Trying Transition Times

Optimal Coping Strategies

Along with a significant portion of the globe, our staff at Lucky Six Farms is busy preparing a variety of coping strategies to accommodate this month’s annual calendric transition superadded to the much ballyhooed but poorly understood passage from the thirteenth to the fourteenth Mayan Baktun. Whether forged from inexorable time cycles charted long in advance or adventitious events set in motion by mysterious vagaries of fortune, significant transitions are necessarily marked by a combination of high emotion and pointed intellectual assessment rarely encountered during more mundane periods. Tension, anxiety, stress, and worry thus become inevitable - and usually counterproductive - concomitants, needlessly handicapping crucial decisions made by those who can least afford the luxury of miscalculation or mistake. Given those conditions, is it any wonder that our search for optimal coping strategies assumes a keenly sharpened relevance?

Assisting Our Body’s Coping Strategies

Since the body generates our principal interface with the physical universe, tending to our material health and well-being should be a priority for coping with the strain of transitional circumstance. One of the best remedies for problems of this nature is the judicious use of California White Sage (Salvia apiana) at the first sign of difficulty. White Sage has been employed for millennia by indigenous peoples to calm muscular discomfort and jangled nerves. What’s more, Lucky Six Farms has made this pleasantly aromatic herb readily available in a number of convenient forms, suitable for almost any environment from outdoor stadia to tiny apartments. Deep relaxation prompted via a smoldering smudge stick, sprayed hydrosol, or one-leaf tisane can open remarkably productive avenues of social interaction not normally available.

Strengthening Our Psyche’s Coping Strategies

The beneficial effects of White Sage, however, do not simply stop at the outermost edge of our being. Traditional spiritual practices found throughout the length and breadth of the Americas venerate this high desert herb as a sacred vehicle for enabling psychic purity. Couched in more pedestrian terms, White Sage quickly energizes the most positive aspects of our outlook while dissipating negative impressions so frequently left in the wake of conflict and confusion. In this connection, it is worthwhile to note that, unlike so many competing products, Lucky Six Farms White Sage aromatics are fully approved for Native American ceremonial use. Whatever your December coping strategies may be, we wish you and yours the best of health, brightest happiness, and spiritual fulfillment during the upcoming year!

By Alan Beck