I wish I had known about Bach Flower Essences when I was growing up. My mother was the quintessential Chicory personality. As difficult as she was to live with, my bitterness began to dissolve when as an adult, I realized that she never felt loved, spent her entire life feeling a deep lack of fulfillment, an inner emptiness, and a deep seated feeling of being unwanted. The Essences could have helped her heal those invisible gaping wounds. Any form of abuse is passed from one generation to the next unless the pattern is changed, and she could not help but pass it on to her son and daughters. She did the best she could. Forgiveness is a wonderful Grace for all.
Not to worry. We are immortal beings having human experiences. We have about 60 or so times earthwalks (depending on how stubborn we are) with rest periods in between each one before Graduating and moving on to higher realms. We are entitled to screw up, take one step forward and two steps backward, laugh a lot and cry when we need to, get pissed, get over it, learn to become crew members instead of needy guests and ultimately learn how to be self-sourcing and how to be of Service. The Flower Essences help smooth these journeys and make the best of it, whether we are at the beginning, middle or end of this particular journey.
“Every symptom of body, mind or spirit gives us a particular message, and we need to perceive and acknowledge these messages, and make use of them for our journey. Every true healing process is an affirmation of our wholeness, indeed our holiness. The Bach Flower Remedies’ system may from this point of view be described as ‘healing by restoring harmony in awareness’. At the switch-points of our personalities where vital energies are channeled the wrong way or blocked, the remedies re-establish contact and harmony with our wholeness, the true source of our energy. ‘Heal Thyself’ is at the very heart of Edward Bach’s philosophy, for in the final instance it is we ourselves, the ‘universal principle of healing’ or the ‘divine healing power’ within us, that permit and enable healing. It was Dr. Bach’s vision that his Flower Remedies would be used, not only by physicians and lay practitioners, by also in every family.” Pgs 9 & 10 of Mechthild Scheffer’s book, Bach Flower Therapy, Theory and Practice
The Remedies work on the more subtle levels directly influencing the energy system that is man. All discord begins in this energy system (the ethers). Physical disease is the last ditch effort to get our attention and let us know something is out of harmony. If we are able to catch it in the ethers and correct it before it manifests into the physical body then we can prevent the disease from starting in the first place. Healing a physical disorder is simply working the other direction. Heal the emotion and the disease goes away, having served its purpose.
38 little miracles, each one waiting to be of Service.
