A Flower Essence is a living energetic medicine made from the biological imprint of the living plant's vibrations in water. The Flower Essences are created and preserved in pure spring water and brandy, and taken orally under the tongue or applied to the body. When a person places a few drops of a flower's essence under the tongue, the energy of the flower, vibrating at its own special frequencies, floods one's aura. The flower's vibrations are now within the body/aura's vibrations and the flower's vibrations will harmonize the body/aura vibrations to its own special harmonies, with the help of the flower's signature vibrations.
Flower Essences are a fascinating and powerful way to work with plants for healing. Flower Essences contain an absolute minimum of biological or chemical material, offering one the sacred energies of the flower's essences in vibrations imprinted within the water/brandy mixture. Working with herbs themselves, as extracts of various kinds or as food sources, uses the biological and chemical components of the herbs as well as their vital energies. Aromatherapy uses a particular set of the chemicals present in plants and also engages their energies.
Flower Essences are water-based solutions which contain the essential energies of flowers. They are made by floating flowers in water and allowing the light of the sun, or the moon or the stars, to help the water to absorb the particular energy signature of the flowers. The structure of water is such that it easily stores these vibrational signatures within itself.
Flower Essences are not to be confused with Aromatherapy, a form of plant and flower therapy that uses the scent and aroma of the plant to stimulate brain communication with the body. Flower Essence therapy is an oral treatment that has a profound effect on correcting physical imbalances, impurities, and disease. The essences contain the energetic vibrations and so the healing energies of the flowers from which they are made. In the words of Dr. Bach, they “cure by flooding our bodies with beautiful vibrations of Higher Nature which melt dis-ease like snow in the sunshine.” Dr. Bach's theory is that we are born perfect, but life stresses make us develop defenses and ways of coping, and these pull us out of alignment with our spirit. Distress at the level of spirit is translated into physical dis-ease. Bach saw dis-ease as a way that our spirit tells us how our attitudes or behavior are getting in the way of our health. Unhealthy emotional patterns can cause tensions of energy within the body, tightness in the muscles and these block the natural flow of energies in our bodies, and so parts of us cease to vibrate in harmony with the whole. In our healing of our unhealthy patterns, we relieve any physical dis-ease we have collected.
The Flower Essences fill our auras with the vibrations they contain and so help loosen any energy blockages that keep us from vibrating at our natural frequency. By bringing the flower's essence into the energetic vibrations of the body and its aura, these will respond to the vibrations of the flower's sunlight stored and now felt by you in the subtle, and not so subtle awareness.
Dr. Bach taught that if we help people to emotional harmony, they will be healthy. He demonstrated that two people who experience debilitating fear may have different physical ailments, but a remedy that helps this fear will heal the ailments of both. Similarly, two people with similar cases of eczema but different emotions disturbing their peace can both have their eczema healed by taking remedies appropriate to their emotional symptoms.
History
It was the work of a sensitive and dedicated physician, Dr. Edward Bach, which first started to characterize the healing properties of these preparations. Dr. Bach was a medical doctor who had an interest in homeopathy. He worked for many years within this discipline and developed remedies called nosomes, which were homeopathic preparations of bacteria. He became discouraged at how little it seemed medicine was able to heal. His observations convinced him that if people could be at peace emotionally, they would be restoring their body to health and stay healthy. Recognizing that he had always felt most peaceful in the woods near his childhood home in Wales, he decided to take a break from practice and go there for a period of contemplation.
The story goes that Dr. Bach was looking for answers, and failing to find them ... he was walking along a path one morning, ruminating on whether or not he should return to his practice at all ... when his attention was drawn to the lovely flowers of Impatiens. Seeing the dew sparkling on the petals, he was drawn to lick it off, as he remembered doing as a child. Being the sensitive he was, he realized that the impatience he had been feeling a moment ago was gone. Whatever had been guiding him suggested he should see if this effect could be reproduced by doing the same thing the next day. The story goes on to say that it was, and the rest, as they say, is the history of the Flower Essences.
I am sure people have worked with plants in this way for millennia ... washing one's face with dew on Beltane morning, or being prompted to lick the dew off particularly beautiful flowers, just as Dr. Bach was inspired to do. However, Dr. Bach has found the way to bring the healing vibrations of the flower's to folks across the world. What Dr. Bach realized was that the water that had sat on the flowers had soaked in some sort of the energy of the flowers that could have had an effect on his emotions.
Just as the Impatiens helped dispel impatience and irritability, he discovered that Mimulus could calm everyday fears. As he worked with the flowers, characterizing the effect they could have on emotions, he discovered that if he could give the right flower essence to lessen the predominant emotion that was disturbing a person's peace, certain physical aliments they suffered could also be relieved.
Dr. Bach died very young, but in his lifetime was able to characterize the healing energies of thirty eight plants.
Since Dr. Bach's death, the study of Flower Essences has exploded. People from all over the world have made studies of the healing energies of their native flora.
Power of Flower Healing Essences
We now offer to you the Flower Essences that are in the Power of Flower Book/Deck Set created by Isha Lerner.
In the Power of Flowers book, each flower is described according to six categories: Blessing, Plant Signature, Flower Essence Description, Archetype, Healing and Practical Application. With the launching of the new Power of Flower Healing Essences company, you may now order the actual Flower Essence to accompany each card.
We will also be offering many Flower Essences made from the wild flowers native to the high mountains and meadows of the Oregon Cascades, Hawaii and the Southwestern desert. For a complete list of available flowers and order form, please click this link : LINK
Advantages and Disadvantages of Flower Essence Application
There is virtually no physical or chemical plant material in the Flower Essences, so there is no risk of allergies or adverse effects. Brandy is used in the creation of the essences as a preservative. Because as a dose is only four drops, and these can be administered in warm water, the alcohol can be evaporated before the remedy is taken. For someone sensitive to brandy, the essences can be prepared in another preservative such as glycerine or vinegar.
Flower Essence remedies have the advantage of being completely safe. They contain little, if any, of the organic material to cause physical ill-effects. All of the energies involved are positive, and if an inappropriate remedy is chosen, the effect wears off quickly. Therefore, self-prescription can do no harm as long as serious conditions that need medical attention are not ignored. One can learn about the effects of the flower's essences by trying them without taking any risk. It is recommended to not take more than the suggested dose of four drops at a time.
Unlike homeopathic remedies, Flower Essences are not affected by aromatics such as coffee or mint: they can be taken with food or any other substance and be effective. Their benefits for the emotions are not based on any sort of physical effect on the nervous system so they are non-addictive.
Because of the dilution process in the creation of Flower Essences, one bowlful of flowers can make enough Flower Essence for several million individual doses. It is an extremely efficient way to use the biological material, and one way to avoid the danger of extinction that is threatening some popular herbs in the world.
Flower Essences work on the emotions in harmony with Spirit, and their effects can take some time to manifest on a physical level. If one is open to change, their effect can be dramatic indeed, but if one resists the nudge they give the emotions, they may have little visible effect in the short run. Quiet meditations for a few moments can show this to be true for you, and so empower your healings.
Quoted from Patricia Kaminski's and Richard Katz's book Flower Essence Repertory:
"Flower essence therapy involves the application of flower essences in the context of an overall program of health enhancement, either in professional practice or home care. Although the word "therapy" is typically used to mean the treatment and cure disease, the Greek root therapeia had a wider, soul-spiritual meaning of "service," related to the word therapeuein, meaning "to take care of." It is in this sense of service and care that we speak of flower essence therapy; it is a way to nurture and sustain health with the beneficent forces of nature, in the context of wise and loving human evolution.
To understand the therapeutic uses of flower essences, it is important to ask some basic questions about the nature of health and illness. What is the goal of health care? What causes illness? What is the relationship between mind and body? What are our assumptions about human nature? Our answers to these general questions will determine whether we have the understanding and insight to use flower essences in their full capacity as catalysts for mind-body wellness."
Flower essence therapy seeks to heal the whole person. If we are out of balance in one area of our life there is a high chance this imbalance will eventually cause discord in the entire system. Flower essences are used as a preventative measure and as a healing model that can offer a gentle way to restore, maintain, and create better health conditions for all beings.
Our medicines of today have evolved from the study of herbology, botany, and biology. The healing properties of herbs have been identified through the centuries by studying their growth cycles, appearance, location, color, and movement. Homeopathy is yet another way in which plants are employed as healers. As with the teachings of Isis, we learn through homeopathy that like cures like, and nature overcomes nature. All living beings are readily cured, soothed, and enlightened by the medicinal magic of plants. The more we are in tune with the soul of nature the more we are able to receive the blessing of health from Her sacred garden.
There have been many pioneers in the field of alternative medicine. More recently, innovative research has brought to our attention the healing properties of high vibrational healing modalities. The work vibration has become synonymous with energy, for we have learned that our bodies are fields of vibrating energy. Contained within each person's energetic field are at least seven major energy centers known as chakras. The relationship of these centers to physical and spiritual well-being has been studied by Eastern teachers and religious adepts since antiquity. As we become more informed of these energetic "life giving" centers we are able to understand more about the subtle ways in which a living being may be balanced and centered in all area of life including their physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental state of well-being.
This is where the study and application of flower essences will have a revolutionary impact on Humanity. They are a high vibrational medicine able to penetrate into the deepest patterns and imprints held within the body emotionally and mentally. It is a well known fact today that the state of health of a human being is reflected by the way in which one handles emotional and mental blocks that can manifest in the form of fear, anger, doubt, worry, confusion, etc. Flower Essences come to our aid with intent to harmonize body and soul so that we may enjoy the attributes of health, inspiration, joy and peace.
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