This article explores iridology and inheritance. Although all children come into the world with a distinct personality, and the way in which this personality is expressed can be altered by the early environment in which they are brought up, these environmental factors are not the origin of the personality.
We are in fact a combination of behavioural programs - our inheritance from previous generations. Although we all have free will, the effect is somewhat akin to driving in a car with 30 of your ancestors sitting in the back seat, all telling you the direction in which you should be travelling.
As your parents are the first people you meet on your journey through life, their impact on you is the most profound, and in Homeopathic Medicine there is a school of thought that suggests that every disease state will have a connection to this parent child relationship. In the Homeopathic language of plants these relationship traits are echoed by the type of plant, together with the location in which they are found.
For example, if you have a good strong relationship with your parents then plants relevant to you are more likely to be large trees, than if your relationship to your parents was poor or non existent. This is not totally true in all cases, as The Homeopathic medicines made from the plant family Magnoliaceae of which the Magnolia Tree is a member, can sometimes be used to treat problems whose origin can be linked to patients being brought up by people other than their parents, or who were abused by parents, or their surrogates as children.
Similarly the way in which you handle your problems will have some link to the way in which you handled difficulties in navigating your early relationships; the more confident you are in handling the problem the larger the plant from the particular plant family that is going to be used to treat your problem.
It has been noted that plants that tend to have seeds with a “sticking’ ability, e.g. they are ‘gluey’, or else have ‘hooks’ with which they attach, are linked to the idea of ‘feeling the fear but doing it anyway’ when approaching problems, such as people who rise to challenges etc. the word “tough” can often be used in their description. this is different of course to the idea of “clinging” with which some Homeopathic remedies are associated, most usually because of a feeling of lack of support and fear to be on their own, in the plant world these plants would tend to be creepers or vines, having a weak stem and needing the support of others, some plants of course may even go so far as to parasitise others in order to obtain the nourishment they need and often those individuals needing this type of plant will come from very poor family interrelationships, where there was a lot of violence, or one of the parents were absent all together, or even may be linked to having to run away due to war or other threats to life.
Mothers are the energetic source for all children and therefore for all people, so the mother needs to love their child unconditionally in order to give them the energy they need to live life fully. If the mother shows chronic anger at their child then the child will feel separated from this energetic source.
The Father is the one who helps direct the child’s energy but if they are critical of either the mother, or child, then the child will suffer.
The relationship with the father also determines how easy it is for you to attain success, how was it walking up to your father? this is a measure of how easy it is for you to attain your goals .
It is important to remember at all times however that just as you are acting out the “vibrational agenda” you brought into the world, your mother and father are just links in the chain, as their behaviour is in accordance to the way in which previous generations affected them.
Neither yourself nor your parents are to blame for your pain, there are strong generational patterns that can be harmful as well as beneficial to you and these tentacles originating several generations back can still jerk you around like a puppet.
The influence of a woman on a child’s personality is 8 times greater than than that of a man; this correlates with cytoplasmic DNA inherited only from the mother, and is responsible for energy and respiration. the Chinese talk of the 8 ancestral rivers who are the 8 Great, great, grand mothers and who are responsible for the personality of any individual today.
The iris patterns will indicate which parent is the dominant personality in any individual, although all iris types emanate from the interplay between the opposite structures in the iris; the areas of lack of substance, known as “Flowers” and their opposite, the areas with dense substance noticed as pigments or “Jewels”.
We are all to some extent either ‘Flower’ or ‘Jewel’ as a primary characteristic; those who are “Jewels” tend to identify more with the mother and those who are “Flowers” will identify more with the father, but the unconscious personality will always try to attain a state of wholeness, ‘Jewels’ becoming more ‘Flower’ like and ‘Flowers’ becoming more like ‘Jewels’.
Unfortunately this process will entail the shutting down of some facets of this constitutional personality in order to become the opposite, so in a flower constitution the right hemisphere of the brain is shut down, and in a jewel constitution it is the left that is shut down.. this serves as a filter through which the personality is filtered instead of allowing the personality to flow freely through both hemispheres, and this of course tends to bring conflict and confusion to an individual.
Once we know that this is the likely case however, then we can actively participate in our own healing, adopting activities and practices that promote the development of the side of the brain that is being unconsciously shut down, and in so doing we can find a way to experience the full depth of our core personality.
The dominance of either "Flower" or "Jewel" in the personality is determined primarily by the Jewel parent, i.e. the parent who has the densest iris structure. For example, if your father is a jewel then you are more likely to be pulled towards the left, or masculine hemisphere, if it is you're mother then you will be pulled towards the right.
To check which eye of your is the dominant eye will have the greater number of traits, {flowers, jewels or stream (cat’s whiskers) } also the dominant eye will tend to be darker and will have more colour.
however the iris with more colour at the top will be the eye that the individual has moved towards..
From an emotional perspective the Flowers tend to be emotional and therefore have a stronger tendency to be right brained, whereas the Jewels tend to be more analytical and left brained.
In switching flowers will tend to move to the left (becoming more analytical) and Jewels will tend to more to the right (becoming more emotional).
Although it is not 100% accurate, the majority of the time those of us who have a higher half moon on the left thumb will tend to be right brain dominant from birth, moving left, and if the Right thumb is higher then they will tend to be left brained and moving to the right.
