Root | Octopus | Rock Water
I Go With The Flow.
Excuses, excuses! Octopus floats into your cards when it is time to be honest about core reasons you are unwilling to be flexible and make changes in your life. Do you hold onto your routines, fearing any disruption to your freedom and independence? Are you resistant to receiving advice from others yet are desiring new or better relationships, improved health or a more abundant income? Many times we find excuses to avoid making the needed changes and aren’t being fully honest about the core reasons, ie: feeling you never have enough time to go to the gym, when really you just hate going; or complaining you have no money while continuously avoiding work; or always feeling left out while never being a team player. God helps those who help themselves means owning your part within the law of cause and effect.
Octopus reminds you to refrain from resisting what you are moving through! Going with the flow means knowing that faith is the key element in restoring your ability to receive on all levels. The masculine energy is reflected in our outer world, the feminine energy is reflected in our inner world. We hold deep rigidity when we have a core distrust of the outer world/masculine. If we are carrying a distrust of the father from a younger age we often blame “the man” or external causes for our woes. This trauma pattern is as deep as our bones. Octopus have a flexible skeletal structure that bends and adapts reminding you to release the rigid tension of distrust in your physical reality in order to go with the flow. Get out of the blame game and let go of shame. You don’t have to go it alone, let the power of faith bring flexibility and ease back into your mind and body and watch abundance and good health flow into your life.
Bach Flower Essence: Rock Water
Key Words: trusting the masculine, flexibility, faith, prayer, excuses, self-denial, blame, rigid routines, receiving, self-sabotage, shame, resistance, taking advice, fear of commitment, finances, nervous habits, bones and nerves, teeth issues, arthritis, sciatica, ED
Action Steps:
Prayer is extremely beneficial to reestablish faith. This does not have to come from a religious place. Find your own way to invite faith back in to remind you that you are never alone.
Meditate on your 2 year old self and see what may have created an “out of control” feeling in your household.
Change up your routines and try new things! Observe any habitual patterns and see if you are able to shift the pattern even just for a day.
Gentle stretches for the body help to create better energy flow and flexibility. Remember the outer always reflects the inner.
Listen to the subtle things people say to you for clues to moving past obstacles that you feel you are making excuses for.
Do you feel you have to stay in a state of control to feel safe? Journal around ways you stay in control and things that make you feel out of control.
Do you nervously or aggressively chew things for comfort? (Ie: candy/gum, food, finger nails). Observe if this is a coping mechanism.
Were you allowed to be your age growing up?
When blame shows up, get out of attack mode and be honest about the core reason.
Find holistic therapies to help heal your trauma around father betrayal or partner abandonment to restore your trust in the masculine.
Notice if you resist letting others give to you or help you. Practice fully RECEIVING.
Are you addicted to shame? Be honest about any patterns of self-sabotage and self-punishing.
Observe any nervous habits you have. Contemplate the age this habit was created.
Do you have money issues? Contemplate where you pinch off flow in your life.
Do you deny yourself everything you have deemed unhealthy? Treat yourself to something that brings you pleasure without guilt.
Do you have a deep fear of commitment? Observe if you pull away from partners, groups, employment, etc. Journal around reasons you back out, ie: upholding your sense of freedom, fear of losing interest, and so on.
Are you overly afraid of doing things wrong or being seen as stupid? Reflect on times in your past that you felt ashamed of yourself. Did you have a parent that inforced this?
Contemplate if you use rigid practices to determine if you are worthy of love from yourself and others such as extreme diets and exercise routines or spiritual/religious expectations of yourself.
Notice how hard it is to blame others when you are feeling good about yourself. When you are in the frequency of gratitude it is hard to hold a frequency of blame.
