In this post I will cover a variety of Single Flower Essences for students. This post will address topics such as studying, learning, focus and concentration. These suggestions should be considered adjuncts to a regime of diligence, interest and effort in regards to school and studying.

When shy students exhibit low self esteem and low self confidence   the pressure of learning may only re-enforce a false belief that they are not capable of the succeeding in school.  Usually they are capable but have yet to find their groove within the structured environment of school. This can be challenging especially for those sensitive students who are easily influenced by their environment.

Clematis- this is the remedy of choice for the dreamer, for the student who has trouble staying connected to what is going on. It helps one to remain present, connected and alleviate mental fog.

Elm- is the stress of what is requested of you testing you ability to maintain your poise. Do you feel unable to handle the pressure of tests and the testing environment? Consider elm to help you in times like these.

Gentian- Has a low test score got you down? Is there a subject you struggle with and just can’t seem to get right? Gentian, encourages faith, hope and perseverance in the face of such challenges.

Larch- The power of larch is that it supports us in overcoming the fear of failure. Often those needing this remedy are perfectly capable yet lack the needed confidence to achieve their desired results.

Hornbeam- When weariness has set in this is the go to remedy, great for those who get tired from studying.

Rosemary- This essence is for bringing greater vitality to the whole thinking and cognitive process. This is helpful when feelings of dullness take over, rosemary restores interest and vitality.

Mimulus- Useful when shyness is encountered in the face of challenges. Mimulus builds courage, confidence and faith to face challenges, useful when the fear is of an exaggerated nature, such as the first day of school or attending a new school.

Sunflower- This remedy fosters sun-like radiant forces within us. This remedy is great for building confidence and for overcoming fear of failure.

Missouri Primrose- This remedy is for connecting with feelings of worthiness.

Mountain Pride- This essence fosters great forces of resilience helping one to confront challenges.

Pink Yarrow- This essence supports emotional boundaries. By helping us to not take on the emotions of others, good for the sensitive soul who is too easily influenced by the thoughts and feelings of others.  

Wild Rose- Has the system your in produced apathy? When we feel we are on the fringe and neglected we can become apathetic and this cycle will feed itself.  Wild rose helps us confront apathy and move forward with renewed interest and vitality. 

Water Violet- I am including this often overlooked essence because it touches on key emotions common with shy and/or sensitive people. They tend to withdraw and avoid confrontation and competition and school has become an increasingly competitive environment.  This essence will also assist those of a sensitive nature to break out and form social bonds, this can greatly increase their confidence and lead to an overall improvement in school. Consider this essence for the withdrawn shy, sensitive soul. 

Everyone is unique and these remedies are presented as possible options for the shy student who is plagued by low self esteem and low self confidence. 

Pink Monkeyflower

Pink Monkey flower essence carries a unique quality; to bring us to a state of emotional honesty. Emotional honesty helps us to look within and accept and access our authentic self. Helping to counteract the fear of being exposed; that is fed by a lack of self acceptance. This fear erodes our sense of worthiness and courage to be emotionally honest with our self and others.

Pink Monkey Flower relates to matters of the heart. When closed due to feelings of guilt and unworthiness, Pink Monkey Flower can help the heart to open and become more trusting. When we hide deep pain in the heart these internalized feelings keep us locked in limited emotional range. The soul requires openness to fully evolve, it does not function healthily on a diet of fear, insecurity, cynicism and loneliness. These feelings also prevent us from making deep connections with others, allowing a nurturing connection with others feeds the human soul on many levels.

Pink Monkey flower helps us to take the type of emotional risks that enhance personal growth and feelings of worthiness. Use Pink Monkey Flower essence to treat childhood abuses that have shut down the heart and caused fear and pain which prevent us from having emotional fulfilling relationships. Emotional honesty with ones self and others is a key to happiness in intimate relationships. If we suffer from the pain of guilt and shame it cuts us off from feeling the warmth that comes from honestly connecting with others.

Blessings on your healing journey.

Aspen- Has anxiety descended for an unknown reason? Do you find your self feeling edgy unsteady and generally fearful yet can’t pinpoint what is causing the unrest? Aspen is for those souls who are refined, sensitive souls whose highly refined perception and rich inner life can lead to feelings of anxiety for no known reason.

Mimulus- In contrast to Aspen, mimulus is for anxiety from known reasons. This would be anxiety that results from shyness, from phobias, from known causes. This is such a great remedy for lifting us out of our perceptions of shyness and limitation, as it helps to fortify soul forces to overcome known fears.

Holly- This essence is related to anxiety in and around relationships; in this case the anxiety may take the form of jealousy, envy or suspicion. Holly is like a heart softener that helps it to gently open to greater feelings of universal love and kindness. Holly is great from relationship related anxieties.

Impatiens- You know who you are, the impatient type, most likely this type of anxious impatient person is not even reading this blog. Seriously, this is the fourth paragraph down, who has time to get this far? Well if you have gotten this far and do resonate with this, you might want a little impatiens in your life. It is a blessing for the high strung, anxious, get’r done attitude which leads to uneasy feelings of tension.

Red Chestnut- Oh Red Chestnut, you care so much for those close to and you just fear the worst is going to happen to them. So you fret, you worry and you get anxious. While it may seem like you are doing something, you are just filing your time with fears that most likely will not come to pass. Do you find your self anxious for others? Well you may want to find yourself some Red Chestnut, you’ll be fine.

Rescue Remedy®
All these remedies can be used in combination or for acute situations try adding them to a dosage bottle with a dose of Rescue Remedy®.  This will be a convenient way to get your dose of calm when you need it.  Note: Rescue Remedy® contains impatiens. Also Rescue Remedy® was designed for acute situations and it works best when used in this manner.

So you were laid off and you are looking for work and you want some energetic support, because honestly every bit helps. An uplifted mind, spirit and consciousness can only help. Of course I cannot guarantee you will find employment if you use the remedies but you can at least use them as emotional support tools as you do what you need to in order to find work.

Here are a handful of remedies to give a you boost:

Larch
Wild Rose
Wild Oat
Mimulus
Walnut
Cherry Plum
Elm
Gentian
Gorse

These essences all work with different categories of emotional challenges due to un-employment and the search for a job.  These categories are:

• Faith

• Confidence

• Tenacity

• Fearlessness

• Hope

• Internal Alignment

• Steadiness

Essences address the internal reality, the feeling states and emotions. And, it is from this place that we create our experience; the frame we give our situation determines our situation on the feeling level. There is an external reality and an internal reality, there are many variables in the external world and to try and control them is a losing battle. But, we do have control over our internal states and that is where our power truly exists, not outside of us. Lets now take a deeper look at how to use the essences to support us for employment.

Larch- The essence for confidence, Larch address the fear of failure, use when feeling down on your luck and you need a confidence boost.

Wild Rose- This essence will help you stick with it and remain tenacious; wild rose dispels apathy and resignation.

Wild Oat- This essence fosters greater career clarity, very good to use when feeling ambivalent about your career and you would like to find work that is in alignment with your soul.

Mimulus- This essence is useful for times when we feel resigned in the face of a challenge. It address fear of the known that manifest as resignation.

Walnut- This essence is useful for times when making changes; it helps you to leave the old behind and move forward un-encumbered. This is great when we need to act free from outside influences and to shake the voices of the past.

Cherry Plum- This is a soul soothing remedy useful those under severe mental and emotional stress, it will address the deep fear of losing control. Cherry plum is amazing for stabilizing the mind and emotions when it is being stretched due to adversity and extreme stress.  This helps with spiritual surrender and fostering deep faith in feelings of guidance and protection from a Higher Power.

Elm- This is for feeling overwhelmed by responsibilities, that leads to stress with the potential towards breakdown. Elm will help you to shoulder your tasks effectively, use this remedy when you feel you may break from pressure of you strain.

Gentian- FAITH, CONFIDENCE, PERSEVERANCE, these are the three key words to for this essence. Gentian is an antidote to discouragement.

Gorse- Pessimism is a poison, it will taint your entire world view and your ability to believe in a positive outcome. Gorse fosters optimism, conviction and hope in a positive outcome.

I wish you the very best in finding the remedies you need to adequately deal with the challenges you face. May the essences support you in your mission and bring the light of hope into the dark, dispel the shadows of doubt and quell fears of the mind.  Dr. Edward Bach had a deep abiding faith and lived his life with providence; may the grace of the remedies he has brought to us infuse your life with similar qualities.

Bleeding Heart

Bleeding heart is a remedy for the loving dimensions of the heart, relationships and freedom. It is a common wild flower and garden ornamental, it thrives in cool, moist conditions and it prefers light to medium shade.  The flowers occur in a variety of colors from pink, to white to yellow.  The flower essence of bleeding heart is made from the pink variety by FES, who have conducted research on this essence.

The flowers hang open and exposed, free with nothing to hide. This speaks of the action of this essence to encourage an open loving heart free from attachment. The concept of non-attachment is very much a Buddhist concept and when applied to the realm of love it offers us a depth of experience and feeling that is uncommon.  To love another freely without attachment.

Often out of romantic misgivings love can turn to possessiveness and related emotions and conduct. Which leads us further away from the experience of love in the heart and into constriction, fear and apprehension as our heart begins to close at the thought of love going sour.  These feelings and misgivings often proceed the ending of a relationship. When we learn to love with more openness and freedom we can actually begin to attract the love we want into our lives. This essence helps to address feelings of anxiety that surface when we are in relationship.

Wild Growing White Bleeding Heart

Bleeding Heart Flower Essence is a very powerful heart cleanser and strengthener for those who must learn the deeper spiritual lessons of love and freedom. Those needing this remedy suffer enormous pain and broken-heartedness because their feelings have been poured out so completely into another soul who is no longer present. Perhaps this happens because a loved one has died, or a cherished friend or family member has moved away.

More frequently, such anguish arises in personal relationships which have dissolved or in relationships that are greatly afflicted. Although love for another may have many genuine aspects, very often the Bleeding Heart type has made the error of living too extensively outside the boundaries of its own Self. This intense desire for connection is often felt by the partner as emotional dependence, causing the partner to fill a need for distance. Such a co-dependent relationship is devoid of real freedom and a balanced exchange of heart energies.

The loss and pain which are constantly felt by those in need of Bleeding Heart are therefore necessary experiences, when viewed from a larger perspective. Through Bleeding Heart flower essence, the soul learns to fill itself from within with strong spiritual forces, so that the capacity to love another is based on the ability to honor and nourish the Self.*

*The pink photo of bleeding heart is courtesy of FES. The last 3 paragraphs are from the Flower Essence Repertory by FES the photo of white bleeding heart is from my collection.

This piece is from the work of Stephanie Gailing. I encourage you to visit her site Planetary Apothecary for in depth accurate astrological information, be sure to sign up for her newsletter as well.

Mars the planet of action is set to go retrograde on the 23rd of January and scarlet monkeyflower can help address some of the issues that result from this. Mars will be retrograde until the 13th of April, if any time during this period you are challenged by deep unexpressed powerful emotions, consider how scarlet monkeyflower can help. Read what Stephanie has to say to learn more.

Scarlet Monkeyflower flower essence: If we have challenges expressing our anger (often the case when Mars is retrograde), we sometimes think that by just ignoring or repressing it, the feelings will go away. Yet, that’s not usually the case; rather, they just churn within until, at some moment, they either seep out or we reach a full-fledged emotional explosion. If you want help accepting and embracing feelings of anger, as well as compassionate assistance to courageously communicate how you feel, Scarlet Monkeyflower flower essence may be of great value.

To read the full post please visit Planetary Apothecary.

Are you plagued by the state of the world? Do you feel oppressed by the potential for disaster? If you tune into the news you might just think the sky is falling. Should you be concerned? What should you do? There does not seem to be a right answer but one thing you definitely can do is maintain a positive attitude. Essentially that is all. Some might say this is foolish and you are fooling yourself. Chances are they are tied into the doom and gloom of it all.

Maintaining a Positive Outlook
What else do you have? What is really yours? It is the one thing you do have control over, how you choose to view and/or interpret what is going on around you. If you get caught up in the emotions of things chances are you will begin to loose perspective. You can remain detached yet still stay engaged and you can adjust your perspective accordingly. Where does a negative perspective ever get you? Besides being detrimental to the immune system, there is enough negativity out there and you do not need to feed the cycle with your energy.  Remaining positive is a choice and it is no more illusionary than remaining negative. I do admit there is a weight to issues with grave concern but how do you respond? Do you let the weight of negativity drag you down?

Flower Essences
This site and blog is about flower essences, so you should have guessed I would have gotten to them at some point. There are two essences from FES, Flower Essence Services, which are superb addressing the issues I’ve raised. The essences are:

Mountain Pride and Scotch Broom

Mountain Pride
The name alone suggests strength and determination and this essence is about strength and determination in the face of challenges.  And, folks these are challenging times and they challenge our ability to maintain peace of mind and a positive outlook, which is what we need.  Use this essence to encourage “forthright masculine energy”; sounds refreshing to me, straight forward honest masculine energy.  The essence description goes on,  . . . “which confronts and transforms” what they are talking about is the archetype of the spiritual warrior. A very useful energy for ones own life and life as a whole.  This essence will help you respond to challenges, to confront and transform them. To often we react, this essence will help you to shift gears and take action rather than simply re-act to the injustices you perceive.

Scotch Broom

Scotch Broom
This bright yellow floor is harbinger of optimism, it shines brightly and heralds a new a approach a new attitude one anchored in an sunny outlook. The joy of flowers and the power of color win again! Scotch broom is indicated for those who are depressed and disheartened by world events.  Gosh, at this rate wouldn’t mind giving this to everyone . . . Scotch broom helps us to feel more optimistic about world events and as we know this can go a long way in helping us enjoy life in general.

Bottom line is we can all do our part to help make this world a world we want to live in. We can do this by taking charge of our own thoughts and feelings. This is important because it is personally empowering and the more empowered we feel in our life the better. I understand there is little we can do about geo-politics but we can at least make our sphere of the world a better place. Essentially that is all we can do.