Hornbeam and Chestnut Bud

"The flower is made of non-flower elements.  When you look at the flower you see non-flower elements like sunlight, rain, earth – all the elements have come together to help the flower to manifest.  If we were to remove any of these non-flower elements there would no longer be a flower.”  ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

The same is true of all life forms, including humans, because everything is composed of atoms that are just whirlpools of energy.  Thus we’re affected not only by the sun and the rain, but all the vibrations around us, physical, emotional, psychological, and mental.   Being bombarded day and night by these energy streams, it’s unlikely that we will suffer from just one isolated emotion that has no relation to all the rest.  With the flower remedies this can often mean several essences are required.

Two essences I should have been taking for the past week are Hornbeam and Chestnut Bud.  They might seem unrelated to each other, but I’d been putting off a small chore and when I eventually got it done, I realised that “I never learn!”  The number of times I’ve procrastinated over something (maybe sometimes through anxiety or lack of confidence – yes, Mimulus and Larch required) only to find once it’s over that it was never as difficult or time-consuming (Impatiens) as I thought it would be.  Why don’t I remember this, the next time I’m putting off a simple job?   Answer – because I’ve forgotten to take Chestnut Bud!

If one part of us is out of balance, it’s almost inevitable that other elements will be out of sync as well.  After all, that’s how ill-health arises, something apparently simple occurs, for example  we become dehydrated; then the brain is impacted, so its routines of  producing certain hormones are affected, and the whole ‘internet’ of the body starts to suffer.

Of course, the dehydration may have occurred because we’re in a state of stress and drinking too much caffeine and not enough water.  Which reminds us that all energies are interdependent.   All things affect all other things.  All life is interconnected.

Fuchsia by Ally Matson