Flower Essences

 

As I wrote about in different places in this website, I am a person who blends many therapies as I serve. My “toolbox” as I like to call it has many options or areas to draw from and since I am a lifelong learner it continues to grow. This section on the Flower Essences is a brief understanding of them which may or may not be used during a session. If you are drawn to this section I encourage you to look into them deeper for yourself as well. I have been using flower essences in one shape or form for over 20 years and have always felt a deep calling from them.

Flower Essences are generally used for emotional and/or spiritual healing. People are starting to become more aware that depression, stress and emotional traumas, if not worked through, can down the road possibly turn into an actual physical condition. At the very least, these emotional shake-ups can weaken the immune system which opens the door to picking up viruses and bacteria.

Flower Essences are one way to help to release and shift our emotions, or elevate and rebalance the experience of stress emotionally and mentally.

I have had clients that came just for Bach Remedies to help with the stresses of final exams for example. Sometimes the way in which we handle, or don’t handle, different situations we are in creates a stress where we wished we could be stronger; Flower Remedies can help to give the support and shift needed to become that person who is just waiting to be revealed, deep in the core or essences of our self.

Flower Essences are a gentle and loving way of helping yourself to go on the sacred journey of self-discovery and open yourself to personal growth and emotional health.

Flower Essences are really a form of energetic or vibrational medicine. It is the energy or vibration of the flower that is taken; this is why it is gentle and effective because it enhances our systems on a subtle level. Flower Essences were created to work on the subtle bodies because it is in the subtle bodies that any disturbance by negative attitudes and emotions need to be balanced and then helps the mind-body connection to restore itself.

There are many flower essences out there but I will only talk about two, since these are the ones I use most regularly and have my experience and learning.

Bach Flower Essences:

Bach Flower Essences were developed in England in the late 1920’s and early 1930’s, by British researcher and physician Dr. Edward Bach. They are considered to be the first of what is now known as vibrational medicine. Dr. Bach had the understanding that too truly cure disease, the treatment of symptoms was not adequate. You needed to get to the root cause of the dis-ease for any cure to be lasting. Dr. Bach believed that a negative state of mind was at the core of any illness. So treating the body alone without treating the emotions or mental state, as well as the spirit, was the only way to bring true healing and health.

Dr. Edward Bach said, “This system of healing... shows that it is our fears, our cares, our anxieties... that open the path to the invasion of illness... As the herbs heal our fears, our anxieties, our worries, our faults and our failing... then the disease, no matter what it is, will leave us.”

There are 38 Individual Remedies and the 39th is a blend called “Rescue Remedy” which is made up of 5 of the individual remedies. Rescue Remedy is always a “go to” when someone has a shock, trauma or extreme emotional event.

There is a new blend that has recently come out called “Rescue Sleep” which is made up of 5 different individual remedies which helps when you’re having trouble getting the mind to stop chattering or the day’s events continue to take you in circles at bedtime.

The Bach Flower Essences are generally preserved in brandy; you can sometimes find Rescue Remedy in a non-alcohol base. If you are concerned with the alcohol-base these essences are generally taken by the drop in 8oz of spring water and sipped throughout the day, although they can be given directly under the tongue.

There is another flower essence that I use called “Green Hope Farms Flower Essences”, because these are grown, harvested and created in New Hampshire USA, and they do not use Brandy as a preservative.

Green Hope Farms Flower Essences:

Green Hope Farms is a farm of 50 acres of field and forest in New Hampshire. They have been growing, harvesting and creating flower essences organically for over 20 years. I have been blessed to be working with these wonderful flower essences for the past 8 years and they are amazing.

As I said they do not use brandy as their preservative since New Hampshire law prohibit them using alcohol, so they needed to look for another type of natural preservative. In their research they were led to use a Japanese herb called Red Shiso. It gives the flower essences a red color and a very distinctive taste, but apparently is a thousand times the strength of synthetic food preservative which they would have never used in their natural product.

Green Hope Farms carries a total of 445 flower essences and they seem to be led to create new ones which continue to add to the list. Out of this 445 flower essences they have created kits which can be anywhere from 3 to 5 essences that will vibrationly and synergistically work together. Also, within these 445 are flower essences that can be used for animals, in their emotional healing.

I love working with these flower essences because they are made with love and guidance from Divinity and the Angels. I do not have all of these flower essences of course but I have the guide which lists and defines each essence and gives the “I AM” affirmations that go with each. As I have written before energy follows intention and reading these essences during a session when needed often times is enough to shift a client. If it does come up that it would be in the clients highest good to be taking a certain flower essence I will direct you to their website: www.greenhopeessences.com to place an order. I would encourage you to go there for yourself to check them out.

(I receive no financial return by you purchasing from them. I just so believe in their power to heal, transform and their quality.)