©2004, 1998 by Donna Cunningham, MSW

The following is an excerpt from Donna's new ebook, Flower Remedies--How Plant's Energies Can Heal Us. To order a copy, visit Moon Maven Publications.

While I was teaching flower remedy classes in New York city, Steve Johnson of the Alaskan Flower Essence Project suggested Green Bells of Ireland to help people attune to flowers. For those who have never seen the charming, old-fashioned garden flower also known as bells of Ireland, they are light green, cone-shaped and arrayed on stalks like gladiolias but smaller.

I began been giving the essence to students, and it definitely enhanced their learning. One remedy class received a mixture of Green Bells and Australian Bush Essences' Cognis Essence at their first class, as the first essences they would take. Manhattan folks live in concrete and rarely see a tree, much less an uncut flower, and it produced some startling reactions.

Some found themselves absolutely riveted by cut flowers at fruit stands, others found they absolutely had to take long walks in Central Park, and others experienced deep grief over the environment. One professional woman with a successfully established practice found herself suddenly obsessed with the idea of leaving New York and moving to a rural area like where she grew up. Another student had a major quarrel with her live-in lover because she felt it was time to leave New York and he wasn't ready to do so.

The students did, however, learn the remedies better, faster, and deeper than earlier classes. At each session, they chose one remedy to take, and then at the next session reported back on the results. Their reactions were sharper and clearer than in earlier classes.

I myself had not taken Green Bells, because I was a homeopathic patient and felt it unwise to take remedies and possibly muddy the symptom picture. However, when I was getting ready to go to Australia, with a stop off in Hawaii, I took Green Bells, as I wanted to deepen my experience of these exotic plants.

I was blown away by the Australian and Hawaiian flowers and felt very close to them. On one ride with a woman who was admittedly insensitive, I experienced a physical shock when she would yank the flowers off the trees. I felt she should have asked their permission first, but put it down to my studies of native American culture--or to just generally getting weird.

Upon returning from the trip, I found myself unable to buy cut flowers. At first, I thought it was satiation, having seen so many lovely flowers in Australia and Hawaii. Then I thought perhaps I was depriving myself in a mean-spirited way, since I always buy myself cut flowers. Finally, I realized that cut flowers, having suffered violence, bothered me--a result attributable to Green Bells.

That spring was thoroughly intoxicating. After nearly twenty years in New York City, my travels enabled me to experience a number of the remedy flowers "in person" for the first time, and I was so joyful and excited to see them.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donna Cunningham is Vibration's co-editor and a well-known author of books on metaphysical topics like flower remedies and astrology. This has been an excerpt from Donna's new ebook, Flower Remedies--How Plant's Energies Can Heal Us. To order a copy, visit Moon Maven Publications. To find out about Donna's services, visit her web page.

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