DE-STRESS WITH FLOWER ESSENCES (Woven Spine Pineapple Cactus)

Article submitted 02/24/2009 by Linda Reiger
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www.natureshealinggrace.blogspot.com

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Are you managing stress, or is stress managing you? The best way to manage your stress is to learn healthy coping strategies. When life seems to present us with more than we can handle and we feel tired at the core of our being, Woven Spine Pineapple Flower Essence can help us to cope.

Woven Spine Pineapple Cactus is common from Guadalupe County to Bernalillo County, New Mexico, southeastern Arizona, western Texas, northeastern Sonora, and northern Chihuahua, Mexico. It grows at elevations from 4000 to 5000 feet.

It is one of the few cacti that can tolerate cold temperatures. In the fall, this cactus goes through a process of loosing water, which is essential to its survival in the winter when frost and snow exists. Woven Spine Pineapple Cactus is usually the first cactus to break the winter's spell and burst into bloom by the end of February.

It is a solitary cactus with a globule to short cylindrical stem about 2 to 6 inches tall and is 1 to 4 inches in diameter. After the plant reaches about 3 inches in diameter, it begins to elongate until it looks like a pineapple. The spines grow from nipple-like protrusions that are arranged in a spiral pattern across its body. Its spines lie against the surface and interlace with each other. The mature part of the stem is sometimes positioned above ground level on a stalk like part of the stem. Its flowers have light pink, translucent-edged petals about an inch long, with green globule fruit about .5 inches long and it has black seeds. The flowers smell like coconut!

Other common names for the Woven Spine Pineapple Cactus are Chihuahua Pineapple Cactus, Early-Bloomer Cactus, Interlacing Spine Cactus, and White-Flowered Viznagita.

The word regenerate comes from the Latin word regenerate and means to create again, to bring new and more vigorous life to something. Regeneration is the act or process of renewal or re-growth.

Woven Spine Pineapple is the essence to use for regeneration of the physical body after any type of activity that creates stress. Just as this plant regenerates itself after the cold winter threatens it with freezing temperatures, so you can regenerate your physical body by providing it with proper rest, nutrition or exercise.

In general, stress is related to both external and internal factors. External factors include the physical environment, including your job, your relationships with others, your home, and all the situations, challenges, difficulties, and expectations that confront you on a daily basis.

This Essence helps you focus on providing yourself with the activities that support regeneration, such as adequate sleep, appropriate rest periods, proper food, and taking time out. In summer, it is acceptable, and even expected, to take time off. We take holidays to get away from the usual obligations of work, school and home life. But do you always have to get away from your daily routine to renew yourself, or is it possible to revitalize yourself in the midst of daily activity?

This Essence can help us to tap into our unlimited life energy source. In an emergency, it can give us the ability to go beyond exhaustion. In other situations, it may inspire us to stop what we are doing and focus on what we need to in order to de-stress.

Woven Spine Pineapple Essence helps us readjust our attention to the things that fortify and build us back up. It is excellent to use after surgery or other invasive medical procedures. It can help us recover from jet lag. It is also very helpful after prolonged stressful events that leave us depleted.

It takes a lot of courage to dare to care for ourselves when life seems so demanding of us. This Essence can be used in all situations where we feel as if we have just had enough and we cannot go on. It helps you to be your own best friend!

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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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