“Mother Nature is a healer, and one of her most powerful gifts comes in the form of flowers. Each variety has a different ‘personality’ to promote physical and emotional wellness.” - Flower Therapy, Doreen Virtue & Robert Reeves.
Flowers have a beautiful and powerful biofield (aura). Even flowers that have been cut have their biofields almost complete as if they were still on the plant. Research has shown that these biofields respond to our emotions and also energize our energy centers.
Here are 3 flowers that can help us with various stages of our relationships - not just romantic relationships but relationships with anyone - our friends, our siblings, our parents, and even love relationships
Rudbeckia (black-eye susan) - helps release strong negative and toxic past relationship blocks from our energy body making way for new ones to blossom
Calla Lily - A powerful soulmate attractor flower. Very helpful to bring that special person into our life
Carnations - A perfect flower for weddings as it gives power to loyalty, commitment, and long lasting relationships.
Bring these fresh flowers into you home or office or work desk. Allow their powerful subtle energy to support you energetically.
To activate the benefits of flower therapy spend a few minutes visualizing your desired outcome, then do one of the following:
HOW TO USE FLOWERS FOR THERAPY
Rub your hands for a few seconds then hold them over and around the flowers. You needn’t touch the flower just close enough to connect with its energy
Healing Bath - Think of your desire while holding the flowers in your hand, then gently pluck the petals and let them fall in the bathtub filled with warm water. Soak for at least 15 minutes
Display them in fresh water in a beautiful vase in a prominent place in your home and spend a few minutes each day just taking in their beauty.
Just spending a few moments enjoying the flower’s beauty can activate their therapy effects in you.
Fire consumes, transforms, and clears. The very act of lighting a candle or lamp can cause a change in your state of awareness. Fire is the absolute purifier and transformer.
Fire is very powerful in helping you focus your intention.
I love how Denise Linn suggests we “code” the fire with our intention.
Just prior to lighting a lamp or candle become very clear on why you are lighting it. Focus your attention on your desired results.
Take 3 deep full breaths, allow the quietness to expand inside you. Allow a “feeling” of the results that you intend to fill you. Now visualize the room filling with this feeling. When the feeling/visualization has reached clear intensity, project your purpose onto the lamp/candle and light it. In this moment the flame acts as a magnifier and projects your thoughts and feelings into the room.
Simply gaze into the flame and allow your intention to fill the room.
Do this is for a few days.
In the coming few days/weeks be open to synchronicities and chance encounters. These are not coincidences, but a means for your intentions to come to fruition.
Research done in a hospital setting revealed some interesting insights. One group of people were placed in a room with no windows but a piece of modern art. A second group had large expansive windows with views of nature - greenery, mountains and a beautiful landscape. A third group of people had nature inspired art in their rooms.
The people in rooms with views of nature healed on average 4 - 5 days sooner. The rooms with people with modern art had very slow to no improvement, and people in rooms with nature based art recovered sooner than the rooms with modern art but not quite as quickly as those who had windows with natural views!
Rasa is the energetic essence of the material object that makes it pleasing. It is the emotional flavor evoked in us by the art, objects, arrangement, or space.
A truly beautiful object (of art or arrangement in your decor) captures our imagination and leads to a sense of transcendence - described as rasavandana.
As humans we experience 9 rasas (variations on the essence of beauty). The soothing or uplifting essence of beauty being through the emotions that arouse
Tranquility
Playfulness
Heroism
Wonder
Romance
And the darker sides of beauty
Fear
Contemptuousness
Anger
Compassion
Some rasas are appropriate for our homes and offices and some are not.
The darker rasas can be very powerfully expressed through art. These, however, are not a nourishing influence on us.
Such art, regardless of price or artist, should not find a place in our homes and offices. Their influence on us can be very deep at the subtle level playing out those rasas in our everyday living.
Choose art the arouses the soothing or uplifting essense of beauty in you - through tranquility, playfulness, heroism, wonder, and/or romance.
Our brain and body are electrical energy conductors. Our thalamus, the relay center for all the sensory and motor activities that occur in our brain, fires patterns of neurons differently when we are facing different directions! That means if we are facing South our brain fires different neurons from if we were facing North for the same situation.
Our mind is the interactive result of the Earth’s magnetic field on our brain cells. We are like an energy tuning fork. We work best when we are in harmony with our environment.
Allow your life to flow intune with nature. Allow the natural morning sunshine into your home every single day. Open Eastern and Northern Windows often. Northern magnetic energies and eastern solar energies exert positive supporting influences.
One of the growing trends in interior design - Biophilic Design! Design that reconnects us with nature.
BENEFITS OF BIOPHILIA IN DESIGN
We have an innate biological connection with nature. Incorporating elements from nature :
reduces stress
enhances creativity
brings in clarity of thought
improves cognitive function
improves well-being
expedites healing
Bring the following into your home/office design
Plants
Water features
Aquariums
Sounds of nature
Flowers
Bird feeders
Views of gardens and nature from windows
Courtyard gardens
Green walls
Organic natural materials
Sequences and patterns found in nature
Good Biophilic Design creates spaces that are inspirational, restorative, support health, and integrate with the functionality of space and urban ecosystems.
