Flowers can heal negative emotional states
‘They cure, not by attacking the disease, but by flooding our bodies with the beautiful vibrations of our higher nature, in the presence of which disease melts away, as snow in the sunshine.’
Dr Edward Bach speaking about his 38 Bach Flower Remedies
How Flowers Can Clear Negative Emotions
Flower Essences belong to a field known as Vibrational Medicine, in other words healing with energy.
The pioneer of flower remedies was a Welsh doctor Dr Edward Bach. He was a highly respected orthodox practitioner with a successful practice in London’s famous Harley Street. Dr Bach rapidly became disillusioned with orthodox medicine and came to the conclusion that physicians were so caught up in the study of disease that the patient was completely ignored.
Bach observed that with his patients it wasn’t the disease symptom that was the problem, but the negative underlying mental or emotional condition which was underlying the dis-ease. ‘There is no true healing unless there is a change in outlook, peace of mind and inner happiness’ Bach claimed.
Dr Bach joined the London Homeopathic Hospital in 1919. It was here that he came across the work of Samuel Hahnemann. Hahnemann was the founder of Homeopathy and Bach was deeply impressed by his famous treatise “The Organon of Rational Medicine”. Here was a respected German physician who shared his own view that one should treat the patient and not the disease.
Like Cures Like or the Law of Similars
The basic principle of Homeopathy is one of ‘like cures like’. In other words, the finding that a substance which produced disease symptoms in a healthy person will cure those same symptoms in a sick person. It’s also been called ‘the Law of Similars’. Orthodox medicine embodies what’s known as the law of opposites, and that means if a person has diarrhoea they’re given something which has a constipating effect.
A Homeopathic remedy is prepared in a similar way to a flower essence. In other words, a substance which can be of animal, vegetable or mineral origin, is introduced to water and it is the energy imprint of that particular substance remaining stored in the water that produces the healing effect. It was through an understanding of Homeopathic principles that Dr. Bach went on to discover his flower essences.
The Search for the Flowers that Would Heal
Bach felt that mother nature must have the perfect medicines and in 1928 he left his practice and began a search across the English countryside that took the final nine years of his life. He isolated 38 different flowers with special healing properties to treat a variety of mental and emotional conditions and these became his now famous Bach Flower Remedies.
Bach became the Guinea Pig while doing his research as each time he would find a new flower to work with, he found himself developing the actual condition that the flower remedy would be able to resolve. He then took the essence and got the over the condition.
What was so revolutionary about Dr Bach’s work was the way that he ignored the physical symptoms of disease completely choosing to only treat the underlying negative emotional or mental state of a particular person. He found each time he did this that once the negative emotional condition had gone, that the disease went as well.
Flower essences can be made by dripping spring water through the blossoms.
How Flower Essences are Produced
Dr Bach used a method of placing flower blossoms into a bowl of spring water and leaving them in the sun for a certain period before straining the water into a brown bottle that would have some brandy in it as a preservative. This water would then be diluted down to become a dosage bottle.
Some Flower Essence Therapists make essences by simply dripping spring water through the flower blossoms and collecting the water. Then following the Bach method for preserving the essences in dosage bottles. However before they actually make the essence, some have rituals they follow of sitting and meditating with the plant, or painting it in order to tune into its frequencies and figure out what its unique properties are for healing.
Just looking at flowers can change our mood
How Flower Essences Work
When the flower makes contact with the water its life force or energy imprint is transferred and stored in the water.
The illness appears to be healed by the way the human energy fields change when they interact with the vibration of the flower which directs the more coherent energy patterns of a particular flower into the body, instead of manipulating the cells and organs through drugs or surgery.
When a person takes a flower essence, it has the effect of re-balancing energy blockages in their system. The person then seems to feel better, mentally, emotionally and in many cases, physical problems actually disappear.
Nature Knows Best
Many ancient cultures have used plants for healing for thousands of years, often with remarkable cures. It’s ironic that every year we spend millions of dollars on treating symptoms with drugs and therapies that often leave the patient with more problems than they started with.
We are Beings of Light
Mystics throughout the ages have referred to us as beings of light. It is only now that science has begun to validate the basic premise behind this statement. The discovery by physicists that the particles of an atom can behave as waves as well as particles has helped to give us a whole new understanding of the Universe and our relationship to it. It’s opened our eyes to the possibility that the world we have believed to be made of solid matter is also non-material, composed of energy fields, the very same energy fields we have in our bodies.
The concept of a universal field of energy is well accepted by many ancient cultures.In India, Universal Energy is known as Prana, and Yoga postures were developed to encourage a healthy flow of prana to the vital organs of the body.
If our bodies are not just sophisticated machines but complex biological mechanisms consisting of vital energy fields, then it goes a long way to explaining how a vibrational medicine, such as a flower essence could have a definite effect.
The New Pioneers of Flower Essences
Dr Bach’s 38 Flower Remedies have been used extensively and continue to be used very effectively for a whole variety of physical, mental and emotional conditions. However a different age brings with it different requirements and this has led to the development of hundreds of new flower essences that work on many different negative emotional and mental states. Some flower essence therapists believe that we benefit more if we take an essence from a flower that is native to our own country.
The Fears that Block our Success in Love
One of the biggest blocks to being successful at manifesting the person of our dreams is an inability to BELIEVE that this is possible for us. And believe me, the universe knows when we are pretending.
This inability to believe in success is because of underlying negative conditioning such as a fear of abandonment or a belief that we’re not worthy of being loved. Or it could be a fear of losing independence and freedom.
Unfortunately no matter how many positive affirmations are said and how much is written down about the qualities of the person of the opposite sex, the chances of sabotaging this is considerable unless the negative underlying conditions are cleared.
How Flower Essences Can Improve Your Success at Manifesting
A good flower essence therapist can work with you to find out what underlying negative patterns you may have and then make you up a flower essence or a combination of essences that will address these issues and ultimately clear them out all together.
Flower Essences are very subtle and you may just notice that over time you have changed the way you interact with people and as a result you will begin to have more success at getting what you want.
Flower Essences Combined with Astrology
Many believe that we cannot always have what we want even if we do clear out all our negative emotional stuff because of the existence of KARMA. And when we’re stuck with a badly aspected Saturn, or a debilitated Jupiter we can wave goodbye to any happiness in our lives.
It may be true that ‘as we sow so shall we reap’ but even if we do have some karmic debts to pay out, there is no reason why we cannot smoothe things out a little bit by the addition of flower essences combined with an understanding of any planetary aspects that may be about to boot us up the backside and block our chances of happiness.
According to Desert Alchemy ‘using flower essences in conjunction with astrology is a way of assuring that we use the energies represented by the planets in a way that empowers ourselves….’The essences can help us to be responsible for our lives and to change problems into projects or difficulties into challenges.’
I’ll leave you with these wonderful words from Dr Edward Bach
The heart of a flower
‘When at last I took the time to look into the heart of a flower, it opened up a whole new world, as if a window had been opened to let in the sun’.
Disclaimer: The information contained in this article is for educational purposes only and should not be used for diagnosis or to guide treatment without the opinion of a health professional. Any reader who is concerned about his or her health should contact a doctor for advice.
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