WILLOW: Flower Essence Of The Month

WILLOW

Salix vitellina

English Flower Essence

Positive Qualities

Acceptance, forgiveness, taking responsibility for one’s life situation, flowing with life

Patterns Of Imbalance

feeling resentful, inflexible or bitter, feeling that life is unfair or that one is a victim

If the physical body does not keep flexible, it becomes stiff and contracted. The good health of the soul also depends on its ability to be yielding, flowing and forgiving. The Willow flower heals bitterness and resentment: it is for those who tend to “ hold on” and become attached to negative emotions. Such persons often feel victimized by the circumstances of life-they feel that others are to blame for their misfortune: that life has been unfair to them: or they resent those who appear to have more status, prosperity, or felicity than themselves. The aging process is especially difficult for Willow types. At the energetic level, such persons are unable to flow with the streaming of their lives. Negative feelings are dammed up and then become magnified and internalized and, congesting the inner being. The physical body also suffers from the stress, tending to manifest such problems as stiff joints, rheumatism, arthritis, and other aches and pains.  Willow restores a more “spring like “disposition, helping the soul to respond with greater resilience and inward mobility to challenges and problems. In this way the Self takes more responsibility for its condition and learns to flow more gently and graciously with, rather than against, the flow of life.

Directions for Use:  take 5 drops under the tongue , 3-5 times per day

It is helpful to use this monograph as a meditation when you use the Willow essence.

This monograph is taken from the Flower Essence Repertory by Patricia Kaminski and Richard Katz.
You can contact the Flower Essence Society at 800-548-0075.