How Flower Essences Work
I am often asked how do the flower essences work. To be honest it is a really difficult question to answer. They will work the way they need to work, and often differently with individuals. However, what I have written below was what came to me when I sat and considered how was it the flower essences worked for me and how I observed them working in others. I have no doubt that I have only scratched the surface and I apologise in advance for that.
We have three known ways that we are familiar with and by which we seek to make meaning of our world.
There is our logical mind, ego, physical expression in the world.
Our emotional body, feeling responsive or reactive.
Then there is our intuitive engagement. This is driven by our unconscious mind, which has a more direct connection with our spirit and soul being.
Each of these ways of meaning making and interaction has its own sound, vibration and presentation to us that we may or may not be familiar with.
The logical mind is usually recognisable. It seeks to keep us safe, within what we know or can prove and see tangibly before us. It will align itself with external markers and use them as a guide to keep us on track.
When disrupted it will manifest as pain, aches, and illness that we treat with physical things, herbs, supplements, exercise, medications etc.
The sound of the logical, conscious, physical body is quite dense, quite clear and quite loud. It’s presence is generally the most dominant. It is caring for our physical being in a physical world, so it needs to be.
But it can be a bit pig headed and stubborn and fearful and it seeks to maintain and restore order as it knows it quite quickly.
If you have a dream that feels and seems real and want to act on it the logic mind will remind you it was only a dream and dismiss it. If you have a ‘gut feeling’ about something it will argue against it with logic.
It is not that the logical mind is against these things, they just fall outside it’s area of knowledge. Even though they are coming from within the body it is caring for, it still finds a way to dismiss it all.
This is where the Flower Essences come in as we will see later.
Then there is the Emotional body, this is quite fluid, and I would say feels in waves, thoughts move like water, they arise and are quite powerful and fill the space and then subside and it feels like they were never there. The drama of the initial wave subsiding as it drifts away.
If you can imagine a surging body of water moving in and out against a harbour wall. On an inward motion the waves surge forward, the water rises and fills the harbour water moving up the walls. Then it stops momentarily, and the water begins to recede and drops and moves down the walls. This would be the rhythm of the emotional body.
The logical mind is well aware of the emotional body as it can often be swamped by it. During a storm the water may well come up over the edges of the wall and this can be frightening. Therefore, it has created space for it and integrated it into its care for the physical body.
The logical mind rationalise what is happening. Is it PMT, sadness, anxiety, and it reminds the emotional body of the cause, it seeks to minimise and often dismiss the impact. It accommodates it, the logical mind will suggest a nice hot bath, a walk, even cake to address the emotional ‘overload’. The logical mind may also suggest a bottle of wine and in extreme cases of overwhelm anything that can block out and stop the overwhelming emotional wave that it knows is coming and prepares for it and regularly anticipates it, setting in motion the preventative strategies before they happen. It will seek out a more logical understanding for the emotions to track through to the logical body and have sense made of them. Then the homeostasis of the body remains intact. Suppression of emotions is a good outcome for the logical mind.
The logical body has done its job and it’s person remains safe.
The intuitive body, the part of us that is so often overridden and drowned out by the previous two, yet stands apart from them both.
The intuitive body, the one that sees a different world to the other two and looks beyond the tangible and physical. The part of us that sees beneath the logic and emotion and seeks to understand and resonate with the world it lives in through a more wholistic and integrative manner.
The intuitive body is connected to our unconscious mind and also to the place where we maintain a connection to all things that exist in our universe. This is the part of us that makes up feel slightly uncomfortable when we see things that just don’t sit well with us. On paper it all might seem fine and make sense but somehow it fails to align for us. Our gut speaks to us and a sense of unease may rise within us.
The intuitive body seeks a state of being that is driven by an internal locus, something deep within us. It will be the reason people abandon fabulous solid jobs and take up yoga training. No rational explanation, ridiculous to the logical part of us all, but it was something that just felt right, and it had to be done. Plus, individuals proclaim to be happier than they have ever been. Interesting those looking on have a faint stirring of disquiet and envy before they push it down and continue on their way in their ‘good safe jobs’.
The intuitive mind aligns quite easily with the emotional body. It drives us towards a different type of evolution and growth. It moves us to be more integrative beings, aligned with a stronger purpose beyond the 2 cars, 2, jobs, 2 houses, 2 children, 2 holidays, 2 flat screen TV’s, 2 super funds too too much time wasted on something that, unfortunately can be lost or taken away from you through external events.
The intuitive body drives us towards a state of being and happiness that is complete, that comes from deep inside us and nothing external can take it away from us. A state of contentment, happiness and freedom, aligned with who and how we are in the world.
The sound of the intuitive body is a gentle whisper, a niggling one some might say, but one that is easily overridden. But it is persistent and while it may be overridden it is never overpowered.
How the Flower Essences work is that they amplify the whisper within us. Not so much that it becomes louder, but clearer, sharper, and it gains in strength and persistence. Like a shadow out of the corner of your eye that refuses to go away and continues to distract and call your attention to it.
When using Flower Essences, the whisper of our intuition becomes that shadow to our logical mind. While the logical mind continues on its way and seeks to ignore it, the whisper persists.
Eventually the logical mind gets used to it. It becomes familiar with this annoying thing that hangs around, it discovers that it is not a threat and not going to harm it and it begins to relax and to make some space to accommodate it.
Over time the gentle whisper gains a space in the logical minds process and integration begins. It is an ongoing, subtle, integrative and non-invasive process. What you notice is that you begin to notice.
Where once you may have unconsciously just done something, you will now have an awareness of doing that something.
This is great progress because with his new awareness is the realisation that the conscious, mind has now made space for the intuitive mind and now you have choice.
The power of the Flower Essences is not about fixing or changing. The flower essences are about integrating and increasing awareness which down the line delivers a stronger sense of your intuitive being and an opportunity for you to make more balanced head, heart and soul felt choices in how you are moving through your life.
Every part of your gets an equal part in your way of living and being.
Ultimately the all live happily ever after together in an integrated human being.