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		<title>Surrender</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 08:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackie Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<title>Spirit Guidance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 10:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackie Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was the end of January 2000, and my mum was slowly dying in Scotland while I lived in London. I’d been up to visit her in hospital and hoped that I would somehow be able to do something to heal her; to stop the inevitable. But her body was giving up and it was...]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It was the end of January 2000, and my mum was slowly dying in Scotland while I lived in London.</p>
<p>I’d been up to visit her in hospital and hoped that I would somehow be able to do something to heal her; to stop the inevitable. But her body was giving up and it was her time to go.  I returned to London, feeling powerless and lost in the face of terminal illness.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flowerspirit.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/camellia.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5723" alt="camellia" src="http://www.flowerspirit.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/camellia.jpg" width="640" height="640" /></a></p>
<p>So I did the only thing I could do from a distance – I went for healing. During the healing session I could see the angels that were all around my mum’s bed; bigger than the room, shining bright and radiant.</p>
<p><strong>I knew she was in safe hands.</strong></p>
<p>And then Mother Mary appeared in my inner vision during the healing. I wasn’t brought up Catholic or indeed with any religious guidance so I wouldn’t have expected her to appear. I was reading about Tibetan Buddhist and Hindu spirituality at the time so would have expected a deity from those cultures to appear instead.</p>
<p>But no, it was Mother Mary dressed in blue; embodying the divine mother archetype. She held us both during the healing, and we were bathed in her nurturing compassionate energy. Mum died the next morning and I found out that I was pregnant.  Mother Mary was the perfect spirit guide to come to us that night.</p>
<p><strong>The spirit guides that come into your life are always those who can help you most. </strong></p>
<p>You will have a lifetime connection with particular guides; others might appear to help you with a specific issue or project.</p>
<p>When I was teaching weekly meditation classes, a smiling Tibetan Buddhist monk started to appear when I was preparing for the class. With his guidance I had the confidence to go into the room without writing the meditation in advance. I would simply connect with him, visualise the energy that I wanted the meditation to embody, close my eyes, open my mouth and the words would come through. I knew that I was absolutely supported and spirit would guide me.</p>
<p>Recently a new guide appeared when I was working on a <a href="http://www.flowerspirit.info/soul-message-intuitive-diagnosis/" target="_blank">Soul Message</a> for a particular client, and I thought she was coming through just for that session but she stayed around. She kept appearing when I was in the woods and I began to think she had a particular interest in essence-making.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flowerspirit.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/blaeberry.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5724" alt="blaeberry" src="http://www.flowerspirit.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/blaeberry.jpg" width="640" height="640" /></a></p>
<p>Then I made hellebore essence and she was right there by my side. I think she might be the hellebore deva but I’m wondering if she is here to help with all my essence-making. I&#8217;m excited to see if she appears the next time I make a flower essence from a different plant.</p>
<p>She is particularly aligned to the woodland and the wild sisterhood of the forest. She is helping to reawaken the sacred feminine and the deep riches of the wise womb. I feel so alive and empowered by her energy; I feel like I am finally embodying what I am here to do. I feel earthier, wiser and more sure of myself from knowing her.</p>
<p>Many years ago a kinesiologist told me that I had lots of spirit guides and helpers. My first thought was that I must be really special to have so many guides. Then, hot on its heels, the next thought was that I must be really messed up to NEED so many guides. Our egos are funny, aren’t they?</p>
<p><strong>I believe that we all have lots of spirit guides and helpers, we just don’t necessarily connect with them on a conscious basis.</strong></p>
<p>I’ve noticed that when I’m doing <a href="http://www.flowerspirit.info/soul-message-intuitive-diagnosis/" target="_blank">Soul messages</a>, some people’s spirit guides are much more visible and present than others. I believe that this is because those people are working with their spirit guides more than others so their guides are more noticeable.</p>
<p>If I turned up at someone’s house and they didn’t bother to look at me or say hello I probably wouldn’t be as likely to go back as I would if we’d had a really good chat and a cup of tea. I’m pretty sure it’s the same with spirit guides.</p>
<p><strong>The more you consciously connect with spirit guides and welcome them into your life, the more they communicate with you and you can enjoy their guidance and support.</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flowerspirit.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/primrose.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5725" alt="primrose" src="http://www.flowerspirit.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/primrose.jpg" width="640" height="640" /></a></p>
<p>Spirit guides can comfort and reassure; reminding you that you are never alone. They can nudge you to go to particular places or connect with particular people that will open up your world in beautiful new ways. They will give you affirmation and signs to guide you to the best decisions for your highest divine good.</p>
<p>How many times have you felt<em> guided</em> to go to a particular place, or to buy the paper on a particular day to check out job ads, or to attend a particular workshop, only for it to lead to something wonderful?</p>
<p>People often comment on how clear I am about doing what is right for me. I just know; I feel strong yes and no answers in my body. Sometimes I ignore that inner guidance and stubbornly do something that I know is not in my best interests instead but my inner compass is strong. I know that my guides are with me every step of the way.</p>
<p><strong>When you open up to your spirit guides, you will never feel alone. You will always have a circle of love and support to guide you to the most beautiful life for you.</strong></p>
<p>My dear friend Karina created a <a href="http://karinaladet.com/spirit-guide-kit/" target="_blank">Spirit Guide Kit</a> to give you all the guidance and support you need to develop a deep and loving relationship with your guides.</p>
<p>She’s offering it on a Pay-What-You-Can basis until midnight tonight so go get yours today. Karina is a channel for love and light and I know that her love-soaked <a href="http://karinaladet.com/spirit-guide-kit/" target="_blank">Spirit Guide Kit</a> will add an extra dimension(!) to your spiritual practice.</p>
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		<title>You Are Held</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 08:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackie Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<title>Breathe in Love</title>
		<link>http://www.flowerspirit.co.uk/2013/04/breathe-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackie Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<title>Is Your Soul or Your Personality Running Your Life?</title>
		<link>http://www.flowerspirit.co.uk/2013/04/your-soul-or-personality-running-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackie Stewart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr Edward Bach, who discovered the Bach Flower Remedies, said that true health comes from bringing your personality into alignment with your Soul, but how can you tell if they&#8217;re aligned? What can you do if they&#8217;re not? And how can you recognise if your personality (rather than your Soul) is running the show? Your...]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dr Edward Bach, who discovered the Bach Flower Remedies, said that true health comes from bringing your personality into alignment with your Soul, but how can you tell if they&#8217;re aligned?</p>
<p>What can you do if they&#8217;re not? And how can you recognise if your personality (rather than your Soul) is running the show?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flowerspirit.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/allium.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5635" alt="allium" src="http://www.flowerspirit.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/allium.jpg" width="640" height="480" /></a></p>
<h3>Your Soul</h3>
<p>Your Soul is the eternal all-loving template for your existence that carries the vibration of your true essence. It’s the compass that is always guiding you to love and light and joy and inspiration.</p>
<p><strong>Your Soul only knows divine qualities like beauty, grace, integrity and surrender so it doesn&#8217;t resonate with fear or disrespect or cruelty or control.</strong></p>
<p>Your Soul is your direct pathway to Source energy (which you may think of as God/Goddess, Love, All That Is). The more you are in alignment with your Soul the closer you feel to the Divine.</p>
<p>If you’re feeling inspired, at peace with your choices and have a deep sense of all being well in the world, then your Soul is in charge. Opportunities open up for you and synchronicities happen. You have no regrets, no doubts, just a sense of everything being in the right place at the right time. Life feels good!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #621754;">♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥</span></p>
<h3>Your Personality</h3>
<p>The personality (also known as the ego) defines how you experience your life and it’s guided by your mind and your emotions. The thoughts and beliefs you carry about yourself and the world are expressed through your personality.</p>
<p>If your beliefs and emotions are healthy and loving, then your personality is in alignment with your Soul.</p>
<p><strong>But if you’re feeling unworthy or fearful or in pain or stuck, it&#8217;s a sign that your personality is</strong> <strong>trying to run the show on its own and that’s not its job.</strong></p>
<p>It’s your Soul’s job to run the show, and your personality’s job is to open up to more and more Soul-level guidance. You can think of it like your Soul being the director of the movie of your life and your personality is the lead actor.</p>
<p>Your personality can improvise and add depth and humour to the drama of your life and there would be no movie without it. But it’s your Soul that holds the overall vision for you and sees the bigger perspective, so it needs to guide your choices. Your personality can&#8217;t always be trusted to make choices that are for your highest divine good, because it only sees part of the story and can often act from a place of imbalance.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #621754;">♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥</span></p>
<h3>How to Tell When Your Personality is Running the Show</h3>
<p>If you want to write a book or run a workshop or set up a new venture but you&#8217;re not doing it because you&#8217;re blocked by fear, that&#8217;s your personality running the show.</p>
<p>If you lash out in spite when somebody hurts your feelings, that&#8217;s your personality running the show.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re in a relationship where you&#8217;re not really happy but you don&#8217;t think you deserve any better, that&#8217;s your personality running the show.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re not charging enough for your product or services because you doubt the value of what you have to offer, that&#8217;s your personality running the show.</p>
<p><strong>Your Soul doesn&#8217;t know fear or spitefulness or worthlessness or self-doubt.</strong></p>
<p>It&#8217;s Soul work to notice the feelings and thoughts that make you doubt how inspirational, compassionate, loveable and empowered you are. But you don&#8217;t need to act on them; you don&#8217;t need to give them the power to run the show.</p>
<p><strong>Next time you feel an emotion that&#8217;s painful or have a thought that&#8217;s unloving, remember it&#8217;s just your personality showing you what you need to heal.</strong></p>
<p>And remember that your Soul is standing right by you, quietly reminding you to reach out for more love, more light, more hope, more joy, more peace.</p>
<p>When you reach out for those qualities; those experiences, you are walking home to your Soul.</p>
<p>You feed your Soul when you extend kindness, love, compassion, acceptance and forgiveness to yourself.</p>
<p>You starve your Soul when you do the things that make your heart feel heavy or drain your energy or bring you suffering.</p>
<p><strong>Your Soul never intended for you to suffer. Pain is not a Soul quality.</strong></p>
<p>Your Soul expects you to feel loved, peaceful, empowered, inspired, joyful and alive. It doesn’t know any different. So make the choices that bring more of those qualities into your life and you&#8217;ll bring your personality into alignment with your Soul.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #621754;">♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥</span></p>
<h3>5 Ways to Align Your Personality and Your Soul</h3>
<p>[for everybody every day but particularly if you’re feeling stuck just now]</p>
<p>1. Your personality connects to your Soul through your heart so the more you let yourself <strong>be present with all your emotions</strong>, the closer your personality gets to your Soul. The <a href="http://www.flowerspirit.info/emotional-balance-kit/" target="_blank">Emotional Balance Kit</a> is filled with resources for understanding and integrating your emotions.</p>
<p>2. Anything that uplifts you aligns you with your Soul. To be uplifted literally means to be lifted up above the everyday experiences of your personality and realigned you with your Soul. <strong>Do things that you love and make you feel good.  </strong>Often. Daily. Hourly!</p>
<p>3. Spiritual practice of any kind brings you into direct contact with your Soul so whether you like to meditate or chant, drum or pray remember to <strong>welcome spirit into your day</strong>.</p>
<p>4. Spend <strong>time in nature.</strong> Explore nature through your senses and slow down to nature’s pace. Take your shoes off and take 100 <a href="http://www.barefootbreathing.com" target="_blank">barefoot breaths</a>, knowing you are held. Notice how inspiration flows when you’re outside and how much more peaceful you feel.</p>
<p>5. Use vibrational medicine – it’s liquid light! <strong>Flower and crystal essences balance the parts of your personality that aren’t aligned with your Soul</strong>, opening up your gateway to Source. When you take essences, it’s easier for your Soul qualities to travel into your personality so you can let go of habits and beliefs that don’t serve you and experience more love, joy and bliss.</p>
<p>The more you make space to connect with Soul qualities every day, the easier it becomes to follow your Soul’s guidance, knowing that your personality is in alignment with your Soul.</p>
<p><strong>Your divine mission is to be happy. That’s the only script that’s worth making into a movie.</strong></p>
<p>You are so precious. You are so loved. All is well.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #621754;">♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥</span></p>
<h3>Do you wish you could see your life from a Soul perspective?</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.flowerspirit.info/soul-message-intuitive-diagnosis/"><img class="size-full wp-image-5238 alignleft" alt="soul-message" src="http://www.flowerspirit.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/soul-message1.jpg" width="250" height="171" /></a><strong>If you’re feeling stuck or confused or heavy-hearted just now, a Soul message and intuitive diagnosis will uplift you.</strong></p>
<p>You&#8217;ll see the bigger picture and realign with your true nature of love and light. I&#8217;ll tune into your energy field and ask what your Soul needs for your highest divine good, so you can move forward with joy, clarity and confidence. What&#8217;s more you&#8217;ll receive <strong>a personalised combination of deep-acting flower and crystal essences</strong>, lovingly chosen to release any personality patterns that stop you listening to guidance from your Soul. <a href="http://www.flowerspirit.info/soul-message-intuitive-diagnosis/" target="_blank">Click here </a>to find out more and book before prices go up on 1st May 2013.</p>
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		<title>Healing the Inner Child – Love Letters</title>
		<link>http://www.flowerspirit.co.uk/2013/04/healing-inner-child/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackie Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I launched the Inner Child Meditation Kit and I&#8217;ve been blown away at the response to it. Not only have I sold more Inner Child Meditation Kits in a week than anything else I&#8217;ve created, but the feedback people have given me has made me cry. &#8220;a tool for allowing powerful shifts that...]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.flowerspirit.info/inner-child-meditation-kit"><img class=" wp-image-5396 alignleft" alt="innerchildcd&amp;cover" src="http://www.flowerspirit.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/innerchildcdcover1.jpg" width="385" height="267" /></a>Last week I launched the <a href="http://www.flowerspirit.info/inner-child-meditation-kit/" target="_blank">Inner Child Meditation Kit</a> and I&#8217;ve been blown away at the response to it.</p>
<p>Not only have I sold more Inner Child Meditation Kits in a week than anything else I&#8217;ve created, but the feedback people have given me has made me cry.</p>
<p><span style="color: #621754;">&#8220;<em>a tool for allowing powerful shifts that have made significant and tangible changes in my life.</em>&#8220;</span></p>
<p>&#8220;<em>I wasn’t aware of how deeply my inner child had been wounded but the deeper I went, the more I could feel how this wound had been created a long time ago. It felt so magical to go from a sense of being held back to the profound acceptance of who I am.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><span style="color: #621754;">&#8220;<em>It gave me an understanding of something I’d been struggling with for years and brought peace to a restless, conflicted part of me.&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p>&#8220;<em>I was able to draw connections between my present life and the past that I never would have come to on my own.&#8221;</em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #621754;">♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥</span></p>
<p>Wow!</p>
<p>I know it doesn&#8217;t take much to make me cry but nevertheless it&#8217;s incredibly humbling when people have profound shifts in the space that you hold for them. That is always my intention &#8211; to hold a safe space for emotions to be felt and lovingly released so I&#8217;m delighted when I hear it&#8217;s working!</p>
<p><strong>Deep healing happens when we make space to feel rather than to analyse or avoid. We meet our hearts and we grow into our Souls.</strong></p>
<p>Little by little, becoming more of ourselves. Who we truly are.</p>
<p>By healing childhood wounds, you take a radical leap forward in personal healing and empowerment. All of us, to some extent, have inner child healing to do and it changes everything!</p>
<p>This is soul work, most tender. This is healing, soul deep. You can always choose to heal.</p>
<p>To celebrate the launch of the <a href="http://www.flowerspirit.info/inner-child-meditation-kit/" target="_blank">Inner Child Meditation Kit</a>, some of my favourite bloggers are sharing letters they&#8217;ve written to their inner children. You&#8217;re going to love these letters because they speak universal truths that the children in all of us need to hear.</p>
<p>Writing a letter to your inner child can be incredibly powerful so I invite you to join us by writing a letter to your inner child this week.</p>
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<h3>Writing a Letter to Your Inner Child</h3>
<p>If you&#8217;re using the <a href="http://www.flowerspirit.info/inner-child-meditation-kit/" target="_blank">Inner Child Meditation Kit</a> you can write a letter to yourself at the age that emerged for healing in the meditation, otherwise choose a time in childhood that you know needs healing.</p>
<p>Perhaps your parents were splitting up and you felt responsible; perhaps you were bullied by people who didn&#8217;t understand you so you learnt to change to fit in. Perhaps you experienced childhood abuse that prevented you from feeling safe or trusting.</p>
<p>Maybe you felt like you weren&#8217;t good enough so had to do certain things to gain approval; a new sibling came along and you felt neglected or you felt stupid or ugly compared to your friends.</p>
<p><strong>What words of love, understanding and support can you offer to your child self?</strong></p>
<p>What does loving adult you have to say to child you that went through difficult times? What did you need to hear at that age? Often it&#8217;s something as simple as knowing that you are loveable just as you are and that everything is going to turn out OK.</p>
<p>Set aside 15 minutes, light a candle or incense. Cuddle up in a blanket with your favourite music playing in the background. Write a letter to the child you were. You might find it helpful to pull out a photograph of yourself at that age. Write as though the child receiving your letter is the person you love most in the whole wide world.</p>
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<h3>Healing the Inner Child Blog Tour</h3>
<p>This week you can read heart-stoppingly beautiful letters to the inner child by visiting the blogs below. I&#8217;ll be updating the links here every day as each blog is published.</p>
<p>Hold their words close to your heart and know that they speak of universal truths.</p>
<p>Tues 2nd April     <a href="http://karinaladet.com/it-wasnt-your-fault-that-your-father-died/" target="_blank">It wasn&#8217;t your fault that your father died</a> at <a href="http://www.karinaladet.com" target="_blank">www.karinaladet.com</a></p>
<p>Wed 3rd April     <a href="http://www.juliegibbons.com/2013/04/03/the-truths-you-needed-to-hear/" target="_blank">The truths you needed to hear</a> at <a href="http://www.juliegibbons.com" target="_blank">www.juliegibbons.com</a></p>
<p>Thurs 4th April        <a href="http://lorilynhurley.com/a-letter-to-my-inner-child/" target="_blank">A letter to my inner child</a> at <a href="http://www.lorilynhurley.com" target="_blank">www.lorilynhurley.com</a></p>
<p>Fri 5th April             <a href="http://lktamaya.co.uk/2013/letter-to-my-inner-child/" target="_blank">Letter to my inner child</a> at <a href="http://www.lktamaya.co.uk" target="_blank">www.lktamaya.co.uk</a></p>
<p>Sat 6th April        <a href="http://www.arttherapist.ca/inner-child/you-are-allowed-to-be-you/" target="_blank">You are allowed to be you</a> at <a href="http://www.arttherapist.ca" target="_blank">www.arttherapist.ca</a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #621754;">♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥</span></p>
<p>I wish you healing, I wish you love.</p>
<p>I wish you compassion and understanding.</p>
<p>I wish you joy and magic and laughter.</p>
<p>You are so precious. You are so loved. All is well.</p>
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		<title>The Feral Inner Child</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackie Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Feral I’m muddy, dishevelled and wild. Tearstained, barefoot, clutching a baby to my breast but it’s not a baby. It’s a tattered piece of skin with no features, no body and I’m wailing like a lost soul. Hammering at the door of the cottage high up in the moors while the rain whips around me....]]></description>
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<h3>Feral</h3>
<p><em>I’m muddy, dishevelled and wild. Tearstained, barefoot, clutching a baby to my breast but it’s not a baby. It’s a tattered piece of skin with no features, no body and I’m wailing like a lost soul.</em></p>
<p><em>Hammering at the door of the cottage high up in the moors while the rain whips around me. I don’t know if it’s tears or rain that soak my face but I’m crying the deep animal wail that came out of me when Ollie died.</em></p>
<p><em>The grief and the pain are unbearable.</em></p>
<p><em>I can see him sitting in the cottage, looking straight ahead; the man I love. But he doesn’t come to the door to let me in. He meets my eyes, then turns away from me. He’s looking at something else.</em></p>
<p><em>I feel distraught. Beyond rejected. “Please let me in, please just let me in. You need to see what happened to the baby.”</em></p>
<p><em>I’m crying louder but still he will not look at me.</em></p>
<p><em>I’m screaming now, forehead against the wood of the door and battering my fist against it.<br />
</em></p>
<p><em>“Please just look at me. I need you. Why won’t you look at me? Can&#8217;t you see how much I&#8217;m suffering?”</em></p>
<p><em>But he isn’t listening and he doesn’t look at me, no matter how loud I shout. I want to grab his face and make him look me in the eyes; make him see my suffering. But the door is locked and I can’t get in.</em></p>
<p><em>And he keeps looking the other way.</em></p>
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<h3>Awakening</h3>
<p>I wake up in the early hours, heart pounding, shaken by the dream. I can’t get back to sleep and the emotion feels raw in my body.  Visceral. Close to the surface and real. I feel desperate and hysterical.</p>
<p><strong>When emotion feels as intense and irrational as this, it’s the inner child crying for attention.</strong></p>
<p>Something is emerging to be healed and the force of it is so huge I have no choice but to surrender.</p>
<p>So I wrap my turquoise woollen shawl around me, sleepily light some incense and sit on my meditation cushion with my back to the radiator.</p>
<p>I put the <a href="http://www.flowerspirit.co.uk/inner-child-meditation-kit/" target="_blank">Inner Child Healing Meditation</a> on play and settle back to experience what I need to experience. Following my breath into my body, wondering what old wounds are being triggered. Wondering what I need to feel.</p>
<p>I’m taken back to a time when I was about three years old. My parents are standing in the sitting room, looming tall above me and I am looking up at them.</p>
<p>Something has happened and I’m upset that they won’t talk to me.  They won’t even look at me and I can’t get their attention. It’s like I’m talking underwater and they can’t hear me. So I start to cry, wingeing quietly hoping they’ll notice and give me sympathy. A pat, a cuddle, a <em>&#8220;I’ll be with you in a minute&#8221;</em>. But they don’t. It’s as though they can’t even see me.</p>
<p><strong>I’m having that same visceral experience from the dream. The need to be noticed, to be told I am loved; the same feeling of hysteria that I am being denied both.</strong></p>
<p>So I start wailing and clutching at them; a feral child who wants her needs met. I’m screaming hysterically and hot rage fills my little body.</p>
<h3>Memory</h3>
<p>A memory floats in. A time around that age when I had wanted my parents to join in with the wedding between my Panda bear and Louise doll but they couldn’t for some reason. I was so upset at the time I pulled at Panda’s head until his stitching came undone and his head hung limp. I remember my mum sending me up to my room until I calmed down and could behave nicely.</p>
<p>I’d lain face down on the bed kicking my feet in the air and screaming and screaming. Stopping often to listen for mum coming upstairs with a cuddle.  Expecting her to smooth the hot sweaty curls from my face and rest the cool palm of her hand against my cheek as she whispered to me in Gaelic.</p>
<p>She didn’t.</p>
<p>No doubt she thought I was far too old to be behaving like that.  No doubt I was. But somewhere deep inside, I registered that people don’t come when you’re upset and you need them. People don’t give you love unless you behave nicely and calmly. People don’t like it when you cry so it&#8217;s better to hide the fact that you&#8217;re hurting.</p>
<p>Now, almost 40 years later, in the <a href="http://www.flowerspirit.co.uk/inner-child-meditation-kit/" target="_blank">meditation</a> I’m given a safe space to feel that raw emotion over again: that primal need for time, for love, for attention. When I was three I didn’t know how to ask for those needs to be met in any reasonable way. Children don’t. So I screamed for them instead and was punished.</p>
<h3>Release</h3>
<p>Nestled in my turquoise shawl listening to the meditation I have an opportunity to give myself the love I didn’t receive at the time.  Now that I’m a parent who has experienced the raw force of a toddler’s tantrum, I can be compassionate and loving to my inner child, instead of judging myself as spoilt.</p>
<p>I see my adult self stroking my curls and I’m guided to give child me a beautiful aqua party dress. I brush out the dishevelled curls and plait blue ribbons in my hair and my three year old face is shining.  I’m delighted to be given something so pretty that makes me look like a Princess. I feel so special, so loved, so noticed.</p>
<p>The meditation guides me onwards and then, crumpled up in the hand of my three year old self I see a cluster of hot sweaty rose petals. They are a gift for my adult self, from three year old me.</p>
<p>A voice inside me tells me that the petals represent hope. A new hope that will light me up when I realise that I don’t need other people to meet my needs for love and attention. I don’t need to scream and shout and ask anyone to notice me because the love I am looking for is already inside me.</p>
<p>Love is all around me; it’s who I am.</p>
<p><strong>I am love. You are love. We are all held in the hand of love.<br />
</strong></p>
<p>This is the truth we&#8217;re all learning and relearning over and over until we feel it on a cellular level and we never doubt it again.</p>
<p>And I do feel loved. So loved. So held.</p>
<p>Adult me is crying my eyes out, fat tears plopping down my face and landing on my lap. Crying until no tears are left and I feel peaceful and calm.</p>
<h3>Healing</h3>
<p>There on the cushion, something heals deep inside of me. Something tender, something primal, something raw.</p>
<p>Something fundamental.</p>
<p>That dream emerged from my subconscious to show me the energy of a dynamic I needed to heal.</p>
<p>Our relationships can only be healthy when we&#8217;re not expecting them to fill our gaping need for love and attention. When we don&#8217;t <span style="text-decoration: underline;">have</span> that same gaping need for love and attention, everything changes. Then we learn about unconditional love.</p>
<p>Choosing to heal when our emotions arise raw and wild within us is the adult choice, choosing to blame others when we&#8217;re hurting is the childlike choice. You can always choose to heal.</p>
<h3>Healing Your Inner Child</h3>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter whether your wounds get triggered by a dream or a throwaway comment or a difficult dynamic with someone you love, the fact is that your emotions need to be felt. They need to be seen. They need your love and attention.</p>
<p>And when they arise irrational and extreme, you can be pretty sure it&#8217;s your inner child calling for your attention.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.flowerspirit.co.uk/inner-child-meditation-kit/"><img class=" wp-image-5396 alignleft" alt="innerchildcd&amp;cover" src="http://www.flowerspirit.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/innerchildcdcover1.jpg" width="231" height="160" /></a>Inner child healing is fundamental to healthy adult relationships because until you heal your inner child, its unmet needs will keep feeding your insecurities and driving your relationships.</strong></p>
<p>When you make the brave choice to heal, you can finally let your wounds go. This is soul work, most tender. This is healing, soul deep.</p>
<p>I created the <a href="http://www.flowerspirit.co.uk/inner-child-meditation-kit/" target="_blank">Inner Child Meditation Kit</a> so that you can heal the past and live the joyful, empowered love-filled life you were born for. <a href="http://www.flowerspirit.co.uk/inner-child-meditation-kit/" target="_blank">Click here</a> to discover if your inner child needs healing.</p>
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		<title>We Don’t Need to Force</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackie Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We don&#8217;t need to force ourselves to open our hearts.  It happens naturally when we let ourselves feel. We don&#8217;t need to force ourselves to feel forgiveness or compassion.  These qualities arise spontaneously when we stop avoiding the pain that hides in our hearts. So if there&#8217;s a person or a situation in your life...]]></description>
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<p><strong>We don&#8217;t need to force ourselves to open our hearts.  It happens naturally when we let ourselves feel.</strong></p>
<p>We don&#8217;t need to force ourselves to feel forgiveness or compassion. <strong> </strong>These qualities arise spontaneously when we stop avoiding the pain that hides in our hearts.</p>
<p>So if there&#8217;s a person or a situation in your life that you&#8217;re struggling to feel loving or forgiving or compassionate or peaceful about, don&#8217;t worry about that. Don&#8217;t try so hard to make it better.</p>
<p>Allow yourself to feel whatever you need to feel, without trying to change it or analyse it.</p>
<p><strong>Give yourself permission to feel it all. The waves of grief or anger or loneliness or sadness or disappointment or rejection.</strong></p>
<p>Feel it all. Be gentle with yourself. Be kind. Give yourself permission to feel it all.</p>
<p>Your heart is so much bigger than any wounds you&#8217;re holding onto. When you simply make space to notice your heart and how it feels you are doing the greatest healing work of all.</p>
<p>Breathing in through your heart, breathing out through your heart.</p>
<p>Then one day you will wake up and breathe into your heart and realise that waves of love and compassion and forgiveness and peace have arisen and washed away the sorrow.</p>
<p>And everything is going to be OK.</p>
<p>You are so precious. You are so loved. All is well.</p>
<p>Join me for <a href="http://www.flowerspirit.info/sanctuary/" target="_blank">Living from the Heart workshop</a>. 26th April. Hebden Bridge.  A heart space.</p>
<p><em>Thanks to <a href="http://www.jasonsmalley.co.uk">Jason Smalley</a> for the bleeding heart photograph. Bleeding heart flower essence is a master healer for the heart.</em></p>
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		<title>Top 3 Bach Flower Remedies for HSPs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackie Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Discovering that I&#8217;m a HSP (Highly Sensitive Person) was one of those moments when a whole roomful of lightbulbs went on in my head. Here was me thinking I was too sensitive to cope with the world or weird or melodramatic or a bit of a diva, but it turns out I’m just a HSP. Who...]]></description>
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<p>Discovering that I&#8217;m a HSP (Highly Sensitive Person) was one of those moments when a whole roomful of lightbulbs went on in my head.</p>
<p>Here was me thinking I was too sensitive to cope with the world or weird or melodramatic or a bit of a diva, but it turns out I’m just a HSP. Who knew!</p>
<p><strong></strong>I rather suspect that if you’re reading this blog, you’re probably one too. We tend to gravitate to each other, us sensitive souls. Gently, quietly and empathetically of course!</p>
<p><strong>Approximately one in five people in the world are HSPs.</strong></p>
<p>Approximately one in five of us are so sensitive that we feel <em>everything</em>, get overwhelmed by the impressions we pick up and empathise with others to an often painful degree.</p>
<h3>Life as a Highly Sensitive Person</h3>
<p>Sometimes I can’t cope with Twitter because I get overwhelmed by feeling all the emotions that the people in my feed are broadcasting.</p>
<p>I get stressed if music is too loud or if TV, music and conversation are all happening at the same time. I’ve noticed that ‘too loud’ for me is acceptable for most people.</p>
<p>I need to take myself away for long spells of silence and solitude if I’ve been socialising and particularly if I’ve been in the city or anywhere that my senses get assailed by lots of impressions.</p>
<p>I can’t watch violent or creepy films and I won’t read crime or horror stories or upsetting news stories because I absorb it all so deeply that it makes me ill.</p>
<p>Clashing colours hurt my eyes and there are websites I can&#8217;t look at because the colour palettes jar with me so much they make me recoil, and I have to squeeze my eyes tight shut and lay my palms over my eyes to recover!</p>
<p>Although I’m not obsessively tidy, I cannot work or think if my environment is messy or chaotic. I need a clear physical space to find a clear mental space so my surroundings need to be harmonious, quiet and peaceful or I feel overwhelmed and unable to function. My office that looks out to the lush green of the woodland is just perfect!</p>
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<p>When unexpected things come into my life &#8211; even if they&#8217;re wonderful and exciting &#8211; my first reaction is always overwhelm and a fear that I won’t be able to cope.  I need a little time to think before I can say yes to a new opportunity. I used to always say no as my initial reaction, now I say &#8216;<em>let me think about that</em>&#8216;.</p>
<p>Are you nodding along, recognising yourself in my words? Take the test to see if you’re a highly sensitive person <a href="http://www.hsperson.com/pages/test.htm" target="_blank">here</a> and then come back to discover which Bach Flower Remedies will help you to feel more comfortable and radiate your soothing light in the world.</p>
<h3>The Benefits of Being a HSP</h3>
<p>Taking Bach flower remedies over the years has enabled me to understand and integrate my sensitivity so that it serves me rather than holds me back.  I&#8217;ve learnt that being highly sensitive is a gift rather than a handicap.</p>
<p>If you can find a way to work with your sensitivity rather than trying to toughen up, you will be bringing valuable gifts into the world.</p>
<p><strong>You’re not here to change and toughen up. You’re here to blossom as the exquisitely sensitive soul that you are.</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flowerspirit.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/speedwell.jpg"><img alt="speedwell" src="http://www.flowerspirit.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/speedwell.jpg" width="640" height="499" /></a></p>
<p>I’ve realised that the ability to feel people’s emotions even through my twitter feed can be a blessing when used appropriately. It enables me to tune into a stranger’s energy, intuit which essences will help them most and receive <a href="http://www.flowerspirit.info/soul-message-intuitive-diagnosis/" target="_blank">soul messages</a> for clients all around the world.</p>
<p>The sensitivity to noise and chaos that makes me actively seek out inner peace and silence enables me to create <a href="http://www.flowerspirit.info/inner-peace-meditation/" target="_blank">meditations</a> that bring sanctuary to other sensitive souls.</p>
<p><strong>Our fast-paced under-sensitive world needs more highly sensitive people who can bring balance with their empathy, gentleness and quiet sensitivity.</strong></p>
<p>We need more people who notice the beauty and subtlety of the world so they can share it with others who may not otherwise see it.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re highly sensitive too, the remedies I’m recommending here will help you to balance your sensitivity and cope with life more easily.</p>
<h3>Bach Flower Remedies for the HSP</h3>
<p>Highly Sensitive People respond very well to Bach Flower Remedies. Whereas some people could take flower remedies for months without noticing much difference, you&#8217;ll notice the benefits straight away. You might even feel the effects by looking at images of flower remedy plants, spending time with plants as they are growing or holding a flower remedy bottle in your energy field.</p>
<p>These are my top three Bach Flower Remedies for HSPs.</p>
<p><strong>WALNUT</strong></p>
<div id="attachment_5284" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 394px"><a href="http://www.flowerspirit.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/walnut.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-5284" alt="walnut" src="http://www.flowerspirit.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/walnut.jpg" width="384" height="576" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Walnut Bach Flower Remedy</p></div>
<p>Walnut is the essential Bach Flower Remedy for every Highly Sensitive Person’s handbag, car or desk.</p>
<p><strong>Do you ever feel like you have a layer of skin missing? You feel raw and open and your senses are picking up too much information to process?</strong></p>
<p>Walking down the street, being in crowds or at a party can feel overwhelming because you’re picking up on other people’s emotions all the time.</p>
<p>Do you find it difficult to dance to your own tune because there are so many external influences that lead you away?</p>
<p>Walnut offers a delicate shell of protection that keeps you safe within your energy, filtering out the harsh vibrations that can feel so shattering to the Highly Sensitive Person.</p>
<p>Think of walnut as an invisibility cloak made from delicate golden light. When you take walnut remedy it offers you the protection to stay open, while filtering out negativity so you will feel strong and resilient within your own energy field.</p>
<p><strong>ELM</strong></p>
<div id="attachment_5285" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 394px"><a href="http://www.flowerspirit.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/elm.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-5285" alt="elm" src="http://www.flowerspirit.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/elm.jpg" width="384" height="576" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Elm Bach Flower Remedy</p></div>
<p><strong>Do you often feel overwhelmed? If you’re asked to do just one more thing you’re going to crack because you’re already feeling stretched to the edge of what you can handle?</strong></p>
<p>Elm is the flower remedy for feeling overwhelmed and Highly Sensitive People feel overwhelmed more often than most. It’s easy to remember what this remedy is for because the word elm fits neatly into the end of the world overwhelm. Keep it in mind, Scrabble lovers!</p>
<p>Highly Sensitive People are continually absorbing so much sensory information and feeling everything so intensely that even the tiniest additional pressure can feel like the final straw.</p>
<p>It’s as though all the sensory information that assails you on a constant basis is too much for your mind to process so anything extra pushes you over the edge.</p>
<p>Elm enables you to feel calm, release doubts in your abilities and see things in perspective again.</p>
<p><strong>MIMULUS</strong></p>
<div id="attachment_5286" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 394px"><a href="http://www.flowerspirit.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/mimulus.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-5286" alt="mimulus" src="http://www.flowerspirit.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/mimulus.jpg" width="384" height="576" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Mimulus Bach Flower Remedy</p></div>
<p><strong>Do you feel hyper-sensitive to your environment, stressed by bright light and loud noises?</strong></p>
<p>Do you need more time alone than most of your friends?</p>
<p>Do you feel out of sorts and overwhelmed if you don’t have regular time to yourself?</p>
<p>Are you often anxious, worrying about things that could happen and carrying a quiet sense of dread close to your heart? Life feels like it&#8217;s full of harsh realities that are too much to bear.</p>
<p>Mimulus is for sensitive souls who often feel shy and nervous in group situations and need more solitude and peace than others.</p>
<p>It will help you to release fears and cope with the cacophony of life much more easily, so you can enjoy life with courage and confidence.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.crystalherbs.com/shop/aftrack.asp?ID=93&amp;Req=prodtype.asp?PT_ID=71" target="_blank">Click here</a> to order Bach Flower Remedies, handmade with love from Crystal Herbs. <a href="http://www.flowerspirit.info/bach-blends/" target="_blank">Click here</a> to order a personalised blend of Bach Flower Remedies from me.</p>
<p>You may also like to connect with beautiful <a href="http://gentlelivingonline.com/" target="_blank">Liz</a> and <a href="http://hannahmarcotti.com/" target="_blank">Hannah</a> who are sensitive souls radiating their soothing lights in the world.</p>
<p>Thank you to <a href="http://www.jasonsmalley.co.uk" target="_blank">Jason</a> for the Bach Flower Remedy photographs.</p>
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<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter whether things turn out the way you&#8217;re hoping they will.</p>
<p>All that matters is whether you have the courage to keep opening your heart to joy and possibility as the future unfolds in front of you.</p>
<p>With love</p>
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