Spellwork for you hormones

Hi, this is Kelly.
I'm going to do a practice with you that is going to involve a bowl of water and some flowers, little flower petals, if you have access to that, or maybe a flower that has larger petals.

This plant I have here is called Valerian and smells amazing. And I believe it helps with sleep, which is very needed at this time.

So if you can grab those two things, go ahead and grab that. If you don't have access to those things, then you can just watch me and I'll go through this with you.

So grab your water, both water and your petals, and start shaking your petals into the water.

If you have to take out the petals individually, if they're not falling into the water, then go ahead and do that.

And then you put your flower down once you've got enough petals in there that satisfies you. And just take your finger and start to move the petals around.

I'm going to show you here what I have, which is these petals floating in water.

And while I'm doing this, you can continue to play here.

This is because I'd like to show you a metaphor for how your hormones are moved by your blood.

So your hormones are organic chemical messengers, organic meaning that your body makes them, and they get into the bloodstream.

And the blood carries these messengers all over.

Your blood carries these messengers all over your body because it can get to almost every tissue, every cell.

Take a moment to watch the petals move in water.

And then I'd like to invite you to close your eyes.

And imagine. Sense.

Your hormones moving through your body, through the vehicle that is your blood.

Hormones are things that start things.

They set things into motion.

And they can also quiet things down.

Can you also imagine a stream?

That's perhaps on the side of a riverbed.

And petals floating in the stream.

As also a metaphor for hormones moving through your blood.

Just like this stream, there's flow.

That's not stagnant, it's dynamic.

And as these chemical messengers travel to our tissues in just about every cell,

these tissues have an ability to talk to all the surrounding tissues,

which makes the endocrine system quite global.

And cells that have receptor sites for these chemical messengers might receive them or they might not.

They might make more receptors to receive more information, receive more of these chemical messengers, or they may not.

Another image I'll share with you that might work — this one that may work — is stars floating in a black pool.

And the stars are our hormones floating through the black pool, which is our blood.

Say hello to your endocrine system.

If you'd like to open your eyes again and place your finger within the bowl of water,

go back to that, the tactile experience.

And observe the petals moving like little tiny chemical messengers meeting your tissues.

What landscapes does your body feel like right now?

What other metaphors may you have come up to your imagination as you explore this part of your endocrine system?

All right, thank you for joining me and I'll see you again.