Judy Griffin - Flowers That Heal: Aromas, Herbs, Essences and Other Secrets of the Fairies

The information in this book is not meant to diagnose or treat disease. The recipes are not substitutes for medication. Please consult with a healthcare provider.

Flowers that Heal
Copyright 2002 Judy Griffin, Ph.D.
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Cover art: Garden on Water Street by Timothy R. Thies
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All rights reserved 2002

ISBN: 1-931044-35-X

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2002104651

This book is dedicated to all the winged heroes of the garden,
and the grandmother I havent met, Carmella Monzo DiTorrice.
May she grow in peace with the fairies she wanted to write about.

CHAPTER 1:THE BEGINNING
The World According To Fairies and Flowers

CHAPTER 2:A FAIRY FEAST
Nutritious Recipes for Health-Conscious Fairies

CHAPTER 3: OPERATION FAIRY STORM
Physical and Mental Stress Reducers

CHAPTER 4:AROMAFAIRAPY
Blending Essential Oils

CHAPTER 5: PET SCENTS
Aromatherapy and Herbs for Animals

CHAPTER 6:THE AESTHETIC GARDEN
Flower Arranging and Tea Ceremonies

CHAPTER 7: PREPARATION TIME
Teas, Tonics, and Fairy Food

CHAPTER 8:A FAIRY WEDDING
A Celebration of Love

CHAPTER 9: FLORAS DREAM
Empowering the Chakras

CHAPTER 10:THE VISIT
Discovering the Subtle Body

CHAPTER 11:THE JOURNEY
Into the Garden of Beauty

CHAPTER 12: FREEING THE PERSONALITY
Herbs and Flowers For Different Personality Types

CHAPTER 13: SUBTLE BODY HEALING
Flower Essences and Herbal Tonics

CHAPTER 14: FAIRY POTIONS
Combining Herbs, Essential Oils, and Flower Essences for Optimal Health

CHAPTER 15:THE WAY HOME
History, Legend, and Lore

CHAPTER 16: MYSTERIOUS ORIGINS
Healing with Antique Roses

I remember the time when I was a child: the whole world was alive and glowing. Trees, plants and their flowers were my friends who danced with me in the moonlight and sparkled with dew in the sunlight. The flowers bloomed just for me and communicated special messages that made me giggle with delight. Plants were as real to me as people. I called them each by a special name and told them all my troubles as I reached over to sniff their beautiful fragrances and gaze at their dazzling colors.

I instinctively knew that flowers could see us and understand how I felt and what I was thinking about. Every flower was infinitely compassionate and loving, for flowers know nothing of destruction, brutality, or even judgment. They are part of a unique communication exuded throughout creation that sounds like a very high-pitched hum. Their song has rhythm that is pleasantly warm and jolly. I can remember dancing to their music and feeling as light as a fairy.

Then, my time with the flowers grew shorter. I hardly had time to stop and talk to anyone. I was always in a hurry, and the flowers had little to say. Then came a time when the flowers grew silent and without emotion. I would often wonder if the flowers still sang.

I began to rediscover the world of Mother Natures flower essences, herbs, and essential oils while suffering from Crohns disease. I had recently been diagnosed with cancer. I was scared, in pain, and in need of support. My answer to prayer was an inner message to work with flowers. All I really wanted was to get out of pain, but I made a promise to share everything I learned with others. Immediately afterwards, every time I walked near a plant, I received the information that I now share with you in the following pages. For more than eighteen years, much of this information has been researched and proven in clinics and private medical practices worldwide.

For every impossible or incurable situation, there is a flower essence to help us bloom. Flowers not only correct the imbalance in the personalitys needs and expectations, but they also support us by opening our hearts.

When I work in my gardens, I enter a world where flowers talk and nature sings. I choose flowers that bloom even under stress from an inner joy, which expresses the wonders of Nature.

Each flower has a unique message and healing quality that can be captured into an essence at the peak time of its bloom. The energy of the flowers becomes available as the bloom opens fully. The best essences are made from flowers that are disease free, perfectly shaped, and that emit the most auric light from the center. They should be organically grown in seasons, nurtured, and chosen from an abundance of full blooms. Most of the blooms should be left untouched, attracting beneficial insects such as bees, wasps, and butterflies. The balance of Nature should be left undisturbed.

I have discovered that the experience of gardening is well worth the time and effort. Flowering plants are wonderful teachers and have taught me many songs and tunes I have heard only in gardens. The flowers also speak from the heart of all creation. They communicate the sadness they see in our eyes and catalyze the potential of what we are yet to be. They heal wounds from the deepest part of the psyche, reminding us with their beauty that all true healing comes from the heart.

During the past twenty years, I have worked therapeutically with flower essences, essential oils, herbs, and nutrition as a clinical herbalist, aromathera-pist, teacher, counselor, and international lecturer. Certified in Texas as a horticulturist, I organically grow and produce quality products. I have learned that plants grown in the adverse climatic conditions of my environment enhance the immune response of the flowers, forcing them to bloom under stress just as we who thrive to achieve self-actualization do. As we search within for understanding and wisdom, Mother Nature will nurture us with the healing quality of homegrown plants and flowers.

Flower essences and essential oils have been an integral part of traditional healing since ancient times and are making their way into modern medicine as an adjunct to pharmaceuticals.

What is most important in healing from the heart is that we take responsibility for individual health and seek support on every level. Health includes taking responsibility for our own emotions, feelings, creativity, and expression. An integrated personality will then receive illumination from the spirit to express the hearts desire and to share all the treasures of the heart.

M other Natures Flower Fairies invite you to enter a world in miniature where flowers heal and fairies rule. Since the beginning of the Land of Thyme, fairies have learned to use flowers for every type of healing: for people, pets, knights in shining armor, and yes, even for fairies. Flowers have a universal charm that opens the heart of those who grow, receive, and admire them. Their aroma, color, shape, and texture integrate all the senses into a rainbow of emotional splendor known to every fairy as healing from the heart.