Flowers!

How beautifully they grace our lives, our fields, our gardens, our tables. We know the pleasure given us by a flower’s form and color, its raying petals, shy buds, and exuberant blooms, its scent — whether face-to-face or glimpsed in an artist’s homage of a painting.

We know flowers. Or we think we do.

But are you aware that each flower has its own special quality that can provide a medicine for what ails us — whether that ailing occurs on the physical level, the emotional, mental, relational, or spiritual?

And that this medicine, when gathered, distilled, and formulated as a flower essence remedy, can release a kindred quality in us — so that we may, with their help, move from fear to courage; from despair to optimism; from shyness to enthusiastic engagement?

For book writers struggling with creative blocks, self-doubt, or book marketing anxiety, flower essence therapy offers a natural solution. These gentle remedies can transform your writing experience from fearful to joyful.

If we find ourselves in need of courage, then Borage can help to open up that capacity in us. If we need to move past the constriction of shyness to confidence, then Water Violet can give its gifts to help us do this. These and other desired qualities are available to us through the flower essences chosen and combined in the Sacred Space Essentials custom blends. There are so many flower essences made possible by the abundance of nature — and by the wisdom and skill of the practitioner who carefully creates the essences for our use.

Simply taking 10 drops under the tongue, 3 times a day, of the remedy that calls to us can open up that same quality from the seedbed of our infinite potential, so that we experience just what it is that we need. We take the essence of the flowers into us, and they give us back our enhanced selves.

What could be better for creating an inner atmosphere conducive to wonderful, grateful writing?

Creating a Positive Inner Atmosphere for Your Writing

Writing, especially writing a book, has typically been fraught with so many fears that many people do not look forward to it, even when it's the book of their heart.

What is needed is an inner atmosphere that opens us up effortlessly to doing the writing — an atmosphere that we can literally breathe into, that feels as natural as it is an act of grace.

Writing a book can bring forth all sorts of obstructions that work to convince us that we cannot really write in a way that truly serves and pleases us. The faces of these obstructions are legion: self-doubt, self-sabotage, overwhelm, and discouragement are only a few of the "dragons" at the gates of our inner temple.

Sometimes, we just need something to come help us open up the qualities we cannot reach or perhaps even yet conceive of — which, if they could only be ours, would make all the difference. To turn our procrastinated writing into "can't-wait-to-get-to-it!" writing sessions. To turn our "Well, that was a waste of my writing time" into "Getting closer, getting closer, I can feel it, getting closer."

I have found flower essences to be one of the most potent, tangible remedies for opening writers to the healing, even divine, qualities that let them write with wholehearted engagement, inner attunement, and delight. And many authors and creative writers have discovered that natural remedies such as flower essences can overcome writer's block and boost writing confidence more effectively than traditional methods.