Finding out what makes your life worth it, what ignites you, is kinda the antithesis of depression. Oh ok, I'll just write a to do list shall I? I don't mean to over simplify, especially where energy and motivation have often left the building. For me though, working with flower essences, indeed herbs, touch me, as I mentioned in the previous post. Bonus is, if needed you can often use them whilst also on pharma. It doesn't have to be either /or.
If you are drawn to work with them, I'd recommend mostly a single, or two, essences to start off with. So that you can feel out what, if any changes or shifts are occurring. As you get to know how that feels, you could introduce another. Some folks say 3-5 essences can be combined, I find that's a bit too much information for me.
Do know that things may become more challenging, or amp up before they ease, and allow for this. It just seems the way of things, like the death throes of ol shit, but hang in! The effects can be worth it.
For most people with mental health issues, often our auras have been damaged by abuse or trauma, this is where I've experienced the Australian Bush Flowers, 'Fringed Violet' (Thysanotus tuberosus) can help. To reseal and mend these tears. It's a way of reweaving the energetic scars, or wounding caused. So, that's where my friend had started me off, with a mix of Fringed Violet, and 'Angelsword' (Lobelia gibbosa). The 'Angelsword' can assist with releasing psychic entities that may have entered where the aura was open, or simply attached to us in daily life. As they do. Which is a whole post in and of itself. Without sounding like an infommercial, I found these flowers really helpfull. They quietened things down enough for me to begin to connect with local flowers. Perhaps you will have your own ways to do this, or be drawn to different flowers. Take what feels right, leave the rest eh.
Over the last few days I've been walking along the beach and there growing in pure sand, blooming away is Wild Sea Rocket! She waved her low growing, succulent flower spikes at me :) Cakile maritima is the British Isles plant, and Cakile edentula the American. Both occur in Australia, seeds washed upon our shores. The main identifying difference being in the fruit. Lucky for me, she's covered in them, and the wee horns on her lower section tell me we have maritima growing here!
Now I knew Scotland's 'Findhorn' Flower Essences have their interpretation for this plant, but I wanted to feel out my own. So I sat with her, and listened for messages. Well, actually after sitting a whiles watching the waves and getting 'I ground you enough to witness emotions', I lay down. Surrounded by her abundant growth gazing at passing clouds, rather like the succulent groundcover herself does, laying low as needed. A few tears came. Saline stuff, wouldn't bother her. She grows where salt spray and sand are her nutrients. I made two 200ml bottles of mother essence ;)
Mental health is a process, this isn't a finish line type situation. It's adjustments and changes made with lifes ebb n flow. Diversity is however, something I experience plants seeing the beauty of, embodying and helping to emerge. Bush flower essences can hold some of that space for us, preserved in a wee dropper bottle o sunshine and a dram o booze. So too, it seems do those arriving by ocean from places far away, like Sea Rocket :).
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