LiFE Natural Health Centre - The Inner Nature of Nature

The Inner Nature of Nature

Depending on what angle you take in your understanding of the healing properties of Flower Essences, be it their active nealing ingredient or their healing definition from a conceptual point of view there are different depths and perceptions. From the conceptual point of view there is an understanding of the Nature of a Flower Essence.

If you look at all life, you can see it is on an evolutionary journey. On the path of evolution of different animals you will find they develop character traits that help them to survive and overcome obstacles in their environment and secondly broaden their experience of life by the further development of different character traits.

If you look at the evolutionary path of plants you will see it is similar. They too develop different structures, different abilities, for example to attract insects or birds, in order to procreate. One interesting facet of a plant is that you will find a number or plants that have an ability to propagate themselves by root division, yet at the same time they also have a complex mechanism to attract certain birds or insects to pollinate them.

Most botanists consider this type of evolution is due to what they would call random mutation. This means that a plant would accidently develop a certain new genetic pattern that helps it survive in a superior way to the rest of its species. The reason why botanists say this is because from their understanding of Life they can't see any other mechanism at work. Therefore for them it would have to be a random mutation.

But if we look at this from a deeper level we understand that this is not the case. One hundred years ago human beings thought that the atom was the most subtle building block in the universe. This view-point changed when they discovered the atom was made up of sub-atomic particles.

Today quarks are considered to be the smallest particle, but what else will science discover in the next hundred years? Will they find that the quarks are actually made of more subtle building blocks? Maybe they will find that there are life forms not based on the molecular format as our physical bodies are, but composed of more subtle material. This subtlety may allow them to function as an entity, have rationality and effect the life around them as they go about their own evolutionary journey.

So science is forever discovering newer and more subtle building blocks to life. But are they discovery something new? Or are they re-discovering something which has been known to exist by other systems of thought?

Some look at the universe and see it as haphazard - but is it? Are there forces guiding evolution of all Life so it can flower to its fullest potential?

When a plant is moving along its evolutionary journey it develops needs which need to be fulfilled for its forward movement. These needs have to be fulfilled or there will be extinction of that particular plant species. It is our understanding that there are more subtle forces at work that stimulate a change in the plants genetics at the time of fertilization. To help conceptualize this, think of how ultraviolet light modifies the genetic code in humans to create cancer.

A similar process is happening with the subtler forces, they impregnate or stimulate the plant to form a new genetic pattern that will ehance the survival of a plant spieies. These forces are most active in plants at their time of flowering, prior to the formation of the new seeds. This new patterning has within it the code to develop the new character traits that fulfill the evolutionary needs of the plant.

The form side of a plant often resembles what the plant is working through, that is the character traits of its genetic patterning. For instance in the case of the Hardenbergia, or Happy Wanderer, it climbs onto other plants, like a vine it uses their support. We did an interesting experiment by making an essence from the leaf of the Happy Wanderer and found that it made people more dependant on others resembling the plant signature of hanging off other plants.

The colour, shape and perfume of a flower reveal the type of nature forces working through the flower. The Hardenbergia has a violet and green coloured flower, it's shape the same as the pea family. The nature forces connected to this flower will help the plant stand upright, by itself.

When you collect an essence from the flower of a Hardenbergia, you are collecting the water that is impregnated with that message, the same message that is going into the genetics of the plant, so that it's species will develop the ability to stand upright unaided.

When a person takes that remedy they take in the same message which helps them come to the realisation that they can stand on their own feet and don't need the support of other people in order to move ahead and be happy.

So this is what a flower essence is. When we collect a flower essence we are collecting the subtle evolutionary messages, that nature forces are giving to the plant, impregnating it with the message that will help it move ahead and fulfill its unique evolutionary journey.