When, many years ago, I first made my Comfort and Joy Blend it quickly became my FAVORITE flower essence formula. It is for increased feelings of self-confidence and spontaneity, childlike humor and playfulness, and increased capacity to let go of an overly harsh inner critic so you can flow with events and enjoy yourself more. I used it every day in scented form after my shower. And, over time, I found that it changed my life! It made such an obviously significant difference in me having more positive and light-hearted expectations that I no longer went to bed terrified at night, fearing for my future! I stopped using essences for worry and fear and actually started to enjoy my life.
Eventually I didn’t feel like I needed it anymore. I stopped using it and even forgot how useful it was. That’s not unusual—life moves on. And lately, in our currently fraught and challenging times, this wasn’t one that ever came to mind for me to use or recommend to people. Until today because, after working through a challenging experience in my journal, I remembered it and started using it again—with immediate and similar results.
The biggest effect was that my sense of humor came back. It’s over 100ºF right now in Chico at almost 8 pm, the fire alert app on my phone has been going off all day, and firefighting planes and helicopters are flying regularly overhead. This is something I ordinarily would want to complain bitterly about. But I’m not in danger and, while I did post on Facebook about it, I found myself wanting to add jokes. Chico is SO “Fire” right now. 🔥
Same thing about politics. I won’t get too far into that. Suffice to say that I’m finding TACO jokes surprisingly funny all of a sudden even though a day or so ago I didn’t think that issue was funny at all and still don’t. But I sure am enjoying a little laughter about unfunny things!
I remember that more than 20 years ago I took an esoteric sort of workshop and the teacher told us that the best advice he ever received was to cultivate amusement. It was in the context of how to be more grounded in life and it honestly didn’t make sense to me at the time. But today that statement comes back to me because it has been SO great to feel lighter about things I normally fret or feel miserable about. It’s not that I don’t care anymore—I’ll be writing to a few politicians tonight. But I’m smiling about doing it instead of feeling resentful.
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Flower essences are used to assist with mind-body-spirit interactions and individual results may vary. They are extremely dilute which makes them quite safe. But because so little physical substance can be detected in a flower essence solution, these products are presumed to work on an energetic or vibrational level—something that cannot be adequately tested by western scientific methods. Claims made by me, therefore, are based on personal experiences and the evidence of the combined multiple decades of case notes by Dr. Edward Bach as well as Healing Herbs and Flower Essence Services (the companies who make the ingredients I use in my products). This is not, however, accepted medical evidence or substantiated scientific evidence from a modern allopathic point of view. I am not a medical doctor or licensed healthcare practitioner.
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