Snowdrop Flower Essence

Snowdrop for Awakenings

There are many varieties of snowdrop, however the wild one form which i make the Snowdrop flower essence is called Galanthus Nivalis.

Snowdrop is one of the flower essences for this time of year. They are usually the first flowers we see here in Cornwall toward the end of winter. Snowdrop is able to survive very low temperatures and even snow, hence the name. Because they flower around Imbolc, or Candlemas, another name is candlemas bells. Where I live they usually begin  flowering in mid  January. Are there snowdrops in your area?

Snowdrop is a wonderful flower essence for both healing and awareness. A delicate essence whose enduring, pervasive energy both opens up and lightens one’s perception.

 

Useful for – Snowdrop flower essence heightens sensitivity of awareness and subtle perceptions. It can be used for deepening our understanding of the underlying patterns in nature, existence and consciousness. Snowdrop also teaches us a gentler way of being, of doing what we need to do. Its gentle yet pervasive energy is a kind and reliable guide in many types of situation.

 

Action – Snowdrop is one of the flower essences for renewal, due to the actions of fortifying and settling the body’s energy it brings a sense of serenity and centre. The other noteworthy effect is the property of opening up one’s perception, so bringing a sense of lucidity, helpful is you feel that you want to see things with more clarity or find a new perspective or, as mentioned above, for those who wish to broaden their perception and learn to perceive nature in a deeper and more genuine way.

 

Indications   

If you are feeling stuck, lethargic, or don’t know what to do next 

If you don’t know where to turn, or can’t seem to find the right thing for you

A usefull supporting essence for those in recouperation or chronic conditions

Fatigue or mental exhaustion.

 

If you would like to try Snowdrop Flower Essence please visit my website http://www.awenessences.co.uk/catalogue.htm

Or other producers who make Snowdrop essence I would also recommend are: Bailey essences or Mother Luck essences

Daffodil Flower Essence

Daffodil Essence. (narcissus pseudo narcissus)

  ‘New Perceptions’

They are everywhere in early springtime. Bursts of yellow exploding all over our hedgerows, verges, gardens and scattered over many a woodland floor. Always feels to me like it’s announcing news; or perhaps channelling light energy outwards to the whole of it’s surroundings. ‘Herald of Spring’ I call them. Although there are now over 50 varieties of Daffodil, Narcissus Pseudonarcissus is the common wild daffodil which grows here. It is perhaps best known in legend in the story of Narcissus, the vain youth, who became so besotted watching his own reflection in a pool that he fell into the water and drowned. In the spot where he died a flower grew; narcissus, the daffodil.

 Daffodil’s qualities as a flower essence are far from ‘deathly’! Initially it has the effect of expanding perception, bringing a greater sense of purity and appreciation of beauty. This energy facilitates an opening up and revealing of the true self. In this we find several areas of application:

Daffodil essence is most effective for healing, in clearing blockages in the heart area and creating a stable base energy. (I have found that impeded energy flow in the heart charka is often related to an inability or unwillingness to perceive what’s really going on around you).

It teaches us how to absorb correctly what we most need, be it from our environment, from our food, or in the form of inspiration. The new information and nutrients taken in alike lead to improved energy flow as well as a deepening of self-awareness and improved  assimilation of new ideas.

 Learning to know oneself beyond all doubt leads to a profound sense of wholeness and completion within, and leaves one able to feel truly comfortable within one’s surroundings. This sense of ‘fit’  can be most useful in relieving conditions related to the inability to relax and ‘just be oneself’, shyness and feelings of awkwardness or for those who can’t find their own voice or are afraid voice their opinions.

 Finally we return to Daffodil flower essence’s quality of expanding perception: This appears to relax the entire  energy body and help us to perceive the bigger picture of our lives. This is useful because when we focus too much on any one thing, be it an object of desire of an object of dislike, we loose our power, our centre, and our ability to perceive what is really in front of us becomes distorted.

So my final impression of daffodil would be as the revealer; the opener, who trumpets to us light and illumination!

 For more about flower essences and vibrational essences or to try some daffodil essence please visit my website at www.AwenEssences.co.uk

Honeysuckle Flower Essence

 

 

 

Honeysuckle (lonicera periclymenum) Awen Essences Mexican Collection

 

“Complete Presence”

Honeysuckle is suited to those who daydream, or cannot find fulfillment in the present.

Image: A small child is playing outside, on the earth. She is completely absorbed in her game, unaware of all else around her. Her imagined world is all there is.

‘What makes a given moment inspiring or alive is how you choose to live it: You are not a victim of your world. You are creating it every second.’

Honeysuckle is useful for those who daydream too much, or are held back by fond memories of the past, wishing things could be different, like they used to be, or simply that common sentiment of always wanting something other than what we has right here before us. Sometimes we can make changes for the better using this energy. But all too often it is these feelings which simply stop us from bothering to really appreciate what is around us right now, or taking a genuine interrest in things.

This essence enables us to fully engage our true selves in the moment, cutting through dulled & disillusioned existence: Revealing a way of being whereby we innovate and inspire whatever we choose to do with our lives, finding fulfillness in whatever is around us.

Correspondences: A feeling of softening is experienced; respiratory system is energised; brow chakra and sacral chakra activated.

Flower Essences for healing, transformation and evolution by Awen Vibrational Essences, please go to www.AwenEssences.co.uk to see more.

A few words of Love.

I just wanted to tell you that you are loved. You are special. You are totally and completely unique, child of creation. Do not be afraid to follow your heart; walk your own path; speak your truth. Dance your soule’s dance, knowing that your ancestor’s danced their dance before you. And your kin all over the world dance it too.

Do you ever stop for a moment just to feel, just to look, just to simply be? In Peace.

Though you may often walk alone in this adventure, may you never feel lonely. May you be filled with inner strength. And may you always feel loved.

Flower Essences Profile : Red Chestnut

Red Chestnut Essence                               ‘Walking your Talk’

(aesculus x carnea)

 

Awen Essences Red Chestnut Tree Flower Essence

• The teaching of red chestnut is about learning free oneself from distraction by external influences: Learning that one’s own unique ‘Way’ cannot be disturbed by another. We choose what is right for us. This tree seems to bring an understanding of the eternal universal flow of energy and the spiralling nature of all things. (Like many of the essences which i have made, red chestnut brings a new understanding that how we choose to perceive things can directly change how we experience what is happening.) 

•  Red chestnut essence is a good essence for those who are easily influenced, or thrown of balance by external influences, such as what others say or do, worrying about them or about what will happen next. When we judge and label things in our minds we create barriers, both within ourselves, and between us and everyone else.

 

• Red Chestnut helps to restore a sense of acceptance and openness, and helps one learn to be calm within when looking out. Also for those who are usually capable but may have become ‘bogged down’ in some way by the stresses of their lives. Red chestnut helps to restore a much-needed sense of perspective and balance.

 

• Energetic correspondances – Energy is brought downwards, grounding and warming. Lung meridian, stomach & spleen meridians activated.

 

To find out more or to get yourself a bottle of red chestnut essence please visit my website at  www.AwenEssences.co.uk

Flower Essences Profile : Magnolia Bud

 

 

Awen Vibrational Essences - Magnolia Bud

Magnolia Bud Essence (Magnolia Stellata)

 

 

• Understanding your true identity.
• Self acceptance
• Self-confidance.

Magnolia essence brings a sense of knowing one’s true identity: Made as the huge pinkish white petals are just beginning to unfold, suggesting an opportunity for reaching a clearer connection to and awareness of the inner self opening up.
This flower essence helps with finding belief in yourself and trusting in your own decisions and choices, and through this a sense of personal freedom.

It can be used to ease feelings of restlessness; to bring clarity and balance when there are changes to be made; for shyness; and to overcome feelings of uncertainty about the future or one’s own choices.
I have found magnolia bud essence to play a key role during transition phases in life and when there are changes to be made which you may find difficult.

What are Flower Essences? Part 1.

The meaning of the word “essence”:

1.a) Essence: The real or ultimate nature of a being or thing, especially as opposed to it’s existence or it’s accidental qualities. b) the properties or attributes by which something can be identified or categorised.

2. Essence: An extract possessing the special qualities of a plant, drug, etc in a concentrated form or a preparation containing such a substance.

Flower essences, or Vibrational Essences encapsulate the energy patterns, or energy signatures, of elements of the natural environment.

These can include flower essences, plant essences, tree essences, mineral and crystal essences as well as particular places within the landscape, environmental essences.
This essence imprint is held in water (I use pure local spring water). No physical plant parts; just an energy imprint. It is now commonly understood, as well as scientifically proven, that water retains a cellular memory of anything that is has come into contact with. So what is really happening when an essence is made is that the pure life force of the plant becomes imprinted in the water.

Once made, the essence is preserved by bottling it with good quality alcohol, which acts as a preservative (i use vodka, for it’s neutral quality and smell). This is the mother tincture. To prepare a stock bottle (which is what you would buy) a few drops of this mother tincture are place in a bottle of pure spring water and at least 50% alcohol. The essences are sold at stock level as either drops or mist sprays. They can now be used as they are, or diluted again by putting a few drops into a glass of water.

For more information about vibrational essences or to see the essence collections which i produce please go to:

http://www.awenessences.co.uk/

Flower Essence Sense

Using a flower essence to boost how you feel makes sense.

• A flower Essence is completely natural: containing only pure spring water (i use local bottled spring water ), alcohol as a preservative (i use vodka), and the pure energies of the natural world. Essences can be made with not only flowers, but rocks, crystals, trees, plants and even an environment, such as a particularly energising area of woodland, or a sacred site.

 

• A flower essence can instantly change how you feel and perceive the world. With regular use and a little mindfullness you can change even the most stubborn patterns of thought, behavoir and emotion. Why be a prisoner of negative thinking and self-defeating feelings when there are natural ways to free yourself from these things?

 

• Using a flower essence is a wonderful way to re-connect with the energies of nature, wherever you are. A flower essence is brimming with the healing energies of each plant, flower or tree. It’s imortant for us to go outside to look, listen and simply be in the natural environment around where we live. It makes us calmer, happier and more content people because it brings an awareness of our connection to the landscape within which we all live, together!

 

• You can use a flower essence to change how you feel, how you think, or how you see the world.
• You can use one to inspire, to boost creativity or energy levels.
• Your can use one to help you to heal, to learn to feel safe or happier, or more confidant.
• You can use one to help you see new ways of doing things, or to help you just switch off.
• It is all up to you!

By D.Deithrick

Awen Vibrational Essences (visit my website for more information www.AwenEssences.co.uk )

Gorse Essence

Gorse.

 

Latin name – ulex europeus

Common name – furze, whin

Ogham name – Onn

Traditional symbolism – fetility; creative inspiration; strength

 

Gorse is a member of the pea family, fabaceae; an evergreen spiny shrub which varies in size according to location and soil conditions but can grow up to 3 metres tall. It is a sturdy plant, native to much of western Europe, which seems to thrive in a variety of locations from windy sea cliffs and open moorland to hedgerows and patches of wasteland. It’s seed can lay dormant in the earth for many years before germinating. Although the typical flowering season would be considered from April to October the amazing thing about Gorse is that it can be seen flowing at any time of the year. Even in bleak midwinter when all the other plants are resting, it is not unusual to see the bright yellow of the gorse flowers shining through the mist. It bears a famous delicious sweet ‘marzipan’ scent, though this seems stronger in the sunshine, in midwinter the clifftop gorse here bears little smell at all.

 

Essence Profile.

 

Essence: The energy of Gorse appears to focus awareness in the present, the moment right now.

It acts like a switch, changing ones focus immediately: Upon using this essence consciousness is pulled clearly but not sharply, into focus. In this, one’s awareness is placed more directly upon the immediate present. A settling is experienced as the energy body realigns sending surplus energy threads, particularly those of a mental nature, down into the earth. A rooting is experienced and one begins immediately to take a simple pleasure in wherever one may be at that moment in time.

 

Indications: When one is feeling ‘blue’, feelings of malaise, discontentment, gloom or sluggishness. Often no clear reason can be perceived for this. Though there is a tendency that if unchecked, these feelings can develop into the state of finding that whatsoever one turns the mind upon is perceived in a negative or paranoid way. The longer these thoughts or feelings continue, the more of a permanent energetic imbalance occurs.