Healing Our Energy-IN-Motion, Emotions: A Therapeutic Approach

This fun and creative project allows you to turn your attention within, to focus your INTENTION and your ATTENTION

on you and on cultivating self appreciation, self respect, self value and self love.

This is a very special Tree that will help you, through out this season of Spring, of Renewal to cultivate a better relationship with yourself. 

When we love and appreciate ourselves then we feel happy, this too evokes a sense of value fulfillment. So, invest some time this Spring on getting to know yourself better.

Think with your heart. 

This unique Tree is a symbol of a living being that is well rooted, steady and strong and that grows out branches as it expands out, as it continues to dream dreams of itself into being. This precious Tree is YOU and it is all about your own life. 

Steps

Choose a branch of a small tree and plant it on a beautiful planter of your choice.

Give a Name to this precious Tree.

Set the INTENTION for your Tree, for example, say something like this; this is a tree focusing on cultivating the virtue of GRATITUDE, or to on cultivating the VIRTUE of APPRECIATION and LOVE FOR THE SELF.

Make hearts cut out using paper or note cards, with a stream to hang those note cards on the tree.

Write down on those the INTENTION that you have chosen to focus on. Close your eyes, take a deep breath slowly through your nose, then, exhale slowly through your mouth while repeating this mantra;

Mantra: I open my heart to love. I let go of all that doesn't serve me well any more. I focus on LOVE and on feeling GRATITUDE, APPRECIATION.

Take the first heart cut out and think of an aspect of yourself that you feel APPRECIATION for. Continue to look for things that you feel appreciation for on yourself; on your character, on your features, on your special talents, on your physical features, on the gift of your imagination, on the ways of your heart and so on...

Mantra: I love and appreciate myself.


Have daily meaningful conversations with your Tree. This is your friend, a friend that you have planted and that you are learning how to care for it.

Love and light!
Lady Katherine

@DearestSource
@BePeaceINLove

 

Happy Easter! Happy Ostara! Spiritual Renewal...

Fun Vegan Healthy Spring Drink

Lavender-Calming Lemonade
 

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of brown sugar ( you could substitute with agave, a natural sugar)
• or 1/2 cup light agave syrup
• zest of 3 lemons citrus
• 1 cups fresh citrus lemon juice
• 2 cups water
• 8 drops of rose water
• 1/2 cup loosely packed lavender and 1/4 cup of mint leaves
• Serve chilled

Agave syrup is the sweet nectar of the Agave plant. It is full of minerals and has a low glycemic index, making it far healthier than white sugar. 

Method:

• In a large pot bring sugar, lemon zest, lemon juice, and water to a boil, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat.  Add the herbs (mint and lavender) and let the syrup infuse for at least 15 minutes.
• Strain mix through a fine sieve, squeezing out as much liquid as possible from the herbs before discarding them. (*)
• Add ice cubes to your preference and serve chilled.

(*) Remember to start your own compose pile with left overs of your organic garden or produce; fruit, vegetables and herbs. 

Lavender #7 Herb (Book J Is For Juice and JOY, by Ketherine)

Lavender Calming Properties:

Lavender is an aromatic, tonic herb with a sweet scent. It relaxes spasms, benefits the digestion, stimulates peripheral circulation and the uterus and lowers fever. It is anti-septic and has an anti-depressant effect.

Therapeutic uses

• Internal use
  • Lavender is used internally for indigestion, irritability, anxiety, exhaustion, tension headaches, migraine and bronchial complaints.
• External use
  • Used externally to treat most type of burns, including sunburn, rheumatism, muscular pains, neuralgia, cold sores, insect bites, head lice, halitosis, vaginal discharge and anal fissure.
  • It has an analgesic effect on the skin, which helps with pain relief, but it is the antiseptic and stimulant properties which make it very effective for use on wounds and burns.
  • It is mainly used for its antiseptic and anti-dandruff properties but also have antibacterial, spasmodically (relieving spasms) and local pain killing actions.
  • On the skin, lavender oil tones and revitalizes it and it is useful for all types of skin problems, such as abscesses, acne, oily skin, boils, burns, sunburn, wounds, psoriasis, lice, insect bites, stings. It also acts as an insect repellent.
  • The therapeutic properties of lavender oil are antiseptic, analgesic, anti-convulsant, anti-depressant, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, bactericide, cicatrisant, decongestant, deodorant, diuretic, nervine and sedative. 
  • At the end of a stressful day, add a few drops of lavender oil to a tub and hot water. To relieve eyestrain, dot a cotton handkerchief with a little lavender oil, chill the cloth, and place it over your eyes. Combine a few drops of lavender, sandalwood, and bergamot oils and add the mixture to grape seed oil; rub it on your skin as a natural insect repellent.
    

Welcome to our blog and best wishes on your personal care plan toward a better life. Please write to us at dearestsource@gmail.com if you have questions or need any assistance with your personal wellness plan.

Love and Light,
Katherine

Balance: How to celebrate Spring Equinox 2014

Dearest Tourist and Travelers; this is an invitation for the celebrations of March 20, 2014... Everyone is invited!!! The theme or intention of our celebrations is: Balance Spring Equinox: it's called an "equinox", derived from Latin, meaning "equal night", 12 hrs each, in all parts of God Mother Earth. The First Day of Spring 2014 - The energy of New Beginnings for some of us. ...and my happy birthday into physical, this time. :) Project 1: Begin a series of meditations to reflect or to become aware of the living presence of BALANCE in our lives. This time on balancing "inner qualities” like better habits of thought and better habits of behavior, those that come from the heart, instead of those that come from the mind that are grounded on intellectual realizations. Even better, let's make a conscious effort to ground our mind in our heart. :) As we choose to live intentionally, expanding our true essence, our divine energy, that out-picture our divine capacities and gives us grace to continue expanding our self-worth and self-creation; we tap into the topic of "the purity of our intentions or integrity of intention IN love." We explore to expand or evolve our spiritual humanity with transparency, elimination of inner clutter, benevolence, kindness and sense of appreciation as qualities of life. Inner balance helps us cultivate a sense of freedom-IN-love. All spiritual humans have the capacity to CHOOSE and as freedom-seekers we have the capacity to want better inspired by our divine nature, love, that never ceases to call us forward. - What aspects of our lives we want to better and how are we going to achieve that?  - Are we living the integral way of life, following a path of self-cultivation and self-development  giving attention to all aspects of our whole well-being; the emotional, physical, intellectual, social-environmental, spiritual and vocational (the way we transcend by coming out of ourselves to reach out to others.) Project 2: Set a conscious intention to daily invest some quality time making reparations. If there is something you could do to shift energy (evolve it for the better from where you left it.)  Give birth to new and better energy; hope where there is despair, joy where there is sadness, forgiveness where there is injury or divine light where there is darkness, resentment or anger. Just know that there is such as source of light and source of darkness, rather darkness is the absence of light. Yes, we can change the past. We can change and evolve the way we think and feel about past events, circumstances or people that came into our life experience. It is so liberating and empowering to know that what we think of ourselves and others is all that matters and all that we can really have control over. It doesn't matter what others think of us for us to feel better or keep a better vibrational spiritual "place." We can make peace with ourselves and with everyone. My vibrational divine place in the Universe is up to me and the way I feel and see and think of myself. Nothing outside of me has power over me except the power I give to it. Journal: We can ask ourselves; - What were you teaching me when you came into my life about myself?  - What did I learn about myself? Did I gain clarity and understanding about the divine spirit that I am?  - What did I learned that can contribute to my self-worth, self-love and self-appreciation?  What aspects of myself could I improve? - How am I a better spiritual being as a result of that experience or event in my life? - What can you do let go or not to "carry rocks with assigned meanings" that drain your energy or keep you in resistance = pain? What can you do to travel light?  - What can you do to re-birth into light and love... joy-fully? Project 3: Smile more. Tune-IN to the essence of love and well-being...  Celebrate in your heart a conscious new beginning, “the re-birth of light.” You know there is a music that comes from the waves our heart, it speaks unstoppably the integrity of our intentional energy. A pure vibration of who we truly are. Set your intentions to work on improving the music of the whole of who you are; a divine being. Make love obvious.