Note: The Earth Essences are not for internal use!
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special place indoors or out, which will serve as a consistent focal point
for applying the essences. This may be a section of your garden, a crystal
or altar-like arrangement in your home. Be sure to approach this area mindfully.
You might also find it helpful to communicate to anyone you live with that
this is a special place, to be left undisturbed or to your care.
With each essence being used, visualize the land/building area you are addressing and focus on the essence you are applying, either by visualizing or by holding the essence name in your mind. Drop the re-commended number of drops (as indicated on the label) in the focal point. The essences disperse with your effort of focus on the environment and the individual essence’s purpose. Take the time to come to a quiet inner state when using the Earth Essences. You may find it easier to concentrate on the area you are working with if you have a simple drawing of the land boundaries and building placement or a photograph. These can help you to hone your powers of intention and attention.
When working with the essences it is important to keep the dropper from touching anything other than the essence solution. If the dropper does come in contact with anything, rinse it off immediately under warm water, before placing the dropper back in the bottle. Otherwise you will contaminate your bottle of essence solution.
Most of the essences are suggested to use in a weekly rhythm, a bit like a weekly house cleaning. In addition, there may be instances when you wish to apply an essence to a particular room or area in addition to your weekly ritual.
In some cases the land or home you own or rent may be in another state or you may be on vacation. Simply follow the same guidelines, but work with photos, drawing, a property plat or architectural model as a focal point: whatever helps your concentration to connect to that environment clearly.
When using multiple essences, drop each solution one at a time. Allow a pause of one minute in between. You may sense the essences “take” hold.
If you are familiar with and used to other energy balancing practices, the essences may be easily incorporated into this work. Since you are most likely working with your intuition, kinesiology or dowsing, you will know what to do.
It is best to work only with your own environment (land, house, office, place of business, apartment, room that you own or rent) unless you are personally or professionally asked to assist someone else. It isn’t a good idea to force change on other people, for one thing. The other issue here is that the essences are intended to work with the responsible free will and person using them. It is just ethically dubious and ineffective to assume that for someone else.
If you are staying in a hotel, ship cabin, or B&B, though, you are technically renting that space for your stay and using the Earth Essences can make your visit more comfortable. Since you will have been working with the essences in your personal or home environment, you won’t need to use Earth In Balance for one month first, before using the other remedies: the balance you have already established at home serves as base in this situation.
Consistent and cumulative use of the Earth Essences will result in deeper and deeper states of balance. Patience and attentiveness will help alert you to signs of change or inspire change: recognize this as part of the communication process with nature. Also, be aware that as the balance of your environment changes, you will also experience opportunities for new balance within yourself. Sometimes the realization may be obvious, or it could be more subtle. Mental/emotional patterns inappropriate for your land, your relationship with the land and consequently you, will begin to release. Some energies will do so easily, while others will require a shift in your behavior or thinking. Hint: obstacles and “dramas” are often good indications it is your “stuff” blocking energy flow and balance. If you don’t know what is causing the problem, ask! (And then pay attention for an answer. The hallmarks of answers are usually clear, short and to the point.) Working with the Earth Essences is entering a partnership with nature.
If you are not ready, resisting change, or unaware of your impact on your personal environment, nature will not “magically take away” problematic energies and patterns. What happens is that nature will work around your dynamics, providing the best state of balance possible in light of the issues and give signs or hints until you are ready and able to move forward.
Insights may come directly through observation, images, inner hearing or asking a question and using kinesiology for yes/no answers. Nature’s communication may also come through dreams, encounters with people and situations or a book you happen upon. Asking clear questions, inwardly or addressed to nature or the universe, and without attachment to the answer, is the best way to engage with your process. Learning to ask concrete questions without limitations on how you want to be answered is a critical part of this learning process. Being receptive, observing what happens around you, paying attention to your thoughts and things that pop up with a certain ping! of resonance, are most helpful practices in learning how to speak with nature and develop your disciplined intuitive senses.
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Having a clear vision or intention for your home, land, garden, etc. helps to define and facilitate the level of balance and support in using the Earth Essences. This intention can be as simple as "A peaceful and beautiful home,” or a list of qualities most important to you.
When using the essences in a general, weekly rhythm, first I work with Earth In Balance. It is dispersed from the focal point, throughout the garden. Then I use all the other essences and afterwards intuit whether any particular area of the garden needs essences, also. In addition, I offer Earth In Balance to my major garden building, the potting shed.
It is helpful to work from the macro to micro environment levels. As in balancing the house generally, then working with rooms, for example. Or giving essences to the whole property, then to the buildings, if you want to work in more detail.
You may even wish to use the Earth Essences with your vehicles or furniture. If this seems at all odd to you, consider that all objects are made from elements that were part of the Earth at one time and every object or form radiates energy.