Listening to the Plant Spirits- How to Perform a Flower Attunement

A flower attunement is the first step in understanding and making your own flower essences and remedies. Even if you are not creating remedies it is a unique learning experience and will help you choose any future remedies you may want to use.

Flower essences are made using the vibrational healing energy in the booms of flowers and ultimately creating healing extracts with these remedies. The energy or spirits of plants is alive and well and will aide you on your journey. It is accepting divine world energy at it's best.

Each flower has many different uses for facilitating healing. What you will learn in experiences you gain doing flower attunements is that intuition is key. You can read and memorize all the books in the world but until you understand what exactly a flower attunement is you won't know exactly the level of intuition involved.

Each plant has an essence or spirit like quality. They are living and breathing organisms as well as great healing allies. Have you ever intuitively been pulled toward a certain flower or plant? This is the plant spirit's beckoning you. It may sound like new age garble but it has been proven by many flower essence practitioners around the world and science itself. Vibrational medicine works.

The first step in an attunement is to choose the plant you want to do an attunement with. You could pick something you are called to or whatever you have nearby. Find a quiet spot and sit with your plant. Ask permission before you begin. My native American teacher would offer up tobacco as an offering at this point. You can do the same if you are comfortable or use cornmeal. Sprinkle it all around the base of the plant. This is an offering in thanks to the plant deities.

Next, sit quietly for about 10-20 minutes and just study your plant. Memorize the lines and scent of it. Touch the leaves and feel the textures of the flowers and green foliage. Look at all of it's subtleties and open your mind and heart to what it is telling you.

Using a piece of paper and a pen, write down everything that comes to your mind about the particular plant. Feelings and emotions and what comes into your head. Whatever comes to mind, write it down, no matter how insignificant it may seem. After your attunement is through you can use this list with a flower essence repertoire of your choosing to verify what you have experienced. You will be amazed that many of your words will be repeated in the descriptions of your plant. I have done attunements with just images on a television in a silent group setting and everyone present came out with very similar and at times exact thoughts and phrases on a particular plant. It is quite amazing.

After you have finished your list spend some more time with your plant. Usually a flower attunement will take about 30 minutes or longer. Be sure to stay long enough and not rush through the processes.

When you are done with your first flower attunement you might want to write down your experience for later reference and to compare with future attunements. Your written information will come in handy if you continue your work with flower essences. It's amazing what plants can teach us if we listen.

Everyone's experiences are different when working with plant energies. There are no wrong or right ways to go about it as there are no rules. Use your intuition and listen to what the plants have to say on an emotional level.