My inner guidance prompted me to define my intention before I began the attunement. The first time I did it, I was amazed. It was as if I had turned the tuning dial on a radio, and I was clearly at one with the plant.

Defining your intention, whether you are attuning to a plant, to yourself, or to another person, is the element that creates a direct link to the subject of attunement. It is also the element that can guarantee success in the process of selecting flower essences.

Defining your intention is not difficult, but it does require some contemplation. In my book, The Art & Technique of Using Flower Essences, one chapter is devoted to the significance of defining your intention in selecting flower essences, and guides you through the process of clearly defining it:

"What is intention, and why is it important in selecting flower essences? Intention is the act in which we determine the result we want to achieve. When we define our intention, we create a specific focal point for selecting flower essences. By deciding what we want to change or harmonize, we can effectively choose the precise flower essences that will help us make these changes. By defining our intention for using the flower essences, we can empower ourselves to select the ones that will help harmonize the core or root of a situation with which we feel discomfort.

"...The few moments we spend being clear about our intention could well be the most important part of selecting flower essences. No matter what method you use for selecting flower essences, whether it is intuitive or a more linear approach, you will receive high quality support if you first define your intention by clarifying what you want the essences to address."

The Art & Technique of Using Flower Essences, by Cynthia Athina Kemp Scherer, 2002, Desert Alchemy Editions

Many folks who were raised in dysfunctional families have a difficult time understanding that they have a personal will, which is, in my experience, the part of us that inspires intention. It is the part of us that empowers ourselves, that feels capable of having some effect on our world outside as well as our inner world.

Clarifying intention is such a simple step that it is easy to forget it. If we have a clear method to use every time we select and use flower essences, it can give us a routine to help us keep our healing process in view. It supplies a way to stay focused on our process without becoming distracted by everything that happens in our inner world.

If you get into the habit of consciously defining your intention before you select flower essences, you always have a place to refer to when you are evaluating their effectiveness as you use them. You also have a reference point in consciousness, a way to define where you are at any time. Beyond that, the more you use intention as a foundation in selecting flower essences, the more it extends beyond your healing work and permeates the rest of your life. You can live your life intentionally.

I think there are two very important desert flower essences to consider when we want to define our intention. One of them is the Emotional Awareness Formula. This composite flower essence formula supports looking within to understand what it is we are experiencing at any given time. If we don't know what our inner state is, how can we possibly define an intention for flower essences to address? Even if our intention is to select flower essences so we can more clearly see our inner state, the Emotional Awareness Formula can help us begin to clearly articulate what it is that we want work with.

The second flower essence is Spanish Bayonet Yucca, one of our desert plants that strongly displays its signature. Shaped like a bunch of swords held at the base as you would a hand-full of pick-up sticks, the plant pulls your focus unmistakably to its center. Its flower essence helps us unify our courage and our will with our intention. It supports us in clearly knowing our intention, and unifying it with the courage and will to take action on it.

I find this essence an invaluable assist in cutting through any hesitation or fear in facing whatever we must so that we can grow and heal. The essence can help you overcome any fear of inward-looking, so that you can resolutely define an intention that will be supremely beneficial in selecting flower essences that will hit the bull's eye, and make a significant difference.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Cynthia Athina Kemp Scherer is a flower essence practitioner with over twenty years' experience, and the founder of Desert Alchemy flower essences. She is the author of The Alchemy of the Desert and The Art & Technique of Using Flower Essences. Her web site includes regularly published flower essence articles called "The Core Issue".

Cynthia has created a helpful tool for the flower essence user, the Personal Flower Essence Journal which you can find at Desert Alchemy. This free 9-page guide can be used to set goals and intentions for essence work, select essences, and then keep track of your responses to the mixture for follow-up purposes -- it is also linked in this issue here from our Freebies Page.

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