Mushroom essences

Essence Description: 

- Associated with issues of death, transformation, and immortality

- Associated with finding our true path in life

- Helps us explore deep-seated belief systems formed before conscious thought

- Transfers the linear into the expansive, and transforms perceptions of death and dying into expansion, connection, and awareness of soul

INDICATIONS: conformity, self-love, timelessness, money, transformation, authenticity, true path, PTSD

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- Helps us develop a more supportive nature

- Helps us understand the important message of 'paying it forward'

- Helps us find an ideal balance of receptive femininity and assertive masculinity

- Helps us understand that people are part of nature

- Useful for teachers and mentors helping shape the minds of today's students

INDICATIONS: despair, empathy, nature versus nurture, nature deficit, disorder

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- Assists by awakening cellular memory, which is then 'remembered' in dream-time or by disturbances in the connective tissue of the body

- May be thought of as a reconnection to the various soul experiences that brought us to this time and place

INDICATIONS: cellular memory, Alzheimer's disease, concentration

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- This essence is associated with responsibility and flexibility

- Helps us rediscover, own, and release our unproductive patterns

INDICATIONS: deception, denial,  arthritis, discernment, flexibility, responsibility, rigidity

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- Helps us reconnect with the spark of life and carry this torch of awareness down into personal relationships

- Modifies and allows greater expression of masculine and feminine gifts, without judgment of self and others

- Helps bring heart-centered attention to what is important, and encourages awareness of how we can move through the world in a more soulful manner

INDICATIONS: anger, fear, heart, judgement, masculinity

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- Associated with emotional and spiritual constriction

- Useful for individuals whose rigid belief systems have diminished their vitality and energy

- May be useful when emotional rigidity is playing a negative role in immune response

INDICATIONS: belief, cancer, constriction, self-doubt, pineal gland, pituitary, karma, indoctrination, religion, karma

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- Helps to dissipate or move heat when concentrated inappropriately

- Helps individuals who feel trapped in the downside or pressures of life, and envy those who possess charisma and charm

- Helps us add animation and exuberance into performance

INDICATIONS: constriction, distinction, passion, gregariousness, imbalance, introversion, egotism, inspiration, feeling trapped, animation, alchemy

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- Helps us discern whether our anger is the cause or the symptom

- Teaches that anger is a choice; no one makes us angry

INDICATIONS: depression, aliens, anger, temper, guilt, dreams, foreboding, shouting, frustration, victimhood, martyrdom, impatience, agitation, time

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- Helps us cut through false-flattery, deception, and emotional clutter to find what is honest and true for ourselves

- Helps us realize the universal connectedness associated with experiencing true self and connection with soul

- Allows us to accept criticism for what it is - another opinion

INDICATIONS: authenticity, relaxation, envy, obsession, criticism

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- Associated with crises of identity

- Acts as a bridge between the sacral and heart chakras whenever a blockage of energy is present

INDICATIONS: crisis of identity, nervous tension, self-identity, solar plexus

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- Suited for those who identify as explorer, pioneer, trailblazer, groundbreaker

- Brings lightness and grace to those who have long labored at projects that fulfill their soul purpose

- Helps us to feel less restless and anxious and more content on a day-to-day basis

- Helps us to accept the stages of emotion that surround soul connection

INDICATIONS: anxiety, appreciation, depression, envy, melancholy, grace, inertia, pioneering

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- Relates to issues surrounding chastity and lust

- Useful for individuals who have turned away from sexual union as part of their desire for spiritual enlightenment

- Allows us to explore our sexuality without inhibition

INDICATIONS: chastity, sexuality, congestion, constriction, tantra, pain, inflammation, enlightenment, lust

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- Associated with patterns of self-deprecation and fear of success

- Dreams of the dead, death, and dying may occur or already be present

INDICATIONS: self-criticism, conditional love, disintegration, trust, fear of success

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- Helps us deal with frustration and self-pity

- Helps give us a sense of self-renewal and the continued opportunity for soul-based, personal development

- Helps ease the emotional pain of women suffering from empty-nest syndrome

INDICATIONS: boredom, empty nest syndrome, self-pity, stagnation

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- Helps us to deeply reexamine our connecction with the dream state

- Brings a sense of urgency and vitality to the idea of rebirth

- Useful to individuals undergoing shamanic soul retrieval

INDICATIONS: dreams, floods, faith, spirituality, water, rebirth

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- Related to heart-centered feminine qualities, and pessimism, in both sexes

- Helps shift and reshift our internal dialogue in favor of appropriate response to any external stimuli

INDICATIONS: exuberance, feeling overwhelmed, romanticc feelings, criticism, femininity, self-fulfilling prophecy, optimism, pessimism, introversion, martyrdom, gloominess

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- Relates to the conditions of aloneness and loneliness

- Brings awareness to obsessive-compulsive behavior, or any addictive behavior, is an attempt to shut out unpleasant mental or emotional feelings

- Helps us meditate more easily and fin proper balance of calmness from within

INDICATIONS: aloneness, loneliness, neuroses, psychoses, isolation, womb, arrogance, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), attention deficit hperactivity disorder (ADHD)

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- Helps us discover the true path of the soul

- Helps us integrate soul fragments and helps support and nurture long-hidden parts of the soul, repressed by social convention from both present and past lives

INDICATIONS: courage, foolishness, contrariness, transparency, protection, shadow work, soul, vision quests, crying, fasting rituals

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- Helps us appreciate different perspectives on health and healing

- Helps individuals decide for themselves the model of wellness that best suits their own belief system, without guilt or remorse

INDICATIONS: guilt, belief, integration, music, biomedicine, judgment, evidence-based medicine, harmony, dis-ease

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- Related to the restoration of our circadian rhythm in modern life

- May help dissipate the angst, guilt, and self-reprimand associated with early childhood sexual issues

- May help those who engage in or have suffered from self-injury in early exploration of their sexual identity

INDICATIONS: chronic fatigue, circadian rhythm, insomnia, pineal gland, sin, sex

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- Related to subconscious and nonverbal communication skills

- Stuttering

- Supports those who suffer stage fright or are afraid to write, produce, or share their vision with others

INDICATIONS: body language, introversion, self-image, stuttering, stage fright, communication, subconscious, nonverbal, writing

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- Useful when the search for perpetual or regained youth, or the feeling life is passing too quickly, can lead to impetuous action

- Helps us recognize the gift of friendship around us and openly thank friends for their contributions to our lives

INDICATIONS: elder wisdom, midlife crisis, projection, gall bladder, flexibility, friendship

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- Helps us develop a deeper understanding of culture

- Helps us embrace our own culture and revel in its uniqueness and vitality, but also learn to love and accept other cultures and people for their generosity and sharing

- May energetically create more ideal conditions for intestinal floral growth to flourish

INDICATIONS: control, racism, cultural awareness, fear, judgment, shadow work, adoption, abandonment, antibiotics

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- Helps us recognize and challenge our early patterns of socialization and find the path to more conscious awareness

- Being true to self and a more authentic path to soul connection

- Mother / Father absence in childhood

INDICATIONS: repetition, defensiveness, depression, repression, will, dreams, indoctrination, sorrow, feeling, dogs, earthquakes, diamonds