Lavender

Heal Through Joy

Lavender’s Magical Specialties: clarity, cleansing, divine alignment, healing, joy, protection, relaxation, stress relief, relationship healing, releasing guilt and shame, releasing pain associated with unrequited love

The overall message here is to heal yourself or your current situation through joy. While happiness comes and goes, joy is your natural state. When you are aligned with your true infinite state and your connection with All That Is, no matter what emotions may arise within you, joy underlies it all. Indeed, joy is an expansive openness that recognizes that all feelings and experiences can be beautiful as long as they are flowing and completely felt. When we hang on the them or suppress the full experience of them out of fear or unwillingness to go deep, that is when the discomfort appears, not when we simply feel our feelings fully, let them go, and then bravely open up to the next beautiful lessons and experiences that lie along our path.

Imagine that, like the woman in the picture, you are standing in a field of fragrant, blossoming lavender. Notice the blossoms glowing in the sunlight, buzzing with bees, and gently swaying in a light wind, and feel the wise, compassionate beings caressing you with their pure and healing vibration. Feel and know that this vibration is moving throughout your energy field and the entire pattern of your life, creating positive shifts within you and in the fabric of your reality. Allow this to happen.

If you haven’t had a good cry for a while, perhaps it’s time to watch a romantic movie, listen to a heartfelt song, or read a poignant poem to open your heart chakra and remind you of the heartbreaking beauty that drenches our perception when we are open to joy. Open your heart and let yourself feel love for your friends and family, including your animal companions and any loved ones who are no longer present in this physical plane. Open yourself to beauty. Open yourself to joy – surrender to it and it heal you on every level.

The following ideas and messages may apply to your present situation; notice any that particularly call out to you as you read:

Do whatever you need to do to unstuck your emotions and feel your feelings fully.

Take a walk outside and connect with the beauty that’s all around you.

Express your feelings.

Do something that brings joy to your heart.

Infuse your everyday actions and experiences with joy.

Listen to music or enjoy visual art that gets your feelings flowing and brings you joy.

Remind yourself of the miracle of life and the miracle that you are.

Cultivate wonderment.

Shift your motivation from self-punishment to joy.

Change your life focus to joy.

Rearrange your life to accommodate joy.

Take a warm bath with a little sea salt and essential oil of lavender.

Diffuse essential oil of lavender or put some drops in your body lotion.

Spend time with lavender blossoms, inhale the scent, bring lavender into your garden, or take the homeopathic flower essence remedy.