The garden of the world has no limit except in your mind. - Rumi
The Gifts of Mother Earth
I believe the earth has gifted all her living creatures everything we need to thrive, when we live in harmony with our environment we get access to our instinctual gifts of knowing what is right and safe for us, we receive divine knowledge and inspiration, and the ability to understand how to process and use the gifts of nature. We're also gifted with weaknesses that indicate to us misalignment and when it's time to evolve and change to find better harmony.
In an ideal world, all we would need to do is live close to nature and her seasons, nourishing our bodies with the plants she provides and our minds with the peace, awe, and reverence of her miracles. However, due to arrogance of superiority and fear of survival we pursue control of our environment, we have become so out of tune with our own and earth's rhythms that we're wholly out of balance.
The Gifts of the Divine Father
As a mother, earth continues to provide us with support and warnings in the form of illness to indicate our imbalance and need for course correction. The Divine Father gives us the knowledge to bring back balance in the form of traditional wholistic health care systems such as Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Homeopathy, ... these systems take into account the integrity of the human system the physical body, the energetic, emotional and spiritual bodies.
Plant Medicine
Ancient traditions use plants in a variety of forms, dietary cleanses, poultices, and tinctures for healing, analyzing all symptoms from the physical to the emotional. Aromatherapy is such a holistic way of healing, using aromatic extracts from plants. This volatile aromatic substance is produced by plants to either attract pollinators, protect against insects, animals or pathogens, heal their wounds. Inhaled, these compounds have a rapid impact on the body. The molecules are absorbed by the lungs and travel through your bloodstream to your entire system and support the healthy functions of the body, encouraging it to return to its optimum potential. Your olfactory system is the fastest way to connect to your memories and impact your mind and emotions, taking you back to experiences in nature. Therefore, linking healthy rituals with oils can help to reactivate those positive experiences and bring you back to those moments of clarity when breathing in their essence.
I highly encourage you to use oils as part of your growth and spiritual practices so that you can use them as aromatic anchors for knowledge and connection.
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