Blue for peace and good communication

Our planet when seen from space is essentially a blue planet and blue is a cool colour that brings peace, purity, a sense of the truth, connection to a more cosmic way of being,  and improved communication.

Think about that!  Do you think that Mother Nature might have had some good ideas when choosing to make our world essentially blue?

I have a new article up on Suite 101 about the colour blue.  It’s called What’s Good About the Blues and it’s all about the amazing properties of the colour blue and what it can do for us.  Check it out.

Orange can help with shock and trauma

The colour orange is also the colour of the second Chakra known as the Sacral chakra which is located just below the naval.

This chakra (wheel of energy) looks after the functioning of the reproductive system and Orange has also been known to improve fertility.

Orange is a joyful, vibrant colour that improves creativity, stimulates the mind and appetite, and can even help with shock and trauma.

Orange Flowers in Flower Essences

Those who make flower essences for taking internally to balance the emotions know about the properties of Orange.  The orange Zinnia flower when taken as a flower essence remedy is said to bring about a transformation to a more positive and joyful state of being, and can even tickle the sense of humour when taken.

Check out my article on Suite 101 about the colour Orange.

Nature in her great wisdom has gifted us with glorious flowers of every colour combination imaginable. But when we gaze at one of her beautiful flowers we may not realize the importance that the particular colour plays in healing  our minds, bodies and emotions.

The colours of love and happiness

Pink can produce feelings of unconditional love and it’s hard to look at yellow without feeling joyful and optimistic.

Photo by Peter Mayoh, Monash University

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Celestial Sunrise in Central Australia

It’s hard to find a mention of the ‘K’ word in any of the books I’ve read on changing our lives through our focus and our thoughts. Why this is remains a mystery to me.

I decided to write an article about this for my freelance writing site Suite 101.  Click here to read the article.

It could be that they have been very fortunate in having a happy childhood with parents who have conditioned them by their constant conversation that they are a lucky person, and life will bring them everything they desire. So they’ve grown up with a strong belief that they can easily get what they want.

The Law of Attraction supports this confident, happy feeling and hey presto, they have even more great things manifesting in their life to support their belief that they are in fact lucky and supported by the universe.

Check Your Resentment Levels

One sure way to find out how you’re doing at maintaining a good feeling level is how you react when someone tells you about something fantastic that has happened in their life.  Do you feel excited and happy for them?  Or do you feel resentful and even a little jealous or angry that they have something you would like and don’t have.

These are the feelings you have to watch if you want to attract positive things into your life.

What You Put Your Attention on Grows

The more angry and resentful you feel, the more the Law of Attraction will present you with more things to feel angry and resentful about.

It’s a universal law that whatever we focus on the most is more often than not what we eventually draw into our lives.  So why spend time thinking about things that don’t make you feel good.  Even if it feels a little strange, imagine that the thing you would like to happen has already come to you.  Explore every avenue of how you are feeling about now having it.  How happy and safe and relieved you feel.  Think about it every time you begin to feel a negative mood coming on.

If you do this for long enough, you will be amazed at how your life will begin to change in a positive direction to reflect your change in feeling level.  Even if you have to fake it at first, it’s better than wasting time pondering over something negative, or feeling afraid that something bad is coming your way.

If you find this hard to do at first, say some gratitude statements:

Be grateful for things you may be taking for granted.

‘I am so grateful for the beautiful flowers that are given to me for my enjoyment every day.’

Flowers can heal us by their colour as well as their essence and aroma.

Get a Little Help from the Flowers

Sometimes we just need a little outside help to uplift our mood. There are many flower essences that can help to permanently shift feelings of anger and resentment.

Willow is one of Dr. Bach’s flower remedies that helps people to overcome sulky, angry and resentful feelings.  Gorse is a Bach Flower remedy that will shift feelings of extreme hopelessness and Gentian helps those who become very easily discouraged.  A combination of all three is helpful.

Try putting four drops of a combination bottle into your daily drinking water and sipping on it throughout the day.*  Flower Essences work in a very subtle way to shift emotional blockages, even very deep rooted ones, but you do need to take then regularly and once you notice your mood has permanently shifted stop taking the essence.

Meditation and getting into nature will uplift your feelings

Learn to Meditate

A good meditation technique if practiced regularly will greatly reduce any build up of stress in your mind, body and emotions, and help you to connect with that place deep within yourself where there is lasting peace and happiness.

Transcendental Meditation or TM® as it is more commonly known, is a simple and effective technique that is practiced by millions of people of all religions, and no religion, all over the world.

It’s not difficult to do and can be done anywhere that you can comfortably sit down without being disturbed. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who introduced TM® to the West, said ‘If you can think, you can meditate.’

It has a solid backing of well over 500 scientific research studies, published in peer reviewed journals that clearly demonstrate its many benefits and positive effect on human health and well being.

But there are many ways to cross the river and its important to find a meditation technique that you feel is right for you.  Just make sure you don’t cross the river with your feet in two boats. You don’t want to fall through the crack in the middle!

One thing is for sure, whatever you do to reach it, once you can maintain a good positive feeling level, good things can’t help but come to you.  And once this starts to happen it will be so much easier to believe that more good things can come your way, and before you know it, you’ll be on a roll.

It’s a universal law, that what you put your attention on grows, so why not put your attention on feeling good.  Try saying the following statement whenever you feel an angry or resentful feeling creeping in.  It really helps.

‘I release my feelings of anger and resentment to the light’

* see disclaimer

Give thanks for the simplest things like our beautiful forests

That’s all very well, but how do we feel that we have these things when everything is screaming at us that we don’t.  This is not an easy thing to do. You can pretend of course and this is often suggested in the books, but the tricky thing is to keep this up when challenging things happen in our lives.

Switch Your Thoughts to Gratitude

Appreciate the flowers

One of the quickest ways to genuinely begin to feel better is to start saying thanks for all the incredible things you have in your life.  You will be amazed at how quickly this will uplift even the darkest of moods.  And you don’t have to stick to just saying gratitude statements for what you do have, you can say them for what you want to come into your life.

Try this out.  Instead of saying ‘I am now in my ideal relationship’ try saying ‘I am so grateful for the wonderful person who has come into my life so unexpectedly. Thank you so much for bringing me my true soul mate.  We get along so well on every level and I am so attracted to this person and they are to me.  I am so deeply grateful that they have come into my life.  Thank you so much.’

How could you not feel good when saying that and the trick is to keep saying it if this is what you want to happen.  You will be amazed at how different you will begin to feel and you will begin to draw other wonderful things into your life.

Dripping spring water through a Spider Flower

A flower essence can be created by dropping spring water through the flower blossoms and gathering the water in a large bottle half filled with brandy for preserving the essence.

It is then put into a much smaller bottle by diluting it down again, half brandy, half water.  Dosage bottles are then made up by putting a particular number of drops of the mother essence into a bottle filled with spring water and a little brandy at the bottom.

Some people like to sit and meditate with the plant, or spend time painting or drawing it before beginning the process of making the essence.  Asking permission to work with the plant and requesting that it release its healing properties into the water is also an important part of the process.

Check out my new article on Suite 101 to read about the way flower essences can clear not only negative emotional states but physical conditions as well.

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Dolphin bubbles. Photo by Tara Marvuli

Check out my article here on how to ensure that your positive affirmations will bring you the success you want.

Their effect is subtle but can be very effective, especially if taken regularly and they work on negative emotional conditions.

Monkey Flowers for Addressing Fears

According to The Flower Essence Society The Monkey Flowers address a wide spectrum of soul fears.  Everything from intense anxiety and depression to altering feelings of shame and self rejection.

Dr Marina Angeli describes some interesting case studies that have been done on the Monkey Flowers for dealing with different kinds of fears.

Purple Monkey Flower can help clear certain deep rooted fears

There is a case study with Purple Monkey Flower and a spiritual based anxiety and another on the harmful effects of religious dogma.

Dr Angeli describes case studies done on Sticky Monkey Flower and how it has helped someone to find a deeper connection in a relationship.  Whereas Scarlet Monkey Flower can help with intense anxiety and depression and dealing with shame and self rejection.

Mimulus is a Bach Flower Remedy used for known fears

The English version of the Monkey Flower is Mimulus which is used in the Bach Flower Remedies for known fears.