SILVERWEED (Potentilla anserina) - Simplicity


Live lightly and simply. Transform that which keeps you bound to worldly things. Raise your consciousness through self-awareness.


The five-petalled yellow flower of Potentilla was a motif used by medieval knights who had achieved mastery over the self. The language of flowers lists the meaning of silverweed as naïveté. Silverweed teaches the merit of cultivating behaviour and habits that promote balanced living in harmony with yourself and nature. As the lower personality seeks security, stability and the love of earthly things, it is a natural human trait to seek beauty and thereby find satisfaction in the gratification of your desires, pleasures and appetites. Silverweed flower essence is helpful when you become too identified with the physical being at the expense of your true self. When you become overly identified with the material world, you may lose contact with your purpose and intention. Over-identification with the form level of being may lead to excesses, instinctual drives, desires and behaviours that are not beneficial to personal harmony and well-being. Silverweed essence supports mastery by enhancing self-realisation that leads to new ways of understanding and being. By non-attachment to the fascinations of the lower self, you realise that virtue and beauty is expressed on the ‘golden mean’ between the extremes, between needs and wants, sufficiency and deficiency. The ability to let go and be non-attached is the way to happiness, according to the Buddha. Silverweed flower essence promotes vital enjoyment of, and interest in, the beauty of the simple things in life.


Attributes


• Simplify your life in order to focus on things that are most important • Voluntary practices to simplify your lifestyle • Avoidance of excesses or extremes


• Adopt a calm composure, command your impulses and master your behaviour • Heightened awareness of your attachments


• Enlightened self-interest based on a prudent understanding Indications


• Out of control, impelling or irrepressible impulses and desires • Seeking fulfillment through gratification of the sense pleasures


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