Garden Plum
Welcome to the gardenplum.com healing blog. Read here for thoughts and inspirations about the collective consciousness of the world as we grow and develop through these changing times. Spirituality, herbal healing, the law of attraction, prophecy, abundance and prosperity- delightful creations and thoughts gather here.Archive for June, 2009
Happy Home
Our most recent creation which will premier today at the Farmers’ Market, is a delightful little yellow package of good smells and happy sentiments. With the ingredients combined, this little container will bring good cheer to more than just one of the human senses.
Ingredients include baking soda, Organic lemon peel, Organic Peppermint, Organic Lemongrass Essential Oil, Organic Cardamom Seed, Wildcrafted White Sage, and Iris Flower Essence.
Smells wonderful, has drying properties, sparks creativity. As clearly as the name states, its makes the Home a Happy one! Come and try the tester at the market or order on-line.
Funny Friday: Someone Throw Me a Rope!
This occured when I tossed the dog’s leash out the door and heard a ‘ka-chink’ and a curiosity came over me. I had leashed an angel. Or caught an angel. Or she threw me a rope. I’ll leave the editorials up to you. In any case, its very sweet no matter which way I interpret… oh you ticklish Friday!
Have a great weekend and hang loose with all this fresh changing energy!
Wendy
A Sun Protection Where Instead of Worrying About Poisoning Your Skin, You Know You Are Nourishing It
If you were spreading liquid rose over your skin, what would it feel like? Or if you could find a liquid form of Vitamin B… would you give it to your skin? How about a bath in green tea? Carolyn has really outdone herself with this outstanding formula that provides UV protection, encourages the production of Vitamin D3, and does so many more things than just protect your skin from the sun.
Witnessing the Breaking of Spirit
I was out with my family eating at Friendly’s restaurant last weekend. Sitting next to us were a mother and daughter, the mother was in her forties and the daughter was probably around 6 years old. The little girl had bright blue eyes and she was very happy and they were laughing and conversing.
The mother even got her daughter a hot fudge sundae, I had made eye contact with the little girl several times and she was full of delight!
Towards the end of the meal, the daughter had gotten bored (and probably had a huge sugar high) and was using her spoon to try and cut a crayon in half. The mother said “Don’t cut the crayon in half.” The daughter continued playing with her crayon and spoon, humming, and didn’t appear to have heard her mother.
The mother reached over and smacked the daughter’s hand hard and said “I told you not to cut the crayon.”
The daughter flinched from the heavy handed smack, (I admit I jumped a little) and spilled her hot fudge sundae and immediately started crying and screaming “It’s all your fault! Its YOUR fault!”
The mother calmly stated, “No, its both our faults. I told you not to cut the crayon.” The daughter continued crying and whining and really just didn’t understand what just happened.
This mother just removed I would say ALL, if not almost ALL trust between herself and her child. Do you agree?
My question is… why didn’t the mother explain why the daughter should not cut the crayon? So many assumptions were made on the Mother’s part. (One of the main chapters in the Four Agreements book is “Don’t Make Assumptions”).
The daughter just learned a very important lesson that will be deeply rooted in her psyche and it goes like this:
“People who love me WILL suddenly lash out and hit me for no reason”…and when it happens in her adult life it will feel vaguely familiar and she will accept it.
I think its imperative that everyone read The Four Agreements, it speaks about this kind of Conditioning illustrated in the story. This isn’t abuse in the current eyes of the law… I call it “spiritual abuse”. Its subtle and usually the abuser is completely unaware of what they are doing, they are unconscious.
This is not a new concept for most of us, its just a really strong and deep issue that could help us all raise a better generation. Its the subtleties in life that are so important to individual peace.
_______________________
See also FLOWER ESSENCE MARIPOSA LILY:
Betrayal from the Mother, lack of nurturing from the Mother.
The Subtleties of Living The Four Agreements
I was just making a salad for lunch. Fresh chives from the garden! And green leaf lettuce. I picked up a handful of green leaf lettuce and rather than cutting the lettuce with scissors as I had done with the long, straight chives – I put down the scissors and began to pull the lettuce apart with my hands.
I wondered why I just did what I did? It was harder to rip the lettuce apart with my hands, and it takes longer. It would be much easier with the scissors!
Thats when it hit me.
Somewhere along the line, someone had told me that lettuce must be torn apart and never cut. I made an agreement with this person (I can’t remember who it was) and for the rest of my life – have been pulling lettuce apart with my hands instead of easily cutting it with scissors.
This is how The Four Agreements book works over time. You suddenly realize how all of these side turns, extra steps, and “agreements” you have made with other people play a role in your life.
So today, I will enjoy my scissor cut lettuce and even moreso, will enjoy having recognized and removed another unnecessary agreement in my life that did not come from my authentic self.
This is a really simple example- but consider other agreements you may have accepted from parents or other good meaning people – try these on and see how they affect your life on a daily basis:
1. Don’t Talk to Strangers (as an adult ?! ?! ?!).
2. Germs live on toilet seats.
3. Ladies don’t sit like that.
4. Dirt is dirty.
5. We can’t afford that.
Do you get a reaction from these statements? How long have you been abiding by these statements and how are they affecting you? Daily? Ooh! Can’t say enough about this book, and how its’ effects over months and years continue to turn on the spiritual light bulb.
Sea Shakes Go South of the Border!
I admit it-I have a fetish. I love to take a picture of dinner just as its ready to serve.
Last night I made tacos with fresh garden greens. Instead of ordinary sour cream, the dinner came out like a fiesta when I used my Sea Shakes! I added these three things to the sour cream:
* 1 tsp. Herb Sea Shakes
* 1 tsp. Zesty Sea Shakes
* and a half a clove of garlic
Voila!
My taco dinner turned into Mexican Sophisticate! And I was getting seaweeds into my family in a yummy yummy way! I need seaweeds right now as Iodine is essential to balanced thyroid function. Our thyroids need attention because they control ALL of our hormone functions – and even moreso during menopause.
Carolyn Kelley of Herbal Energetics has formulated Sea Shakes – and its one of the only ways I can get seaweed into my diet as I do not really care for the taste of it alone. I use it like table salt.
Now I can add this dinner pic to my huge album of other dinners. Gives me weird satisfaction to turn healthy foods into something delicious that is not painful to eat. Maybe I was a junk food junky in a past life?! Have a great day and here’s to your health!
Wendy
Herbalist’s Bio
