Essence Type: Individual Flower Essence
Flower Color: lavender
Flower Essence Description
Fishhook Cactus is for those who hide behind non-communication. It is especially indicated for the fear of risking in communication. It supports us with confidence in public speaking, intimate relationships or for speaking foreign languages.
Harmonizing Qualities
- realization that there is only something to be gained and not lost through communication.
- trusting and risking in communication
- harmonizes the attitude behind defensiveness
Patterns of Imbalance
- uncommunicative
- closed-mouthed
- refusal to discuss or negotiate an issue for fear of losing face or risking your position
- reluctance to communicate
- feeling that communication would be losing, or giving up something
- a tendency to be defensive
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Keywords
Fishhook Cactus is related to the following keywords:
• inarticulate • avoidance • communication • defensive • direct • expressing • hiding • intimacy • losing • reluctance • risking • self-expression • sharing • trust • uncommunicative • unexpressed • articulate • fear • adolescence • humor • public • self-consciousness • talkative • withholding • emotional expression • held in • holding back
Articles
Fishhook Cactus is mentioned in the following core-issue articles:
- Flower Essences for Adolescents
- fear of speaking and saying what they really want
- The Core Issue: Avoidance
- avoiding communication with someone, especially because you fear that you will lose their love or respect
- The Core Issue: Boundaries
- Having difficulty making a boundary because you are afraid to say what you think or need
- Using Flower Essences with Children
- who are afraid of speaking up
- The Core Issue: Emotional/Mental Self-Care
- For all issues around communication, it helps you accept the risks of communication with others
- The Core Issue: Intimacy
- reluctance to communicate; refusal to discuss or negotiate an issue for fear of losing face or risking your position
- The Core Issue: Self-expression
- for all issues around difficulty with communication; fear of risking by communicating
Kits
Fishhook Cactus is part of the following series or practitioner kits:
- Individual Essences Kit
This kit contains our full line of 119 individual flower essences, all of which are described in depth in The Alchemy of the Desert – Fourth Edition.
- Applied Physiology Kit
This kit is a set of 30 selected Desert Alchemy® flower essences that form an integral part of the healing program pioneered by Richard Utt, founder of the original International Institute of Applied Physiology in Tucson, Arizona.