BIG ROOT JATROPHA FLOWER ESSENCE

Article submitted 05/15/2009 by Linda Reiger
www.apathtowholeness.net
www.natureshealinggrace.blogspot.com

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Big Root Jatropha is found in Arizona, Southern New Mexico, and Mexico at elevations of 3500 to 7500 feet. This plant prefers arid environments and can also be found in warmer parts of Australia (Queensland and the Northern Territory), Florida (chiefly south of Orlando), Hawaiian Islands and Africa (Mozambique, Zambia, Transvaal, Natal), and Asia.

Other common names are Arizona Desert Potato, Desert Potato, Ragged Nettlespurge and Physic Nut.

Big Root Jatropha is perennial herb. It is a small shrub, up to 2 feet tall and it is easily identified by its erect and tall stature arising from a tuber-like root. This large starchy root stores the plant’s nutrients. These roots are strongly purgative and considered poisonous.

The small, white to pinkish-purple flowers usually bloom during May to October. The round capsule-like fruit is green when young, turning dark brown to black when mature. The shell becomes dry and cracked, and with an explosion, it flings its seeds a good distance away from the parent plant. The seed shell splits, the radicula emerges and 4 small peripheral roots are formed.

Just as the big roots of this plant stores its nutrients, its flower essence helps us to understand the information stored from our childhood experiences and make some sort of sense of it all.

Those who had a dysfunctional childhood may have learned to try to control situations in order to feel safe and secure. This excellent flower essence helps us feel safe enough to allow changes to happen without needing to control everything around us.

Some of us had to grow up too quickly and leave the inner-child behind. This flower essence can help you restore the enthusiasm and awe of childhood so you can use your inner-child's openness to create awareness and confidence.

When you encounter a new situation, do you have confidence that you can handle it? Do you have an underlying sense of stability, or do you feel you are always on shifting sand?

This essence helps us to integrate great expansions of consciousness and major changes in our lives. Even highly positive changes can feel stressful because it is all so new and we do not yet know how best to respond to the changes. For people who desire to make positive changes and yet also feel a sense of fear in regards to doing so, this essence can be of great support as it helps them to know at a deep level that they are quite capable of handling the changes that they wish to manifest and all is truly well in their world.

Big Root Jatropha encourages a feeling of security as great inner expansion takes place. It can establish ease and confidence to incorporate new ideas.

By placing limiting beliefs and expectations on life and the Universe, we are unable to see that there is an abundance of unlimited resources and experiences available to us.

Expecting that each day is simply going to be more of the same old same old, we tend to miss exciting new opportunities when they present themselves. This essence helps us to be much more open to the new and more aware of how even a small event can blossom into a much bigger and more exciting opportunity for us.

This essence helps us address any challenges we have to our ability to assimilate and grow. During times of great changes or transformational experiences, Jatropha Essence helps us to be able to more easily absorb what is happening to us and create meaning in our lives.

A Path to Wholeness website offers a variety of different flower essences to choose from; please stop by and learn more about them!

Walk in Beauty,
Linda Reiger
www.apathtowholeness.net
www.natureshealinggrace.blogspot.com

Linda Reiger has studied Metaphysics and Animal Wisdom for over ten years. She loves and appreciates beauty in anything, whether it is a person, art, music or nature. Being a Libran soul, balance and harmony in life and surroundings are very important to her. She has attained third-degree Reiki, and infuses all her flower essences with the Reiki energy. Her website was created from the evolution of her own experiences and the deeper relationship she has developed with nature.

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