Flower Remedies for Children’s Self-Esteem
Posted by admin on Aug 14, 2010
By Isha Lerner
Many children in our world today face a stressful and emotionally challenged life due to an accelerated, fast-paced environment. Today’s child meets an array of complex circumstances that were ordinarily reserved for mature adults, such as divorce, sophisticated technology, unsettled domestic problems, body image awareness, sexual images, and violence. With footprints barely planted on life’s terrain, our children are burdened with fear, doubt, confusion, and a host of maladies that threaten our world.
What can be done to stabilize our youth within the “pressure cooker” of today’s world? Flower essences enable us to administer balance and overall health to children, and aid us in addressing the wide range of complex issues they face each day. Flower essence therapy involves the administration of essences in the context of an overall program of health enhancement, either in a professional practice or home care. In regard to our children and our attempt to help them flourish, flower essences are an important addition to a comprehensive healing program.
BUTTERCUP: This remedy goes on my list for almost every malady facing a child’s well-being. Its silky yellow flower offers a radiant inner light to the child, allowing them to experience the true worth of their soul. It enhances the experience of self-love, which in turn allows for greater harmony with friends and family. It’s one of the sweetest remedies I know.
Mother and Child Bonding with Flower Essences
Posted by admin on Aug 7, 2010
©2000 by Sally Smith, COC, OM
The last months of pregnancy and the first months following delivery are generally an exhausting and challenging time. Hopefully, they are also filled with anticipation, joy and the precious bonding between mother and child.
The bonding connection (often unconscious) begins before conception, becomes a more conscious connection in utero, and transitions to greater awareness following birth. Essences are very useful to help the bonding, awareness and adjustment process of being a parent. They are safe to use, even when nursing. (Unless otherwise mentioned, all essences below are made by Bach.)
Becoming a parent can be a time to powerfully build one’s intuitive skills. On a spiritual level, souls are being united or re-united, and awareness of their karmic connection can be enhanced with the use of FES’ Forget-Me-Not. It helps the parent realize the agreement with the incoming spirit and they can better be able to be in touch with one another spiritually.
Two other FES essences enhance one’s ability to listen to the child’s needs. Star Tulip develops one’s receptivity and inner female, so it is an excellent choice during pregnancy for creating that inner womb and ability to listen for inner guidance. Yellow Star Tulip develops one’s empathic ability – to be able to know what the baby is feeling and how best to respond to those feelings. A great choice both before and after birth.
Calming Animals Afraid of Fireworks
Posted by admin on Jun 26, 2010
By Maggie Smith, maker of Flower Essence Energy
My friend’s dog goes crazy during the July 4th US holiday with all of the fireworks. I would guess everyone has a few shaking and howling friends in the neighborhood, or kitty’s hiding under the bed or in the closet during this time. Pets are such sensitive creatures and as much as we love them, most folks do not realize that they resonate with our fears as well as the fireworks noises on July 4th.
There are several calming flower essence formulas that can help pets at this time. I have found that they work best if you start them two or three weeks in advance of July 4th. Just a few drops of tincture in their water dish or on their paws daily – will work wonders to reduce the fear factor. One friend, after using a flower essence tincture in the weeks preceding July 4th, said her dog went outside and acted like nothing was going on. Other clients say they find that their animals are still aware of the noises but are not shaking, howling or crying.
Bach Essences Go Hollywood, Part 2
Posted by admin on Jun 19, 2010
Editors’ Note: The first part of this article is at http://www.floweressencemagazine.com/blog/?p=1305, in which we challenge readers to come up with some of these movie/essence pairs themselves. Go ahead and get into the fun! Don’t feel you need to stay with the Bach remedies — but do include the essence manufacturer’s name as well as the movie where the quote can be found. List additional entries in comments.
©2010 Linda Pride
Hornbeam: “Sometimes I think it’s harder to raise a husband than a baby.” Blondie, 1938, Blondie Bumstead (Blondie, Penny Singleton)
Sweet Chestnut, Crab Apple (photo, at right), Star of Bethlehem: “Why was I not made of stone like thee?” The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1939, (Quasimodo, Charles Laughton)
Vine (as in Tyrants, power struggles with…): “What we’ve got here is.. .failure to communicate.” Cool Hand Luke, 1967, (The Captain, Strother Martin)
Healing the Earth’s Hot Spots–Putting Essences on a Map
Posted by admin on Jun 12, 2010
©2004, 2010 by Robina Hearle
Editors’ Note: Foremost in many of our minds right now is the devastating oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico that shows no signs of slowing down. It brought to mind an article in Vibration by Robina Hearle first published in 2004. We reprint it here in the hopes that our readers will join forces with the many who are praying for healing of the oceans in the wake of this event. Here’s Robina’s idea:
In this world of greater understanding that all things are connected, the idea of sending healing, love and blessings is not so impossible. We have science backing up metaphysics, such as String Theory. Mathematics has always known that many energies exist, and Professor Stephen Hawking has proven interdimensionality.
My idea and ongoing project is to get as many people as possible putting bottles of flower essences on a map. In this way we can send healing vibrations to earthquakes, war zones, civil unrest, famines and disasters. This will facilitate healing of the planet and its peoples, flora and fauna. I have in my spare room three maps, upon which I have placed some of my own Rose Cottage Flower Essences. However, you can use any suitable bottle of essences you already own. Read the rest of this entry »
Making Yourself a Birthday Essence At the Solar Return
Posted by admin on Jun 5, 2010
©2010 Donna Cunningham, MSW
As Vibration Magazine celebrates its 12th birthday this month, and as we in the northern hemisphere head into primetime as far as flower essence making is concerned, I wanted to tell you about a very special and personal vibrational essence you can make yourself each year around your birthday.
The moment of your astrological birthday, called the Solar Return, results in a special chart each year. This chart shows what special opportunities and challenges you will face between this birthday and next. Many people consult astrologers for an annual update around their birthday for precisely that reason.
Your astrological birthday is not always the same as your chronological birthday but may be a day before or after. This is true for the same reason we need a leap year every four years–the true year is 365.25 days, so there is a four-year cycle in Solar Returns as well. To be technical, this moment–which we rely on astrological software to find–occurs when the Sun returns to the same zodiacal degree, minute, and second it was at your birth. Read the rest of this entry »
Moon Flower Essences—Accessing and Healing Past Lives
Posted by admin on May 22, 2010
©2009 by Simon France, maker of Aquarius Flower Remedies
Nearly all flower remedies utilise the power of sunlight to capture their therapeutic vibrational impulses. However, the Moon Flowers of Aquarius Flower Remedies are made under moonlight and have a very different energy to solarised flowers.
They are used to heal the wounds we carry from the past, be that from this lifetime or previous lives. The absorption of moonlight into flower remedies allows their healing to reach down into our souls, helping us to release deeply held dysfunctional energetic patterns we have carried with us for many years.
The Moon shines at night, when we sleep and dream. The sub-conscious is the lunar realm. Its light, reflected from the Sun, is pale and cold, making the world look very different. Within the realms of the Moon there is less to stimulate our senses, more opportunities for our inner world to emerge. Unlike the Sun, the lunar disk constantly changes.
The Moon speaks to a different part of our being, yet a part that is as important to us as our solar spirit, life-force or ego. The solar part of our being is extrovert and projects, while the lunar part is introvert and reflects. This solar part can be considered masculine, while the lunar feminine. The Sun is our spirit and the Moon is our soul. Like the spirit, the soul is eternal.
If we open our hearts and minds to the possibility that our eternal soul incarnates, not once but many times in the physical form, each time growing, maturing and evolving, we begin to perceive life with more depth. We can reconcile within us traumatic, tragic, negative or unlucky events if we believe that as their effects filter down they provide material from which the soul can grow and evolve, become wiser, more experienced and better equipped for future lives.
Mariposa Lily Heals a Traumatized Rescue Animal
Posted by admin on May 15, 2010
©2009 by Sheryl Karas
Many years ago when a friend introduced me to flower essences, I thought she had lost her mind. I was actively exploring alternative philosophies and systems of healing but this idea was just too much: collect flowers and let them float in water in the sun until the water absorbs the flowers’ “essence.”
Then dilute that flower water down even more to the point that a laboratory could only find a trace of the plant material left, shake it up, add brandy to preserve it and take 4 drops of the solution three times a day for a month to help resolve your problems. Right! That was a load of snake oil if I ever heard one. How could anyone be so gullible?
My friend explained that they were like homeopathic remedies in that they acted like a vaccine where a tiny amount of a substance inspires the body’s natural healing response to come to the fore. Better yet, they were far too dilute to be toxic and had no significant side effects. This was intriguing to me because I was already using herbal remedies for medicinal purposes. But then she started waxing poetic about the soul qualities of the plant working synergistically with the human spirit and that’s where she completely lost me.
Bach Essences Go Hollywood
Posted by admin on Apr 24, 2010
By Deborah Bier, PhD, Vibration Editor
Have you ever read a book, or watched a television show or movie and thought, “Wow, wasn’t THAT a Rescue Remedy moment!?” or “Wouldn’t I like to give that character some Heather!” Well, here’s your chance.
We have a half-dozen very famous movie lines below, plus a Bach flower remedy that reflects a need displayed within the quote. In some cases, the remedy is obvious from the quote, and in others you have to know something about the movie to see the connection.
Can you come up with some yourself? Don’t feel you need to stay with the Bach remedies — but do include the essence manufacturer’s name as well as the movie where the quote can be found. List your entries in comments.
“We’ll always have Paris.” Honeysuckle (Casablanca)
“I want to be alone.” Water Violet (Grand Hotel)
“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” Wild Rose (Gone with the Wind)
“Toto, I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” Clematis (Wizard of Oz)
“I could have been a contender!” Gentian (On the Waterfront)
“As God is my witness, I’ll never go hungry again!” Oak (Gone with the Wind)
Dear Tabby: Things You’d Rather Your Cat Didn’t Know
Posted by admin on Apr 17, 2010
Vibration’s editors ruefully note: Along with blogs and websites all over, we’re celebrating National Humor Month. As if it weren’t bad enough that Pansy Rose Pepperplant showed up, now she’s stirred up a formidable sometime staffer, Dear Tabby, a conceited, overbearing feline that haunts our offices at times and dispenses advice to her fellow felines. You should hear the cat-er-wauling!
Dear Tabby,
I have been sitting here all day watching my person twist and turn herself into a tourniquet all in the name of yoga. Isn’t there an easier way to find inner peace? We used to cuddle together on the couch, but now, all she wants to do is practice, practice, practice! 
When she can’t seem to get the position just right, she tries it over and over and over. This repetitive tizzy is making me dizzy! Seems that she just can’t learn from her mistakes!
Not like us, eh? Of course, cats never make mistakes in the first place! Why doesn’t she just watch me? I can teach her to catch her tail! So, what are my options here, Tabby? I’m not a kitty without pity, but I’m at my wits end! What can I do to cat-ch her attention? Should I just continue to purr through my pain? Or is there an essence I can give my guardian that will help her find sanctuary while I keep my sanity!
Sigh-ned, Pitter Patty (Going Batty!)
Dear Pitter Pat,
Ahhhh… join me in a deep clea Read the rest of this entry »
