Essence Type: Individual Flower Essence
	
Flower Color: magenta
	
Flower Essence Description
Hedgehog Cactus helps us sort out the difference between self-nurturance and overindulgence. It intensifies empathetic perceptions, bringing us closer to nature.
Harmonizing Qualities
- encourages a broader, more inclusive overview
 - self-nurturance and self-acceptance
 - encourages confidence in yourself and your ability to participate in life
 - an intensified empathetic perception allows you to feel closer to others and to nature
 - feeling radiantly comfortable with yourself and with the world
 - finding a balance between self-nurturance and overindulgence
 
Patterns of Imbalance
- stuck in or too focused on details
 - self-neglect
 - overindulgence
 - feeling worthless, inferior
 - feeling cut off from the source of life, excluded, separate
 - unappreciative
 - closed perception
 
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Keywords
Hedgehog Cactus is related to the following keywords:
• addiction • confidence • details • excluded • nurturance • overindulgence • overview • perception • perspective • self-neglect • self-nurturance • separateness • transcendence • appreciative • unappreciative • encouragement • moderation • participate • self-care • self-absorbed • empathy • self-control • self-discipline • spiritual insight
Articles
Hedgehog Cactus is mentioned in the following core-issue articles:
- The Core Issue: "All or Nothing" Thinking
 - for all or nothing thinking about physical self-nurturance; inability to find the difference between overindulgence and neglect
 
- The Core Issue: Breaking Limitative Habits
 - when you know what you need to do to change a habit, but cannot take the actions necessary to change
 
- The Core Issue: Overindulgence
 - for finding a balance between self-nurturance and overindulgence
 
- The Core Issue: Physical Self-Care
 - self-neglectful attitudes; inability to find a balance between overindulgence and under-indulgence
 
- The Core Issue: Self-control
 - caught up in either overindulgence or self-neglect and feeling unable to act on what you know is right for your physical well-being
 
- The Core Issue: Separateness
 - feeling cut off from the source of life, excluded, separate
 
Kits
Hedgehog 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.
					