Hawthorn - Heart Healer

Hawthorn is a beautiful and powerful healer of the heart. Both physically and emotionally….
I also find Hawthorn to be a potent healer of the mind and the of the relationship and connection between the heart and the head….

Hawthorn helps to regulate the nervous system by becoming more aware of our responses and if we’re in fight, flight, freeze or fawn. From here supporting us in coming into our body and accessing our emotions, from a space of feeling held in safety and love.

Hawthorn supports us in being able to become the witness. Taking a step back, observing the process while supporting the mind in softening, allowing a breath to come which enables us to drop gently unto the body. From here Hawthorn brings us into our heart center, allowing for a deeper softening to occur, and the nervous system to begin the process of regulating. We’re then able to tune into our felt sense, to become aware of the sensations within our body and to then start tracking them. The mind starts to relax and from this space new prospectives arise.

If we choose to, Hawthorn can then support us in curiously exploring any emotions that wish to arise. Bringing even more insight, and capacity to seek out solutions and find resolution. Furthermore, Hawthorn also helps to bring understanding as to the beliefs, patterns and behaviours that are contributing to a dis-regulated nervous system.

Hawthorn brings illumination of the shadow self, especially in relation to others. Showing the mirror, what we see in the other is a reflection of ourself. Then with compassionate, loving awareness and presence we are able to hold these dissociated parts of ourself and bring them back to wholeness. The acceptance of the other’s path as well as our own  and with this the lessons of non-attachment.  This is the path of the heart and one of unconditional love and ultimately the radical need for self love and self acceptance.

Hawthorn ignites the firey energy of passion, but in a way that relates to sacred sexually and possibly again to the path of the Magdalene!

Hawthorn brings a sense of peace. The reassurance it’s okay to take the foot off the pedal and slow down. Everything is taken care of, there’s nothing to worry about, so chill out!

So interesting that she holds this very peaceful, calm, serene presence. Fully supporting us in dropping into deep rest. While at the same time also encompassing such potent fire and energy. Again her gifts as an adaptogen come in! Cooling our fire if it’s raging to hot, enabling us to slow down if we are heading to burnout and if our fire is going out she can stoke it up, and get it going again, bringing more energy into a sluggish system. She most definitely is a fire keeper and she tends to her fire like she tends to her heart, with deep love and reverence.

She is the gatekeeper to dreamland and her sedating allure entices you through yet another vale and into the dreamy land of sleep. Her vivid dreamscapes are filled with symbolic metaphors, unlocking the subconscious and bringing to light what we are unconscious of into our awareness. Bringing valuable insights and helping us to gain a deeper understand of our inner selves and what we’re still holding. Also helping us to process and make sense of the events and emotions we are carrying. Allowing us to work through unresolved thoughts, feelings, and conflicts. Enabling unconscious processing which can lead to creative insights and problem-solving, including an understanding of different prospectives, thus allowing resolution, integration and healing to happen on a deep level.

I’ve been sleeping better since working with Hawthorn and I’ve put that down to her sedating properties but I’m now also wondering if it’s because of her ability to clean out the mind, which means my mind can rest, if my mind is at peace then my body is at peace.

She works on energetic stagnation. Releasing any stuck or sticky energy held in our energy field. This includes any energetic resonance left over after we do any relationship cord healing (of which she can also help with!)
I also experienced the shifting of stagnation within my subconscious through my dreamscape. My dreams felt like they were cleaning out, purifying layers of held imprints and residue. Not only was I gaining deeper insights and understanding but I was also receiving  a deep clean.

Hawthorn has the ability to move stagnation held physically in the heart and gut. The gut also processes all of our mental energy, all of our thoughts get filtered through the gut and a lot of stagnation can occur when we get caught in mental loops, if we have rigid beliefs, or if we are not seeing our shadow parts at play. Hawthorn helps move mental stagnation, allowing the mind to process more effectively, clearing away mental chatter, bringing awareness to what is in our blind spot and helping us to gain valuable insight into the root cause of our disharmony. Bringing new prospectives, deeper understanding and thus healing!

The first time I worked with Hawthorn she was working a lot on teaching me how to navigate my complex mind, I feel we are only at the beginning of receiving and understanding the complex ways in which she works. The mind plays a pivotal role in the health of our body. What we think, we feel, what we feel we become!! That’s why there is so much power in positive thinking, affirmations and visualisation. So many speak of Hawthorns incredible heart healing properties, I’m learning from Hawthorn that power of healing comes partly from her ability to heal the mind and thus the heart.

Oh yeah one last thing… I find it so fascinating how plant medicines work! So during my dieta I  was feeling a Hawthorn song coming but I couldn’t quite grasp it, it felt just out of reach. Then while painting the bark picture I couldn’t get out of my head the sound of ethereal singing with singing bowls. So I found a beautiful one I could listen to and found myself toning along with it. This is new territory for me and an area I had been wishing to explore more, so this felt exciting. Then during the evening, with the beautiful ethereal sounds still  singing in my head, I suddenly started to receive the song. The song was light, expansive, healing and I could hear layers of voices like angels. Connecting us home to our star origins and the path of enlightenment. It always amazes me how creatively the plants gift their songs, poems, teachings etc! I just have to open my heart and my ears and follow what comes and believe me sometimes I’m like ‘what’ that makes no sense, until I get to the end and then I’m like ohhh now I see, that’s really clever.

I feel the natural world so wants to communicate with us, they have so much to share and they love when we hear their musings and then share them with the world. This makes them very happy. We are their voices…

Infinite heartfelt blessings
​Theresa

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