Balancing Qualities:
Like the flower its self, this essence is able to bring together bits of information into a whole, thus  focusing and clearing the mind when feeling scattered and chaotic. It also helps one be honest in expressing personal truths in a healthy, gentle way, thus healing unexpressed anger and depression harmoniously. This can heal relationships and bring balance, vitality and joy to one’s life.

Indications:
Helps to release suppressed and repressed emotions, gently. It is also helpful for those who have difficulty focusing their mind and become scattered in their thinking and speaking.  These people are often unable to say no and stand up for themselves. Useful for those who hold in their feelings, letting them fester, and causing a build up of anger and /or depression. They may have been abused or restricted in a harsh way previously. Indicated for those who are highly sensitive, highly gifted people, who can easily be confused or overwhelmed, even those with autistic or Alzheimer tendencies can be helped.

Balancing Qualities: 
This essence is able to stabilize one’s anxiety and bring one to deep inner peace, even when there is outer turmoil. It helps to bring traumatic aspects of life previously held in the subconscious about the past to current consciousness and understanding. This allows an opening to a higher perspective and an understanding of how the specific events can actually have been a benefit. It fills one with a deep remembering of the past, bringing in this higher perspective which relieves stress naturally.  It opens the mental body, expanding its reality and allowing connections that are more in sync with one’s innate nature. The soul senses a deep connection with the past which reduces its anxiety about the future. This allows an opening to a more joyous experience of life.

Indications:
For those who have anxiety about the future and may exhibit shallow breathing as a result. These people often show nervous agitation, worry and uneasiness when facing coming challenging events. Feeling lost, alone and helpless are often symptoms plaguing the person. They may have been deprived of love as a child and appear as a lost child as an adult, having never felt fulfilled. There are usually buried negative emotions as anger and confusion about one’s present life, often hidden.

Balancing Qualities: 
This essence helps balance one’s body and surroundings and energy fields from the effects of radiation and electrical smog. It also releases trapped disharmony and conflict, whether internal or in one’s environment,  having a psychic cleansing effect. It makes life feel “right” and whole again, lifting agitation and scattered thinking. It radiates strong vibrations of protection and thus is calming and harmonizing. It continually transforms negative energies and discord into positive white light energy in one’s inner and outer environments and keeps one’s inner light alive for positive expression . It expands one’s consciousness and belief system. No wonder it is called “Peace Lily”. Every home would do well to have a plant as well!

Indications:
For those who spend a lot of time around computers and cell phones or even fluorescent lights and electrical appliances and are affected by that energy and for those undergoing radiation or chemotherapy,.  Also for those feeling or sensing  undefined negative energies in one’s house or other living space. The effects may be subtle or strong and directly related to the environment one is in. This may appear as scattered thoughts and inner feelings of discord or disharmony, exhaustion….and many other physical symptoms.

Balancing Qualities:
This essence establishes the foundation and stability for intuitive ideas and inspiration coming in to be activated more easily in one’s life. It opens one to a knowing that as the old ways disappear, new opportunities manifest. It helps one hold contradiction and paradox through larger heart understandings. One develops compassion and vision to love one’s enemies. It helps develop courage to face large shifts personally, as well as in society and be able to address violence, evil and adversity with love and compassion. It brings right relationship with Nature, knowing that cooperation, not domination, brings right and responsible action. It moves one beyond judgment to right alignment, pointing the way toward peace without compromising personal values. It encourages commitment to right relationship to all of life.

Indications:
For those who are fearful and tense and afraid of loss. They may be trauma survivors who are holding onto old, outdated patterns of survival and beliefs. These people often have narrow, judgmental views of themselves, others and the world. They may have difficulty acting on intuitive guidance, and may seem spaced out because of it. Their focus is self centered.

Balancing Qualities:
This is a very effective essence to enhance physical and emotional relaxation. It is supporting to frayed nerves and helps mitigate cravings and withdrawal symptoms from tobacco, caffeine and drugs. It increases awareness of one’s intuitive responses and enhances empathy. It strengthens the body soul connection, helping the soul be fully embodied. Practitioners can use it to stimulate meridians and the crown chakra.  It increases psychic healing abilities in both the client and practitioner. It can be a helpful essence for use during intentional out-of-body journeys.

Indications:
For feeling beside one’s self,  not “all there” vacant, unsettled in one’s body, feeling adrift. These feeling may have been caused by shock, trauma, or extreme stress. It also can be from  spiritual overexpansion, going out of the body and not being able to completely come back. Headaches may also be present. Others may experience the person as being “not all here”.

Indications:
For goose bump type fears of this world or otherworldly fears, fear of the afterlife, or excessive worry. Also for waking up in the middle of the night either from a dream or being startled and not being able to go back to sleep. May also have a tendency to doubt one’s self or self sabotage.

Balancing Qualities:
This essence has the ability to lift the spirits bringing in joy and a carefree attitude with the ability to be comfortable in the here and now. It helps one feel protected in the body, bringing a sense of well being. It can help one understand dreams of things not dealt with. It connects one to higher sources of knowledge and wisdom from the divine. It expands consciousness when one seems to be in information overload and short-circuited. It anchors in new frequencies, assisting with the mechanics of change, thus easing discomfort during growth cycles.

Balancing Qualities:
Balancing yin/yang energies, encouraging group harmony, cooperation and relaxation. Enhances consideration and awareness of needs of others and the group as a whole. Encourages developing community. It is a bridge building essence, between people and in community. It also aids in protection of all kinds. These deeper issues are brought into awareness. Locust has a beautiful aroma and large thorns, indications of its gifts.

Indications:
Not feeling safe, subject to attack from others. May feel other’s anger or other negativity directed at one, sometimes intentionally and sometimes without the other person knowing the impact. Feeling vulnerable to attack or undesired attention ie, being smothered, or feeling stalked. One may feel seriously depleted without a known cause. There can be a form of psychic attack or interference. This may also come from one’s own inflexible or uncompromising attitude as well as an assertiveness that overrides others.

Balancing Qualities: 
This essence helps one be able to look at the bright side and not be caught in the drama of a situation or in difficult circumstances. It helps one step back and look at a situation without being attached. It allows one to take a look at other perspectives with different outcomes. It encourages joy and gratitude and insight into the learning experiences gained.  It supports an easy going attitude and reminds us to “go with the flow”.

Indications:
For those who get themselves caught in daily difficulties, feeling frustrated, discouraged or depressed and unable or unwilling to see other perspectives to a situation.

Balancing Qualities:
Yucca helps shed light on one’s life issues and breaks from old dysfunctional patterns. It then frees us from feeling chronically overwhelmed so that we can live our own lives engaged with purpose and passion. Use of this essence allows one to take personal responsibility, to clear out the old stagnating emotions and to move forward with joy and forgiveness, thereby attracting positive life experiences. Brings in compassion for one’s family and culture.

Indications:
Difficulty breaking free of family or cultural patterns of dysfunction, ie addictions, alcoholism, depression, illnesses. Lack of insight regarding these patterns causes a feeling of victimization and resentment. This often begins in early childhood when one feels a lack of control and then becomes engrained. This obscures the big picture and then causes repetitive negative patterns.

Balancing Qualities:
This essence supports emotional strength, balance and stability. It increases visionary powers and provides access to higher thinking. It
can help us fly while still being in touch with the earth. It intensifies one’s life force, stimulating buried or hidden creativity, new ideas, and inspirations to bring in one’s creative life purpose. It strengthens and deepens one’s connection to the mysteries of Nature, providing grounding, especially during times of anxiety and tension. It strengthens communication with the spirit world as well as with other people, bringing in vital information in an organized sequential form. It also brings in the energy to carry out new ideas.  It has a physical aspect that helps eliminate bacteria, viruses, candida, mold, parasites as well as metal toxicity and chemical poisons.

Indications:
For individuals who can become tense, anxious and high strung even to the point of seeming neurotic and unstable. There are often conditions of the stomach and intestines, ie. nervous stomach, indigestion, gastritis, Crohn’s or food allergies and inflammation which exacerbate the situation. One seems cut off for his/her higher knowing, being caught in the mundane.