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16 Aroma-Energetic Wellness Tips, by Margaret Ann Lembo

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

We all strive for more health, happiness, and hope in our lives. This enhanced well-being can be as simple as integrating any number of aroma-energetic practices into your life; these practices combine the powerful effects of aromatherapy and energy for a more powerful result. Margaret Ann Lembo, author of Chakra Awakening; The Essential Guide to Crystals, Minerals, and Stones; and the new Essential Guide to Aromatherapy and Vibrational Healing, provides 16 aroma-energetic wellness tips to integrate into your life.

1. Use positive affirmations daily.
   Everything is energy. All energy vibrates. Thoughts are energy. Therefore, everything we think about—every day, all day long—is energy. That energy in the form of thoughts broadcasts intentions and desires. Think about it–what thoughts are rolling around in your consciousness? Take the time to be mindful of what you are thinking, and change those thoughts to reflect what you DO want instead of what you don't want. Pair the thought with a gemstone or an essential oil to help you maintain your focus all day long.
2. Practice gratitude.
   Thoughts of gratitude and actions that reflect gratitude go a very long way to making everything better. Yes, a kind word or a compliment can make a person's day, or perhaps be the tipping point to their personal self-worth in that moment. The practice combines thoughts, words, feelings, and actions in all aspects of life. For example, when I'm making a meal I send the energy of thanks to all the people, places, and situations that were involved in bringing the ingredients to my kitchen–from the farm to the workers to the truck driver to the grocery store clerk. Similarly, I engage this practice when I blend essential oils for a formula with the intention that love and well-being will be the resulting effect for anyone who uses it or smells it. How will you incorporate this practice of gratitude?
3. Make friends with a rock.
   Crystals and gemstones amplify the sparkle and shine in your life. It doesn't take much effort to carry a rock in your pocket to help you maintain a focus on good thoughts in your heart. It's easy to become friends with a rock. Find one that makes you feel happy or looks pretty to you. Match a positive thought or affirmation to amplify your intention. There are probably plenty of gems in your jewelry box. Yes, the crystals embedded in your jewelry are equally as effective to use as a tool to design your reality! A box of crystals or a box of jewelry can become your toolbox for happiness and prosperity. Decide what you want, then match the positive intention with the crystal or jewelry that you will wear for the day. Every time you touch it, look at it, or think about it, use it as a reminder to focus on what you are creating in your life.
4. Take note of the color of the day.
   Have you noticed that there are days where you see the same color more predominantly as others? We joke around at work, The Crystal Garden, when we all show up in the same color combination or the same color shirt and say, "I see we all got the memo!" When you take note of a color that seems repetitive, take time to think about or research what that color means. What is the message to that color as it relates to your life? Throughout all my books, this information is available to you. Here is a short list on some meanings of colors:
   • White: Purity, clarity, spiritual connection
   • Purple: Transformation, protection, alignment with spirit guides
   • Blue: Communication, inner peace, listen to the messages
   • Green: Love, maintain focus on love, healing
   • Pink: Love, awareness of the blessings
   • Yellow: Self-confidence, ability to digest life, joy, happiness, enthusiasm
   • Orange: Creativity, motivation, take action!
   • Red: Vitality, prosperity, grounding, focus
5. Find love in your daily interactions.
   

   "You are love. Your true essence is love. Be aware that you are love in all you do, say, think, feel, smell, taste, or know, and you will be happy and healthy all the days of your life."
   —Excerpt from chapter five of Chakra Awakening

   To find love, be love. Focus on your heart center, and make it your goal that all you do is with the underlying intention to energetically radiate love and well-being. It is a daily practice that transforms your life into bliss. The word practice is key to finding and being love; it is just that—a practice. Just as you practice any activity to become better at it, similarly each one of us can make the choice to practice love.

   Some days I use lavender or a blend of essential oils to help me maintain focus. Other days I'll use a combination of Gemstone Essence of rose quartz, kunzite, pink opal, pink calcite, emerald, and green aventurine integrated into a heart chakra blend of oils, like grapefruit, hyacinth, lavender, rosewood, spruce, and sweet marjoram. Combining Gemstone Essences with essential oils adds another layer of assistance.

6. Connect with Archangels and Ascended Masters.
   Archangels and Ascended Masters are available to everyone! Upon your request, they create and maintain the energy of love, light, and well-being. Anything that is not aligned with loving energy is thereby forbidden in your sacred space. I consider them my personal entourage. Call upon specific Archangels and Ascended Masters for positive vibrations, to protect your space, and to encourage the actualization of specific intentions. Get in touch with some of their "jobs" and what they can do for you. For example, Archangel Haniel is helpful for garnering determination and alignment with your soul's purpose. Match the intention and Haniel with palmarosa or geranium to move toward your goal. Did you know you can pair your connection with Archangel Zadkiel and St. Germain with grapefruit, lavender, and wintergreen to transform your reality? The Easy Reference Guides in the back of The Essential Guide to Aromatherapy and Vibrational Healing make it easy for your to learn and work with Archangels, Ascended Masters, and essential oils in combination.
7. Bond with a power animal.
   Power animals, or animal totems, are allies for you. You can petition them to help on an energetic level for life situations. Connection with animal totems brings a deeper understanding of the gifts of nature. Similar to spirit guides, animal totems energetically travel with you to enhance your efforts in spiritual pursuits and practices as well as all levels of self-improvement. The energy of totem offers insight and amplifies the benefits of a given essential oil. This is the vibrational aspect of the healing of aromatherapy. For example, butterfly is a totem for transformation and an ally for the next chapter of life. Match the essential oil of peppermint to amplify the ease of the journey for clarity. Cat as a totem can represent many things, and one of them is comfort. Therefore, an adult cat matches up with chamomile while kittens match up with lavender—both essential oils provide comfort and calm, much like the animal medicine cats and kittens provide.
8. Align with the cycles of the sun, moon, and planets.
   The cycles of our lives have a direct correlation to the movement of the sun, the moon, and the planets. Astrological aficionados already relate to this understanding. The zodiac, the movement of the luminaries, as well as the planets, offer another level of self-understanding and tools for exploration of this earth walk. Each one holds a vibration and is symbolic, and therefore there is a correlation to the energetic vibration of essential oils and all life. Take cedarwood as an example. Cedarwood is a grounding essential oil. It helps you maintain focus, and it is also a stabilizer for essential oil blends. (Essential oils are volatile, and there are specific oils that will stabilize the scent to make it more evident for a longer period of time.) Capricorn is the astrological match for cedarwood, and the Earth and Saturn are the planets with which to align with for a deeper understanding of the gifts of cedarwood.

There are so many things you can do to enhance your wellness each and every day with aromatherapy and energy. Below are seven more easy steps to take each day to enhance your wellbeing:

• Take notice of number repetitions.
• Spend time in nature and listen to the flowers and plants.
• Make and use your own holy water and gemstone tinctures.
• Clear your space and put well-being in its place.
• Pay attention to the messages of Divine guidance.
• Read a book.
• Integrate essential oils into your daily life for health and well-being.
• Remember your true nature—love.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2016. All rights reserved.

My name is Patty and I have daily visions or deja vu. Everything always plays out just as I have envisioned it. Some visions are what I call mild. For example, they can be as simple as my daughter walking in the room and asking me a particular question, which played out in my mind before she entered the room. Other times, the visions are more complex. I have seen minor accidents like a glass falling off the shelf and breaking, car accidents, someone falling off a ladder, and most recently, my disabled mother falling down a flight of stairs. (Thankfully, she only suffered a sprained ankle and a few cuts and bruises.) I also see images that are more difficult to understand. I often see mental glimpses or snap shots that seem to be random and meaningless. I'm wondering why I see those snapshots and how I can control the visions I have and discern what they're trying to tell me. Do you have any suggestions?

Patty

Susyn:

Your visions are wonderful gifts, but I can see why they might cause you concern. When we experience this sort of phenomenon and are not sure of its meaning or how to control it, it's easy to feel overwhelmed.

Up until this point, you have not envisioned anything truly frightening. However, as your gift grows, you may start to see things you would rather not know about. When you do, you may be at a loss as to whether to share these with other people out of a desire to either warn them or try to change the course of destiny.

Many psychics and empaths started out in just the way you describe: They realized that they were able to see into the future, and they sought training to learn how to direct and control this gift so they could put it to good use.

Of course, the ability to see into the future carries a heavy responsibility, so you will want to find a way to use this gift for the highest purposes. You might consider adopting a spiritual practice like studying tarot or astrology so you can get more information about the random visions you see. These methods can be valuable tools for learning to direct and control spontaneous visions so they are not constantly streaming in.

Another way to put some boundaries around your gift is to start recording these visions when they appear as well as the actual outcomes so you can determine the accuracy of these events. By getting a sense of how often they occur, what times of day they are most active, and how soon after you have the visions the events come to pass, you will begin to learn more about your gift.

It sounds like most of the time, these visions immediately precede the events they predict, which keeps you from sharing them with others. For example, if you had seen the vision of your mother falling down the stairs earlier, you might have been able to warn her to be careful.

One very effective practice that may help is called corralling. It is a method wherein you determine a set time of day when you will entertain these visions. You may want to establish an early morning or late evening meditation time when you specifically ask for visions to come to you. After your session, write them down so you can see which ones come to pass. In this way, you aren't blocking the visions but you are gaining control over when and how they manifest.

It is important to remain open to this gift, but equally important that you don't let it take over your life or cause you concern. With practice, you'll discover how to invite visions in at your convenience, and know when to share them and when to keep them to yourself.

*****

Mata:

The first thing you need is greater understanding of what's going on. Imagine that, as you move through life, you're watching each moment unfold much like you would watch a movie. At any given moment, most people are locked on a mental screen that is either playing what is happening right now, what happened in the past, or what might happen in the future.

Those of us who have expanded psychic awareness have mental screens that are more like 360-degree Imax movies than traditional theaters, so we have access to far more information than most people do. Though we may be focused in the moment, in our peripheral vision, we may get a glimpse of what is about to happen even if it's not something important. Events that are close to the present moment such as your daughter coming into the room will grab our attention; they are in our peripheral psychic vision simply because they're about to occur.

Events that are important or dramatic can grab our attention even if they're playing far above or behind us because it's natural to turn toward noises, images, and other input of a startling or intense nature. Thus you may be focused on something totally unrelated when, in your peripheral awareness, your subconscious mind picks up on a scene of your mother falling down the stairs. This grabs your attention because your mother is important to you, though other dramatic information such as accidents and other big events will similarly break through into your awareness.

When we develop our psychic abilities, we learn how to shift our focus from what is happening in physical reality in this moment to any part of the holographic cosmic spectrum. We do this by altering our state of consciousness and learning where to look for the information we desire as well as whom to ask for help with such endeavors.

To gain control of these visions, you must learn three things: how to stay grounded in physical reality/the present moment, how to purposefully look for and filter the information you receive, and how to ask Spirit for more information (such as what you are supposed to do with the psychic visions that come to you.)

Your spirit guides can help you filter out any visions you are not meant to act upon in some way; they can also help you align with only positive, meaningful psychic experiences. Since my space is limited here, I encourage you to start researching psychic development and how to work with your spirit guides in general. There are tons of great books in print and articles on the web on these subjects; you might even pray to receive a vision on where you should begin!

Astrea:

Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.

Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!

While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!

I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!

As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.

I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.

You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!

Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.

A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.

You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.