Jasmine Tobacco
Repatterning Addiction with Grace
First: understanding the addiction cycle.
Jasmine Tobacco helps us to restructure our relationship with the addiction pattern we humans tend to have, so to fully receive the transmission, we need to understand that topic. I've written a full post in the essence resources about The Addiction Cycle which should shed some light on this. But if you're just skimming through for now, the short version is this:
The addiction pattern is one in which we seek to fill an emptiness or inherent dissatisfaction inside of us with a behavior or substance that alters our internal experience to give us temporary relief. Since it doesn't solve the problem, we keep returning to our state of emptiness or dissatisfaction and then to the temporary or false distraction or satisfaction, and back to the emptiness, over and over again. The behaviors or substances we turn to tend to be harmful or at least not helpful or healthy in the long run. Staying within the pattern will never get us out of the pattern. There has to be a break away from it, an understanding of its nature, and consistent redirection when the pattern presents itself as an option.
The Full Transmission from Jasmine Tobacco:
As a white five-petaled flower, Jasmine Tobacco's physical attributes tell us that she can help us with the purification of our embodiment. Her winged nature, or the way the multiple flowers extend out from the stem as if giving an offering, tells us that her medicine is given freely and insistently, as if from arms extended, palms open. And the two sides to each petal indicate our need to walk the line between partaking in the sacred without misusing it.
The Jasmine scent of the flowers is intoxicating. It brings us immediately into the higher realms of beauty, bliss and pleasure. We just keep wanting more. Tobacco has this dual nature: sacred and able to take us to higher realms, and easy to abuse and become addicted to.
We are immediately brought into awareness of this dichotomy of the sacred, blissful, pleasurable access to the higher realms and the potential for harm done by misuse or unconscious engagement. Jasmine tobacco helps us to approach and rework our tendency to misuse pleasure in order to avoid pain, or misuse sensation in order to avoid discomfort.