FLOWER CONSCIOUSNESS: WELLNESS & WISDOM PODCAST EPISODE, HOSTED BY JOSH TRENT

While we were in Austin for our Wave of Pure Intent Flowerlounge Tour, we joined Josh Trent in his epic podcast studio for a conversation about Flower Consciousness:

Show notes:

[01:05] Pay Attention to Which Plants Grow Around You

• How the Dandelion is sprouting everywhere because we need its healing
• Why the plants that grow in our backyard grow to heal us
• How herbalists receive information about each plant from the plants
• Why we forget how to communicate with nature as we get older

[06:45] Receiving Divine Guidance

• How Katie started talking to plants
• How animals showed Katie which plants she should collect to help humans heal on her first flower essence collection trip
• Why we put Yarrow flower essence in every remedy we make
• How dissolving the ego allows us to receive divine guidance

[11:00] What Are Flower Essences?

• The difference between essences and aromatherapy
• How flower essences extract the consciousness of the plants
• Why flowers impact our meridians
• The process of essence extraction
• How the flower essences get more powerful the more diluted they are
• The weight of the human spirit can be measured
• Why we don't have any tension in our body when we die

[16:35] New Ways of Healing

• If only 3% of people used flower essences, it could change the world
• Why transformation can happen very fast
• How we store information in our cellular and energetic memory
• Why we're impacted by our ancestors, the collective, and everything we've been through in our life

[20:50] How to Speed Up Your Growth

• How flower essences can help us speed up self-development
• Why Katie feels responsible for her products
• How experiencing intense grief made her want to help others
• Why the ‘Sacred Awareness' essence helps us say what needs to be said

[27:00] The Impact of Thoughts + Emotions on The Physical Body

• Why thinking doesn't solve anything
• How overthinking tightens our body
• What causes people to get kyphosis
• Why physical constrictions are caused by mental, emotional, and spiritual constrictions
• How humans have no neutral
• Why we need to put our attention to being a better person every day
• How flower essences can opens us up to our blindspots

[31:55] Healing The Lineage

• Why all of us at our core are good people
• How transcending our patterns helps us liberate our lineage
• Why we are walking crystals

[35:50] Tools for Liberation

• How our bodies create light
• Why the intelligence of our body magnifies energy
• How Katie is committed to reaching 120 million people before she dies
• Why her goal is to give people the tools to liberate themselves

[39:50] Flower Essences for Trauma Healing

• How what we focus on grows
• The role of flower essences in trauma healing
• How Katie used the essences to help a war veteran reveal his trauma
• Why we may not be aware of our trauma, even though it's running our system
• What Katie's healing in herself right now
• Why doing what's more fun is what can help us and our businesses grow

[46:00] Spiritual Commodification

• How Katie receives connection and understanding through public speaking
• Why humanity is waking up to see through people's facade
• How we don't become an embodied expert after a one-week workshop
• The importance of asking ourselves whether the people we're learning from have what we want for ourselves

[50:35] Honoring The Mystery

• How we're still meeting new parts of ourselves
• Why we might not know our hidden gifts until much later on in life
• How Josh knew as a kid that he wanted to be a radio host
• Why Katie's father left when she was a baby gave her the gift of being an achiever

[55:25] How to Access + Heal Different Parts of Us

• Why we need more critical thinking
• How choosing our flower essence can activate a curious child within us
• Why flower essence blend can calm down the scared parts of us
• How Katie combines flowers intuitively
• Why every person is drawn to the Japanese Camellia

[59:30] The Power of Flower Essences

• How flower essences can create healing from many different angles
• The benefits of using the Banana Blossom essence
• Why Josh organizes his entire life in a calendar to not miss any opportunities
• Why many people fear being successful

[01:07:05] What Is True Vulnerability?

• How researchers found that our happiness brings our friends more happiness than money
• Why we misunderstand vulnerability
• How true vulnerability is about ourselves, not other people

[01:11:15] The Wisdom of Nature

• The meaning of the name ‘LOTUSWEI'
• How vulnerability makes us stronger through us being truthful
• How we all have the potential to make the planet better
• What it takes to make our responsibilities and inconveniences more playful and fun
• How flower essences help us connect with the divine power inside of us

About the Podcast

The Wellness & Wisdom Podcast with Josh Trent is a global collective dedicated to mastering physical and emotional intelligence for humans to thrive in our modern world. Check out the entire library of podcast episodes here.

About Josh Trent

Josh Trent lives in Austin, Texas with his love Carrie Michelle, son Novah, daughter Nayah + a cat named Cleo. He is the host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast and the creator of the BREATHE: Breath + Wellness Program. Josh has spent the past 20+ years as a trainer, researcher + facilitator discovering the physical and emotional intelligence for humans to thrive in our modern world. Helping humans LIBERATE their mental, emotional, physical, spiritual + financial self through podcasts, programs + global community that believe in optimizing our potential to live life well.