Do you think of yourself as a sensual person?

Here’s one definition of sensual: arousing or exciting the senses. If you thought this was going to be about sexuality, I’m sorry to disappoint you. Although sensuality is a component of sexuality, sensuality is much more foundational than that. It’s about surrounding yourself with beauty that fills up your senses, AND being open to the wonderful experience of drinking it in!

Here are some of the everyday challenges you might find yourself in, if you aren’t connecting to the energetic gifts of the Power of Sensuality. You may:

• Have lost the romantic spark with your honey and settled into a hum-drum relationship.
• Accidentally hurt the ones you love with your words and feedback that comes out more critically than you expect.
• Slog around your house in over-sized sweats feeling frumpy and dumpy and frowning at yourself in the mirror.
• Spend your day being pragmatic, practical, scheduled, and busy, but deep in your gut you feel empty inside.
• Live or work in a room that’s “functional” but lacks beauty and leaves you feeling flat.
• Scarf up your microwave dinner while standing at your sink, and wonder why you don’t feel nourished and satisfied with the meal.
• Think things like buying flowers, meandering through art galleries, or going out for a leisurely candlelit dinner are just a waste time and money.

Beauty, experienced through your senses,

is a vital ingredient in the banquet of your life.

Without it, something is always missing.

These kinds of challenges can easily stem from not having enough beauty in your life. Or, they could be from not being open to receiving all the beauty that IS there. Let’s have a Sensuality reality-check.

Take a few minutes to consider all the beauty that you recognize in your current everyday life. Do you get to enjoy an awesome view on your way to work? Or do you just drive your way through power lines and car lots…or a mix of the two?

Do you keep fresh flowers on your dining table every day, just on special occasions, or not at all? Do you fill your ears with music that uplifts you, or just listen to whatever happens to be on the radio at the moment?

Scan your life and, on a scale of 1 – 10, how would you rate your Sensuality Quotient based on the degree of loveliness you have around you on a regular basis? This is your starting point for strengthening your Power of Sensuality.

Now, having just tuned into where beauty is spilling into your world, are your senses awake enough to process the nurturing that beauty is offering you?

When you see a beautiful butterfly, do you feel yourself take a breath as you absorb it’s colors?

When you eat delicious food, are you savoring the flavoring? Are you soaking in the smells?

Close your eyes and gently rub your hand over your chair or a piece of clothing you are wearing. Take an easeful minute to feel its texture…it’s softness, it’s roughness…how bumpy or smooth it is. Let that subtle information seep into your cells.

How does that make you feel? Is it comforting, pleasurable? Does it leave you feeling neutral? Or does it make you want to pull your hand away?

Imagine surrounding yourself with fabrics you can just relax into in the normal course of your day, and how that would affect your overall quality of life.

Just like with your sense of touch just now, ALL your senses will let you know what nourishes you and what doesn’t when you connect with them. The more you strengthen the Power of Sensuality, the more you will allow the beauty that’s everywhere to nurture your spirit. You will find yourself creating experiences for yourself and others that feed your senses and soothe your soul. Read on to find out what’s in store!

Throw open your doors to the finer things in life.
Feed your senses every day and stay satisfied.

When you’re connected to the Purple Power of Sensuality, you will:

• Find romance oozing back into your relationships….picnics in the park, reading poetry together, offering little gifts, candlelight dinners…just like when your love was new!
• Choose kind and uplifting words when you speak to your loved ones, and watch how they blossom with your nourishing feedback.
• Smile at yourself whenever you pass by a mirror, because you have taken the time to make yourself feel beautiful.
• Find it easy to take breaks from “being responsible,” to discover the deep, soul-fulfilling pleasure of feeding your senses with beauty – food, words, art, flowers, music.
• Find easy ways to add a touch of beauty to every room in your house and office….little things that warm your heart, boost your spirit, and feed your soul.
• Take the time to sit down to a lovely and leisurely meal even when you are alone. Ah…nourishment for your body AND soul.

2 beautiful ways to surround yourself with the Purple Power of Sensuality:

#1: Say or sing this affirmation until you believe it with your entire being:

“I welcome beauty into my life.”

#2: Take 7 – 21 drops of Sensuality Vibrancy Essence daily. This remedy will align you with the energetic frequency of Sensuality, and help you open up to beautiful feedback and inspire you to nurture your soul and your senses in ways that are meaningful to you. Order yours HERE!

Nourish your soul with more beauty.

“Modernity and beauty simply don’t mix. Pragmatism and an industrial-sized busyness denigrate everything that can’t squeeze out of a calculator. And the first thing to die under such circumstances is a passion for beauty…

We just don’t have the time for poetry; beauty isn’t useful, we say, until we’re in our eighties, when many finally reflect and realize that beauty was truly essential to a good life that has now slipped by.”

~ Douglas Jones

Surround yourself with beauty!

Healing can happen on so many levels and by way of so many different powerful modalities these days. The important thing is to listen to your body and respond to its call for rejuvenation and health in the ways that resonate with you.

One area you’ll want to pay close attention to is the effects of electromagnetic energy. Thanks to all our technological advances, we are now more connected than ever, but this amazing capability that we have also has some negative consequences:

• You hang up your cell phone and notice your ear is on fire. Do you wonder what’s happening to your brain?
• You’re up late on your computer, then are too wired to fall asleep. What’s with that?
• The vibes in some places just give you the willies. What makes you want to run away screaming?

Our first house was a little like that…

Have you ever been in your kitchen with no one around, no TV on, just you and the silence? Then, your refrigerator cycles off, and you realize that it wasn’t actually all that quiet before but now it really is? And you feel yourself relax into the peace?

That’s what it was like for us when we moved to our rural home in a little valley of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Prior to that, we’d been living in a house in the city that had a giant, alien-looking high-power electrical tower about 30 yards away. We knew that beast was giving off a lot of Electromagnetic waves (EMF’s) that weren’t healthy for us, but it was easy in everyday life to forget about it.

We did feel a lot of stress and tension living there though, with occasional bouts of anxiety and sleeplessness, but we didn’t necessarily make the connection.

When the lease was up we escaped to our new home in the countryside, where there not only are no electrical towers, but we have difficulty even getting cell phone service within a mile of our house.

And that’s when we realized that the city house, and even us, had been humming like that fridge, and we hadn’t noticed it affecting us….until we moved and it stopped. It was like there was silence in our nervous systems where before there were bees.

We both began to relax and unwind in ways we hadn’t been able to for a year. The anxiety melted, the tension dissipated, and we could finally get a good night’s sleep.

Hopefully you’re not in such an extreme situation. But you’re probably aware of times when you pick up energy – from people, from a place, or from an electronic gadget.

You don’t have to be stuck with that uncomfortable energy!
Get connected to The Power of Healing!

You will:

• Be more sensitive to the energy that’s in and around you, recognizing whether it’s the kind that can gives you pleasure or causes you discomfort.
• Be pain-free, because you’ll be able to clear away any kind of unwanted energy, whether it’s from a physical injury, those pesky EMF’s, or something you picked up from a stressed-out person.
• Reduce anxiety, tension, and irritation.
• Feel balanced and as though your body is a clear channel for your life energy to flow through.
• Feel more grounded, focused, and decisive when you’re “crystal clear” and free of static on all levels.
• Keep yourself healthy by being aware of stuck energy and knowing how to ground or release it.

Any health issue can be improved by learning to resonate with the energy that moves through everything and knowing how to let it flow…and let it go.

Three steps to Crystal Clear Clarity:

#1: Do you feel overwhelmed by too much technology buzzing in your space? Do you feel drained by the company you’re keeping? Do you feel zapped by the vibes in a place? Here’s an affirmation you can begin using to turn that around:

“I clear away foreign energy!”

Saying and signing this affirmation 10 times a day will begin to reinforce this Power of Healing in your life.To amp up the power of your clearing, hold the top-back of your head (where your hair spiral is) while you sing.

Other good tips:

• Shake out your arms and legs and wiggle all over, imagining the unwanted energy falling off.
• Water grounds energy, so wash your hands or shower, letting the energy flow down the drain.

#2: Take 7 – 21 drops of Healing Vibrancy Essence daily. This remedy will align you with the energetic frequency of Crystal whenever you need an energetic lift.

#3: There are many articles on the web with info about the dangers of EMFs on your health. Here are a few we like:
http://bodyecology.com/archive/little-known-dangers-of-emf.phphttp://www.lessemf.com/emf-news.html

Connect to Crystal and tap into your healing energy.

“I can tell you that anything that happens in the physical body will happen in the pattern of the energy fields first.”

~ Barbara Brennan

Keep that energy moving!

With the holidays behind us, now is the time to check in with your Power of Support to see if it’s in need of a little nurturing and fluffing up after a season of giving so much to others.

Here is a very common scenario of an imbalance in the Power of Support:

• You’re over-extended and have too much on your plate.
• You don’t have time (or take the time) for your own self-care – like a massage, meditation, exercise, etc.
• You feel guilty if you say “No” to a request for help.
• It just doesn’t feel right to ask someone else to help you.
• When help does come your way you deflect it in some way, insisting you don’t need it.
• You worry if you don’t help so much, people won’t love you.

Of course, this is not the only way a Silver imbalance shows up, it’s just the most common one we hear from our clients.

But any issue around the concept of support – giving it, giving too much, receiving it, taking too much, feeling unsupported and as though no one’s “got your back”, or even getting overwhelmed by other people’s needs are all signs that your Power of Support needs….well, some support.

It’s better to give and receive in equal measure.

Chaya here…

There’s nothing like low back pain to test your balance with the Power of Support.

This was our situation a while back when an old diving injury flared up for me. If you’ve ever had low back problems, you know what I’m talking about. Things you do every day are suddenly difficult or impossible.

When you drop your pen on the floor you just leave it, because the floor is suddenly very far away, and bending down is fraught with danger.

Every step you take is careful, gentle, and you’re tense all over just hoping you don’t make a wrong move.

And heaven forbid if you sneeze. Ouch!

So, Jamie and I got to test our health with Silver consciousness.

I got to practice asking for help. This wasn’t too difficult. The challenge was doing it and still feeling empowered. It’s embarrassing to admit, but I can fall into self-pity pretty easily and then I get whiney. It’s not a pretty sight.

I did pretty well at supporting myself where I could. I did my Vibrancy Healing therapeutic homework, got myself to the chiropractor, got a massage, and did some gentle stretching when I was able.

Jamie got to work on the other side of the Power of Support – giving it. He managed to add to his schedule the extra work around the house and help me when I needed it, without exhausting himself in the process.

He kept track of how he was feeling so he knew when he needed to take care of himself and refill his own well of energy….even when it meant saying ‘No’ to a request of mine. As you might expect, even his ‘No’ is gentle and kind.

Oooh, and then back in my court. I got to practice handling Jamie’s ‘No’, respecting his needs, and finding another way to get the support I needed.

All in all I think we did very well. I give Jamie and A and myself a B+. I’ve just GOT to work on that whiny thing.

Asking for support does not equate with weakness.

Giving and receiving in equal measure,

in a healthy way, can feel wonderful!

Here are a few of the benefits you’ll experience when you strengthen your Power of Support:

• You’ll know how to decide how and when you offer your service – choosing the tasks that really juice you, and therefore give you energy instead of drain you.
• You’ll say “Yes” to supporting yourself and take that yoga class, go for that walk in the woods, or do whatever it is that fills your well, so you’re fresh and ready to serve when it’s time.
• You’ll discover how saying “No” just might be the best thing you can do for someone, and for you, and so the guilt won’t have a place to live.
• You’ll be able to ask for help when you need it without feeling like you’re weak or inconveniencing someone.
• You’ll be able to receive someone else’s help when it comes…and you’ll probably discover that in the receiving, you’ve done them a huge service.
• You’ll know deep down that you’re loved for who you are, not for what you do for the people in your life.

2 steps to strengthening your Power of Support

#1: Say or sing this proclamation until you believe it with your entire being:

“I give and receive support easily.”

#2: Take 7 – 21 drops of the Support Vibrancy Essence daily. This remedy will align you with the energetic frequency of Support, and help you fill up your own well so that you can fully be available to serve others.

Be good to yourself!

“On self-care:  If you put yourself on the back burner,
you may get burnt … or burn out.”

~ Karen McMillan

We support you!

It’s your Sea Blue Power of Prevention that wisely keeps you out of harm’s way. So how can you tell if yours needs a boost?

• You push yourself to exhaustion and then have to spend a couple days in bed sick.
• You like being “reckless”, but it often leads to accidents and injuries.
• You’ve been told by the experts that overeating, drinking alcohol, and smoking isn’t good for you, but you just can’t seem to find the motivation to change those bad habits.
• You don’t go see the chiropractor, massage therapist, acupuncturist, etc. until you’re in so much pain you can’t stand it.
• You’re timid and shy or even afraid to go out into the world because you just feel like the world is not a safe place.
• You worry about all the viruses going around and fear the next flu bug.

Feeling safe in this world is your birthright!
You do not need to fear attack from viruses,
mean people, pain or accidents.

Jamie here…

It’s getting to that time of year, cooler weather, holidays looming and the “dreaded” cold season.

I’d like to share a few tidbits on the subject of “catching a cold”. This phrase is one of my personal pet peeves because it somehow means that mysteriously a person has succumbed to some germ or virus in the air, on a doorknob, toilet or some other nasty place.

“I got this cold from so-and-so”. You can even blame it on your child bringing it home from school.

Here’s a little natural healing two cents coming your way….

You don’t ‘catch’ a cold or a virus or the flu. Yes, I said it.

It’s the wrong phrase, and it indicates a lack of responsibility.

It would be more true to say, “I took this virus on.” Or, even more clear, “I ran myself down, didn’t pay attention to my body’s signals, and when that virus came around, I was the perfect host.”

The critters are all around you all the time. It’s up to you whether or not you put out the welcome mat and invite them into your body for them to stay as house guests.

With your Power of Prevention strong,
your body will know which guests are welcome.

Yes, our culture is full of “victim-itis,” but you don’t have to “catch it”!! Charge up your own Power of Prevention. And when you do, you’ll….

• Notice that little scratch in your throat, or headache, or tiredness, and so you’ll take a ‘Wellness Day’ and nip it in the bud. (Saving yourself 3 miserable sick days later in the week!)
• Do your favorite fun activities, AND keep yourself safe in the process. Armed with your helmet, wrist guards, knee pads, and sensitivity to what’s going on around you, you’ll avoid that trip to the hospital.
• Find the desire to treat your body like the temple it is, and break those habits that run your health into the ground.
• Feel motivated to do regular wellness things for yourself – massage, bath soaks, exercise, eat healthy food, even see your favorite health practitioner – before your body is screaming in pain.
• Feel confident of your health and the strength of your immune system, and know how to avoid any sickness that might be “going around.”
• Go out and participate in life, trusting your ability to take care of yourself in any situation.

It’s true…an ounce of Prevention is worth a pound of cure. Avoid the misery!

2 ways to boost your Sea Blue Power of Prevention:

#1: Do you feel like you are always hiding out to protect yourself from harm? Here’s an affirmation you can begin using:

“I am safe.”

We recommend saying and singing it, 7 times daily or when you need to remind yourself that you are safe – physically, emotionally, and psychically. All is well.

#2: Keep a bottle of Prevention Vibrancy Essence close at hand this week. Whenever you notice that you’re starting to feel afraid of what might happen to you, take 7 drops. Then tune in and ask yourself what you need to do to look out for your wellbeing.

Be proactive!
When you feel safe, you can truly blossom.

“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his
patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet,
and in the cause and prevention of disease.”

~ Thomas Edison

Be well!