Excerpt from Honoring The Wisdom in Nature Pocketbook Edition with 54 Plant Essence Card
“I will show you the way back to being. Follow me into the depths of your beingness. Allow me to release all the tension you hold, all that keeps you from being whole. I bring the power of white, a light to expand your awareness. See the depth and complexity of all parts of yourself. Take this journey of profound inner peace and wholeness.”
Keywords: simplicity, profound, calming, nourishing, grounding
Habitat: Choke Cherry is a shrub growing in most of the United States along stream banks, prairie hillsides, and fence rows.
MESSAGE
Explore the depth of your being. Feel deeply nourished, grounded, and calm. Choke Cherry dissipates the accumulated stress of emotional habits. It soothes and nourishes an overactive nervous system, balances the body and mind, and supports quiet re ection. See the juxtaposition between profound depth of being and lightness of being.
Carve your own way instead of staying in the rut of the past breaking free from mental constructs. Connect to the universe/Divine and outside the box thinking.
Make a path. Encourages your own uniqueness and need for it in the world. Be who you are. Do not compromise. Feel deeply connected, open, and vulnerable. Trust, live, believe, and become. It is not for the faint of heart. The path requires discipline, honor, self-knowing, and seeing the unseen.
Laugh at yourself, and do not take yourself or expectation of yourself so seriously. Be vulnerable and open to catch/understand/experience the world in a different way. Come to life with a lens of lightness, exploring yourself with humor and non-judgment. Your life is a series of blunders held together by lightness, humor, and laughter.
PATTERNS
- Protecting yourself by walling off from yourself, others, or the world in general.
- Blame, fear of failure, not being good enough. All the things you tell yourself that limit your own expression of self.
- Getting stuck in the depth and seriousness of life resulting in anxiety, fear, and depression.
AFFIRMATIONS
“Choose which part of life you focus on. The blunders or lightness, humor, and laughter.”
“May you be blessed in all your endeavours.”
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Illustration: Casey Wait ©2018
