Flower Essences

Arctostaphylos viscida (white-pink). Positive qualities: Joyous embodiment, spiritual identity integrated with the physical body. Patterns of imbalance: Estranged from the earthly world; aversion or revulsion toward the body and physical world; eating and sleeping disorders.

Penstemon newberryi (magenta). Positive qualities: Forthright masculine energy; warrior-like spirituality which confronts and transforms. Patterns of imbalance: Vacillation and withdrawal in the face of challenge; lack of assertiveness, inability to take a stand for one's convictions.

Nicotiana alata (white). Positive qualities: Inner peace centered in the heart and breath; physical and emotional well-being through harmonious connection with rhythmic pulsations in the Earth. Patterns of imbalance: Rigid or mechanized qualities in the body; blunted feelings, shallow breathing; over-use of hard-edge masculine forces.

 Penstemon davidsonii (violet-blue). Positive qualities: Inner fortitude despite outer hardships; perseverance; ability to endure and forbear adversity. Patterns of imbalance: Feeling persecuted or sorry for oneself; inability to bear life's difficult circumstances.

 Mimulus lewisii (pink). Positive qualities: Emotional transparency; courage to take emotional risks with others. Patterns of imbalance: Feelings of shame, guilt, or unworthiness; fear of exposure and rejection due to prior abuse or trauma.

Punica granatum (red). Positive qualities: Joyful expression of feminine creativity, actively productive and nurturing at home or in the world. Patterns of imbalance: Ambivalent or confused about the focus of creativity, especially between values of career and home, creative and procreative, personal and global.

Mimulus kelloggii (purple). Positive qualities: Love-based rather than fear-based spirituality, calm and clarity when experiencing spiritual phenomena; the courage to trust in one's own spiritual experience or guidance. Patterns of imbalance: Fear of retribution or censure if one departs from religious conventions of family or community; apprehension or avoidance of threshold experiences due to...

 Daucus carota (white). Positive qualities: Spiritual insight and vision; integration of psychic faculties with sexual and emotional aspects of Self. Patterns of imbalance: Projection or lack of objectivity in psychic awareness; distortion of psychic perception or physical eyesight due to sexual or emotional imbalances.

 Ericameria nauseosus (yellow). Positive qualities: Lively and alert mental field; acute sensory perception and mobile state of mind. Patterns of imbalance: Easily overwhelmed by details; unable to cope with simultaneous events, “fuzzy” consciousness that is unable to register details.

Rosmarinus officinalis (violet-blue). Positive qualities: Warm physical presence and mental vitality; healthy embodiment. Patterns of imbalance: Forgetfulness or poor learning ability, loosely incarnated in body, lacking physical/etheric warmth, especially in bodily extremities; traumatic out-of-body spiritual experiences.