Books by Rhonda
Many healing traditions, including aromatherapy, herbalism, homeopathy, and Chinese medicine, use flower essences for healing. Ancient traditions like these take into account both the physical and psychological condition of the “patient” and work to integrate and heal the “whole” person — physically, mentally, and spiritually. Just as the body has a wisdom of healing itself, each flower essence contains a healing energy, as expressed by color and the energies that correspond to the human energy centers, known as chakras.
In her book, The Healing Power of Flowers, health practitioner Rhonda PallasDowney beautifully pairs traditional flower essence healing with the relationship to the chakras, which are also known as the energy centers of the body. As students of the healing arts will attest, each of the seven chakras has a color associated with it. PallasDowney uses the colors of the flower essences to connect them to each chakra center.
The Healing Power of Flowers offers a hands on approach to aid in the treatment of physical, psychological, and spiritual ailments and includes:
-Charts to easily explain the healing properties of plants
-Extensive, in-depth botanical description that include the
flower’s color, texture, essence, and growing patterns
-Detailed guidelines for preparing and administering
“whole plant” flower essences
-Integration of the four elements, the five senses, and the
eight principle patterns of Chinese herbal medicine
-Information on each plant’s ‘doctrine of signatures’,
or how to ‘read’ a plant to discover its usefulness for
symptoms and patterns of imbalance
Endorsements for The Healing Power of Flowers
“In The Healing Power of Flowers, Rhonda PallasDowney has distilled the essence of nature’s wisdom and healing power into one indispensable and comprehensive volume. Seeing beyond our stressful daily lives, PallasDowney helps us connect with the vibrant, life-giving energies of nature that will empower us, heal us, and make us whole.”
— Louise Tenney,
Master Herbalist, author of Today’s Herbal Health
“What a splendid book, one of the most complete I’ve read on the topic. Rhonda PallasDowney has skillfully woven the essence of flowers into the greater picture of herbalism, homeopathy, and color healing to create a truly holistic approach to wellness. There is a vast amount of knowledge in these pages yet I found the information eminently practical, easy to use, and inspiring. A lovely contribution to the ever-expanding field of healing. May The Healing Power of Flowers reach out and touch all those who thirst for wholeness.”
— Rosemary Gladstar, Herbalist and author of Family Herbal
“This book is a fascinating, exciting, and in-depth understanding of the relationship of the healing energetics of the plant kingdom to the healing and rejuvenation process of human beings. It makes a detailed connection between the color and vibration of flowers and our rainbow energetics as experienced through chakras. I appreciate the details of how we and the planet are one self-healing, interrelated organism.”
— Gabriel Cousens, M.D.,
and author of Spiritual Nutrition and the Rainbow Diet
“Rhonda PallasDowney has collected a great amount of material, skillfully blended together with case histories and personal experience, which demonstrates the spiritual and healing potential of plants. She shows us that homeopathy, herbalism, and flower essence therapy are interrelated disciplines. Most importantly, Rhonda gives the professional and the layperson enough well-defined indications to make her work a practical guide book for therapeutic use.”
— Matthew Wood, Herbalist and Homeopath,
and author of Seven Herbs, Plants as Teachers,
The Magical Staff, and The Book of Herbal Wisdom
Rhonda continued to have a desire to reach a broader audience and, in April 2006, published her second book, Voices of Flowers. Voices of Flowers, is an inspirational flower card deck and book, which is reaching a wide audience as a creative guidebook that helps the reader form a relationship with the inner wisdom of the Plant Kingdom by connecting with the flowers.
The Voices of Flowers contains a deck of 48 cards and teaches its readers to:
-Discern their own needs for healing, based on the chakra energy system
-Immediately begin working with the flower cards to learn the characteristic
essence of each of the 48 flowers to bring wellness into their lives
-Continue learning through both theory and practice by reading the book and
engaging in daily practices that reveal evermore about an essence and its
curative powers.
Endorsements for Voices of Flowers
“Voices of Flowers is a jewel and reflects PallasDowney’s passion and connection with the plant world. Rhonda’s work is both inspiring and inspired.”
— Rosemary Gladstar,
author of Rosemary Gladstar’s Family Herbal
and founder of United Plant Savers
“Rhonda PallasDowney has traveled into the secret, inner world of plants and returned to share their teachings with us to help us learn how to make the same journey.”
— Matthew Wood,
author of Seven Herbs: Plants as Teachers;
and The Book of Herbal Wisdom
“These flower cards provide helpful tools for accessing the depth, beauty, and strength of the human spirit.”
— Lila Devi Stone, Founder of Master’s Flower Essences,
author of The Essential Flower Essence Handbook,
and Flower Essences for Animals
“Voices of Flowersshines as a stellar translation of the wise words of flora”.
— Elise Collins, author of Chakra Tonics
Rhonda’s research is based on her years of experience, her understanding of flowers and plants, and case studies. She has clients across the United States, and has experienced many successes with her flower essences.
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..“The temple bell stops.
..................But I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.”...—Basho Zen poet
