth. It works with the chakras, subtle bodies, and the vertical flow of energy between the bottoms of the feet and the top of the head. It balances the relationship between the base (1st) and crown (7th) chakras. This essence is helpful when you cannot integrate spiritual energy because of interference from existing survival programming.
Chrysoprase - encouragement to feel more pleasure in the earthly experience
This lovely green stone embodies the energy of love for the Earth. Its essence is helpful when we feel alienated or not at home on the planet. It helps bring our heart chakra (4th) into a harmonious union with the heart chakra of the planet, helping us accept the Earth as our home and to feel the pleasure of being part of it. Chrysoprase gem elixir helps us focus on a more heart-centered and grounded position, which calms our emotions and unwinds the tension of worry and frustration. It is an antidote to overwork by encouraging us to take time to enjoy the simple pleasures of life rather than constantly surrendering to the compulsion of getting things done. There will always be more to do, and if ‘doing’ is our primary focus, we will eventually lose our vitality and burn out. Chrysoprase reminds us that the nurturing and nourishment we need to thrive come from our enjoyment of life.
Celestite - a powerful blessing of angelic love
Celestite gem elixir is supportive and comforting when dealing with sadness, grief, and loss. It gently opens and clears the chakras above the heart, helping the heart align with the divine and angelic realms and receive the energy from those dimensions. It does this in a soft and gentle but powerful way that helps us open ourselves to an experience of profound peace and silence. This special gem brings a powerful blessing of angelic love. Its energy is a gift of bliss that encompasses our entire being, helping us see the world from a clear spiritual perspective and helping us understand our experience here on Earth.
Covellite - support and protection for the highly sensitive
Covellite gem elixir addresses feelings of vulnerability, especially for those who feel threatened by others, stressful situations, or the environment in general. The degree of vulnerability we feel is directly related to the integrity of our energy field, which can be compromised by past trauma and injury. Covellite rebuilds the energy matrix in the most impacted areas of the aura so we can experience a sense of solidity and strength instead of vulnerability and defensiveness.
Labradorite - attracting focused energy for healing and regeneration
Labradorite gem elixir replenishes those who overwork themselves or live a fast-paced lifestyle and ignore the body's needs, so-called 'burning the candles at both ends.' This unconscious use of our precious life force can lead to a depletion of energy reserves and possibly a gloomy or heavy outlook on life. Labradorite is restorative. It helps attract, gather, and assimilate the energetic nourishment of light into the body, and it helps us become aware of how we use our energy. As we replenish our vital energy, we can't help but have a more positive perspective on life.
When I started using flower essences, I enjoyed how each essence blend I received felt different from the others; some felt joyful, and others serious. They all helped me better understand myself by revealing where my thoughts and belief systems came from and which of those ideas and beliefs did not reflect my true nature. The essences helped me discover more of my life purpose and the activities that inspire me. They helped me find the inner courage to make important life-changing decisions, comforted me after the loss of my husband Steve, and supported me when I decided to take over the reins of Alaskan Essences, the company he founded.
I have used essences ever since I learned about them. It is empowering to know they will always be there for me and that the right essences will show up when I need them. They gently remind me of who I am and what I am here to experience, learn and share. Sometimes I joke that I’ve got a bunch of true friends in bottles. These friends know me well; they always have my back, show me other ways of seeing things, and give me a kick in the butt when I need it.
The following flower essences (I call them wise teachers) help with what I like most about essences: getting to know myself on a deeper level. Most of us are not eager to look into the fear we hold, but fear often hides just under the surface, shaping our personality and attitude towards life and others. To avoid our fear, we unconsciously create protective patterns that can perpetuate inner and outer struggles until we feel like we have just had enough. Fear also causes us to resist life, blocking our internal flow of Light until we feel isolated and alone. Our Light wants to flow and shine into the world, and shining this Light on our fears will transform and enlighten us, providing peace and relief.
Facing fear and accessing our inner light calls for great teachers, and the flowers are just that! A few of the flowers we selected this month were abundantly present on my journey through Alaska this summer. Monkshood, False Hellebore, and Sitka Burnet were growing in impressive numbers in the alpine meadows! All six flowers we selected this month help us step into the Light. They promote wholeness by strengthening our connection with our true selves. When we are whole, we trust ourselves, know who we are, and say ‘yes’ to life, no matter what it brings us. This ‘yes’ opens up everything!
Monkshood - the courage to show your true self to others
The Monkshood flower essence is for sensitive individuals who fear sharing their private selves with others and avoid deep emotional contact. They may also find it challenging to be close to others because they lack well-defined energetic boundaries. The Monkshood plant has a strong energy field and well-defined boundaries. Its essence can significantly improve the strength and delineation of our boundaries so we can create and maintain a protected inner space. As we focus on and align with this sacred internal space, we can discern more profound levels of ourselves and powerful aspects of our Divine nature that were previously beneath our conscious awareness. This awareness of our inner divinity enables us to project our true spiritual identity into the world, empowering us to let go of our internal burdens, drop the heaviness from our hearts, and relate to the world with fearlessness.
Sitka Burnet - releasing internal conflict to the Light of Awareness
Whenever Sitka Burnet comes up in an intuitive selection, I know an important lesson is ready to be integrated. The Sitka Burnet flower essence shows us why we’re struggling and how some experiences seem to repeat themselves. It helps us see and understand the information relevant to a particular lesson so we can bring that learning experience to completion and release its energies. The Sitka Burnet essence is beneficial when we encounter deep and intimidating levels of fear during our inner explorations. It shows us that we often react not to the issues involved or the details of the situation but to all the nervous energy built up around it. We use this essence to help us penetrate layers of fear and confusion and contact the central or core issue creating our discomfort. We can then resolve the problem at its origin and bring the whole dynamic to its ultimate conclusion.
Foxglove – transforming thoughts and beliefs that cause fear
Foxglove flower essence empowers us to live without fear. It encourages us to take emotional risks in our relationships and helps strengthen our hearts to remain open in response to conflict or challenge. This essence helps when we have lost our perspective and have no idea how to proceed. It is beneficial when we experience fear that is so strong our perceptions close down, and we don’t know what to do or which way to go, and the more we identify with the predicament, the stronger these feelings get. Foxglove relieves the energetic tension around the heart that accompanies this experience while restoring clear breathing and energy flow. This essence expands our perspective to see beyond fear into the underlying thoughts, feelings, and belief systems responsible for it. Foxglove provides the insight that while fear is real, love is more potent — and the quickest way to move through any fear is to open our hearts to love.
False Hellebore - releasing fear from our heart
False Hellebore flower essence promotes the release of false concepts and old ways of viewing life that may cause us to become inflexible and stuck on our path. This essence is helpful when we feel insecure and are holding back because of a fear of moving forward. It catalyzes movement from the old to the new and helps us face our deepest, darkest fears. It is helpful when we have resistance to being in a physical body on the earth. False Hellebore helps us to know that fear can only appear when our focus is on the past or the future. This essence helps us maintain a strong and profoundly nurturing connection with the earth, making it easier to stay in the present moment where fear cannot manifest.
Sticky Geranium - freeing up and focusing inner potential
Sticky Geranium is an ideal flower essence when we are stuck in a web of procrastination. Its vibrant and catalytic energy can help us move from a place of lethargy to a place of decisive and focused action. This essence stimulates a high degree of cooperation between the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels of our being. This inner cooperation moves us to the next level of an experience with clarity, focus, and a sense of order, whether writing the next chapter in a book or committing deeply to a job or relationship. Sticky Geranium encourages us to tune into our inner knowing and release old levels of programming and resistance that hold us in a place of stagnation. It empowers us to free up our inner potentials and go beyond previous stages of growth and self-definition to jump into life with energy and enthusiasm. It also helps those of us with many responsibilities and an overwhelming number of things to do, concentrate, and collect our energy to accomplish what is necessary in the easiest way possible.
Tundra Rose - accentuate the positive
This flower essence helps those with much to offer but who have lost hope and may want to give up their dreams and desires. With its bright yellow flowers, Tundra Rose communicates a love for life that resonates deep within the heart. It gently illuminates our deepest fears with the Light of Love, so we are motivated by a love of life rather than a fear of death. This higher level of alignment strengthens our ability to complete challenging tasks joyfully. Tundra Rose also helps us understand the spiritual basis of our most difficult life lessons and teaches us to focus on the potential blessings of our challenges instead of feeling victimized or losing ourselves in despair. Tundra Rose is a true essence of Light and Hope!
The following four essential formulas & sprays benefit every person or family and we feel they are important for the times we are in. The formula/drops are beneficial when used over an extended period or whenever you need some extra support. The sprays provide immediate effects by invoking those same energies in your energy field and environment. Using both the formulas and sprays provides a powerful system of energetic support.
>> Soul Support Emergency Formula and Spray
Soul Support is our best-selling remedy for stress, emotional upset, shock & trauma, or whenever life feels overwhelming. It provides strength and stability making it our go-to formula for all kinds of stressful events. Soul Support helps us remain present and grounded to process what is happening around and within us.
Use Soul Support to:
Our Soul Support Spray contains the Soul Support formula plus the soothing, clarifying properties of a high-quality organic Lavender oil. This spray is beneficial for calming, grounding, and centering the energy in your environment and your personal energy field. Soul Support is helpful for any circumstance, so keep a bottle close at hand for each family member.
>> Go-Create Abundance Formula and Spray
Feeling abundant can be a bit challenging when you’re paying for your groceries or filling up your gas tank at the pump these days!! Check out the Go-Create Abundance Formula if you feel insecure about money issues. Worries and fears are not helpful when you want to create more abundance in your life. The Go-Create formula helps you create what you want, need, and desire in your life with less resistance and more ease. This formula will help you become aware of your limiting beliefs, enhance your ability to feel worthy to receive everything you need and find the energies of trust, faith, and gratitude.
Use Go-Create to:
Go-Create Abundance Spray contains our original Go-Create formula and the essential oils of Rosemary, Coriander, Bulgaria Lavender, Laurel, and Fresh Ginger. These refreshing oils are well known for supporting self-esteem, inner fire, enthusiasm, and creative boldness, liberating you from doubts about your ability to manifest an abundant flowing life. Use the spray in your home, office, studio, and during meditations, classes, and workshops.
>> Beyond Words Communication Formula and Spray
Beyond Words improves our listening and communication skills so we can more easily connect with others. Clear communication is crucial to keeping our relationships healthy. So often, we hear about people having difficulty communicating with friends or family, and this problem seems to have worsened over recent years. We see it in personal relationships and today's political and social landscape. We must listen from a place of neutrality to understand what the other person is trying to say. We need to be able to express our truth, especially when we don't feel safe enough to express our genuine opinions and concerns. When we are reactive to people's views or hit the 'send' or 'post' button before we even take three breaths, we haven't taken the time to understand. Beyond Words builds unity by showing us it is possible to be heard and understood and that we can listen to and understand others.
Use Beyond Words when:
Beyond Words will help you:
The spray contains the Beyond Words formula and the oils of Lavender, Roman Chamomile, Red Mandarin, Rose Geranium, and Sandalwood. These oils have a grounding, calming, uplifting effect and promote mental clarity. Use the spray for work meetings, therapy sessions, family gatherings, writing, teaching, public speaking, interviews, and every situation in which honesty, open communication, and shared understanding are crucial.
>> Easy Learning Focus and Integration Formula and Spray
For those of us soon heading back to the office or school or struggling to get our to-do lists done, Easy Learning 'Focus & Integration' formula and spray can help us stay focused behind the desk and in the classroom! It brings our focus to the present moment and clears our minds so we can more easily prioritize our thoughts and the jobs that require our attention. It supports our ability to process and integrate information, increasing our understanding and the logical application of knowledge. Easy Learning is also helpful when you feel overwhelmed with all the information coming to you every day from different sources.
Use Easy Learning when:
The spray contains the Easy Learning formula and the organic essential oils of Basil, Coriander, Fresh Ginger, Laurel, Lemon, Rosemary, and Spearmint. These bright and refreshing oils are well known for enhancing memory and mental focus, relieving mental fatigue, and promoting inspiration.
The Combination Spray Kit is available in 2 oz and 4 oz
All four of our featured sprays come in a sturdy and attractive kit box. The kits are great for gifts and handy for storage.
>> Read more about all our Formulas HERE and click HERE to read more about the use of our sprays.
]]>Summer is in full swing in the northern hemisphere with longer days and warmer temperatures providing the opportunity to relax, recharge and recenter. Leisure time helps us rediscover what is essential in our lives. Reading a book, exploring a favorite backroad or mountain trail, digging into a creative project or hobby, gathering with friends and family, or taking a vacation can help us reclaim much-needed perspective. Giving our body and mind permission and time to slow down enhances our overall wellbeing by rebalancing our mind and body systems. When blood pressure lowers, tired muscles relax, and a busy mind finds peace and calm, we have more space for joy. The following six essences help us tap into the experience of daily calm, light, and joy.
Green Jasper - restore earthly sensuality.
Green Jasper gem elixir strengthens our connection to the earth, increasing our vitality and the healthy expression of earthly sensuality. It opens the first chakra and the chakras in our feet to allow loving and gentle earth energy to flow upwards and envelop the heart. In the presence of this energy, we can discharge excesses of nervous energy and blissfully relax into the embrace of the Goddess. Green Jasper is especially helpful when work and responsibilities weigh us down, and we are not enjoying life. It reminds us that we can feel uplifted and joyful regardless of where we are or what we are doing and encourages us to open again to the healing power of fun, play, and celebration.
Goatsbeard - inspiration through joy and enthusiasm.
Goatsbeard is a funny-looking plant, but it's your ally to experience more joy, create a healthier balance between work and play, and incorporate more playfulness into your work. The Goatsbeard flower essence helps us find the balance between seriousness and fun and teaches us how to be light as we face the heaviness of life. It allows us to slowly and steadily dial up the amount of joy in our lives, and its gentle energy softens overly severe perspectives. This ability to balance seriousness and joy amplifies our optimism for life.
Moschatel - discover the joy of celebration and play.
Moschatel flower essence encourages our inner child to come out and play. It promotes crucial self-care for workaholics, those who try too hard, and those overly worried and concerned about others. It teaches us that spiritual balance comes through celebration and play, not overwork and worry. Moschatel weaves the energies of Earth and spirit into play and celebration that contributes to a healthy and balanced life, expanding our ability to care for ourselves and others and fulfill our needs in fun and enjoyable ways.
Lilac - open to the loving energy of Source.
Lilac flower essence offers an unconditional quality of healing energy that is available to us regardless of our stories, issues, or degree of misalignment. It helps us understand that it doesn't matter what has happened to us or how we perceive our current circumstances; we can always open to the healing energy of light. Lilac opens the crown chakra and the whole energy system to an infusion of light from Source. It brings a strong, tangible, graceful, and generous over-lighting presence to raise the frequency of your energy field.
Brazilian Quartz - cleanse, revitalize and realign.
Brazilian Quartz gem elixir embodies the essence of cleansing white light to stimulate healing on all levels, especially when we feel tired, exhausted, or have low energy. This essence enhances our inner light by cleansing and energizing our physical body, subtle bodies, and chakras and synchronizing them with the Earth’s natural vibration. The details of our day-to-day struggles can often obscure our radiance, but the full power of our light is always there. Brazilian Clear Quartz helps us recognize and release any blockages in our awareness, so we can fully experience and express our true luminous nature.
Purple Poppy - time for integration and rest.
When a lot is happening in our lives and the world, we may feel like we can’t keep up. We may find ourselves disoriented, frazzled, and exhausted with so much going on. The Purple Poppy flower essence supports us in these situations and during all phases of change and personal growth. Throughout any process of transformation and change, the purple poppy essence helps us maintain balance to ease disorientation and promote rest so we can experience deep levels of integration.
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When you are traveling this summer, remember to bring these key essences and sprays to keep you cool and sane during your summer travels. They fit easily in your handbag or suitcase and meet airline carry-on size restrictions.
Soul Support Emergency Formula helps maintain strength, balance, and stability during any kind of stressful activity or traumatic situation. Keep a bottle in your handbag or purse to ease travel stress this summer.
Purification Sacred Space Spray refreshes cabins, hotels, vacation rentals, and rental cars by clearing out stagnant and unwanted energy. It can also refresh your energy field after a busy day out by spraying it over your head and shoulders.
Calling All Angels Sacred Space Spray invokes soft and serene energy to help us relax in changing surroundings and situations. Spray in rooms and sleeping areas, especially on pillows and bedding to encourage restful slumber.
Travel Ease Journey Formula and Spray is helpful for all plane and car travel. The drops and spray help us manage cramped and crowded spaces by strengthening the integrity of our energy field, helping us stay grounded, and promoting the release of unwanted energy that may be absorbed while traveling.
]]>“All our wisdom is stored in the trees” - Santosh Kalwar
Trees hold a sacred place in the kingdom of plants. They live in symbiosis with fungi on and below the forest floor, allowing them to communicate, share nutrients, and provide habitat for other forest beings. They are givers of life and keepers of wisdom. They grow from tiny seeds into long-lived beings, with roots extending deep into the Earth Mother and branches reaching high for the heavens. The natural succession of the landscape, from meadows to trees to old-growth forests, is Nature's ultimate goal.
Trees help us quiet our minds to hear the intuitive teacher within. Whenever I enter a forest seeking answers and centering, I sit below a tree to find calm and peace, and as I connect to its roots, I can access its wisdom. It is no wonder that the practice of forest bathing, connecting mindfully with the forest, is attracting humans to the immense medicine that trees provide. Our essences from Nature are valuable because many people don’t have easy access to the forest.
Alder essence helps us access light and information beyond our standard range of perception to gain clarity and a deeper level of knowing to support our soul’s evolution.
Black Spruce essence connects us to our ancestral heritage, the wisdom within, and the planet's collective consciousness, so we can apply this wisdom to our present life situations.
Paper Birch essence provides a fresh perspective by helping us get back in touch with our genuine and essential selves, where peace and joy reside at the deepest levels of our being.
]]>If you regularly find yourself in disappointing situations, it may be insightful to ask yourself what choices you made that led you there. Was it fear, were you trying to meet certain expectations, or was the choice a habit? Negative experiences from the past can blur our inner vision and can cause anxiety, making it even more difficult to know or feel what to do. If you find it challenging to connect with or trust your intuition, remember that your past experiences and choices from this lifetime and others all feed into a well of innate wisdom, making even challenging and disappointing situations resources for growth.
Accessing this inner wellspring requires a calm mind and an open heart to hear, see and feel the insight and intuition that comes during moments of silence or stillness, as a sudden ‘knowing’ or gut feeling or an inner voice that tells you, “Do this!”
It's easier to recognize and follow our intuition when our mind, higher self, and heart work together. Deep in our center, we know what is good for us. The following essences help quiet our minds and open us to our inner wisdom and guidance so that we may live more intuitively, and our hearts can lead the way to fulfill our life purpose.
Wild Rhubarb - improving communication between the heart and the mind.When our minds and hearts are working at cross-purposes, Wild Rhubarb flower essence clears and expands the communication channel between the higher self, heart, and mind. It helps the mind occupy its proper position–being in service to the heart and open to the higher self's guidance. The mind's design is to be of service to us, but we often allow it to become subordinate to the ego. When we let the mind control us from this place, the result can be a life that runs along chaotic lines far removed from higher purpose and joy. A clear channel between the heart and mind gives the impulses of the higher self access to the mind. This clear access relaxes inappropriate mental control, which results in new thoughts, perspectives, plans for action, and new solutions to problems.
Paper Birch - gaining a clear perspective on your life purpose.
It is often challenging to make critical decisions that impact our life direction. We may feel lost and unsure about the path of action we have chosen, and we may wonder if it serves our highest good. An accumulated mass of outdated thinking and programming, accompanied by tension, fear, and anxiety, can obscure our true selves. Paper Birch provides a fresh perspective on our lives. It supports realignment with our life purpose by helping us get back in touch with our genuine and essential selves. This essence introduces a calming, clarifying, and relaxing energy to help us move our focus from muddled thinking and confusing emotions to find the peace and joy residing at deeper levels of our being. From this place of calm awareness, we can better make critical life decisions that support the truth of who we are.
Alder - clarity about what is true and good for oneself.
Alder flower essence is helpful when we cannot see the deeper meaning in life’s lessons. Life provides us with ongoing opportunities to facilitate the learning critical to our spiritual growth in this lifetime. When we fully understand what we are learning, our response to life aligns with our highest good, but sometimes our past experiences and current belief systems make it difficult to see what is true and good for us. The Alder essence helps us access light and information beyond our standard range of perception to gain clarity and a deeper level of knowing. The ability to see and understand the truth of a situation empowers us to move beyond any limiting mental programming to respond to learning opportunities in a way that supports our soul’s evolution.
Black Spruce - remembering wisdom from past experiences.
Black Spruce represents the ancient grandfather energy of nature. Its essence helps open our perceptions to the wisdom present within each of us, our ancestral heritage, and the planet's collective consciousness. Black Spruce is a vital essence when we overlook the lessons within situations that repeatedly carry the same challenge. Black Spruce helps us connect more fully with the eternal aspects of who we are. With the help of this essence, we can learn from past experiences and apply that knowledge and wisdom to present life situations to create a broader perspective on our life journey.
Star Sapphire - strengthening your ability to act in alignment with life purpose.
When we truly want to fulfill our purpose in life, we are often encouraged to move out of our existing comfort zone and venture into the unknown. If we lack trust in ourselves and the universe and find it difficult to make the right choices, this is easier said than done. Luckily, this essence can help us create a more effective and less stressful way to carry out the responsibilities we have taken on. If we want to follow our true path calmly and gracefully, we need to recognize the spiritual support beyond our current level of awareness. Star Sapphire’s primary gift is to strengthen our ability to sense the spiritual support that is always there for us, making energetic and physical connections to co-create next-level experiences.
Aquamarine - brings a calm, cooling clarity to an overactive mind.
When we have a lot of worries and repetitive thoughts, we may feel unfocused, irritable, or restless, and it may seem impossible to shift into a peaceful and calmer state of mind. Aquamarine gem elixir brings a calm, cooling clarity to an overactive mental body, reversing the conditions of overwhelm and over-stimulation. This essence helps to slow and calm our minds before they get too wired or overheated, making it perfect for situations where the mind and the nervous system have been in a prolonged state of excitation and arousal. This gem elixir helps stabilize and re-ground the connection between the soul, mind, and heart, encouraging us to move our focus inward, slow down the rate of input, and return to a calm state of mental alertness.
More Essences to Let Intuition be Your Guide:
Bladderwort - discerning truth within the illusion
Bog Rosemary - trusting your intuition
Hairy Butterwort - developing a greater trust in spiritual guidance
Jacob’s Ladder - strengthening the connection with the higher self
Lamb’s Quarters - balancing the intuitive with the rational
Lapis Lazuli - understanding guidance and information from higher sources
Lapland Rosebay - looking within for wisdom and a deeper perspective
Rainbow Hematite - developing the innate abilities of the 6th chakra (3rd eye)
Scepter Amethyst - strength and support to follow one’s spiritual path
We'd like to introduce to you twelve must-have flower essences to help us live balanced and fulfilled lives. We chose these essences because they cover a wide range of healing qualities that support crucial aspects of day-to-day life. These gifts from nature encourage our natural ability to thrive by helping us be more present, understand our thoughts and emotions, ease our minds, see the positive aspects of things, and trust in the divine unfolding of our lives. There is something for everyone and every stage of life. We think you will find them invaluable.
Protective energy: Yarrow
This flower essence helps those experiencing oversensitivity to the environment know they are the source of their own protection. Yarrow does this by sealing energy breaks in the aura and strengthening the overall integrity of our energy field.
Understanding your life purpose: Shooting Star
This flower essence provides comfort, safety, and clarity for those who have difficulty feeling at home. Shooting Star strengthens our connection to our inner spiritual guidance and brings a deeper understanding of why we are here.
Transforming thoughts that cause fear: Foxglove
Foxglove flower essence empowers us to live without fear and take our next steps confidently. It expands our perspective to see beyond what we fear into the underlying thoughts, feelings, and belief systems responsible for it.
Developing trust: Bog Rosemary
This essential flower essence builds trust in ourselves when we fear the unknown. Bog Rosemary promotes the release of fear and resistance held deep in the heart and assures us of Divine healing and support.
Peaceful mind: Cassandra
This calming flower essence enables us to perceive life from a quiet inner perspective by encouraging stillness of mind. Cassandra is helpful when we feel anxious and cannot relax and shift our attention from the outer world to the inner world.
From distraction to focus: Bunchberry
Bunchberry flower essence promotes mental steadfastness, focus, and emotional clarity in demanding situations. It’s helpful when we are easily distracted by or caught up in the emotional and mental turmoil around us.
Presence in communication: Twinflower
This flower essence helps us listen and speak to others from inner calm, presence, and focused neutrality. Twinflower is essential for anyone who wants to improve their listening and speaking skills.
Abundant mindset: Blueberry Pollen
This pollen essence helps shift our mindset and beliefs about our ability to manifest abundance. When we move beyond our previous levels of limitation and fears about the future, we allow ourselves to attract and receive all we require and desire to live our lives to their fullest.
From resentment to forgiveness: Mountain Wormwood
Mountain Wormwood flower essence stimulates the release of resentment and the healing of old wounds. It assists when we cannot easily forgive ourselves or others for past actions regardless of their intent.
Recovering from loss: River Beauty
River Beauty is the essence of emotional recovery, reorientation, and regeneration. This flower essence helps us start over after emotionally devastating experiences by empowering us to use adverse circumstances as opportunities for cleansing and growth.
Letting go of tension: Dandelion
Dandelion flower essence promotes awareness and release of emotional tension in our muscles. It increases body-mind communication to better identify the underlying issues and attitudes that lead to creating and holding stress in our bodies.
Recovery from shock and trauma: Cotton Grass
Cotton Grass flower essence helps us recover from shock and trauma resulting from accidents or injuries by shifting our focus to the healing occurring and away from the discomfort. Its most important gift is to help us understand the core issues that led to an accident or injury, so we can completely release the trauma associated with it.
When we spend time in Nature, we can enter into a deep moment-to-moment awareness where we experience a soothing balm of comfort. In these deeply connected moments, we understand the healing energy that Nature provides, but sometimes we need to be reminded. Essences made from Nature’s kingdoms build a bridge between our daily lives and the all-encompassing sense of wellbeing we feel while immersed in Nature. The following flower, gem, and environmental essences provide gentle, compassionate, and nurturing energies. They encourage us to relax our minds and surrender our struggles as they stabilize and reset our energy field, especially the flow between our heart and mind. They help us find comfort within our everyday awareness as they deepen our trust in the universe and inspire absolute safety, presence, and peace to improve our physical wellbeing.
Prickly Wild Rose: openness, courage, and a renewed interest in life
The Prickly Wild Rose essence helps us manifest and maintain an aura of openness and courageous interest in life in the face of seemingly adverse circumstances. From such honesty and faith comes a sense of calm and the knowledge that we will continue to blossom and bring our hopes to fruition. This essence supports us as we release difficulties and disappointments from the past and take an honest look at our challenges and accomplishments. Instead of being discouraged, it teaches us to look forward to the future with more joy and optimism.
Valerian: comfort and relaxed alertness
Valerian flower essence helps when we have difficulty relaxing the mind and body. It both calms and energizes, bringing a sense of relaxed alertness. When we push ourselves beyond the point of tiredness, it helps us find a natural balance between action and rest, so we can be mentally focused when we want or need, and then return to a state of peace and relaxation. Valerian also encourages a feeling of comfort in our everyday existence so we are comfortable no matter what is happening. And as we slow down and sense the moments of our day, our physical appreciation of everything increases.
Blue Green Tourmaline: from inner turbulence to inner peace
Blue Green Tourmaline gem elixir strengthens our alignment with the Earth and our Higher Self. It helps when we feel agitated, and excess mental effort blocks energy flow between our heart and higher self. This essence moves us from distraction and waywardness to quiet, centered strength and self-reflection, encouraging peace and solace to take permanent residence in our being. Blue-Green Tourmaline is grounding. It provides the strength and courage we need to transform our inner turbulence into inner peace, contributing to peace on the planet. It fearlessly and gently opens our hearts to take our rightful place on the earth, with grace, purity, and strength, and without a need to push others away.
Green Tourmaline/Smoky Quartz: opening, relaxing, and releasing tension
Green Tourmaline/Smoky Quartz facilitates a strong and grounded connection between our hearts and the Earth. This essence is a loving presence asking us to settle gently into the pull of gravity. It helps us identify where we hold tension in the body and then encourages us to let the pressure go. It asks us to notice the relief as we settle into a deep place of relaxation. The gift of this essence is the support it provides in the ongoing process of opening, relaxing, and letting go so that we can be more and more present—a constant, loving process of arrival. It reminds us that our sense of self and self-love is more important than the issues, problems, or challenges we face.
Stone Circle: a safe place to replenish vital forces
Stepping into this Stone Circle feels like coming home to a safe place where all is possible. This protected place provides rest and nurturing after journeys and adventures. We feel at home in this protective energy because it represents balance—what perfectly balanced elemental energies feel like in their natural, harmonic state. The essence of Stone Circle introduces protective energy into the aura to relax, rest, and replenish our vital forces. It helps replace what we lost through stress, misuse, and the trials and tribulations of living in the world. This essence allows us to take a step back from our lives to shift into a deep place of rest, so we act and respond to life with our inner strength rather than react from weakness.
Calling All Angels: feel the support and love of the angelic kingdom
The Divine Nurturing Formula and Sacred Space Spray can both help you contact the angelic realm's love, guidance, and protection. They bring very soft, loving, and serene energy into your heart, physical body, and environment.
Use the formula and spray to:
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When we deplete our vital energy reserves, sleeping doesn't replenish us, and all the coffee and chocolate in the world can't help. Difficulties and emergencies can seem insurmountable when we have no energy, and we may eventually find ourselves overwhelmed or vulnerable. When life events impact our wellbeing and ability to find peace, we must intentionally refocus on things that nurture our connection to our core Self and reclaim our vitality. We don't need to ignore what is happening in the world, but we need to find the calm within to respond and take action from a grounded inner presence.
If you are willing to take an honest look at yourself, consider the areas of your life that receive the bulk of your attention and focus. Which thoughts are perpetually in your mind? Can you see positive things occurring in your life? Do you spend quality time connecting to Nature? Do you give yourself nourishing self-care?
The following essences empower our journey back to center and wellbeing by teaching us that the source of our vitality lies within. Red Elder and Chocolate Lily help us perceive the world from inner calm and grounding. Grass of Parnassus and Lady's Slipper attract the life force energy of Source and Mother Earth to bathe, nourish, and replenish our energy field. Fire Opal gem elixir builds and restores our vital energy reserves by improving our connection to the Earth. Solstice Sun's environmental essence opens our bodies' energy pathways to receive more light.
Red Elder * Chocolate Lily * Grass of Parnassus * Fire Opal * Lady's Slipper * Solstice Sun
Red Elder flower essence is helpful for those of us who spend most of our time trying to keep track of everything going on in our lives. When we rely primarily on our mental forces, we can disassociate from our bodies and become unfocused. The energy of Red Elder is feminine, nurturing, gentle and soft. It radiates a message from the Earth that all is well. It helps to contract our overly expanded state of being to view life from our center rather than from the periphery. This essence improves our grounding and physical presence by helping us release mental and emotional tension into the Earth and inviting us back to our center to enjoy the bounty of life within our physical bodies. Most importantly, this essence helps us participate more fully in the co-creative life cycle. As we receive more nourishment from our physical environment, we can better nurture the Earth and others in return.
Chocolate Lily flower essence helps us establish a deep and quiet inner perspective, so we can move from agitation and worry to a calm and centered present-time awareness. It helps those who crave a variety of external stimuli to ground their focus back into the body to pay more attention to what is relevant and essential to the task at hand. It helps us receive our life experiences with more spaciousness and less reactivity. Use Chocolate Lily essence when you find yourself being over-reactive to situations beyond your control or when you experience fatigue after over-extending yourself. This essence teaches us that when we are present, it’s easier to become even more present and connected to our center, where we can experience an unlimited source of vitality.
Grass of Parnassus flower essence offers a fountain of white light to nourish all levels of our being. Its energy is effervescent, joyful, uplifting, and liberating. Use this essence whenever you need to cleanse and charge up your energy fields. It brings the light of purity into the aura and helps us attune more clearly to higher energy frequencies. It facilitates the practice of meditation and can also be used to cleanse the meditation room. This powerful essence is beneficial for those who live and do their work in crowded or polluted surroundings. It brings an increased level of protection to the human energy system while helping us attract increased levels of energetic nourishment from nature. This flower essence is also one of the four essences in Lighten Up Energy Flow Formula and Spray.
Fire Opal gem elixir is a crucial remedy when our energy reserves become depleted because our lifestyle and work habits are not nourishing our physical bodies. When we are chronically tired from overwork and poor energy management, Fire Opal releases blockages between the Earth and the base of our energy field. This essence also opens and clears energy pathways between the chakras below the heart to receive more energetic nourishment directly from the Earth. Clear connections between these chakras contribute to an upward flow of energy from the Earth to replenish our reserves.
Lady's Slipper orchid is a well-hidden forest dweller. It requires us to come to a place of inner quiet and attunement before it will reveal itself. Its essence helps us focus and circulate the energy flow of our bodies, so the energy reaches the areas that have been depleted and need regeneration and renewal. Lady's Slipper works specifically with the primary energy pathways in the body: the chakras, the central nervous system, and the large nerve pathways that run along the spine. This essence not only helps us regulate the flow of energy along these pathways but also helps us increase our awareness and sensitivity to them.
Solstice Sun environmental essence was prepared during the night and early morning hours of June 21 and 22, as the midnight sun danced along the peaks of the Brooks Range in the northern interior of Alaska. The sun barely dipped below the tips of the mountain peaks, never entirely disappearing. This essence contains the energy of the setting and rising sun—embodying the completion of the old and the beginning of a new cycle of light. Solstice Sun is a transformational essence and can have a powerful effect on our ability to access and move energy through our physical bodies. It is helpful for those who have difficulty getting through long dark winters. This essence works by opening our hearts and the energy pathways in our bodies to receive more light and make more efficient use of the energy contained within it. This essences is also one of the four essences in Lighten Up Energy Flow Formula and Spray
]]>The ability to love others starts with accepting, knowing, and loving ourselves. We may not realize how vital self-acceptance and self-love are on the journey of emotional and spiritual growth, though much of our lives, including our relationships, would flow so much easier if we did. Accepting and appreciating ourselves makes it easier to enjoy our own company and to take actions that prioritize our well-being and highest good. We hope the following essences will help you find that feeling of Love within, leading you to self-acceptance, care, and compassion.
Alpine Azalea - unconditional self-acceptance
Alpine Azalea is crucial when we have low self-esteem and cannot love or accept certain parts of ourselves by helping us achieve unconditional self-acceptance. It opens our hearts to the spirit/vibration of love present in all the kingdoms of nature. As we open our hearts to the penetrating energy of this essence, it catalyzes the release of patterns of self-doubt and helps us create unconditional self-understanding and compassion in our lives.
Harebell - bringing unconditional Love through the heart
Harebell essence teaches us to look within to find the love we seek instead of looking for it outside ourselves. It challenges us to acknowledge and release self-imposed mental and emotional limitations that keep us from giving and receiving an unlimited flow of love. It helps us open our hearts to others when we have had painful experiences in our past love relationships and reverses heart fatigue that results from prolonged separations or difficulties in relationships.
Rose Quartz - strengthening our heart to open to Love
The gift of Rose Quartz gem elixir strengthens and stabilizes our hearts so we can let more love into our lives. This stabilizing and strengthening is especially helpful when the heart has closed down from lack of nurturing as a child or because of traumatic events. As we allow this flow of loving energy to increase, it clears away the defensive energies we use to protect our hearts. The defenses are no longer needed because the strongest protection is an open heart.
Columbine – accepting your unique and personal beauty
Columbine flower essence is for those who have a negative self-image or judge their appearance by superficial, arbitrary, or comparative standards. This inner critic keeps us from seeing and appreciating the most valuable part of ourselves and others—the eternal soul that shines from within. Columbine teaches us that perceived physical imperfections do not limit our unique spiritual qualities. It reminds us to be as nature guides us to be, uniquely ourselves. It helps us strengthen our sense of who we are and encourages us to radiate that truth without concern, so we appreciate our uniqueness, regardless of how it differs from the norm.