Spiritual Community in Flower Essences

 I was first drawn to Flower Essences because I felt Spirit active and powerful within them. I took a peek and smiled when I saw that my very first post on this blog back in 2012 was about Flower Essences! The following is a bit of a trip down memory lane but also into the present and a reminder of how we are all connected ... 

To begin, the following quote never gets old: 

“The action of these remedies is to raise our vibrations and open up our channels for the reception of our Spiritual Self, to flood our natures with the particular virtue we need, and wash out from us the fault which is causing harm. They are able, like beautiful music, or any gloriously uplifting thing which gives us inspiration, to raise our very natures, and bring us nearer to our Souls: and by that very act, to bring us peace, and relieve our sufferings. 

They cure, not by attacking disease, but by flooding our bodies with the beautiful vibrations of our Higher Nature, in the presence of which disease melts as snow in the sunshine.”

From: Ye Suffer From Yourselves, by Dr. Edward Bach (1931)

And then, there are the people we meet along the way ... 

There are SO many beautiful, gifted, intuitive, and spiritual Flower Essence People I’m grateful to have met and/or connected with from the late 1990s through 2011, while I was living in Maine. Of course, I’ve also co-created a few flower essences myself over the years — most of us who are passionate about them end up doing so (and I’m developing a small Ozarks Flower Essence set that I hope to complete next spring, so that’s fun). Anyway, on to those who have inspired me!

I’m forever grateful to the charming Diane N., who had an herbal shop and consultancy in Massachusetts; she was a primary hub-person for me, especially for my beloved Australian Bush Flower Essences et al. and was responsible for offering not only in-person workshops but through her I was able to make other contacts with reputable people and their essence lines — not all of them in-person myself but I trusted Diane because she had worked with them and their products. Those were the days before Zoom and the massive influx of online classes — so I drove from Maine to various areas to connect with people and participate in classes. 

I also met and interacted with some of the folks from Southern Herb back in those days, and they were responsible for hosting, I think, the Level III and White Light workshops I attended where I was finally able to meet Ian White founder of the ABFE in person, a real treat after so many years working with his essences and being certified at all levels.

I feel that it’s important to be aware of the people who are co-creating Flower Essences and the group that is then working with and distributing the essences. Who are you drawn to? What are you feeling about them? What does your intuition say? This is not about good/bad but rather who we resonate with (flower AND people, etc.) for optimum results with the essences we select. 

For instance, while Bach remains a global brand nearly one hundred years after the founder’s early insights, I simply wasn’t deeply drawn to them; I began with them, as most people do because Rescue Remedy has been around such a long time, but quickly discovered other essence lines that better suited me and my work. Similar with the folks at FES (Flower Essence Services) who are amazing and have great flower essences but … except for a few of their essences I’m really drawn to, we just haven’t clicked strongly. I also have the full set of the Spirit-in-Nature Essences co-created by Lila Devi starting in 1977 and one of the twenty is sometimes perfect for an issue but not always.

So, who do I resonate with? Interestingly, the founders of all three of the following essence lines are in my own generation cohort. Perhaps not surprising. And while I have a few bottles of essences each from about a dozen other flower essence lines — all of which have been helpful — I generally find myself turning to my Flower Essence Triskelion.

My instant and primary go-to essences are Ian White’s Australian Bush Flower Essences (ABFE) as well as his White Light, Light Frequency, and Divine Presence Essences (those are three different lines of pure frequency co-creations made in special environments with special spiritual intentions). As Ian says: “The Australian Bush Flower Essences work on the emotional, cognitive, and spiritual levels. The White Light Essences work at healing and clearing on the soul level. The Light Frequency Essences work at enabling us to be open to all the new spiritual energies. The Divine Presence Essences are crown-centred Essences that ground and anchor whilst bringing in the highest spiritual energies.” While this provides a nice framework of understanding the so-called levels, my experience has been that all of these can and do expand into other areas of our energy bodies; ultimately, we have no delineation as to energy bodies. I’ve been working with Ian’s co-creative essences for more than a quarter of a century. I adore these essences.

I have two strong secondary essence lines that began calling to me a bit less than twenty years ago or so and their lines of flower essence energy frequencies are profoundly different or at least they are for me.

Because I was actively working with animal clients (and a few of their people) through my holistic health consulting business (Flower Essences and Homeopathy as well as Reiki), I came across Delta Gardens Flower Essences of New Hampshire. While they offered back then a complete Medicinal Set of excellent essences, one I still turn to, they were making significant progress in using pendulum work, muscle testing, and intuition towards assisting animals and people suffering from Lyme disease, a problem rampant in my part of the country (the NE USA) at that time. I attended one of their classes to learn more. That energy set was flat out amazing in how it could help my clients — and a couple of my own dogs. Their essences are potent in how they activate energy bodies toward real physiological changes. 

The other profoundly affecting flower essences I’ve used extensively through the years are those of Green Hope Farm Flower Essences, also based in New Hampshire. Molly is at the very center of the spiritual rays emanating from and into everything that develops and is co-created on the farm and elsewhere; she is a bright, gentle, wise light as she describes the Flowers, Angels, Nature Spirits, and the very land within which the farm emerged. I always feel like Molly holds nothing back and as long as she and her family are bringing these flower essences into the world, I’m always eager to experience their wonders. Plus, the fact that Molly keeps a delightful, insightful running blog endears her and the Green Hope FEs to me every more — and she usually includes plenty of photos of the vast, exquisite gardens!

Due to the relatively extreme challenges I’ve faced since we left the Northeast in 2011, I’m eternally grateful to have had my beloved Flower Essences — along with their Devas, Angels, and Nature Spirits — helping me move through those experiences with as much grace and healing as possible. And, during the past couple of years since my mom died, I’ll admit that I’ve been floundering somewhat (which has resulted in a sort of scattered, willy-nilly approach to taking the essences — helpful but could be much improved). 

Thus, I’m grateful to have finally reached a point where I feel able to refocus enough to consciously seek the ever-present wisdom and support the Flowers offer through their essences. My energy system seems to respond better to a bit more structure in the area of wellness support; everyone has a different innate constitution, and I encourage you to know yours, which allows us to find those touchstones. 

Special Care for Cats

Back in the early 2000s, I realized that I needed a proper isolation area for cats with occasional special needs. At that time, I was caring for anywhere between 9 and 12 cats at a time, many were rescues, and cleanliness was critical — especially since most of what occurred with the cats in my care were Upper Respiratory Infections (which is why I turned to Homeopathy and energy medicines; conventional veterinary drugs rarely helped and often created additional problems, while herbs or essential oils were often risky with cats). 

If you decide to provide care for animals with special needs or chronic illness, please be as prepared as possible to provide for them at home whenever you can because otherwise veterinary bills will overwhelm you (unless you're wealthy which we definitely were not).

With my husband’s help, we designed a four-unit Cattery Isolation Care Unit (CICU) in my Healing Room upstairs. 

Two-Fur Tips #1

 More than 25 years ago I began my intensive journey into helping animals heal. Like most people seeking a more natural approach to helping their dogs and/or cats attain optimum wellness for that individual, I started with herbs but quickly realized that these natural medicines could be problematic, especially in dosage, for many of our furry friends. I pivoted to energy medicines and am eternally grateful to have done so; this shift marked my entry in 1999 to both Flower Essences and Homeopathy. 

Here are my Two-Fur Tips for this Tuesday:

Is your cat displaying unexpected territorial behavior? Consider Dog Rose, Flannel Flower, and/Sturt Desert Rose. The blend you choose will depend on observation, animal communication, and trying to understand WHY the behavior is occurring.

Is your dog scared of thunderstorms? Consider Borax 30C, a Homeopathic remedy that has proven to significantly reduce the fear in many dogs fearful of loud noises including fireworks, gunfire, etc.

To learn more about Flower Essences and Homeopathy, see related posts in this blog, get some books (see Reference tab to start with), take a course, or seek out a professional.

DISCLAIMER: See my Welcome tab for my qualifications, however, I am not a veterinarian or a doctor, I'm an educator and facilitator. In an emergency or if you haven’t done your own responsible homework, please contact a veterinarian.

Confusing Science with Truth

One of my favorite chapters in Iain McGilchrist’s brilliant tome “The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World” is “Institutional science and truth.” Fantastic. Even if you don’t want to buy his book(s), even if you don’t want to read the entire massive text of the knowledge contained therein, please consider obtaining it through your local library and at the very least read this chapter. 

If you’re at all concerned about the ‘health policy’ debacle of the past four years with its broad attempts at coercion, mandates, and even force and punishment, you would do well to educate yourself on the difference between ‘science’, ‘truth’, and ‘scientism’ as it appears in mainstream media and so-called public policy endorsement. Following are just bits to wet your appetite, written and/or compiled by McGilchrist who is a medical doctor, a psychiatrist, and a philosopher. (His book was primarily written in the decade prior to the pandemic; published in 2021, so not produced as a specific response to that poorly handled mess.)

“The actual practice of science often falls far short of [model scientific enterprise] and it is worth anatomising the various ways in which this happens, to the detriment of both science and truth, and of the pubic at large — that’s us all.” (p.502)

“A survey of 1,576 [in 2016] researchers across scientific disciplines published in Nature revealed that more than 70% of researchers had tried and failed to reproduce another scientist’s experiments, and more than half had failed to reproduce their own experiment.” (p.513)

“The public is served up two competing fantasies: that anything that comes from science is irreproachable, and that most of it is irredeemably flawed. This kind of polarisation makes rational debate about the true (therefore limited) value of science very difficult indeed.” (p.514) FYI, earlier McGilchrist has spent a lot of time sharing insights into what science is and is not, what truth is and is not.

“Ioannidis continues, with a further point that is ethically more troubling, but will hardly surprise anyone who understands human nature: ‘the greater the financial and other interests and prejudices in a scientific field the less likely the research findings are to be true’.” (p.515) The data that John Ioannidis was sharing with the public in 2020 and 2021 was ridiculed by those same people swayed by 'scientism', financial incentive and/or fear-mongering.

“The point is just this: that science is not immune from corruption on a fairly significant scale, and the significance is directly proportionate to the claims that are ritually made on science’s behalf. After all, some science-naive observers often seem gullible enough to believe that scientific pronouncements, ipso facto, represent ‘the truth’ with a capital T.” (p.523)

“Overall we see in public health advice [and policy] the hallmarks of the left hemisphere mindset at work: the triumph of theory over fact; denial when the evidence does not fit what one already just ‘knows’ to be the case; a refusal to see health in the round [as holistic and unique to the individual]; disregard of context; cut and dried positions; and an obvious desire to control.” (p.530)

I will stop there but there is SO much MORE. All of the above is reason enough to step back and consider one’s choices from a personal perspective. And to continue to support and endorse bodily autonomy as a freedom. No one else has the right to force me or you to accede to their idea of ‘scientific truth’ in what I choose to do with my own body — and because of these complexities, as well as the massive gray areas inherent within science, none of us should be punished by the choices we make with regards to our own bodies.

New to Homeopathy?

 Because I no longer offer consultations myself, I suggest that you check out "Homeopathy Works" with Joette. Full disclosure, I've never taken any of her classes but I have watched quite a few of her videos over the years and read some of her articles; and, while she and I may differ a bit in our overall approach to a healthy lifestyle, her Homeopathic foundations seem sound. 

If you are at all anxious or concerned or simply want to be prepared for whatever health 'warnings' or hype comes down from the powers-that-be in the medical industrial complex, check out this video: Health Warnings and Fears.

Easiest remedies to get? Straight from BoironUSA.com This is the brand you see most often carried in health food stores, markets, and even some pharmacies.

That said, as always, start slow, educate yourself, feel into your own intuition, and begin or step-up your healing journey with courage and confidence. Blessings!

Food and Constitution

 A quick note on food, eating, diets and how those have an effect upon us depending upon our unique, individual constitutions. We are all human with the same basic food needs. Absolutely. But we don't all have the same ways of processing the foods we ingest based upon many variables including genetics, history, geography (place where we live - hot/cold, wet/dry, etc., has a significant impact upon how our bodies respond to foods), and so much more (not to mention karmic impacts from past lives or, if you don't believe in reincarnation, simply cause and effect from your own life interacting with people and the world around you) . This is a lifetime of study that most people never have the opportunity to study and explore. Which is why we fall into what works for other people or what the establishment says is best. Where does that leave most folks? 

Listen to your own body. What is it telling you? How do you feel after eating a certain way for a while? There is no 'one size fits all' -- everyone is a unique individual. Every single diet out there -- and I do mean all of them -- can cite studies and anecdotal evidence that it cures or resolves an illness, dis-ease, etc. And I believe them ... for those individuals, that approach was right for them (long-term or short-term and follow-ups are rarely done). What they don't tell you is that for many other people, the diet or lifestyle or habits of eating did NOT work and, in fact, often created other problems because they ignored the first signs that something just wasn't right. They felt they must be doing something 'wrong' because, hey, it was working for all those other people. But they aren't those people, they are uniquely themselves.

So, again. Where do you feel led? What makes the most sense to you? How does your body feel? How are your food choices sitting with you not just physically but mentally and spiritually? Ayurveda (a 4500-year-old holistic medical system) teaches us that everything we ingest -- be it food, location, entertainment, the very lives experienced by the beings we eat, etc. -- is going to have an effect upon us, either in the present or in the future.

Lastly, you can do everything right and still end up suffering in some way, simply because life is unpredictable. Listening to your body and following as healthy and holistic and moderate a lifestyle as possible is what I refer to as 'hedging your bets' -- and, for most people, that approach can make a huge difference, one that brings confidence, joy, and peace. 

Do I know it all? Nope. (And beware anyone who says with certainty that 'this is the best and only way.') I simply share here the results of my own training and certification in various health care modalities combined with my own two decades of focused study and holistic health consultancy since leaving a 9 to 5 job in corporate work. Which is why I always come back to ...

Live well, listen to your own body/mind/soul, and follow your own path.

Repercussions

 I've been researching Big Pharma, the Medical Industrial Complex, and the Psychiatric paradigm for a couple decades at this point. 

Without going into my own thoughts on all of this, first I want to share a video documentary on pharmaceutical impacts: How Big Pharma Makes Healthy People Sick.

I will return to this topic and my own perspective in a later post, but felt compelled to at least share this video -- even realizing that most people reading my blog are already aware of the dangers of prescription drugs.

Another aspect of Medical and Psychiatric over-reach with huge damages long-term is the impact of tr@ns idealogy on children; this video talk HERE between Helen Joyce and John Anderson is helpful. 

Then, finally on public media channels, we are seeing a rise in awareness (no one seemed to pay much attention to the red flags being signaled during the past few decades on where we were headed) of not only how blatant flaws in psychiatry are affecting all of us, but also the terrible price children are paying for our culture's heedless flight into the 'god' status of psychiatrists to 'save' everyone from any kind of suffering or pain (which are an entirely normal part of living). I'd suggest looking into video talks with Jonathan Haidt and Abigail Shrier, just to start.

I would encourage anyone concerned about these issues to explore the vast options available to them in the holistic, complementary/alternative, natural health care community -- not just those I personally have found to be incredibly powerful -- whether 'talk therapy' (so many helpful aspects to this normal relational and conversational interaction) that are not within the Medical & Psychiatric & Pharma complex) or vibrational/energetic modalities (like Homeopathy and Flower Essences, which are my choices).

Take care, live well, and follow your own path.