Energy and Energy Protection

‘Energy and Energy Protection’. What an interesting and fitting topic to discuss with Foot Zone Therapists. Why do I say this? I want to tell three short—very short—stories to explain.

First story: For a short time during my childhood, my mother experienced some very difficult health issues. The severe anemia she suffered, as well as the pain she endured with repeated miscarriages and surgeries, resulted in stress, tension, and—sometimes—irritability and impatience. It didn’t take much self-awareness, even as a child, to realize that tension in the home had a profound effect on the other members of my family! I even asked my father once why I had to behave ‘like an adult’ when my mother didn’t have to. I will always remember his words to me. “Dear daughter,” he said, “Because you can and, right now, with your mother’s health as it is, she cannot.”

What does this first story have to do with energy protection and zoning feet? People come to us seeking answers for health issues they are having. Many times, those issues come with emotional baggage connected to or resulting from the stress they are creating in their lives. As a young zone therapist, I didn’t expect that. I didn’t even recognize, at first, that it was happening. My husband, most helpfully, pointed it out to me!

My dear, patient husband explained to me one day that when he saw a certain car pull into the driveway carrying a young couple for zones, he absolutely avoided coming home until I had finished up with them and they had been gone for some time. That astonished me, especially when he explained that, after this couple left, I was extraordinarily critical of him, discontented, and difficult to live with for a time! They had always seemed so polite to each other to me. I had not recognized the ‘politeness’ for the underlying stress and contention that later led to their not-amicable-in-the-least divorce.

A short while later, my husband pointed out something else to me that I had not recognized or considered either.

My husband pointed out to me that if a client came with a headache (or a cough or just about anything else), they left without it at the end of the Zone session, but that I struggled with it, sometimes even for several days. I realized that he was absolutely right about that a great deal of the time.

I was already playing with (my name for blending) essential oils when I learned to zone feet. I immediately set out to make a blend using essential oils whose aromas were described, around the world, as having ‘energy protecting or ‘repelling’ properties. The Butterfly Express essential oil blend I called ^LeBenediction was the result. It took several attempts at blending to finally come up with this powerfully effective blend! Why the name ^LeBenediction? Because, previously, prayer for protection and healing was the way I was coping with whatever I picked up from a zone. (And more than a bit of prayer went into figuring out the proper oils and proportions of those oils for this blend!)

In this article, I will give a description of ^LeBenediction and of the newer blend, created by a very talented employee, ^LeGuardian. At the end of the article, I will try to contrast and explain when it might be best to use one or the other of these two blends.

See the full list of topics.

In This Issue

^LeBenediction Essential Oil Blend
^LeGuardiann Essential Oil Blend
Miracle Salve

^LeBenediction Essential Oil Blend

The first thing to realize about ^LeBenediction is that it ‘protects’! It does this because it resonates and enhances a great many body organs and systems and affects more than a few of the chakras and meridians that are described in Traditional Chinese Medicine. ^LeBenediction also increases the integrity of the auric field, which then strengthens our personal energy barriers. This strengthening, in turn, then prevents against ‘energy drains’ that sometimes (too often) occur when we are working on the energy fields of stressed or ill people. I would suggest the use of this blend most especially whenever you are feeling particularly vulnerable and ‘energy sensitive’ or easily drained by other people and situations in which you find yourself. If, at times, you feel inclined to solitude rather than lively social situations, this blend is for you!

One of my favorite times to use ^LeBenediction is when I feel, in myself, that old tendency to think I can bring about change in a situation, or a person, by blaming or whining. I also love this blend when I am going into a situation where I may be a bit over-awed by or overly sensitive to the opinions of the impressive people I will be interacting with. (Yes, that used to be a real thing for me and, sometimes, still is!)

^LeBenediction was also helpful in my learning to acknowledge the blessings from above that have played such a large part in my life and in the lives (staying alive, even) of my family members. ^LeBenediction, applied or diffused, always brings me deep feelings of gratitude. Gratitude to heaven is a very healing emotion; probably the best thing you can do to balance your own chakra centers. Try this blend any time you are feeling angry, stressed, or depressed.

^LeBenediction is often useful for tension headaches, heart palpitations, and high blood pressure, where picking up on the energies of others is a contributing factor. ^LeBenediction is also very effective after an illness for returning energy levels to normal and getting us back on our feet, both physically and emotionally.

^LeGuardian Essential Oil Blend

I have, as indicated above, far less experience with the ^LeGuardian blend than with ^LeBenediction. ^LeGuardian has simply been around for a lot fewer years. However, I find this to be a very impressive blend!

Impressive, first, because of the ingredients. Essential oils are obtained from all sorts of plant families as well as from various parts of those families. Where and what an oil is obtained from has a very strong effect on the healing properties of that essential oil. As you can imagine, oils derived from conifer trees have a very different energy and very different healing properties from oils derived from, say, the flowering part of a plant or from plants that, though anchored to the sea floor, flow about a bit down there.

The ^LeGuardian blend contains four flowers—Geranium, Rose Geranium, Rose de Mai, and Daffodil. (I will mention Daffodil a bit in a moment). This blend also contains Ginger, a rather potent and strong herbal spice. Even more impressive is the inclusion of Sage as a fairly large percentage of the whole!

While I love to and advocate for putting various plant families and plant parts into a blend (unlike some suggestions I have read over the years), I am not at all sure I would have added either Sage or Ginger to such delicate flower oils as those listed above. But what an effective and delightful combination this turned out to be! It certainly works in this blend! Of course, they are layered into a blend with the heaviest, most potent essential oils going in first. Amazing! And certainly unique as well as effective.

Sage is celebrated as a master healer in both the herbal and essential oil worlds—and in this blend, its aroma is wonderfully fragrant and refined. Sage is a good oil for alleviating the effects of prolonged stress on the body and the mind. Sage cleanses the energy grid and strengthens its ability to protect us from negative influences. Sage has a positive influence on intuition, bringing clarity and vision to our souls if we will take the time to ponder and listen.

Ginger is for the usually dynamic individual who has lost drive and ambition and has become apathetic and confused. The emotional impact of Ginger is absolutely uncompromising. It insists on burning away illusions and misperceptions and replacing them with clarity and vision. Ginger insists that we take the initiative and be willing to tackle and complete the hard tasks facing us in our lives. The aroma of Ginger strengthens our willpower, activates initiative, and restores our determination.

I am fairly sure that this blend was brought to my attention as a result of my own complaining and whining about the state of my mind and memory lately. I can attest firsthand to the clearing and sharpening of my mind when I make use of this blend! (It has been splashed on both wrists as I write this article!) I find that, just like the employee/blender expected and intended, this blend boosts memory and improves my ability to concentrate and stay focused on a project.

^LeGuardian should, and in my opinion does, help us feel more grounded, less anxious, more able to cope with depressing circumstances and events (the death of a loved one, in my recent experience). This blend certainly has been shown to have an effect on the nervous and lymphatic systems as well as on the pelvic organs.

Comparison of ^LeBenediction and ^LeGuardian

Both of these blends are meant to ‘protect’ us from the energies of others, particularly negative energies. And they both do this very well! However, I reach for ^LeBenediction, absolutely, when I am going to be working with and in the energy fields of others, such as when I am giving a Foot Zone or a CranioSacral massage. ^LeBenediction simply strengthens my own auric field’s integrity. While ^LeGuardian also protects my auric energy field, I reach for ^LeGuardian when I am in need of courage, faith, hope, and intuition, as well as more of the ability to listen to the advice of others without denying the truth of what they are saying or being defensive about it. I guess the word I am looking for here is humility because ^LeGuardian also seems to make me more open to Heaven’s nudges and to accepting the good advice found in the scriptures.

Miracle Salve

I was delighted to see that Miracle Salve was selected for this month’s Foot Zone Focus! Many Zone Therapists that I know like to use Miracle Salve either on their own hands or on the feet that they are about to work on. I have used a salve when doing a foot zone a time or two, but out of years of habit, I suppose, I generally prefer not to have my hands ‘greased’ in that manner. Yes, zoning with a salve does a lot to protect the therapist’s hands and probably feels good to the client. They are sure to prefer it to soaking their feet in a tub (family—my bathtub—in order to proceed with the foot zone. I think my husband is going to have a new experience—Miracle Salve on his feet—with his next foot zone.

Miracle Salve was created originally for burns—my son, then altered a bit for my daughter, and then perfected for my husband’s far more serious, deeper, and more extensive burn following a nasty explosion in our scrap yard. This wondrous healing salve was renamed under the designation ‘Miracle Salve’ as we continued, over the years, to see one miracle after another with the use of this salve.

Although originally designed to work with a rather deep burn, we observed at that time and with each subsequent use, the restoration and proper striation of deep muscle tissues that had been damaged, along with the outer skin layers. (This was not a pretty sight, as you can imagine, but fascinating to someone with an obsessive love of anatomy such as I have been blessed with.)

Learn more about Miracle Salve and these burns here.  The description there includes directions to make the salve, information about various essential oils, and other ingredients that can be added when being made to further enhance healing and pain relief.

A last suggestion to those who are utilizing the Foot Zone technique to bless lives: Butterfly now provides this salve (and others) in a small 1/2 ounce size very inexpensively. If I were still working as a zone therapist, I would be very tempted to hand out this small sample to clients who might benefit from its use.