by Nanci Irene Wesling

If you are heading into the holiday season with joyful anticipation, you need read no further. There are plenty of essences to help you survive those stressful shopping days and visits to family (Trauma Soulution, Star of Bethlehem, Bloodroot), and others for maintaining order and patience (Cleome, Impatiens, White Chestnut, Icosahedron). If you're looking forward to the hustle and bustle, you can help yourself with a few timely doses and go merrily on your way.

If, however, you are facing the holidays feeling overwhelmed by family gatherings, dreading crowds of people at the mall, if you're waiting for the inevitable "holiday cold," or feeling lonely, disconnected and isolated from the joys of the season, read on.

Essences make a huge difference during stressful times. And they are so easy to use: take 2 drops under the tongue, 3 times a day for two weeks or until you gain relief. You can blend 2 or 3 (up to six) together in a dropper bottle for added oomph and take 4 drops 3 times a day. If you prefer, you can put 6 to 8 drops of each essence you choose into a water bottle and sip all day long. You'll stay hydrated and take in balancing elixirs with every sip.

Essences relieve stress, increase peacefulness, and improve your well-being and health. And, because they are vibrational remedies, they are completely free of side effects so they are safe for every member of your family, including babies and animals. There are no harmful chemicals and they do not interfere with any medications. Essences are simply unbeatable!

Three formulas I highly recommend are Trauma Soulution, Classic Five Emergency Remedy (equivalent to Bach Rescue Remedy) and Yarrow Blend. Trauma Soulution and Classic Five are universally helpful for accident, injury and crisis, and great tonics for daily stress. Yarrow Blend strengthens your personal boundary, helping you maintain emotional harmony and feel confident and secure.

Here are more specific suggestions for the holidays:

Essences for the Holiday Blues

Cucumber Magnolia Joyous rebirth into new life. For new beginnings and expanded awareness of life's possibilities.
Fossil Fern Joyous creation and light-filled movement; for dancing in your heart and your body.
Raven Be willing to acknowledge your wholeness, including your shadow, and you'll know true freedom. Look for the gift in the darkness.
Tick Move through layers of emotion (energy in motion) and reclaim your joy. Embrace your anger.
Wild Tobacco Seed For confidence and assertiveness. Connect with your true inner being and nurture your potential so it germinates and grows. A "bubbling up" of joy and light; reduces mental over-activity, freeing untapped resources of energy.
Courage Soulution Transform fear into freedom, curiosity, excitement, and adventure. Listen to your heart, turn off the tapes of negative beliefs, and quiet your inner critic.

Family Issues

Bloodroot Discover the pure intent that lies behind family patterns. Heals old wounds and transforms the past.
Mint Flower Rebuild your emotional foundation and heal from buried abuse. Move forward in life by forgiving yourself and others.
Oriental Spruce Find or create a safe place to be heard.
Seashell 1 Dishonored as a child, reclaim your personal power and entitlement. Aligns root, sacral and solar plexus chakras.
Seashell 2 Forgiveness of those who you believe were abusive during your childhood. Acceptance of self. Aligns heart, throat, brow, and crown chakras.

Reduce Stress and Fatigue

Azurite Communicate authentically from the core of your being. Translate your love for the Earth into love for your body temple; treat them both well during the holidays.
Olive For physical and emotional exhaustion. Rediscover your deep and profound inner resources of stamina and learn to draw from the infinite well of All That Is.
Pink Yarrow Establish firm emotional boundaries so you can help others without taking on their "stuff." Go out on a limb and take your next step with courage.
Cleome Creates the potential for orderliness. Recognize the order that lives within chaos; create transformation through conscious participation.

Boost Your Immune System

Celery Supports the immune system; especially valuable as "old/new" illnesses resurface. Releases static electricity from the body's crystalline structures.
Tomato For inner cleansing and the release of infection from the Whole of You.
Yellow Yarrow For strength and perseverance when feeling challenged or influenced by others, or vulnerable and lacking self-confidence.
White Yarrow Repairs your auric energy field, deflecting negativity, psychic abuse and environmental stress. Strengthens your personal boundary.
Wild Tobacco Seed For confidence and assertiveness. Connect with your true inner being and nurture your potential so it germinates and grows. A "bubbling up" of joy and light; reduces mental over-activity, freeing untapped resources of energy.

Nanci Irene Wesling is an energy practitioner, teacher, singer, and ordained minister. She has been working in natural healing since 1987 and began producing featherhawk essences in 1992. The line includes flower, gem & mineral, sacred geometry, sound, and environmental essences. Check out the web site http://www.featherhawk.com, or contact Nanci by email nanci@featherhawk.com or phone 812.949.0478 (toll free 877.226.7858).

Originally published on the web by Vibration Magazine. The Journal of Vibrational and Flower Essences
November 2003 issue
http://www.floweressencemagazine.com/nov03/holidayblues.html

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