Reconnection - The 07/07/07 gateway Reconnection - The 07/07/07 gateway

July promises to be a potent month that will offer us major opportunities to reclaim our spiritual empowerment. The 07/07/07 is a gateway to higher consciousness for those that are ready to bring through more of their Soul’s light. We have all been preparing for this opening for some time and you will of course be aware of the challenges that you have personally faced over recent months that have helped you to reclaim some more of the scattered fragments of yourself. This has been important since to use the energy of this gateway effectively we must be able to hold our lower four bodies – physical, etheric, emotional & mental – aligned and stable so as to create a foundation that our Soul’s force can use as a medium for its expression.

Remember the power of focussed intent and use this time as an opportunity to reaffirm your commitment to connecting fully with your Soul’s light and anchoring it here at a physical level. Be open to allowing the light of your Soul to illuminate those parts of your personality that are not yet in alignment with your Soul’s purpose for this incarnation. This is a time where we will be able to connect more strongly with our higher purpose and where we will find ourselves challenged in areas where we are not in alignment with it. The exact alignment of Pluto with the Galactic Centre on July 17th will again provide a flow of energy that will assist us in clearing old issues and patterns that are holding us back. For more information on this go to www.handclow2012.com/astroflash.htm

All this means that July will be both challenging and empowering, so remember to actively maintain a strong inner core of light that has its roots deep into the heart of Mother Earth and connects you with the higher aspects of your being at all times. Simply remembering to breath in your Soul connection down through the top of your head and into your heart at regular intervals throughout the day will help you stay in alignment during these exciting times.

The lower four chakras together with the Earth Star, Soul Star and Hara points are all important energy centres that help pull through and focus the Soul’s force. If you need some extra help to balance your energetic foundation, you will find that using some of the Light Body Essences ( Etheric, Earth Star, Soul Star or Hara ) to open and balance any of these points would be very supportive.

For more information on the energetic opportunities of July you might like to check out the following links www.firethegrid.com and www.tomkenyon.com/hathors.php.

Making friends with Change Making friends with Change

If there is one thing that is certain in life it is the inevitability of change. Our lives are a continuous process of change from birth to death as we gradually move through childhood, puberty, adulthood and old age. Most of us cope with these changing cycles without too much difficulty because they are known and understood. However, we often have much greater difficulty accepting what appears to be unexpected or unwanted change in our lives, because change of this kind usually takes us outside of our carefully constructed comfort zones and into the realms of the unknown. There is then a tendency for us to resist change and to try to cling on to what is familiar, creating much unnecessary pain for ourselves.

We are sure that like us, you have all felt the increased pressure to change those old patterns and ways of being that are no longer appropriate, more & more strongly over recent months. This is hardly surprising when you remember that as part of the huge transformational shift now taking place in our universe we are currently being sent waves of highly transformational consciousness raising energy, with the express intention of helping us to make those much needed changes. Since this is the case it would seem that there is no better time than right now to make friends with the idea of change - there is obviously more to come!

So here are a few suggestions from us as to how you can start to make friends with change. Firstly, it helps to remember that change is really only a challenge to the personality, which likes to imagine that it has autonomy over the direction of our lives. In reality however, it is the Soul not the personality that is the true guiding force in our life. So when you next find yourself facing what looks like a particularly challenging requirement to change, take time to meditate on the situation until you can see what the higher purpose of this particular challenge is from the perspective of your Soul. This will not necessarily silence your personality’s resistance but it will begin to bring your personality into the correct alignment with your Soul and give you a firm foundation to work from.

The next step is to release the past; personality resistance is always based on the events of the past, either consciously or unconsciously. Take a little time to quietly view the issues that the situation is bringing up for you – what old thought patterns & emotions are being activated? How valid are these in the current situation? Some appropriate essences can be a very effective support to help you transform the old energy that drives these patterns. Fear of some kind is usually the biggest cause of personality resistance so you might find that a bottle of Inner Calm from the Combinations for Self-Treatment range, or Courage from the Inner Child Essences might be very helpful.

The next step is to commit to the present; bringing yourself into a state of acceptance that allows that whatever is happening is exactly what should be happening. In other words do not argue with Reality – it will only make things more difficult. Most of us find it very difficult to stay in the present moment when we feel challenged. Some help from a bottle of Being Present from the Combinations for Self-Treatment range or a Base Chakra combination can really help to keep us focussed in the present.

Lastly remember to allow the future to unfold with ease & grace; allow the flow of life to lovingly embrace you and trust that it always has your highest and best good as its priority. If this feels difficult then maybe you would find a bottle of Faith from the Inner Child Essences or a Heart Chakra combination a useful support.

If you need more help or support as you learn to make friends with change then do be in touch we are always happy to help. So as ever we wish you all the best with your personal growth, and if you need any help or advice, please do contact us here at Crystal Herbs! or email us at info@crystalherbs.com

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The Law of Attraction The Law of Attraction

The Law of Attraction - Tapping into our full potential
Over the last few years particularly, there has been an ever increasing number of books coming onto the market, not to mention inspiring films like The Secret, that are continually reminding us of our almost unlimited powers to create whatever it is that we most desire in our lives. In their own ways they all explain how we can use the magnetic effect of the Law of Attraction to work on our behalf.

We were reflecting on this the other day and wondering why, despite our best intentions, it can sometimes appear that we have not created what we thought we had asked for. After all, the Law of Attraction is always in operation – it is a Universal Principal and as such cannot work sometimes, or choose to work for one person and not another, so the truth is that we are always in a state of creation. In our view the answer to this all-important question is that the level of our creative skill is dependant on our ability to align our manifestations with our highest truths.

Making the Most of the Law of Attraction
To be able to tap into our full potential as creators and to use the Law of Attraction to maximum effect we need to become aware of which level of consciousness we are creating from. As human beings we are rather like one of those magical Russian dolls that is really a succession of dolls of decreasing sizes one inside the other. Using this analogy the outer doll represents the expanded perspective of our Greater Being while each of the inside dolls represent different dimensional levels, culminating with the smallest doll - our personality, or third dimensional consciousness. When we appear not to have created what we asked for it is sometimes because we have not ensured that all these different levels of ourselves are in agreement about what the manifestation should be.

It can be all too easy to listen to the familiar patterns of our personality and not remember to ask our Soul for it’s more expanded view of what is really best for us. The Love and Wisdom of our Soul is always with us and we can best connect with it in the deepest recesses of our heart. Here, if we are prepared to be honest with ourselves we will find our highest truths along with the power to create what is truly in our highest and best good.

Of course, it is not uncommon for us to experience resistance at a personality level as we attempt to bring the personality into alignment with the Soul’s truth. So when this happens do remember the invaluable help and support that some well chosen vibrational essences can provide to smooth your pathway forward.

You might find one of the following combinations helpful:-
Heart Chakra, Unconditional Love, Acceptance, Being Present, Inner Calm.

May all your highest and best dreams come to fruition!

Surfing the waves of the Aquarian Age Energy Surfing the waves of the Aquarian Age Energy

Here we are on the first day of March, contemplating the fast approaching Spring Equinox of 2007. The energy flow over the last twelve months has been relentless in its challenge to us to release all that is not in alignment with the Truth of who we are. This looks set to continue through March and beyond, beginning with the full moon eclipse on March 3rd, which will again bring the spotlight on to those areas within us that need to change, whether we feel ready or not.

The Aquarian Age energies now flowing strongly into our planet are demanding that we align with our highest potential. When we are out of step with this energy life stops flowing with the ease and grace that is possible otherwise. The energy of the Age of Aquarius is fully in alignment with Universal Principles rather than 3rd dimensional beliefs. It is the energy of group cooperation and carries the consciousness of unconditional love. Staying in alignment with it requires that we continue to raise our consciousness and allow the Love of our Soul to illuminate our life and bring forward our higher purpose.

As we are discovering riding the waves of this energy is both challenging and exciting. Challenging, because in this faster flowing energy, anywhere that we are not in alignment with our higher purpose will be highlighted very quickly. Exciting, because the higher frequency energy makes it easier for us to feel that all-important connection with our Soul. When we allow our Souls Love to activate our hearts and illuminate our lives we are able to flow with ease and grace through the challenges that change inevitably brings.

So when you get stuck in the obstacles of life remember to activate the love in your heart to help you to move back into the flow. Love is like the water in a gently flowing stream, ever moving in the direction that it knows is right. With gentle persistence it flows around all the obstacles in its path until it reaches its destination. In the same way, our Souls Love will help us to flow with persistence and strength around the boulders in our path and ultimately carry us back to our Source.

The greatest assistance that we can be to the Whole at this time is to create a strong inner connection to our Souls love & light and allow it to guide us to manifest our highest potential. In this way we are contributing to the group Soul and doing our part to manifest the Divine Plan on earth.

Flower, Gem & Crystal essences can be wonderfully supportive and helpful tools to help with the process of moving through the personality blocks that make it difficult to fully align with the love of our soul. So see what issues are coming up for you, and try our Self Help Essence Selector to find the appropriate Essences to help.

As ever we wish you all the best with your personal growth, and if you need any help or advice, please do contact us here at Crystal Herbs!

Catherine

Celestial Weather Celestial Weather

The following is an exert from Rich Humberts 'Celestial Weather Forecasts' and gives an astrological view of the energies that are going to be affecting the planet ( and us! ) over the next few days. This includes Saturdays lunar eclipse, which sounds like it could be quite powerful!

"This Saturday’s Lunar Eclipse aligns the Sun with Uranus (at the 3 o’clock position) at sunset in Washington, D.C. opposite the rising Full Moon (at 9 o’clock). Saturn and Neptune remain in opposition as they will for many days – Saturn is at 10 o’clock and Neptune at 4 o’clock. Uranus is exactly square to the high point of the chart that symbolizes those in authority and square to the base of the chart that symbolizes where we feel we belong. Jupiter, at the 6 o’clock position, makes square angle to the Sun, Uranus, and the Moon forming a T-Square pattern we’ve seen before in times of high stress. This combination can be summed up as mind-expansion – mind-expansion whether you’re ready or not. The signs emphasized are “mutable” signs that symbolize the adjustments we make to get in tune with the world around us. The eclipse will challenge us to make a significant adjustment to a situation or situations that are suddenly revealed to have changed."

You can read the full article and the forecast for each day on the Celestial Weather site

Making Change - The Beginning of the New Year Making Change - The Beginning of the New Year

The beginning of the new year is traditionally a time when we try and break with the past and create something new or something slightly different for the coming year. Or, put it another way it is the time when many of us make our New Years Resolutions!
The break in routine that the Christmas period provides can be a good time for reflection, a time where we look at our lives and see how it is that we might like to change or develop them. This part always seems to me like the easy part, the difficultly normally comes along when you run into the challenge of actually making the changes. This of course means facing or dealing with the issues - the thought patterns or emotions - that need releasing in order that we can make the changes we want in our lives.
An Essence which is often useful to help with the process of change is the "Making Change" combination. This combination will help you to find the courage and strength to make new beginnings.

On to 2007
One of the themes that seems strong at the start of this year is the need to balance our inner masculine and inner feminine energies. Most of us err more towards one side or the other. For example too much masculine energy can lead to difficulties in life with authority /father figures or being controlling or finding it difficult to listen to our intuition . A fear of using our own masculine energy will sometimes lead us to identify with the weak and vulnerable parts of ourselves, and to project the 'rejected' aspects outside onto those around us.
Those with an imbalance of feminine energy can often be sensitive individuals -– both male & female - who have a good intuition but need to develop their mental skills and '‘doing'’ energy, in order to manifest their creativity in the world.
Ideally there should be a perfect balance of the two energies and this allows us to use the qualtities of each energy to help to create what it is that we want in our lives.
Two essences that help with this re-balancing are the:-
Balancing Masculine combination - for when you have an imbalance of masculine energy
Balancing Feminine combination - for when you have imbalance of feminine energy.

Both of these two essences are focused on releasing the patterns that prevent us from having a harmony of masculine and feminine energy within.

I wish you all the very best for the new year and as ever, if you need any help or advice, please do contact us here at Crystal Herbs!

Sam Cremnitz

Peace from Within Peace from Within

The United Nations International World Peace day takes place on the 21st September each year. The day was adopted by the UN in 2001, and focuses on developing and fostering the idea of world peace and encourages all countries to promote global peace and harmony, for at least one day in the year.

There is no doubt that the world as a whole is very much in need of creating greater Peace, Balance & Harmony, probably more now than at any other time before, but how can we as individuals help with this? Actually, in many respects we are all in a very good position to help!

Recipe for Peace

Positive change and evolution almost always spreads from the grassroots up – starting with individuals and small groups and then going onto a broader cross section of society before it is then taken up as a national issue ( there’s perhaps no better example of this at the moment than that of the current political uptake of important environmental issues which individuals and groups have been talking about for many, many years. ) It is the same for Peace. Peace starts with each of us as individuals. We can only truly create Peace in our world if we as individuals are able to create peace within ourselves.

Creating this greater sense of Peace and Harmony within ourselves as individuals really means looking to see where there is conflict and disharmony within at the moment. How do we truly feel inside? What are our core beliefs and thought patterns? This process is important because our thoughts and feelings, which are “energy in motion”, are ‘radiated’ out from us and form our contribution to the group energy that helps to co-create our society.

Within each of us there can be many conflicting emotions and thoughts which can create ‘disharmony’ or a lack of inner peace within us. Shifting and releasing these core patterns, whether its fear, guilt, separation, grief or doubt etc helps us to feel greater peace and harmony within – in fact releasing our inner conflicts. This means that the ‘energetic ripple’ that we contribute to society is one of greater peace and harmony. If we all as individuals start to do this, you can begin to imagine what positive things we could create as a society…..

There are many healing modalities that can help you with this process of connecting with the issues that you need to work on within, Flower Essences are just one of them. However, no matter which modality you use to help, creating a world peace day within yourself everyday would go a long way to creating a more balanced world!

Getting Some Help

The Combinations for Self Treatment are deep acting essences which help to clear and release core emotions and thought patterns.
Here are a list of some Core Emotions & their Respective Essences:

Fear - Inner Calm Combination

Anger - Inner Peace Combination

Guilt - Forgiveness Combination

Doubt - Inner Certainty Combination

Resentment - Willingness Combination

Intolerance - ToleranceCombination

Impatience - Patience Combination

Despair - Inner Joy Combination

Unworthiness - Self Esteem Combination

Grief - Bereavement Combination

Combinations for Self Treatment

Looking at the ‘Lie’ within our Beliefs Looking at the ‘Lie’ within our Beliefs

If you look carefully at the word BELIEF and you will notice that it contains the word LIE as an integral part of its structure. Since there is no such thing as a coincidence in our world lets look into what this interesting fact might have to offer us. Both metaphysical wisdom and leading edge scientific knowledge now clearly show us that our thoughts and belief patterns are instrumental in creating the reality in which we live, both personally and globally. However, even the most casual appraisal of our current common reality would make it abundantly clear that we have yet to truly implement this knowledge in any meaningful way, despite our best endeavours.

So lets take a moment to look more closely into whether we could all be unwittingly contributing to a collective ‘lie’, hidden within our current belief system.

Where do these all-important beliefs actually come from?

From the moment that we are born we start to develop beliefs, gathering our information from those apparently older and wiser in the world around us. We also bring with us from other lifetimes many stored unconscious memories, both mental and emotional, that will contribute to our newly forming belief structure. Generally this is a very unconscious process, which results in the accumulation of many deeply embedded beliefs that remain largely out of reach of everyday awareness.

Obviously some of our beliefs are positive helpful ones, however many are not, resulting in a self-defeating subliminal messaging program. It can be quite a shock when we discover the extent of the ‘lies’ that we are daily repeating to ourselves in this underground program. Statements like; ‘I can’t do It’, ‘I will never be good enough’, ‘The world is not safe’, ‘I am not lovable’ etc.are just a few examples from among the many ‘lies’ that we often unknowingly repeat to ourselves on a daily basis, until we take charge of the process and choose to make changes.

All these ‘little lies’ stem from the one main ‘big lie’ that is at the root of our current collective belief system – namely that we are separate from each other and from our Source. So the more conscious we can become of the ‘lies’ within our beliefs the quicker we will be able to remember the truth that we are all one.

Vibrational essences can provide powerful help with the process of clearing out our old beliefs. They gently help us to bring into consciousness the old deeply unconscious beliefs that underpin our current reality and gradually inspire us to move to the next level of consciousness from which we can more clearly see the Truth.

‘I can’t do It’ – Confidence, Solar Plexus Chakra
‘I will never be good enough’ – Self Esteem, Self Worth
‘The world is not safe’ – Inner Calm, Base Chakra, Trusting Life
‘I am not lovable’ – Heart Chakra

Illusion or Reality? Illusion or Reality?

As we focus on healing aspects of ourselves, it can sometimes be easy to see only part of what we are achieving. We might see ourselves bringing a particular emotion into greater balance, or clearing an issue in a relationship etc, and see how that brings us a greater sense of harmony within ourselves. However, what we are also doing as we work with our patterns on the inside, is that we are subtly changing the reality that we create or mould for ourselves on the outside.

Albert Einstein once commented that; reality is an illusion, albeit it a very persistent one. The commonly held collective belief is that 'reality' is what is around us in our world and that we have very little, if any, control over it. However looking from Einstein's perspective it is clear that he saw that our 'reality' is created from the constantly fluctuating mass of energy in which all creation exists. Far from living in a fixed reality we actually live in a world of multiple possibilities and endless realities - it is simply up to us to choose how we shape the energy that creates our 'reality' in the material plane. Currently most of us continue to live largely in a world of illusion, created from our own unconscious mental and emotional beliefs, unaware that these patterns are constantly shaping the energy around us into form, thus creating both our individual and collective reality. To move past this place we must each wake-up to the fact that we are not simply what our 'mind-orientated sense of self' would have us believe.

"We all have a habit of thinking that everything around us is already a thing, existing without my input, without my choice. You have to banish that kind of thinking.."
Amit Goswami, Ph.D From the film 'What the Bleep do we know?'

Essences can be wonderfully helpful tools to assist us in the process of changing the patterning that creates our experiences in life. Look carefully at what makes up your current reality. What cycle of repeating patterns or points of view stand out for you as you review your life to date? What patterns in those around you - especially those close to you - make you react in some way?
These understandings can give you a very clear guide as to what it is that you need to work with to shape your reality differently. Choosing the correct essence will help you to begin to work with and release those issues. As Dr Bach once said:-
"I want to make it as simple as this: I am hungry, I will go and pull a lettuce from the garden for my tea; I am frightened and ill, I will take a dose of Mimulus."

To see which essences might help the pattern that you most need to work with you could try our Self Help Essence Selector:-
Or browse through the definitions for each essence in the shop.

What They Said.... What They Said....

Forgiveness is giving up all hope for a better past.

Human Wholeness Human Wholeness

The ancient symbol of the six pointed star, with its two interlocking triangles, is the universal symbol of human wholeness and represents the union of spirit and matter. When we are able to maintain this union the energetic connections between the physical and non physical aspects of ourselves are complete and we function as a WHOLE human being. The physical aspect then receives energy and wisdom from the Soul while the Soul receives information and learning from the physical. The Soul is able to guide and direct the personality. What we call good health is just one of the results of this union. Love, Joy Abundance, and Unity with all of creation are some of the others!
Complete article here - Human wholeness

What They Said What They Said

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit, a very persistent
one.
~~ Albert Einstein ~~

What They Said What They Said

Non-Acceptance of All That Is, is the glue that
holds separation intact and binds it to each of us.

Cleansing the Chakra's... Cleansing the Chakra's...

Energetic Spring Cleaning

The beginning of a new year is traditionally a time when we reflect upon the personal changes that we would like to manifest in our lives over the coming twelve months.

Change of any kind requires a process of letting go of the old to make space for the new. So just as we might clear out our houses each spring to remove the clutter that we have accumulated over the previous twelve months, we must also recognise the need to clear and refresh our own energy fields. Holding on to old mental and emotional patterns within our energetic system means that there is literally no space for new ideas to take root. Thoughts and emotions are potent things and whether we are conscious of them or not our deepest and most tightly held beliefs will be the ones that create our reality, no matter how many resolutions to the contrary we might make. So if you are finding it difficult to fully manifest your intentions for this New Year perhaps your energy system is overdue for a spring-clean!

A good starting point is to look at how well your chakra system is functioning..... full article here Chakras - Energectic Spring Cleaning

What They Said What They Said

The future contains your last thought. What was your
investment?"

What They Said What They Said

"Love with your Mind, Think with your Heart"

The New Astrological Year The New Astrological Year

We entered the new astrological year on the 20th March and so far it seems to have been very 'energetic'. In other words the energy seems to have been bringing up lots of old patterns for everybody! There is a short article with some insights into the energy and possibilities that have come with the beginning of the new astrological year on our website, to be found here - The new astrological year. If you are one of the ones that has been experiencing the energy strongly remember to 'go with the flow' and allow whatever it is that is needing to come up and clear through to do so. This allows us to both clear and release our old patterns, but also allows us to benefit from the flow of energy rather than trying trying to resist it.

Remember also to take the Bach Flower Remedies that you most need to bring balance to the issues that come up and any deeper acting essences to work with the more deeply held patterns.

Love and Light from us all!

If you have any experiences that you would like to share about the new year energy, please feel free to share them with us!