I’d like to start with a digression from the subject of this blog, if you don’t mind – or at least sort of.
With our newest site live for nearly 2 months, www.liladeviauthor.com, I’d been in a conundrum about how to connect this site to our decades-old flower essence site of 250 pages and counting, www.spirit-in-nature.com. The 2 subjects seemed to not overlap much. I was concerned about how to juxtapose them both for our viewers who are comprised mainly of book readers and flower essence fans.
As it turns out, it’s more of a non-issue than I thought.
This blog is a perfect example. The sites actually mesh very well – for the obvious reason that 3 of the 4 books featured on the author site address flower essences and, conversely, that Spirit-in-Nature Essences embody universal qualities that are familiar to us all and that we live and breathe every day.
Some of you have heard the story that, when I teach the flower essences, I ask students to “put on their flower essence glasses.” This is a way, both metaphysical and humorous, of looking at the world through the sattwic (elevating) qualities of the flower essences – calmness, kindness, and flexibility, for example. (See article I and article II.)
Flows of energy exist everywhere – in people, animals, events, and even in the changing of the seasons. You can wear your glasses morning till night to tune into them. (I wear mine all the time.)
Now, glasses on, and back to our topic!
One of my clients recently shared with me that her best friend’s 40-year-old son had been diagnosed with an inoperable and incurable cancer – the illness that is a pivotal theme of my most recent book, From Bagels to Curry.
Sharon wrote:
“I would love to make up a remedy bottle for my friend, her son and his wife. I have some ideas of things I might include but wondered if you had thoughts? I myself have been taking Pear Essence for the shock of the news and have found it helpful. I do want to help and I know the flowers can be a real support to my friend and her family.”
I replied:
For your dear friend, I’m so sorry to hear this. It must be a tremendous shock to the family as well as to you. Glad to hear that you’re on Pear Essence, a very smart choice!!
As you know, I suggest based on research to give single/sequential flower essences rather than combinations but it’s up to you how you wish to proceed. For the son, he too can use Pear Essence for at least 3 weeks and then he can see where he wants to go with it.
Just as the pear tree itself grows in many temperate regions of the world, it accepts harsh growing conditions while still producing a fruit that is rich in antioxidents, especially Vitamin C and copper. An excellent source of dietary fiber, pears also support a healthy heart. The delicate white 5-petaled pear flower brings peace to the heart of its viewer.
Pear is for inner peace and also for stability. But most importantly, it’s for resistance, indicated by the extremely understandable shock of the news. I know this may even sound coarse, and that you know it’s not at all meant that way, but most (if not all) of our human suffering comes from resisting what life brings to us. Facing one’s own, or our beloved close ones, mortality is probably one of the greatest tests that life gives us. Pear Essence helps us, subtly and vibrationally, to process the many implications that accompany this news.
It reminds us that within our nature lies acceptance of whatever challenges life sets before us. If it’s not too brazen to bring in a note of humor here, there’s a classic line from an old film where one of the Native Americans about to go into battle, proclaims: “It’s a good day to die.”
Again, I’m so sorry. This flower essence can help us with the attitudes we confront when facing our own mortality, or as one sage said, “the stunning mystery of death,” such as:
“He’s too young.”
“Why me?”
“What did I do to deserve this?”
“”m not ready to leave.”
“It’s not time.”
Death places issues in front of us that we cannot delay or deny. It puts us right up against the most difficult test of our lives. As my own father with pancreatic cancer said 9 years ago, “Dying is the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life.”
Your friend and her husband can take Coconut Essence for 2 weeks to help transmute their grief (and believe me, I know this is tough and can take time), and then Grape Essence to love their dear son even more in this stage of his life. The love never ends. This is the message of Grape Flower Essence.
I wish everyone great healing, support, and condolences through this most difficult time.
