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Healing The Limbic System & Your Chakra System With Essential Oils

1/1/2020

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Great video from Dr. Theresa Bullard on healing the limbic system through essential oils, music, and other tools. I would totally add in Art and then you are doing my Harmonia Practice.

Essential oils can also heal your Chakra System. Below is an article that suggests some amazing to incorporate into your daily Self Care Practices.

Essential Oils to Balance Chakras
By Marian Grande featured on Health Care in America

Pretty much everyone has heard of chakras. Although I find many people aren’t really clear on what they are or what their function is.

Let me explain: Chakras are energy centers within the human body that help to regulate all its processes, from organ function to the immune system and emotions.

There are seven main chakras that are positioned throughout your body, from the base of your spine to the crown of your head. Each chakra has its own vibrational frequency, color, and governs specific functions.

To achieve balance in all areas of your life, your chakras need to be balanced, in alignment and spinning just right. Essential oils can help you achieve that balance.

First Chakra — Root Chakra

Patchouli Essential Oil
Also stimulates the second chakra (Sacral Chakra)
The root chakra is located at the base of the spine and is represented by the colour red. It is also represented by the physical element of Earth. It represents grounding to the physical world and survival/self-preservation. The root chakra is associated with the spine, legs, feet, colon, the adrenal glands, the spine, legs, feet and colon.
A balanced root chakra will have the following characteristics: being grounded, stability, stillness, prosperity, physical health, a sense of safety and security, and being present in the moment.

This essential oil gives the gift of enjoying being alone with yourself in a content, relaxed state, giving rise to having a large energy store so you can get things done. It can be very supportive in helping you reach your goals, from clarification of what you desire to having the drive to do what is needed to reach your goal. This essential oil also helps you overcome fatigue and feeling down.

Second Chakra — Sacral Chakra
Neroli Essential Oil

Also stimulates the fourth chakra (Heart Chakra)
The sacral chakra is located in the lower abdomen between the pelvis and the navel centre. It is represented by the colour orange and the physical element of water. It represents vitality, self-gratification, and passion, and is associated with the sacral vertebra and the reproductive organs and effects circulation, urinary function, and reproduction.
A balanced sacral chakra carries the following characteristics: ability to enjoy pleasure, emotional intelligence, sexual satisfaction, passion and the ability to embrace change.
This essential oil brings the energy of pure love and lightness of being, driving away sorrows and bringing a peaceful, stable calm. This oil is simply a must for healing trauma from abuse or anytime you are in an emotional crisis or suffering from sadness. It helps to foster hope and leads you from fear. Neroli also opens you to love within yourself and the freedom of allowing love to flow freely.

Third Chakra — Solar Plexus Chakra
Pine Essential Oil

Also stimulates the fourth chakra (Heart Chakra)
The solar plexus chakra is located above the naval centre, and is represented by the colour yellow. It is also represented by the physical element of fire. It represents willpower, motivation and vitality. It is often associated with the pancreas, liver, spleen, stomach, lower back muscles, the metabolism and digestion.
A balances solar plexus chakra should show the following characteristics: confidence, warmth, self-discipline, reliability, and a positive sense of self.
Pine essential oil is an oil for the restoration of the heart when your emotions have become hard or jaded. This oil releases you from old wounds, letting you move forward without the baggage of the past, bringing the ability to experience your emotions in real time versus playing out echoes from the past. This oil allows you to move forward. You will feel replenished and new, which allows you to bring growth and inner peace to your future relationships.

Fourth Chakra — Heart Chakra
Rosewood or Rose Essential Oil
The fourth chakra; the heart chakra is located in the low center of the chest and represents self-acceptance and love. It is associated with the colour green and the physical element of air. It is related with the lymph glands, heart, rib cage, lungs, skin, arms, hands, circulation and the immune system.

A balanced heart chakra will have the following characteristics: self-love, contentment, compassion, acceptance, peacefulness and being centred.

A wonderful oil that encourages free-flowing emotions, the ability to harmonize what you are feeling with your thoughts, and the capacity to express your emotions. This oil offers strong energetic bubble of protection and can help you maintain a clean and enclosed aura. Use this chakra scent for releasing constricted feelings stored in the chest, internalized grief, melancholy, and repressed emotions.

Fifth Chakra — Throat Chakra
Lavender Essential Oil

The fifth chakra as its name suggests is located in the throat and is represented by the colour blue or turquoise. It is also represented by the physical element of ether. The throat chakra represents self-expression and communication, and is associated with the thyroid, esophagus, neck, shoulders, arms, hands and hearing.
A balanced throat chakra will have the following characteristics: clear communication with others and self, good listening skills, good sense of time and a full voice.
A fantastic essential oil that will help encourage you to share your gifts with the world. This chakra balancing oil heals feelings of being overly delicate, withdrawn, or fearful and brings spiritual growth by helping you integrate your experiences, which brings an expanded awareness and perspective. This oil will help you communicate more effectively.

Six Chakra — Third Eye Chakra

Sandalwood Essential Oil

The third eye chakra is located in the centre of the forehead. It is represented by the colour indigo and the physical element of light. It represents self-reflection and knowledge. It is also associated with the pituitary gland, left brain hemisphere, left eye, nose, ears, sinuses, conscious mind, the endocrine system, neurological system, and small muscle control.
A balanced third eye chakra will have strong intuition, good memory, ease remembering dreams, ability to visualize and a guiding vision for life.

A grounding essential oil that is highly effective when meditating. Used by healers and spiritual leaders worldwide, this oil brings an inner awareness and a sense of ease engaging with higher consciousness, which is helpful for insights into blockages on your spiritual path, whether internal or external, and allows a gentle processing at your deepest levels. Sandalwood helps break down illusions, helping you align with your most authentic self.

Seventh Chakra — Crown Chakra

Lime Essential Oil

The seventh chakra; the crown chakra is located at the top of the head. It is represented by the colour of violet, and physical element of thought. It represents self-knowledge, self-will, and divine connection. It is associated with the pineal gland, pituitary gland, cerebral cortex, cerebrum, the right eye, the right brain hemisphere, central nervous system, the subconscious mind, and large muscle control.

A balance crown chakra will have wisdom, intelligence, ability to analyze, spiritual connection and open mindedness.

Lime is a great essential oil to use for energetic cord cutting and detaching. Useful in enhancing your perception of the truth inside any situation. It allows you to release any illusion that you may have confused with reality.

Here are a few more suggestions:

Root Chakra: Cypress

Sacral Chakra: Ylang-ylang

Solar Plexus Chakra: Ginger

Hearth Chakra: Jasmine

Throat Chakra: Roman Chamomile

Third Eye Chakra: Rosemary

Crown Chakra: Frankincense

Apply the oil (diluted with a carrier oil) to the respective chakra (i.e. root chakra — to the soles of the feet). Essential oils can help balance your chakras and keep them in alignment to ensure optimal health of the body, mind and soul.
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Art is Your Greatest Teacher & Healer: Perfect Health is Wealth!

8/7/2019

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Over,  the years are body gets worn and torn. I feel that early on most of us are told that we are not OK and we are flawed. It is totally conditioned in us by Advertisers, Social Media, and Reality TV. Over time we start to believe it and body starts getting tattered up. Our emotive thoughts are so powerful, that it easily becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. We gain weight. We eat toxic food. We get sick. Our skin starts sagging. Our mental health suffers. In many of us our body temple becomes abused.  Add to the mix all of our past trapped traumas and toxic emotions start to fester dis-ease with in ourselves.  Also, one we cannot forget the stress of living in today's world. Jumping on Twitter or listening to NPR can give one a nervous breakdown. These are trying times and this chaotic insanity affects your health and wellbeing. I feel that is really the Self Care moment is about, many are waking up to the empowering fact that we can co-create a better world, a better body, and a better reality for ourselves. We must start reverently taking care of our body temples and we must start taking care of our HOME, Mama Earth. What we do to the Earth and her Animal Kingdom is the macrocosm of what we are doing to ourselves. Truth be known it is horrific abuse on all levels. And needs to stop! This is why the Self Care movement is so important and so empowering. It is really waking folks up to that ancient Oracle of Delphi truth, To Know ThySelf. Know thy mind, body, and spirit! Embrace your personal sovereignty. Remember your power is not outside or separate of you, it is inside of you. We were all born whole and the human world has tore us into fragments. It is time to rise like the Phoenix out the ashes into your intrinsic wholeness.

As Dr. Joe Dizpenza says,  “And can you teach your body emotionally what it would feel like to believe in this way . . . to be empowered . . . to be moved by your own greatness . . . to be invincible . . . to have courage . . . to be in love with life . . . to feel unlimited . . . to live as if your prayers are already answered? . . .”

So let's all rise up into the greatest version of ourselves. When we are radiate and healthy, you can transform others. Embracing the your are both an artist and healer. Perfect health and well being is your inheritance. Proclaim as you heal your self and begin to Love every inch of your mind, body, and soul, you can change this world for the better. You can affect others in positive way. You can be part of the solution. It is time to step up like a giant and shine your light into the world. Begin living out loud, drinking in the presence of the moment from the fountain of eternity. Start taking care of yourself and treat yourself like the Divine being  you are.

During my Harmonia, 10,000 Steps of Gratitude beach meditation this mantra keeps yelping into my being: "Heaven is Earth, Gaia is Heaven, and your body is a temple. Restore your temple in reverence, back to wholeness and balance." It is a beautiful empowering revelation to my Soul, Mind, and Body. Self Care, Self Love, and Self Healing are creative holistic journeys. We at the Harmonia Institute feel that you are a work of Art and you should treat  yourself with the highest of reverence. Below is beautiful mandala exercise to embody and activate your inner medicine woman.

Harmonia Practice: Activating your inner Medicine Woman
So here is an Law Attraction Harmonia mandala exercise with the Goddess Archetype Akeso. Here name means curing, the process of curing. Begin your journey into the highest version of your Self.

Harmonia Practice Recipe Ingredients
  • Download for free your Harmonia Akeso mandala template HERE.
  • All the creative prompts, mantras, and questions are on the backside of the mandala template
  • Study how to create a magical Sigil. HERE is a nice DIY description. This is how you will create your mandala.
  • Take time to really listen to your physical and emotional body and ask it what needs to healed and shed. Write this all down.
  • Art Supplies you will need, pen, acrylic paint, paper, oil pastels, journal for aha's
  • Doterra essential oil: Frankincense for tenting. This basically placing the oil on the inside of your wrists and placing your palms together a tent and inhale 7 times. If want to set up a Doterra account, I would love to help you out. E-mail me at the [email protected] to set up an appointment.
  • Create your Sacred Creation Space: Intentionally place crystals, difuse essential oils, and play some sacred music. Set up your space for creating with all your art supplies. Give yourself at least 30 minutes to complete the process of curing.
  • More support. Get the amazing book, The Secret Language of Your Body by Inna Segal.
  • When you Mandala is complete place it in local space, where you mediate or walk by.
  • In your Harmonia practice Also, do research on other holistic health support tools and products. With essential oils they are medicinal, so do a Google search on what essential oil heals your dis-ease. Also, you can create some amazing DIY skin products and healthy non-toxic cleaning products with essential oils. Use crystals for healing, research which crystal will magnify your curing process. Also, eat clean organic foods. Drink lots of water. Meditate daily, walk at least 10,000 steps a day,walk in Nature as often as you can, make art, talk to your Soul and your Higher guides daily, connect with animals, talk to strangers, and buy yourself some flowers. Lastly, take care of your teeth and gums. I recently began this Primal Life Organics 21 Oral Detox is amazing. Click HERE to find out more and to receive a free gift.
Here is to Harmonious Health and Radiant Balance. Let's all age with grace and ease. Realize how beautiful, powerful, magical, and Divine we all are!! The Universe is within you!!

“Yet, at the quantum level, NO part of the body lives apart from the rest. There are no wires holding together the molecules of your arteries, just as there are no visible connections binding together the stars in a galaxy. Yet arteries and galaxies are both securely held together, in a seamless, perfect design. The invisible bonds that you cannot examine under a microscope are quantum in nature; without this "hidden physiology," your visible physiology could not exist. It would never have been more than a random collection of molecules.” ― Deepak Chopra

Any questions about this Harmonia Practice? E-mail me at the [email protected]

See my healing Sigil mandala below.
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Open Your Heart Big, That Is How You Will Heal Yourself And The World

1/9/2019

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An open heart can illuminate the darkest of places


Today on my 10000steps gratitude meditation, I had a big download. This morning I awoke feeling very heavy hearted. So I intentionally grabbed my big rose quartz crystal (this amazing stone embodies unconditional love, forgiveness, and compassion) and mindfully I placed some doterra wild orange essential oils on my temples (wild orange has the holistic benefit of eliciting joy) and then I took off on my 4 mile ocean therapy meditation practice.

I began my practice by connecting with Mother Earth in the Palisades Park. I soulfully see the beauty, spirit, and magic in each tree, every blade grass, and every flower. Then I meditate on my internal world, I focus on each Chakra, cleansing and bringing in bright light within each sacred center. When I begin my walk on the beach, I am a clean slate and I open myself to any messages from Gaia and her gorgeous Nature spirits, my Higher Self, my angels, and my guides. Today, Mama ocean was fierce and captivating. With powerful and giant waves crashing a shore. As I was connecting with gaia consciousness and cosmic consciousness, I imagine I am a bridge between heaven on earth. I envision every single cell in my being, filled with the light of the divine. During this process I had a flash of intuitive insight. A very powerful message. 

I heard to truly heal one must have your heart wide open. We are taught or programmed to shut down heart when we experience pain and heartbreak. Today I was told you must have the courage to live life with an open heart. In this powerful state of being, you heartache will be healed. In turn you can heal the collective shadow, whose heart is protected and shut off. Living from space of an open heart aligns you with the heart beat of the Earth. So much power is yours in this love field. You will receive vast expansion and,love. Imagine a number eight, flowing with love and compassion to your heart from the Earth and the Sky.

Consider what shuts your heart down? For me it is my anxiety, grief, and my fears. I realized to truly heal my wounds, I must open the heart wide. Connecting with telluric heart beat of Gaia and the Cosmos. Opening your heart big heals all wounds. This is where truly healing occurs.

Just like in ancient Egypt believed in the after world your heart would be weighed against Maat's feather of truth. "To reach the eternal paradise of the Field of Reeds, however, one had to pass through the trial by 
Osiris, Lord of the Underworld and just Judge of the Dead, in the Hall of Truth (also known as The Hall of Two Truths), and this trial involved the weighing of one's heart against the feather of truth.The goddess Ma'at, personification of the cultural value of ma'at (harmony and balance) would also be present and these would be surrounded by the Forty-Two Judges who would consult with these gods on one's eternal fate." states The Egyptian After world and the Feather of Truth. While in Egypt I had a dream on our plane ride to Abu Simbel. A voice said I had a very heavy heart filled with wounds.  Over the past ten months, this lightening of my heart has been a transformative process.

The way of the feather is everyday we must open our heart, forgive, let go, surrender, and let the light in. This how we will reach our greatest potential. This how we will connect with strangers from the heart centered place. As intuitive Lee Harris says, "True connection will be what actually saves the planet."

Living from an open heart, this is how will transform our world into better more empathic, benevolent, altruistic, and caring place.

Try it! Today, practice on opening your heart and see what transpires.

Here is a couple Harmonia Practice Tips to Open Your Heart

- Best to do this outside in nature if you can. Then holistically breath into your heart space. Connect with your Heart Chakra as you breath, visual a beautiful green sphere in the middle of your chest, swirling around. There also a wonderful practice called Dolphin Breath, where you mindfully pull your breath from the crown of your head down into your heart. Then you consciously pull up your breath from the crystal core of earth into your heart. Then exhale. Read more about the dolphin breathe HERE.

-Embody self love and compassion in all of your Chakra's.
-Be grateful. Fill yourself up with three things you are thankful for.
-Make deep connections with strangers.
- Incorporate essential oils into this practice. Best ones for the heart are Juniper, Rose, Wild Orange, Sandlewood,
Helichrysum, Chamomile
- Buy rose quartz to mediate with
-Do simple yoga poses to open your heart: Child's Pose, Cobra, Cat Pose, Camel, and Eagle
-While in this state create a mandala of your deepest hearts desire.


#intentionalliving #heartcentered #telluric #field #heartmath

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    Lisa Rasmussen MFA is the Founder and Director of the Harmonia Institute. Lisa Rasmussen—artist, educator, curator, life coach, arts and healing practitioner, and art advocate—believes art can change and heal the world.

    Lisa is the Co-Founder and Practitioner of Artemis Sacred Journeys. Which women's empowerment retreats to Tinos Greece. Rasmussen also served as Executive Director and Co-Founder of Art 4 All People and AY Atelier Art, an international Center for arts and consciousness in Malibu, CA. She is also Co-Founder/Co-Director of the non-profit, Art is Moving and International Art Break Day, an annual community arts event that has been held in the U.S., India, Mexico, and West Africa.

    Rasmussen is an award-winning professional painter, who has been represented in galleries in both San Francisco and Los Angeles. As well as Lisa’s work has been in numerous solo and group exhibits and publications. For her painting is a very visceral, physical, and metaphysical process. Rasmussen’s paintings have been called abstract expressionism, with a spiritual twist. Her paintings reflect her holistic worldview and her deep connection with the natural world. For Rasmussen, art making is a transcendental experience. When she paints, Rasmussen taps into a force greater than herself; a force that creates through her. Each painting is a product of her dance with divinity. Through her process she hopes to invoke in herself and the viewer a deeper connection to the world within and around us through reflection and inspiration. Early on Lisa developed a thirst for travel and distant cultures. A key conceptual element of her artistic process is the study and travel to ancient cultures and sacred sites around the world. Some of her travel adventures include Nepal, Greece, Egypt, Peru, Ireland, and Brazil. She has also lived and taught English in the mountains of South, China, as well as she had studied antiquities, the Art of the Renaissance, and Ceramics in Florence, Italy.

    Rasmussen is also known as a pioneering and passionate arts educator. For many years, she has taught art to residents of under-served, at-risk communities. In 2006, she created the Transformative Art Program at a mental health institute in Oakland, CA for emotionally traumatized youth, ages 5-14. Her art therapy program to create public youth art installations and gallery exhibits garnered awards, grants and media attention.

    Rasmussen worked as a fine arts consultant at the prestigious Merrill Chase Gallery in Chicago and The Weinstein Gallery in San Francisco. She also managed The Red Door Gallery & Collective, a grassroots art-reach gallery in Oakland, CA. Rasmussen earned her BA in Sculpture and Ceramics and her MFA in Arts and Consciousness from John F. Kennedy University in Berkeley, CA. She earned several academic awards, including Graduate Student of the Year, in 2008, and Alumni of the Year, in 2013.

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