There’s More to Life than Making it Go Faster

The little ant finding his way to the nectar ... slowly but surely

The key to balancing your desire to be at peace with your need to achieve, perform, and earn a living is in recognizing that there’s no such thing as stress; there are only people thinking stressful thoughts. It’s really simple as that. When you change the way you process the world, the world you’re processing changes.

Stress is an inside job. You can’t fill a container with it because tension isn’t a physical item or object. There isn’t some ‘thing’ that you can point to and say. There it is, that’s stress! It simply doesn’t exist in that form.

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Being out of balance on this stress measure results in being on of the millions of people requiring medication to manage the symptoms listed above. It means that you often feel exasperated because you never really enjoy the life you work so hard to achieve. You may frequently feel as if you’re running on an endless treadmill. All of the pressure of working and striving for many wordly rewards, yet at the same time there’s a feeling of going absolutely nowhere.

If this sounds familiar. it’s a signal to begin reconsidering ways of processing thoughts about your life and work, and start pursuing freedom from the symptoms of stress by becoming more balanced. Getting into balanced isn’t necessarily about changing your behavior. Certainly you can pursue stress-reducing activities such as meditation, excercise, walks along a beach, or whatever works for you. But if you continue to align yourself with achieving more, defeating the other guy, winning at all costs, and going faster because you believe that’s how to keep up, then you’re guaranteed to attract the vibrational equivalent of this thinking into your life – even if you do yogas and stand on your head chanting mantras everyday!

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Those are excerpts from Dr. Wayne W. Dyer book’s ‘Being in Balance’. I keep it on my office table and grab it whenever I have a few minutes break. Sometimes we need to be reminded ….. to live ourselves a normal life in this hectic world.

Happy Friday!

Love – Larra

Seducing bergamot

Bergamot (Monarda didyma) also known as Oswego tea, Bee balm, Blue balm, High balm, Low balm, Mountain balm and Mountain mint. From the family Lamiaceae.

It bears no resemblance or similarity to that of Bergamot(Citrus bergamia), a small fruit tree, predominately found in Italy, from which Bergamot essential oil is extracted.

This beautiful plant with its flamboyant flower is a natiove of North America and is now grown horticulturally in many countries throughout the world.

Bergamot in Herb's garden

The species name Monarda (the one in Herb’s garden) honours the Spanish medicinal botanist Dr. Nicholas Monardes of Serville who, in 1569 wrote a herbal on the floral of America. The common name Bergamot, is said to have come from the scent of the crushed leaf which resembles the small, bitter Italian bergamot orange (Citrus bergamia,) .

Dried bergamot flowers keep their fragrant and colors so well, therefore they are important ingrediants in potpouris.

Although not used in aromatherapy for its therapeutic properties, the Bergamot does have other medicinal values; the leaf of Bergamot is used as an infusion in tea to help in the relief of insomnia, menstrual pain, nausea and flatulence. A fresh leaf of Bergamot infused with China tea will produce a flavor of Earl Grey Tea. Steam inhalation of the Bergamot is helpful for sore throats.

Bergamot flower painting by Larra

 

Note: Information from Jekka’s Complete Herb Book by Jekka McVicar; Photos by HerbMaster.