Hi Everyone!!!
The following explanation and exercise is something that I enjoy and hope that you might as well. This way of thinking helps me "work out" the muscles required to listen to the flowers when they speak to me. You can look at art, listen to the wind, hear the voices of the trees, talk to the fairies and devas and receive so many other subtle inputs when you learn how to do this. It's really just a matter of understanding different levels of reflection and then interacting with that observation.
As you read on through this newsletter, you will learn about a few of the flowers that are used to improve our abilitiies to "contemplate." It is interesting to note that many of these flowers are shades of violet and that corresponds to the color frequency of the ajna chakra or psychic centre, located at medulla oblongata or at the "third eye." Flower essences are unique in that they nourish our evolving bodies and consciousness with spectrums of light not available to us in other ways.
Contemplation can be defined as "reflection on the truth." Sometimes to gain clarity on a subject, one can think about what it is not. Contemplation is not reading a book and understanding what is written, this is "intellectual understanding." Contemplation is also not meditation. Buddhism helps us to distinguish between meditation and contemplation. Meditation is defined as "tranquil abiding." This practice involves primarily the techniques of mindfulness and introspective vigilance. This helps the aspirant to gain a settled and disciplined state of mind. Once this is gained, emphasis can be put on what the Buddhist call "insight," or contemplation. Insight emphasizes discernment, investigation and analysis while maintaining an inner still point and minimal distraction.
Deepak Chopra, in one of his most recent books, The Third Jesus tells us that "contemplation is a fascinating process that everyone needs to experience on the spiritual path, since it allows expansion of the mind. Contemplation begins with a thought that attracts you; as you consider it, its attraction expands and deepens."
Contemplation Exercise:
I took the photo above of an icon plaque that I found in a back woods antique store in Alabama! I have been using it to practice contemplation and wanted to share this exercise with you because I think that you would enjoy trying something like it yourself and that it will give you a better sense of how one can communicate with flowers, crystals, animals and other frequency realms. Of course you can use any object to contemplate.
After sitting in meditation for perhaps 20 minutes and meditating on the mantra om Mary, Mary om, (of course,use any mantra, but if you can, relate it to the object you will be using for contemplation) I open my eyes and allow the image of the icon (the one above in this case) to permeate both my sensory awareness and my mental experience. Allow new feelings to emerge. Allow for an expansion to occur. Some of the stimulus may be sensory (you can tell because it will arise from one of the senses, ie. something that you see, something that you smell) or it may be a purely mental experience (defined in that there is a complete lack of a sensory organ involved). There is no right or wrong way to do this, just enjoy the process.
The first time I sat with this image to contemplate it, I felt the experience of wanting to infuse the sublime characteristics depicted by the image in the center into my own being. I wanted to become her compassion, her humility, her innocence and her purity. In sitting with this for awhile, I eventually felt somewhat successful at transferring some of the exquisite qualities depicted in the image into my own beingness.
The second time that I sat with the image, I had become enough of the image to then notice that I too could have "support angels with halos" beside me to protect and guide me during each moment of my day. Duiring the rest of that day and for at least several days after that, I felt so supported and "on track." As I have worked with this image, even more revelations have revealed themselves and it has been such a satisfying exercise. Hope you try it and enjoy it!
Contemplation and Communicating with the Flowers:
The exercise of contemplation helps us to learn about communicating with the flowers. We learn to use the "inner muscles" that bring our insight abilities into shape. Learning to allow sensory input and mental experince to infuse my being has been a great help in learning how the flowers are communicating with us.
My enthusiasm for contemplation has been growing since we have been guided to make a Mary Essence entitled CONTEMPLATION. Two of the incredibly lovely "anchor flowers" for this formula are shared below.
