What is Plant Communication?

“The problem is that when we focus on only using the intellect with our herbal studies, without a doubt, the information is harder to retain, remember and embody.”

In the big wide world of herbal studies, there are a few big frustrations that I hear about over and over again:

People tell me they feel overwhelmed, overloaded with information that doesn’t connect and distracted from being able to follow through or settle into a useful routine with their home herbal studies.

Just in the past week I’ve received emails with these comments:

“I have an entire cupboard of herbs and supplements that I don’t completely understand and don’t follow through in using”

“There is so much to learn, memorizing it all keeps my head spinning, my head feels clogged with data and I feel scattered in my herbal learning”

“I’m already overloaded with the demands of daily life and am falling short on learning everything there is to do to keep my family well”

Ok, let’s go to bat with this whole overwhelm thing.

Want to know my tried and true approach for dealing with overwhelm, distraction, follow through burnout and feeling like you don’t ever know enough??

Relationship. Yep. Relationship.  

Not just, “Hey how ya doin’?” kind of relationship.

The deep kind of relationship where you REALLY connect.

I am talking about deep connected relationship with plants.

There has been an unfortunate trend in our education that applies to our herbal education as well.

I recognized the problem with this in my own herbal journey.

In my early years of studying herbs, I remember my brain burning trying to memorize everything. I wondered how people ever got organized, connected the dots and made sense of everything and figured I was doing something wrong or just didn’t have what it took…

I’d like to share what helped me overcome my obstacles to overwhelm and help you feel more relaxed, settled and integrated with your herbal studies.

The problem is that when we focus on only using the intellect with our herbal studies, without a doubt, the information is harder to retain, remember and embody.

When you establish deep plant relationships first, it’s like creating the foundation or a nice cushy bed for everything else to land in.

The clinical studies, constituents, specific uses all have a place to land when you’ve got deep plant communication at the heart of your studies.

Even if you don’t quite understand what deep plant communication is yet, let me start by telling you that by accessing your innate human capacity to perceive, understand and implement direct communication from the plants, you will improve your retention rate, focus, follow through and confidence in working with your herbal medicines.

I’ve had lots of questions about just what exactly is plant communication and deep plant relationship.

So, I shot this video where I talk about direct plant communication and how it can bridge the gap in your home herbal studies so that you can feel nourished and rejuvenated instead of overwhelmed and overloaded.

Check it out below.

If you are learning about how to use herbs to take better care of your family, you’ve got your herb books, you’re taking great herb classes and trying lots of medicine making techniques and delicious recipes.

However, there is another piece to learning herbal medicine that will take your studies to a deeper, more personalized level… And that is learning to perceive communication directly from the plants themselves.

Truly effective herbal studies is made up of half intellect and half direct relationship with the plants.

Great herb books are everywhere, but there isn’t a lot of support for clearing the obstacles to direct plant connection and building confidence in being guided by the plants themselves.

Activating your direct perception communication with the plants sets the stage for a more embodied herbal studies and actually makes the book learning easier!

Our nervous system is wired to perceive communication from more than just humans. It is just that our culture for the most part doesn’t talk about it or even acknowledge it.

Accessing this basic human capacity is not difficult, with just a little effort and guidance it is easily activated and then can be used any time you like when working with the plants.

The thing is, you don’t have to be a spiritual guru to do this. We all have access to this ability; indeed, we are hard wired for it.

What is plant communication?
Here are 4 things to think about.
1) How do plants communicate?
2) How do I activate and nourish my innate capacity and uniqu channels of perception?
3) How do interperit what I perceive? How can I trust what I get and not think I am just making something up in my head?
4) How do I apply what I perceive in a way that is practical and responsible?

 

Leave me a comment below, let me know your thoughts about plant communication and what your’re struggling with the most in your herbal studies.

Best wishes,