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Hmm...no sure about this. 4:1,5,6>60 or 14:1,3>64

shelbymustang

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Hi everyone,
In a bit of a quandary regarding this one (wood for the trees, the usual!)
I'm currently taking a flower essence which is stirring a lot up for me to examine, re-examine, correct and so on BUT it is putting me through sheer misery and hell to the point where I'm just not functioning well at all. Becoming very depressed, reclusive, lost, despondent and stuck.

So after much thought of will I/won't I? I threw the coins this morning.

"What if I continue to take 'X' - how will this affect me?" Hex4: 1,5,6 > 60

ok so,4:1 letting go of everything which shackles me - old, engrained, deep-rooted negative mind sets about myself (I'm also in intense therapy for PTSD) which have caused me great difficulty over the years. A difficult but necessary learning experience which is helping to correct whatever needs to be corrected.

4:5 It has now caused me to go into hiding, I'm becoming depressed and reclusive, utterly bereft of idea or inner instruction as to what I need to know or do...but this is no bad thing..?

4:6 But it has taken me to the extreme of beating myself up, being hyper critical of myself, creating polarity (I'm diagnosed Bi-polar but it's been in check for years)

and Hex: 60 Cutting things down to size, creating boundaries, correcting excesses and finding/maintaining centeredness.

Ok, does this mean that continuing to take 'X' will help me overcome such extremes after a seriously intense time of it, and help me create and maintain a far more useable mindset and thus narrowing down the rather overwhelming choices on the horizon to to a few graspable and achievable choices/goals?

Then I asked "What if I STOP taking 'X', how will this affect me?" 14: 1,3 > 64

14:1 I'm feeling that this remedy is doing more harm than good, perhaps I shouldn't take it any more as it is bringing me down.

14:3 Feeling as though I shouldn't have to suffer this much? Or, that in order to attain a greater balance and more achievable life I should stick it out - that this suffering is the lower more ordinary "small person" and that I ought to stick with the higher principals and then in time things will go well. OR could it be that my Higher self is choosing to discontinue this remedy.

Hex: 64 - I need to continue to take this as it it will tidy things up?

OR My higher/over-seeing self is advising me to stop taking it and know when enough is enough?

Ughhhh dunno...can anyone cast an objective eye on these readings and throw a few pointers my way please?
 

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oookayyyy no-one wants to touch this one! pity, could've done with an objective input, but nevermind I've made my decision: stop taking it, it has done what it needed to do.

Thanks for looking at the thread though :)
 

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Hi Shelbymustang

I saw this one earlier tonight (technically yesterday (i.e. Sunday) evening, a day after you posted it) and puzzled over it for a while, as I'm not terribly familiar with these hexagrams, however I was glad to read that you managed to arrive at a decision for yourself despite wanting an objective comment to help out.

For what it's worth, these are my thoughts on the hexagrams the Yi came up with for you.

On contemplating hexagram 14 lines 1 and 3 in relation to your question I thought that it might be describing a let-up of the difficulties which could give rise to a chance for your system to use the energy that's then made available to benefit you.

Hexagram 4 lines 1, 5 and 6 suggested to me something along the lines of having difficult experiences as a result of taking the flower essence, which could in theory help you grow (if in the right measure and the right proportion) but only if the bad experiences don't go on too long. From your description, it sounded to me like they'd gone on too long and/or been too much.

Thinking about hexagram 4 I was thinking about how some difficulty can be strengthening but excess difficulty isn't nourishing and stunts growth. That little growing plant of hexagram 4 needs protecting and nurturing and treating accordingly, arguably all the more so when the bad stuff happens/comes up.

A side note from personal experience of similar healing processes: when my ability to handle what's stirred up decreases, rather than increases, then it has become a non-healing process.

It doesn't mean that what I was doing was harmful or a mistake/error, it just means there was an adjustment that needed to be brought about somewhere, sometimes inside me, sometimes in the therapy/remedy/treatment, sometimes a bit of both. Sometimes all that was needed was a pause in the treatment, and the adjustment then made itself inside me, and afterwards I resumed the treatment. No blame and no mistakes, it's just been things that have helped my learning and my getting better at working with my healing process.

Regards

Nebu
 
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shelbymustang

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Hi Nebu :)

Thank you so much for your kind and considered response.

Yes you hit the nail on the head - healing crisis, treatment taken to the
point of "ENOUGH!" so that is what I said out loud and to my therapist
(he's cool, he knows that I know when things need to stop or start)

It was quite funny when I said "ENOUGH!" yesterday morning after taking what
turned out to be my final dose - I realised I'd been out in the wilderness for the past
40 days and nights (I'm not a religious/biblical person but I had a knowing smile when I realised)

Great stuff, thank you.
love and best wishes
Shelby x
 

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I like that: 'Enough!' :)

Best wishes

Nebu
 

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