Personal Tool Kit

This information has been collected from several sessions and compiled into a single location for reference. 

Michael's introduction, in a lab in which they suggested specific tools for each individual attending. 

MEntity:

We have been asked to help create a go-to "tool kit" for each of you based on what we consider beneficial to the Personality during challenging events, relationships, or in daily maintenance of your well-being.

We have suggested 10 Categories that cover a range of senses of the body that can help bring the Personality back to its center, grounding, and calm. ...

[W]e are suggesting these categories for your "Tool Kit":

• Essential Oil;
• Homeopathic Remedy;
• Gemstone/Crystal;
• Color;
• Tea;
• Sound;
• Aromatherapy Candle;
• Affirmation;
• Symbol/Talisman;
• Incense/Smudging Tool

These categories could expand or be reduced, but this is a meaningful set that covers various senses of the body that can help to realign the body and Personality, providing optimum platform for manifesting Essence. ...

Keep in mind for each of these categories: 

You can explore on your own how best to implement these. And in regard to homeopathic remedies, it is a good idea to consider if these remedies interact with anything you are taking medicinally. ...

The category of Sound will be relative to Sound as "therapy," not music or particular instruments. ...

NOTE: we are choosing these suggestions based on their effectiveness, not based on your preferences. If you find that we have suggested something that you are adamantly opposed to using, we can look again, but we caution against rejecting a suggestion based only on preference. This tool kit is meant as a kind of medicine, and medicine is not always tasty. ...

Before we complete our delivery, we will state here that all suggestions can be creatively applied if not in an obvious way. For example, your color can be in your clothes, environment, a simple object of focus, etc. Your gemstone can be in jewelry, as decor, carried in a pocket, etc. We will not have focus left through our channel to respond to questions, but each of your suggestions are customized for your Personality, even if you dislike the suggestion. There is no need to force the use of the suggestion, but we do encourage creative experimentation that may yield surprising effects.

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From a follow-up session:

Janet: I’d like more information on when and how to use the tools suggested to me. What tools do you consider useful in daily maintenance vs. the more obvious “challenging” times? For example, I’ve never used homeopathic remedies, so although I’ve ordered a sample of Sepia, I’m not sure when and how to use it. Is that one of tools to use daily or simply for the harder times? (I don’t mind experimenting with incense and essential oils, but I’m a little less enthusiastic about experimenting with “remedies” that I must ingest.)

MEntity:

Our tool kit suggestions covered three main contexts where such tools may be useful as a Personality: Passive, Active, and Maintenance - Passive is anything that can enhance one's person or environment; Active is anything used with specificity; and Maintenance is anything that is to help sustain a focus over time. It could be said that each suggestion in your list can be used Passively, Actively, or for Maintenance, so it is a matter of how one feels they are useful. 

For example, Passive tools can be colors, aroma, incense, in the environment, while Active may be a Homeopathic remedy when stressed, or a tea, etc. and Maintenance might be the mantra, meditation on the symbol, etc.

The homeopathic remedies are for treatment as one feels the need, not as a daily supplement.

Janet:

We were surprised that none of the 11 people in the Lab got the same tool in any category. So with the Lab session we have a description of a number of tools that might be generally useful to any of us. Or are they? For example, you gave me this: “GEMSTONE: Carnelian - for boosting creativity and passion, promoting a "zest" for life”

Does this mean that anyone desiring a boost of creativity might find this gemstone useful, or does this aspect of carnelian apply only to me? My thought is that maybe it applies to me on a regular basis but might perhaps be occasionally useful to others.

MEntity:

Every gemstone comes with facets of properties that can either become a focus for that gemstone or be combined with other facets, or combined in full for a "sum that is greater than its facets." In this case, this is a specific facet of carnelian that we see helpful for when you see yourself on a particular track of creativity and want to add more dynamic enjoyment of the process.

There are times when you may feel particularly "perky" but not know where to direct this energy, and the carnelian can help to either direct that energy or to make room to simply enjoy it.

Janet: But if other see that description of Carnelian, are they likely to get the same or similar benefit? (I’m just trying to find out if the descriptions given to people for the tools can be shared generically or if they need a noted caveat when shared.)

MEntity: Yes, if you were to read up on the various properties of carnelian, it is merely a matter of focus on what you wish to activate for resonance. We suggested this aspect of the gemstone, and others may benefit from that, as well, but you can also look into other aspects, if you are curious and experimental.

Janet: You were very specific about the color of the suggested aromatherapy candles as well as the scent. How important is the color, since this detail may sometimes make finding the appropriate scented candle more difficult? 

MEntity: The color is optional and only adds to the ambiance of effect, but the aroma is the most important in this case.

Janet: if the candle itself is white but it’s in a container of the color you suggested, does that provide the same effect?

MEntity: Yes, the container is a practical solution to adding the color to match the aroma.

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From another follow-up session:

Janet:

I’d like to find out if posting lists of tools suggested for others can be useful as a general tool for the community.

Last time I asked you about my gemstone, but that probably wasn’t the best example to ask about, because you pointed out that gemstones have different facets, and that seems like a topic in itself. 

So, let’s ask about other tools that may be less complex. For example, you gave me Jasmine incense, “for optimism and hopeful atmosphere.” Or what about Lemon Balm tea, “for improving your mood when faced with obligations or obligatory choices.” Can others use those tools for a similar purpose? 

Generally speaking, can most of the tools be used by others to obtain similar results, if perhaps not as effective or focused to the person?

MEntity: Every tool we listed would have what we could describe as a Universal Property and then within this Universal Property, its various Facets. For example, Carnelian could be said to be good Universally for "Energizing Vitality," which will work for anyone in some way that is most meaningful to that person. Its Facets would be more specific to the individual, such as Physical Energy Boost, Mental Clarity and Focus, Emotional Resilience, Creative Spark/Boost, Confidence and Assertiveness, and Sexual Vitality. So as asked in our previous exchange, if one is specifically desiring a "creative boost," this gemstone could be used, or if someone were to simply need an energy boost, but not know exactly where to focus that boost, the gemstone would dynamically interact with the individual to provide the most meainingful area for that boost.

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From another follow-up session:

Janet:

In our previous exchanges the tools you described in more detail each had 7 facets. I assume that every tool has 7 facets that are somehow tied to the other 7s in your teaching – can you confirm and perhaps describe something about this?

The Universal property alone of each tool could be useful, but will there be some way of figuring out or intuiting which facet applies to an individual without having access to a channel to specify a facet? I suppose one could use a pendulum or other oracular method, but will you have any more definitive method to share if I choose to ask for the facets as well as the universal properties of the tools?

MEntity:

First, we would suggest reducing your project to something like the "Top 25" or "Top 10" most accessible and useful of gemstones, teas, essential oils, etc. We can help compile each list. This would help reduce the daunting task of covering all that might be available on the planet and still cover most of what is immediately accessible to most students in most countries.

Each would have a Universal Property with 7 Facets.

Using only one's individual guidance for choosing tools, we would suggest simply looking for

1. What properties seem to be most meaningful and needed; and

2. Which version of a tool from a category feels or seems to be most appealing.

In addition to to these two considerations, we would also add that if what is chosen is unavailable or cannot be found, it is okay to use whatever can be found and consider those limited options to be synchronistic and meaningful. ...

Utilizing these tools will not work "like magic" but they are a part of the physical plane with properties of energy that have come to resonate with various facets of Sentience. Imagine the effects of a walk through a park or a forest on a sunny, breezy day. It is not magic that causes the effects on the body for grounding, calm, and peace. It is the resonance. This peace already exists within and the nature around you helps reflect this to bring it to the surface. The same may be said for such things as gemstones, teas, symbols, etc. They are tools for helping bring inherent properties of yourself to the surface.

Janet: I would think that using them with mindfulness of how they work might enhance the effect.

MEntity:

Mindfulness enhances every tool. A hammer will work regardless of mindfulness, but can smash a thumb or drive a nail, depending on that mindfulness.

Every fragment has a pool of energy that develops over time to be receptive or deceptive, defensive, projecting, etc. and often a mix of these. Mindfulness helps when using such tools of subtlety so that one is receptive. A clear quartz sitting near a person will still have properties that could be beneficial to a person, but a mindful person will be receptive while a defensive or rejecting person may not benefit. 

Skepticism is not defensive and should be considered valuable if that is one's nature. One can be receptive and skeptical.

Janet:

Regarding the tool kits you created: how is the Color to be used? Several people got unexpected colors or even hated colors. Of course, you said, “This tool kit is meant as a kind of medicine, and medicine is not always tasty.”

I don’t dislike the color you gave me (coral), but my preferences are for blues and purples and those are the colors I use in my wardrobe and my house. Coral is not something I can easily work in aside from a pop of that color, which may be all that is needed but I’m not sure where/how I’d add this to best effect. 

You said for the sound category: “The category of Sound will be relative to Sound as ‘therapy,’ not music or particular instruments.” I assume the Color category is similar, in that we should bring out the color for therapeutic purposes. 

If so, how might you recommend doing this, especially if the color of our recommended gemstone or candle is different? 

MEntity:

Regarding color: 

Like any other part of the Physical Plane, individuals will develop preferences for colors and aversions to colors. Preferences tend to grow from positive associations and aversions grow from negative associations. These are preferences. One need not prefer a color for it to be beneficial and useful. Color has physiological, psychological, and metaphysical effects. Preferring a color reflects where one is in their physiological, psychological, and metaphysical dynamics, much home decor and clothing can represent an expression of a person. Colors used as tools are different from colors used as preferences. 

Imagine the difference between music and song vs tuning an instrument. When one picks music, it is a reflection of mood and personality. Color as a tool is like tuning an instrument, rather than playing it or hearing it.

We suggest one good "pop" of the color in one's most used environment would be enough for effects.

If one is more mobile, then a single object of color can be helpful, such as a key ring, phone case, fidget toy, etc.