Developing Your Spiritual Senses With Flower Essences

You may have noticed that we have essences for things that seem much more spiritual in nature, like seeing in the spirit, dreaming, getting revelation, getting in touch with wisdom, and tuning in to God. An important clarification is that essences don't give you anything you don't already have, they help you get out of your own way. 

Many times we have emotional blocks that prevent us from operating fully in our spiritual gifts. That's primarily the role of essences, to heal all the baggage we came in with, so that we can get back to the original condition where we are spiritually healthy tuned in people. In other instances, they help you become aware of what you've been overlooking. 

But the gifts! Those things that just happen and you have a high ability without any work! Those are awesome. However, even those may need some development and effort, and there's a couple of reasons why that is. 

In many cases we've worked pretty hard to shut them down. That was certainly true for me, and with as much fervency as I've prayed against, will powered them out, and thrown up walls, I've had to work just as hard to get them back. Whatever you had when you were young but aren't using now, why did you shut it down? Was it scary, did you get talked to about your imagination, made fun of? Were you in a religious family that said it was the devil? Did it only get you into trouble and cause problems? 

Another theory I have when you have one single glorious experience that was crystal clear, is that it's like bait. Like God saying "here's a taste of what's possible, but you need to pursue and prioritize this." And we have our big moment, continue with our passivity and wonder why it never happens again. In those cases, I think we're back to developing it, stepping up to the responsibility of stewarding it, not begging for more in prayer. In any case, flower essences are not magic potions that give you supernatural abilities, and you don't get to take some drops, sit back and wait for the magic to happen.

So How Do You Develop Your Spiritual Senses?

My take is that you can start with whatever you've experienced in the past. If you had nightmares as a child, or were worried about monsters in your room, you're probably a seer that shut that ability down.  Hearing voices is not always a mental condition, even if the voices are bad. Mental illness or no, it means your spiritual ears work, so get them tuned into the right realm. 

You can also choose to build whatever area seems lacking to you. If you see just fine, but don't hear so much, you might want to look at why that block is there. You'll also want to make sure you understand what it means to "hear" and that you're not overly mysticizing it based on other people who enjoy seeming super spiritual. It's very possible you do hear or see or whatever, but have dismissed something so subtle and commonplace. 

However, if you decide this is worth pursuing, (and really, what's more important) then there are some things you can do that apply to every sense, and we'll get into specifics for each one in a bit.

1. Set an intention to work on this. Setting aside time, reading books or listening to podcasts that keep you focused on spiritual development are cues to your subconscious that you are making this a priority in your life.
2. Consider emotional blocks that might be in the way. What might happen if you let this in your life?
3. Practice! Develop those skills. Show up every day. How bad do you want it?

Hearing

Most Common Blocks:

The blocks here can be diverse, but Dad issues are a big one. We tend to project that relationship onto God, therefore He can be too busy, too distant, too flakey, too strict, abusive etc. If you have trouble with authority, you may be afraid of what you might hear. You might also write everything off as just thoughts. 

The Discipline:

Take notes of randomness throughout the day. Thoughts, coincidences, oddities. One isn't enough to attribute as hearing correctly, but patterns are. Journaling however brief can help you look back and realize that those impressions were valid, or that they weren't. You'll learn which ones are. You'll also want to make sure you understand what it means to "hear" and that you're not overly mysticizing it based on other people who enjoy seeming super spiritual. It's very possible you do hear or see or whatever, but have dismissed something so subtle and commonplace.

Resources:

• Open Ears Flower Essence
• God Speaks - coauthored book by Seneca and friends
• Hearing God's Voice Made Simple by Praying Medic

You can get a package deal with many of the above essences and then some in our Spiritual Development Kit.

Because everyone is different, and we each have our own blocks, you might need to do a bit of experimenting and you may even find that different essences do different things than what the bottle says. For instance, many people dream on Vision Quest, and as Kellie says in this interview, Open Ears, rather than Dream Drops was the thing that unstuck her dreams and visions. The interview, by the way is really inspiring if you're working on your more visual capabilities. 

There are tons of resources out there to help you, I barely scratched the surface with my listing, but ultimately it comes down to your committment to making it a priority in your life. While I do have some testimonies of spiritual things opening up JUST by taking essences, I wouldn't count on that being the case for you. In most situations, you get out of it what you put into it, and if years of not trying haven't worked, then you might need to switch it up a bit.

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