Reiki Flower

Rescue Remedy

Good for: Anxiety, emotional upset or panic

Because: Rescue Remedy, the most popular of the many flower remedies, is a blend of five different flower essences, each countering a particular type of stress. Flower remedies are made mostly from wildflowers infused in water, then filtered and preserved with equal parts brandy. Medical evidence detailing if and how flower essences work is sparse, but that doesn’t keep many integrative physicians from swearing by them. “Flower remedies fall under the art of medicine and the heart of healing,” says Teitelbaum. “Who the heck knows how they work, but they do.”

How to: To manage everyday stress, place four drops on the tongue three or four times a day. Or dilute the drops in a glass of water and sip throughout the day. For acute stress or anxiety, take four drops every 20 minutes until feelings subside.

Tip: One of the biggest perks of flower essences is that they have absolutely no side effects. Alcohol-free versions of Rescue Remedy are available for children and pets.


Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/11-must-have-healing-remedies.html#ixzz17rcCl4q8

Don't define yourself into a corner.

So often, we identify ourselves using certain personality traits. "I'm not a morning person." "I'm disorganized." "I'm a slow learner." "I can't sit still."


Each time we do this - state, "I am X" with such conviction - we are putting ourselves in a tightly-sealed box that automatically discounts all other possibilities. And often, these are just stories about ourselves - not the truth.


For instance, say one way you define yourself is, "I'm bad at technology." Think of all that implies: that you're incapable of learning or solving problems, that you're dependent on others for all things technological. It also may block an avenue to a dream. Most of what we do today depends on some form of technology. If you so firmly believe that you can't do technology, how many doors are you subconsciously closing?


What you might do instead is examine what led to this belief about yourself in the first place. Instead of saying, "I am lazy," change the story to "I'm someone who can occasionally be sluggish. I wonder what that's about?" It could be when you were young, your mother called you lazy so often and for so long that you forgot that that was someone's opinion, and began to believe it as truth about yourself. Such realizations bring instant freedom from beliefs that imprison us.


Next time you catch yourself saying, "I am X," see if you can untangle yourself from that story. Remember that you are much, much more than any one characteristic, and you are capable of anything.


Believing in the bigger You,

The staff at Owning Pink

I find it very funny that the essence of the week is one for sensory overload and over stimulation by the outside world ... and I am having an extraordinarily difficult time sitting to write this! LOTS of distractions!! Regardless, I have been taking the Dill and maybe not writing but I have accomplished a lot and moved forward in many strong ways. So let's see ...

Dill (Anethum graveolens)



The computers, the news, the bills, the friends, however well meaning, needing your attention, the cats need to eat? ... let's watch tv to settle down and the commercials and traffic and ... and our spirits and thoughts call 'UNCLE!' and we are diffused and have exploded in a thousand different directions ... Dill ... Dill helps us slow down the cacophony, at least mentally and spiritually and then encourages the integration and internal stepping back of our mind in order to integrate all the sensory experiences and appreciate what is going on around us.

Not blinders to remove it all, but a means to relishing the treats all around us.

This is not to say that we may not need to step back and relax from the 'noise', but, when we do not have that luxury, Dill is here to support us and help us get what needs to be done done in the midst of mounting daily pressure.

Interestingly enough, as an herbal, Dill is used as a stomach remedy relieving gas and increasing the stomachs ability to digest. Think of that then energetically and it assists us in the ability to stomach things, namely the world and noise around us, and then, even better, to release it therefore finding ourselves back in comfort and ease.

Super, huh?

Namaste

Star Tulip [Calochortus tolmiei]

Positive qualities: Sensitive and receptive attunement; serene, inner listening to others and to higher worlds, especially in dreams and meditation.

Patterns of imbalance: Feelings of being hardened or cut-off, inability to feel quiet inner presence or attunement, unable to meditate or pray. [FES Essence descriptions]

Also called "Pussy's Ears," this Star Tulip is native to the western coast of the United States. It is a marvelous picture of feminine sensitivity, with its delicate mauve color, and flower petals filled with exquisite hairs. The flower essence develops inward receptivity, the capacity to listen and receive from others, with a more inward, or meditative soul life, greater awareness of dreams and inner guidance. Of various Calochortus flower essences this Star Tulip – which grows on the mist and fog-enshrouded coastal bluffs – is the most inward in its effects, enhancing meditation, dream recall, and particularly encouraging men to contact their anima, or inner feminine qualities. [Flower Essence Society: Lilly Family]

Two other FES essences enhance one’s ability to listen to the child's [a person's] needs. Star Tulip develops one’s receptivity and inner female, so it is an excellent choice during pregnancy for creating that inner womb and ability to listen for inner guidance. Yellow Star Tulip develops one’s empathic ability – to be able to know what the baby [a person] is feeling and how best to respond to those feelings. A great choice both before and after birth. [Vibration Magazine Blog]




I am not surprised at this being a West Coast/Pacific flower and vibration ... the tectonic shifts are deep and long there and this essence brings that sort of personal shift into alignment. What was broken knits and joins and creates a whole again ...

Star Tulip keeps coming up in essence formulas I have been mixing for people, and as THE most important formula to be aligned to at this time. It's a deep part of the Awakening going on and the paradigm shift occurring. As part of the awakening it is a form of psychic re-birthing and there is a whole new language within it that we need to listen to and become familiar with. Familiar again, because I really feel it's in our innateness as living things to be in this state of awareness.

As I write this I'm being downloaded with more information in creating a formula to assist all those feeling and working thru this shift. It's a huge spiritual [not religious, although some will see it as such] time and we can use all the help we can get. It won't necessarily be easy as this shift can bring pain while we open old wounds and integrate them into our now to become whole ... essences are perfect for this time [as is Reiki] and Star Tulip, in particular, gently opens us up like a chalice to the higher self.

There may be more this week as this awakening formula comes to fruition. There is always more ...

Namaste!

Flower Essence of the Week: Forget-Me-Not
Forget-me-not (Myosotis silvatica) flower essence "is an important essence to be taken into consideration after the initial stage of the mourning feeling caused by a dear relative's death; it can also be very useful to one who never fully resolved the isolation and abandonment issues after the death of an important family member, or a friend, during childhood." (Flower Essence Repertory).

However, it has occurred to me that it is also important in the therapeutic process when one is in a 'dark night of the soul'. They are at a deeply personal crossroads. Very often this is a deeply held belief or learned emotion/behavior and letting it go causes a certain amount of grief and anxiety and, I dare say, a certain amount of abandonment as this issue could very well have been a comfortable place to reside.
Forget-me-not, in this case, assists in reconnecting ourselves to our own true nature and reinforces our connection to the human family.

On another note, it is blue, the color that supports and identifies the 5th chakra [Vishuddha] ... "The emotion for the 5th chakra is faith and understanding. Because the 5th chakra is located in the throat and governs higher communication, speaking, hearing and listening, it helps us to understand our inner truth and convey it with our voice to the outside world."[nothingbutyoga.com]

At this point I believe it to be one of speaking our desires, our truth and Forget-me-not paves the way not only for remembering, but also for the verbal communication of, and listening to, what our soul sings.

~ namaste ~

"To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour."  - William Blake

Dr. Oz: ... And William Blake's quote so beautifully identifies that because what he's really talking about is this concept of complementarity, a term that was coined actually by Niels Bohr, the famous physicist in the 1920s. And complementarity was a term that meant that you could have two mutually exclusive answers to a problem and they could both be right. Now how could that be? Well, in physics, it was wave theory and particle theory. It was a thought that energy could be both in a bolus and in a wave. Why? Because it didn't actually ever exist in either form. It was a tendency to exist in a particular location that defined it. And once you got past your concrete thought processes about what energy was, you could actually come to peace with this complementarity of reality. William Blake is talking about the same thing. How can the world be in a grain of sand? How can infinity be in a second? How these are mutually exclusive possibilities? It challenges your basic underlying understanding of what reality really is. And when you move past a physical understanding of reality and start to acknowledge a more spiritual foundation for what reality truly is, you begin to realize that we live in a world where 99 percent is pretend and 1 percent is real. And what we're striving for as human beings is that unmodulated experience, that unmitigated exposure to the 1 percent of reality. And that's where medicine has taken me, and that's where patients who are struggling to survive are going.

Ms. Tippett Well, I certainly hear the analogies in this idea of complementarity and what you are exploring and experimenting with in medicine, which might seem to some to be two very different worldviews of Western medicine and traditional approaches to medicine. I mean, you've also observed that traditional medicine does make room for a nonphysical aspect to the human being, to energies that can be involved in healing in the way that Western medicine doesn't. There is this acknowledgment of a reality of transcendence in these lines of Blake as well.

Dr. Oz: Yeah, I think Blake highlighted that beautifully in his poetry. I think it's evident in many of the stories that we face in our lives, but we have to open our eyes and our ears to hear and see them. And that's often where our shortcoming is. That's where, crazy as it sounds, being ill offers you a growth opportunity because you're much more willing to pay attention to subtle things if you have the threat of that experience being taken away from you.

an interview with Dr. Mehemt Oz on Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippet

There are so many bits from this that I wanted to share ... I just needed to hand you the link and hope you will follow it ... it's 45-50 minutes but it goes by fast ... and you can just listen while doing other things which is really nice too.

I hope you enjoy it ... if nothing else, I find Krista Tippet's conversation thought provoking if not heart warming. Enjoy!

We all have favorite personal stories that we share over-and-over with people and that make annual rotations in our heads.
I wonder what the ones we hold on dear to say about us ... is it/would it be worth it to analyze them or is it best to just let them go ...

If we were to analyze the favorite story of another ... could it/would it help us to help them/understand them better in some way?

I can catch myself in a story. Say, "Oh, I'm sure you've heard this before ..." and then continue to tell it anyway because it may have a different relevance to what we are talking about.

But, I doubt it :)

This is going to be something that I listen to for a while. See what comes up and into the mix and then I shall report back ... if it is relevant ;] ... and if I remember ;]

I n the meantime ... what are some of your most repeated stories?

What do I need to know at this very moment for my highest good ... ?

Card One:
Queen of Coins
Be playful and stay open -- the possibilities are endless.

Card Two:
Ace of Swords
Your enthusiastic stewardship is producing dramatic results.

Card Three:
The Star
Clarify your motives before you get involved.

"Reiju empowerment... also used to "attune" (to use western term) students into higher levels of Reiki channeling.
Reiju connects the student to the Reiki source, strengthens this connection, and thus enables deeper and stronger Reiki flow. It is the student that has most important role in her [sic] development.
Reiju helps the student's progress in every aspect of their life, by enhancing the energy level in their bodies. This is also achieved by daily Reiki practice.


While reading an artical about Reiki I stumbled upon a term I did not know. Reiju. After doing some research online about and, having had this one page on my tabs all week, I decided to have a Reiju Empowerment. I contacted the email link and heard back from Don almost immediately.

I 'met' with Don Beckett this morning ... what is lovely is that he is in Hawaii ... but meet we did.

In Japanese Reiju means: "accepting/giving energy".(channeling energy)

At 845 this morning, after a nie hot shower, I sat in my practice room and assumed gassho [prayer position]. I breathed and relaxed and recited the precepts ... and then I waited ...

I had no idea what I was waiting for ... what would happen. I began to wonder just how long I should sit before I should check the time ... or what time it might be now? ... or ...

I look at the time [that didn't take long] and it's ... 942.

OK.

I could tell you everything that happened ... every millisecond in intimate detail ... but I won't.
What I cannot tell you, or describe, is how I have felt for the rest of the day but this I will try.

I feel like finely polished crystal. 'Jazzed' but not hyper. Tired but not sleepy. It wasn't until after dinner that my mind started to focus [and even that is 'wrong'. I have been focused all day!] and now I am tired still and grounded and ... present.

I really can't find the words. But ... I feel ... peaceful ... and ... still. Settled.

I am continuing with Don on a daily basis. My call. I asked for 21 days and then I will reevaluate and maybe go weekly.

Check out his page ... sign up for nightly Reiki healing. [I did that too - Wham! ;] and I'll keep you posted on progress.

It's been a great day.

Wow. So to say the least. Star Tulip Flower Essence is throwing me for a loop! ... a good loop mind you, but ... wow. Star Tulip is an essence used primarily for bridging the gaps between this physical world and the spirit world.
I am kicking and screaming through it. As of this moment, I feel unbalanced between the two but primarily unwilling to leave the spirit world and ground myself ... or wait ... no ... or is it i am fighting letting go into the spirit world ... ? oooh ...

I feel like I'm on a boat... that floaty back and forth feeling AND my body/head has been taken over by some incredible muscle relaxant. I wish I could say I have taken something to feel this way but ... oh, wait ... I have. Ha! ok ...

So before you start thinking [and maybe you already have] ..."Why on Earth would I want to take Essences then? How are they supposed to help if they potentially make you feel worse?"

Good question!

I can tell you that from years of taking essences, I did not [and, in truth still do not] have this reaction. Please keep in mind, I have been taking essences since the mid to late 90's.

The typical reaction to taking essences is a gentle feeling of opening and blossoming. A peeling away of veils or the skin of an onion. Frequently, I would feel nothing at all but first would notice the reactions and actions of other people changing in subtle ways in regards to me.
The sort of thing I am experiencing now is referred to as a 'healing crisis' ... but 'crisis' is not the best choice of words, although, it feels critical ... hmmm ...

crisis:
1.a stage in a sequence of events at which the trend of all future events, esp. for better or for worse, is determined; turning point.
3.a dramatic emotional or circumstantial upheaval in a person's life.
4.Medicine/Medical.
a.the point in the course of a serious disease at which a decisive change occurs, leading either to recovery or to death.
b.the change itself.

... and just for fun ...

critical: b.
(of fissionable material) having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction.

heh ... I like that. Since we are talking energy here, that makes some sense!

So, back to it ... yes, this is a critical point in the therapy. This is when, and where, a lot of people would just want to stop taking it, and where I would administer Rescue Remedy or Soul Support and tell them to call me whenever they needed to for the grounding. i would send them and administer Reiki to aid in the balancing.

Then, ah! ... I need to take it myself, have a Reiki treatment, and ... call for grounding.

To me, experiential work is more valuable than book knowledge but the TWO and invaluable.