Saturday, 14 April 2012

Crystal Arts And Health Blog


Have a happy and blessed 2012.

For those with a Kindle this blog can be located athttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002FQJHC4

New Facebook page for Crystal Arts And Health http://www.facebook.com/pages/Crystal-Arts-And-Health/272894976093686 which now has a shop facility for purchasing products.


Online training courses in Crystal Healing and Herbalism are available athttp://crystalartsandhealth.coggno.com/shop  (Accredited by World Metaphysical Association)

My book Crystal Healing & The Chakra System covers the Chakra system, Crystal identification and uses, making crystal essences and meditation with crystals. Is available as an ebook from http://store.payloadz.com/go/?id=239922  or as a paperbackhttp://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2273371/?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=banner&utm_content=140x240  Also available for iPad/iPhone through Blurb.

My book, Herbal Primer, covers herbal action classification, herbal identification, herbal preparation and recipes, including herbal teas, incense and potpourri. Is available as an ebook from http://store.payloadz.com/go/?id=796359  or as a paperbackhttp://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2298804/?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=banner&utm_content=140x240  Also available for iPad/iPhone through Blurb.

I am an Herbalism and Crystal Healing Practitioner and manufacture Crystal Essence™ products that combine, aromatherapy, herbal products and crystal essences for "Holistic Wellbeing for Auric and Physical Body"

The Pdf of the Spring/Summer Crystal Arts And Health Catalogue will be available soon to be viewed and or downloaded from website http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/  New products from catalogue are available at online shop now at http://shop.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/ A wholesale catalogue is available via email upon request for Traders and Spas.

A new catergory on the online shop is Angel & Fairy.  A collection of angels with Victorian cherub angels in Crystal Essence™ Chocolate & Gold Cherub of Courage and Protection and Crystal Essence™ Sandalwood and Clear quartz Cherub of Abundance and Prosperity and Crystal Essence™ Rose & Rose Quartz Cherub of Love and Harmony. 3-D cherub with hearts angels and Facing Cherubs hand-made soaps are available in Crystal Essence™ Chocolate and Gold, Rose & Rose quartz and Clary Sage and Garnet. Nature fairy scenes are available in Crystal Essence™ Amethyst and Lavender.

Birthday month Faceted Shaped Crystal hand-made soaps like the wedding favour soaps are available. March is Bergamot & Aquamarine in a healing turquoise colour and is associated with the thymus chakra for the immune system. April is Sandalwood & Herkimer Diamond (Crown Chakra) and May is Rose & Rose Quartz (Heart Chakra).

Lovely vintage Victorian and traditional patterned soaps are also now in stock under the Vintage Soaps section on the online shop. These include a Crystal Essence™ Rose Quartz and Rose heart shaped soap, a bed of flowers rectangular soap, a circular happy birthday soap with flowers and an oval lucky pig with a Feng Shui coin. New Crystal Essence™ Rose & Rose Quartz love soaps include a stunning winged cupid, a “For You” heart shaped soap, a delicate cameo shaped soap, a round rose soap, a heart shaped bunch of roses and a lovely square butterfly soap.

A lovely bunch of Daffodils, the symbol of Wales, rectangular soap and a golden Triskele shaped hand-made soaps are available now in Crystal Essence™ Sandalwood & Clear Quartz as well as a golden Ankh shaped hand-made soap. The Ankh was referred to as the Key of Life, or even the cross of life, because of its creative power. The loop of the ankh is considered to be the feminine, whilst the T shape is considered to be the masculine staff. Together, these symbols reflect a continued existence. The Ankh is the Hieroglyphic sign of life.

Right and left facing 3-D white soap swans, a sacred bird of the Celts (and Swansea City Football fans, limited edition black right facing swans are also available) in Crystal Essence™ Carnelian and Orange. Crystal Essence™ Lavender motif rectangular bars and an oval Faith flowers motif hand-made soap are also available new for Spring.

The new category Fire, Water, Earth Dragons & Phoenix include for the Year of the Water Dragon 2012 Crystal Essence™ Bergamot & Aquamarine rectangular embossed Dragon hand-made soaps.  Naelyan (pronounced nail-yon) is the dragon lord of the waters. This water drake is turquoise in colour and is associated with spells of compassion, peace, forgiveness, intuition and peace of mind. Fire Drake Crystal Essence™ hand-made soaps include Crystal Essence™  Clary Sage and Garnet and Crystal Essence™ Orange and Carnelian. Fire Drakes assist in spells of protection, passion, prosperity, manifestations of goals and transformation. A stunning Crystal Essence™ Clary Sage and Garnet Welsh Fire Dragon motif hand-made soap is available now. A circular Clary Sage & Garnet Phoenix Handmade soap is also available.  The Dragon and Phoenix are often pictured together as the Dragon is Yang and Phoenix is Yin in balance.  A green dragon Crystal Essence™ Jade and Peppermint is also available.  Green Earth Dragons are associated with rituals of peace, fertility, money, prosperity, business activity, stability and growth. The above Crystal Essence™ Fire, Water and Earth Dragon range is also now available in a stunning Fly Dragon with a pearl of knowledge figurine hand-made soap.

Aromatherapy Ostara (20th March 2012) beeswax melts feature a healing combination of rose, violet, frankincense and orange. Beltaine (30th April 2012) beeswax melts feature Frankincense, Sandalwood, Rose, Jasmine and Neroli. Crystal Essence™ Olive embossed olive handmade soaps and adorable beehive skep shaped honey base soaps are featured in the Spring/Summer Catalogue. Crystal Essence™ Peppermint and Jade Celtic Circular embossed Triquetra and Triskele shaped hand-made soaps are available as well as a stunning rectangular Tree of Life Soap as part of the Celtic collection. Celtic crosses are now available in Crystal Essence™ Sandalwood & Clear Quartz. Traditionally this Celtic symbol has represented the bridge or passage between heaven and earth. The four arms represent the four elements of fire, earth, air, water. The ring in the center of the Celtic cross is a Celtic symbol of infinite love, specifically, the endlessness of God's love.

There is also a new category of products called Festival Handmade Soaps that include wellie shaped Crystal Essence™ Chakra Balance Aloe Vera Rose & Mint for normal hair, Tea Tree & Mint for oily hair and Avocado & Lavender for dry hair solid shampoo soaps.  Cheery flower hand-made soaps are available in Crystal Essence™ Sandalwood & Clear Quartz (Yellow, Crown Chakra), Rose & Rose Quartz (Pink, Heart Chakra) and Chamomile & Sodalite (Blue, Throat Chakra). Mini-massage Peppermint & Jade hand-made soap and Musical Note embossed circular soaps are uplifting and useful for sore muscles and feet.  VW Camper soaps are available in Crystal Essence™ Peppermint & Jade (Green) and Rose & Rose Quartz (Pink).  Both Jade and Rose Quartz are associated with love and relationships. 

The Crystal Essence™ range also include shaving soaps, solid shampoo soaps, and baby products, colognes, perfumes including the new Crystal Essence™ Everlasting Rose Quartz perfume including gift card size 2 ml perfume cards and make-ups. There are also lots of new fun shapes for soaps, perfect for gift bags and wedding and event favours. Crystal Essence Crystal Essence™ Chrysanthemum shaped handmade soaps makes a nice house warming or host/hostess gift. In Feng Shui Chrysanthemum brings laughter and happiness into the home. We also have a good luck 3-D Golden Feng Shui kitty in Sandalwood and clear quartz. The herbal Gardening Soap is a year-round favourite, with white maize, pumice and clay it gets hands super clean and moisturizers at the same time with a lovely orange essential oil scent. The gardening soap is available in a lovely rectangular gardening motif shape with a watering can, dragon fly and daisies as well as an oval shaped hand-made soap.

Aromatherapy oils and incense are available on the online shop with Litha oil (20th June 2012), with Chamomile, Sandalwood, Rose and Lavender, the combination promotes health, love and prosperity. Hand blended Beltane (30th April 2012) incense, used in handfasting rituals and house blessing incense are also available. Hand-made beeswax melts available in uplifting Bergamont and Orange, Calming Rose and Lavender and summer time Citronella. A protective and motivating Imbolc (1st of February) blend Wax melts with Myrrh, Basil and Cinnamon is also available. Heart shaped massage candles with Patchouli, Lavender and Eucalyptus are available. These make a lovely gift for special occasions. 

Be sure to also check out the herbal teas available like Pleasant Dreams, Less Stress and an especially suitable for a Beltaine treat “Lover’s Tea” a recipe by Witch Bree (Love Spells Deck 36 Spells for Romance and Passion) with Hibiscus flowers, rosehips, lemon balm, mint and meadowsweet under the Herbal Products section on the online shop. Please note the Baldwins health notes pages for interactions with other medicines and conditions.

Check out the 10% off paycodes coupon for paypal purchases. Code is t2e6g When using online shop basket when the total amount is known, go to paycode link, put in code, click general unless ebay purchase, the amount due and shipping and then you will be redirected to paypal checkout where the 10% will be taken off purchase price

Crystal Healing

Squidoo lens about crystal healing and the chakra system




Lunar Crystals

The moon represents emotion and powerful instincts, patterns, ancestral and karmic inheritances. For all moon signs it is recommended to meditate with a bloodstone at the full moon to uncover hidden unfulfilled desires that are controlling your life.

It is possible to reprogram patterns of behavior and facilitate healthy sources of nurturing.

Earth healing or electromagnetic pollution blocker

Place a Brown Aragonite, Black Tourmaline, Smoky Quartz or Selenite at each of the four corners of your property or in any room that feels particularly affected by adverse energy and leave in place permanently.  Dowse to see whether additional placements are necessary.

Crystal Prescriptions, Judy Hall

Herbalism

Article on Radiation

Herbal Articles by Cara E Moore


"These are the things I know: You always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder, plant rosemary at your gate, keep lavender for luck and fall in love whenever possible." ~Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic http://www.alicehoffman.com/hoffman-bio.htm

Useful herb resource for vitamin and herb interactions:


Orris Root (Iris florentina)

Used as a remedy for sore throats, colds, mild diuretic, has a violet-like scent and is used as a fixative for incense.  It is a natural breath freshener, used in toothpastes, strengthens gums. 

Herbal Primer by Cara E. Moore

Yoga


The two forces of mind and prana maintain the rhythm of life and consciousness. Everything in the universe is evolving. Matter in its ultimate form is energy. The goal of yoga is to turn the body into solid energy. – Hatha Yoga Pradipika

Namaste means “the divinity within me salutes the divinity within you.”

http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/476

Benefits:  Calms the brain and helps relieve mild depression, Stretches the spine, shoulders, hamstrings, and groins, Stimulates the liver and kidneys, Improves digestion, Helps relieve the symptoms of menopause, Relieves anxiety, fatigue, headache, menstrual discomfort, Therapeutic for high blood pressure, insomnia, and sinusitis, Strengthens the back muscles during pregnancy (up to second trimester), done without coming forward, keeping your back spine concave and front torso long. 

Contraindications and Cautions: Asthma, Diarrhea, Knee injury: Don't flex the injured knee completely and support it on a folded blanket.

Head-to-Knee Forward Bend

Janu Sirsasana
 (JAH-new shear-SHAHS-anna)
janu = knee
sirsa = head
Step by Step

Sit on the floor with your buttocks lifted on a folded blanket and your legs straight in front of you. Inhale, bend your right knee, and draw the heel back toward your perineum. Rest your right foot sole lightly against your inner left thigh, and lay the outer right leg on the floor, with the shin at a right angle to the left leg (if your right knee doesn't rest comfortably on the floor, support it with a folded blanket).

Press your right hand against the inner right groin, where the thigh joins the pelvis, and your left hand on the floor beside the hip. Exhale and turn the torso slightly to the left, lifting the torso as you push down on and ground the inner right thigh. Line up your navel with the middle of the left thigh. You can just stay here, using a strap to help you lengthen the spine evenly, grounding through the sitting bones.

Or, when you are ready, you can drop the strap and reach out with your right hand to take the inner left foot, thumb on the sole. Inhale and lift the front torso, pressing the top of the left thigh into the floor and extending actively through the left heel. Use the pressure of the left hand on the floor to increase the twist to the left. Then reach your left hand to the outside of the foot. With the arms fully extended, lengthen the front torso from the pubis to the top of the sternum.
Exhale and extend forward from the groins, not the hips. Be sure not to pull yourself forcefully into the forward bend, hunching the back and shortening the front torso. As you descend, bend your elbows out to the sides and lift them away from the floor.

Lengthen forward into a comfortable stretch. The lower belly should touch the thighs first, the head last. Stay in the pose anywhere from 1 to 3 minutes. Come up with an inhalation and repeat the instructions with the legs reversed for the same length of time.

Poetry

Horizon’s Place And Time Meet by Cara E. Moore Chapbook


Paperback version of Horizon’s Place And Time Meet


For ebook download Direct link http://store.payloadz.com/go/?id=25453

Dove Beach by Matthew Arnold
The sea is calm tonight.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits; on the French coast the light
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,
Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Come to the window, sweet is the night air!
Only, from the long line of spray
Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land,
Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
The eternal note of sadness in.

Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the Ægæan, and it brought
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
Of human misery; we
Find also in the sound a thought,
Hearing it by this distant northern sea.

The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night. 

Music

Cara E. Moore

Vocal Training


Billy Joel

She's Always A Woman Lyrics
By: Joel Billy
From the album:
Greatest Hits Volume I

She can kill with a smile
She can wound with her eyes
She can ruin your faith with her casual lies
And she only reveals what she wants you to see
She hides like a child
But she's always a woman to me

She can lead you to love
She can take you or leave you
She can ask for the truth
But she'll never believe you
And she'll take what you give her, as long as it's free
She steals like a thief
But she's always a woman to me

Chorus

Oh-she takes care of herself
She can wait if she wants
She's ahead of her time
Oh-and she never gives out
And she never gives in
She just changes her mind

And she'll promise you more
Than the garden of eden
Then she'll carelessly cut you
And laugh while you're bleedin'
But she'll bring out the best
And the worst you can be
Blame it all on yourself
Cause she's always a woman to me

Chorus

She is frequently kind
And she's suddenly cruel
She can do as she pleases
She's nobody's fool
But she can't be convicted
She's earned her degree
And the most she will do
Is throw shadows at you
But she's always a woman to me

Friday, 6 April 2012

Crystal Arts And Health Blog


Have a happy and blessed 2012.
Happy Easter
For those with a Kindle this blog can be located at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002FQJHC4

New Facebook page for Crystal Arts And Health http://www.facebook.com/pages/Crystal-Arts-And-Health/272894976093686 which now has a shop facility for purchasing products.


Online training courses in Crystal Healing and Herbalism are available at http://crystalartsandhealth.coggno.com/shop  (Accredited by World Metaphysical Association)

My book Crystal Healing & The Chakra System covers the Chakra system, Crystal identification and uses, making crystal essences and meditation with crystals. Is available as an ebook from http://store.payloadz.com/go/?id=239922  or as a paperback http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2273371/?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=banner&utm_content=140x240  Also available for iPad/iPhone through Blurb.

My book, Herbal Primer, covers herbal action classification, herbal identification, herbal preparation and recipes, including herbal teas, incense and potpourri. Is available as an ebook from http://store.payloadz.com/go/?id=796359  or as a paperback http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2298804/?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=banner&utm_content=140x240  Also available for iPad/iPhone through Blurb.

I am an Herbalism and Crystal Healing Practitioner and manufacture Crystal Essence™ products that combine, aromatherapy, herbal products and crystal essences for "Holistic Wellbeing for Auric and Physical Body"

The Pdf of the Spring/Summer Crystal Arts And Health Catalogue will be available soon to be viewed and or downloaded from website http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/  New products from catalogue are available at online shop now http://shop.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/ A wholesale catalogue is available via email upon request for Traders and Spas.

See http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/  for the Spring/Summer 2012 Catalogue and for the new products in the e-shop. A collection of angels with Victorian cherub angels in Crystal Essence™ Chocolate & Gold Cherub of Courage and Protection and Crystal Essence™ Sandalwood and Clear quartz Cherub of Abundance and Prosperity and Crystal Essence™ Rose & Rose Quartz Cherub of Love and Harmony. 3-D cherub with hearts angels and Facing Cherubs hand-made soaps are available in Crystal Essence™ Chocolate and Gold, Rose & Rose quartz and Clary Sage and Garnet. Nature fairy scenes are available in Crystal Essence™ Amethyst and Lavender.

New large Crystal shaped soaps like the wedding favour soaps in birthday month crystals. March is Bergamot & Aquamarine in a healing turquoise colour and is associated with the thymus chakra for the immune system. April is Sandalwood & Herkimer Diamond (Crown Chakra) and May is Rose & Rose Quartz (Heart Chakra). Lovely vintage Victorian and traditional patterned soaps are also now in stock under the Vintage Soaps section on the online shop. These include a Crystal Essence™ Rose Quartz and Rose heart shaped soap, a bed of flowers rectangular soap, a circular happy birthday soap with flowers and an oval lucky pig with a Feng Shui coin. New Crystal Essence™ Rose & Rose Quartz love soaps include a stunning winged cupid, a “For You” heart shaped soap, a delicate cameo shaped soap, a round rose soap, a heart shaped bunch of roses and a lovely square butterfly soap.

For the new Spring/Summer 2012 catalogue a lovely bunch of Daffodils, the symbol of Wales, rectangular soap and a golden Triskele shaped hand-made soaps are available now in Crystal Essence™ Sandalwood & Clear Quartz as well as a golden Ankh shaped hand-made soap. The Ankh was referred to as the Key of Life, or even the cross of life, because of its creative power. The loop of the ankh is considered to be the feminine, whilst the T shape is considered to be the masculine staff. Together, these symbols reflect a continued existence. The Ankh is the Hieroglyphic sign of life.

Right and left facing 3-D white soap swans, a sacred bird of the Celts (and Swansea City Football fans, limited edition black right facing swans are also available) in Crystal Essence™ Carnelian and Orange. Crystal Essence™ Lavender motif rectangular bars and an oval Faith flowers motif hand-made soap are also available new for Spring.

For the Year of the Water Dragon 2012 Crystal Essence™ Bergamot & Aquamarine rectangular embossed Dragon hand-made soaps are now available. Naelyan (pronounced nail-yon) is the dragon lord of the waters. This water drake is turquoise in colour and is associated with spells of compassion, peace, forgiveness, intuition and peace of mind. Fire Drake Crystal Essence™ hand-made soaps include Clary Sage and Garnet and Crystal Essence™ and Orange and Carnelian. Fire Drakes assist in spells of protection, passion, prosperity, manifestations of goals and transformation. A green dragon Crystal Essence™ Jade and Peppermint is also now available. Green Earth Dragons are associated with rituals of peace, fertility, money, prosperity, business activity, stability and growth. A Crystal Essence™ Clary Sage and Garnet and Crystal Essence™ Welsh Dragon motif hand-made soap. The above Crystal Essence™ Fire, Water and Earth Dragon range is also now available in a stunning Dragon with a pearl of knowledge figurine hand-made soap.

Aromatherapy Ostara (20th March 2012) beeswax melts feature a healing combination of rose, violet, frankincense and orange. Beltaine (30th April 2012) beeswax melts feature Frankincense, Sandalwood, Rose, Jasmine and Neroli. Crystal Essence™ Olive embossed olive handmade soaps and adorable bee skep shaped honey base soaps are featured in the Spring/Summer Catalogue. Crystal Essence™ Peppermint and Jade Celtic Circular embossed Triquetra and Triskele shaped hand-made soaps are available as well as a stunning rectangular Tree of Life Soap as part of the Celtic collection. Celtic crosses are now available in Crystal Essence™ Sandalwood & Clear Quartz. Traditionally this Celtic symbol has represented the bridge or passage between heaven and earth. The four arms represent the four elements of fire, earth, air, water. The ring in the center of the Celtic cross is a Celtic symbol of infinite love, specifically, the endlessness of God's love.

The Crystal Essence™ range also include shaving soaps, solid shampoo soaps, and baby products, colognes, perfumes including the new Crystal Essence™ Everlasting Rose Quartz perfume including gift card size 2 ml perfume cards and make-ups. There are also lots of new fun shapes for soaps, perfect for gift bags and wedding and event favours. Crystal Essence Crystal Essence™ Chrysanthemum shaped handmade soaps makes a nice house warming or host/hostess gift. In Feng Shui Chrysanthemum brings laughter and happiness into the home. We also have a good luck 3-D Golden Feng Shui kitty in Sandalwood and clear quartz. The herbal Gardening Soap is a year-round favourite, with white maize, pumice and clay it gets hands super clean and moisturizers at the same time with a lovely orange essential oil scent. The gardening soap is available in a lovely rectangular gardening motif shape with a watering can, dragon fly and daisies as well as an oval shaped hand-made soap.

Aromatherapy oils and incense are available on the online shop with Litha oil (20th June 2012), with Chamomile, Sandalwood, Rose and Lavender, the combination promotes health, love and prosperity. Hand blended Beltane (30th April 2012) incense, used in handfasting rituals and house blessing incense are also available. Hand-made beeswax melts available in uplifting Bergamont and Orange, Calming Rose and Lavender and summer time Citronella. A protective and motivating Imbolc (1st of February) blend Wax melts with Myrrh, Basil and Cinnamon is also available. Heart shaped massage candles with Patchouli, Lavender and Eucalyptus are available. These make a lovely gift for special occasions. 
Be sure to also check out the herbal teas available like Pleasant Dreams, Less Stress and an especially suitable for a Beltaine treat “Lover’s Tea” a recipe by Witch Bree (Love Spells Deck 36 Spells for Romance and Passion) with Hibiscus flowers, rosehips, lemon balm, mint and meadowsweet under the Herbal Products section on the online shop. Please note the Baldwins health notes pages for interactions with other medicines and conditions.
Check out the 10% off paycodes coupon for paypal purchases. Code is t2e6g When using online shop basket when the total amount is known, go to paycode link, put in code, click general unless ebay purchase, the amount due and shipping and then you will be redirected to paypal checkout where the 10% will be taken off purchase price

Crystal Healing
Squidoo lens about crystal healing and the chakra system


Lunar Crystals

The moon represents emotion and powerful instincts, patterns, ancestral and karmic inheritances. For all moon signs it is recommended to meditate with a bloodstone at the full moon to uncover hidden unfulfilled desires that are controlling your life.

It is possible to reprogram patterns of behavior and facilitate healthy sources of nurturing.

Emotional or Mental Soother

Sit holding an appropriate crystal, placed against the chakra connected to the problem while concentrating on breathing deeply and evenly.  Picture the troublesome emotion or mental problem flowing into the earth beneath your feet and being replaced by soothing energy from the crystal.

Emotional stones include pink stones, Lapis lazuli and, rose quartz.

Crystal Prescriptions, Judy Hall

Herbalism
Article on Radiation

Herbal Articles by Cara E Moore
"These are the things I know: You always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder, plant rosemary at your gate, keep lavender for luck and fall in love whenever possible." ~Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic http://www.alicehoffman.com/hoffman-bio.htm

Useful herb resource for vitamin and herb interactions:


Olive Leaf (Olea europaea)
Antiseptic, astringent, lowers fever, blood pressure, calming, used to treat kidney function. Antioxidant, used in heart and circulatory treatments.  Leaf is drunk as a tea.  Used to treat chronic fatigue, as an anti-viral and for colic .  Dosage:  Pour a cup of boiling water onto 1-2 tsp of dried herb, infuse for 10-15 minutes, drink x 3 a day.  Externally olive oil is used as a carrier oil for herbs, such as balm of gilead and essential oils or for infused culinary oils.
Herbal Primer by Cara E. Moore

Yoga
The two forces of mind and prana maintain the rhythm of life and consciousness. Everything in the universe is evolving. Matter in its ultimate form is energy. The goal of yoga is to turn the body into solid energy. – Hatha Yoga Pradipika

Namaste means "the divinity within me salutes the divinity within you."



Intuition Meditation

Dhyana

  1. When you want to understand something or make a decision, ask for guidance, and then experiment with following the guidance you receive. Here is a process to use that can really make a difference in your ability to hear what your deeper Self wants to tell you.
  2. Spend some time formulating your question, getting as clear as possible about it. Write it down. (This is important-the act of writing concretizes your question or issue.) You could start by asking for help in resolving a creative problem, problematic relationship, or living situation. You could ask for insight about your practice or about an inner tendency that disturbs you.
  3. Sit comfortably with your back erect but not rigid and your eyes closed. Hold the question in your mind. Say it to yourself a few times and notice the feelings that arise when you do. Notice any thoughts that come up, including resistance to the process. Jot them down if they seem important or relevant.
  4. Use the rhythm of the breath as an anchor. Keep your attention on the breath until the mind relaxes and becomes quieter.
  5. Sink your attention deeper. You can do this by focusing on the heart center (in the middle of the chest) or on the belly center (three inches below the navel, deep inside the body). Or you can use a visualization: Imagine yourself descending a staircase into a quiet cave, moving step-by-step until you find yourself enclosed in quiet.
  6. In this quiet space, ask the sage within you, the person of wisdom who resides in your deepest core, to be present. Or, if there is a particular deity form or teacher or sage you respect, you might ask that being to be present. Alternatively, you might simply have the feeling that you are asking guidance from the universe, the Tao, the source of all. Understand that it is enough to ask that inner wisdom be present.
  7. Ask your question. Then wait silently, without expectation or discouragement, to see what emerges. Remember that insight does not always come in words. It might come as a feeling, an image, or something said by another person. Also, it might not come the moment you ask for it. Intuition emerges in its own time. Once you have seeded the question, be attentive during the next 24 to 48 hours, because answers to your question will arise.
  8. As insights come, write them down. Hold each one in your mind and let it percolate. See what comes up and note the feelings. You may be drawn to interpreting the insight, but it is also enough just to hold it in your consciousness. As you do, it will create shifts in consciousness all by itself. Note that if your insight feels judgmental, punishing, or blaming, it is probably not coming from your deepest source.
  9. Finally, think of a step you can take to put your insight into action. Here is where the real experiment begins. The only way to learn to follow your intuitive guidance is to try it and be very aware of the results.
Poetry

Horizon’s Place And Time Meet by Cara E. Moore Chapbook


Paperback version of Horizon’s Place And Time Meet:
Ode to Beauty by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who gave thee, O Beauty!
The keys of this breast,
Too credulous lover
Of blest and unblest?
Say when in lapsed ages
Thee knew I of old;
Or what was the service
For which I was sold?
When first my eyes saw thee,
I found me thy thrall,
By magical drawings,
Sweet tyrant of all!
I drank at thy fountain
False waters of thirst;
Thou intimate stranger,
Thou latest and first!
Thy dangerous glances
Make women of men;
New-born we are melting
Into nature again.
Lavish, lavish promiser,
Nigh persuading gods to err,
Guest of million painted forms
Which in turn thy glory warms,
The frailest leaf, the mossy bark,
The acorn's cup, the raindrop's arc,
The swinging spider's silver line,
The ruby of the drop of wine,
The shining pebble of the pond,
Thou inscribest with a bond
In thy momentary play
Would bankrupt Nature to repay.

Ah! what avails it
To hide or to shun
Whom the Infinite One
Hath granted his throne?
The heaven high over
Is the deep's lover,
The sun and sea
Informed by thee,
Before me run,
And draw me on,
Yet fly me still,
As Fate refuses
To me the heart Fate for me chooses,
Is it that my opulent soul
Was mingled from the generous whole,
Sea valleys and the deep of skies
Furnished several supplies,
And the sands whereof I'm made
Draw me to them self-betrayed?
I turn the proud portfolios
Which hold the grand designs
Of Salvator, of Guercino,
And Piranesi's lines.
I hear the lofty Pæans
Of the masters of the shell,
Who heard the starry music,
And recount the numbers well:
Olympian bards who sung
Divine Ideas below,
Which always find us young,
And always keep us so.
Oft in streets or humblest places
I detect far wandered graces,
Which from Eden wide astray
In lowly homes have lost their way.

Thee gliding through the sea of form,
Like the lightning through the storm,
Somewhat not to be possessed,
Somewhat not to be caressed,
No feet so fleet could ever find,
No perfect form could ever bind.
Thou eternal fugitive
Hovering over all that live,
Quick and skilful to inspire
Sweet extravagant desire,
Starry space and lily bell
Filling with thy roseate smell,
Wilt not give the lips to taste
Of the nectar which thou hast.

All that's good and great with thee
Stands in deep conspiracy.
Thou hast bribed the dark and lonely
To report thy features only,
And the cold and purple morning
Itself with thoughts of thee adorning,
The leafy dell, the city mart,
Equal trophies of thine art,
E'en the flowing azure air
Thou hast touched for my despair,
And if I languish into dreams,
Again I meet the ardent beams.
Queen of things! I dare not die
In Being's deeps past ear and eye,
Lest there I find the same deceiver,
And be the sport of Fate forever.
Dread power, but dear! if God thou be,
Unmake me quite, or give thyself to me. 

Music

Cara E. Moore



Alanis Morissette

Hand in My Pocket
I'm broke but I'm happy
I'm poor but I'm kind
I'm short but I'm healthy, yeah
I'm high but I'm grounded
I'm sane but I'm overwhelmed
I'm lost but I'm hopeful baby

What it all comes down to
Is that everything's gonna be fine fine fine
I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is giving a high five

I feel drunk but I'm sober
I'm young and I'm underpaid
I'm tired but I'm working, yeah
I care but I'm restless
I'm here but I'm really gone
I'm wrong and I'm sorry baby

What it all comes down to
Is that everything's gonna be quite alright
I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is flicking a cigarette

(Harmonica solo)

What it all comes down to
Is that I haven't got it all figured out just yet
I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is giving the peace sign

I'm free but I'm focused
I'm green but I'm wise
I'm hard but I'm friendly baby
I'm sad but I'm laughing
I'm brave but I'm chicken 
I'm sick but I'm pretty baby

And what it all boils down to
Is that no one's really got it figured out just yet
I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is playing the piano

What it all comes down to my friends
Is that everything's just fine, fine, fine
I've got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is hailing a taxicab...

(Harmonica fade out)