LATIN: Populus fremontii (Western Cottonwood)

GOOD FOR: Cleanses all chakras at once. For people who are extreme in response to life/situations. Extreme emotional response. Enables a person to remain in harmony and not be buffeted by stresses/pressures around them. For dry skin, thirstless people. Helps with heartburn.

DID YOU KNOW:

You are a very cerebral person who relies on visuals to teach you what you need to know. Others may also see you as very "spacey" and ungrounded. In order to learn, you need to see it with your own eyes in order to understand, absorb and appreciate it. Slide show programs, Powerpoint productions, movies and film train you quite effectively. With your powerhouse brain you are able to grasp theory and philosophy, especially the more complex thought processes such as mathematics, physics and the hard sciences.

HEALTHY YOU:

You can be a genius (definition: someone who has a focus on one skill and becomes a master at it). Your mind is not practical nor necessarily rational. Like Einstein, you are a dreamer with a mission. To say you're smart is an understatement--however, harnessing this magnificent ability is the real key here. In some ways you can be likened to a cosmic radar picking up information long before the rest of us receive it. Logic is an elusive quality for you, although you can be in a narrow definition, in some areas. For example, let's say you love computers; you will be a geeker for sure! You have a love of mental activities, be it speaking, teaching, writing, reading or delving into some high, mathematical or scientific bint. Some of you are going to be super scientific and pave new inroads into unknown areas of human development. Others of you are on the other side of this coin and will blaze new trails creatively in literature and the arts. You have brains and talent--don't waste them!

UNHEALTHY YOU:

On one hand, you can be very "cosmic" and "out there" which isn't really unhealthy. However, if suffer a terrible trauma, you can "split" and go into psychosis, MPD, schizophrenia, or other unstable mental realms. This is rare, but it is possible in worst case scenarios that we hope no one ever has to experience. In real life, you can be very confused mentally and forgetful. At times, especially under stress, you question your reality or which one you're living in! Daydreaming comes naturally to you and that isn't all bad--because out of that comes a lot of creative development. However, don't languish in that state. You still are in a third dimensional body and live down here and among us. Utilize your awesome brain power, knowledge and wisdom; don't throw it away.

QUICK GUIDE TO COTTONWOOD

Copyright 1999 - 2004 Eileen Nauman
All Rights Reserved
Compiled by Lisa Maturo

ABUSIVE PEOPLE
Cottonwood Tree (nurturing, caring for needs of others, mothering in physical
ways) NG

ANXIETY PANIC ATTACKS TRANQUILITY, DESIRE FOR
Cottonwood Tree (feeling of peace, calmness) EN, NG

ARMS MUSCLE FATIGUE
Cottonwood Tree (arms hurting from elbows up, like from exertion, muscle
fatigue) MF

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER HYPERACTIVE CONCENTRATION FOCUS
Cottonwood Tree (mind can't concentrate on any one thing) MF
Cottonwood Tree (mind bouncing from thought to thought with anxiety) MF
Cottonwood Tree (mind is jumping about) MF

BREATHING PROBLEMS
Cottonwood Tree (left nostril opened up, better breathing) EN
Cottonwood Tree (slower, deeper breaths) EN
Cottonwood Tree (short, shallow breaths) MF

CHAKRA, DAMAGE AND REPAIR CHAKRA, ROOT
Cottonwood Tree (helps root chakra damage) EN
Cottonwood Tree (felt like each chakra was being told to wake up) GC
Cottonwood Tree (sense of chakras being x-rayed) GC

CHAKRA, HEART DEPRESSION HAPPINESS, FEELING OF
Cottonwood Tree (incredible lightness of being) EN

CHEST
Cottonwood Tree (tightness in chest) MF
Cottonwood Tree (warmness in upper chest) MF

CIRCULATION
Cottonwood Tree (general cleanser for circulation) GC, RB

DEPRESSION HEAVINESS, SENSE OF RESPONSIBLE, FEELING OVERLY
OVER WORKED
Cottonwood Tree (makes people's loads lighter) EN
Cottonwood Tree (don't feel so weighted down with responsibilities as before)
EN
Cottonwood Tree (feeling of lightness) RB

DYSLEXIA
Cottonwood Tree (cleared dyslexia) RB

EMOTIONAL PAIN, FEELING
Cottonwood Tree (feeling emotionally distraught) MF

EMOTIONAL RELEASE
Cottonwood Tree (caught in feelings) RB

ENDURANCE PERSEVERANCE
Cottonwood Tree (could help with lack of follow through) NG

FEAR PANIC ATTACKS ANXIETY
Cottonwood Tree (intense fear) MF
Cottonwood Tree (bringing fear under control) MF
Cottonwood Tree (slightly on edge) MF
Cottonwood Tree (scared, mind jumping about) MF
Cottonwood Tree (feeling like something or someone was going to get me) MF
Cottonwood Tree (unknown fear) MF
Cottonwood Tree (fear of being chased) MF
Cottonwood Tree (bringing fear under control) MF
Cottonwood Tree (afraid something will harm me) MF
Cottonwood Tree (mind bouncing from thought to thought with anxiety) MF

GROUNDED SPACY
Cottonwood Tree (in the body, anchoring) EN
Cottonwood Tree (anchoring from inside by need to do something) NG
Cottonwood Tree (felt ungrounded) MF

HANDS SWEATING
Cottonwood Tree (sweaty palms) MF, GC

HAPPINESS, DESIRE FOR CHILDLIKE EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING
Cottonwood Tree (feel happy, childlike) MF

HEADACHE
Cottonwood Tree (feeling of weight in head) NG

HEARING
Cottonwood Tree (heightened sense of hearing) NG

HEART BEAT
Cottonwood Tree (escalated heart rate) MF

HELPLESS, FEELING OF
Cottonwood Tree (feel helpless, ready to tears) MF

NURTURING
Cottonwood Tree (feminine, nurturing) EN
Cottonwood Tree (anchoring from inside by need to do something, to care for)
NG
Cottonwood Tree (image of self as hen sitting on an egg) NG
Cottonwood Tree (nurturing, caring for needs of others, mothering in physical
ways) NG

PARANOIA
Cottonwood Tree (feeling like something or someone was going to get me) MF

SINUS CONGESTION
Cottonwood Tree (felt like allergies, runny nose, more drainage) GC
Cottonwood Tree (post nasal drip, lots of congestion, kept clearing throat) GC
Cottonwood Tree (chest felt congested) GC
Cottonwood Tree (watery eyes when closed) GC

STOMACH
Cottonwood Tree (tightness in upper stomach) MF

TEETH
Cottonwood Tree (sensitivity in roots of teeth) NG

VERTIGO
Cottonwood Tree (vertigo, room moving with nausea, fall to the left) MF

VULNERABLE
Cottonwood Tree (felt vulnerable, unable to protect self) MF

ARTICLE:

COTTONWOOD TREE NATURAL ESSENCE

by Eileen Nauman DHM (UK)

Copyright Eileen Nauman 1997 - 2004
All Rights Reserved

Among Native Americans, the cottonwood tree has always been considered sacred. The Hopi carvers take the root of a cottonwood and create beautiful and powerful Kachinas from it. I was raised by my part-Eastern Cherokee father to always honor the cottonwood tree--to give it a 'gift' of food, of prayers, touching it (with permission by the tree spirit) and placing prayer bundles in its mighty spreading arms. When one grows up with this belief one never questions 'why is it so sacred' to Native Americans.

I had a powerful teaching lesson regarding the why of a cottonwood being sacred. It was a life-shattering lesson, a lesson that literally, involved life or death.

In May of 1993, a select group of people had gathered for me to teach them soul recovery and extraction. This is a process that takes years and by personal invitation only. The group who met consisted of 4 new facilitators to be trained and 3 of the 'old' seasons facilitator veterans came to be of help and guidance during the 5-day training-in period.

One of those people was Karen Durand-Meredith from Prescott Valley, Arizona. Her heart was as wide as the Western sky, very spiritually oriented and 'walked her talk.' On the opening morning of the 5-day class, I warned all the new facilitators that when they made their first journey, which was an initiation with the shaman archetype energy, that much could happen after their stint in training.

To be a shaman meant a lot of past suffering on one or more levels--the 'wounded healer archetype'--and out of this journey into the darkness, the return from it meant gaining new insight into the experience, more knowledge, strength and endurance of spirit were gained in this process. I looked at my group and warned them that if, for any reason, when they made their initiation journey into the shaman archetype that if there were any weaknesses, each would experience them one to 3 months after the training.

To deal with the shaman archetypal energy can be lethal to the curious or the power-hungry. This energy is not forgiving in the least. I knew all my chosen facilitators came from a good space within themselves; I saw each for their strengths as well as what they had yet to strengthen over a course of time. I shared with them the time that one facilitator, 2 weeks after leaving training, was fired,, out of the blue, from her job. Needless to say, she was in shock over it, but what it did was release her from a job she wasn't happy at and gave her full rein to develop her shamanic facilitator business instead.

I'd seen other 'corrections' to new trainees over the years such as this. and I knew personally, from dealing with this archetype, that you could not play 'fast and loose' with it, but instead, there was an unmistakable protocol and methodology that it wanted a human to work with it on, too. One does not deviate from the archetype's energy, expression or desires. One operates within those understood boundaries. If one does, everything goes well and the facilitator is protected and continues to be trained by the archetypal energy.

For Karen, the warning that if anything she hadn't yet experienced, and needed to experience, would occur, turned out to be a life and death matter. One month (June '93) after the training, Karen became suddenly ill. She contracted leukopenia, a condition where the white blood count is abnormally low and one can die from it, and aplastic anemia, a condition where anemia is caused by deficient or arrested bone marrow production (which helps create blood cells to keep us alive) of cells. When the conditions came on, I suggested she see an MD homeopath in Phoenix and she did. The homeopathic remedy came too late for her vital force was almost gone and in order for homeopathy to work, the vital force must be able to respond. Karen's did not.

In October of 1992, her father had passed away, and she'd had a lot of grief that she'd not worked through yet. I wondered if the tie between her father and herself was still there--not a good one--because her energy, (vital force) was being sucked dry in this situation. I suggested soul recovery work and indeed, did find a connection to the deceased father into her aura/vital force. It was removed--but the damage was already done to her physically. Plus, if Karen didn't work through that grief, the father could reattach himself again into her aura, at will, and the same sucking of her life force would continue because he wanted her with him--on the other side--and it didn't bother him that he was killing her to get what he wanted. It wasn't a pretty situation or 'dance' that was going on between them and I told Karen what I'd found. She was determined to cut that unhealthy cord/attachment between them once and for all.

She became critical, and began a daily life-or-death 'dance'. Every day or every other day, she was receiving blood platelet transfusions. She would receive platelet transfusion three times a week, and a hemoglobin transfusion every two weeks on top of that. She hovered on the brink of death. I told her that her fear of dying and the necessity to experience the death aspect was what she was undergoing. We joked lamely about what we could do to get her through it. Karen was a trooper and never gave up hope.

I called one of my friends, a woman whose Hungarian grandmother had taught her many women's ceremonies. I told Veronica what was going on. She told me to instruct Karen to get a small tree branch, about twelve inches long, and to wrap red yarn slowly around this twig--and then unwind it. While she was doing this, she was to pray for anything that she needed with each wrap of the yarn. The red color was obvious; the strengthening of her blood cells, infusing them with the 'red' color of life and vitality once again.

I asked Veronica if the type of tree mattered and she said no. I said: "Good, then she can choose one of our cottonwood trees that grows here, on La Casa de Madre Tierra." Veronica said that would be fine.

I called Karen right away and the next day, she had a friend drive her from Prescott down to our home mid-afternoon. Karen is exquisitely psychic and so in tune with Mother Earth and all her relatives that she smiled and said that one of our cottonwood trees had started calling her to come over as soon as she drove into our driveway. I walked with her because she was none too steady and I was afraid she'd faint (which she was doing quite often) or her knees would buckle beneath her.

She chose a small branch, about 1/8th diameter and I said I would get the small saw and get it off for her. We both talked to the Cottonwood, and had asked its permission for the branch. There was an incredible burst of love coming from that tree and it brought tears to our eyes. There was no question she wanted us to take one of her branches to help Karen. I made the sawing as quick as possible and I held my hand over the spot where we'd taken the branch for a few minutes, putting bright green healing light into the wound afterward.

We went to my hogan and I got some red yarn from one of the drawers. Karen thanked me. She said she would wind the yarn around the twelve inch long cottonwood branch and then unwind it, using affirmations to become well as she made every loop. I told her to wind and unwind the yarn twice a day for one full moon cycle; 28 days. She said she would use affirmations such as, "I am healthy," "I am strong," and "I am well," for three to four days a time. I said they sounded like pretty good prayers to me.

The next morning I got up around 6 am to do some early watering before the heat of the day struck. As I walked out to our guest house where the cottonwood sat, my jaw dropped. To my utter amazement, the tree's leaves were falling off at a horrendous rate! I went up to the tree, alarmed. I realized with a chill that the cottonwood was involved in Karen's deadly dis-ease. Just exactly how, I wasn't sure at first. I went and got my mother, Ruth. As we stood there looking at the leaves continuing to fall off, from the lowest branches, working toward the top of the thirty foot tree, she shook her head.

"Isn't that something? The tree is dying now, too."

I felt awful. I called Karen that same morning. She confirmed she had wound the yarn several times around the branch and then unwound it. She said that as soon as she had done it, she felt more centered, and that a strong feeling of total faith blossomed within her. When I told her what the tree's response was, she broke into tears. She too said the tree was giving it's life so that she might live. We were both shaken by the cottonwood's incredible compassionate act. Karen asked me, in a fearful tone, to let her know if the tree lived or died. I said I would.

In the next three days, the cottonwood lost all but about fifteen leaves at the uppermost top of her crown. Mom and I would go out each morning, perform healing through ourselves to the tree and pray for it's life as well as for Karen's life. We both knew that if those last leaves fell, it meant the tree was going to die--and so was Karen. It was an unspoken thing between us and Karen. Never verbalized this either, but she knew, too.

Every morning, first thing, I went out to check on the cottonwood and to see if those uppermost leaves were still on--they were. It was the most amazing thing I'd ever seen--to have a cottonwood in full, mature leafing, drop all her leaves in 3 days. Obviously, the cottonwood was tied to Karen, and sending all her life giving energy, except for a very small amount, to Karen to help sustain her. Karen was so shaken that she had her friend drive her over so she could see the tree for herself. She sat with the tree for an hour, talking to it and thanking her for the gift of her energy to help sustain her in the darkest period of her life.

Throughout the summer and into the late fall, no leaves grew back on our cottonwood--and those fifteen leaves stubbornly remained. Karen, in the meantime, was getting every-other-day platelet transfusions down in Phoenix in order to stay alive. From a medical astrology perspective, I told her the darkest hours were in November '94 and that March 15, 1995, she would be out of the tunnel.

When winter came, the cottonwood lost her fifteen uppermost leaves. Mom and I wondered if the cottonwood would come back in the Spring or be dead. We weren't sure--but we had a gut feeling that if the tree died--so would Karen--and we had until mid-March, when the trees bloomed, to wait, watch, and find out. In the meantime, Karen remained in her death crisis. She was very weak and could barely move at times. Her family was tremendously supportive of her and her friends also nurtured her--and so did that cottonwood.

On March 12th, Karen discovered a cure for parasites fro Dr. Hulda Clarke. It was a combination of herbs and Karen realized that she needed to take this formula. For three days, she wasn't sure she was going to live or die. Then, on the third day, March 15th, when Mars (which rules the red blood cells of the body) went direct, her platelet count shot up--so fast, and so high, that it took everyone by surprise. On March 15th, the cottonwood tree sent out her first green shoots--all over her many armed branches.

There is a double happy ending to this true story. Karen, in June, 1996, was completely well, with no reoccurrence of her dis-ease. Our cottonwood, who we named HOPE, is in splendid health, growing tall and more beautiful than ever. In mid-1995, Karen came out to thank the cottonwood for continuing to funnel most of her living life-force energy into her, instead of herself. The doctors warned her she wouldn't live more than 2 years. She smiled.

If there was ever an act of compassion between humans and our plant kingdom, this was it. I now understood WHY the Native American revered this tree so much--why it was considered the most sacred of all trees on Turtle Island (North America). It was the fact that the cottonwood's spiritual evolvement was so high, such pure love and expression of compassion that it would give it's life readily to save another--it didn't matter whether it was human, animal or whatever.

I had purposely planted the eight cottonwoods that now reside at La Casa de Madre Tierra--in honor of their sacredness and honor the land which we steward. I understand now just how MUCH they give back to all of us. I'm sure, as Karen was, that the cottonwood's continual sending of her energy to Karen helped save her life.

I wanted to make a Natural Essence from Hope and asked her if I could have some of her leaves to make the mother essence. She happily acquiesced, and I could feel her joy as I put the bowl of water containing them, down at the base of her trunk. I held great hopes for this wonderful Natural Essence from a tree who had laid her life on the line already, for a human being. I was not disappointed.

Karen Meredith died recently of the same disease; loss of hemoglobin. She lived for TWELVE years (until 2003) and astounded all the doctors. For the time that she lived, she was a shaman and helped many, many people. She was greatly loved and cherished by all. Hope gave her that time and I'm gratefu. I know Karen is also forever grateful to the Cottonwood Tree that saved her that horrible year in her life.

ADJECTIVES: Altruism, Catalyst, Compassion, Death and Dying, Hopelessness, Faith, Healing, Listening, Life Crisis, Purification, Sacredness, Spiritual Emergency.

ALTRUISM: the cottonwood bestows a person with a more compassion look at the human condition combined with hope for the future--no matter how dark it looks, how impossible it looks. And whatever pressures, strains, tasks or responsibility you are shouldering, cottonwood helps us to reach more deeply into ourselves knowing we are all connected to a divine source that loves us. The depth instilled with this knowing gives us the ability to know that at the end of our dark struggle, there is light.

CATALYST: In our life, we all get put in the 'bottom of the barrel' where we crawl around on our hands and knees and wonder if we're ever going to get out from under that 'black cloud' or our lives are beginning to look like the trials of Job of Bible fame. When life seems to be bearing down on us and we don't think we can take one more 'brick' on our load, one more incident, one more crisis, cottonwood gives us the ability to catalyze our inner resources, to hang in there when we didn't think we could do it.

COMPASSION: When Life is leaning hard on us, at such times, we can withdraw back into our worst side and expression. We dredge up all our old tapes, our old condition patterns instead of trying to step out of our 'old' self and try on the clothes of the new us. These clothes are forged under the pressure and stress of dark times when Life piles the loads upon us. Cottonwood enables us to take a more compassionate stance toward others and life in general as we walk throughout this period of darkness. Instead of being short, irritable, impatient or worse, projecting our anger, fears and insecurities on others, cottonwood offers us a chance to choose maturity over lesser human traits. It helps us also be less hard on ourselves, unplug the guilt and lighten our attitude and perspective about the trials we are undergoing. It is about compassion first, for ourselves and secondly, being able to bestow it on others. Cottonwood helps us invoke a 'live and let-live' perspective.

DEATH AND DYING: Nowhere has there been a natural essence to deal with death and dying issues. This can mean the death on a spiritual level, where one gives up a belief or attitude toward their religion or system, a death on the mental level, where we allow an opinion, attitude, an 'old tape' of conditional patterning, or prejudice, to be released and be no longer captured or imprisoned by it. It can be the death on an emotional level where we allow a negative emotion to 'die' such as jealousy, envy, hatred or fear as examples. And, cottonwood can assist those who are in the process of leaving their physical body as well. It adds a dimension of grace, of acceptance and a surrendering over to God/Buddha/Cosmos, etc., instead of fighting a process where no other alternative is available.

Cottonwood's strength lies in the realm of our death and dying of ourselves--on all levels. If it is a death of a marriage, i.e., an divorce, then cottonwood can give both partners a graciousness instead of a negative alternative. If it is the death of having to leave a city and move to another state or country, this essence helps soften the loss and helps the individual to look forward to their new setting and place, instead. Or a child leaving their school and having to go to a new one and make new friends. Being fired from a job and feeling panicked and without support, this essence can bring a calming effect, a more centeredness to the individual where they see opportunity instead of darkness and disaster.

Cottonwood is especially for events in our life that are chaotic and catalytic, that throw us out of our 'rut' or everyday routine and into being off-balanced. It helps to bring harmony, and instills a deep, abiding faith that regardless of the chaos that now surrounds us, that it too, shall pass with time. It gives us the inner stability of tapping into our own wellspring of faith in ourselves as well as faith in something greater than ourselves that is overseeing this path we must trod--and that it will work out for the best, in the end.

HOPELESSNESS: No matter how dark we feel that 'black cloud' that follows around is, cottonwood essence can instill in us the knowing that there is 'light at the end of our personal tunnel.' This essences gives 'hope to the hopeless.' It turns our victimization patterning or our depression, melancholia, grief or anger that is turned into depression, into a deeper level of self-discovery within us--that we have the tools, the knowing and the ability to work through these things. More than anything else, cottonwood allows us to not only discover our own strength, but it allows us to know we have the answers and solutions inside of us--and helps us believe in ourselves which can ultimately catalyze us onto a new, more positive level of action for our own best good.

FAITH: Sometimes, we are the last to trust ourselves with ourselves. Something in our past has made us always turn to others or external events or people and give our power away to them instead of turning inward to plumb the depths of our own treasures and abilities, that still lie undiscovered. Cottonwood instills a greater faith in ourselves to do what we can do. Like the old Marine saying: "Be all that you can be" applies here. It is the faith of believing in one's self. The faith to move forward out of your stuck or blocked position. And knowing you CAN accomplish the task.

HEALING: If we are sick spiritually, mentally, emotionally or physically, a healing must take place--but it can only really take place within us--and us giving ourselves permission to heal in the first place. No one heals us. All the 'tools' that are available are catalysts that mirror our needs. Cottonwood essence bestows a powerful level of inner knowing that you can heal yourself and to work through the fears and blocks and give yourself such permission.

LISTENING: Most often we ignore our own inner voice, that which is our heart or primal, animal self trying to talk to us, to warn us or to guide us via intuitiveness or 'gut' hunches. Cottonwood essences puts us in touch with our inner voice so that we can listen clearly to what our needs and wants really are--and then to act on them appropriately.

LIFE CRISIS: We all have them. The question is: how well do we walk through them? Are we dragged kicking and screaming all the way? Do we buckle down and just do what needs to be done? Do we allow fear to stop us from growing and evolving? Does it keep us imprisoned? Cottonwood essence helps us to get down to our subconscious, to our soul level to ascertain what it is we really need to do to make the most out of this crisis in a positive sense. Crisis are about moments given to us, set up by us, to grow at a tremendous rate. Fear will stop that. Cottonwood essence dissolves the fear and allows us to make 'mud out of mud pies' and get the most out of the experience in a positive sense.

PURIFICATION: When a person feels dirty inside, feels as though they have lost or misplace their own unique sacredness, Cottonwood essence can help guide them back to that lost place and rediscover it. A person who has endured abuse, incest, rape or any degrading or humiliating situation for a long time never feels 'clean' inside themselves. This essence removes the toxicity of our own imagined filth and gets rid of it so that we can know once and for all, that we are indeed sacred and a part of the fabric of all life--seen and unseen--once again.

SACREDNESS: Too many of us have been spiritually cut off from our source. This is not about religion so much as it is the healing of our spirit because in our Western world where the mind is king, and everything else is denigrated or made out to be less than important, we become spiritually bankrupt. We starve for renewal of our spirit with something greater than the left-brain mind and mental processes. Cottonwood essence is about rediscovering this ancient tie with our own inner sacred, and reconnecting it to our belief system or religion that we follow. It is about knowing we are deeply loved and cared for by a high power who has ultimate compassion for our earth walk in a physical body. Being able to tap into or renew our sacredness will make us more compassionate human beings and everyone will benefit from this.

SPIRITUAL EMERGENCY: This is for anyone who goes into a crisis of spirit. They may or may not know that it is occurring at that level. Many modern day dis-eases are really spiritual crisis in action. Someone who is psychically being attacked, or who is enduring psychosis, schizophrenia, a 'nervous' breakdown or any other powerful mental dis-ease, should think of using cottonwood essence as an adjunct to therapy or any other form of medication being used presently.

For those who feel they are 'possessed' or being attacked by discarnates, leached upon or drained of physical energy, this essence helps to put it to a stop. Other intervention may be necessary, such as soul recovery and extraction, therapy, etc., and cottonwood essence can nurture the healing of our spirit, as well. In these situations, cottonwood essence is a wonderful supplement and secondary 'tool' to any other primary treatment currently being undertaken.

Cottonwood Anecdotal Cases:

CASE #1, FD

She also was taking the tree/flower essence Cottonwood, which addresses similar issues. (Yeah, I gave her a 'double barrel' blast, as I had only a month in which to help her effect this change in certain aspects of her behavior which she'd been trying unsuccessfully much of her life to control.)

Blessings, FD

CASE #2, HC

Just wanted to let you know that the Cottonwood Essence is just marvelous for keeping my "system primed up ie. immune system", giving me that little bit extra edge. You know after you first talked about the sacred Cottonwood tree, I asked one near your house if I could sit down and lean against it and this big paternal voice talked to me....I sat down and could feel straight away my chakras clearing.....he was most concerned that my shoes might be hurting me (my daughter's docs were a bit lumpy) and recommended that I take it easy and not walk too much in them...which I did....and the next day they even felt comfortable.

CASE #3, MS

The person was in something of a spiritual crisis- suicidal, deep depression, panic attacks, losing her will to live. She was having 3-4 panic attacks a day, if not more. I urged her a few times to go to the mental hospital for an evaluation because her situation was so severe.

She seemed to be a bit more stable, though not coping well at all. I went through the Quick guide and Cottonwood popped up quite a bit. It fit her symptoms perfectly. So she went with Cottonwood and has been taking it for about 2 weeks. Since then, NO panic attacks. The depression has lifted considerably. She is still somewhat codependent and struggling with self-confidence (Paintbrush!!!), but those are minor considering her previous symptoms.

She was experiencing headaches, so I had her stop taking it for a day. During that time, the depression came back, but not as severe. She also had a panic attack during that time. She went back on it (the headaches persisted, due to living environment- there was a gas leak in her apartment- but I wanted to rule the essence out as a possibility) and since then has continued to improve. Things are back to where they were before she stopped the essence and they seem to be moving forward for her.

So, a quick case utilizing Cottonwood Natural Essence, definitely a success so far.

With love,
MS