Blue Moon -  Love of Life
This essence reconnects you with your life - from being an observer to being a joyful participant.

It helps you open your heart to the present moment, and feel love for yourself and those around you.

It changes annoyance to enjoyment.It helps you see the beauty and awe of life and existence.

Take Blue Moon when you feel cranky, apathetic, fed up with yourself and the world.

Taken first thing in the morning, it helps you fully awaken to the beautiful day.

(Blue Moon was created from flowers blooming under the full moon / blue moon of Dec. 31, 2009)

Carolina Jessamine - Fun in the World       

This essence encourages you to be more passionate, exuberant, outgoing and energized.

It helps you move comfortably in any social situation, and have a good time.

Take it before going to a party or giving a performance.

It helps you reach out and interact with others.

Excellent for shy, low-energy people.

Jade Plant (Crassula) - Support in Tough Times   

This essence helps you endure tough times, physically and emotionally. It helps you keep putting one foot in front of the other, knowing that one day it will be over.

Jade Plant supports you through the darkness, and helps you celebrate when the struggle is over. It holds the energy of the light at the end of the tunnel, and reminds you that the tunnel is not to be feared, but is just part of the cycle of life. It also helps you store up light in preparation for your next journey through the tunnel.

Take Jade Plant when you are feeling drained by a long physical or emotional struggle, or when you fear that the struggle will never end.

Good while preparing for marathons or other feats of physical endurance.

Also supportive during divorce, bereavement, infertility, chronic illness and other challenges. 

Lion’s Tail (Leonitis leonurus) - Mental Focus    

This essence promotes clarity and clear-thinking at times of intense mental focus.

It helps maintain a perspective of the whole while keeping track of minutia.

Great for accountants, lawyers, editors and those in similar professions.

It is very grounding. Take it to re-connect to the earth after periods of mental-level activity. When you are grounded you will feel re-energized.

It clears radiation from your aura, so take a few drops after spending time on the computer or cell phone. It can clear computer headaches.

Marguerite (Euryops Pectinatus) -  Inner Guidance         

This essence connects you to your inner guidance so you can be in harmony with your true self. It helps you find your center and magnify your golden glow so you can find it easy to be guided by your inner light.

When you are in touch with your inner guidance, you can move forward confidently, and live your life in the world with harmony and purpose.

Whatever is working well in your life, this essence enhances.

Take it when you are feeling disconnected from yourself, or off track in your life. Or when you just want a boost.

Summer Solstice  -  Visioning         

This essence realigns your kundalini energy, raising fire and opening your third eye in a gentle yet powerful fashion.

It’s good for dreaming, visioning, long-range planning, creative projects, divination.

Now is the beginning of a long, hot summer -- a good time to vision what you want to harvest in the fall.

(This essence was created from flowers blooming on the Summer Solstice, June 21, 2010.)

Vernal Equinox - Balance         

This essence balances the inner and the outer, the yin and the yang, the active and the receptive.

Take it when you feel out of balance -- too busy or not busy enough, too anxious or too lethargic. Take it when you are spending all your time on one project and neglecting the rest of your life.

It’s also good for addictions. It helps you return to center so the addictions have less power.

(This essence was created from flowers blooming on the Vernal Equinox, Mar. 20, 2010.)

Winter Solstice - Centering in Your Heart       

This essence helps you look within, to find the peace, love, or turmoil in your heart, and to be with it. Be with your inner feelings, those parts of you that are too vulnerable to let out into the cruel light of day.

This essence helps you hold these inner feelings, and love them, and honor them, until it is time to put them away and face another day in the bright sunshine.

If you have been wearing a mask in public for so long that you have lost track of who you are, take this essence to help you get back to you.

Take this essence when you want to explore your inner feelings -- whether in journalling or therapy.

(This essence was created from flowers blooming during the shortest day of the year, Dec. 21, 2009)
 

Choosing an Essence

Allow your intuition to help you decide which essence (or essences) you need at this time.

As you read through the descriptions of the El Sereno Essences, notice which words stand out for you, or which pictures appeal to you. These are the ones you will benefit from most right now.

You can also use a pendulum to dowse for the essence that is most beneficial to you. Go to the Special Offer page to see how to receive a free pendulum and instruction booklet with your first order.

Whatever way you have of tapping in to your intuition will help you select one to take.

Using the El Sereno Essences

Once you have chosen an essence, decide on a way to use it.

• Oral dose - It is easiest to take flower essences internally, but because they are preserved in brandy, if you are alcohol-sensitive choose another option. Otherwise, put 2-3 drops of the essence under your tongue. Allow it to absorb. Or you can put a few drops in water and sip it throughout the day.

• Topical application - you can absorb the energy of the essence through your skin. I recommend applying a couple of drops of the essence to your heart center or the base of your skull. (This is a good technique for children and animals too.)

• Environmental application - you can spread the essence through a room by putting 30 drops in a cup of water and either squirting it through a plant mister or spritzing it with your fingers. Keep any leftover solution in the fridge for up to a week, re-applying  as needed. 

(Caution: Make certain not to touch the dropper to your mouth or hands because your vibration can interfere with that of the essence. If you do touch the dropper, wash it with soap and water and let it dry completely before putting it back in the bottle.)

Before you take an essence, calm and center yourself, and take stock of how you are feeling. Then take a couple of drops of the essence, either directly under your tongue or in water, and sit quietly to see if you notice anything. The essences are quite subtle, and you might not be able to immediately discern the effects. That’s okay, just keep paying attention as you use the essences, and the benefits will become apparent.

Part of the beauty of the El Sereno Essences is their ability to bring you into the present moment, whatever that may be, and truly experience it.

We enjoy hearing your experiences with the El Sereno Essences.

Other ways people are using the El Sereno Essences

Some of our customers are more creative in using the essences than we could have imagined. (Notice that for some of these suggestions, you don’t even need to have the essences.)

If you would like to share a way the El Sereno Essences have benefitted you, please let us know.
•Keep the essences near your water glass. Whenever you refill it, put in a drop of the essence that appeals to you.

•When you are feeling stressed, look at the page of pictures of the garden and allow the energy of the plants to return you to center.

•Print out the pictures of the plants and sleep with them under your pillow. Let the essences work in your dreams.

•Choose one essence and use it for 10-12 days. Notice how it helps you work through a specific process or issue.

•When you are moving quickly through a process, take an essence every two hours that you are awake. Notice the support and inner strength you feel as you do your inner work.

http://www.ElSerenoEssences.com  by Joy Carroll