{"id":937,"date":"2015-01-04T22:54:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T22:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theflowersofaeskulap.com\/cms\/?p=937"},"modified":"2016-12-28T20:38:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T20:38:02","slug":"hope-thoughts-on-new-years-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theflowersofaeskulap.com\/cms\/2015\/hope-thoughts-on-new-years-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Flower Essences and Hope – Thoughts at Year’s End"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This article was inspired by a New Year’s M<\/span>essage from Patricia Kaminski and Richard Katz of the Flower Essence Society<\/i> . To read the <\/span>full message, please go to www.flowersociety.org\/new-year-2015.html<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Milkweed<\/i> (<\/span>Asklepias syriaca) has long been one of my favorite wildflowers, and when I did my training with the Flower Essence Society in 2003 , I chose this flower as the object of my plant study . To read the study, please visit http:\/\/www.flowersociety.org\/Milkweed-Plant-Study.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Milkweed<\/a>

Milkweed Flower
Asklepias syriaca<\/p><\/div>\n

It took me a number of years to fully understand just why I was so attracted to this plant. I have come to the conviction that what Milkweed\u00a0does \u00a0as as a flower essence sums what flower essences\u00a0 can give\u00a0us:<\/p>\n

Nourishing our being at\u00a0its deepest level,<\/p>\n

and bringing back to life those parts in us that have\u00a0been asleep, regressed or dead.<\/p>\n

Think for a moment of a natural disaster, an earthquake or an avalanche or some\u00a0 kind of accident. People are buried under the rubble, often for days, and many do not make it. But once in while it happens that when the search is about to be given up because it is not really imaginable that anyone could\u00a0 survive so long, under layers of broken walls and\u00a0mud a living human being is found, <\/i>trapped and and barely alive.<\/p>\n

Yet how many people\u00a0feel just like that! The layers of rubble may not be apparent to the physical eye, but the real person is trapped in exactly the same manner. Whether this is due to trauma caused through long standing circumstances, through events of war, through\u00a0illness or abuse – the person \u201cunder the rubble\u201d cannot get out without help.\u00a0Just like\u00a0Milkweed <\/i>Essence brings to life\u00a0what has\u00a0 gone into a state of dormancy, regression, near- suffocation, Flower Essences<\/i> as such can assist to peel away the rubble, brick by brick, layer by layer.<\/p>\n

This is the gem and the beauty of long term Flower Essence application. Someone comes for help, is messed up, anxious, hopeless, filled with unresolved personal problems. The story he or she have to tell often has gone on for years.<\/p>\n

And as we start together to peel away the layers, some of the problems begin to lighten, others seem to linger. But in time<\/i> things change. And what truly feels like a miracle is that after a few years, and sometimes earlier, a human being makes its appearance whom neither I nor the client really knew existed<\/i>. The seed must have been there, but it remained invisible to everyone, buried under the rubble.<\/p>\n

Here is the Hope<\/i> that Flower Essences bring: the power, the strength of plants prepared as essences<\/i> is such that they can <\/i>reach into the deepest layers, can<\/i> undo the inner prison and <\/i>bring back to life what had not breath left, and\u00a0 call forth what was up to then only present as a seed: the human being s in a state that I would like to call the state of\u00a0Becoming<\/i>; that\u00a0state in each of us which which is both the fruit of the past and the potential for the future.<\/p>\n

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Hope – <\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/span>by Lisel Mueller<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

It hovers in dark corners
\nbefore the lights are turned on,
\nit shakes sleep from its eyes
\nand drops from mushroom gills,
\nit explodes in the starry heads
\nof dandelions turned sages,
\nit sticks to the wings of green angels
\nthat sail from the tops of maples.<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

It sprouts in each occluded eye
\nof the many-eyed potato,
\nit lives in each earthworm segment
\nsurviving cruelty,
\nit is the motion that runs the tail of a dog,
\nit is the mouth that inflates the lungs
\nof the child that has just been born.<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

It is the singular gift
\nwe cannot destroy in ourselves,
\nthe argument that refutes death,
\nthe genius that invents the future,
\nall we know of God.<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

It is the serum which makes us swear
\nnot to betray one another;
\nit is in this poem, trying to speak.<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHope\u201d by Lisel Mueller from\u00a0<\/b><\/i><\/span>Alive Together: New and Selected Poems<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Three Essences of Hope <\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Gentian<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Californa<\/a>

Californa Wild Rose<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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