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Healing & Alternative Health:
Flower Essences |
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Excerpt from Donna's new ebook:
Flower Remedies--How Plant's Energies Can Heal Us.
Follow Up: How to
Lay the Groundwork
n the First Interview
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by Donna Cunningham |
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For many long-standing issues, one remedy bouquet isn't enough. Healing is a process with many layers, and some remedies need to be repeated. Many clients, however, come once and are never heard from again.
The first meeting is where you lay the groundwork for follow-up. If there are lacks or gaps in that first meeting and in the remedy mix, you may lose them--not only for your own practice, but for remedy work in general.
Here are some bases to cover in that first meeting:
Give some explanation of the vibrational remedies. In addition to an explanation during the consultation, it helps to have handouts. Credibility is important, especially later on when they are confronted with skeptical mates, family members, and friends who might sabotage the work.
Make a proper diagnosis and selection. Some clients don't come back because the mix wasn't on target to begin with. Use a pendulum or muscle reflex test to double check that this is the right remedy at this time. You need really specific information about the complaint in order to choose the most effective remedies. A symptom like procrastination or sexual dysfunction often masks a deeper issue. en that issue is not addressed, the symptom remedy may not work.
Be sure the client knows what the mixture is for, so a before-after comparison can be made. Consciousness of the remedies' properties enhances their effect. Sometimes a mix works so well that people forget they had the problem! The list helps them remember.
Don't over-sell the product, making claims one mix can't live up to. If it's not a magic bullet, they may get turned off, not only to you but to flower remedies. Stress that this is a process and for chronic or long-standing issues, remedies may need repeating. Legally, as well, we can't claim that remedies alone can cure clinical problems like addiction or depression.
Don't overload the mixture so that the result is an uncomfortable catharsis or so too much is going on to process. People can handle more remedies if the mix focuses on one or two issues, but may have difficulty tolerating the shotgun approach. Be especially cautious with first-timers--they may release a big backlog of emotions.
Go easy on people in acute crisis. People in early stages of recovery from addiction or disease can be easily overwhelmed by too strong a mix. Don't go after long-standing issues when the person is in a fragile state.
Add toners and strengtheners: A "binder" often makes the mix more effective and tolerable. Good binders are Peach and Lotus. Put the binder in first, then shake well. As the last remedy, try something for strength, like Self-Heal, Oak, or Borage.
Check not only the individual remedies but also the combination through a pendulum or muscle reflex. Work discarding and adding, until the most effective combination is reached. Test not only whether the combination is effective, but also whether they can tolerate it, especially with cathartic remedies like Bleeding Heart, Evening Primrose, or Willow.
Allow space for a healing crisis. If the mix is particularly heavy or the person is highly sensitive, start by taking it twice a day, then build up to four. Working people could start on Friday night, allowing quiet time to be with the process and any needed catharsis before returning to work.
Explain how to know when a new mixture is needed. When I ask why some haven't returned, they say, "Oh, I still have some of the first bottle." It's eight months later and the remedy is growing green things! Date the label to show how long it's been and distinguish it from other mixes.
Let them know what else is available. People often have more needs than can comfortably be addressed in a single mixture. They are more likely to come back if you let them know what else the remedies can do for them. Explain why a shotgun approach is unwise, that rather than trying to tackle everything at once, the healing is smoother and more effective if you address only an issue or two at a time.
Consider sending out follow-up notes or making calls. Although it is important not to do so in a pressuring way, you might jot down and then remind them of additional issues you had discussed in the session that a new mixture could address. In such follow-up contacts, you also gain valuable information about how the remedies work and why not everyone tolerates them well. You may also be astonished at how far people have progressed on the strength of that one mixture--so much so that they need time now to assimilate all the changes.
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Donna Cunningham,
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Donna Cunningham is an internationally respected astrologer and the author of 13 books on metaphysical topics.
Donna Cunningham has a dual background in astrology and psychotherapy, with a Masters in Social Work from Columbia University and over 30 years experience as a professional astrologer. She considers doing the astrology charts of children to be a sacred trust. It is a way of knowing who these Indigo children are on their own terms rather than as their families, teachers, and society expect them to be.
In these sessions, she focuses on typical childhood concerns such as family and peer relationships, the best educational approaches, and the child's special gifts and abilities. She can be reached for consultations at (503)291-7891, by email, or at her web page. Ask about her special rate for children's charts.
Donna is also co-editor of Vibration and a frequent contributor. She has written fourteen books on astrology and other metaphysical topics, including her Flower Remedies Handbook. Astrologers who want to know the special considerations involved in doing children's charts can read the chapter on this topic in Donna's text, The Consulting Astrologer's Guidebook.
Listed in several Who’s Who volumes, she has given seminars on astrology around the world and won the prestigious Regulus Award at the 1998 UAC.
She teaches astrology classes online at: astrocollege.com
You may reach her for long-distance astrology consultations at her web site:
DonnaCunningham
MSW.com
by email:
moonmaven @spiritone.com
or by calling:
(503)291-7891.
For the past 20 years, she has worked with the flower remedies, and she is co-editor of Vibration Magazine, a free online educational quarterly at:
essences.com/vibration/
For information on Donna's online classes about flower essences, visit her website:
DonnaCunninghamMSW.com
"Donna's first astrology ebook will be available in March.
For more
information go to her web page:
http://www.donna
cunninghammsw.com
This series is reprinted with gracious permission from Donna Cunningham.
©2002 Vibration Magazine/The World Wide Essence Society
PO Box 285
Concord, MA 01742
978 369-8454
If you are interested in ordering a copy of Donna's new ebook:
"Flower Remedies--How Plant's Energies Can Heal Us,"
It is $15, available at Moon Maven Publications:
www.moonmaven
publications.com
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