Impatiens glandulifera
Tenderness
Balsam is a medicinal plant native to India and prized by Victorian gardeners.
Balsam’s English name ‘touch-me-not’ could refer to its seed vessel, which scatters its seeds to a distance by a spontaneous movement. In the language of flowers its meaning is, “I am sensitive, don’t touch”.
Balsam flower personifies the nurturing, feminine aspect of the self, and love and acceptance of your being in physical form. Love yourself, and your love will radiate out and touch others.
The balsam personality ‘type’ is a self-sacrificing server and can become distanced from deeply connecting with others on the physical level. They can be out of touch with their own feelings and needs, and often put the needs of others before their own. Distancing oneself from physical or intimate personal contact with others can cut us off from truly feeling. Such barriers are dissolved when we can express loving contact with others.
Touch allows us to share deep feelings in ways that can be more powerful than words. On the highest level, touch governs healing, as our hands are powerful energy centres that channel healing from the plane of spiritual love. Feelings of warmth and tenderness guide the soul in touch with the true self, bringing forth the sacredness of our being in physical form.
Nurture yourself and others through love and intimacy. Overc ome feelings of separateness. Emanate and attract warmth and tenderness
Attributes
◗ Easy expression of love and intimacy
◗ Natural affection and tenderness without reservation
◗ Emotional availability
◗ Unconditional patience and understanding
◗ Relationship bonding
◗ Being in touch with your creative feminine power
Indications
◗ Repressed sensitivity to feeling/touch
◗ Reduced physical warmth and presence
◗ Distanced from feeling contact with others
◗ Emotional walls and barriers that curtail love’s expression
◗ Over-detachment from the feeling sense creates inhibitions
◗ Alienation from the mother or nurturing, feminine aspect of self
Affirmation: I am happy and at home in my body and the world.
Cross Reference
- Abandonment
- Alienation
- Aloofness
- Birth and Birthing
- Blocks
- Body
- Bonding
- Feminine principle
- Fertility
- Intimacy
- Love
- Nurturing
- Openness
- Out-of-body
- Passion
- Patience
- Rejection
- Relationship
- Repression
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sensitivity
- Sensuality
- Separation
- Sexuality
- Tenderness
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