Reduce Scarring

I saw that on a jar of ointment yesterday. It is a blend of Chinese herbs in beeswax and oils to use on burns and wounds. It got me thinking about scars. I have a few! So have most of my horses.

The funny thing about scars, they are made of tissue that is stronger (after they are set) than the original skin, muscle or bone. Physical scars make the body stronger if allowed to "do their thing". Emotional scars can be strengthening if we see them through the eyes of a student. A student of Life.

There is no way we get through this unscathed. Life is a full spectrum. It is gentle and rough. It is great fun and it is scary. It holds us up and it knocks us down... but we have to get up again. Each time. The wound to our bum or our ego or our soul will form a scar. That scar will make us stronger if we see that spectrum of experiences through eyes of compassion. We become empathetic and compassionate when we experience this life fully. If you have never stubbed your toe, you do not wince in awareness when a friend tells you that she ran her little toe into the corner of a cabinet in the dark last night. Without experiences, we have no empathy. And paper cuts... well, just thinking about them and I can hear the sizzle of sheets through skin (I used to run printing presses!!).

If we look deeply into our pain as it is on us, we can sense the way through it. I speak about falling through the window that severed everything in my left wrist. That left quite the physical scar, but the other, mental and emotional ones linger longer. I had played the violin for 6 years previous. I was never able to play again. Then, a couple of years ago I watched a movie, "The Guitar", which had a profound effect on me. Within it, the woman with laryngeal cancer (whose "voice" was never expressed before) gets a guitar that she had wanted since early childhood. It is a profound story.

Last month, I decided that I wanted a violin. I held one at the Music Store... I think I might be able to play again. Not well. Not for someone else. For me.

I may get a violin... I may get a didgeridoo - whatever I decide, I plan to find something for my own music. And the only ones who will have to endure the experience of it are my doggies. We may have to feel empathy for them....

We vibrate. On high or low frequencies... our thoughts actually have frequency and our feelings keep us high or low, hour by hour.

You can feel this immediately for yourself. It is the basis for things like Kinesiology, muscle testing, NLP, many profound systems of awareness. Lift a heavy object with your dominate hand. Relax it down again. Then think about being naked and vulnerable at the doctor's office. Lift the object. Feel how you have less strength? Then think about when you first met your mate (or new horse or dog) and lift the object. The joyful, higher vibrations make you stronger.

When a rider has 2 refusals at a jump in a horse show, he will come back to that jump with an energy that creates such a high vibrating purpose that his horse feels impelled to jump. We've all heard about mothers lifting automobiles off of their children. They have to really accelerate their vibrations for that!

When you open birthday gifts, drive a Jaguar, fall in love, dance with abandon - you vibrate so highly and perfectly. That good feeling is holding you up above the mediocrity of day to day mere existence that so often captures us... and when you feel it, you want to stay in that state of bliss.

You can. Most of the time. You can choose to shift your day to the very things that lift you up. I will sort of place the really uplifting thoughts and memories into a spot in my world where I can instantly "visit" them when pain or sadness tries to grab me. I have a painting that my Mother did where I see the flow of peaceful waters; a painting from someone I love where I see a simple, blissful home; a strange hanging with a sparkling griffin among the stars where I feel my power and magic and a Ganesh carving that reminds me I can overcome obstacles.

Working with energy and vibrations just means staying aware of how you feel and, if it's not how you want to feel, creating tools or techniques to shift your feelings upward, even just a little, to get closer to happy, right now.

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Comfrey leaves and roots can make a deeply healing balm that really does reduce excess scarring of the skin and of internal structures like bone and sinew.

I heat the dry roots and leaf in olive oil in a double boiler, flame on very low, for several hours, keeping the water in the bottom pot topped up.

I strain the warm infused oil then add beeswax immediately, stirring. After the wax melts, I pour the liquid into jars to set. 

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