Introducing LOTUSWEI! Inspired by forest bathing studies in Japan, these flower essences connect with what we all need most: love, strength, power, confidence, relaxation, and more.
LOTUSWEI specializes in one of the most sustainable and exponential forms of natural medicine: flower essences. Known for their short-term benefits like clarity, focus and sleep, and long-term benefits of accelerated personal growth, LOTUSWEI has pioneered the world of flower essences to make incorporating them into daily life easy and accessible.
LOTUSWEI is our most trusted source for flower essence-infused elixirs, anointing oils, aura mists and other transformative self-care rituals to help you bloom into your full potential! Keep reading to learn more about the inspiration behind LOTUS WEI, what the essences are, and how to practice.
LOTUSWEI Meaning
LOTUS means enlightenment (in the far east) and WEI has two meanings: ‘transformative action’ and ‘for the benefit of all’.
The Inspiration: Forest Bathing Studies
In Japan, there is a practice called “Shinrin-yoku,” literally translated as “forest bathing.” This is the practice of walking through forests and allowing your body to revive by the regenerative life-force of the trees and wildflowers. Japanese doctors even prescribe Shinrin-yoku!
Studies at the Nippon Medical School show these benefits:
- Reduces stress and cortisol levels
- Lowers blood pressure
- Boosts the immune system
- Reduces adrenaline
- Relaxes the nervous system
- Dissolves tension
- Increases vitality and happiness
Tokyo-based researcher Qing Li, M.D., Ph.D., found that after subjects spent only one day in the forest, the positive immune-boosting effects lasted for one week. The benefits were exponential for those who spent an entire weekend in nature: the immune-boosting and emotional benefits lasted for an entire month!
Forest Bathing Studies Power to Flower Essences
In this modern age, we are bombarded with unprecedented invisible waves that disrupt the mind and potentially harm the body. Creating stillness and inner peace is more challenging today than ever before: from cell phones to laptops to air travel radiation, our nervous systems are overwhelmed and overloaded. Almost half of us have trouble sleeping every night and stress levels are at an all-time high!
The average person doesn’t spend enough time in nature to experience the proven rebalancing effects that it has on our physical and emotional bodies. Tapping into the power of nature is a powerful and effective way to de-stress naturally and at once. To bring the healing power of nature back into our lives, LOTUSWEI collects energetic infusions of flowers and infuses them into luxurious self-care products that shift your state of mind.
Think: forest bathing in a bottle.
What are Flower Essences?
Flower essences are liquid infusions of fresh flowers, collected from the wild. They consist of water with the bioenergetic imprint of the flowers. This energetic imprint travels through the acupuncture meridians, like an acupuncture treatment without the needles.
Flower alchemy is based on the premise that our body runs like a finely tuned instrument. The remedies act as a tuning fork; removing static and bringing your body back into tune.
Aromatherapy vs Flower Essences
Differing from aromatherapy, flower essences do not have a scent or flavor. Instead, it’s a liquid infusion of a flower or plant’s ‘chi’ or life-force.
Essential Oils vs Flower Essences
Flower essences are also different from essential oils. Essential oils require large blooms that are distilled or extracted into highly aromatic oil. Alternatively, only a small number of blooms are needed for making flower essences, making it one of the most sustainable forms of natural remedies.
Flower Essence Safety
Flower essences are extremely gentle. They are so safe that they can be taken during pregnancy and by nursing mothers and babies!
There are no side effects, nor interactions with medications or herbs, because they cause no chemical reaction in the body. Like homeopathy, they are so dilute that even if you’re allergic to flowers, you can use them safely.
Individuals sometimes ask if flower essences are addictive. They’re not, but it’s like eating broccoli, yoga, or drinking water. The more you can do it, the better, but it’s not something that’s addictive. You could say it’s addictive in some sense to feel good, to exercise, to eat well, but not in the technical sense of addiction.
Forms of Flower Essences
The different forms of flower essences are:
- Elixir
- Aura Mist
- Anointing Oil
FLOWER ELIXIR
Flower elixirs are the traditional way that flower essences are taken—internally. Most people who like to take elixirs the best would typically be folks who are used to herbal tinctures—they like taking things internally.
How to Use:
- Take sublingually, under the tongue — 5 drops, 5 times each day.
- Add 5 drops into all your beverages throughout the day—tea, coffee and even alcoholic drinks.
- Put 1 dropperful (approx. 25 drops) in your water bottle and drink throughout the day — add a dropper each time you refill.
- Use in your favorite recipes: desserts, salad dressings, etc.
You can add the elixirs to almost anything if it’s not boiling.
AURA MIST
Aura mists are flower essences combined with wild-crafted essential oils, infused in pure water. Spray around the face and shoulders for an immediate shift in energy. The best results arise when used 5 times a day, every day.
How to Use:
- Mist your rooms; bedroom, kitchen, office, wherever you spend time
- Use before & after being around large numbers of people: work, the grocery store, family gatherings, etc.
- Mist your loved ones when they get home
- Spray your sheets & pillows before bed
Some people’s skin can become sensitive to essential oils, so rather than misting the face, it is best to mist around your crown and body. Because they are infused with essential oils, you also receive aromatherapy benefits. It smells amazing and encourages you to take a deep breath and embrace the present moment.
ANOINTING OIL
Anointing oils are flower essences and essential oils are infused in organic Jojoba oil for a longer lasting scent, making it a perfect alternative to traditional perfumes. They have a very high dilution of essential oils (perfumer’s dilution).
They start out strong but get more subtle over time, and the scent will also change with your body chemistry. The anointing oils will smell differently on you than your friends and family because of your differing formation of elements and chemical makeup—making it like your own perfume because you blend with the essential oils!
How to Use:
- As a perfume, apply to pulse points: wrists, neck, behind the ears
- Use as a scented pick-me-up throughout the day
- Apply before bed, and enjoy the scent as you drift to sleep
The anointing oils are also very helpful for focusing on points on the body. They can be applied to specific acupressure points. Download the TCM Acupressure Rituals with Flower Essences PDF here.
What Happens When You Take Flower Essences?
Phase 1: Honeymoon. This is the first time you take flower essences.
It’s the first three to four weeks when you just feel good, you hear the birds singing, the edge of life dissolves and your irritation goes away. You feel happier and you’re sleeping better. The flower essences help stabilize the body’s emotional and mental energies.
Phase 2: Peeling off the layers. It’s like peeling off the layers of an onion.
Since you’ve had that first month of stabilizing and creating a strong emotional foundation, you are now ready to reflect.
You’re in a position of more balance and ease, so you’re more open, curious and able to see what’s arising; then you have a choice. You can make a change if there’s a behavior or pattern that you see inside yourself that is self-limiting. It’s right around month four to six that you enter the third phase of transformation.
Phase 3: Weeding your garden. With regular use of flower essences, you’re changing your inner terrain.
You are changing how you view things on the inside and on the outside. You’re changing patterns and dissolving self-limiting beliefs. The chatter that’s in your mind starts to change. You may no longer be so self-critical. You become more open-minded. Since the external world reflects what’s on the inside, as your insides are changing, what you see and how you perceive the external reality changes.
It’s at this mark where there are real changes. That’s why it’s called weeding the garden—because you may decide to remove or add people into your life that are more aligned with who and how you are in this moment.
You may weed out jobs, living situations, or any sort of daily life activities that no longer serve you and are not in alignment with your new energetic resonance. From there, you will just have a continuous experience of curiosity and self-discovery.
What Makes Flowers So Alluring?
Flowers vibrate, radiate, inspire, and revitalize us!
But beyond their physical magnetism, flowers contain energetics, a snapshot of their unique lifeforce, a frequency that has been used as a powerful healing tool for centuries. Flowers help us dissolve emotional qualities that do not serve us and amplify the positive emotional qualities that we wish to bring to life.
A physics phenomenon called Sympathetic Resonance is the science behind these remedies; the life-force energy of nature re-tunes the energy of our bodies.
Individuals often say that when you stop taking flower essences, you feel things shift and change. You feel more static, more irritation, more edginess to life. And that’s a good reminder to get back into taking flower essences.
Over time, as you continue to take flower essences, they will continue to elicit unique things from your psyche and help you continue to grow along your path.
How to Use Flower Essences
Can’t sleep? There’s a flower blend for relaxing your muscles, quieting the monkey’s mind, and falling into deep sleep like a rock.
Want love? So many flowers attract and magnify our experience of love! Partnership love, spiritual love, love for our parents, children and love for ourselves.
Feeling tired or overwhelmed? There are flowers for that too.
Want to speak your mind? Attract more love? Be bolder? Laugh until your belly hurts? Add a few drops of one of their flower elixirs to your water, coffee, or tea.
Want to feel sexier? Enhance your intuition? Revitalize your energy? Mist your aura & anoint your pulse points. Feel the difference at once.
Any struggle you have, there is a flower for it!
The best part? You will always be drawn to the flowers that you need the most.
LOTUSWEI Benefits
Every flower on the planet has a specific benefit, LOTUSWEI bottled up the healing qualities of flowers into a variety of essences to make life easier.
SHORT TERM: You experience less irritation. Everything feels smoother. Stress dissolves. You sleep more soundly. Any strong emotions get softer and lesser.
LONG TERM: The way you feel inside changes, and so does the outer world. It starts to reflect that new reality back to you. You may get out of relationships that don’t work, form new ones that do, start new career paths, do things you used to be afraid of and walk a little taller.
What is a Flower Reading?
A flower reading is the MOST accurate and targeted method to finding the flowers that we all need the most, right now!
Have you taken our flower quiz lately? If not, pause from reading this, and go and take it. 😊
It’s as simple as this: from a collection of gorgeous flower images, choose the flowers you’re most attracted to and get an instant reflection of what it means to you! You’ll discover the flowers you need most to accelerate personal growth, dissolve self-limiting patterns & amplify our best qualities.
LOTUSWEI is based on this idea: everyone knows exactly what they need, better than anyone else. Choosing the flowers you’re drawn to is better than any recommendation. It means that the energy of the flowers is working in coherence with your energy.
Which Modality is the Most Powerful?
The number one question LOTUSWEI gets is: Of the forms of flower remedies that are offered, which is the most powerful?
LOTUSWEI has found that whether you’re putting them inside your body or on your body, it has the same effect. The way that you will experience the most profound results is to choose the modality that you are going to use most often.
In the world of flower essences, it’s not about quantity but rather about frequency.
LOTUSWEI recommends you get the flower essences in or on your body at least five times a day and you will notice results!
What Makes LOTUSWEI Different than Other Flower Essence Brands?
One of the greatest assets LOTUSWEI has is that Katie Hess—the founder—is living, breathing, creating new flower essences all the time, for modern life!
Katie collects essences of the flowers and botanicals, intuitively guided, for what the world needs most today. The result is that LOTUSWEI flower essences are powerful, relevant and effective for our modern, busy lives.
LOTUSWEI also makes elixirs with delicious, ethically-sourced honey. This adds medicinal properties AND makes them delicious!
Aside from offering the traditional method of taking flower essences (ingestible elixirs), LOTUSWEI also work with essential oils, sourced from reputable distillers and infusing them into mists, anointing oils, serums & bath salts! This aromatherapy is not only an added benefit, but also makes using flower essences a luxurious, sensorial experience.
How to Shop LOTUSWEI
Ready to experience the power of flower essences on your mind, body, and spirit? Head over to https://shop.aliveandwell.health/collections/LotusWei and explore all essence forms.
Notice if one flower is calling you. If you need help, center yourself and take the flower quiz. Your healing flower is waiting!
