HAPPY SPRING! Get YOUR Sap Running!

Can you feel it in the air?

The sap is running and Spring is here! Warmer weather, more daylight hours, feels good doesn't it? Can you feel your body responding? Wanting to move more? It is time to clean out the winter sludge, the kidney energy in Oriental medicine, and make way for the uprising energy of spring, the liver energy.

Here are some suggestions:
Eat more lightly and eat less heavy foods. For instance, eat lots of greens of all kinds, steamed and raw. Try new varieties like mustard greens steamed with swiss chard. Add some dandelion greens too. Add vinegar or coconut oil and Sea Shakes for a tasty treat. Drink more herbal teas and add lemon. You can even make fresh parsley tea.

Stay away from sweets, dairy, breads and heavy meats. Eat fresh ocean fish. Your body may already be craving these things. It is Nature's way of being in touch with the seasons.
Herbal Energetics offers 2 cleansing ideas. Both address the liver and the kidneys and lymph as well. It is really important to do both to cleanse the whole body.



Take Inner Scrub People Boost in the morning all spring to cleanse liver, gallbladder, kidneys, lymph, skin, and bowels and use Energy Burst People Boost during the day to increase your consumption of greens, which are both highly nutritive and cleansing. This combination will give you more energy and make you feel lighter and more alive! Another helpful way to cleanse is to use the Liver Cleanse Tea and the Kidney



Lymph Tea together, liver in the morning and kidney Lymph in the afternoon and evening during a designated time period. Perhaps on weekends during the spring or during a 2 week period. These suggestions will help especially if you are prone to allergies. Also keep Allerfree Extract with Flower Essences handy.



It is a very effective formula. Starting with it before symptoms appear can save a lot of grief.
And get outside. Breath in the wonderful fresh air. Walk, smell the spring. Celebrate the emerging of new life in the running streams and new shoots. Look for fiddleheads and bloodroot flowers,(pictured at the top of the page). They are one of the first spring flowers to greet us. Pure white, they open to the sun and come out before their bigger leaves appear as a blanket of protection from summer heat. Let your heart be gladdened by the renewal of life, feel it, be it.

Why I LOVE NOFA (Northeast Organic Farmers Association)

I again had the pleasure of connecting with this wonderful group of people at the NOFA NH Spring Conference on Saturday March 7th. They are down to earth real folks, light hearted, knowledgable, unassuming, dedicated, friendly, open, respectful, a delight to be with.

It is obvious that they love and respect the land and what they do.

You can see it in their faces; in their presence. There is a peace, an inner strength that sustains them. They focus more on what they are doing in the Natural World than the events of the manmade world.

Nature helps us do just that.
As more and more people begin gardening again (or farming or in some conscious way being out in Nature) perhaps for the very first time, they will experience the wonders of life and be sustained by that discovery not just physically, but also emotionally and spiritually.

As the sap begins to run and the plants are making their way to the light from under the earth, I feel it inside myself. Don't you? Our bodies, too, are getting ready for spring. We are all connected. We are the miracle of life and it continues!

In Joy,
Carolyn Kelley

The Magic of Herbs & The Wonders of Life...

Herbs are alive, real. They work with the body. Just think of the excitemnet of that! We are Alive Vibrant Beings. Our bodies respond to substances that are also alive.  Herbs actually respond to what we need.  They create different reactions depending on the individual needs of each person.

For instance, Hawthorne leaf and berry assist the heart, regulating blood pressure. If too high, it helps lower, if too low it helps bring it up.  How does it know how to do this?  This is one of the wonders of life. 

We have a choice....we can turn to drugs.   Drugs are designed to relieve symptoms.  The focus is not on curing imbalances or disease.  Or... we can choose to work with Nature and embrace healing naturally.  The more we learn about the wonders of natural remedies...herbs, flower essences, essential oils, even healthy foods...the more empowered we will be to take charge of our own health and well being.

It is a choice. Your choice.