Centaury
Centaury is a personality remedy.
If 3 or more symptoms match the way you are feeling today, then this is a remedy to consider.
Spiritual aspect:
Centaury helps you to develop your will, sense of self and inner purpose. It also helps you to understand that meeting other people’s needs before your own can stop you developing your own potential and also hinder the other person’s development.
Key symptoms:
Kind, gentle people who are eager to please, can’t say ‘no’, weak-willed, taken for granted, tire easily
Other indications for Centaury:
- You don’t want to let others down so you agree to things you may not want to do
- People impose on you
- People take advantage of you
- You sometimes get bullied
- You have a gentle and generous nature
- You are kind, willing and eager to help
- You may be easily led
- You don’t stand up for yourself
- You despise yourself for being weak
- You may be the victim of stronger personalities
- You may be timid, quiet or passive (not always)
- You give in too easily
- You always want to ‘do the right thing’
- You lack energy and tire easily
- You become exhausted by overwork
- You deny your own wishes and neglect your own needs
- You are strongly influenced by praise and criticism
- You find it’s easier to say ‘yes’ because saying ‘no’ takes too much energy
- You are sensitive to the needs and expectations of others and rush to help them
- You feel you are losing yourself and your personality
- You are missing joy and personal happiness by not following your ideas and ambitions
Positive potential of taking Centaury:
- You serve wisely without compromising your needs
- You are quietly assertive and able to say ‘no’ without feeling bad
- You know when to give and when to hold back
- You are not bothered by other people’s opinions
- You are able to stand up for yourself and defend your opinions
- You are able to follow your own path and have inner purpose
- You are able to draw boundaries
- You are in touch with yourself
- You stay true to yourself
- You mix well and fit in with groups without losing your personality
- You have energy and determination to lead your own life
- You become aware of your separateness from others
- You use your will to develop your soul
- You allow others to learn by doing things without your help
A personal perspective:
Quietly and calmly, my client continued to answer her accusations and challenge the behaviour of the manager towards everybody at work. She was not scared, tearful or angry. My client said she had a calmness inside and felt totally OK about asserting herself because she felt the time was right to tackle things. She knew that her boss had to face up to her behaviour in order to change it. When my client didn’t back down, her manager admitted she had behaved badly and apologised.
On this day, when everything changed, she had been taking Centaury for about 3 weeks. Centaury really does ‘do what it says on the tin’!
