There are many occasions in life that cause us to become ungrounded. Ungrounded means your have lost your sense of support. Ungrounded means you have lost your sense of being comfortable in a body. Ungrounded means some event has blown you away. There are many such moments in life. Getting teeth, puberty, menopause, marriage, graduation, leaving home, military service, entering a career path, leaving a career path, death of loved ones, birth. On and on. It is easy to become ungrounded during life’s many transitions. How fortunate we are to have one of nature’s many wonders to help us remain grounded in times of transition. This remedy also has another unique aspect to offer. Walnut offers us protection from outside influences.
Over-sensitive to influences and ideas: Walnut: GROUNDING, LINK
BREAKER, PROTECTION: For those who have definite ideals and ambitions in life and are fulfilling them, but on rare occasions are tempted to be led away from their own ideas, aims and work by the enthusiasm, convictions or strong opinions of others. The remedy gives constancy and protection from outside influences.
Notes: grounding, useful in transition states such as teething, puberty, menopause, leaving home. marriage, divorce, changing jobs, etc., protection from psychic attack, breaking from the past, braking away from old conventions/restrictions, definite ambitions, dissatisfaction due to frustration, over sensitive to strong influences, persuaded by others on rare occasion.
Dr. Bach said of this remedy “Walnut is the remedy for the advancing changes in life, teething, puberty, change of life. Also for the big decisions made during life, such as change of religion, change of occupation, change of country. The remedy for those that have decided to take a great step forward in life, to break old conventions, to leave old limits and restrictions and start on a new way. This often brings with it physical suffering because of the regrets and heart breaking at the severance of old ties, old associations, old thoughts. This remedy is a spell-breaker both of things of the past commonly called heredity and of circumstances of the present.”