Luminous Mind of Gratitude and Thanksgiving

The moment you shift from a mindstate of negativity or judgment to one of appreciation, there are immediate effects at many levels of your being: brain function becomes more balanced, harmonized, and supple; your heart begins to pump in a much more coherent and harmoniously balanced rhythm; and biochemical changes trigger a host of healthful balancing reactions throughout your body.

In the healing ways of indigenous people, the restorative power of gratitude was well understood. A heart filled with gratitude generates actions and prayers that complete the circle between the gift offered to us, the receiver of the gift, and the sacred source of the gift. To offer prayers of thanksgiving is a gesture of rejoicing in discovering the many gifts that life brings us.

Here is a practice to dwell in gratitude and thanksgiving:

Sitting quietly, shift toward dynamic balance with a few minutes of mindful breathing.

Bring to mind someone for whom you are deeply grateful. As you breathe in, take this person to heart. Breathing out, let your heartfelt gratitude shine deeply and brightly to them and through them. Continue for as long as you like, letting each breath take to heart a loved one, a friend, someone who has been kind to you, someone who is teaching you patience or how to forgive.

Let each breath shine from the depths of your being through the depths of their being in order to light up their life with your love. Taking your eyes, your ears, your hands, your intelligence to heart, bless them in a similar way with the heartfelt radiance of your appreciation. Whoever or whatever comes to mind, gather them into your heart, one at a time or all together.

Taking these many gifts to heart, complete and affirm the circle with gratitude, assuring that the stream of blessings in your life and in the universe will be unbroken."

-- Excerpted from Joel & Michelle Levey's new book
Luminous Mind: Meditation & Mind Fitness

Each Flower Essences holds a unique vibrational wisdom.

Each Flower Essences holds a unique vibrational wisdom that breaks up some specific illusion that we exist separate from God. If we hold onto an illusion for long enough, it becomes more than just a mental or emotional idea in our energy system and will manifest in our physical body and affect our health.

For example, if your parents told you when you were small that you were a “pain in the neck”, you might believe it and proceed in all your interactions, even into adulthood, with the belief that you were an irritation to others. Eventually you might actually experience a pain in your neck.

Your body manifests the ideas you hold, whether you are fully conscious of them or not. Taking a Flower Essence to address a mental or emotional illusion will often result in a physical improvement. As the idea is dissolved, so too is the physical out-picturing of the idea.

When we take a Flower Essence, we offer our energy system a choice between continuing to vibrate at the denser rate of our mental or emotional illusion, or replacing it with the Flower Essence’s specific higher vibration of Oneness beyond illusion.

If you were the person experiencing this illusion of being a pain in the neck, you might take an Essence like Pink Tecoma with its vibrational truth “ I AM unconditionally loved by God. I AM God’s beloved child. The Divine Mother holds me in her embrace.” Pink Tecoma would hold this vibration in your energy system until you released the illusion and remembered the original truth.

I am not a purist about how to heal the illnesses resulting from our illusions, but one reason I love Flower Essences is because they so thoroughly get to the heart of the matter, once and for all. I have needed allopathic interventions in my life and am grateful for their gifts, but I look to Flower Essences to get to the source of the problems and to help me heal on the deepest level possible.

Each Flower Essences is a unique vibration of Love. So are we. Love is really at the heart of all illusion-busting and is our path home to Oneness with God. Flower Essences ignite the love within us, and therein lies their magic.

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