Nicotiana alata (white). Positive qualities: Inner peace centered in the heart and breath; physical and emotional well-being through harmonious connection with rhythmic pulsations in the Earth. Patterns of imbalance: Rigid or mechanized qualities in the body; blunted feelings, shallow breathing; over-use of hard-edge masculine forces.
Berberis aquifolium (yellow). Positive qualities: Loving inclusion of others, positive expectation of good will from others, ability to trust. Patterns of imbalance: Paranoid or defensive behavior; expectation of hostility from others; antagonistic projection.
Mentha piperita (violet). Positive qualities: Mindful and wakeful clarity, warm metabolism balanced with cool head forces. Patterns of imbalance: Dull or sluggish, especially mental lethargy; under-active metabolism which depletes mental forces.
Mimulus lewisii (pink). Positive qualities: Emotional transparency; courage to take emotional risks with others. Patterns of imbalance: Feelings of shame, guilt, or unworthiness; fear of exposure and rejection due to prior abuse or trauma.
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Achillea millefolium var. rubra (pink-purple). Positive qualities: Loving awareness of others within a field of self-contained consciousness; appropriate emotional boundaries. Patterns of imbalance: Unbalanced sympathetic forces, overly absorbent auric field, lack of emotional clarity, dysfunctional merging with others.
Toxicodendron diversiloba (greenish-white). Positive qualities: Positive vulnerability, ability to make contact with others through touch. Patterns of imbalance: Fear of intimate contact, protective of personal boundaries; reactive or rejecting in relationships.
Triteleia ixioides (yellow, brown stripes). Positive qualities: Radiant inner beauty; self-acceptance in relation to personal appearance despite handicaps or blemishes. Patterns of imbalance: Feeling ugly or rejected because of personal appearance; over-identified with physical appearance.
Mimulus kelloggii (purple). Positive qualities: Love-based rather than fear-based spirituality, calm and clarity when experiencing spiritual phenomena; the courage to trust in one's own spiritual experience or guidance. Patterns of imbalance: Fear of retribution or censure if one departs from religious conventions of family or community; apprehension or avoidance of threshold experiences due to...
Briza maxima (green). Positive qualities: Harmonious community consciousness, flexible and receptive in group work. Patterns of imbalance: Dysfunctional in group settings, inability to compromise, over-attachment to personal will and desire in social situations.
Daucus carota (white). Positive qualities: Spiritual insight and vision; integration of psychic faculties with sexual and emotional aspects of Self. Patterns of imbalance: Projection or lack of objectivity in psychic awareness; distortion of psychic perception or physical eyesight due to sexual or emotional imbalances.
Chaenomeles speciosa (red). Positive qualities: Loving strength and firm loving; integration of masculine initiating power and feminine nurturing qualities. Patterns of imbalance: Inability to catalyze or reconcile strength and power with affection and tenderness; dysfunctional or inconsistent parenting or leadership behavior.
Ericameria nauseosus (yellow). Positive qualities: Lively and alert mental field; acute sensory perception and mobile state of mind. Patterns of imbalance: Easily overwhelmed by details; unable to cope with simultaneous events, “fuzzy” consciousness that is unable to register details.
Trifolium pratense (pink-red). Positive qualities: Calm and steady presence, especially in emergency situations, internally generated behavior. Patterns of imbalance: Susceptible to mass hysteria and anxiety, easily influenced by panic or other forms of group thought.
The FES Quintessentials flower essences are liquid potentized extracts derived from flowers grown in the Biodynamic gardens at Terra Flora, or pristine wildflower habitats. Created in 'Nature's laboratory' through a careful orchestration of the four elements of Earth, Water, Air, and Fire, FES essences combine the fifth quintessential element of the sensitive attunement and awareness of the...
Artemisia tridentata (yellow). Positive qualities: Essential awareness that releases what is extraneous, receptive “emptiness” capable of transformation and change. Patterns of imbalance: Over-identification with illusory parts of oneself; cluttered and chaotic attachments; need to release dysfunctional and stifling aspects within the personality or surroundings.
Carnegiea giganteus (white, yellowcenter). Positive qualities: Awareness of what is ancient and sacred, a sense of tradition or lineage; ability to learn from elders. Patterns of imbalance: Conflict with images of authority, sense of separateness or alienation from the past.
Hypericum perforatum (yellow). Positive qualities: Illumined consciousness, light-filled awareness; solar strength. Patterns of imbalance: Psychic and physical vulnerability; fearful or disturbed dreams; depression due to lack of contact with spiritual world.
Hypericum perforatum (yellow). Positive qualities: Illumined consciousness, light-filled awareness; solar strength. Patterns of imbalance: Psychic and physical vulnerability; fearful or disturbed dreams; depression due to lack of contact with spiritual world.