Essences for Gratitude and Abundance
We Americans celebrate the holiday of Thanksgiving in November, but a daily expression of gratitude is a well-known key to joy and abundance. To help us feel gratitude for everything and every experience of our life here on planet Earth, there are flower essences that can assist us. I'd like to share a few of them.
Camas Lily - This plant is about celebration. It's like the champagne of flower essences in that it promotes taking time and honoring the ritual of celebration, gratitude, and self-honoring. This shifts over into self-recognition and self-acceptance, but more toward the fulfillment of intentions, and the ability to truly recognize your own uniqueness and what you've done to make that happen in your life: creation of a successful vision. It's helpful in a formula for completion... rounding the last bend, heading for the finish line. It gives a sense of what this whole process is for and why we commit to deep, long-term cycles, goals, and experiences. The yin/yang aspect is played out with follow-through on a linear path (A-Z), but with an emotional commitment and spatial sense of getting it (the more mundane aspect) done.
Groundsel - The purpose of groundsel essence is to stimulate the nervous system into receptivity to be in connection with all of life around you, and recognize that there is a safe and meaningful pattern to all of life, and that the drama that ensues in the day-to-day aspects of the larger human civilization doesn't necessarily have to uproot your connection with the earth around you. It's not a higher octave frequency as such, but it is a calmative and definitely brings forward a sense of safety and familiarity. It imbues the body and nervous system with the sense of continuous (almost repetitive), familiar, meaningful, ritualistically, healthy patterns of energy.
This grounding flower operates with the first, second and third chakras to bring the physical body into a state of openness, acceptance, and relaxation with the flow of day to day life in relationship with people and events around you. It can help release the anxiety of separation or being different or being alienated. It will move into the heart to reassure the heart that there is a true connection with all life at all times, even though mentally it may not be apparent or obvious. The gentle calmative quality of this essence is much like the kind of energy you might get from grandparents tucking you into bed. It makes you realize that it's perfectly okay to be here and that for the most part, life will be established on the planet for the good of all.
Heather - This essence can assist those with narcissistic wounding to begin to realize that the world does not revolve only around them. and that there are other perspectives and perceptions that have just as much validity as their own. Helps with the recognition of self-centered and obsessive behavior, neediness derived from insecurity, inability to be alone with oneself.
Larkspur - This is a very cool essence! It connects where the sun, wind, water, rhythms and cycle of seasons are eternal, and it's about confidence in Mother Earth and in tremendous feminine Earth wisdom -- sort of the invincibility of it. It's about the fact that those forces are ordained from levels of creation that are a very complex, beautiful wisdom that emanates through that, and helps touch into that to begin to work from a very high plane. The little flower is reaching up to the ethers and almost flying through wind, clouds, sun, and taking all that energy in and distilling it into its essence. Like the eternal truth -- it's feminine, gratitude, confidence. These cycles exist and have existed forever and they outlast everything else. To stand in relationship to those forces and feel them as part of the meaning and context of your life puts you into a position of confidence and gratitude from an expansive overview of what's actually taking place.
Rock Fringe - This gentle, nurturing flower is for bringing the heart back from disappointment, hurt, loss, and rejection. It assists the heart in touching deeply into the soul with more trust and confidence that the nature of reality here on the planet is truly benign -- that the lessons we must learn are often generated by where don't love ourselves.
Squash - This essence is about abundance -- sweet, Goddess love and abundance. It's almost like the cornucopia energy of the gorgeous abundance of the devas, all the plants, life forms, and levels of consciousness that inhabit the earth plane. It's very good for circulation of energy in the body and amping up all meridians in general.
In December 2006, I created a formula called Gratitude/Good Will. This combination supports those who are dedicated to being part of the planetary solutions for the greater good of all. It promotes grounding, faith, hope. It fosters trust, discernment, integrity, self-acceptance and honoring. Gentle courage and flexibility allow freedom to move into deeper cycles of vital energy, soul expansion and expression, higher heart and vision, in celebration of life.
For myself, I am forever grateful for the love, nurturing, and enlightenment I have received and continue to receive from the flowers and all the aspects of the botanical and Devic realm. We have been blessed here on Earth, through the plants, by some of the most miraculous beauty and energy in the Universe.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Holly Beatie's personal healing journey has led her to discover her inner gifts of ancient knowledge of the plant realm. She develops Flower Essences in the High Sierra Mountains and makes flower essence formulas and other botanical products that utilize this ancient knowledge for profound transformational healing support. For more information about High Sierra Flower Essences and High Sierra Botanicals contact Holly Beatie, PO Box 4275, Truckee, CA 96160. 530-550-0885.
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