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Why
the use of the Flowers in Bach flower remedies OR Bach flower
essences? |
The term "Flower Essence" may
bring in thoughts of sweet fragrances in mind, but flower essences actually have no scent,
also they should not be linked with "aromatherapy" or "essential oils."
Bach Flower remedies -discovered by Dr. Edward Bach- are prepared on the lines of homeopathy and
it is believed that, flower essences contain life-force energy released from flowers in the peak of their bloom. Bach remedies are colorless, tasteless and odorless in nature.
Dr. Edward Bach had started his mission with the evaluation of nosodes.
(-please refer Bach Flower
Therapy) Those nosodes were prepared directly from the extract of intestinal fluid of human
beings, which have had disgusted him. This aversion guided him to search for
such a simple system of healing wherein remedies should be derived from the
purity of nature like natural herbs, bushes or flowers. He roamed for years in ravines and jungles and observed the plant and animal's kingdom minutely. He
noticed, although plants and animals are facing adversities there is no physician or surgeon
there, to attend to sick animals in the jungles or fish in the ocean. Nobody is taking care of plants and trees to save them
from the vagaries of nature - like storms, snow fall, hurricanes etc.
yet nature has sustained life and saved
those species from extinction for thousands of years. Which
lead him to the presumption that there must be
in exist; a simple, subtle and natural means of overcoming the dilapidations to health and well-being of various creatures. He observed the minute changes in the external appearance of different plants due to environmental variations,
being implanted; how the plant faces various barriers during its struggle for existence. How
it react with the natural calamities like sunburns, storms, ice-falling etc.? How
plant cope with its enemies like pests, birds, worms, animals etc.?
He found that the plants are very much alive. They
too have emotions and they also speak their own language of silence. Dr. Bach studied carefully the slightest change in the external
appearance of plants when they react with some abnormality. Finally he decided to infuse the life force in the plant by the homoeopathic way of drug evaluation.
Although there is no analytical or scientific explanation about
how the flower essences work, but there are several ideas put forward after decades of their use.
Normally,
it is believed that flower remedies possess the power to elevate our body vibrations, those
positive vibrations tune our body and soul in harmony, which cleanses mind and
body and heals ultimately.
As pains and pleasures are invisible through naked eyes but they act at vibrational level and we can realize their effects on our
lives, similarly Flower
essences are considered to be work at a vibrational level,
which can improve our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual status of being.
Flower remedies create an invisible, protection barrier or inwardly cleanse and heal our
inherent behavior. Flower essences are considered as herbal tinctures that strengthen and balance us on the emotional, psychological and spiritual levels.
Due to God given gift of intuition and creativity, Dr.
Edward Bach was able to co-relate the instinctive pains in human being to that of instinctive pleasures in flowers, means he wanted to restore the positive qualities within us by using instinctive pleasure character of flowers so as to release
the
corresponding behavioral negativity within us.
While healing
with flower remedies, pleasure instinct in flowers replaces pain instinct in human being and
molds our
innate nature to deal with pain to move beyond it.
How the Bach Flower Essences were
actually derived and prepared by Dr.
Edward Bach?
Blossom is the most beautiful expressions of nature. Through
this blossom,
the plant kingdom offers us -not only the beautiful flowers
and fragrances but also- a tremendous amount of healing energy of
higher spiritual quality. Dr. Bach emphasized that the blossoming of
wild flowers is a true representation of their characters. The flower heads and their petals were of special interest to
him, who believed the highest, purest healing power
is stored in the petals that could be perfectly tuned with the vibrations of human consciousness or true self. To make an essence, the vibrational pattern of the flower
has to be infused first, into a natural spring water. He tried out several techniques of extracting the essences of flowers, until he had
succeeded in extracting the highest healing potential. Out of
the 38 remedies he discovered, 20 were made by the sun method of potentization (- a sort of
dilution, carried out while making in the homeopathic medicines
of different potencies.) and the remaining 18 were prepared by boiling the whole parts of that plant, bush of tree including there flower heads. In both
of those methods, water, sunlight and heat were used in
combine together to extract their highest healing potential.
Dr. Bach had gained this idea of "sun method of potentization" by observing sun's action of shining
while passing its rays through
those dew drops, which were accumulated on delicate flower petals. He was wondered about the sun's power to activate and release healing energy from the petals into the water. Most of his tinctures were prepared by placing freshly plucked
wild flowers into a bowl of sunlit water and leaving
them for several hours to sun's action. When petals gets faded, then it is the sign of that the healing
power within petal is carried over to water medium. This process
-according to him- brings out the remedies' full healing potential.
This "healing water" that is gained through the
process, is
then strained and stored. This solution is later on mixed with alcohol, as on the lines of homeopathy. This creation of a flower remedy is a co-creative act between nature, the environment and humanity to nourish the human soul. The preparation thus prepared, is
now ready for specific purpose having healing power to cure the
emotional imbalances. In this way, the healing powers of flowers are
being extracted in the form of
essences.
While
working, flower essences
broadcast the message to our energetic body of how to return to a state of balance. This means that,
flower remedies really don't heal anything. They just restore
our perfected pattern for any given situation, and that "perfect you"
within us knows how to go through that challenge and by this way the healing is achieved.
Personalized combinations of flower essences, suitable to our
health concerns will tune to
our psyche and will gradually restore a sense of peacefulness and ability to handle crisis and maintain stability during major life situations and changes.
Blossom also represents breeding characteristics of plants,
because flowers in their later stage change to seed, which on propagation carries
on their characteristics in the next generation of plants, naturally the healing energy within flowers remains at its peak during the blossom period. The healing power within a flower
-during the blossom period- is considered as a genuine representative of the life strength of that plant, in
its struggle for the existence. Therefore Dr. Bach preferred
the flowers rather than bacteria or other living species,
while preparing his remedies on various moods and emotions in human being.
Action of flower essences is subtle and invisible.
they works on a non-physical level of being.
They resonate to the principle of "like attracts like." As
soon as, negative patterns activate on constant accumulation of debilitating thoughts and work on the vibrational level of
being, then by using the subtle energy fields of flower
remedies,
which is meant to alleviate such negative patterns, one can
easily return to his (or her) original nature. The subtle vibrational healing energies of
Flower remedies make us ideal for enhancing our emotional status.
Working on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels of being, the healing energy in flowers create an invisible, protection barrier or inwardly to cleanse and heal our
innate nature.
Healing energy of personalized combinations of flower essences gives us an ability to make a fresh start and to create a positive reality from our own thoughts. It promotes self-love and happiness.
Flower remedies are a subtle method of healing which work at a vibrational level. They reach into the outermost parts of the aura, so
one can work on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels of being. Our negative emotions restore by the positive healing characteristics of flower essences.
Everything in the life has a divine purpose, what so ever it may be, therefore everything in the universe is happening in a predetermined
manner. Except that of the great evolution of man -from the ape to a modern man- nothing noticeable has happened
on the front of plants and animals. Plants are contributing the nature in the same way as
were earlier; providing oxygen, food and shelter for birds, nourishing the soil, maintaining ground water table etc. Many plants are having the ability to cure the physical and mental ailments. Most of the herbal preparations are in the form of extracted oil, essence, powder of dried leaves or the root or stem. The "healing power"
stored within those extracts is a non-physical or non-existing
thing, which could never be measured with a physical scale.
Likewise, to count or attempt to count the
'healing power' within the Bach floral essences by applying a physical scale
is just like
to make an attempt to measure a level of an immense satisfaction on a physical scale!
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