Chloride is a natural salt of the mineral chlorine that works with sodium and potassium to help maintain the proper distribution and pH of all bodily fluids. It also encourages healthy nerve and muscle function. Independently, chloride contributes to digestion and waste elimination. It is a key component of hydrochloric acid, one of the gastric juices that digest foods.

A diet of unprocesses natural foods provides more than enough chloride for human health. Just a pinch of table salt contains about 250 mg, one-third of the Recommended Daily Allowance. Recommended Dietary Allowance in adults is 750 mg daily.

The Best Sources are from: Fresh Coconut, fresh Pineapple and Banana, fresh Broccoli, ripe Tomatoes, Celery, Lettuce, Kelp and Spinach, hens egg, table salt, and salty foods such as cheese.

Excess chlorine is excreted in the urine preventing potentially dangerous toxic accumulation. Deficiency is extremely rare and is usually due to illness. However, excessive vomiting can reduce the stomach's chloride level, upsetting its pH balance and causing sweating, diarrhea, loss of appetite, slow and shallow breathing, listlessness, and muscle cramps.

Use in the Body: Helps regulate the balance of acid and alkali in the blood. It is a part of hydrochloric acid, which is found in the digestive juices of the stomach.

Everything in nature contains all the power of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fire is this Months Element

Some herbs to use are: Allspice, Basil, Bay, Cinnamon, Dill, Fennel, Ginger, red pepper and Garlic

These herbs are wonderful as teas, in food, juices & joint rubs that have many healing benefits. Many promote circulation, warmth and digestion.

Harvest Days are: 18 & 19

Make Your Own Smudge Stick

I recently received an abundant gift basket filled with beautiful fresh vegetables and bundles of herbs. I made a huge pot of vegetable soup and with so many kinds of herbs I had to hang some to dry, particularly the Sage, Thyme and Tarragon, which are al aromatic when burned.

1-Lay out on a table a half of a single sheet of newspaper.
2-Cut the herbs of your choice the same length as the shorter length of the paper.
3-Gather as much as will comfortable fit into the circle made by your thumb and index finger.
4-Lay the bundle at the bottom edge of the paper.
5-Tightly roll up the herbs in the paper, like a big cigar, put a rubber band on each end.
6-Store in a warm dry place.
7-After drying, tie your bundle with colorful yarn or cotton crochet string.
8-Store in a dry location until ready to use.

Smudging for Earth healing is an important rite that helps Mother heal her miasms. Gather forth your circle and reconnect with the sentient life-force that offers us her foundation and sustenance for our lives. Earth Mother is the path to healing, connectivity and ascension.

Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children
~ Ancient Indian Proverb

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Essential oils can be used in diffusers (1-6 drops of essence), inhaled via tissue (1 drop) or steam vapor (2-3 drops), direct from the bottle singly or in blends. Do not use the essence directly on the skin. Always dilute using one drop of essential oil per ml of oil or 6-30 drops (depending on potency) per 1 oz=30ml or 2 tablespoons of base oil in a sterilized brown glass bottle. Store essential oils away from sunlight and homeopathic remedies.

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There are seven basic shapes within nature that crystalline patterns adhere to: Hexagonal, Monoclinic, Triclinic, Isometric, Trigonal, Tetragonal and Orthorhombic. Their geometric precision is but a reflection of their precise interior structure that holds them together in a particular shape and causes them to vibrate at a regular frequency. The predictable and precise vibrations of crystals are used for their accuracy in quartz movements and for their capacity to store information as silicon chips in scientific and technological development.

Essentially, crystals transmit, conduct and transmute energy; store energy, step it up and step it down; and release it producing an electrical current or a beam of high intensity light sufficiently concentrated to be able to cut through metal and controllable enough to perform delicate micro-surgery on the retina of the human eye.

This intimate relationship with nature forms a harmonious link with the universe. Through this link crystals are able, when properly harnessed, to bring universal energy through their perfect form into the physical, supporting the healing process, thus enabling a state of harmony via the removal of energetic blocks imprinted in the auric feild.

Like the crystal, the human body is also crystalline in nature and thus stores information in the aura that contains within it our complete energy system (chakras & nadis). Illness starts within the auric field, so when we learn how to heal the aura we can heal the cause of the problem and not just the symptoms.

Remember that the human body is a series electrical impulses that are in constant vibration. When we realize that we can change our energy frequency, we can change our internal and external lives. There are many ways to do this. One way is to use Crystals to assist in the removal of lower densities. Attuning to a mineral facilitates the energizing of the auric bodies with the energies contained within the mineral. Each crystal through its unique vibration or frequency refracts its light into the darkened areas within the human auric field facilitating change.

The aura can be charged by wearing and/or carrying minerals and by placing within one’s environment. The frequency and duration with which a mineral is worn/carried/handled determines the level of attunement which is attainable with that mineral.

Healing Perforations in the Auric Layers: Working on the aura is very effective. Just hold the intent to heal and help and use a strong healing crystal, such as an Amethyst or clear quartz.

Hold the crystal in your left hand and pass the crystal gently around the aura of the person concerned. If you are sensitive to energy, you may find yourself stopping or slowing down in a particular area. This indicates a perforation or break in the aura at that point. Should this happen, visualize the crystal sending energies out to heal the break and continue to cover the whole of the aura. No contact with the body is necessary and this healing only need be carried out a maximum of twice weekly. This method can also be used in cases of specific injury when all that is necessary is to pass the crystal over the injured area, asking for healing energies to be released by the crystal into the aura at that point.