The definition of synergism is, the combined action or effect of a group of things is greater than the sum of the individual or separate action of the things. You can use this definition to understand how many things exist and function in our world. 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 or pelicans (that also utilize unison to an amazing degree) in flight, an aromatherapy blend; an ants nest; a beehive; a tasty casserole, savory sauce, or yummy desert; a pack of bike racers. In working with the energies of flowers, we find some flower 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 in deeper, more specific truth of their soul's identity as compared to their personality's adaptive identity. It can definitely assist in coming out of excess mode in alot of areas---more up toward the mental, where thought patterns tend to slide out of nurturing, warm, strengthening environments and into more aloneness, isolation, loss of sense of self-worth or relationship, or sense of meaning to things around you. This subtle synergizer doesn't overwhelm the etheric body but it definitely will remind us "Isn't there someplace else you'd rather be?" or "Isn't there someplace else you should be?" than where you are right now? The leaves of squaw carpet are pointed. This tends to be a reminder or synergizer 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 risk that is the heart 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 its unefforted emergence into day to day reality. It does not address any specific abuse issues but it 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 this devic inner wisdom through this process so that over time, more self-trust and referencing the self within the physical day to day activity, organizing flow and creating structure can come forward. This naturally will 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.
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