Tree Meditation

by Liliana Usvat
Blog 210 -365

Do you have a tree? If not Plant one.
Did you ever Planted a tree? If not do it.
Do you see trees on daily basis? If not go to a park or just plant one.

This  meditation will help to align your energies with the earth’s energies so that you feel calm, refreshed and at peace. It begins with awareness on the out breath which helps to keep you focused in the present moment.

 The meditation itself is done as visualization, but you could do it outdoors sitting with your back against a tree. Trees and plants have their own energy fields and you can absorb this energy in a positive and revitalizing way for your whole being.

If you are standing, imagine your feet growing roots; if you are sitting, imagine the roots coming out of your legs and your bottom and heading down into the soil.

With each out-breath, your roots grow and reach deeper into the soil. Also feel stress and tension flow out of your roots with each out-breath. Keep focusing and extending your roots.

With each in-breath, feel yourself pulling cool, earthy, grounding energy from the soil and Mother Earth. Feel that energy move slowly from your feet and legs up through your “trunk,” down your “limbs” and into every cell in your body.  When your body is full of this grounding energy, feel it begin to exit through the top of your head.

Now that you have grounded, imagine your arms are limbs and are reaching toward the sky, toward the sun, the source of energy that nourishes green plants and life on earth. 
With each out-breath, your branches reach further into the sky.  Release tension and stress.  Feel your branches growing.

With each in-breath, breathe in the light, warm, energizing sunlight, allowing it to flow down from your “branches” and “trunk” to each part of your body and into each cell.
Feel the energies of earth and sky mixing within you.  When you are full of this vitality, let the energy seep down and out of your roots.

Feel how grounded, calm, and centered you are, but also energized, focused, and with broader perspective.

When you feel complete with this experience, slowly increase your breathing, feel yourself return to your body, stretch, and open your eyes.

Medicinal Trees Camphor (Cinnamomum camphora )

By Liliana Usvat
Blog 209-365

The camphor tree--scientifically known as Cinnamomum camphora--features glossy evergreen leaves and pale yellow flowers in the spring.

In both China and Japan, the evergreen camphor tree grows to great size. An extractive of its bark, camphor acts as a counterirritant when included in ointments for relieving muscle pain.

The camphor tree is a dense broadleaved evergreen that is capable of growing 50-150 ft (15.2-45.7 m) tall and spreading twice that wide with a trunk up to 15 ft (4.6 m) in diameter, though the largest U.S. specimens are only half that size and those in the Caribbean are even smaller

Camphor laurel contains volatile chemical compounds in all plant parts, and the wood and leaves are steam distilled for the essential oils. Camphor laurel has six different chemical variants called chemotypes, which are camphor, linalool, 1,8-cineole, nerolidol, safrole, or borneol.


Culture
Camphor prefers fertile sandy soil. It will tolerate a pH anywhere in the range of 4.3 to 8. The roots are very sensitive to disturbance. They may extend far from the trunk of the tree, and can readily be identified by their characteristic odor.
Light: Camphor will grow in full sun or partial shade.

Propagation Reforestation

Camphor seed does not remain viable for long and should be planted in the greenhouse as soon as it ripens. Remove the fruit pulp first. At 68ºF (20ºC), germination will take 1-6 months. Cuttings of semiripe side shoots can be rooted in a warm humid place in midsummer. Pieces 2-3 in (5.1-7.6 cm) long with a heel work best.

Camphor is a prolific seed producer that apparently does not have serious predators or diseases outside its native range. Seedlings and root sprouts are abundant near mature trees, but individual trees pop up far from seed sources. In Florida, camphor trees appear in undisturbed mesic hardwood forests, upland pine woods, and scrubs, as well as in the vacant lots and fencerows where it is more commonly observed.

Medicinal Use
 

Camphor is used in medicine internally for its calming influence in hysteria, nervousness and neuralgia, and for serious diarrhoea

Camphor is widely planted as a shade tree, screen, or windbreak. In China and Japan, it is grown commercially for its medicinal oil. Camphor oil has a strong penetrating fragrance, a pungent bitter flavor, and feels cool on the skin like menthol, though it also has irritating qualities as well as a numbing effect. Camphor has been used to treat ailments ranging from

• parasitic infections to
•  toothaches. 
• Scientific evidence has confirmed that chemicals in the plant have value in antiseptics and
• medications for treating diarrhea, 
• inflammation,
•  itching, and
•  nervous conditions. 
• it has been proved valuable as an excitant in cases of heart failure
• externally as a counter-irritant in rheumatisms, 
• sprains bronchitis, 
•  and sometimes in conjunction with menthol and phenol for heart failure; 
• it is often given hypodermically, 3 to 5 grains dissolved in 20 to 30 minims of sterile Olive oil - the effect will last about two hours. 
• In nervous diseases it may be given in substance or in capsules or in spirit; dose 2 to 5 grains.
•  Its great value is in colds, 
• chills, and in all 
• inflammatory complaints;
•  it relieves irritation of the sexual organs.

 Other Usges

• Camphor is also used in perfumes. 
• Camphor is a white crystalline substance, obtained from the tree Cinnamomum camphora. Camphor has been used for many centuries as a culinary spice,
•  a component of incense, 
• and as a medicine. 
• Camphor is also an insect repellent and a flea-killing substance.

Trees and Ligtings

By Liliana Usvat
Blog 208-365

Trees have an immune system like humans do.
When a tree health is affected the immune system is weak.

A tree can charge his electrical potential during the storm, so it can avoid being struck by lighting.
When the immune system is weak the ability to change the charge is diminished.

So mostly the weak trees are strike by lighting.

Immune system of the trees are affected in a negative way by the chemicals we spray the trees.

Having healthy tree around the house actually help avoiding the lightings.
 
Trees communicate between then. trough root systems and air.
Trees are affected by the attack we have on other trees.

So when large areas of trees are cut or destroyed other trees are affected.

Trees can predict the storms with measurable electrical techniques that we have at this point.

When Hydro 1 use chemicals to deforest large areas for the purpose of maintaining electrical wires between cities all trees around are affected and the immune systems of the trees in that region is affected.

A secondary effect in the allergic reactions that people have in the proximity of those areas that are sprayed.