Flowers, Fruit, Herb Health Benefits and Spiritual Meanings

Flowers and their health + spiritual meanings

🌺Siraitia grosvenorii (Monk fruit)

Health: fruits extracts (SGFE) possess a wide range of pharmacologic and health-promoting properties including immune enhancement, anti-oxidation, anti-diabetes, anti-tumor and anti-inflammation

Spiritual: Good Health.

🌺Jasmine

Health: treat liver disease (hepatitis), pain due to liver scarring (cirrhosis), and abdominal pain due to severe diarrhea (dysentery). It is also used to prevent stroke, to cause relaxation (as a sedative), to heighten sexual desire (as an aphrodisiac), and in cancer treatment

Spiritual: Uses include snakebite and divination; good for charging quartz crystals. Use in sachets and spells to draw spiritual love and attract a soul mate. Carry or burn the flowers to draw wealth and money. Use in dream pillows to induce sleep or burn in the bedroom to bring prophetic dreams. Helps to promote new, innovative ideas.

🌺Sophora Japonica

Health: promotes healthy blood vessels, it also promotes overall cardiovascular system health. It supports normal heartbeat and helps create an environment that’s less susceptible to blood clot formation. Ease menopause symptoms. Stop bleeding. Anti-hemorragic and anti-hemostatic.

Spiritual: keep away ghosts and evil, protect against the evil eye, and to keep unwanted visitors from your home.

🌺Lemon

Health: aid weight loss and reduce your risk of heart disease, anemia, kidney stones, digestive issues, and cancer.

Spiritual:In bible terms lemons are associated with hope, fertility, perfection, and abundance in the upcoming agriculture year.

Light, love, heart, and soul. They also attract good fortune and help people embrace changes.

Purpose, action and clarity

Longevity, purification, refreshment, unity, clarity, friendship, happiness, aura cleansing, rejuvenation, improved consciousness, love, and fidelity.

🌺Calendula officinalis (Marigold)

Health: antibacterial, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor and antioxidant properties.

Spiritual: positivity and happiness. This flower is associated with fire energy. Sacred affection, joy, remembrance, grief

🌺Mallow flower

Health:anti-inflammatory and antiseptic properties, mallow flower extract is especially helpful for treating acne and skin irritation. Research has shown that it can even help with eczema flare ups, psoriasis, and wound healing. Mallow extract also contains high doses of flavonoids, as well as vitamins C and E.

People use the flower and leaf to make medicine. Mallow is used for irritation of the mouth and throat, dry cough, and bronchitis

Speed wound healing, protect against infection, reduce inflammation, reduce signs of aging, improve respiratory health, optimize digestive functions, improve sleep, and treat headaches.

Spiritual: Used to soften up inflexible mental attitudes, and for those who are hard hearted and unable to feel their own emotions. Ruled by the planet Venus, this flower is also associated with love

🌺(colorful) Chrysanthemum

Health: used to treat chest pain (angina), high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, fever, cold, headache, dizziness, and swelling. In combination with other herbs, chrysanthemum is also used to treat prostate cancer.

Spiritual: Happiness, Love, Longevity and Joy

🌺Don’t forget me (Forget-Me-Not)

Health: can be used to stop the bleeding (use it externally), as a remedy for eye conditions. The whole plant is used to make medicine. Despite safety concerns, people take forget-me-not for lung problems and nosebleeds.

Spiritual: remembrance ―not only associated with love, but for those we've lost. Forget-me-nots also symbolize protection and luck, it's believed that they have the power to protect humans against witches.

🌺 Lemongrass

Health: prevent the growth of some bacteria and yeast. Lemongrass also contains substances that are thought to relieve pain and swelling, reduce fever, improve levels of sugar and cholesterol in the blood, stimulate the uterus and menstrual flow, and have antioxidant properties.

Antioxidant properties · antimicrobial properties · anti-inflammatory properties · may reduce your cancer risk.

The leaves and the oil are used to make medicine.

Lemongrass is used for treating digestive tract spasms, stomachache, high blood pressure, convulsions, pain, vomiting, cough, achy joints (rheumatism), fever, the common cold, and exhaustion. It is also used to kill germs and as a mild astringent.

Some people apply lemongrass and its essential oil directly to the skin for headache, stomachache, abdominal pain, and muscle pain.

Spiritual: Psychic cleansing and opening, lust potions.

🌺Rose petals

Health: Reducing Anxiety.

A cup of rose tea can help to soothe anxiety and reduce stress. ...Improving Digestion. ...Soothing Menstrual Cramps. ...High in Antioxidants. ...Contains Antimicrobial Properties. ...Reducing Inflammation. ...High in Antioxidants. ...High in Vitamin C.

Rose petals contain polyphenols, antioxidants that work to protect your body from cell damage.

Spiritual: Romance, love, gratitude, grace, joy, sex, desire and admiration.

🌺Lavender

Health: Insomnia. Lavender was recommended for people suffering from insomnia or other sleep disorders. ...Anxiety. Lavender may also provide support for people with anxiety. ...Hair loss. ...Headaches and migraine. ...Chemotherapy side effects. Depression. ...Acne. ...Burns.

Spiritual: love, protection, healing, sleep, purification, and peace. Promotes healing from depression. Great in sleep pillows and bath spells. Believed to preserve chastity when mixed with rosemary. Burn the flowers to induce sleep and rest, then scatter the ashes around the home to bring peace and harmony

🌺Foetus Chrysanthemum

Health: In traditional Chinese medicine, chrysanthemum tea is known for its cooling and calming properties. It’s used to reduce a fever and improve cold or respiratory symptoms. It’s also reported to possess anti-inflammatory, sedative, anti-hypertensive and anti-arthritis effects.

• Eye health

Spiritual: Happiness, fidelity, honesty and friendship

🌺Red plum

Health: The Chinese people have been using these flowers for centuries, in order to treat numerous health issues, especially digestive problems, ulcers, and parasites. Also, they have a particular role in blood purification and detoxification.

Spiritual: Celebrated as a protective charm against evil

🌺Rose

Health: Antibacterial. Anti-inflammatory. Antioxidants. Moisturizing. Naturally fragrant. Relaxing. Toning.

Spiritual: Rose buds help soften our energy and open us up to the energy of love

🌺Lily

Health: remedies for nasal congestion and nausea.

• The bulb is diuretic (for increasing urine), anti-inflammatory (for relieving pain), emollient (for moisturizing), emmenagogue (for stimulating menstrual flow), and expectorant (for releasing mucus by coughing). For lungs, they have a sedative effect and are used to treat cough and tuberculosis.

• In Korea, these are used in traditional medicine for sore throats, boils, palpitations, bronchitis, and pneumonia, to name a few.

• used to treat heart diseases, angina pectoris (chest pain due to coronary heart disease), and to relieve pain in the cardiac region.

• The tiger lily flowers, with stamen removed, has a carminative property, meaning it relieves flatulence.

• The flowers also help in treating myopic astigmatism and bring back the strength of eyelid muscles.

• The tincture gathered in the flowers are used in the therapy of uterine neuralgia (damage or irritation of a main nerve in the pelvis). It also helps in congestion, irritation, and pregnancy-induced nausea. Tincture also aids in reducing the inflammation of the pelvis and vagina, as well as relief from fibroids, menstrual and menopausal pains.

• Tiger lily is also important in relieving pain from uterine prolapse, and ovarian neuralgia.

• The flower essence is naturopathic as it aids in suppressing or calming aggressive tendencies in individuals. It also helps in relieving anxiety, stress, and depression, when incorporated in a soup, used as a tea, or packed as perfumes.

Spiritual: Pride, Confidence and Wealth

🌺Albizia flower

Health: relieve stress and anxiety, improve symptoms of depression, stimulate the circulatory system, reduce signs of aging, prevent certain chronic illnesses, help digestive issues, lower cholesterol, prevent respiratory distress, and eliminate inflammation in various parts of the body.

Spiritual: Calms the Spirit

🌺Fig

Health: 1. Promote digestive health

2. May improve vascular and heart health

3. Potential anticancer properties

4. May promote healthy skin

5. May help manage blood sugar levels

Spiritual: strength, faith and enlightenment

🌺Peony

Health: Peony is used for gout, osteoarthritis, fever, respiratory tract illnesses, and cough. Women use peony for menstrual cramps, polycystic ovary syndrome, premenstrual syndrome (PMS), and for starting menstruation or causing an abortion. Promoting liver health. Reduce pain and inflammation. Peonies are recommended in cases of irritability and restlessness.

Spiritual: Protection from hexes and jinxes. Good luck, good fortune, prosperity, and business success. Hang in the home or car for protection. Used to attract fairies. Use in rituals to cure or reduce lunacy. Also:Peony Root (Paeonia suffruticosa)

🌺Lotus seed heart

Health: Lotus seeds bring an extremely good intake of protein to help the development of brain and nervous system of fetuses. Therefore, Lotus seed is highly recommended for pregnant women. effectively promote blood coagulation and maintain muscle flexibility. helps in maintaining the nerve’s cognitive function.

Spiritual: purity, enlightenment, self-regeneration and rebirth.

🌺Gomphrena

Health: Anti Bacterial Properties. Anti Fungal Properties. Antioxidant Properties. Detoxifying & Purifying Properties. For Treating High Blood Pressure & Diabetes

Spiritual: sacred to Huitzilopochtli, an Aztec Sun God and is a suitable offering to Artemis and Demeter. used to call forth the dead.

Immortality and endless love.

🌺Orchid

Health: Increases Immunity · Beneficial for Skin Health · Cures Ulcers · Enhances Eyesight · Aids digestion · Relieves Stress.

Spiritual: beauty, elegance, love, sexuality and fertility, luxury and wealth, and uniqueness.

Research on Morgue work

Lately I have taken a unique interest in wanting to know what it would be like to work in a morgue, mortuary, or funeral home....

Although this is a topic mostly seen by society as taboo, it is the epitome of the vision of death, a culmination in fact - "the end stage(s)" to be precise, a ceremony in a way... to certify "the end".

Similar to the fact that we use the toilet several times a day with not so much thought as to what is going on under those sewer pipes under the ground... the whole process, the people who make the toilet system a possibility every day, and the careers associated with that.

I did research on YouTube, across the web, and local research about career possibilities in the field with my local county coroner office, and the requirements seem to be varied? 

I have seen some morgues accept medical examiner workers with not so much as a high school diploma and interest in working alongside dead bodies on a 24/7 hourly shift basis, 

my local county coroner office as I have read has high standard requirements that an applicant be currently enrolled in Medical or Arts major in Post secondary school and that internships are "fierce competition" for forensic sciences, medical examiner, lab technician work... I have also learned of another occupation, a mortician, which embalms a dead body to prepare for a family viewing at a funeral. 

One lady I saw her interview on YouTube, she started off first in medical school, then began work in a funeral home and later received an embalming license to begin work as a mortician at a funeral home.

All of these studies have opened my eyes in a very very intense way, the pure and raw truth. To completely confront the end of life as we know it, and to still take care of these bodies and resolve mysteries?... it takes a lot of guts. 

For me personally, an enhanced connection with God, and with every single breath - an appreciation and grateful attitude for life. ...to get to the nitty-gritty and understand "What Really Matters?!?" 

To be completely serious and literally stare death in the face and understand, this life is so precious... What will I do with it? What will I focus my mind on, my emotions, my soul, my time, my heart, my actions?

I will ask myself with every decision - Is it really worth it? Along the journey? In the end?

~ so breathe, meditate, & 

be sooo thankful for yet another day!!! ~

Another day to do better than yesterday, another day to live, to breathe, to smile, to see the sun, snow, or rain, another day to pray, to talk to a loved one, to do that thing you know you need to do but have been putting off for whatever reason, to make another effort in the right direction... 

A present 💝, hope, 

to all life every moment & every day!!! ✨🌱 ✨ Life ❤️

Do your very best!!! Don't waste it!!!!!

Tips: How to be your own best company

A few tips on how to be your own best company and best friend... 

* take yourself to dine alone at a fancy restaurant as a special treat (best to take order to-go during covid-19 situation we find ourselves in and dine at home if possible, also an option to order from the restaurant on a third party app like Uber Eats)

 * buy flowers or a plant you like for yourself (or as a gift for someone else) 

 * learn a new language or brush up on one (especially second generation individual (like me (:+)/ ) /if you are traveling to a new foreign country soon) 

 * Take sometime outside the house in the morning, sit down, stand, or walk around a bit - to breathe in the fresh morning air and just think - 

 * Take a walk in the daytime, morning, afternoon, around the neighborhood or at a park (breathe in deeply, take in the surrounding nature, and helps to think more clearly about other issues you are facing in day-to-day life and/or decisions) 

 * Brush up on skin care, hair care, self-care routine 

 * Pray, reflect in journal writing and/or blog writing 

 * Write down plans and goals that you've had and hadn't really gotten around to, and brainstorm on ways to materialize and incorporate those goals in your life 

 * Discover talents or interests you may not have known you had - learn something new or brush up new skills of what you already know, listen to new music, visit somewhere new that interests you 

 * Take a warm bubble bath break for about an hour with candles, epsom salt, relaxing music and just forget the world for a moment 

 * Write a list of things you have accomplished and another list of everything you are grateful for until you get tired of writing/typing, look over everything and smile, also a pat on the back (optional) 

* Write down and think about something you have learned today or recently 

 * Do a random act of kindness, even if you need to force yourself and get out of your comfort zone

The Power of Gratefulness

 While listening to a podcast on Spotify of Ologies with Alie Ward which my sister recommended to me ( Thank you sis!! :)  )  

about Gratefulness and how Happiness actually creates success and not the other way around. <------ *Super important to take note!* 

HAPPINESS = SUCCESS         SUCCESS ≠ HAPPINESS

Also today I just watched a class with Renato Cardoso on Youtube about being grateful, even for the littlest things that seem insignificant. 

Being grateful for the time right now, everything we have right now.

Gratefulness allows us to recognize what we have, what we have achieved until now, and how wonderful things are with what we have.

And just taking a picture at the logic of gratefulness -

 

what does it matter to achieve or receive things we long for if we are not even grateful for what we have already received?

We must be grateful for what we have before we can be fully grateful for what we hope to receive

I wish I could tattoo this into my brain, 

A grateful attitude leads to Happiness and Happiness leads to success and not vice-versa!!

Career during COVID 2020/2021

Some Highlights about career changes during the COVID-19 pandemic and what that means for the overall social fabric.

This pandemic is Globally widespread, so the effects on the social fabric are across the entire scale, encompassing nearly every part of the world.

(I'll basically be pointing out the obvious, but please bear with me here)

1st - Healthcare 

aggressive boom in demand

The Healthcare field already had great demand way before the COVID-19 pandemic began, 

now even more so in an astounding increase in jobs needed to be filled based on demand for anything from COVID testing to hospitalization, not mentioning the whole plethora of other maladies needing attention from Health workers.

Also I see this trend is to most likely to continue increasing over the year 2021, as vaccines are very new & in limited supply and the pandemic is worldwide, which takes even more time to reach everyone who may be in need. 

Not to mention what a vaccine cannot cure, that is, speaking about mental/emotional health. 

Along with the pressures of the effects of the COVID pandemic, many lost work, and the general addition of stress & pressure has led to the divorce of couples, strain on families, and close connections. 

(six feet social distancing + lay offs/furloughs/home evictions + more time on internet/less in person + home delivery fees/extra expenses + less apparent options for stress relief/"going out" + etc... = widespread mental health decline)

2nd - Technology trades 

enormous boom in demand

So not much needed to be said here but six feet social distancing

Definitely this field was already growing in demand over the years at an aggressive pace, now with the pandemic, we see :

contactless pay for debit/credit cards is more popular, "Home Office", Virtual meetings/interviews, Using a wide variety of mobile applications to accomplish a variety of things, delivery services, etc.... 

Now technology is more of a necessity than ever and there needs to be enough workers to meet that demand. 

Plus, adding in the fact that the Healthcare field is deeply intertwined and dependent on the Technology field just adds even more aggressively on that demand.

3rd - Textile Industry

boom in demand & new competition

This one is pretty simple to answer why demand has boosted a bunch and competition has spurred in a way no one could have previously expected - Face Masks! 😷

Basically everyone who is looking to protect themselves from possibly contracting the insidious COVID-19 Virus, which can first appear to have no symptoms and later develop within two weeks.... now everyone is in need of a Face Mask to protect themselves from this unpredictably sly virus.

Businesses in-person + 

Public Institutions

Along with all these changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, business that were in-person anything from nail salons to grocery stores now need to adapt and "dance to the rhythm of the music" or risk losing out on profits from naturally health conscious clients. 

Some adoptions are placed by the government, such as limitations in the amount of persons in one building/space. 

Other adoptions are pure adaptations, such as appointment-only services, delivery services, and pick-up services (ex: restaurants).

Public Institutions have also adhered and implemented these adaptations, such as placing appointment-only sites (DMV, etc...), limiting capacity of people in one building/space, and encouraging the public to complete service requests/applications online.

Theme parks/ Recreational Centers/ Gyms/ Libraries/ Bars

Ordained by the government to limit capacity of people in one building/space, also great need in  increase of sanitization practices.

beautiful

It was so sunny the day I took this picture, i hardly knew what I was really taking a picture of, but now looking back at it in my photo gallery it came out so beautiful.

Also this one as well