Saturday, April 17, 2010

Spring Cleaning with Flower Essences

Flower essences are versatile and can be used for cleaning and freshening environments as well as our bodies. Below is a list of just a few essences that are useful this spring season for bringing fresh healthy vibrations into your life. There are a few ways you can use flower essences for spring cleaning. 1.) Add the chosen essence(s) to your cleaning water, Crab Apple is good for this and 2.) purchase a 2-4 oz spray bottle fill it with 1/3 vodka and 2/3 water, to this solution add the essences and essential oils of your choice. 
Once you've cleaned and cleared your space consider what energies you want to usher in. Clearing essences can also be used after fights or arguments to "clear the air".
Angelica: Use this essence to call in angelic energy into a space. This essence carries with it a lite blue protective energy, great for kids rooms or anywhere you want to call in angelic protection.
Aspen: This essence is excellent for clearing negative psychic energy from spaces, use in spray bottles particularly good for areas that have do not receive much attention such as attics or basements.
Black Cohosh: Use this essence to cleanse dark, heavy, violent energy from a space, useful in spaces where there has been abuse verbal, physical or otherwise.
Cerato: Useful for bringing "beautiful" energy into a space. 
Crab Apple: This is the quintessential cleansing flower; useful for space clearing, in floor washes and a air freshening spray.
Honeysuckle: Use this essence during cleansing to remove the 'remnants' of past from a space, very useful to clear out the old and make room for newness.
Hornbeam: Use this essence to bring an uplifting energy to areas that feel stagnant, heavy and drab.
Morning Glory: Use this essence to bring the fresh energy of the morning into your space, useful to clear heaviness and lethargy. 
Mugwort: Use this essence in bedrooms if you have a history of insomnia, works good as a spray.
Sunflower: Use this essence to clear a space of gloomy energy, particularly good in spaces that receive little sunlight. 
Walnut: This is an essence for newness,it breaks the 'spell' of the past so that we can move forward. Useful for bringing in fresh energy to spaces; such as old rooms, also helpful clearing energetic cobwebs.

This is a good list to start from and it is helpful for you to know there are many ways you can use flower essences. They are also helpful to use with your pets and plants both indoor and outdoor. May this list give you inspiration to fill your life and space with the expansive energies that the essences hold and carry.


PS.
A few years ago while on a trip to Kauai I made an essence of Ti plant. It is useful for cleansing and breaking ties with unwanted energies. Ti plant is a powerful energetic cleanser it carries a swift purifying energy, it was used in ancient Hawaiians to break spells and curses. Ti is useful for a clarifying and clearing spaces as well as ones personal energy field.

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