I recently had the privilege of being shown the Kanata Forest by Martha Webber, a master teacher about the Edible Wild. At 85 she stills move through the forest as agilely as someone forty year younger and with the fascination and absorption of a delighted child.

Everywhere there were edible plants to be discovered.

Martha Webber showing a Wild Leek

Martha has been teaching since the 1970’s. In fact, Jason, attended one of her day camps when he was around 7 and next year we may attend her course on Edible Wild cuisine.

“Yesterday I did a workshop on wild edibles at Camp Woolsey, the girl guide camp.  Spring is the best time for that, so many of the plants are now mature and somewhat tough. We prepared milkweed, nettles, lamb’s quarters, amaranth,  most of which are now mature and had to be cooked a bit, but the rest were in a tossed salad with garlic mustard, chickweed, wild grape tendrils, topped, of course, with yellow and orange daylily flowers,  The staff were  were great, tried everything.  After that we walked through an old forest down to the river and found more “wild edibles”.  Oh, I gave then basswood flower tea and wintergreen tea along with the nettle brew.  I have met so many very interesting people over the years on these “wild”, or not so wild, edibles field trips, which began in the 1970’s.  Hope to still be around to run another course next spring. (www.dandelionjam.com). Would be delighted to have you join us.”

Part of Martha Webber’s work is helping to protect the forest. The Kanata Forest, the biggest remaining old growth forest in Ottawa is privately owned and slated for major development.

Martha Weber does not mince her words when she speaks of what is happening:

“The small part to be saved is not a central core. That is where the new road has been cut. It does not offer any hope that endangered species of plants or animals can survive if not slaughtered on the 4 lane route already clear cut, rocks blasted to ground level, it crosses wetland and a portion of the Carp River flood plain.  All of this is so very very wrong and final.

Wild animals can only forage for food around the new houses (over 3000: planned along the route) clear cutting is to begin in mid July unless we can get a halt on it, which does not seem likely. The developers may not push that date, the housing market is not as strong now as formerly. But there is no hope for animals that invade developed areas, guns, traps, poison, will welcome them, but where else can they go?

We believe that the damage done by the 4 lane swathe would eventually heal, not in my lifetime, but would endangered species and even butternuts with genetic diversity survive?  So many environmental regulations have been bypassed. Whistle blowers like us are ignored or crushed. This seems to be the era when developers are in charge.”

Click Here to watch a video about the importance of the Kanata Forest in Ottawa.

So our forest tour was also to help raise my awareness about protecting this forest. Time may unfortunately be running out, unless the court agrees to delay construction of a road scheduled to begin this summer.

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Meeting+come+late+save+Kanata+forest/3189058/story.html

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2010/07/16/ottawa-kanata-developer.html

This portion of the Kanata Forest has a rich diversity of life, many healthy and older Butternuts and may also hold an archaeological site dating back thousands of years.

Looking up into Butternut in the Kanata Forest. These are rare examples of healthy old Butternut, which are now an endangered tree.

As far as I am concerned, this debate shouldn’t happen, everywhere in North America  there are fights over remaining remnants of mature forests and ecosystems. The importance of preserving these natural areas ought to be self-evident.

But let’s end on a truly delicious note, I invite you to treat yourself to a visit to Dandelion Jam and read more about the Edible Wild.

Daniel Tigner
DANDELION JAM

Martha Webber (613) 839-5217
http://www.dandelionjam.com

In 1998, when I came to visit Canada from Czech Republic for the first time, I said to myself that I would love to live in Canada. I seriously considered finding a job in Canada and moving there.

My few attempts failed, and so I thought it is probably not meant to be. Even if I am very much rooted in Bohemia and began my life here, the power of Canada had really poured into me. I also had a cousin living in Canada with whom I feel very much connected, almost as a twin.

Actually she had started my story with essences.

The year 2009 was not easy, not only for the economy, but also for me personally. I really experienced a deep personal crisis. Not that everything was wrong since a lot of positive things also had happened and I will share more about that.

I woke up one day and it seemed like my whole life was destroyed. Just like a cardboard castle falling into pieces. My love life ended.

One month later my cousin from Canada wrote me an email saying ….” Maybe you need some of the Australian essences for the man to come to you!”

That statement sounded very intriguing to me since 4 months ago, I had just returned from Australia. So I started to search for these essences on the internet, but there were so many of them.

I wrote to my cousin wondering what essence she meant exactly and I went to bed. I had a dream that the right man came to me. In the morning I woke up and the first thing I did, was to check the computer to see if my cousin answered. And she had.

She had actually written the answer while I was dreaming about the man.

So I found the exact essence on the internet and found the company in Czech Republic which sold them. One month later the same company sent me the invitation for the course on the essences in Czech Republic. It was 300 km away and starting in a week, but I felt I had to be there.

The course was excellent. I met many people from the Czech Republic and I started to test these essences.

Six months later, one of the attendees of this course called me to inform me about new essences found on the internet…Canadian Forest Tree Essences…Since this person did not speak English, he asked me to translate it and give him some information.

Immediately when I opened the website of Canadian Forest Tree Essences I felt such a special energy which grounded me so much. I felt such strong energy going through me. It was so amazing. I felt the power of man and woman energy in one.

Later on, I discovered that these essences were created by a woman and a man. That is why I felt both aspects of energies.

I then wrote to them and we began to talk about bringing the tree essences to my part of the world.

I knew I needed to bring part of Canada here in Czech Republic and all was clearer when Daniel and Céline said to me that  they manufacture their essences only 15 minutes from where my cousin lives in Canada.

I have been testing these essences since, and I now work with them and clients.

Next time I will share with you my beautiful experience with Canadian Forest Tree Essences, especially my experience with the Soul Mate Spray.

    Marketa Pivcova
    Czech Republic – Prague

Learn about our upcoming tree essences training in Prague

    “Find Your Own Path -
    Discover Your Inner Essence”

    Tel. 608 31 71 12
    Markéta Pivcová
    kanadske.esence@seznam.cz

Má cesta ke Kanadským Stromovým Esencím

Když jsem poprvé v roce 1998 vstoupila na kanadskou půdu, okamžitě jsem si řekla, že pokud nebudu žít v Čechách, chci žít tady, v Kanadě. Dokonce jsem začala vážně uvažovat o tom, že si tam najdu práci a přestěhuji se tam. Mých několik pokusů nevyšlo, a tak jsem si řekla, asi mi to není souzeno. Ještě více jsem se zakořenila v Čechách a začala plánovat svůj život zde. Nicméně energie této země se do mne opravdu tzv. vpila, možná právě proto, že v Kanadě žije má sestřenice, se kterou se cítím spojená jako s dvojčetem a ta právě vše začala.

Rok 2009 nebyl jednoduchý nejen pro ekonomiku, lidi, ale i pro mne. Zažívala jsem opravdu hodně hlubokou osobní krizi. Nechci tím říct, že vše bylo jen špatné, dělo se i spousta pozitivních věcí, o kterých chci psát především.

Vše začalo tím, že v jeden jediný den jsem šla naposledy do práce, kterou jsem milovala ze všech svých prací nejvíce a zároveň jsem se naposledy probouzela v objetí muže, kterého jsem milovala ze všech svých dosavadních mužů opravdu nejvíce. Můj život se zbortil jak hrad z karet!

Měsíc poté mi má sestřenice z Kanady, která věděla, co se mi stalo, napsala email…“..cítím, že aby k Tobě přišel ten pravý, tak potřebuješ australské květinové esence!“ To mne oslovilo, protože jsem se právě před 4 měsíci vrátila z Austrálie. Začala jsem tyto esence hledat na internetu, kde jich ale byla spousta. Tak jsem sestřenici odpověděla, že nevím, kterou esenci má přesně na mysli a šla jsem spát. V noci se mi zdál sen, že ke mne opravdu přišel ten pravý. Nedočkavostí jsem ráno vstala a podívala se do emailu, kde jsem našla odpověď od sestřenice z Kanady, které esence potřebuji. Opět jsem hledala na internetu a našla společnost, která tyto esence prodává zde v Čechách, ihned jsem si je objednala.

Ta samá společnost mi za měsíc napsala, že se zde koná kurz esencí, ale amerických. Bylo to hodně narychlo, ten kurz byl hned další týden 300 km daleko, ale já cítila, že tam mám být. Kurz byl úžasný! Potkala jsem tam spousty lidí z celé republiky. Začala jsem užívat tyto esence a pozorovala změny ve svém životě.

Jednoho dne, asi za 6 měsíců po kurzu, mi jeden z účastníků tohoto semináře zavolal, že na internetu objevil kanadské stromové esence, a že neumí anglicky a jestli bych mu nemohla alespoň trošku vysvětlit, co je tam o nich psáno. Už když jsem otvírala jejich webové stránky, cítila jsem, jak mě to uzemňuje, jak mnou prostupuje velmi silná energie. Bylo to něco úžasného. Cítila jsem sílu mužské i ženské energie. Dokonce jsem zjistila, že tyto esence vyrábí muž a žena, prostě zastoupení obou aspektů. Ještě tentýž den jsem jim napsala, a chtěla vědět více o těchto esencích. Okamžitě mi odpověděli a domluvili jsme se, že se spojíme po skypu a oni mi řeknou více. Ihned jsem věděla, že tohle je možná kus té Kanady, který teď potřebuji a možná jsem vždy potřebovala. Vše mi bylo ještě více jasnější, když jsem zjistila, že tyto esence se vyrábějí jen 15 minut od místa, kde bydlí má sestřenice.

    Marketa Pivcova
    Czech Republic – Prague

2-Denní seminář – Kanadské Stromové Esence
25. a 26.9.2010, Praha

    „Najdi svou vlastní cestu“
     „Objev svou vnitřní esenci“

    Tel. 608 31 71 12
    Markéta Pivcová
    kanadske.esence@seznam.cz

I often wish I could have a loonie for every time that question is asked of me!!

When I hear this question, I instinctively go to my place of knowingness and answer that question to the best of my ability, not truly knowing if my answer is right or wrong, but knowing that it is right in my knowingness. Sometimes things get lost in translation, and that is how I experience my knowingness with the essences, what I know I may not have the words for.

This weekend, I was blessed to be able to take a didgeridoo class from a true master.  http://www.philjonesmusic.com/ In his explanation about how the didgeridoo is medicinal, we started talking about sound waves.  One participant in the class shared some information that her chiropractor came across in his research for healing.  What “science has recently discovered, is that emotions and memory are relayed throughout the body at a cellular level by SOUND, not by neuro-peptides as previously thought.”

Sound therapy, in my opinion, is vibrational, and everything has a vibrational frequency, from you, the person reading this, to the chair you are sitting on, to the computer screen you are reading this newsletter on.

Everything has an essence, everything from stones to trees to flowers to birds to humans to the wind, the sun the moon and the stars. We all vibrate differently, but we all have an essence, our own unique vibrational signature.

To me, the essences capture the song and beauty of the trees. What does their vibrational frequency represents?  Stand and look at trees in nature and ask yourself to be open to receive their strength and purpose. You will receive a knowingness from the tree what it offers you, movement, strength, calming…etc, etc.

The essence of the tree is lovingly surrendered as the tree donates its leaves, seeds, flowers or roots for the mother tincture of the essence. The essence of the tree is infused into the spring water and we have our mother tincture.

When consumed as the Canadian Forest Tree Essence, in my opinion what happens is vibrational. The resonance of the tree stirs cellular memory within our cells, creating movement, awareness of something long buried, or stored, or detached from our consciousness.

From the depths of the unconscious or subconcious mind, the essence facilitates awareness of the pattern of emotions transferred into behaviour to a state of subtle awareness {sometimes not so subtle!}.

In my life coaching sessions, I teach all of my clients that in order to change ourselves, we must first see that which we desire to release. Essences facilitate seeing/experiencing that shift.

I also sense, feel and believe in a duality with the essences, not only do they facilitate a release but they help one to embrace a higher vibrational frequency of that emotional behaviour, transforming anxiety to confidence, procrastination to movement and flow, anger to resolution, despondence and depression to hope.

As they support release, they also nurture one to embrace more of themselves.

Essence, we all have one, everything does, and everything vibrates. Consider putting the vibrational frequency of something as strong and long lasting as trees into your vibrational being, do you not think you will harmonize at a different pitch????

Terri Songbird distributes Canadian Forest Tree Essences in both United States and Canada.  She welcomes Stores and Therapist and Healer Inquiries for wholesale orders.  Terri Songbird offers free online support for all of her accounts making the transition into working with the essences easy and successful for both parties, the retailer and the client.

Call: 888-494-6627 or email: tphillips6@sympatico.ca
Contact Terri as well to arrange for an individual Wellness consultation or about Tree Essence classes.

Do you have dreams, desires, hopes, wishes that never come true? And yet, when you look around, it seems, so many succeed?

You have probably heard of the book “THE SECRET”. This book claims to reveal the power of attraction: it says that if you wish something very hard, and you see it, and you feel it, and own it, YOU SHALL GET IT.

Did you try it yet? What was your experience?

It seems like some people are masters in the field of speaking about the laws of attraction, since many books, workshops and exercises exist on the subject.

And yet, many many people wonder why the suggested methods do not work for them. After a while, they get frustrated and disillusioned and give up efforts to manifest their dreams.

Even though, much has been said on the subject of manifesting, allow me to add a few more thoughts.

Just maybe, there is too much effort in trying to have, to improve, to create, to change, to attract etc. Because, in doing so, it suggests that something is insufficient and wrong with what is. Perhaps then is more helpful if we can shift our perspective and the focus of our efforts from a feeling of insufficiency to beginning to recognize that unlimited treasures and potential are available within us.

Just maybe this shift in awareness is the only effort necessary to unlock these gifts. When we recognize that as beings of this universe we deserve every possibility, then everything becomes possible for us.

Remember this: It is our minds and the stories we tell that bind us. It is all these deeply believed stories that make up our doubts, fears and become the obstacles along the way. It is a great step to be able to dream freely about all that we want, to see it clearly, to feel it, but the stories we have learned as our heritage and about ourselves block possibilities.

Such thoughts such as: “I have to work hard for my money.” “Why bother.” “Our family always struggled.” etc. that we have imbibed from the earliest moments speak louder than new dreams. These stories are FAMILIAR AND SOMEHOW COMFORTABLE AND KNOWN. And that is what the universe hears.

Can we transcend these stories from the past?

Here is something else to consider. Our personal story is part of our ego (i.e. our programming, limitations, stories and separateness). If what we think we desire is only arising from ego, how can we create anything really new, because what we think we desire is not really in tune with our being, nor with the flow of the universe.

If we really want to manifest we must get in synch with our Self. This means relaxing, becoming silent and peaceful, so that we can feel what it is that our true heart desires. Then we can respond to what life, the universe or the force sends us. Life then blesses us with unexpected possibilities and opportunities.

It is in the state of lightness of being that an unlimited silent power is felt and there is the possibility of orchestrating a life full of all we deserve.

So, what to do???

Sit silently. Empty yourself in meditation. Feel the experience of yourself.

My experience is everything arises once we get acquainted with our inner peaceful world. There is a fountain of wealth in the meditative state. Then we send out clear messages about our real wants. The universe then responds. It may not bring you your jaguar that you imaged driving, but ever expanding possibilities to manifest who you are in all your dimensions.

And to support this work on Manifesting your dreams, we have created this wonderful essence called MANIFESTATION which helps the process of removing obstacles created by your thoughts. The MANIFESTATION essence supports your dreams to come true, and mostly to manifest truly who you are in all its form.

Namasté
Ma Sunder Gulabo
Book a Heart to Heart Session with Gulabo at Gulabo@essences.ca
or 1-888-410-4325
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I had often spoken to her about using the essences but she was just not sure about them because of her religious background. She couldn’t understand why praying alone could not solve problems and how what looked to her like a bottle of water could help. Even though I spent numerous times explaining how essences are made and how they work.

Just about half way through the conversation I spoke about the essences again. She just gave me a look. About that time I heard my dog and a strange dog having a barking session and I asked to be excused for a minute so I could see what was going on. A strange big dog had been jumping on my fence while my little dashound was letting him know who’s house it was. I brought my little dog in and asked my customer to hold her, since I knew she was a dog lover. My little dog was still shaking so I asked her if she would put some Millennium Journey in her hands and pet and massage my dog until she calmed down.

Of course I knew this would also help the customer. After about 1 hour of putting it in her hands every 15 minutes and having her rub it on my dog, it was amazing to her how calm she had become. My little dog fell asleep beside her and she sat and talked about how she thought maybe helping the dog was helping her. I agreed. But then she said I think the essences worked on both of us and I didn’t even have to take it internally and laughed.

Before she left she bought and paid for the Millennium Journey and Respiratory for nurturing. I love it when we allow Spirit to show the way and then the essences provide the emotional healing.

Alicia Rocco
Essence Consultant
http://www.naturalapproachtohealth.com
330-868-5353
Read Alicia’s Bio Here

As I sit at my computer,, waiting for Divine Inspiration as to what to write about this month, I have Hay House Radio on in the background,,, and I hear the radio personality coaching his call in listener to commit to enjoying her life…Wow, what a simple yet profound idea.

In the last couple of weeks, I have been exposed to so much information that at times I feel like I am on sensory overload.

The continued news about the raging oil well in the ocean, and the implications of that in the future, I have been told if I enjoy fish and sea food to get my fill of it as eventually this oil spill is so devastating that all food supply from the ocean will be contaminated, causes me much grief and sadness.

The knowledge that this summer solstice is one of the powerful events to occur in years, and the many changes that our Earth Mother is evolving through can be experienced by us humans as anxiety and a sense of being overwhelmed helps me to understand some of my own personal emotional roller coaster.

And I turn on my radio and hear, Commit to enjoying my life, and my voice says “ahhh yes, Life Embrace Essence, how perfect, to embrace all that is good, to commit to joy,
to embrace all that is good, and to allow myself to receive the love and sense of nurturing that this essence offers me!

Life Embrace has the essence of the Giant Sequoia in its recipe. I close my eyes and visualize the strength and magnitude of this tree, and I know that this essence will help me stand strong in the face of change.

My intuition also speaks to me of Western Hemlock, and invites me to focus on the good not the negative in the world….as this essence is for those who typically see the glass half empty versus half full. Even though I consider myself an optimist, and I do the see the glass as full, my knowingness tells me this is a wonderful essence to energetically compliment my prayer work and my vision for healing the world. I as most, am bombarded with negative news, the media leads with what bleeds, in fact there is a saying in media,, if it bleeds it leads.

I choose to put my thoughts and attention on the positive, to believe that my prayer and visualizations make an difference in our world and healing Mother Earth.

Life Embrace and Western Hemlock are a wonderful combination to support me in my daily commitment to enjoy my life!!

I invite you to share in this powerful affirmation

Today is _{day of the week}_________ and I am committed to enjoying my life!!!

May you all be blessed with Joy!

Terri Songbird

Terri Songbird distributes Canadian Forest Tree Essences in both United States and Canada. She welcomes Stores and Therapist and Healer Inquiries for wholesale orders. Terri Songbird offers free online support for all of her accounts making the transition into working with the essences easy and successful for both parties, the retailer and the client.

Contact Terri as well to arrange for an individual Wellness consultation or about Tree Essence classes.

“It is curious how one’s feelings about trees change, in proportion to one’s appreciation of their importance and dignity as live beings. Trees are individual beings: they can be comic, heroic, tragic to the sensitive, practiced eye of the landscape artist.”

John F. Carlson,
Carlson’s Guide to Landscape Painting

Tree essences are a way of recording the energetic qualities of a tree or plant, but there are other ways. Images, both photographs and paintings, may reveal the special qualities of an individual tree as well as the feeling of the forest.

Here are some examples from my own photographic work and fro paintings of my father, Grant Tigner (1921 – 1999).

Grant Tigner painting on a beach, surrounding by curious children. I can vividly remember this scene and I am still touched by it. My father was totally absorbed in his work. He had a very Zen and silent presence when he painted. The children gathered around, a very appreciative audience. Children are fascinated by art.

Gatineau Park, Western Quebec, about a half hour from Ottawa. With its spectacular fall colors, the park remains a favourite place for artists.

I adore trees! Since early childhood, they have been my friends. My brother and I built a “house” in a colossal tree in Shefferville, in the Quebec Tundra, and it was then that I rediscovered peace, lost during immigration from France. We spent hours up in the ether of its top, without knowing how healing this was.

I never suspected, then, that I would discover others friends, who, like me, had reverence for the trees. What joy it was to meet the producers of Canadian Tree essences: Daniel and Céline. I witnessed an acceleration of my healing as well as my patients’s who took the risk (!) to try such an unknown magic potion!

As a chiropractor, then, I could feel that the hands-on treatments on the spinal column sometimes reached a certain ceiling and I was mystified and somewhat frustrated: why is this patient not fully recovering? When I realized the limitations of what the chiropractic school taught me (even though in 1890 D.D Palmer, founder of chiropractic, spoke about the emotions as one cause of the spinal subluxation), a window opened on the Invisible.

From then on, I trained in avant-garde techniques like B.E.S.T (Bio-Energetic-Synchronisation Technique), N.E.T. (Neuro-Emotional-Technique), C.R.A(contact Reflex Analysis), Network. In retrospect, it is still the use of the essences and their efficiency that surprised me the most: a few drops under the tongue of a tasteless “water”, and “voilà!”, amazing transformation occurring. You have to admit that it is somewhat mysterious!

The essences are the ideal tool to complement the Neuro-Emotional-Technique sessions.

During the N.E.T., I establish the relationship between a physical pain and the memory of some trauma or undigested event registered within the cells. This phenomenon is now known and accepted. This survival mechanism exists beyond time and space. I have helped people heal past life memories and I marvel at the Past Life Spray when I muscle test and come up with past life cause, I use this spray on the skin and invariably the patient memory is activated!

Russian Olive is one of the essences in the Past Life Spray.

Once the memory is activated, I work on the spine with an activator. This acts on the neuro-transmitters present in the nervous system and it erases the memory. The patient may remember the event, but he will not carry any emotions associated with it. There is no need to re-live the trauma emotionally, and this is good!

With the wealth of information gathered during the treatment, I already know what essence could be best, but I always prefer to let the patient’s body speak through kinesiology.

Over the last 20 years of my practice, I noticed a progressive openness towards healing deep emotional wounds, knowing they are a major cause of disease.

Statistics prove the sexual abuse and aggressions are not exceptional.

During the 8 years I studied shamanism, I gathered powerful healing tools and ceremonies, among which The course Healing The Broken Circle specifically addressing addictions. I offer those to people who express an interest.

The initial visit for a new patient consists of assessing the physical/nutritional state.

It is relatively frequent that an infestation of Candida Albicans (aka yeast) results from

such invasion of the psyche. Hypoglycemia is often seen associated with the pattern of low self-esteem, and so on. Cleansing the physical body is a number one priority to bring back strength, balance and clarity. I use different modalities to do so. I appreciate  the help of Deep Inner Cleansing Intestinal and Digestive essences in those cases. They certainly shake loose deep stored memories, and it is not rare that I release them with NET.

The Children’s Happy Helping Potion is a jewel! It brings comfort while they are taking the Reproductive essence. One shouldn’t forget the Body Image essence , useful to give back to women (I haven’t found any man who needed it!) the enjoyment of being alive in their body. Being at peace with their body is a challenge for many women, specially the ones who look outside of themselves for their sense of identity. WOVE is wonderful!!

I cannot choose which essence is my favorite. They each have a place and there is many stories to be told!

Blue Beech is one of the seven essences found in WOVE

Pacha could tell you how the Cat essence calmed his anxiety, brought him back to himself and allowed him to pass away softly after years of happiness with his masters.

The Horse essence will be the topic of a further article, since I’m getting back to caring for them.

Essences are not magic potions…they vibrate at a level that changes our vibratory level and raise it closer to what is designed by Nature.

Dr Annick Hollender
32A Hunter Street
Huntingdon, Qc
J0S1H0
450-264-9062
cell: 514- 348-88-81

Every Thursday I work in Beaconsfield (West Island of Montreal)

Silence beyond!

I am just completing a very interesting course since April in Mediation and Conflict resolution and it has been a great journey personally and professionally.

The women facilitating the courses are committed to creating a better world and I was very touched by their commitment creating peace step by step.

One of the teacher said:  “By letting yourself touched by the people and their suffering, people are touched in return.” Transformation occurs when one is touched deeply and only when we, ourselves are touched, can we make a difference towards peace.

Being touched happens on different levels and several ways. Here I wish to specifically speak about being touched by silence in a way to better understand what is happening within.

Within our work of Facilitation, Mediation, coaching and others, we will witness moments of silence and I would like to share with you new meanings of what silence may mean.

Here is what the Ken Cloke, Author of the book: Mediating Fear, Apathy, Insanity and Dishonesty says about it.

“The most difficult experiences in mediation have come from people who smother rage in a seething, furious silence that is so loud it is deafening. If a person does not honestly say what is bothering them, there is little to do to help. Nonetheless, it is a mistake to equate silence with apathy. Silence in mediation is a complex state with many possible explanations. Here are some:

*Silence can mean one has turned inward, and been brought face to face with oneself.

*Silence can mean condonation or acquiescence in wrongdoing, or be a mask for blind obedience.

*Silence can be a sign of consensus, unanimity, or quiet determination

*Silence can be an indication of injured feelings , or a search for anonymity in response to fear.

*Silence can be a sign of meditation or reflection, of stepping back from escalation.

*Silence can suggest an appreciation of ambiguity and paradox, or a deep question, and a search for answers.

*Silence can mean one has returned to natural momentum and internal rhythms.

*Silence can represent a vacuum in which anything can occur.

*Silence can be what precedes the storm or what signals transformation.

*Silence can mean one lacks the skill to handle what is happening.

*Silence can be what is left when one lets go and feels complete.

*Silence can be a refusal even to help oneself.”

There are clearly many meanings of silence.

In meditation, we sit in silence to witness what is happening within and at times, when the body, mind and emotions subside, we get a true taste of what is.

In times of conflict resolution with others, when one need to exchange, resolve, speak their truth and so on, silence can take a different meaning.

You may try to read what your silence and the silence of others mean. In doing so, you may hear and read what is truly being said.

Namasté
Ma Sunder Gulabo
Book a Heart to Heart Session with Gulabo at Gulabo@essences.ca
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I knew right away to offer her the Woman’s Own Vibrational Essence (also known as WOVE). Being new to essences she said, “Do you really expect me to take this bottle of water and it will work?” After some explaining about essences and their use she was still skeptical but willing to use it because she had always trusted me in my herbal business for years.

After about 2 weeks, I received a phone call and she wanted to know if she could order more. Of course, I told her she could and she asked what sizes they came in. After explaining that the only size we have is the one she purchased she informed we must tell the company to do something about that because she wanted to purchase a gallon. Of course, I was smiling. She also informed me she would like to have a siphoning hose with it. I asked her what in the world would she do with a siphoning hose. She informed me she was going to share it with everyone in her company because they all needed it.

Mock Orange, the picture on the cover of our new Trees Speak – Vibrational Tree Essences Guidebook, is one of the seven essences in our WOVE formula.

My office received great joy and laughter in all of this with her. When I explained how essences work, small amounts, more often, she then understood why I had said follow the bottle instructions. She thought I was crazy to think a few drops at a time would work but she did do what it said. Therefore, she thought if small drops worked that well then she should take a lot more to fix all her problems.

Of course, she laughed with us when she understood how they work after taking a class with me. We had great joy in creating a visual of her carrying around her gallon of essences.  We could just see her taking a swallow every now and then and of course sharing it around.

Sphagnum Moss found in our WOVE formula

Woman’s Own helped her find her way. She learned about essences and has been a wonderful customer sharing essences with everyone she meets.

Alicia Rocco
Essence Consultant
http://www.naturalapproachtohealth.com
330-868-5353