Welcome to the Flower Essence Blog

In this months essence review we felt that we would like to highlight an essence combination that has the potential to offer many people valuable support.

Feeling Safe is a powerful combination of essences that can help us to recognise and transform old patterns of fear and trauma that relate to our physical safety. Now you might well be asking ‘why would I want to do this’? We fully understand that what most of us want is to forget any old traumas that might have impacted our lives and find ways to keep ourselves safe in the future. However, in our experience these old experiences sow seeds that unconsciously direct our lives and affect our ability to live life to the full until they are brought into the light of awareness.

Many people live their lives through an unconscious undercurrent of fear that leaves them prone to feeling that life is unsafe in some undefined way, or that there is ‘something dreadful just around the corner’. Quite understandably these feelings make it very difficult to trust in the flow of life or to easily embrace change of any kind.

You might well imagine that it would be reasonably easy to identify the fearful or traumatic events that have created this patterning in the first place, however this is often not the case for several reasons.

Many of our most unconscious patterns are those that are handed on to us by our parents or primary care givers while we are very young. Often they are a part of the inheritance passed on to us through our genetic line. Also as young children we absorb information, feelings and beliefs straight into our unconscious mind without the ability to filter it that we develop in later life. Once we have collected the imprint in this way it is very easy for even the seemingly ordinary events of life to reinforce our inherited fears and establish them as ‘truths’ that we carry forward unconsciously into later life and of course pass on in our turn.

If we take this a step further we can see that it is unlikely that any of our ancestors have escaped experiencing some of the more dramatic and trauma creating events that life on earth has provided us with over the centuries. So in one way or another we all carry the imprint of fear and trauma associated with wars, violent abuse and natural disasters. It is not an uncommon experience for young children to be terrified of war, earthquakes, hurricanes, fires etc when they have absolutely no experience of these things at all. This is our collective imprinting system at work.

If you are strongly affected by this pattern you may find yourself easily triggered by such events as the recent earthquake in Haiti or the ever-present images of war on almost every news bulletin on our televisions these days. Perhaps we should make it clear here that there is a difference between the natural sensitivity that we all have to the suffering of others in such situations and the uncomfortable echoes of past fears trying to get our attention. However, the difficulty for many is that often these feelings become confused and we fail to recognise what is our own. Until we have released the old fears that still vibrate in our energy field it is all too easy for us to find ourselves resonating with the collective emotional body of humanity which still contains much fear in its data bank.

So during this month of wintry introspection we encourage you to reflect a little on your early childhood feelings, general family patterns and what triggers feelings of ‘unsafeness’ in your life now. The Feeling Safe combination will help you to gently release and transform any old energies of fear and trauma that come into your awareness as a result, leaving you feeling stronger and more connected with your true self.

Feeling Safe Combination

The Feeling Safe combination is part of the from the Divine Harmony Essence range and you can find out more or order online here. It is in the ‘ Transforming Belief Patterns‘ group of the Divine Harmony Essences.

Check out this BBC video giving a stunning glimpse into a truly amazing and awe inspiring crystal cave. The energy in there must be incredible with some of the crystals measuring over 10 metres!  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8466493.stm

Happy New Year and welcome to the January edition of Elight. 2010 has certainly opened on a wintry note, at least for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere where we are experiencing some of the lowest temperatures and the greatest accumulations of snow that we have had for a very long time. We were reflecting the other day how being in the midst of this great freeze is rather like being held in suspended animation. Everything tends to slow down and we get the opportunity to examine the details of life to a greater extent than would be the case normally. In other words another opportunity for enhanced introspection!

January Energetics

The theme of inner introspection will be an important one for all of us during the first two weeks of January this year. The powerful energies of the last full moon of 2009 on December 31st instigated a period of inner introspection and self-examination that is currently offering us the opportunity to get clarity on our focus and intention for the coming year before the first new moon of 2010 on January 15th.

To us it feels that 2010 will be a year of new choices and opportunities and that it is therefore particularly important that we each use this time to feel into our hearts and discover the direction and focus that our soul wishes us to take over the coming year. We will be greatly assisted in this process by a period of retrograde Mercury, which began on December 26th and will continue until Mercury goes direct again on January 15th. While such periods can have a disruptive effect in the outer world of communications they also greatly enhance our ability for introspection and inner communication. There is always a silver lining to all apparently black clouds!

The combination of the new moon and solar eclipse on January 15th will provide us with a particularly powerful moment in which to sow the seeds of our new focus and intention for the coming year. It will be a wonderful moment to set a vibrational alignment that will help to bring towards us all that we will need in order to accomplish what we have so carefully chosen.

Vibrational Alignment

The correct vibrational alignment is crucial in the manifestation of any intention or goal since it is our personal vibrational frequency that calls forth the creative forces of the Universe and determines what we can and cannot manifest at any given moment. We were reflecting on this the other day and recognising that lack of real understanding about this is still the source of much frustration for many people. There are two issues that seem important to mention here. One is the need for recognition of the power that our unconscious patterning can have to over ride positive goals and intentions. The other is the need for conscious alignment with the purpose that our soul holds for us in each incarnation.

These first two weeks of January offer us all a wonderful opportunity to examine carefully whether we are actually vibrationally aligned with the focus and intention that we have set ourselves for the year ahead. Take some time to feel into your heart and to really connect with the promptings coming from your soul. As you do this allow the feeling of what it will be like to create this in your life to come forward as strongly as you can. In this way you are creating a vibrational alignment with what you are calling forth. Keep energising this feeling every day, pulling yourself more and more into alignment with what you wish to manifest. This process will also trigger any unconscious patterns that you hold, such as fear, doubt or lack of confidence, that are vibrationally not in alignment with your focus and intention for the year. It is important to accept and own these old emotions and beliefs because they all represent fragmented aspects of yourself that require healing in order for the vibrational alignment with your manifestation to be secure.

See also Essence Suggestions for January

Vibrational essences are of course a wonderful way to work on old unconscious patterns and the fragmented parts of yourself that are in need of love and reintegration. The correct essence combination can very quickly adjust your vibrational frequency and help you to recognise any issues that are blocking your way forward.

Fear is perhaps the most potent energy that we all carry and the one that will most quickly pull us out of a positive vibrational alignment, so lets start with some reminders of essences to help transform our fears. For many people fear and anxiety is an undercurrent emotion that runs through all of their life experiences, often quite unconsciously. Obviously the more conscious you can become of how this energy affects your life the easier it will be to recognise and change its hold over you. In this situation it will be extremely helpful to include Mimulus, Rock Rose, Aspen and Cherry Plum in your Bach Flower Remedy combinations on a regular basis for a while. In addition either Inner Calm (Divine Harmony Essences) or Courage (Inner Child Essences) will be powerfully transformative for deeper levels of buried fear.

Fear is also stored in the base chakra where it contributes to feelings of anxiety and fear around survival and prevents us from being fully grounded and present in our lives. In this case a Base Chakra combination (Chakra Essences) would also be very helpful. Feeling Safe (Divine Harmony Essences) or Peace (Inner Child Essences) might also be very supportive combinations for some working with this issue.

Doubt and lack of self-value, as well as lack of self-confidence will also seriously affect our ability to follow through with new goals and intentions. If you need support with any of these issues then one of the following combinations will be just what you need to reset you vibrational alignment  - Inner Certainty, Feeling Worthy or Confidence (Divine Harmony Essences).

In our experience criticism and judgement, particularly when turned against ourselves, can be extremely disrupting energies. Falling into judgement automatically takes us out of our hearts and into polarity consciousness, where we loose our ability to see the higher perspective of life. For anyone needing support with this issue we can thoroughly recommend a bottle (or two!) of Inner Freedom (Divine Harmony Essences).

We all need help from time to time to keep our hearts open so we thought we would just remind you again of how helpful either a Heart Chakra (Chakra Essences) or Love (Inner Child Essences) can be with this issue.

Last but not least for those who would like to promote greater alignment with their soul then either Soul Connection (Divine Harmony Essences) or Soul Gifts (Inner Child Essences) might be for you.

May the Wisdom of Love within each human heart unite our world in Peace this Christmas and throughout the coming year.

Essence Review - Inner Freedom from the Divine harmony Essences

In this essence review we felt that we would like to highlight an essence combination that seems to be often overlooked despite its potential for promoting major transformation.

Inner Freedom is a combination that many people simply look past because they do not see themselves as having major issues with judgement, criticism or intolerance. We can understand this because it is certainly more comfortable for all of us to see these issues as being outside ourselves, whether this be in those close to us or in the larger arena of society in general. However, when we look around the world there is ample evidence that these energies are thriving rather than diminishing. Knowing in our hearts that everything that appears outside ourselves has to be a reflection of something within made us recognise that possibly there is a need for all of us to look at how we might be unknowingly energising subtle forms of judgement, criticism or intolerance in our lives. Hence this essence review.

We are all so programmed with polarity thinking that everything can so easily become divided into ‘good’ & ‘bad’ ‘acceptable’ or ‘unacceptable’ etc, if we do not really keep our attention on what happens in our thoughts. It seems possible that when we really choose to look within we may all find subtle or possibly not so subtle manifestations of this legacy of polarity consciousness that could do with some transformational help. One very debilitating example is that of the unending ‘inner critic’ that so many of us live with at an almost unconscious level of awareness. Maybe we have a tendency to judge the day before us by the quality of the weather when we awake in the morning. Perhaps we might find that we are holding on to some rather fixed views about what is ‘right’ in some aspect of our lives or feeling somewhat intolerant of the way those elected to govern us are behaving. The list could go on but we are sure you get the picture!

This month we would like to encourage you to examine your own subtle versions of this pattern and to invite greater freedom into your life by banishing judgement, criticism and intolerance with the support of the Inner Freedom combination.  We have found this to be an excellent combination that can gently but quickly move us into an expanded place of awareness from which we can more easily recognise and let go of old mindsets and perceptions.

See:- Inner Freedom from the Divine Harmony Essences

Each year the month of December marks the closing of a twelve-month cycle while also providing us with the gateway into a new one. The outer cycle that is created by the passing months and seasons of the year, each with their own energetic focus and potential, mirrors the inner cycle of spiritual growth and opportunity that we are each presented with every year. So the month of December marks an important point of review and completion for all of us, both in our inner and outer worlds.

For several years now we have reached the month of December and felt that the year just completing had brought such powerful waves of change that it was hard to imagine that there could be anything left unchanged within us. However, each year we have been proved wrong, and as we look forward to the coming year there is a sense that this will again be the case as we move through the next twelve months. Although this feels challenging, there is also a sense of inner excitement and anticipation about the opportunities that the coming year will bring forward for all of us.

A Challenging Year

This year has been a year in which we have all been challenged to release the old issues, emotional attachments and redundant karmic patterns that were still undermining our ability to be our true selves. There has been a sense of urgency about this because it is now becoming increasingly important that we all stand strongly in the light, love & spiritual power of our true selves, something that can only happen when we have released the old stories that we have believed about ourselves.

Inevitably this inner change promoted a wave of change in our everyday lives as everything that had become redundant began to crumble away, leaving a space for something new to come in. Many people have experienced this process of inner and outer change this year and many more will do so over the coming twelve months. It has been a common experience for many to find themselves suddenly and somewhat unexpectedly realigned in particular areas of their lives, be it careers, relationships or the location in which they live. These waves of change have also been ricocheting through the structures and organisations of our world that are built on old paradigm beliefs, exposing areas of corruption and untruth that must be released to allow something new to take their place. It seems to us that this seemingly chaotic process of change is very likely to intensify as we move through the coming year, making it especially important that we all maintain the focus and strength of our own inner light.

Ancestral Healing

This past twelve months has certainly been a year for working on deep old issues. So much so that many have felt rather disillusioned to find themselves again facing old issues that they thought they had finished with years ago. If this has been your experience take heart because in our view this is really something to celebrate since it simply means that you are now getting to the core of the issue. Over recent months the powerful waves of energy that we have all received are washing ever deep into the cells of our bodies and into our DNA structure releasing everything that is not our true self. This has triggered a process of healing that is extending back through our ancestral lines, cleansing and releasing those patterns that we have inherited from our bloodline. This of course not only brings about change for ourselves but also for past and future family members.

December energetics

The energies of December will provide us with an ideal opportunity to integrate and consolidate all of the energies that we have been working with over the past eleven months. It certainly promises to be a very powerful month energetically and one in which nothing that is out of alignment with our truth is likely to be over looked or allowed to rest for long. This will of course come as no surprise to anyone in a month that contains two full moons, the 12 12 gateway and the winter solstice.

The first full moon of the month on December 2nd will provide a point of balance and reflection from which we will be able to more clearly discern our immediate goals. The 12 12 gateway on December 12th will bring forth a flood of high frequency energy that will help us all to consolidate the energies that we have been working with over the year, weaving them together into a new patterning from which our future will be created.

This is an extremely powerful time and it feels important for each one of us to take time to reflect on our own inner world and to assess whether there are any issues that still need our attention before the end of the month. The energies of the 12 12 gateway and the solstice on December 21st will both provide a powerful opportunity for letting go of the old. So that by the time of the last full moon of the year on December 31st we will be able to see more clearly where we are going as we move forward into a new cycle.

Our final review of the year will take place on December 31st on the inner planes as we each go before the Karmic Board in our soul consciousness to review what we have achieved spiritually and to set our intentions for the coming year.

See Essence suggestions for December

The Christmas holiday season, now fast approaching is traditionally a time of meeting up with family and friends. It is at these times that we especially get to recognise whether we have resolved the old issues from our past, since so often the families we chose to incarnate into reflect our own patterns to us with unflinching clarity. This can be both a productive and painful experience depending on your perspective, so we thought that we would start this month with a few suggestions for essences to help with healing unresolved family issues. Lets begin with Healing Family (Divine Harmony Essences), an essence combination that will help with releasing old family trauma related to divorce, bereavement & separation. This is such a common experience for many these days, yet so many have painful memories locked away that make it very difficult for them to create a real loving family environment for themselves. Family (Inner Child Essences) is another powerful combination for those who would like to focus on clearing old ancestral patterns and family traumas. Sadly another common theme related to family healing is that of abuse received in childhood. This is a deeply scarring issue and one that has often been perpetuated from one generation to the next. Being brave enough to work with this issue brings great healing for all concerned. Healing Abuse (Divine Harmony Essences) has proved to be a very helpful combination for many over the years. Feeling Safe, Feeling Worthy & Forgiveness (Divine Harmony Essences) are all popular combinations to provide further help with this issue.

This period of deep healing and inner cleansing that we are all currently experiencing means that many old karmic relationships and agreements are now being completed. Very often the final process of detaching from these old ties is one of emotional release and possibly forgiveness so that liberation can be fully achieved. Essences are great for helping with this process so here are a few suggestions. Top of the list for many will be Letting Go (Divine Harmony Essences) or Release (Inner Child Essences), either of which will help with emotional detachment. Wild Iris (Karmic Essences) is an excellent essence for those folk who find it difficult let go of feelings of over responsibility, while Inner Calm (Divine Harmony Essences) will help those who find themselves feeling somewhat insecure and afraid of what the future holds.

For anyone who would like some general help with letting go and releasing the old this month, we can thoroughly recommend a bottle of Violet Flame (Archangels & Ascended Masters Essences). As you take the essence use your focused intention to call in the help of St Germain and the Angels of the Violet Ray of Transmutation – they will be delighted to help you.

Finally, we know that many people like to give essences as gifts to friends and family at Christmas time so we have put together a selection of Christmas Special Offers for you to choose from.

It is with a certain amount of disbelief that we find ourselves already into the first days of November and contemplating the fact that another year is almost finished. Even our weather seems to be having difficulty keeping up with the increasingly rapid passage of time. Not that we are complaining, because the unseasonably mild and sunny weather through much of October has kept the onset of winter at bay and provided us with a wonderful display of autumn tree colours, together with the great gift of many late flowering summer flowers. However we know that for many including ourselves, October has been anything but calm and peaceful from an energetic perspective. In fact we might go as far as to say that it has possibly been the most challenging month we have had for some time when we look at the amount of ‘stuff’ that we have found ourselves dealing with. Judging from the experiences of others that we know we were definitely not the only ones facing this somewhat drastic purification process.

Be the change

As we reflected on this we were reminded of the often-quoted words of Mahatma Gandhi; ‘be the change that you wish to see in the world’. This is of course exactly what is currently being requested of each one of us and at a level that is shaking the very core of our personal foundations. When things get tough we find that it helps to remember that for a new reality to be anchored onto the planet it must first be called forth and created within the reality of those who live here. Over many years now we have all responded in our own way to the inner calling to wake up and take responsibility for our selves as co-creators of our world. We have been so successful with this that we have reached a point where the inner changes that we have all made are now manifesting outwardly in the fabric of our everyday world, a process that will intensify as we move through the next few years. As we see it we are all being called to embrace a new level of ‘being the change’, one in which we will be challenged to stand firm in our light, love and power to anchor the new reality that is now being manifested.

November energetics

The energies of November promise to be very intense and powerful for all of us. The beautiful full moon at the beginning of November shone a brilliant pathway of light illuminating our way forward through the 11 11 11 gateway. The powerful feminine goddess energy that will flow onto the planet at this time will offer us all the opportunity to embrace new levels of our feminine creativity and intuition. It is through the acceptance and integration of these qualities that we will all be able to bring forward new ways of living and relating in the future. For many of us this new energy will also highlight where there is a need for greater integration between the inner feminine and masculine energies within ourselves. Whatever shows up in your world, hold it in as much love and acceptance as you can and allow the old to release so that you are ready to sow the seeds of new beginnings at the time of the new moon on November 16th.

Vision and focus

Perhaps one of the most important ways in which we can all help to ‘be the change’ is by connecting together with others of like mind and heart to hold a positive vision of an unfolding new world built on the foundations of love, light and spiritual power. In our world of polarities we must be ever vigilante in our choices to ensure that we are energising the creation of what we truly wish to bring into our future.

The challenge for all of us at this critical time is to be able to maintain strong energetic foundations that enable us to stay calm and balanced and in our hearts no matter what is going on around us. We can often feel that we have achieved this balance only to find the rug pulled from under our feet by an unexpected trigger in our outer world. There seem to be many of these triggers manifesting for all of us right now and while they are to be welcomed as something that will ultimately make us stronger we know how challenging they can feel at the time. The source of the problem is often to be found in the emotional body, which is still resonating with some old long forgotten issue. Strong emotion of one kind or another is often what surfaces when these old issues are unexpectedly triggered, so we thought we would start by reminding you of a few particularly helpful combinations from our Core Emotions Set (Divine Harmony Essences). Our old friend fear sits at the root of so many uncomfortable issues so lets start with Inner Calm, a powerful combination to help clear and transform deeply held fears. Anger and resentment are two other very powerful emotions that have the ability to take you right out of your beautifully balance heart space. If you find yourself in need of help with either of these emotions then Inner Peace (anger) or Self Responsibility (resentment) are for you. Another very difficult emotion that seems to be coming up for many people right now is a deep feeling of guilt and responsibility for something that they have no conscious memory of. If you resonate with this then you would find a bottle of Forgiveness very helpful. For those who find themselves over emotionally polarised in a more general way we can thoroughly recommend a bottle of Emotional Body (Light Body Essences)to help promote greater harmony and balance in your life.
Anyone who would like some help with accepting and integrating the new feminine goddess energies this month will find a Female Essence (Divine Harmony Essences) very supportive. Either Inner Unity (Divine Harmony Essences) or Integration (Light Body Essences) will promote greater integration between the inner feminine and masculine energies.
An open heart is essential if we are to stand firm in our love, light and spiritual power so we will just remind you to engage the help of a Heart Chakra combination (Chakra Essences) or Love (Inner Child Essences) should you be in need of support in this area.

Lastly we will leave you with a reminder of one of our favourite essences when we feel in need of some wonderful nurturing feminine energy since it seems so universally applicable this month; Divine Mother (Archangels & Ascended Masters Essences). Enjoy!