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Combining Flower Essences Together for an All-Healing Effect
We have just announced that we will combine up to 6 flower essences for you in order to provide just the right remedy for your emotional ailments. Instead of having to purchase individual flower essences and mix them yourselves, we will do the work AND save you money to assist you on your healing journey.
Here are a few examples to consider:
- YOUR TRUE SELF
Holly (the ability to give and receive love), Iris (the ability to open to your creativity, and Wild Oat (finding your life calling.) - THROAT CHAKRA RELEASE
Mountain Pride (speak your truth), Scleranthus (making a decision), Centaury (the ability to say no). This is a good combination for Fibromyalgia. - SEXUAL WHOLENESS
Basil (sexual abuse), Calla Lily (sexual gender), Oregon Grape (expecting hostility), Holly (give and receive love). - PUBLIC SPEAKING
Calendula (mary’s gold – speaking from your feminine power), Cosmos (eloquence), and Vervain (zealot).
These are just a few very powerful combinations that can have life changing effects. Email me for more info or find out more about our your custom flower essence combination here.
Are you Skittish? Rosemary Flower Essence
Are you a skittish person? Do loud noises make you jump? Have you had a trauma or tragedy in your life that makes you feel as though you would *always* rather be somewhere else? These types of behaviors could indicate that your soul is physically out of your body. And thats not really a beneficial place for you to be! Many times in life, when we fear for our lives or experience trauma, our soul literally leaves the body out of fear.
Rosemary Flower Essence brings you back into your body, fully and completely, so that you can enjoy life to the fullest. So that the endless skittish or concern that you are in danger can end. Finally!
Just like when you eat fresh rosemary and you feel a warming sensation, when you ingest it in flower essence form, it gives the soul a warming sensation and coaxes you fully back into your body.
I was recently making a batch, and had some leftover. I decided rather than waste the Mother Essence, I would take a gulp. Boy was I surprised what happened next! Sometimes we dont’ even know if we are fully in our bodies or not! Friend me on FaceBook to join in…
Here’s a Fun One: Wild Oat Flower Essence
Are you fresh out of college and have no idea what you want to do with your life? What calls to you? What makes you passionate? What is your purpose here on earth in your lifetime? This is one of the biggest question for us as we begin to draw our life maps, redraw them, change direction, and navigate our future.
When you get lost along the way, Wild Oat helps steer your internal ship back to center, reminding you who you are and why you are here.
Wild Oat is also useful while we are on the journey and we sense a change in purpose coming. It will help us navigate this feeling of wanting to take a new direction in life as we reach goals and graduate through life.
I have seen “Wild Oat Stories” in the executives that left Microsoft to start a non-profit for a poor country. It can be seen in Dean Kamen, Obama, and also on smaller scales. And these essences work on a subtle level. As you are taking Wild Oat Flower Essence, simply observe your thinking. Talk to other people during this time and see what conversations arise. I once talked with someone taking a Wild Oat regimen and they simply would not stop talking about dogs! Dog breeds, dog shows, dogs, dogs, dogs! Of course her true calling was to be a dog trainer/breeder. Thats how it works, the soul begins to speak to us and we just have to listen.
We hope you’ve enjoyed this small conversation about Wild Oat Flower Essence, just one of the amazing flower helpers from our natural world.
“Wild, wild horses… couldn’t take me away…”
- The Rolling Stones
(from my Wild Oat or my Life Calling!)
Guess the Flower!
I’m having a contest on Facebook! Go ahead and friend me to join the contest.
Name this flower and get a free tumbled stone from this list (click here) shipped to you. (We are all out of Chrysocolla). To find the contest, browse through the Making Sauerkraut photo album by clicking here after you have friended me.
(HINT: It is in one of the flowers in the Flower Essence Kingdom)
Sweet Pea! Let Go of Your Differences
FLOWER ESSENCE HIGHLIGHT
Sweet Pea flower, isn’t she lovely? Look at how the blooms trickle down one from the other. Kind of like one generation blooming after another. It looks like a family of blooms going on here.
It is no coincidence that Sweet Pea is for those of us that feel disconnected from people. Those of us that have no feeling of home. It is recommended, for one example, for those who moved often during childhood. It is for the wanderlust or perpetual pilgrim that constantly feels like an outsider.
We are all in the genus called human, and the sooner we see the commonalities between us as opposed to the differences, the closer we are to P E A C E. Let Sweet Pea be part of the bridge to being home.
A Sense of Family Outside of your Immediate One: God, Angels…Family. Forget-Me-Not Flower Essence
Forget-Me-Not is pictured here in the making earlier this week.
It is an important essence to consider following the initial stage of grief after the death of a loved one, and can be very helpful for those who have never fully resolved their feelings of isolation and abandonment following the loss of an important family member or friend during childhood.
Forget-Me-Not can also be used by expectant parents who wish to establish a conscious link with the soul seeking to be incarnated through them.
Forget-Me-Not can be beneficial when one wishes to understand the deeper, karmic soul connection which inspires or challenges any current relationship. In all these instances, Forget Me Not guides us toward greater love for the human family, and deepens our understanding of how vast and deep it exists for us.
It is just as it says, “forget not” the helpers, guides, and spiritual beings. Forget not that every soul in your life is there for a reason. And know that souls don’t go far when they pass, that etheric existences are real. This flower essences helps establish and re-establish this knowing and ability to sense a larger human family.
Trillium Flower Essence, Do You Want to Steal Me?
Here we are going to discuss one of the “heavy hitters” of flower remedies—Trillium. Trillium is a very thought provoking flower essence. In a nutshell, it is for the power hungry person, but we have a very deep nutshell going on here. Trillium, at its most extreme level, can be used for those who steal things from others. Literally, it applies to a thief who would steal an object, or “steal power” from another. They makes themselves feel richer and more empowered because they have tricked somebody else. They have taken a shortcut, or so they are deceived.
On smaller, more subtle levels, do you know someone who would tell a white lie to get somebody to buy something? Somebody who feels good about gaining something utilizing some form of trickery? These are the sly foxes that Trillium speaks to.
On the most subtle of notes, do you know someone that does not feel their own self worth, and so when they truly and honestly deserve money, they feel as though it is unmerited? Such a person who cannot feel their own self worth can in fact be a Trillium personality. Until such a person can learn their own self worth and feel as though the pay they receive is a fair energy exchange for the work done, they will remain in this undeserving state and feel as though they are stealing, even when they are not!
Trillium is found in the forest, in shady areas. Trillium appears oddly and out of place, usually a single bloom in the middle of some trees. Its like a little jewelry sale sign stuck in the most natural of places. “Do you want to steal me?” Trillum shrills her sneaky test.
Trillium, for power hungry types, is not just about wanting material things, it is also about wanting power of all kinds outside of ones self. Objects of power can be material things, control, domination, money, importance. This flower essence works with the root chakra as survival mode issues are at play here. Related Flower Essences are Poison Oak, Tiger Lily, and Cherry Plum.
Flower Essences in the Making, the Healing that Nature is Offering Right Now
We Want to Help!
The Help Thats in Season Now
Pictured are 3 flower essences that were in the making this weekend. Each addresses a vastly different emotional and physical issue outlined below. Look at them basking in the sun…this is real healing in the making! They want to help us!
Dandelion
I have to do more, I have to do more, I have to do more….POP! OUCH! Why is the soul stuck on fast forward? Is this enjoying life?
Read the Soul Lesson
Bleeding Heart
Have you seen the recent movie Twilight? The plot line is a young girl falls "helplessly in love" with a handsome young Vampire. They cannot live without each other. They die when they are not together. How dangerous for our young girls and boys! This is just the kind of infatuant co-dependent love we don’t need them to model after.
Read the Soul Lesson
Violet
Some babies arrive extremely shy. Sometimes its just inherent in their nature, or it stems from a past life, or develops if we become afraid of people. Violet Flower Essence is for profoundly shy people who have a great inner warmth but don’t often get to share it due to fear. This is sometimes accompanied with cold body temperatures. If you know someone who is profoundly shy and as a result, suffers from social anxiety or teasing in school, Violet may be in order.
Read the Soul Lesson
Getting in Touch with Power: Flower Essence Remedy Quince
Quince is in full bloom today so I took the opportunity to harvest Quince Mother Essence. Pictured above are a few chosen flowers in distilled water, soaking in the sun and releasing their vibrations into the water. This makes the Mother Essence which is later used to create Quince Flower Essence.
Well… how can I explain Quince. Let me take a stab at it…
Have you ever been accused of being a b*? I absolutely dislike that word and it is a button-pushing word for me. It tells me my behavior is unwelcome. I try not to be a *itch.
But what if my bitch is my protector? My wise woman instinct? The masculine side of me? What if sometimes I am supposed to act this way because I am only speaking my truth when others are not listening. I am only protesting to a perspective of someone else’s that they are forcing upon me. I am standing up for my child. I am running a multi-million dollar corporation. I am making decisions and ensuring that my decisions are carried out. I am not allowing others’ opinions and subjugations of me in. I have decided what is right for me.
Yeah, you BET I’m a bitch! I’m here in full blood and if you want to mess with me, be prepared for experiencing the full woman that I am!
And while I am deciding all of these things, I am coming from a place of integrity – I am simply making the best decisions as a human on this earth and I am doing it with a loving, non-judgmental, non-manipulative nature.
That is the soul teachings of Quince. They are indicated for a soft spoken person (men too!) who has trouble being heard, is easily swayed by other people, or does too much for others. Quince teaches a person not to be afraid of being a bitch, to get in touch with their inner Animus.
Happy Harvesting!
Wendy
Certified Flower Essence Practitioner
The Courage to Meet Tremendous Challenge; Good for 2009 and All of the Glorious Changes
I think most would agree, we can all say we are facing some kind of change in our lives. Obama’s campaign word was “Change”, and the state of the world is changing.
Rock Rose Flower Essence can help us get to the flip side of our change. As we go through change, we have to let go of old things, and grasp onto new ones. For instance, learning new trades because our old ones no longer serve (job loss). Letting old things wash away and learning to say goodbye to them and look forward to the new things that will replace it.
Rock Rose Flower Essence can help us to get to the “hindsight” side of change. To embrace the changes and recognize them as gifts instead of curses. To have the courage to face the changes and turn them from a negative into a positive.
* In the most extreme level of change, Rock Rose can also be indicated for the process of dying, when the ego is gripped by the fear that it will be utterly annihilated or destroyed.
