Breathing love into a flower when we wake up is a wonderful way to start the day. Surrounding yourself with positive words on the wall, by the bedside, on the fridge, small little reminders to look at the flower that resides deep inside each and every one of us. The colour of the Dandelion represents the Sun, our third Chakra the Solar Plexus where we fill our self-up with confidence, our fight or flight response, our liver, kidney, and spleen activation. All the physical requirements for us to breathe, live and be at one with who we are in that moment.
Once you develop the practice of breathing slowly and in a relaxed state, smiling just because you can, after a period of 21 days of re-training the mind how to smile again, you will wake up smiling when you hear the birds, or see the sun shining through your window. You may be living in a new place with new people to get to know, and a morning smile to your neighbour will create a better environment and a safer place to be. Smiling and nourishing the flowers in the garden helps you approach the day with understanding and gentleness.
Every single person has a smile within them, some may have spent a lifetime looking for it, when I see somebody smiling at me, I feel a sense of safety, we all do, and it opens the heart to form trust in the everyday tasks of living. Nourishing your smile with a dandelion triggers happy emotions and lasting memories.
This may be the first time that you have recognised this flower, rest assured it is not the first time the dandelion has recognised you, its role is to lift your spirit, feeding warmth to your day and those around you.
When you are lost ask the Dandelion to be your smile for the day, instead of having to find the words or fit in with new company, just hold the dandelion up and allow the flower to shine. Awareness brings up a smile, just to be conscious in that moment, recognising the cycle of life, the seasons and the purifying effects flowers, plants, trees, and being in nature does to bring forward unconditional love.
A great way to re-connect together is to spend time with a flower, please be patient with each other, remember that the individual may not know in that moment it is a flower, so the best form of flower therapy I have discovered is to start with the most common flower like the Dandelion and see it growing out in the open, sit close to it and activate your senses.
Breathe love into the flower and it will return a smile so deep that every time you see the Dandelion a smile will just appear, a new doorway to unfolding the higher self.
By Isabella Rose
Author & Teacher – Excerpt from the small guidebook for Alzheimer’s ” I Still Know You” available in print and ebook.
