Hello Don, Silvia, and all,

Thank you very much for this interesting discussion! It is my personal
belief that we always have parts of ourselves which can be healed,
transformed, developed, or otherwise updated at any given time. This is an
eternal process, or "unfoldment" as I have heard Silvia say on the
hypnodream recordings. I also see this unfoldment as a kind of
multidimensional kaleidoscope which changes and shifts according to its own
rhythms. The kaleidoscope brings up material which can be accessed at
various times, but it is difficult to access material which is not in the
kaleidoscope's current focus.

I am trained as a health psychologist, and I specialise in stress management
and emotional intelligence. For my entire professional life, I have tried,
with various degrees of success, to understand and integrate different
models of how we function and evolve. Ever since I have learned about
EmoTrance, for example, I have been flailing about looking for a way to
understand flower essence work within the context of the energy matrix as
explained in Silvia's books. Thinking about the discussions in these recent
posts has led me to the theory that flower essences can help us to tune in
to certain frequencies which can then be processed using EFT and/or
EmoTrance. If I could go back to the metaphor of the kaleidoscope, then I
could say that flower essences might help the kaleidoscope to bring certain
material into focus.

In Don's case, he seems to be wanting a certain part of his being to be made
accessable for updating. The kaleidoscope shifts and changes, but the very
chunk he is looking for doesn't seem to pop into focus. Here is where I
think flower essences might be quite useful. A flower essence like Beech,
for example, might help the kaleidoscope to tune in to those "frequencies"
which resonate to the issues of intolerance and criticisim. Once this chunk
becomes accessable, then EFT or EmoTrance can be used to process it through
the energy system, updating the entire matrix along the way. Are you in
Australia, Don? There are some truly amazing flowers which grow only there!
You might want to look into some of the Australian flower essence societies
to see what local flowers tune in to various anger issues.

Regarding Silvia's situation, the kaleidoscope has recently opened up a
space for a certain chunk of her being to be updated. Suddenly, seemingly
from out of nowhere, a past event has come come the surface and been
processed through the system of her energy matrix. An old trauma has been
re-accessed and healed. Then, almost immediately, a sciatica attack
occurred. Is the back pain related to the healing of the PTSD? Not
necessarily, but it is very likely the case. How might the back pain be
related to the trauma? I see various possibilities. Maybe the back pain is
somehow connected to the event itself. Some of you have talked about the
"loss of power" in the lower back, and how that could easily be related to
the feeling a victim has in a sexual aggression. Or maybe this disturbance
in the system existed in some way before the traumatic event. A "loss of
power" in the second chakra could conceivably place a person in a
"victimisable" (if that is a word!) position. The trauma could then very
possibly have locked this "powerlessness" into place. Now that the trauma
has been "digested" whatever was underneath it has bubbled up to the surface
to be updated. Why now? Silvia just mentioned that she has been thinking
about weight issues. There could be a connection there. I sometimes find
it helpful to pay attention to whatever is blooming at the moment. In my
part of the world, we are covered in dandelions, which are related to
release of patterns of hardened muscular tension, resistance and
over-striving. This could be something interesting to mull over.....

I hope some of this makes sense to somebody out there, and I would love to
have some feedback on these ideas.

Thanks!

Liz