“You can learn a lot of things from the flowers.”—Alice in Wonderland
It’s true—you can! I learn something every time I use a flower essence. And every time I look into the use of the same plants for all sorts of purposes. One of the biggest things I learn is how my chronic thoughts and beliefs affect my emotional and physical well-being. And how those thoughts and beliefs tend to transform with healing intent and flower essence support. I don’t just want the flowers to do the work for me. I intend that I heal from the habit/patterns that get in my way of working with the things that upset me so I’m less likely to need flower essence support at all.
There are things you can change and things that are outside of your purview. It does no good to rail against the wind! But you can learn to dress appropriately and enjoy the weather, or go inside and do something else you enjoy! Those are the things you can control: how you will respond. Sane people don’t expend too much time trying to change the wind. But that doesn’t mean that there’s nothing in regards to the wind that you can do anything about. Hey, you could even put an electricity-generating windmill in your backyard and celebrate every time it’s windy! This is all a metaphor, of course, because people rarely apply the same logic to their relationships with other people, the greater world, or themselves.
One of the biggest things that flower essences have taught me is how my knee-jerk reactions and related thoughts and emotional patterns hurt me! The flowers shift things back to a healthier state and then, bit by bit, over time I can start to make the changes that help me from getting into that state in the first place. Not always, of course. I’m a work in progress—as you can tell by reading this blog! But I certainly know I have learned a lot from the flowers and they have done me a lot of good.
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Flower essences are used to assist with mind-body-spirit interactions and individual results may vary. They are extremely dilute which makes them quite safe. But because so little physical substance can be detected in a flower essence solution, these products are presumed to work on an energetic or vibrational level—something that cannot be adequately tested by western scientific methods. Claims made by me, therefore, are based on personal experiences and the evidence of the combined multiple decades of case notes by Dr. Edward Bach as well as Healing Herbs and Flower Essence Services (the companies who make the ingredients I use in my products). This is not, however, accepted medical evidence or substantiated scientific evidence from a modern allopathic point of view. I am not a medical doctor or licensed healthcare practitioner.
Statements made have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. The information provided on my blog, websites or by this company are not a substitute for a face-to-face consultation with a health care provider, and should not be construed as individual medical or mental health advice. Consulting with a health care provider is a must for anyone taking medications or working with a medical or mental health condition, and highly recommended before using any herbal product. Please consult your doctor or health care provider for any possible contraindications and/or interactions with current medications. I trust you to seek the medical guidance you need to use any of my herbal products healthily at your own risk.