Compassionate Care Giver

Encourages peaceful presence for care givers, loved ones,

and family members of those living with life limiting illness

Indications

• Facilitates the ability to maintain compassionate presence as one helps provide practical care and emotional support during the death journey
• Helps to maintain a steady flow of energetic forces despite the heart stress and physical demands of caregiving for one who is dying
• Encourages the balanced shifting of awareness to the one in need, while maintaining a healthy physical and psychic center
• Opens the heart to another’s suffering, while at the same time cultivating the necessary strength and solidity of one’s own heart forces
• Assists in developing witness consciousness as a balance to the heroic consciousness of being able to fix and save another; leads to realization and acceptance of death as a sacred life passage

Ingredients

• Angelica – Acknowledgment of and receptivity for higher realms beyond physical reality; facilitating the understanding of death as a spiritual opening
• Bleeding Heart – Ability to let go of the physical reality of a loved one, allowing the heart bonds of love and devotion to find a new anchor; ability of the heart to stay present to the dying process despite personal anguish and attachment
• Borage – Assists with states of grief and despondency regarding the impending death of a loved one; helps lift and balance depressed states of sorrow and anguish so that one can be positively present to give care and to serve
• Calendula – The ability to hold a receptive space of compassionate listening and receiving; provides balance for the heroic tendency of needing to fix and save
• Holly – Core activation of the heart; compassionate presence for the suffering of another; counteracts compression of heart forces due to stress, anxiety or fear; ability to know when and how to help another
• Impatiens – Allowing the unfolding and flow of another’s final life journey; patient attendance to the practical and spiritual needs of another in the dying process
• Love-Lies-Bleeding – The serenity of surrender, acceptance of the reality of dying including the pain and suffering of another; allowing the heart to feel grief and letting go, despite anguish and attachment
• Pink Yarrow – Addresses dysfunctional merging; sympathetic bonds that go beyond appropriate boundaries; ability to feel compassion and to serve another in the dying process from a solid core of strength within one’s Self
• Rock Fringe – Depletion and burnout due to the intense needs of one who is dying; learning how to direct and consolidate one’s heart forces to allow replenishment despite overwhelming demands
• Walnut – Strength to move forward and release dysfunctional bonds or familiar habits; acceptance of another’s transition during the dying process
• Yellow Star Tulip  – The ability to move fluidly and gracefully into the soul space of another; empathic attunement by developing an imaginal inner space for the reality of the other; compassionate presence through moving beyond the narrow bounds of one’s own identity and reality
• Essential oils provide a sensory foundation that anchors the qualities of the flower essences. The Compassionate Care Giver formula includes Angelica and Helichrysum to lift the consciousness and allow a higher light-filled awareness; Rose Attar to open the portals of love and compassion in the heart and Lavender to soothe frayed nerves during times of stress and anguish