Friday, July 18, 2003

Interesting Modalities - Part One Bach Flower Essences Last night I attended a talk on Bach Flower Essences by Jim Lama, our local expert on the topic. He's a good speaker and he really provided a lot of great information and insight. Dr. Bach lives in the early twentieth century. He found that certain "herbs of the field" had curative qualities for certain emotional problems. He decided to put the essences (concentrated juices) from these plants into apple brandy and provide them to patients who had issues with emotional states. To take a Bach flower essence, you use a dropper to put 4-5 drops into your mouth. You can taste the brandy a little bit, but even that is diluted in water, so you won't get hammered on the stuff. I think you can also rub it on your skin in some cases. There are categories of the flowers like Loneliness, Fear, Uncertainty and others. The Bach flower essence practitioner first consults with the client to determine which category their feelings might fit into. Then they create a mixture of the essences and provide that. There is a fee for the consultation, which is longer and more costly the first time and then less the subsequent visits. Although the Bach flower essences seem to focus on the emotion, their power is that they are vibrational medicine, like homeopathy or energy work. The vibrations of the flowers is what can bring the emotional problem into balance and solve the problem. With so much focus in the media on the psychological drugs like Prozac and Zoloft, it is so interesting to learn about something that produces good effects on emotional issues without producing noticeable side-effects, except sometimes that the client might feel that they were wishing they could have the emotional problem back, because life becomes a little too real and vivid once their problem goes away! Jim mentioned that although Bach flower essences are focusing on the emotional issues, they can be effective for physical problems, because the thinking is that the physical problems are manifested by the emotional issues. Once the emotional issues are gone, the physical problems will fade away. I intend to buy some of the Rescue Remedy that Jim suggested. It is a general tonic that can help many emotional issues especially if you use it right at the start. Jim suggests the best Website for Bach flower essences is the Bach Centre. 7:46:27 PM

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