I recently found out that Chocolate Lily, a flower sometimes used as a flower essence, is blooming right now in the wild areas around Chico where I live. It’s rare to see—it must like the rain we’ve been getting—and I didn’t actually know it grew here at all. It’s an unusual flower, typically almost chocolate-brown or dark reddish brown (as in this photo). The flowers hang down like bells facing the earth.
And that is fitting for a flower essence which is about embodiment and having a better relationship with the physical earth-like aspects of being in a body that many of us are taught to feel disgusted by. I’m talking about the bodily secretions that more earth-based people would simply return to the ground like poop or menstrual blood. It’s sad, I think, that we are taught to feel repulsed by our basic human functions.
Chocolate Lily flower essence helps a person feel more at home in their physicality, especially including the parts we need to learn to revere. Hating your processes of elimination creates all sorts of havoc related to avoidance of normal daily functioning. Most obviously, constipation, but also 1st and 2nd chakra issues of all sorts.
The phrase “easy come, easy go” comes to mind. You need to be able to let go and give back to the earth to be able to take in and be properly connected and nourished. Grounded, embodied. Imagine squatting as they do in most indigenous cultures. When we let go of what we no longer need, it allows us to more easily receive what will fill us up again.
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Flower essences are used to assist with mind-body-spirit interactions and individual results may vary. They are extremely dilute which makes them quite safe. But because so little physical substance can be detected in a flower essence solution, these products are presumed to work on an energetic or vibrational level—something that cannot be adequately tested by western scientific methods. Claims made by me, therefore, are based on personal experiences and the evidence of the combined multiple decades of case notes by Dr. Edward Bach as well as Healing Herbs and Flower Essence Services (the companies who make the ingredients I use in my products). This is not, however, accepted medical evidence or substantiated scientific evidence from a modern allopathic point of view. I am not a medical doctor or licensed healthcare practitioner.
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