Essence of the Week: Aloe Vera
Oct. 11th, 2010 02:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

This is such a wonderfully simple essence ... aloe vera [the 'true'[vera] aloe] is used for stress and overwhelm. Stress, overwhelm and burnout. Stress, overwhelm, burnout and fatigue/exhaustion. Stress, overwhelm, burnout, fatigue/exhaustion and breakdown. Stress overwhlem, burnout, fatugue/exhaustion, breakdown and ...
OK. I think you might get the picture?
Aloe Vera is BALM in a Bottle and works to create centering in the core of your body allowing balance, renewal and rejuvenation. Rest. A break instead of a breakdown.
Now notice the photo I used ... a mandala of green. Gaze at the center and breathe. See your heart. See the ball of stress and spiky leaves. But ... succulent leaves full of balm and soothing. Cool. There's a breeze. ... and as you let go of each spiky stress and you open and open and open ... there's is the rosette in the center. You are opening and finding calm with each breath, with each reaching succulent arm ... outward and upward and open. Breathe. Balm.
Namaste