The combined action or effect of a group of things is greater than the sum of the individual or separate action of the things -- a short definition of the word synergy. Examples include: an orchestra vs. individual instruments playing one at a time; the action of nutrients, water, and sunlight for growing plants; a flock of geese in flight (that also utilizes unison to an amazing degree), an aromatherapy blend; an ants nest; a beehive; a tasty casserole, savory sauce, or yummy dessert; a pack of bike racers.

In working with the energies of flowers, I often find essences that will assist us in synergizing our healing abilities for ourselves and those we facilitate. Here are a few essences that can be incorporated into any healing modality to help maximize the synergy of the work.

Squash - Cucurbita pepo: 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.

Squaw Carpet - Ceanothus prostratus: This essence is a tonifier for the subtle bodies, like an astringent for excess stress and thought patterns that have been dissipated by too much ingratitude or denial. It works best in synergy with at least four or five other essences. As a synergizer it helps re-establish a sense of truth, balance, being back in the body, contained and grounded in your actual experience. On a soul level it helps to alchemically resonate into what the soul's real truth is, and may be one of the first elements that a person interacts with that brings a deeper, more specific truth about their soul's identity as compared to their personality's adaptive identity.

It definitely assists in getting out of the excess mode, especially in the mental realm, when thought patterns move you out of nurturing, warm, strengthening environments and into aloneness, isolation, or loss of sense of self-worth. This subtle essence doesn't overwhelm the etheric body but asks us, "Isn't there someplace else you should be or would rather be than where you are right now?" The leaves of squaw carpet are pointed. This tends to be a reminder that nudges a person's energy toward different perspectives, or going inward.

Hyacinth Brodiaea - Brodiaea hyacinthina: This plant is about speaking your truth, and an integrity that is not so much based upon past evidence of intent, but a quality of the heart taking risks that is the its unfolding into a higher sense of purpose. It speaks to that aspect of humanity that desires to realize that it is in service to something bigger, and may not know quite how to understand or define just why, but the tentative heart says "I must feel something new and I will become a part of a bigger momentum, bigger pattern context, and reality of emergence on the planet". It also speaks of the sweetness of the soul coming forward with effortless emergence into day-to-day reality. It does not address any specific abuse issues, but is best called a tonifier of intent.

Monkshood - Aconitum columbianum: This essence basically allows you to contain yourself within where you can let go and trust the way you were designed to move in your body on the earth plane, as a natural force of knowledge, change, growth, and grounding. It's a very kinesthetic essence, and promotes that healthy containment of going within and trusting what you find, but it's really about being in movement with life -- not like the Tarot Hermit/isolated loner card.

It's more about knowing how to go inside, feeling the body (good for breathwork), and containing the self within the natural flow of energy in the body, getting to know and trust it as it comes out and moves through life, and being able to stay contained, confident, centered, and grounded. It's good for a competing athlete, instilling a rhythmic sense -- getting up in the morning, getting centered and in tune with the self and sensing where you're going to go throughout the day.

Monkshood instills devic inner wisdom through this process so that over time, more self-trust and referencing of the self within physical day-to-day activity, organizing flow and creating structure can come forward. This will naturally create healthy boundaries because of the focus and harvesting of the accumulated wisdom that comes from completion and successful actions.

The botanical products and flower essences that I make are all based with intention on the synergy concept. The high vibrational energy of the essences are a key element to this process. That is one of the reasons my formulas are so effective and potent. There are innumerable ways in which flower essences can deepen our growth and healing abilities and experiences. They invite us to use them with playfulness and imagination.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: The entire content of this article is the intellectual property of Holly Beatie, all rights reserved. Holly Beatie began a personal healing journey that has led her to discover her inner gifts of ancient knowledge of the plant realm. She creates flower essences and flower essence formulas that utilize this ancient knowledge for profound transformational healing support. For the HIGH SIERRA BOTANICALS mentioned in this article and many more essences, as well as additional articles, visit High Octave Healing, telephone 530-550-0885, or email hb@highoctavehealing.com.

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