Bleeding heart is a remedy for the loving dimensions of the heart, relationships and freedom. It is a common wild flower and garden ornamental, it thrives in cool, moist conditions and it prefers light to medium shade. The flowers occur in a variety of colors from pink, to white to yellow. The flower essence of bleeding heart is made from the pink variety and is made by FES, who have conducted research on this essence.
The flowers hang open and exposed, free with nothing to hide. This speaks of the action of this essence to encourage an open loving heart free from attachment. The concept of non-attachment is very much a Buddhist concept and when applied to the realm of love it offers us a depth of experience and feeling that is uncommon. To love another freely without attachment.
Often out of romantic misgivings love can turn to possessiveness and related emotions and conduct. Which leads us further away from the experience of love in the heart and into constriction, fear and apprehension as our heart begins to close at the thought of love going sour. These feelings and misgivings often proceed the ending of a relationship. When we learn to love with more openness and freedom we can actually begin to attract the love we want into our lives. This essence helps to address feelings of anxiety that surface when we are in relationship.
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Bleeding Heart Flower Essence is a very powerful heart cleanser and strengthener for those who must learn the deeper spiritual lessons of love and freedom. Those needing this remedy suffer enormous pain and broken-heartedness because their feelings have been poured out so completely into another soul who is no longer present. Perhaps this happens because a loved one has died, or a cherished friend or family member has moved away.
More frequently, such anguish arises in personal relationships which have dissolved or in relationships that are greatly afflicted. Although love for another may have many genuine aspects, very often the Bleeding Heart type has made the error of living too extensively outside the boundaries of its own Self. This intense desire for connection is often felt by the partner as emotional dependence, causing the partner to fill a need for distance. Such a co-dependent relationship is devoid of real freedom and a balanced exchange of heart energies.
The loss and pain which are constantly felt by those in need of Bleeding Heart are therefore necessary experiences, when viewed from a larger perspective. Through Bleeding Heart flower essence, the soul learns to fill itself from within with strong spiritual forces, so that the capacity to love another is based on the ability to honor and nourish the Self.*
*The pink photo of bleeding heart is courtesy of FES. The last 3 paragraphs are from the Flower Essence Repertory by FES the photo of white bleeding heart is from my collection.