Sea Essences for Neurological and Brain Challenges

Dear Essence Beings

A practitioner came up to me in Japan and said that she was there to say thank you from her mother. Her mother had suffered a stroke and was paralyzed on one side and the doctors advised that she might stay paralyzed. Her daughter made a blend of essences which included Coral and Sea Horse from Kit 5 and within a week she had regained full use of both sides of her body. Amazing and yet absolutely comprehensible when you think of the signature of both these essences – Coral which looks like the brain and Sea Horse which markedly demonstrates the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord).

This is not the first time I've heard dramatic stories like this. In Brazil last year one of my students came up to me and told me that her mother had had to have brain surgery for some kind of aneurysm even though she knew there was a risk of paralysis post operatively. Indeed she was a quadriplegic after the surgery. So the daughter who also happens to be a psychiatrist (so trained in western medicine) also gave her many sea essences. She confided that since she was a small child she had always seen her mother as a kind of Whale – with this enormous capacity to part the waters and make things happen. So Whale was in every formula along with Coral, Rainbow Kelp (front brain back brain integration) and Blue Camas (left brain right brain communication). Her mother did not fully recover but did regain the use of one arm so that at the very least she could feed herself.

There is no doubt in my mind that we are just at the tip of the iceberg in terms of exploring the potential of the sea essences. I remember being convinced of their potential even when we had the courage to bring out the first 12 sea essences in 1985. And I really mean 'courage' because when all my colleagues in the essence world were looking at flower fairies we were playing with Moon Snails and Mussels. But the synchronicity that convinced me that it was our job to bring out the first sea essences on the planet was simply the fact that there was exactly one essence for each meridian of Chinese medicine in this first kit of 12. Wow!! – What were the odds of getting one essence for each of the 12 meridians in the first 12 sea essences we ever researched???? I knew we were on to something good.

And when we went on to explore the larger mammals in Hawaii and an endangered species like Sea Horse I had the equally strong belief that this second set of sea essences was for expanding our potentials as human beings in relation to our nervous systems, our sensory systems and our electrical systems. Indeed the two stories above are exactly what I intuitively understood when we first began researching the first sea essences on the planet. And remember we don't have to start from a place of trauma or deficiency in order to benefit from these amazing 'gifts from the sea'. We can use them merely to expand our possibilities moving forward from a place of health and wellbeing.

With love and blessings

Sabina

Being Present for Abundance

by Jamie Morris

Dear Abundant Friends--

In a recent yoga class, when the teacher directed us to move from a vigorous standing sequence to a quiet Child's Pose, he added one piece of advice: "Just because you're in a restful pose," he said, "don't let your breath flatten. Keep it connected and alive." As often happens for me in yoga, I understood that this simple instruction could be just as helpful "off the mat" in my daily life, as it was "on the mat" in yoga class.

For example, in my financial life, when I'm experiencing a period in which resources are tight and I'm working hard to make ends meet, I make a distinct effort to cultivate sources of income, connecting with old clients, creating new workshops, contacting businesses that might want to partner with me in offering a writing event to their customers--and, above all, keeping my spiritual connections alive.

But when financial times are easier and abundance is flowing, I can get a little lax. I take it easy, put off connecting with my spiritual guides, making a follow-up phone call or writing a thank-you e-mail. After all, everything is going fine without my making an effort--isn't it?

In yoga terms, in times of financial ease, I "let my breath flatten," rather than keeping a consistent, committed focus on my business.

Certainly, there is an ebb and flow to all processes in which energy is circulated. And, certainly, my business is one such process. But riding the flow with attention rather than collapsing and "letting my breath flatten" allows me to respond easily to the shifts, challenges, and opportunities that arise each day. It also assures that I won't be behind the curve when the next ebb cycle begins.

So how do I pull this off? What does it look like on the mental, emotional, spiritual, and practical levels? Here's a short list of easy-to-accomplish tasks which, attended to regularly, will keep me AND my business well-fed and tended.

In the ebb-times and the flow, I can commit to . . .

On the MENTAL level

• READING one article about writing or teaching--on-line or in-print--every day
• finding at least one way to APPLY WHAT I LEARN in my own teaching work
• taking ABUNDANCE ESSENCE, which helps me THINK in positive and creative ways

On the EMOTIONAL level

• SHARING my feelings with friends, in-person or on the phone
• CONNECTING with clients who might welcome a supportive note from me
• taking ABUNDANCE STABILIZER, which helps me TRUST and ACCEPT the flow On the SPIRITUAL level
• NURTURING myself with plenty of rest and dream-time
• remaining consistent in my PRAYER and JOURNALING practices
• being THANKFUL for the support the FLOWER, SEA, and ABUNDANCE ESSENCES give me

On the PRACTICAL level

• NETWORKING with at least one other small business person each week
• BRAINSTORMING one new writing event each month
• CONSIDERING who might be interested in CO-HOSTING such an event

One of the gifts of both the Abundance Essence and its "sister," the Abundance Stabilizer, is that they help me think more creatively, keep my energy flowing in a positive direction, making actions like these easy and fun!

With their help--and this simple but effective list--I suspect that cultivating a more consistent awareness in my work-life will help me create a steadier, more stable personal economy. While there will always be an ebb to follow a flow, by taking my yoga teacher's good advice, I can stay on top of the waves as they roll.

ABUNDANCE 101: Where in your life do you "let your breath flatten"? What steps could you take--at the MENTAL, EMOTIONAL, SPIRITUAL, and PRACTICAL levels--to become more consistent in your awareness of that aspect of your life?

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