I work in a room surrounded by my garden. Often during a healing sessions an emissary of nature comes into the garden apparently with a message for the person I am working with. Birds sometime even come to the window, like a tenacious little hummingbird who tapped on my studio window at level of the client on the table, clicking it’s beak over and over while we were working. Rather than being disturbed by our little visitor, we received its efforts to come in as a messenger to comfort my grieving client with the support of nature’s compassion and delight.
Every time we are in nature, we have an opportunity, when we are receptive, to benefit from the thousand ways nature and her remedies support our health, longevity and serenity. A life enhancing relationship with nature grows as we learn to listen more deeply to our body, which is a part of nature, and how its conscious awareness allows nature’s remedies to penetrate and do their magic.
I first met the gentle power of flower essences for my own self-healing, starting as many do, with the Bach Flower Essences, then during a mystery health dilemma, the Perelandra Essences developed by Machaelle Small Wright, author of Behaving as if the God in all Life Mattered, played an important role in my recovery. I have also worked for many years with the FES essences and the related affirmations which the remedies empower.
What are Affirmations? “Affirmations are elegant and evocative words which enable the soul to initiate positive goals of inner development.” [FES]
Affirmations combined with vibrational catalysts, help fortify the benefits of physical, emotional and spiritual healing sessions. When we use the affirmation with the flower essence, for instance as follow-up for a session at home, the benefits of the healing intervention re-play in the body-mind system, building resilience and trust in recovery.
Learning to work with Nature’s HEALING FREQUENCIES
“Treat the cause, not the effect.” Dr. Edward Bach
FLOWER ESSENCES
Bach Flower remedies are a form of alternative healing developed by Dr. Edward Bach, a pioneer in vibrational healing in England in the 1930s. He found that individual flowers resonated with specific emotional energies. The flower essences he developed help shift negative energies to promote healing from within, what we call harnessing our own self-correcting processes. His 38 flower essences are based on the belief that negative emotions can lead to physical illness. These essences are believed to elevate a person’s emotional frequency, restoring balance, health and emotional well-being.
Bach inspired the whole field of the use of flower essences. In my practice in addition to Bach’s fundamental essences, the Perelandra essences, the FES California Essences as well as many others including gem and color essences. The use of the Perelandra essences were a significant aid to my recovery from an arthritic syndrome caused by food poisoning. Vibrational remedies of all types have been an essential companion for me on the path to sustained remission. Flower essences are a gentle, non-invasive approach to healing which I incorporate within my private practice to enhance overall well-being for adults, children and even pets.
ESSENTIAL OILS
Essentials oils are reputed to have been among mankind’s first medicine. Egyptian hieroglyphs, Chinese manuscripts and the Bible, where there are 188 references to essential oils, indicate that oils have been used for thousands of years in a healing or sacred manner.
Essential oils are the volatile liquids that are distilled from plants (including their respective parts such as seeds, bark, leave, stems, roots, flowers, fruits, etc.) It is important to use pure, therapeutic-grade essential oils in order to produce the desired results.
What are some benefits of pure therapeutic grade essential oils?
Essential oils are the regenerating, oxygenating, and immune defense properties of plants.
Essential oils are so small in molecular size that they can quickly penetrate the tissues of the skin. When containing sesquiterpenes they also have the ability to pass the blood brain barrier.
Essential oils are lipid soluble and are capable of penetrating cell walls, even if they have hardened because of oxygen deficiency. In fact, they can affect every cell of the body within 20 minutes and are then metabolized like other nutrients.
Essential oils are powerful antioxidants. Antioxidants create an unfriendly environment for free radicals. They prevent all mutations, work as free radical scavengers, prevent fungus, and prevent aging oxidation in the cells. Essential oils may detoxify the cells and blood in the body. They have been shown to destroy all tested bacteria and viruses while simultaneously restoring balance to the body.
Essential oils promote emotional, physical and spiritual healing. They have a bio-electrical frequency that is several times greater than the frequency of herbs, food, and even the human body. Clinical research has shown that essential oils can quickly raise the frequency of the human body, restoring it to its normal, healthy level. [Reference Guide for Essential Oils, Higley]
In my practice, essential oils are used to enhance the entire body/mind system – fostering inspiration and trust in the healing process, stress and tension relief, supporting the other modalities of an energy healing processes, and to bless and “seal a session” through anointing.
What is a good way to begin using flower essences immediately?
Many of us begin with discovering the widely available RESCUE REMEDY which is the most famous of the Bach remedies, but is not a single flower remedy, it’s a blend of 5 different Bach Flower Remedies
Rescue Remedy was created by Dr. Bach to deal with emergencies, grief, trauma, crisis, or stressful situations –when there is no time to make a proper individual selection of remedies which might be a part of your session with Gabrielle. It can be used to help get through any stressful situations, from last-minute exams or interview nerves to the aftermath of an accident or bad news. It helps us relax, regain focus, and get the needed calmness to cope with stress.
Bach Rescue Remedy Natural Stress Relief Description
- Gentle & Non-Habit Forming
- Natural Active Ingredients
- Homeopathic
- Contains your choice of a small amount of Alcohol or Apple Cider vinegar as a preservative
Natural Stress Relief
Trusted worldwide for generations, the easily available Rescue Remedy® is a daily essential for those moments when you are juggling too much – work deadlines, soccer practice and the hustle and bustle of everyday life.
The Rescue Remedy® formula is the same today as when it was first developed by Dr. Edward Bach almost a hundred years ago.
Rescue Remedy includes:
Cherry Plum – Have Self Control
Clematis – Have Focus
Impatiens – Have Patience
Rock Rose – Have Courage
Star of Bethlehem – Neutralize Grief
Impatiens: For meeting deadlines and those who act and think quickly and have no patience for what they see as the slowness of others. They often prefer to work alone. Teaches empathy and understanding of and patience with others. We’ve found it very fast-acting in alleviating an impatient attitude and lowering stress.
Star of Bethlehem: For trauma and shock, whether experienced recently or in the past. Teaches the ability to recover from traumas and to integrate them into the present life.
Cherry Plum: For those who fear losing control of their thoughts and actions and doing things they know are bad for them or which they consider wrong. Teaches trust in one’s spontaneous wisdom and the courage to follow one’s path.
Rock Rose: For situations in which one experiences panic or terror.
Clematis: For those in” flight”, or who find their lives unhappy and withdraw into fantasy worlds. They are ungrounded and indifferent to the details of everyday life. Teaches one to establish a bridge between the physical world and the world of ideas; may foster great creativity. Is also used to bring clarity and alertness to the present moment.
Rescue Remedy is designed to help deal with immediate problems. If you are working through an underlying problem – or if you need rescuing every day – you will find a longer-term solution when Gabrielle and you select a personalized blend of remedies for you.
Directions
Adults: take 4 drops directly under the tongue or 7 drops in water bottle and sip morning and evening & throughout the day. Repeating a positive affirmation regarding the reason you are taking the remedy amplifies the effect. Example: “I am safe and steady.” or “I am free to relax now.”
Children under 12:4 drops in water bottle to sip morning and evening & throughout the day. Pets: 4 drops in their water bowl.
More on Flower Essences: https://www.bachflower.com/ or Home | Flower Essence Services and Perelandra Essences
Come for a tune-up, come for sanctuary from the harshness all around, come to reconnect with the goodness of your own nature. Return to feeling good, feeling connected, feeling able to embody well-being with the assistance of our generous friends in nature: God’s pharmacy.
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What can I do in the meantime?
Get outside ~ walk, contemplate, talk to the trees, do Tai Chi or Chi Gung, play, dream, listen, commune with nature. And check out another post from a previous spring when I shared with you my meeting with the nature devas through the guidance of my mentor, Dorothy Maclean. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Maclean
In Dorothy’s guidance which follows, a nature Diva speaks of each flower’s unique contribution to the mandala of life, so too do each one of us plays a unique part in the Divine plan for our era of massive transformation.
We would mention something of the forces that play through each plant. We are all different: the leaves are different, the flowers are differently shaped and colored, the way growth proceeds is different. Each of us is supremely planned to emit a certain aura, to have a certain influence and to portray a certain idea of God. When we are at our best we stand as a perfect example of an idea and all who momentarily stop and admire are helped.
Dorothy maclean
It does not matter if there is a message or not, it is the state which counts. Just tune into nature until you feel the love flow.
Dorothy Maclean
Thank you to all of you who appreciate the healing benefits of nature’s helpers, for following my blog, and for sharing this post. In fellowship, Gabrielle
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