Flower Essences For Animals

Remedies for Helping The Pets You Love

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Flower Essences for Animals:
Remedies for Helping The Pets You Love
(also in Japanese)
by Lila Devi (Stone)
272 pages, $14.95 softcover

Flower Essences for Animals presents a bird's eye view into the animal kingdom. It pays homage at the feet, paws, and hooves of our animal friends by offering a treasury of practical tools for enhancing the quality of their lives. Addressing specific conditions and behaviors, this book provides simple solutions for administering the best possible holistic pet health care in both daily life and emergency situations, oftentimes immediately.

That pets are routinely relinquished and often euthanized, if not misunderstood — for completely correctable behavioral problems — indicates a serious need for a book of this nature. For the dog who barks incessantly; for the cat who soils and sprays; for the pet tortoise who is confused by a weather shift while preparing for hibernation: Flower Essences for Animals presents loving, sensitive pet health care solutions.

Animals — free from mental blocks, doubt, skepticism, placebo effects, and myriad mental interferences — respond even more readily than people to flower essences: holstic herbal tinctures for strength and balance. Spirit-in-Nature Essences is the oldest essence line in the USA and one of the oldest in the world. Developed in 1977 by the author, they are a completely safe, nontoxic, and gentle yet powerful therapy for holistic pet health care.

In the concluding chapter of Flower Essences for Animals, Lila Devi (Stone) writes: "Those who share with me their flower essence stories about their pets do so with animation, excitement, and enthusiasm. It is never 'just a cat' or 'only a dog' whose story they are recounting. It is a beloved, respected life companion. Flower Essences for Animals is not a book to convince you that animals deserve better health care. Its purpose is to give you, a loving pet owner, the very tools with which to do it." Lila's compassionate glimpse into the animal kingdom is a reminder that pets can bring us many years of happiness; and that we, through our loving service, can return the favor.

Try the simple suggestions in these pages — and watch your pet respond!

Flower Essences for Animals presents:

• A new definition of pets and pet owners.
• Theme essences: An insightful way to understand your animal friends, and yourself as a pet owner, in terms of personality strengths.
• Plot essences: For addressing the many behaviors and situations that arise for animals and their caregivers.
• Handy reference charts for pets and the people who love them.

Excerpt from Flower Essences for Animals

"It is quite common for panic. . .to accompany a livestock ranch's yearly roundup. Amidst a climate of general chaos and disorientation, the calves are separated from their mothers for the routine cattle branding, dehorning, and castration. Last spring, a woman visiting the ranch during roundup time 'just happened' to be carrying a bottle of the Pear flower essence in her pocket. She poured the remedy into the calves' watering troughs. Within one hour — longer than usual for results, since not all the calves drank immediately — she observed that they had all settled down. Her comments: 'This is completely unusual; I have never witnessed this calming before.' Normally, the calves would remain restless and inconsolable until the procedure was completed."

About the Author

Lila Devi Stone has lived in California's Sierra Nevada foothills for over 30 years amidst cats, goats, and deer — and an occasional bear, rattlesnake, and mountain lion. Founder and director of Spirit-in-Nature Essences, she has lectured extensively both nationally and abroad. Lila received her B.A. degree in English and psychology along with a secondry education teaching certificate from the University of Michigan.

Also available: The Essential Flower Essence Handbook with a chapter on natural pet care by Spirit-in-Nature Essences founder Lila Devi.

Directions for Essence Usage

Animals often respond even more quickly than people to flower essences, as countless pet testimonials worldwide have confirmed. These 20 remedies — prepared from fruit and vegetable blossoms — activate your pet's ability to live a more balanced life. Addressing specific behaviors and situations rather than treating physical symptoms, flower essences allow animals to return to their natural state of harmony. Given singly, results will be noticed within 3 days, oftentimes immediately.

Using any of the following methods for a total of 4 times a day is the recommended minimum, preferably not with meals (10 minutes before or 1 hour afterward); or every few minutes in emergency situations. Add 4 drops of Stock Concentrate to a fresh water bowl, or 16 Stock drops to a watering trough. In addition, you may apply several drops to your palm and rub them into your pet's fur, feathers or scales. Some animals like the essences rubbed on their gums, around their nostrils, behind their ears or on their paw pads. Four drops added to water in a misting bottle to spray bedding, stalls, kennels, cars or carriers is also effective. (To prepare a Dosage Bottle, add 2 Stock drops to a 1-oz. dark bottle, 1 T brandy, and spring water. Use as above, 4 drops at a time.) Store out of direct sunlight, heat and humidity.

Please note: It is advisable for the pet owner to honestly assess if he is contributing to his pet's problem. For example, giving Grape Essence, for loneliness, to a neglected animal will not replace proper care from the owner. Also, flower essences, though a form of holistic pet health care, do not replace proper veterinary treatment.

Flower Essence Descriptions

Almond: Moderation; for better adjustment to domesticated life; animals who are nervous, who pace, over-groom themselves, or exhibit frenetic or obsessive behaviors

Apple: Peaceful clarity in behavior; for a healthier attitude; for illness, accidents, surgery; picking up health-related fears, worry or doubt from the owner; pets with chronic health problems

Avocado: Good memory; for pets to come home when called; for training; better focus, especially when distractions are present; alertness; non-responsive animals

Banana: Humility; calmness; for overly emotional, agitated or upset animals; for the bully in the household

Blackberry: Purity; for animals who absorb their owner's negativity; exposure to harmful chemicals; for use in a misting bottle in areas that have been soiled or marked, or to cleanse the litter box area on a regular basis

Cherry: Cheerfulness; for moods; grumpy or ornery behavior (Note: be sure to rule out possible medical causes); for previously abused animals

Coconut: Upliftment; helps animals deal with chronic pain or physical infirmities; for transcending limitations; good for show animals

Corn: Vitality; energy; restores a sense of adventure; for relocation; helpful during times of transition; good for older animals; for exhaustion

Date: Sweetness, tenderness; animals who are crabby, irritable or irritating; for the pet who picks on other animals

Fig: Flexibility; for animals who have been improperly or overly trained; pets who received mixed messages from their owners; animals who seem confused, fussy or whiny; for breaking existing bad habits

Grape: Love; for animals who have been neglected, abandoned, abused or otherwise mistreated; loneliness, clinginess or aloofness; jealousy of other pets or humans, sometimes expressed as bullying, growling or spraying/soiling; feeling replaced; loss of a human or animal companion

Lettuce: Calmness; for restless energy, poor attention span; good for younger animals; for pets who get wound up, especially with newcomers to the household; for anger

Orange: Enthusiasm; loss of interest in life; listlessness; grieving the loss of a companion; suffering or emotional struggle; also for past abuse; pets with a history of multiple homes; adapting to life indoors; pets who have been declawed, debarked or otherwise unnaturally altered

Peach: Unselfishness; overly demonstrative animals; animals weaned too early; demanding pets; over-territorialism; for the mother whose young are taken away

Pear: Emergency Essence; peacefulness; for any trauma or crisis; for the shock of accidents, illness, birthing or surgery; panic or disorientation; for animals nearing death; a "first-aid must"

Pineapple: Self-assuredness; insecurity, especially in multiple-animal households; for the runt of the litter; for show animals; pets raised in temporary homes; for previous poor training

Raspberry: Kindheartedness; animals who hold grudges, sometimes species-related; for spraying or soiling, specifically if hurt feelings are suspected as the cause; difficulty integrating with newer animals in the home

Spinach: Simplicity; for animals who act older than their years; for stress and pets living in stressful households; for strays; anxious or troubled animals; to restore playfulness

Strawberry: Dignity; for grounding; self-worth issues imparted by the owner; animals nearing their own passing; stability; for lengthy or debilitating illness

Tomato: Strength and endurance; for fear-based behavior, mild to overwhelming, of known or unknown origin; skittish or easily spooked animals; for terrifying experiences; coping with city life; fear-based barking; animals who attack out of fear

Pets and Animals Home Study Course

One of the first of its kind, Spirit-in-Nature Flower Essences Pets and Animals Home Study Course in 2 levels, comprised of 2 steps each, is geared toward detailed instruction in the usage of flower remedies for animals. Based on Flower Essences for Animals: Remedies for Helping the Pets You Love by SiNE Founder Lila Devi Stone (who will review the exams), this course is designed to both educate and awaken a deeper sensitivity to the needs of the animals in our lives. Unique in its ability to work with the sensitive pet/owner relationship, this course is a "must" for those who want to offer improved natural pet care to the animals they love.

For the experienced flower essence practitioner and the novice alike; for veterinarians and those who work with and love animals: this course provides a structured opportunity for you to receive an authorized, frame-worthy certificate upon completion of each level. You are allowed 1 year per level with extensions granted on request for a re-enrollment fee, although you may work at your own speed and comfort to complete the course sooner. Please allow 2 to 3 weeks for your essay responses to be reviewed and the next step mailed to you.

Level I: Introductory Certification

• Familiarize you with background on the animal kingdom, with flower essences, and the ways and means to unite the two
• Focus on the interactive role of the pet and owner
• Introduce the concept of theme essences, to help you understand animals according to their basic personality strengths
  

Level II: Practitioner Certification

• Practical application of flower essences for animals, based on their unique personality strengths and individual needs
• The role and well-being of the pet owner
• Challenges in bringing an animal into domesticated life
  

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Note: It is advisable, though not required, that you also take the regular Home Study Course, utilizing The Essential Flower Essence Handbook as its text; graduates of this course qualify for the SiNE Teacher Training Home Study Course.

Master's Flower Essences (now called Spirit-in-Nature Essences) is a member of the National Anti-Vivisection Society and is listed in their 2007 catalogue.