Do you find yourself wanting attention from others, especially the desire to have others acknowledge how much you are giving or doing for them?
Are you possessive in relationships, wanting others to recognize how important you are in their lives?
Do you find that many of your actions provoke the negative attention of others?
Selfless love given freely, respecting the freedom and individuality of others.
Patterns of imbalance:
Expressing love by being possessive, demanding, and needy; getting attention through negative behavior; self-centeredness.
Chicory is a very important flower essence for emotional congestion and misdirected love forces. Those in need of this flower essence must learn to distinguish between personal emotions and desires, and genuine impersonal love and caring for another. Otherwise, the individual becomes selfish rather than selfless, manipulating the emotions of others for his or her own needs and desires.
The energy which would ordinarily flow out from one's heart is thwarted, so that emotions of self-pity, neediness and even martyrdom are experienced. A guise of seemingly loving behavior is very often used as an inappropriate way of soliciting and manipulating the psychic energy and attention of others. Particularly with children, the Chicory pattern manifests as negative attention-getting, fussiness and tantrums which pull on the other members of the family. Chicory flower essence nourishes the inner neediness of such souls and helps to re-balance and re-direct psychic currents of energy, especially as they flow through the heart and solar plexus.
- from the 'Flower Essence Repertory', by Patricia Kaminsky and Richard Katz.