Losing Confidence?

Are you finding that your confidence has slipped during this long period of lockdown and self-isolation?  Maybe you feel hesitant about certain commitments now, eg doing a face-to-face presentation after all this time on zoom.   These last 12+ months have changed our lifestyles so completely that it’s only natural to feel we are ‘out of practice’ with some of the activities we used to take for granted¸ and only natural we feel a bit anxious or doubtful about taking them up again.

Larch is the flower remedy which can help with sagging confidence levels.  When we know that we can probably do what is required but feel the risk of failing is too great, Larch restores our self-esteem.    If the anxiety is a fear, for example being with strangers in a confined space, then the remedy to choose would be Mimulus.  The Larch concern is different, it’s the feeling that one will automatically fail and therefore it’s not worth accepting the challenge.   That’s why it is in the Despondency Group, someone needing it becomes despondent because they can see a golden opportunity passing them by, maybe a chance to progress or make a mark in the world, but they despair of being able ‘to make the grade’.

Comparing Larch to Hornbeam, the latter procrastinates owing to an uncertainty that they have enough energy or strength.  Larch is not procrastinating but declining because of believing they’re not good enough, or will make a mess of it.  “In effect, you live life with the brakes on.” ~ Lynn MacWhinnie.

Taking Larch will help us to seize the opportunity and ensure that, win or lose, we won’t be discouraged by the results, because we will have learnt from the experience and expanded our understanding of our role in the world.

 

Photo: Mike Cassidy

“There is freedom waiting for you,

On the breezes of the sky,

And you ask ‘What if I fall?’

Oh but my darling,

What if you fly?”

~ Erin Hanson