Many manifestation methods focus on the big payoffs with headlines like "Manifest a million dollars" and "How to manifest your dream house, car, and more". When I started this blog, I wanted to focus on manifesting the inner qualities that create the life we have come to expect from having the million-dollar dream. I believe that it is possible to manifest many wonderful things, some of which are material in nature, but I want to place the emphasis on the idea that while we are in the process of manifesting those long-term goals, it's really important to focus on the qualities to make the here and now the life we want to live. Sometimes that means that sacrificing our precious energy on things we don't like with the intention of the possibility of having something in the future might not be the best strategy for most people.
I'm not judging what goals are worth manifesting and what goals aren't worth pursuing. The greatest gifts I have experienced through the use of flower essences have been the change in my inner climate; by that I mean the immediate and lasting changes that affect my day-to-day life including a deep sense of spirituality and peace, a greater connection to people around me, and many different small but very useful serendipitous events that make everyday life fun and exciting while illuminating the idea that we belong to this amazing, interconnected Universe.
What does all of this have to do with flower essences? As a blog about flower essences, Manifest with Flower Essences is focused on a longer-term approach to creating the type of inner emotional space that illuminates (or creates) the type of life that most people deeply crave - fulfilling relationships, purposeful careers, an abundance of good food, good conversation, enlivening entertainment, opportunities to give back and make a difference, and a deep spirituality that is about embracing a greater good and living a life that is in sync with principles that make our time on earth a reflection of our higher selves. As lofty a goal as that might seem, using the tools provided by nature such as flower essences that at the core vibrate at the energetic resonance of harmony might be the thing we need to help us create that inner space. Of course, I have the highest respect for time-honored traditions such as meditation and energy healing which have had a profound impact on many healing journeys. Alongside those are techniques such as EFT, Reiki, acupuncture, homeopathy, hypnosis, journaling, and many more. Flower essences are one of many great tools and work very well with all of these.
My understanding of flower essences until now is that on a short-term basis, each flower essence can yield immediate results for a specific issue. On a longer-term basis, flower essences selected for different issues work on a subconscious level bringing to light things we can experience and let go of. This emotional release keeps us from attracting situations that were resonating at the frequency of the problem, thus allowing us to get to a neutral place. If alongside the use of flower essences we practice visualization, we are imprinting the energy of what we desire, thus making manifestation easy and highly probable. The amazing thing about manifestation is that what we desire is a certain feeling that we equate to a certain thing. Our subconscious mind is great at attracting one of many possibilities that yields that feeling. Thus, once we start resonating at the vibration of fulfillment, excitement, love, etc., we are constantly attracting and manifesting many experiences that fit those qualities. The very fabric of our lives changes to the point where we are living the type of life we would have envisioned having if we had a million dollars, a dream home, a dream car, belonging to a specific club, having a particular job title, etc.
When we focus all of our energy purely on very specific external goals, we run the risk of making decisions that shortchange us in the short-term. We pursue the wrong things because we are told what should make us happy through societal expectations, commercials and advertisements, peer pressure, family pressure, etc. The danger in manifesting what we think we should want instead of what our hearts truly desire is that our short-term is spent pursuing things that may or may not manifest while our long-term happiness is dependent on actually liking what we manifest. When we define one option as the best, we don't check in to see if it is an authentic desire, and worse yet, we don't allow alternate realities.
I can't promise anyone else that they will experience what I have experienced, but from when I first started using flower essences for several years (alongside other modalities such as journaling, EFT, and hypnosis), I can say that the journey has been absolutely life-changing. Within the first few weeks, I started noticing immediate changes. Within 6 months, I started noticing major changes. Within 2 years, I felt like I had won the life lottery. Not a day goes by where I don't feel a deep sense of gratitude (not a forced gratitude that feels like guilt or emotionless run-of-the-mill lists). The type of gratitude I'm talking about is a feeling of "I can't believe how wonderful my life is". The irony is that I look around and notice that many of my material circumstances are exactly the same as from before I started using flower essences, I've experienced some very difficult transitions, and endured some deeply-saddening personal losses. Flower essences didn't transport me into a different world; it made me grateful and more deeply connected to the world we live in right here, right now. It gave me the courage and support to face tragic grief, empathy to forgive difficult situations, and a sense of magic from being able to manifest the type of everyday synchronicity that makes life easier and more enjoyable; from running into a friend just when you need her to the perfect parking spot when you need one these everyday magical moments are more profound than they appear. None of this might make sense to you, and I can understand that. It's hard to compete with million dollar promises. But one thing I can tell you is that there is nothing quite like feeling like you have won the life lottery right here, right now. It means that even if you are waiting to win the lottery, you'll be doing it from a much better inner space. I think that's worth as much if not more than a million dollars.
As I dig into and share the details of my journey with flower essences, I will feature specific essences that I have used in the past and how they helped me get where I am now. If you are a flower essence practitioner, I urge you to share you thoughts on this post. The reason I started this blog was because I couldn't believe that something as simple, elegant, and profound as flower essences had existed all along and I only found them 15 years into my self-healing, self-development journey! I wanted to give people the shortcut. Why wait for years to discover this when you can have flower essences to accelerate your journey right now? So many others who have been using flower essences for a while have shared stories of their life transformations through flower essences. If you have never posted a comment before, I ask you now to share your success stories about flower essences. It's only through reading enthusiastic testimonials from others that I was convinced I wanted to try different flower essences, and I'm resisting saying the rest is history (see previous post about this). What I can say is that I have manifested an amazing soul-mate relationship, wonderful friendships, a great living space, exciting activities and groups, more abundance, daily synchronicity, and a deep sense of peace and gratitude that permeates the very fiber of my being. If I can play even a minuscule part in your success by providing you information that could help transform your life, then I'm honored to be able to do so.
If you want to read some testimonials to get inspired, I recommend the book Bach Flower Remedies to the Rescue by Gregory Vlamis.
Showing posts with label emotional healing. Show all posts
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Exponential Growth: What does it have to do with flower essences?
Have you ever seen a graph of exponential growth? Look at this link for an example. Notice how linear growth seems to be making a lot of progress right from the beginning compared to the exponential growth model. But there is a sweet spot when the exponential growth line surpasses linear growth and skyrockets from there. What does this have to do with flower essences?
The changes you might initially experience from taking flower essences may be subtle. You might wonder how flower essences could possibly help you get from where you are to where you want to be. You might question how flower essences could possibly help you manifest the life you dream of since it seems incredibly different and far from anything you are currently living. If you study the exponential growth model, you will notice that there seems to be little change for the first phase of time. Then, all of a sudden, as if out of nowhere, there is a dramatic shift in growth. If you use flower essences, you might experience subtle, small changes for the first few weeks to months after which time you might notice that there have been huge changes to your life. You might have been inspired to make major shifts in your life which in turn produced other changes. These changes, even the ones that seem arbitrary at first end up revealing a brand new reality, one that you had only seen in your visualizations and dreams.
To better understand how this might work, let's walk through an example. Let's study the case of someone who wants to be in a relationship, find a new job, and move to a place that she likes better than where she is currently living. After working with a flower essence practitioner, she realizes that the common theme holding her back is a lack of courage that is preventing her from taking calculated risks. She is afraid of the consequences of her actions, but her fear has created a risk as well; her fear has kept her from the possibility of having what she really wants. Her flower essence practitioner selects the following essences: Aspen for the fear of unknown situations, Mimulus for the fear of situations that she is aware of, and Cerato for lack of trust in the decisions she makes. For the first few weeks of taking these essences, she notices that she is drawn to trying a different commute home than the one she normally takes. This leads to meeting a new friend on her walk home. She finds herself browsing job boards and noticing that she is drawn to a different type of job than the one she has. The more she learns about her likes and dislikes, the less scary the idea of changing careers becomes. She notices a magazine cover featuring a city she had always been curious about living in but had never visited before.
When she unexpectedly gets a few extra days off of work for her successful completion of a project, she decides to visit this city to find out what it would be like to live there. As she continues working with her flower essence practitioner, she starts noticing that fear isn't holding her back like it used to. She decides to stop using those flower essences. As she talks with her flower essence practitioner, she realizes that she is seriously consider moving to the city she visited, but at the same time, she has started appreciating new aspects of her current city. She is prescribed Scleranthus for her inability to choose between the two options. As she continues to take this new essence, she starts to realize that the city she currently lives in doesn't have the job opportunities she is interested in pursuing. She decides to explore possibilities sending in resumes to a few jobs in the city of her choice.
A few weeks later, she receives a call about a job she had applied to and after a phone interview, she is flown in for an in-person interview. Immediately, she knows that if she is offered the position, she will move. A few weeks later, she has settled into a new apartment in a new city with a new job. Looking back, she realizes that without conquering her fear, she would never have taken the small steps necessary to make big changes. As she continues to work with her flower essence practitioner, she is given Honeysuckle and finds it easier to let go of the past without letting go of her fond memories. As she examines her past relationships, she realizes that she has let jealousy and envy block her heart from feeling open to love. She takes Holly flower essence and notices that after a few good cries and rants in her journal, she feels more peaceful and loving. A few weeks later, she is invited to a party by her coworkers and meets an interesting man who asks her out on a date.
Two months later, nearly a year from her first conversation with her flower essence practitioner, she recounts her year using flower essences. Starting from a place where she was looking for a relationship, a new job, and a new city to live in, she now has all of that. Instead of struggling and dealing with setbacks and disappointments, she found that flower essences helped her take small, inspired steps. She took time to listen to her intuition which saved her from making decisions based on comfort and routine which would have led her to stay in the same city and same job. She allowed herself to waiver between the two cities and explore the new city with a trip before making a commitment to move. This new process was fun and exciting instead of stressful and dreadful. She learned that change can be a good thing when supported by the use of flower essences. Her flower essence practitioner listened to the story behind her wishes and chose flower essences based on larger themes to create lasting changes.
This is quite a common experience with those who take flower essences. People typically notice small shifts at the beginning leading to transformative changes after a certain amount of time. Flower essences have the power to help people create exponential growth in their lives. Working with a flower essence practitioner, subscribing to informative resources about flower essences, and combining solid introspective practices such as meditation and journaling all help accelerate this personal growth process. If you are just beginning this process, remember the graph of exponential growth and how the first phase of time looks to have minimal progress, but if you are patient and continue to work with flower essences, you may be one of the many people who experience tremendous personal growth and lasting changes.
If you have already experienced this phenomenon, please share your stories with us. Click on this post's title and leave us your thoughts in the Comments section. Your testimonials and stories are valuable to newcomers; we thank you for sharing and helping foster a community around the resources that have helped you create the life of your dreams.
The changes you might initially experience from taking flower essences may be subtle. You might wonder how flower essences could possibly help you get from where you are to where you want to be. You might question how flower essences could possibly help you manifest the life you dream of since it seems incredibly different and far from anything you are currently living. If you study the exponential growth model, you will notice that there seems to be little change for the first phase of time. Then, all of a sudden, as if out of nowhere, there is a dramatic shift in growth. If you use flower essences, you might experience subtle, small changes for the first few weeks to months after which time you might notice that there have been huge changes to your life. You might have been inspired to make major shifts in your life which in turn produced other changes. These changes, even the ones that seem arbitrary at first end up revealing a brand new reality, one that you had only seen in your visualizations and dreams.
To better understand how this might work, let's walk through an example. Let's study the case of someone who wants to be in a relationship, find a new job, and move to a place that she likes better than where she is currently living. After working with a flower essence practitioner, she realizes that the common theme holding her back is a lack of courage that is preventing her from taking calculated risks. She is afraid of the consequences of her actions, but her fear has created a risk as well; her fear has kept her from the possibility of having what she really wants. Her flower essence practitioner selects the following essences: Aspen for the fear of unknown situations, Mimulus for the fear of situations that she is aware of, and Cerato for lack of trust in the decisions she makes. For the first few weeks of taking these essences, she notices that she is drawn to trying a different commute home than the one she normally takes. This leads to meeting a new friend on her walk home. She finds herself browsing job boards and noticing that she is drawn to a different type of job than the one she has. The more she learns about her likes and dislikes, the less scary the idea of changing careers becomes. She notices a magazine cover featuring a city she had always been curious about living in but had never visited before.
When she unexpectedly gets a few extra days off of work for her successful completion of a project, she decides to visit this city to find out what it would be like to live there. As she continues working with her flower essence practitioner, she starts noticing that fear isn't holding her back like it used to. She decides to stop using those flower essences. As she talks with her flower essence practitioner, she realizes that she is seriously consider moving to the city she visited, but at the same time, she has started appreciating new aspects of her current city. She is prescribed Scleranthus for her inability to choose between the two options. As she continues to take this new essence, she starts to realize that the city she currently lives in doesn't have the job opportunities she is interested in pursuing. She decides to explore possibilities sending in resumes to a few jobs in the city of her choice.
A few weeks later, she receives a call about a job she had applied to and after a phone interview, she is flown in for an in-person interview. Immediately, she knows that if she is offered the position, she will move. A few weeks later, she has settled into a new apartment in a new city with a new job. Looking back, she realizes that without conquering her fear, she would never have taken the small steps necessary to make big changes. As she continues to work with her flower essence practitioner, she is given Honeysuckle and finds it easier to let go of the past without letting go of her fond memories. As she examines her past relationships, she realizes that she has let jealousy and envy block her heart from feeling open to love. She takes Holly flower essence and notices that after a few good cries and rants in her journal, she feels more peaceful and loving. A few weeks later, she is invited to a party by her coworkers and meets an interesting man who asks her out on a date.
Two months later, nearly a year from her first conversation with her flower essence practitioner, she recounts her year using flower essences. Starting from a place where she was looking for a relationship, a new job, and a new city to live in, she now has all of that. Instead of struggling and dealing with setbacks and disappointments, she found that flower essences helped her take small, inspired steps. She took time to listen to her intuition which saved her from making decisions based on comfort and routine which would have led her to stay in the same city and same job. She allowed herself to waiver between the two cities and explore the new city with a trip before making a commitment to move. This new process was fun and exciting instead of stressful and dreadful. She learned that change can be a good thing when supported by the use of flower essences. Her flower essence practitioner listened to the story behind her wishes and chose flower essences based on larger themes to create lasting changes.
This is quite a common experience with those who take flower essences. People typically notice small shifts at the beginning leading to transformative changes after a certain amount of time. Flower essences have the power to help people create exponential growth in their lives. Working with a flower essence practitioner, subscribing to informative resources about flower essences, and combining solid introspective practices such as meditation and journaling all help accelerate this personal growth process. If you are just beginning this process, remember the graph of exponential growth and how the first phase of time looks to have minimal progress, but if you are patient and continue to work with flower essences, you may be one of the many people who experience tremendous personal growth and lasting changes.
If you have already experienced this phenomenon, please share your stories with us. Click on this post's title and leave us your thoughts in the Comments section. Your testimonials and stories are valuable to newcomers; we thank you for sharing and helping foster a community around the resources that have helped you create the life of your dreams.
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Dreaming of success: The one key factor that keeps you a step away
Today I want to write about the one key factor that gets in the way of success every time. No matter what endeavor you embark on, there is one thing that can keep you at arms length from what you desire. That one thing is self-sabotage. It is not often talked about in professional circles, but plays a critical role in who succeeds and who doesn't. As a society, we talk about effort, merit, and even luck, but we seldom delve into the realm of emotions, where self-sabotage lurks. Self-sabotage isn't easy to spot either. It's not something that shows up like a billboard or a street sign. It often lies dormant until we are one step away from what we want. It can appear as procrastination, a cold, bad weather, or even as a distraction. For some people, it isn't one event that derails them from success. It is a pattern of events gone wrong and resources disappearing. It is inconveniences, difficulties, and downright stubborn and nearly impassible hurdles.
Self-sabotage appears to be from outside of ourselves, and in some energy healing circles is thought of as repressed emotions and past fears attracting the very things we are trying to avoid or overcome. For anyone who has ever tried to use effort and energy to overcome difficulties in their lives and seen the difficulties persist or increase, you may find that flower essences are just what you need.
Flower essences offer a gentle, yet powerful way to get to the root of the cause of self-sabotage whether it is a childhood fear of success because of difficult family circumstances that reinforced the idea that succeeding meant being ostracized from the family or a deeply-ingrained belief that becoming successful means losing valuable friendships. Flower essences illuminate the thoughts behind the self-sabotage and clean away false beliefs while bringing to light the very real circumstances that might be an issue that needs to be addressed by taking certain actions in the present. Flower essences can also provide a sense of comfort and support through the process of evaluating what works and what doesn't work in your present circumstance. Once the cause of the self-sabotage is revealed, it is much easier to make empowering decisions. For some examples of flower essences for self-sabotage, click here. With the help of flower essences, you'll be able to start noticing differences in your outer circumstances and soon you'll be succeeding on your terms instead of being a step away.
Self-sabotage appears to be from outside of ourselves, and in some energy healing circles is thought of as repressed emotions and past fears attracting the very things we are trying to avoid or overcome. For anyone who has ever tried to use effort and energy to overcome difficulties in their lives and seen the difficulties persist or increase, you may find that flower essences are just what you need.
Flower essences offer a gentle, yet powerful way to get to the root of the cause of self-sabotage whether it is a childhood fear of success because of difficult family circumstances that reinforced the idea that succeeding meant being ostracized from the family or a deeply-ingrained belief that becoming successful means losing valuable friendships. Flower essences illuminate the thoughts behind the self-sabotage and clean away false beliefs while bringing to light the very real circumstances that might be an issue that needs to be addressed by taking certain actions in the present. Flower essences can also provide a sense of comfort and support through the process of evaluating what works and what doesn't work in your present circumstance. Once the cause of the self-sabotage is revealed, it is much easier to make empowering decisions. For some examples of flower essences for self-sabotage, click here. With the help of flower essences, you'll be able to start noticing differences in your outer circumstances and soon you'll be succeeding on your terms instead of being a step away.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Need help releasing old beliefs?
At some point in our lives, we have all likely held tenaciously to a belief even when there is plenty of evidence to the contrary. The most stubborn of such beliefs is usually one that we will go to any lengths to defend and hold on to. When someone or something challenges it, it feels almost like an attack on our individual being and the discomfort and ensuing anxiety seem to be acceptable as we cling tighter to our belief. In some cases, the belief is probably serving a need or purpose and removing it would shatter our perception of the world around us; in cases like that, it is probably best to take gentle, baby steps to understand the underlying issue and carefully create a healthy and supportive environment in which to safely release the belief that no longer serves us anymore. However, at other times, a long-held belief is just that; something that has become a staple in our worldview but doesn't really belong there anymore. For such beliefs, you may consider taking a flower essence such as Couchgrass.
Typically, flower essences gently shift our perception and allow us to examine the psychological underpinning of our thoughts which are often derived from our beliefs. When we realize that a belief is no longer serving us in a particular stage of life, we can let it go. For example, if we formed a belief that only tall people should play sports back when we were in high school and you weren't considered tall, and sometime in your twenties you friends asked you to join a team but you always found yourself missing the community league tryout or were late to practices, you might have subconsciously been sabotaging yourself because your subconscious mind couldn't hold the idea of you playing a sport because you hadn't grown any taller than you were in high school. A flower essence like Couchgrass could help shift your perception in a way that you start noticing people of all sizes and shapes playing all different types of sports whereas before, your mind would only find evidence to support your long-held belief and you wanted to be right, you might have only noticed tall people playing sports. If you were discussing this with your friends, you might have even tried to prove that you were not tall enough to play sports and supported your belief by showing them plenty of evidence to support your argument.
When we get locked into a belief, we spiral into a pattern where at first, quite innocuously, you might start noticing evidence to support your theory which then cements your belief further. The charge and excitement of being right becomes addictive and everywhere you look, you start noticing things to support your story. All of a sudden, you have a whole set of thoughts that form around the belief and pretty soon your behaviors start reflecting the beliefs as well. By this time, if anyone tries to challenge your belief or show you evidence to the contrary, your mind can't even process contradicting information, so you find reasons why the contradictory evidence isn't legitimate. You start feeling even more righteous with every "win" and nugget of perception that supports your belief system. Depending on how important it is to hold true to that belief, your whole life will start forming around it. When you start becoming invested in the belief financially, with your time, and with any other resources, it becomes even harder to extricate yourself from what was once a rather innocuous observation.
Beliefs themselves are not bad. It's a matter of whether a particular belief is serving you and your life at the moment. Beliefs can keep us safe, motivate us, and help us live our lives. Errant beliefs on the other hand can destroy our self-esteem, make life more difficult for us, and undermine our own intuition and self-worth. Flower essences can't change our beliefs without our consent. Flower essences create more space inside of ourselves so we can expand our world-view and examine what works for us and what doesn't. Additionally, they can provide a gentle support so we can do the inner work required to challenge and remove any errant beliefs.
To learn more about the flower essence of Couchgrass, please click here. Leave us a note about a belief you would like to get rid of in the Comments section by clicking on the blog post title. What would your life be like without a belief that is undermining you?
Typically, flower essences gently shift our perception and allow us to examine the psychological underpinning of our thoughts which are often derived from our beliefs. When we realize that a belief is no longer serving us in a particular stage of life, we can let it go. For example, if we formed a belief that only tall people should play sports back when we were in high school and you weren't considered tall, and sometime in your twenties you friends asked you to join a team but you always found yourself missing the community league tryout or were late to practices, you might have subconsciously been sabotaging yourself because your subconscious mind couldn't hold the idea of you playing a sport because you hadn't grown any taller than you were in high school. A flower essence like Couchgrass could help shift your perception in a way that you start noticing people of all sizes and shapes playing all different types of sports whereas before, your mind would only find evidence to support your long-held belief and you wanted to be right, you might have only noticed tall people playing sports. If you were discussing this with your friends, you might have even tried to prove that you were not tall enough to play sports and supported your belief by showing them plenty of evidence to support your argument.
When we get locked into a belief, we spiral into a pattern where at first, quite innocuously, you might start noticing evidence to support your theory which then cements your belief further. The charge and excitement of being right becomes addictive and everywhere you look, you start noticing things to support your story. All of a sudden, you have a whole set of thoughts that form around the belief and pretty soon your behaviors start reflecting the beliefs as well. By this time, if anyone tries to challenge your belief or show you evidence to the contrary, your mind can't even process contradicting information, so you find reasons why the contradictory evidence isn't legitimate. You start feeling even more righteous with every "win" and nugget of perception that supports your belief system. Depending on how important it is to hold true to that belief, your whole life will start forming around it. When you start becoming invested in the belief financially, with your time, and with any other resources, it becomes even harder to extricate yourself from what was once a rather innocuous observation.
Beliefs themselves are not bad. It's a matter of whether a particular belief is serving you and your life at the moment. Beliefs can keep us safe, motivate us, and help us live our lives. Errant beliefs on the other hand can destroy our self-esteem, make life more difficult for us, and undermine our own intuition and self-worth. Flower essences can't change our beliefs without our consent. Flower essences create more space inside of ourselves so we can expand our world-view and examine what works for us and what doesn't. Additionally, they can provide a gentle support so we can do the inner work required to challenge and remove any errant beliefs.
To learn more about the flower essence of Couchgrass, please click here. Leave us a note about a belief you would like to get rid of in the Comments section by clicking on the blog post title. What would your life be like without a belief that is undermining you?
Monday, June 17, 2013
What aspects of a flower are taken into consideration when creating flower essences?
I recently read a very interesting explanation about the various attributes of plants and flowers that are studied in the process of making flower essences. For example, many flower essence practitioners talk about a flower's signatures in determining what qualities they may correspond with in terms of emotions. This article discusses 12 different attributes ranging from a flower's shape to whether it blooms in the daytime or nighttime. What aspects do you focus on when creating your own flower essences? Leave us a comment in the Comments section by clicking on this post's title.
Saturday, June 8, 2013
Herbstalk 2013
I had the opportunity to attend Saturday's events of Herbstalk 2013 in Somerville, MA. The workshops and presentations were amazing! The talks were inspiring and full of information. I will be featuring interviews and information from several of the practitioners I met today. If you're in the Boston area, you can attend a full day of events on Sunday June 9, 2013. Visit Herbstalk for more information. Stay tuned for some fascinating information about how to make your own flower essences as well as a special post about aromatherapy!
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
A flower essence formula for emotional healing and peace
Many current emotional blocks are often those formed in early childhood. Unhealed traumas that have left their mark can be dissolved with flower essence combination formulas. A flower essence formula is usually composed of several different flower essences that are selected specifically to work together synergistically. Open Heart flower essence formula is composed of 7 flower essences to help with the emotional healing process. To learn more, visit Natural Path's page here.
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