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 (author's name withheld by request) I use Rescue Remedy all the time -- either the traditional Bach Remedy or the Healing Herbs version called Five Flower Remedy. I sometimes think that if I were limited to just one remedy, then Rescue would be the only one I'd ever need. I carry it in my bag wherever I go, because I never know when I or someone I meet up with will need it. I often have to take it while shopping, since big stores with their crowds, endless choices, and overload of stimuli leave me spaced out and exhausted. I also rely on it for occasional insomnia, when some upsetting event during the day keeps me tossing and turning until the early morning hours. Its applications are endless, but I generally only need a few doses mixed into a huge water container that I sip over the course of a few hours. I can't recall a time before now that I ever needed it for more than just one day. A time came recently, however, when I was in a huge financial
crisis, so bad I was afraid I couldn't pay my rent. In all my fifty
years -- though times have often been tough -- rent has been a priority.
My home is my source of security, so I had only once in all that time
been two weeks late with the rent. This time, however, it looked like
I might not be able to pay the rent at all. Not only that, but due
to overwhelming medical expenses sapping my cash flow, I was being threatened by the IRS.
I was terrified, and the state of panic was making it hard to
Naturally, the water container came out, and it was a fixture at my bedside table and on my desk. I was sipping Rescue Remedy day and night for several days, and it would calm me down enough that I could function. On about the fourth day, however, something came up that amazed me. Rescue Remedy is combination of five of the Bach remedies. One of the ingredients, as you may know, is Star of Bethlehem, a Bach Remedy for healing old shocks and traumas. The reason it is included, I would guess, is that similar traumas from the past tend to get stirred up again in times of crisis. 
Apparently that is what was happening to me, for not being able to pay the rent brought up a series of childhood events that I had blocked from memory. My family was very poor, and we moved often when my parents were laid off or broke. We never got evicted, exactly, we just left before it could get to that point. Sometimes we moved in with my beloved grandmother who just scraped by on an old-age pension herself. Once for a couple of years, we lived rent-free in a log cabin on another relative's property until we were driven out by a flood. After a while, times would get better and my folks would get jobs, and so we could move to a place of our own until the next lay-off. There were lots of other problems in my family, some pretty traumatic, and so the fact that we had moved so often never struck me as being one of the wounds of my childhood. The only way I recognized it as a problem now was that, besides my terror, I was walking around with a sick sense of shame twisting in my gut. I went to work on that discomforting feeling with Reiki, and by imagining various colors of light spinning through my solar plexus. I even rubbed Rescue Remedy straight from the bottle on that area. 
After a few such sessions, the shame that I felt as a child at our poverty and at having to move time after time came up. I saw, for the first time, that the repeated uprootings were a pretty serious trauma in my young life, and that this was the reason my home was so crucial to me. I continued to sip Rescue Remedy in water for several more days, and the panic subsided enough for me to be able to cope with the emergency. I do believe as well that this sustained use of Rescue Remedy did a deeper level healing at the same time, relieving these scars of unsuspected childhood wounds. EDITORS' NOTE: We were quite moved by this reader's story, and we salute her for having the courage to share it. If you have a story about how a remedy helped you, don't hesitate to send it in. We will be glad to lend a hand at editing it, because we especially value the input of remedy users. Their first-hand reports of their experiences help us all to learn more about a how particular essence works.
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function. I would wake up in the early morning hours, frightened and
depressed, and the next day would be too wiped out to work effectively.