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The Language of Flowers

More interested in treats without the tricks? Maybe you need to start a new self-love ritual based in the beauty of flowers. In Victorian times, artists like Kate Greenaway illustrated books listing the traditional and modern meanings of flowers. Friends and lovers then sent coded messages via floral gifts. Each L’Elisir di Fiori organic elixir features an single kind of edible flower featured in these Victorian guides, and each tea and elixir ampule set offers a different benefit. Even though our gardens have shed their leaves and are tucking themselves in for a long rest, we can still enjoy the bright beauty of gardens in all their glory with each steaming cup of these cheering brews.

How can one choose among the delightful options? Pink carnation is associated with a mother's love and is good for soothing parental anxieties relating to children. Marigolds are said to aid in creativity and in the drive to succeed, making them good for artists, writers and students of all kinds. Begonias lead to harmonious communications; chrysanthemums encourage enduring friendship and cheerfulness; violas are said to engender loving thoughts. Cheerful lilacs boost confidence, while elegant peonies are said to draw honor, wealth and riches.

Choose the tea that suits your hopes or your attitude, or just drink them for their unusual flavors and enjoy the rituals of opening, brewing, scattering petals and breaking open tiny shimmering ampules of flavor and scent to be poured into your steaming cup. Each box contains six silk tisanes lovingly filled and sewn by a band of forest-dwelling witches, and six ampules of elixir brewed, blended and decanted while pagan priestesses whisper incantations over them by the light of a full moon.

—Mari-Antonia Bourbonne, Food, Beverage & Inhalables Explorer

Tricks and Treats

Halloween is traditionally a time of both delights and surprises. Some surprises (like a great treat in your goody bag) are welcome; others, not so much. But why wait to see what fortune brings you? Treat yourself to some new mind-expanding tricks as you view the world through the gilded lenses of Blenzes, Bianca Schplenditzowitz’s fabulous new mood-changing goggles. Get a whole new view of the world through her glistening, glowing, mood-altering lenses. These self-illuminating lenses use optics and electronics to blend the hard edges of the world into a multicolored, freeflowing shimmerscape without the need for chemicals or dissociation from reality. They take relaxing, bathing or intimate experiences to otherworldly realms and open up the mind to new possibilities of seeing. Sex therapist Tamzin Zingzing recommends their use in her “Zing Along with Tamzin” podcasts. But take care: Blenzes do blend the edges of visible reality dramatically, so their use is not recommended while you’re upright and in motion.

Pour a Little Sugar on It

Though autumn is ambling toward us, we’re still embracing the last glorious days of summer. Happily, summer sunshine often lasts into the first weeks of autumn, so you have time for a last hurrah. Though the days will soon grow cooler, there’s no reason for us to lose the flattering sparkle and warm glow that summer brought our way. But how to keep that shimmer going strong all autumn long? Oh, darling, let me tell you.

We all know about contouring and highlighting for the face, but have you considered spine strobing and clavicle illumination? These are the latest ways to celebrate the sublime meeting of skin and sunshine. Buttersworth of Boston’s new Structural Shimmer Kit comes with everything you need to show your skeletal curves and angles to their best advantage. Just drag the mini feather duster applicator across the special Calling All Collar Bones shimmer-pop light-diffusing pearlized skin illuminizer, then touch the feathery tips to your clavicles. The result: instant allure! Bonus treat: Add a touch of their Sugar Crystal Toppings Powder (included) for a sugary crystalline sparkle—no glitter, just a look like miniaturized diamonds dancing on your body. Calling All Collar Bones will also enhance your bone structure in winter when your cleavage and shoulders make a comeback in holiday attire. Best of all, this shimmer dust looks as delicious on elegant ebony and heavenly honey-toned skins as it does on creamy-skinned babes.

Looking forward to wearing your favorite backless frock one more time this season? Don’t forget to illuminate the dots of your spine with Zingzing’s new Vertebrite Dust. Before you dress, simply drag their exclusive feather-boa applicator through the illuminating powder, then align the boa with your spine and draw the applicator upward. Instantly, miraculously, your spine will shine. Wait one minute, then dress as usual. Instant spinal uplift! You’ll stand straighter and feel taller just knowing your sporting that bold, backless bling.

The old saying says that blondes have more fun, but no—bodacious brunettes, silver-haired stunners and the bold and beautiful raven-haired among us need never miss out on the fun of shimmer and shine. The Metallery’s Sashay Bronzay spray gives brown hair the rich, sculptural glow of a Rodin bronze. Their Plush Patinizer spray gives grey locks a puff of platinum sheen. Raven and Ravishing gives a patent-leather shine to black hair of every texture. The Metallery’s innovative nontoxic spray technology involves no propellants other than air; all shimmers are finely milled mica mixed with organic, nontoxic dyes. Just hold their soft organic cotton mask up to your face before you spray to keep the mist away from your face and airways. Then, shine on!

—Starryn Fairchylde, Ur Empath & Insight Channeler

Good Vibrations: Balancing Your Home’s Energies

Keeping a balanced, energy-aligned home is critical to finding contentment, feeling compassion and accessing the disciplined part of yourself that allows you to follow the path that will lead to achievement of life goals. To find and sustain a balanced home, you need to balance the air, the light and the resonant energies that keep you in tune with your living space. We recommend the Vibranze Home Energy Resonator for maximal home-space satisfaction.

Filling your home with appropriate energy is surprisingly easy: First, fill the Vibaqua fluid reservoir of the Vibranze Resonance Conversion Base Unit with the Force Majeure Energie Oil. Then, hold the Laughing Echo Cone up to your face and laugh deeply into the cone to capture joyous energies. Next, place the cone in the Vibranze Resonance Conversion Base Unit and turn on the EnergiePlus Synthesizer. In just 17 minutes, the positive energy from your laughter is imbued into the very air that fills your home. The vibrations send microbeads of Force Majeur Energie into the tiniest crevices of your home, leaving your floors glowing and your eyes tingling.

Look around your glowing home; feel the good vibrations; smell the joyous essence of turmeric, ginger and frangipani. Be at one with your space and let your energies float seamlessly from room to room. While we can’t guarantee an out-of-body experience, you promise that it will leave you feeling out of this world, or your money back.

—Nagine Xavier-Woo, New Technologies Revelator

Super Scandi Scrub & a Fresh-Faced, Finnish Finish

Once you’ve properly grounded yourself with your Sea-Calm stone and become at one with yourself, sand your skin smooth and buff your very soul with Elvehøj’s Elf-Mound Danish Body Scrub. The twigs, leaves and microgravel in this invigorating scrub come from genuine elf-mounds discovered in Hedehusene-Fløng, Denmark. Local artisans only gather the ingredients by the light of a gibbous moon, then hand-grind them slowly with large mortars and pestles hewn from Danish sea rocks until they reach the perfect size and texture. These perfect natural abrasives are then carefully combined with soothing kelp-based gels and a bit of bracing Danish akvavit to give your body a welcome wake-up.

Now that your body feels fresh and tingly, treat your face to an altogether new revitalizing experience. The Uusikaupunki Birch Pulp Face Mask will help you turn back time and make the age rings around your eyes and mouth recede into the mists of the primordial birch forests. The Finns are famous for clean, clear skin, which is kept unblemished and lovely by regular visits to steamy saunas, then scraped with astringent birch bark (which is also the source of aspirin), then bathed in cold-water dips to tighten up freshly cleaned pores. Finland is also famed for its forests, and the area around Uusikaupunki has been known for its woodworking and salt since the early Middle Ages.

Now you can combine the benefits of Finland’s natural wonders by applying the Uusikaupunki Birch Pulp Face Mask to your own freshly steamed face each week. First, pop the supplied CD featuring Finnish elders reading the Kalevala, the epic folktale of Finland, into your CD player (or download the free MP3 version) to get you into the right headspace. Next, give your face a mini-sauna by steaming it for five to ten minutes over a boiling pan of Uusikaupunki Birch Broth.

Then, while your pores are open and your head is full of the story of Väinämöinen's reign, slather on a generous coat of the wonderfully fragrant mask made of birch pulp, Finnish wild clay, natural Finnish salts and Mycopunkiplexacin™, a proprietary blend of skin-plumping nucleopeptides derived from fermented wild Finnish mushrooms. The acetylsalicylic acid in the birch pulp soothes your delicate facial skin, the wild clay draws out impurities, the salts remind your cells of their ancient ties to the earth and the Mycopunkiplexacin melts away age rings and deeper lines and wrinkles.

After 20 minutes of experiencing the Uusikaupunki magic, your face will feel firmer and you’ll feel the stirrings of hardy, smooth-skinned reindeer-herders in your breast.

—Yonia Cuervo, Natural Products Guru

Rock On

Nothing grounds a person more effectively than rocks. Before you get to work on resetting and rejuvenating, you must ground yourself to get the greatest benefit from your efforts by finding and binding yourself to the right rocks. Yes, it’s true—just any old rock won’t do. You need a smooth, sensuous stone that feels good in the hand, one chosen with care by experts in geologic resonance and mineral harmonics.

RagnarRoxx of Trondheim is a Norwegian collective of spiritual geologists who searching along beaches, spelunk in caves and climb ice-covered mountains in search of just the right rocks and stones. They gather stones smoothed by nature and formed from the very living rock of ancient ages, then immerse their treasured finds in pools of North Sea water enriched with a proprietary blend of Norwegian meadow herbs. Owners Astrid Olofsdotter Wulfhild and Ragnar Snorri Sturluson then nestle each Sea-Calm Stone in a hand-crafted birch box lined with aged Norwegian forest moss and set the boxes adrift along the fjords of their homeland. After a week’s wander through Nordic waterways, the stones are perfectly balanced, spirit-enriched and ready for you.

As soon as you unbox your Sea-Calm Stone from RagnarRoxx, cradle it in your hands and give it a name. As you sit cross-legged, cradle your ancient stone against your chest and feel its power radiating throughout your body. As it imbues you with its power and calibrates itself to your own, its ability to ground and center you will increase. With regular use, your Sea-Calm Stone will bring you inner refreshment, like a dip in a calming Norwegian waterway.

—DeVian Norris-Snubb, Innovation Hub-Mistress & New Product Visionary

Scandinavian Spring Cleaning

You may have noticed that among tastemakers and beauty influencers, the hottest thing in cleansing is cold water—ice cold. The Skyllynsprigge Instant Ice Bath is a fabulous toning product that will extend the benefits of your elf-mound body scrub, birch broth and woodpulp face mask.

After you cleanse, scrub and masque your face, experience Skyllynsprigge, the Icelandic sensation. Pure Icelandic water bubbles up from hot springs and is then slow-chilled to ten degrees below zero Celsius. Its mineral components are left unaltered and it is shipped around the world in chilled stainless steel vats. It comes to you in a temperature-controlled, vacuum-sealed canteen.

The benefits of this pampered water will be immediately evident in the way its icy minerals dissolve into your freshly-cleansed pores and seamlessly combine with your own molecules. You’ll feel an immediate boost of energy more powerful and elemental than any triple-shot macchiato. Wash with Skyllysprigge each morning and you’ll find the energy it imparts is natural and long-lasting, and it won’t leave you with caffeine jitters or a coffee-withdrawal headache.

—Mari-Antonia Bourbonne, Food, Beverage & Inhalables Explorer

Taking a Liking to Lichen

It’s time to wrap up your Scandi spring cleansing and toning rituals with Sámi Secret Lichen and Berry Spritz. Lichen are among earth’s oldest living organisms and berries bespeak the fresh ripeness of the moment. This anytime mist incorporates both the old-as-time earthly wisdom and antioxidant power of ancient lichen, who live by creating symbiotic relationships with other plants, with the light berry fragrance and blush color that bring to mind a seize-the-moment immediacy of summer berry-picking adventures.

Reindeer lichen in Sámi Secret Lichen and Berry Spritz are used in cultures around the world to soothe and heal. Why not put them to work on your skin to promote skin health and a glowing, balanced and harmonious vibe? The Nordic berry aromatherapy essence will lift your spirits and the ancient lichen will ground your soul, helping you to feel the pulsing energy of this blessed Earth from your toes to your crown.

Sámi Secret products are made to honor the Sámi, the aboriginal people of Northern Sweden, Norway and Finland, who have often suffered discrimination and been dispossessed of their lands. But whatever your ancestry, cultural background or personal history, the healing elements of the Nordic regions can bring you closer to Mother Earth and encourage a sense of well-being, harmony and hygge. As the Finns say, “Tervetuloa”—welcome to the new, beautiful you.

—Starryn Fairchylde, Ur Empath & Insight Channeler

Fur & Hair: Here, There & Everywhere

Your hair can support a healthy aura, or it can act as a net that traps environmental and spiritual impurities. No amount of sodium lauryl sulfate can wash away tainted thoughts or a clogged spirit. If you’re feeling greasy inside and out, clear away negative energies by using your body’s own lymphatic system. With our exclusive custom-created Lymphia Gel cleansing program, you can put medical technology to work to leave you with free-flowing chi and free-flowing hair.

The Lymphia introductory kit allows you to take a sample of your own blood, which you send directly to our Swiss laboratory using the provided postage-paid mailer. There, trained Swiss technicians separate lymph from blood cells and use the lymph as the basis of a customized cleansing and revitalizing gel that leaves you with glowing highlights and well-balanced chi. You’ll be amazed at the resulting shampoo. Its rich lather is color-friendly and gentle on your scalp, but tough on energy clogs.

Speaking of clogs, cat furballs are a sign of not just too much loose fur but also of energy blockages within your cat’s soul-engine. Give your cat a tune up and the equivalent of an oil change to flush away impurities that cause fur balls, which lead to unhealthy energy surges. Such surges cause middle-of-the-night activity bursts, and vertical chi explosions that raise your cat’s spiritual energies above her head so that she is driven to crawl up drapes and Venetian blinds in order to try to reclaim them.

The Feline Soul Support Belt is a comfortable, stretchy belt created to wrap your cat’s torso in comfort. While your cat sleeps, the gentle pressure of the belt suppresses and redirects the misdirected energy that results in unwanted activity. It also limits late-night tummy licking, which is known to result in particularly nasty and badly timed hairball expression episodes.

Freeflowing hair and fluffy fur are blessed, beautiful symbols of joy. Let Your Search Within help you keep your locks and your animal-friends’ follicles happy and healthy.

—Nagine Xavier-Woo, New Technologies Revelator

Share Some Fuzzbuzzery with Your Valentine

Romance is the name of the Valentine’s Day game, and bringing more warmth into your world is a noble goal for any natural product line. The Fuzzbuzzery will heat up your romantic game with the latest in electronic gadgetry, but not in the way you think. Their products won’t curl your hair or your toes, but they’ll stimulate your inner energy centers and will intensify your feelings of wellness, compassion and connectedness. They do this not by sexual stimulation but by increasing the amount of flow between your bodily energy channels and by enhancing your radiant energy levels.

Their signature product is the PsalmPalmery, a pair of electronic prayer gloves. Just charge them in their PalmDok. Settle into a prayerful position and feel the unblocking of energy. While PsalmPalmery’s benefits are great even when in solitary use, their value increases exponentially when used to connect with the energy centers of your partner. Just pair them to corresponding gloves on your loved one’s hands using their wifi-enabled smartphone app and feel the bliss of simultaneous electronic energy attunement and wifi-connected, endorphin-boosting synergistic equilibrium. You’ll feel closer and better understood by your partner before you can say “Om.”

—DeVian Norris-Snubb, Innovation Hub-Mistress & New Product Visionary

Gild the Lily and Relax with Bathdrank

January is a great time to celebrate existing connections with dear friends and anticipate the new adventures to come. To spark the golden glow of friendship on dark winter nights, invite your friends over for wine, food and music. Once you’re feeling mellow, gather in a central location to celebrate togetherness in an altogether different way. Create light in the darkness with a Your Search Within exclusive: the Gilding the Lily Beeswax and Gold Balancing Body Elixir™. When people are feeling warm and friendly, encourage them to shed their clothes and partake of a shimmering bonding and enriching event.

Having shed your inhibitions and clothes and become one with the darkness and each other, you’re now ready for a ritual wash. Scrub and wash away the remnants of the golden Gilding the Lily wax in which you’ve cleansed your body and soul, and then you and your friends can enter the hot tub for a glorious final cleansing under the cold, dark night sky. As the steaming waters melt away the cares of the year, it’s time to share in Bathdrank™, Your Search Within’s exclusive nutrient-rich rehydrator created especially to be enjoyed while you bathe.

Bathdrank refills and refreshes from within. Rare Fijian vegetal infusions, Hawaiian lava dust, trace minerals, Amazonian clay, Basque herbs and South African fynbos petals combine with a heavy-water base to and become your revivifying Bathdrank. With just a few sips, you’ll recapture vital energy and feel a deep and lasting resonance with the earth while you float. As your bath soothes and relaxes you, it prepares your body to receive and combine energies with the powerful potion created by trained healers from around the world.

—Yonia Cuervo, Natural Products Guru

Mother Moon’s Own Magical Macarons

Solstice gatherings are a perfect time to mull some wine. I like to start with a nice bottle of Chateau Lafite Rothschild Pauillac 2010, pouring it into a pot and adding a cheesecloth spice bag full of cloves, cinnamon sticks and grated nutmeg, then adding clementine slices. I use one bottle for every four guests.

Next, set out the treats. FemmeFoodz® of Portland, Oregon, makes an array of healthful, soul-enriching treats fit for any gathering. Their Atlantis Kelp and Seaweed Crisps bring the power of the dark ocean to your gathering. Greatness of Gaia Flatbread’s ancient grains, honeyed figs and moonlight-harvested chia seeds bring the golden goodness of the land. Skyward Flight dried stone fruits are all harvested from the upper 20% of their trees, capturing the greatest amount of enriching sunlight and carrying the soft sweetness of sun-filled clouds into your Solstice.

Best of all, Your Search Within presents FemmeFoodz’s divine Phases of the Moon Macarons. Each Waxing Moon Macaron features salted parsnip-flavored wafers filled with a caramelized onion, chicory and Vegemite filling. The saltiness will remind you of the tide of blessings that Mother Moon brings into our lives each month. The Waning Moon Macaron evokes the bittersweetness that comes when Mother Moon hides herself away each month. Waning Moon Macarons are flavored with beetroot juice, beet sugar syrup, cranberry juice, sunflower seed butter and the tears of a chestnut mare. Each box of Phases of the Moon Macarons comes with an assortment of dried petals for you to spread before your guests as you celebrate the glowing of the moon rising within.

Now, add some music. Live music makes for a livelier party, so my solstice gatherings include a hammer dulcimer player in the conservatory, a string quartet in the living room, a jazz flautist near the buffet in the grotto near the indoor pool and a pan flute player in the hallway just outside the loo in the pool cabana.

—Mari-Antonia Bourbonne, Food, Beverage & Inhalables Explorer

Embrace Your Yoniberry, Baby

As the sun sets earlier in the evenings and the golden glow of fireplaces and candles warms our skin and our hearts, we gather together earlier and cuddle closer to celebrate a season full of hygge, the Danish concept encompassing the ideas of cozy comfort, wellness and contentment. Yes, one can celebrate the season in happy near-solitude, sitting before the fire in her chalet with a soft cashmere wrap, a cup of Parisian drinking chocolate and her Lhasa Apso at her side. But the Winter Solstice comes during a season of conviviality, and expanding your circle of light to encompass friends, family and visiting healers and illuminators brings extra benefits and blessings during this time of long, dark nights.

To prepare for your Solstice gathering, set aside an hour for yourself early in the day to balance your energies and prepare your body, heart and mind to be receptive to the magic that comes with Solstice Night. Once you feel fully centered and present, it’s time to focus on the core of your being and the source of your feminine energies: your yoni. Begin by introducing your yoni to the Your Search Within Toning Sphere. This ripe, red, squishable yoniberry helps you focus your mind and musculature on your center. Once your yoni feels lithe and lively, add the Vital Stars™. These tingling tools will help you pinpoint your energies and guarantee that your mind doesn’t stray from the core of your being.

If you were born without a physical yoni but still feel the power of the Goddess within you, you can still benefit from the Toning Sphere and the Vital Stars: just lie on your back and align the stars from your pelvic region to your navel, then place the orb between your knees and lift your feet up toward the stars. You’ll feel the gravitational pull of your spirit-yoni gathering energies from the heavens above and the earth below, elevating your feminine energies until you cry out in an ecstatic yawp of female power.

Set aside your sphere and stars and meditate until you see a pink-and-gold aura or for 30 minutes, whichever comes first. Now you’re ready to put the finishing touches to your home in preparation for your guests.

—Starryn Fairchylde, Ur Empath & Insight Channeler

Namaste!

“The divine spirit within me honors to the divine spirit within you.” That’s a rough English translation of namaste, the Sanskrit greeting we share when we gather together for yoga classes, spiritual centering exercises and other efforts to become at one with the universe. When we speak this salutation aloud we often lift our hands and face our palms toward each other in a prayerful way.

We do this to express the sense that there is a holiness and a purity of intention behind our gesture. It is said that greeting each other in this way creates a freeflowing river of bliss that passes between us and those at whom we aim our salutations. Our heart centers are said to connect as we speak, and when we feel this perfect union of intention and awareness. We feel a strength and energy at the core of ourselves, traveling up and down our spines. This sacred sacral energy allows each of us to create positive spiritual power that transcends each body and links us to the spiritual flow of others around us.

In order to pass along this powerful spiritual energy, your body, heart and mind must be in tune with each other. As with a car, a body needs to be in alignment. When your essential energy is blocked, your inner light dims. Your energy flows misalign, and that causes blow-outs in other bodily and spiritual systems. If you don’t want your heart center to corrode like a bad spark plug, you must undertake regular spiritual energy maintenance procedures to keep your soul-engine running smoothly. Then your spirit energy can flow from one energy center to another, sometimes even embarking on out-of-body journeys to meet up with the energy flows of other celestial beings, be they spirits, companion animals, friends, family or enlightened strangers.

Before you can project your spirit astrally through space and aim your inner light at your partner’s root chakra, you must flush out your system’s toxins, align your centers of spiritual knowledge and lay a spiritual breadcrumb path through the forest of your soul. Then you can rev your spiritual engine and navigate the superhighway of bliss.

But how? Isn’t spiritual toning and psychic cleansing hard work? It doesn’t have to be, now that we at Your Search Within have gathered a powerful array of bliss-building, energy-strengthening, consciousness-raising tools. Using our products, you can elevate your mood and strengthen the spiritual pelvic floor that undergirds your emotional core. Straighten your internal spiritual pathways straighter and kept them better lit from within. With our combination of ancient methods and modern technology, you can tap into old wisdom with new tools. Our discoveries and exclusive inventions allow you to find and nurture the sacred within yourself.

If you’ve done any deep body work, or if you’ve investigated attuning your spiritual life to your physical one, you’ve no doubt discovered the importance of proper alignment—of soul, thought, energy and body. The Your Search Within team seeks to align many aspects of our bodies and our spirits. We offer a variety of products that can do the same for you when used with proper intention.

For example, a strong physical, emotional and spiritual core is basic to health, and aligning your spine, your mind and the incline of your chakras, or spiritual power centers, is essential for radiant, long-term, integrated health benefits. Our MySpyneAlyne system, a Your Search Within exclusive, combines traditional energy center alignment methodologies with the latest energy-centering technology to help you center, straighten and support your bodily, bony spine while soothing and smoothing the energy between the hubs of your innermost spiritual spine.

Come back and visit this blog regularly to learn about exciting new technologies that will bring you inner peace, outer harmony and a killer bod. See you soon!

—Nagine Xavier-Woo, New Technologies Revelator