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"Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions."
- Pablo Picasso
I was browsing a metaphysical bookstore over a year ago, and stumbled upon a little gem that spoke to the artistic spirit within me. The book? "Aura-Soma: Self Discovery through Color" by Vicky Wall. I don't know what it was about this book, but I just HAD to have it. Almost a year later, the book is still one of my favorites and is pulled off the shelf any time I need inspiration.
Just what IS Aura-Soma? Aura-Soma is a form of color therapy and energy work that helps to invite change, or bring about an understanding of one's gifts, challenges and potential. Spas that offer Aura-Soma therapy are few and far between. The person receiving the treatment chooses four bottles, which represent your potential gifts, challenges you face, where you are in relation to potential challenges, and where you are going, respectively. Each bottle contains a combination of two different colors infused with the healing energies of plant extracts, essential oils and crystals. The top color is oil based, while the bottom is water based so that the two do not fuse.
While I have never had an Aura-Soma treatment, what I love about this book is that it taught me to trust my intuition. Page after page of extraordinarily beautiful images are paired with a literal translation of how each color combination is interpreted by the soul. As I'd flip through the pages and take in the feeling of each color, I'd notice that my translation or gut reaction was much the same as the description written in the book. Like a tarot card deck for the artist's soul, the colors in this book speak to my heart.
Each color has its own unique vibration and properties that are unique to only that color. A look at the visible light spectrum can give you a very "dry" version of this knowledge. When reflected upon our soul color has the power to transform and heal our state of mind. Much like humankind, each color is perfect in itself and gifted in ways that are completely unique from all others. When combined as equals, colors, like humankind, radiate a beautiful white light... the light of unity and all that is.
by Jen Salstrom on April 6th, 2011
by Jen Salstrom on April 6th, 2011
We've all heard this old adage. But what does it really mean?
The Native Americans knew when consuming an animal that they were also taking part in sharing the animal's spirit. Giving great thanks to the prey that fell at their spear, they used much or all of the animal in the greatest of respect, and thanked Mother Earth and the spirit of the animal for the meal that they were about to consume. The Native Americans lived hand in hand with nature, knowing that in consuming venison, they would take on the deer's qualities of gentleness, keen observation, innocence and sensitivity. The transfer of energy from prey to predator was evident.
Today, we have turned away from many of the lessons that Mother Earth readily offers up to us. We purchase our meals in supermarkets, where the source of our meal is no longer apparent. Often times, we completely neglect the process that goes into putting a meal on our plate. We forget about the labors of the farmer, forget to give thanks to the animal that gave its life to serve in our growth, or to the plants that grew tall and strong by the sun's rays to fill our plate. Often our food is heavily processed with preservatives, additives, artificial coloring agents, sweeteners and nitrates. It is no wonder that we feel so disconnected from nature, and that our national health is greatly suffering. We have closed our hearts to the lessons of the wild, and ironically, it is our heart that most often suffers when our diet is no longer in line with nature.
Although it is not very feasible for many of us to go outside and hunt a turkey for our dinner, or easily grow the grains to mill for our daily bread, we can, at the very least, think about what it takes for our food to end it's journey on our plate. We can approach our own nourishment with our hearts full of love and thanks for the great bounty that Mother Earth has bestowed upon us. Absorb the beautiful energy of natural foods, and immerse yourself in the spirit of your plate. After all, you are what you eat.
The Native Americans knew when consuming an animal that they were also taking part in sharing the animal's spirit. Giving great thanks to the prey that fell at their spear, they used much or all of the animal in the greatest of respect, and thanked Mother Earth and the spirit of the animal for the meal that they were about to consume. The Native Americans lived hand in hand with nature, knowing that in consuming venison, they would take on the deer's qualities of gentleness, keen observation, innocence and sensitivity. The transfer of energy from prey to predator was evident.
Today, we have turned away from many of the lessons that Mother Earth readily offers up to us. We purchase our meals in supermarkets, where the source of our meal is no longer apparent. Often times, we completely neglect the process that goes into putting a meal on our plate. We forget about the labors of the farmer, forget to give thanks to the animal that gave its life to serve in our growth, or to the plants that grew tall and strong by the sun's rays to fill our plate. Often our food is heavily processed with preservatives, additives, artificial coloring agents, sweeteners and nitrates. It is no wonder that we feel so disconnected from nature, and that our national health is greatly suffering. We have closed our hearts to the lessons of the wild, and ironically, it is our heart that most often suffers when our diet is no longer in line with nature.
Although it is not very feasible for many of us to go outside and hunt a turkey for our dinner, or easily grow the grains to mill for our daily bread, we can, at the very least, think about what it takes for our food to end it's journey on our plate. We can approach our own nourishment with our hearts full of love and thanks for the great bounty that Mother Earth has bestowed upon us. Absorb the beautiful energy of natural foods, and immerse yourself in the spirit of your plate. After all, you are what you eat.
by Jen Salstrom on April 6th, 2011
e·ter·nal [ih-tur-nl]–adjective
1. without beginning or end; lasting forever; always existing (opposed to temporal): eternal life.
2. perpetual; ceaseless; endless: eternal quarreling; eternal chatter.
3. enduring; immutable: eternal principles.
4. Metaphysics. existing outside all relations of time; not subject to change.
en·er·get·ics (ěn'ər-jět'ĭks)
n.
1. The study of the flow and transformation of energy.
2. The flow and transformation of energy within a particular system.
According to the Law of Conservation of Energy, energy cannot be created nor can it be destroyed. However, it can change form. The total quantity of matter and energy available in the universe does not change. This is a fixed amount that never has or never will be any more or less.
Energy exists in many forms... heat, light, chemical, electrical, potential and kinetic energy are some examples. Energy is the ability to bring about change, or do work. Energy begins at it's purest form, and entropy occurs as the process of energy transfer utilizes the potential energy available. This potential energy is then converted into kinetic energy. Like an athlete ready to consume an electrolyte drink, the potential energy in the drink is converted into kinetic energy when he or she consumes the drink and uses it to fuel their cells to carry out the work of their athletic endeavors.
We are living sources of energy... an eternal wellspring of unchanging energy that has always been, and will always be. We are a single, living body, yet we are made of the very same stellar material that sprung our universe to life. We are singular, yet a part of the plural being of the universe at the very same time.
Given these principals, it isn't a far leap for me to believe that our spirit is directly connected to the source... in fact, we ARE the energy of the source. God, if you care to use a more spiritual standpoint, or the purest form of all energy if you look at things from a scientific justification. We are all that is, all that was, and all that will ever be. We are all one.
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