Decisions, decisions

"And that’s the thing about asking for advice, Red, sometimes you don’t get the answer you want.”  ~ Marian Keyes 

Are you stuck trying to make a decision? At the point where you’re asking others for their opinion yet feeling dissatisfied with the advice?  Cerato is the botanical essence to help with that.

In this foggy state of uncertainty we can’t see that the answer is right in front of us.   Just as flood waters swamp our car engine and prevent us from moving forward, we have no idea what to do for the best. Then, instead of looking inwards – and asking more questions of our heart – we exteriorise the questions and ask other people instead. But our energy has become diffused and dissipated to the extent that we cannot properly evaluate the assorted and contradictory suggestions.

Cerato restores our focus and sense of direction, removes the fuzziness of our thinking, and allows us to see with clarity the solution or option – the one that is right for us.

“These afflictive emotions and thoughts are factors that create unhappiness and turmoil within us [and] destroy one of our most precious qualities, our capacity for discriminate awareness.” 

Dalai Lama

Drifting? Seize those oars with Wild Rose

 “A man must stand erect not be kept erect by others.”  Marcus Aurelius

Wild Rose is one of the quiet remedies, the need for which can be so subtle it may be hard to spot when it would help. To those around us it may appear as though we’re drifting along through life without much difficulty, when in fact ‘drifting’ is the operative word. We aren’t steering or rowing our boat but just letting the current (circumstances, people in our lives) decide our direction.  When we need Wild Rose we let others shape our wishes, our lives, our routines.  There is no personal development in that!  We need to seize the oars of our life.

There may be understandable reasons why sufferers of this inertia have become the way they are: bullying parents, for example, or a partner who is possessive or manipulative.  So it’s perfectly possible that faced with such a passive individual we might start by thinking, ‘Is it Larch they need, for more confidence? Are they plain indecisive (Cerato or Scleranthus)? Are they held stuck by past guilt (Pine)?’ without initially perceiving that this person is ‘dead’ to life and what it can offer.  They are out of touch with themselves, their reality and their true feelings, merely functioning on a vegetative level, almost like someone in a state of shock or concussion. 

As practitioners we may come to learn some of their history but we’re only interested in their current emotions. At this moment all we know is that they are apathetic, resigned to everything ‘because that’s just the way it is – I can’t do anything about that.’ They have given up their agency and power to change things.  They have ground to a halt in their lives, and stagnation always leads to decay.

But when the Wild Rose remedy works its magic we become – like the plant scrambling up through the hedge to bloom in the sun – enthusiastic for life, for action, fulfilment and upward growth.

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