Immortelle - Helicryse floor

About 42 years ago, we went on holiday to Ile de Ré for the first time. The island was not yet connected to the mainland by a bridge but you had to cross by boat. We drove to the last part of the island and found a campsite there. Somehow I was so taken by the island. The smell! The atmosphere! What it was I don't know, but it felt very special.
I was not really familiar with flower remedies or alternative medicine back then. I was still obediently working as a social worker at the Social Service in Amsterdam.
Flowers grew in the dunes, beautiful yellow dried flowers, which smelled very special.
It was a great holiday. The "endless" beaches, the beautiful sea, the freedom, I experienced there. And almost every year we went to this beautiful island for at least one week.
And always the atmosphere of the island lingered in my mind.
A few years ago, I heard that the island would be connected by a bridge. I thought that was a real shame. Now I'm sure a lot of tourists would go there. Would the atmosphere then remain as it was? The small villages on the island all consisted of small, white houses. No house was higher than two floors. Near all the houses, hollyhocks bloomed in all colours. In the small streets, there was not a piece of paper on the street, not a cigarette butt on the street, not a discarded chewing gum.
In short...so idyllic in my eyes.

In January 2012, I was on holiday in Asia. I was reading a delightful novel by Natasha Farrant: The Family Reunion. The back cover of the book read the following:
During her childhood, Florence went to her family's home on the west coast of France every summer, where her exotic and charming cousins joined her. Under the loving watchful eye of her grandmother Mimi, a life of sneaky drinking, secret kisses and the bittersweet pain of first love etc. etc. began.
On page 29 of the book I read, under the glorious sun of Thailand:
The smell of Ré met them even as they were still driving on the bridge connecting the island to the mainland, warm pines mixed with the pungent aroma of immortelles, the little yellow flowers the dunes were covered with.

A shock went through me. That was where I needed to go, that was where I needed to make a remedy, but I was just on the other side of the world.
This was the cure I had waited for so long. This was going to be the cure for depression. This was going to be the remedy that makes the sun shine in your heart again.
And the remedy had to be made in May or June and it was only January.
If we were going to the island, we had to stay in a tent. Not in a hotel. Don't ask me why.......it was like that.
We decided to go in May. But the weather "just didn't pan out". A cold spring. We postponed our trip and went in June.

18 June we drove towards Ile de Ré and Rob, Micha, Madelief (our dachshund) and I had a wonderful trip.
We arrived at a very small campsite. We unloaded the car and went straight through a small patch of forest of some pine trees to the dunes.
By the first row of dunes, I was ecstatic. I immediately smelt the flower I came for. And yes, there it was, the Immortelle. Still very small, in bud and just a few plants. There was no cure for this.
The weather thankfully got better, with forecasts being for beautiful weather on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday was not yet the right day to make a remedy. But Sunday was absolutely beautiful. The Immortelle began to bloom and suddenly there were many plants. Once the plant blooms it turns into a dried flower very quickly......and then it would be too late to make a remedy.
But Sunday was the right day and the remedy was made.

When making the remedy, I knew what else the remedy would do other than resolve depression.
Somehow, it "takes a load off your mind" and the person who needs the remedy has another "hard" nut to crack. The remedy provides a direct "line" to confidence in life. It provides basic security. You can listen, hear more purely.
The remedy makes the sun shine in your heart. The dark clouds disappear.
That was what I knew when I started making the remedy, together with Micha.

In the previous blog, I wrote:
That you can have a feeling that "something" is missing something, but you don't know what,
that you experience a feeling of total inner emptiness
but that the feeling of emptiness seems to have no cause

Periods of deep dejection make themselves known by:
- there is no identifiable cause or external trigger
- that they also just disappear again
- that everything seems pointless and dark
- as if someone had turned out the lights
- a sadness, discontent, bad temper for no reason
- Prefer to pull the blankets over you when waking up in the morning

and these conditions can occur like a lightning bolt from a clear sky

But also:
Irritability,confusion, nervousness, lethargy, fatigue, tearfulness, poor concentration, overwrought feelings, no desire to socialise, Much self-criticism and low self-esteem.
And need for high-calorie food, muscle weakness and/or muscle pain, constipation (constipation), weight gain.

That blossom remedy Immortelle is an excellent remedy if you are feeling depression of any kind. It makes the sun shine in your heart again and all the dark clouds will disappear. You can be happy in life again.
Immortelle means eternal, imperishable, immortal, for life.

Afterwards, the remedy was tested by many therapists at CINT (our training institute) and what else came out ( just a few listings ), was:
The blossom remedy gives a strong focus.
It is "mindfullness" in a bottle.
It makes you very calm and steadfast, clear and contemplative
It gives existence.
Making sense because it exists.
Life goes on steadily like a slow-flowing river.
Seeing your own "magic power", your own strengths and beaming that up to others.
Let yourself shine.
Your talents emerge.
If you are "stuck" in your thoughts, Immortelle gives you the strength and strength and confidence that you are "there again".
You come to realise that you have grown and that you cannot go back to the "old low". That is over.
You confidently take new steps and close the past you have been struggling with.
You are taking a different path in your life. A step towards "complete" adulthood.
It helps you achieve your life purpose and surrender to it instead of "fighting" against it. And allows you to embrace life. You are included in it, you belong, you also have a place here.
Gives a protective primal mother and primal father feeling, clarification.

Madeleine Meuwessen

*Bloom remedies are no substitute for medication. Please note that in case of doubt you should always consult a doctor.