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Ian and I have set up The Flower Therapy Foundation to offer education, information and training about the healing potential of flowers to enhance mental, emotional and spiritual well-
With our world becoming increasingly chaotic, and with mental illness and stress taking hold across all age groups, the simplicity of looking at flowers, and being with flowers, can be overlooked as therapy. Flowers speak a language our soul understands. We are instinctively drawn to the flowers we love, even though we most often have no idea there is a hidden healing language within nature which calls to us. Flowers are part of our every day, in every country. Whenever we engage with flowers, we feel better. Happier. Lighter. The world just seems more joyful when flowers are around.
I have spent over 27 years exploring the science of flower essences and flower medicine through the ages. The more I do so, the more I come back to the power and simplicity of the ancient teachings which all say that without the connection to the heart and soul of nature, without reverence for Mother Nature and her wisdom, we will continue in crisis as a species. Nature is calling us to co-
Without this connection we will continue to work with half of ourselves. The mind alone cannot solve everything the world is facing today. Einstein was known to say that none of his break throughs came from thinking. They all came from inspiration. And what does inspiration mean? To ‘in spire’, to take in from beyond ourselves.
Just looking at flowers is now proven scientifically to change our mood, to lift our spirits. Dr Haviland-
"Common sense tells us that flowers make us happy," says Dr Haviland-
When spirit is mentioned it is often confused with religion. When I talk about spirit I do so in context of the indigenous peoples of our planet, who understand that every flower, rock, tree, plant, river, ocean, every part of nature is alive with knowledge, with an intelligent life force which waits patiently for humanity to listen. They talk about the Great Spirit of nature, with which we are intimately connected.
The way forward for our planet is to learn to listen to nature and to co-
A major part of Flower Therapy will be learning the language of flowers and nature, so that you can remember your own inner nature which speaks the very same language. In the western world we have been taught to enable our mind to become dominant at the expense of our subtle, feeling, intuitive senses. Within these senses lies wisdom, knowledge, remembrance of the bigger picture of life, and of the answers we seek to solve our separation, our sadness, loneliness, unrest, anger, stress, fear.
Unless we begin to challenge and question the way things have always been, and embrace new thinking about nature, change cannot happen. This includes rethinking our view of spirit, ourselves, flowers, and our understanding of all of nature on our planet. Time to think about how a change in personal understanding can bring a global wave of change in our understanding of how to heal, how to co-
We will be announcing workshops and pop up events throughout the year, to learn Flower Therapy inspirations in person, for you, your family, your clients, also with the intention of deepening your understanding of the healing potential of flowers, and deepening your relationship with flowers and nature. We will also post more videos on Shelley’s YouTube channel in the coming weeks, where you can currently enjoy short films of our organic British flowers growing, our intuitive flower arrangements through the seasons, and some ‘meditation moments’ from our garden and bluebell woods, with birdsong as your soundtrack, for Flower Therapy in your daily life, right now. Click here:
We are sharing practical, simple Flower Therapy inspirations to engage with, initially through social media on:
@theflowertherapyfoundation @TheFlowerThera1 @TheFlowerTherapyFoundation