sanctuary essences

ALTERNANTHERA
PAPEGAAIEBLAD
Alternanthera dentata

Centered feelings, not having fear to express these; staying within yourself, not letting yourself be disturbed by other people or other issues. To do the work you believe in and bring your Higher truth into reality, to work with it and to expand it. Not thinking in shyness, but giving full expression to what is. To love the earth and the deepest core of your being in the deepest way.

ANGELICA
ENGELWORTEL
Angelica archangelica

Provides protection from the spiritual worlds and the help of loving forces from on high, "angelic protection" especially when one crosses the threshold to the "other side", for example in situations such as death or passing away, dreams, meditation, operations or serious illnesses, when the mortal body is less bound to the earth. It provides spiritual protection for the infant during pregnancy, favors a more spiritual development of the consciousness and strengthens the ability to experience loving spiritual forces in your life and work. It promotes the search for and the use of spiritual insight. In this way it encourages growth and protects the consciousness; it increases trust in the leadership of the Higher Self when confronted with unknown areas - a "Godly" trust with a good earth-bound feeling without doubting your personal Wisdom.

AFFIRMATIONS

	I am protected by my spiritual insight.
	Spirituality is necessary for my growth.
	My Higher Self guides me in unknown areas.

BORAGE
KOMKOMMERKRUID
Borago officinalis

Borage strengthens the heart in difficult circumstances and brings gladness and joy. Not letting yourself be blocked by difficulties nor letting yourself be discouraged, but to go on despite adversity. When one loses faith Borage brings back joyfulness and strength to the heart.

CALIFORNIA POPPY
HET SLAAPMUTSJE

The California Poppy essence helps you to bring trust in your heart and in your own feelings, and it makes you listen to your own heart. When the outer world, the world of action and the masculine energy become over-important, this golden poppy brings the feeling of support and warmth in your heart. It helps you to calm down, and gives the insight that you no longer need to look to the outside world to find what is important, but can find it in your inner world. It brings the rest and peace of inner knowing. Not looking for the superficial gold of fame and glory, but digging deep for the gold of inner wisdom. It is helpful when you are too much open for the ideas and thoughts of other people. This essence is making the ancient, universal knowledge, available, to be found in the Akashic records and what lies in depths of your being. It gives you new insights and helps you integrate these new insights into your heart. The California Poppy also opens you to discovering information in the dream world and is very helpful in situations related to sleeping problems and addictions. It helps you to let go of worries associated with the outer world, establishing a balance with the importance of the inner. It also brings a balance between the light and darkness, fostering a spirituality integrated with the energy of mother earth.

CLEMATIS
BOSRANK
Clematis vitalba

The Clematis vitalba was prepared in the mountains between Spain and France. This Clematis is not only for awakening but gives a clearer picture of your actions. Clarifying the thought processes, it improves our capacity for thought and helps us to obtain a more conscious insight into the handling of our affairs. It also helps with the forming of the as yet unformed and assists in the forming process. Gives more insight and an overview of the cause and effect process. Gives more clarity to the unconscious.

AFFIRMATIONS

	I am fully awake in the here and now.
	I am inspired to realize my ideals.

I give form to my own thoughts.

EVENING PRIMROSE
TEUNISBLOEM
Oenothera lamarckiana

This plant flowers at night. While "Red Poppy - Klaproos" brings the power of the sun into the female qualities, the Evening Primrose essence strengthens the creative forces of the moon. It helps us to (re)discover and connect with the source of self-confidence and the inner worth of the feminine. It brings insight into old patterns of incest, rape and problems in the area of sexuality, giving support and help for discussing such problems, and bringing everything out into the open.

FIELD SCABIOUS
BEEMDKROON
Knautia arvensis

Brings transformation and wisdom. Quiets the thinking and purifies unnecessary thoughts through the earth. Positive thinking. Helps us to handle things better, to be more perceptive and open to others and the environment. Connects us to the higher, serene, spheres and allows them to reflect out and about into the surroundings so the support and warmth of others can be received.

FOXGLOVE
VINGERHOEDSKRUID
Digitalis purpurea

To go beyond thinking. It eases the mental processes, so you are be able to contact your heart again. Helps to let go of thinking structures and patterns of how we think we should behave, specially old believes, behavioral patterns out of past lives, for example monastic life. Accepting the connection with the higher self as the center of our Self and as source of a higher quality of love in our lives. Helpful for being more playful in life. Gives joy and pleasure in sexuality and life in general. When you haven't any insight into a problem or a difficult situation, Foxglove helps you to gain insights, specially when you cannot understand the problem with the mind. Foxglove opens you step by step to higher realms beyond thinking, so you are able to use other sources of information, for instance dreams. Often these problems or difficulties have their roots in the heart or the emotional world. Balances the polarity of the higher self with the polarity of the earth.

GIANT STROPHARIA
REUZENSTROPHARIA
Stropharia rugosoannulata

A mushroom with a head of 40 to 50 centimetres. It gives you a new insight into the things you are doing. Instead of looking up to the difficulties in life it helps you to direct your consciousness to pleasure and fun. The Stropharia helps to let you do the things directly, especially when the thoughts about it are already too long in your mind. It connects you to the earth and releases energies and tensions that are stuck behind your eyes back into the ground.

GOLDENROD
GULDENROEDE
Solidago officinalis

The keywords of the Goldenrod are: your individuality and the other person. When you feel locked up, and cannot open yourself to the other. When you are not able to let go your personal ego, and cannot direct yourself to the higher qualities. When you put your interest too much into your personal achievements, and feel dependent on the other.
The Goldenrod gives you self-trust and self-confidence, the Goldenrod helps with the development of open-heartedness and hospitality; it opens you to be a channel through which you can transform the higher energies. Gives strength and because of this strength you open your being with love towards your environment and you can direct yourself to enthusiasm, abundance and cooperation as a result of the better connection with the higher self.

    GREATER CELANDINE
    STINKENDE GOUWE
    Chelidónium május

The cherry on the cake; the finishing touch, making life better and more complete; promotes happy and fulfilling decisiveness. For awakening the inner king and coming together of the inner woman warrior with the inner man, and this for men and woman alike. Combining the right and left hemispheres of the brain, the masculine and feminine; excessive emotionality if purified and grounded. Improves relationships, especially when a wall has been built up between people. Through thoughtfulness to be able to purify your feeling life, with the result that the purity of your being becomes the basis of your existence. Helps in eliminating emotional poisons and anything that you no longer need or that makes you ill. Acceptance of your innermost self, oneness with the ground of your being, gets rid of dissatisfaction. This remedy has a pentangle in its astrological chart.

GROUND ELDER
ZEVENBLAD
Aegopodium podagraria

When you cannot develop yourself the Ground Elder helps with the manifestation of your growth, because you are able to make a better connection with your true self. When you develop yourself too much, the Ground Elder helps to let go and opens you for the higher qualities of your being. You don't need to fight all the time with your environment. When you have difficulties to assimilate everything that you meet, especially old restrictions and old emotions, which keep you stuck in a certain pattern. To work on earth for the higher goal and integrate what is important for the higher development of the earth: the expression of your heart. The Ground Elder gives integration and cooperation from the environment through the expression of the heart, with a pure choice connected with the higher self.

GROUND IVY
Hondsdraf
Glechóma hederácea

Clears away old emotions you didn't understand, making you aware of and transforming behaviour patterns, above all patterns which you, yourself, cannot see. For abundance, strength and expansion, it helps with personal development and finer attunement, bringing out the finer qualities of your being. Trusting in your own being, wherever you might be. Helpful in healing work, it is good to keep a bottle beside you, and when you meet with a painful or emotional disturbance, to give it a shake and use Ground Ivy energy to "hook on to" the emotion and pull the emotion or problem out of the spiritual body, as if pulling a piece of string out of the body, continuing until the string is felt to have gone limp. As herb Ground Ivy is used for the lungs and coughing, as flower essences it gave good results in such cases.

IMPATIENS
REUZENBALSEMIEN
Impatiens glandulifera

This essence was prepared in Belgium on 8-28-'91. It was prepared in perfect harmony with a group of people who had attended three weekend workshops and a week long intensive about flower essences and healing. The preparation took place following the workshop. The bank of Impatiens growing there was at the peak of its strength and covered an area more than 32 meters square. Positive transforming qualities: Patience and calm; understanding; knowing that all life continues in it's own unique time; spontaneity; recognizing your inner and outer chaos and helping to integrate this within the consciousness; clear actions out of your deepest inner self. Development of your own deepest true timing; becoming aware of disturbances by others; helping to express yourself clearly towards others. Imbalance: Impatience, with yourself as well as others; to adapt easily to others without expressing irritation and annoyance; wanting to grow too fast; being drawn too easily out of your own life's timing by the influence of others, not expressing this and getting annoyed. Impatiens is also very helpful in cases of skin problems. In these cases the Impatiens can be used directly from the stock bottle.

AFFIRMATIONS

	I accept full responsibility for my own life.
	I express myself clearly, with purity.
	I find my own way, quietly and calmly.

   LITTLE INKY CAP
    KLEINE VILTINKTZWAM
    Coprinus xanthotrix

This little mushroom helps us to let go of emotions; when you feel vulnerable this essence will bring emotional strength and give universal trust. Helps you rise above emotions and promotes the letting go of old anger and emotions quickly and easily.

LOVE
LIEFDE

A combination of Borage, Foxglove, Greater Celandine, (Red) Poppy, Red Henbit, Snowdrop and Yellow Star Tulip. The seven beings of Light. A combination to awake the Love for yourself, others and the earth. First it helps you to connect your being to the earth, then it helps you to open your heart for the care and Love for your own being and as result of this you will be learning to give this Love out to others, without self-denying. A powerful catalyst which connect you to the higher light and your Angel of Love.

MONEY PLANT
JUDASPENNING
Lunaria annua

For those who find material earthly business more important than the unity with their own Being, the Universe and Nature. Lusting after material things resulting in the "handing in" of intuitive strength. Lack of balance in connection with spiritual development through too much striving after worldly possessions and power. Loss of energy because of always operating from one polarity, having made the longing for material things the one and only end for too long. Because of this one becomes unable to make contact with his/her own source - retarding spiritual development and creating as a result, a state emptiness in the subconscious. This emptiness is filled up again by activities that seem to be forced on you from the outside but which are, in actual fact, drawn to you by yourself, you feel you "have to" do so many things. The Money Plant helps you with the integration of earthly bonds as well as the Cosmic ones, bringing balance to these deep primeval forces. It gives power, coming from your spiritual self, to stand strong in your earthly shoes. A turning away from earthly, material matters to spiritual help for others as you often have to live the emptiness and pain yourself to really be of help to others. An awareness that healing does not always have to be a bodily healing but that the healing and awakening of the mind during the illness process is more important than just the recovery of the physical (body or material possessions). With the realization that one can cope with all these deep processes of illness comes also the capacity to do so. This process can bring about a real conversion. A change in the essence of man so that he no longer strives only to satisfy personal desires but is able to grow into a Being with Universal Love for others as well as for one's self. When we reach this awareness, we can continue our evolutionary process without denying our spirituality and the deeply rooted bonds of our spiritual origin and our earthly existence. For healers the Money Plant can be an important helper in their evolutionary process. When looking too much for external confirmation in healing work and not yet being able to accomplish the work from within. No longer sacrifice yourself for the other but are able to see the help you give as a process towards total unity, aware of giving as a process of joy and pleasure.

AFFIRMATIONS

	My deepest being is.
	Cosmic love fills all being.

MYCENA
Mycena polygramma

Mushroom-remedy For a better connection with the earth, experiencing that you belong here on earth of your own free will, without all the "having to". Being able to carry on in difficult situations and uncertainties, especially when everything around you seems to be in ruins. At the same time it has a purifying action; mushrooms help nature in the demolition of hard to digest elements such as wood or radioactivity. "Gnome" energy and the influence of Pluto.

AFFIRMATIONS

	I am in balance in thought and feeling.
	My being is in balance with the Earth.
	I remember my caring and my connection with the Earth.

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ORCHID
RODE BOSVOGELTJE

This orchid grows in sandy clearings and, as its Dutch name suggests, has flowers in the form of little birds. Unity of your being in all circumstances. Being able to continue all actions from your own source without self sacrifice. Not letting yourself be pushed aside by people or circumstances but following your own path in purity. Softens that which is hard and gives better circulation. Seeing the reflection of yourself in the outside world. Opening you to "higher" energies. Can be helpful for healers especially when short of energy because of not being able to retain a proper connection with their own Higher Selves. Gives more power for the healing of others and lets this force stream out of the Higher Self into the world.

AFFIRMATIONS

	I mirror the Light from my Being into the surroundings.
	I fill myself with Strength/Light from my own Being and recognize this in me.
	I am a violet flame, burning bright with healing power.

PEPPERMINT
DE PEPERMUNT
Mentha piperita

The Peppermint essence is a very good one in these times of difficulty and challenge. The Peppermint helps you to digest everything that is difficult, specially what is happening in this moment in your life and in the world. It helps you deal with deep emotions and problems which you see in the world around you, all the things that come your way and which you cannot get out of your mind. It helps by makes you stronger, prepared for all sorts of eventualities and problems, giving you insight into them. The Peppermint essences also gives you insight into the behaviour patterns, and structures you have been holding on to since the time you were born. It might even be that you no longer know of these patterns and structures. The essence of the Peppermint gives the insight that these are a part of you and that they can be blocking the development and growth of your highest good, and helps you to let go of all those unseen patterns. It is particularly helpful for those emotions and energy which are being stocked in the area of the stomach and the digestive system.

PROTECTION
BESCHERMING

A combination of the Sneezewort, Greater Celandine, Rue and the Sensitive Weed. A good combination to give protection. It calms and brings you to the deepest centre of your being in times of tension, which is related to the influence of the outer world. Surrounds and protects with a mantle of light. Restore yourself and helps you to feel yourself good in your body. If you are not aware, that you are absorbing emotions and energies, it might happen that you become aware of it. This awareness helps you to change, however this can be a difficult and not always easy process, because it is often connected with pains and fears from the past, which also need to be solved.

PURPLE FLOWER
Centratherum punctatum

Brings lightness to energies around the head and allows the mind to relax. Awareness in healing; trusting in our work as healers and being able to bring this out into the world. To reflect the light of our being into the different kingdoms (animal, mineral, plant and human); opening up to the power of nature; insight into and becoming aware of our environment with regard to the different kingdoms.

RAINBOW
REGENBOOG
Development combination

The bridge between Heaven and Earth; a combination essence for personal development, made from the flowers of Borage, Impatiens, Moneyplant, Red Henbit and Red Poppy. Brings creativity and development. While the flower essence "Terra" helps us make the vertical connection to the earth, the Rainbow essence also works horizontally; it brings expansion and new impulses; stimulates new activities; opens all chakra's and helps break barriers that block our development; brings awareness to the process of development.

RED HENBIT
PAARSE DOVENETEL
Lamium purpureum

This dead nettle, belonging to the mint family (Labiatae), has small heart-shaped leaves at the upper part of a square stem forming a 4 sided pagoda with numerous tubular purple flowers hidden under the leaves. Positive transforming qualities: Strong earthly bonds and joy in physical activity. Gives clarity in chaotic activity; stimulating you to tidy up and put everything in order - very useful when you are moving house. Purifies one's energies providing a strong flow of earthy life force through the body, soul and spirit, flushing away confrontive situations. Red Henbit can also be applied topically for blockages in the wrists and other joints. Enables you to express yourself on the earth because of a stronger love for the earth. A positive catalyst which promotes love for your environment and a joyful life. Imbalance: For those who are stuck in chaos, disease or habits. Being unable to feel the vitality and happiness of life anymore, which is often caused by too much work or by disease. Not being able to grow and be who we really are. For when we are disconnected from earthly energies; when we are grumbling about the people in our environment or there is too much sharpness in our personal relationships. Only when the grumbling is gone can the person show his deep warmth and love again.

RED POPPY
KLAPROOS
Papaver rhoeas

Strengthens the inner woman, a warming and empowering essence for those who feel vulnerable without having the power to transform their vulnerabilities. Gives the power to work with your vulnerabilities. Increases the inner quality of love. Calms extreme sexuality in men and women; helpful also for men and children, specially when they cannot sleep after a busy day.

AFFIRMATIONS

	My inner woman possesses fire and power.
	I release my thinking and acknowledge my feminine powers.
	I transform my vulnerability into fire and act upon it.

RUE
WIJNRUIT
Ruta graveolens

For spiritual protection, specially for the psychic realms; gives protection and insight when somebody tries to absorb your energies, by spiritual influence or disturbance, specially in the area of the crown chakra and the line of the connection with the higher self. Gives insights into old deep hidden fears. Gives more strength to act out of feeling world. If somebody is too precise, this essence helps them to see things more easily. In this way it also cleanses old physical problems which have been held in the body because the body was unable to do so due to this attitude.

SENSITIVE WEED
KRUIDJE ROER ME NIET

Brings stability, clarity and strength to the soul and mind. For choosing your path, full of certainty, and not letting yourself be drawn off your path. When others come too close and you no longer have any room. When you are too sensitive, especially when others get too near for you. To have the space to create, and not let yourself be disturbed by others. So you can pursue your self-development under all circumstances. To feel yourself protected and supported by your environment. To be able to accept this support and love. Also, the ability to recover quickly.

SMOOTH HAWKSBEARD
Klein Streepzaad
Crépis capilláris

Helps to bring balance between action and repose: brings new energy and vitality, and suppleness to stiff rigid structures, helps you to connect with your own base, to feel at ease and at home with others, thus helping you to clear up emotional stuff related to relationships in the home from your childhood right up to those of today. Helps in recharging energy and storing it up and in the bones, and in the giving of Love and warmth. The Hawksbeard can also be used topical, rubbing some drops from the stock into the energy points in the small depressions under the little protrusion of the bone on the inside of the ankle, and on the thymus.

SNEEZEWORT
Wilde Bertram
Achillea ptarmica

Provides protection on the spiritual path you follow, when you aspire after pure standards and values, but have been unable to actualise them. Helps you to stand on your own two feet and to give expression to your own clear thoughts and visions, without having to lean on others; gives self-confidence. For saying clearly where things stand in relationships. Helps to make you aware of what is good and what is not so concerning help from others. (Also, for example, from spiritual guides).

SNOWDROP
SNEEUWKLOKJE
Galanthus nivalis

The release of deep pain, tears and old traumas that have been stuck for a long time. Especially when these originate from the handing in of your own heart and you did not stand by yourself and your feelings. When you have done everything for others and have forgotten yourself. When you do everything the way others say while you know that it should be done differently. To recover your own beauty and importance. To do things you like to do; to feel free. Brings a stronger trust, deep down in the depths of your being. Joyful refreshing energy after the dark (emotional) winter.

STAR OF BETHLEHEM
VOGELMELK
Ornithogalum umbellatum

The first thing when you compare the Star of Bethlehem with other plants is its similarity to the Snowdrop. Both have exact the same colours green and white. The Star of Bethlehem has more to do with universal energy and will open only when the sun is shining brightly. Just as the flower opens in response to light and warmth, the flower essence opens you to your original strength and original connection with your Higher Self. The Star of Bethlehem helps you to remain undisturbed by influences coming from your surroundings and reconnects you with your universal being. It starts by helping you clear away everything you have taken in, especially what you have drawn to yourself but is not essential for your being, and to clear away what is blocking your own unique flowering and the connection with your Higher Self. This can vary from viruses to sorrows, everything your have allowed in and which is not part of your original being, but has been accumulated throughout your life. They also disturb your connection with the light. Such disturbances prevent you from recovering and you stay blocked in your old pains and illness: feeling like a withered flower; low in strength, burnt out and exhausted; feeling weak and lacking energy. Star of Bethlehem opens you up to regenerating energies, so that you can recover your strength and be the centre of your life force. You do this all in your own good time, at your own speed and whenever you are ready for it. Star of Bethlehem allows you to go your own way more, refusing the influence of others. You find that listening to your Higher Self is the answer to all your problems. You make no concessions, listening to your Higher Self and whatever the situation you remain in contact with the Highest Universal Source and your own unique qualities. In this way, you are able to recover quickly in times of difficulty, are able to connect better with your own strength, are able to open up and reach a higher level of your self. It is a truly universal flower and flower essence which makes you believe in your own beauty and makes you aware of the next level of higher energy.

TANSY
BOERENWORMKRUID
Tanacetum vulgare

When someone is always in doubt and cannot make decisions, the Tansy helps to take direct action and gives insight into the process that if you are not making decisions nothing will happen. When you are stuck in a web of hesitation, the Tansy will give trust and help to connect you with your higher self. Strengthens the heart and gives insight into the deepest core of doubts on all levels of your being. Don't walk any longer in circles around, Find your own way, your feet on the ground, Make a decision, make a new start I give you the power and the sun in your heart. Feel my strength, my light and my love Know that I am connected with the sun and The stars high above. Make up your mind, don't step aside Just trust...........I will be your guide.

TERRA - AN EMERGENCY COMBINATION A combination of five remedies.

* Angelica: for protection, deep Godly trust. * Clematis: to be firmly in the here and now. * Mycena: for bonding with the earth and eliminating elements which are hard to digest. * Rode Bosvogeltje (Orchid): power from the Higher Self. * Yellow Star Tulip: trusting your own inner feelings, listening to your heart. Together, well suited as a first aid remedy for all different kinds of complaints. First it clears the blockages and then helps with the recovery process. Brings peace and calm in tense situations. Opens the solar plexus. Gives strength in difficult circumstances. The best way to take this remedy is two to five drops straight from the stock bottle under the tongue and/or to hold the bottle during prolonged periods of tension. The bottle can also be held near the place of tension or a dosage bottle containing at least four drops can be used for the same purpose. Or some drops can be applied locally.

TRUMPET VINE
DE TROMPETKLIMMER
Campsis radicans

The Trumpet vine essence helps you to handle things from the heart, especially when you are trying to do everything in an over-mental way. It connects the heart to your doing and helps you to stand strong for the deeper feelings in your heart, you start doing what you really like to do, instead of what you have been conditioned to think you should be doing and how you should do it. When communication problems need solving, the Trumpet vine breaks through the communication barriers in a gentle way, helping you to express your deeper emotions, without getting into conflict with yourself. It helps you to say freely what is in your heart and mind. Whenever a thick wall has been set up around somebody, the Trumpet vine helps you to break this down in a very smooth and gentle way, because it first helps you to break down your own inner wall. It has given good results for people who stutter.

YELLOW STAR TULIP
Calochortus monophyllus

This remedy helps sensitive people who are no longer sure of where they are going. It helps us not to hide our sensitivity but to make use of it. It is also a precious help for bringing into being what our heart tells us and to start on projects that have been signaled inwardly for some time but that have remained hidden deep within. Yellow Star Tulip gives a clearer picture of how our own feelings are put together. It gives us trust in all changes and stimulates us to act. Our inner life qualities are brought to the surface and find their outward expression both in developing the Self and in helping others.

AFFIRMATIONS

	I am learning to use my own inner feelings.
	I have insight into my own feelings.
	My feelings are the source of the manifestation of my Higher Self.