What are Flower Essences?

Safe, gentle yet potent botanical medicine, providing emotional and physical support and healing. The unique vibrational healing signature of each flower.

How did I discover Flower Essences?

I was working with a naturopath in my early 20’s to support a form of chronic fatigue and she prescribed Flower Essences for me. I began taking them and was amazed at the influence they had. Only two modalities have had such profound influence on my life and work, one is Flower Essences, the other is yin yoga.

For almost 30 years Flower Essences have steadied and supported me through times of transition, grief, physical illness and in optimising my capacity to dream and manifest the life I live and the future I am creating.

How do Flower Essences work?

Flowers carry a vibrational frequency, as everything in existence does. When you work with a Flower Essence you are matching the vibrational frequency (healing properties) of a given flower, or flowers, to that state within you that is ‘off-key’ or ‘imbalanced’.

Like many vibrational medicines, (think acupuncture), Flower Essences bring balance to the emotional states that underly many physical issues. Dr Bach (creator of the Bach Flower Remedies) noted that patients whose emotional health improved subsequently noticed improvements in their physical condition.

Vibrational medicine is holistic, it doesn’t separate the physical symptoms a person has from the mental, emotional, and spiritual elements of that person’s wellbeing.

• Flower Essences restore our natural state:
  You look at the root cause of an issue and bring harmony rather than looking at symptom and masking it
• They work on the emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual levels:
  Many modern medications are reductionist and will suppress a condition; anti-inflammatory, anti-depressant. A Flower Essence raises vibration rather than providing symptomatic relief by holistically considering the underlying causes of a condition.

Plants healing properties have been used since time immemorial. There is documentation of Flower Essences being used in their earliest forms, in the 13th Century. Nowadays a Flower Essence is created by distilling the flower in water, in direct sunlight, and allowing the water to absorb the vibrational imprint of the plant. You have what is considered ‘vibrational medicine’.

A botanical, energetic, incredibly potent, yet very gentle medicine. Safe, non-toxic, and free from any particle of the plant material in crude form, so free from any allergen.

How can they help YOU?

You’ll become the person you are capable of being with the resolution of the issue you are concerned with. For example:

• Release the tension headaches and you’ll be a happier, calmer version of you, but you’ll also have addressed the cause of the tension. So different to taking an Ibuprofen
• Alleviate the teeth-grinding in your sleep and you’ll enhance the quality of your sleep, but you’ll also have worked to resolve the issue that was causing the teeth-grinding in the first place, be that stress, anxiety, fear

When I am giving a Flower Essence consultation, I am really listening to a person’s story. Several people may present with the same condition i.e: anxiety or headaches, but the remedy isn’t prescriptive, it’s given to support the underlying cause of the anxiety or headache so very different blends are created for each individual.

Flower Essences allow us to recognise and release limiting, often deeply held beliefs, patterns and stories. Sometimes inherited through generations, sometimes cultural conditioning. They can help you find your purpose, power, and potential.

Often when I am talking to someone certain Flower Essences come to mind and I’ll recognise a certain constitutional type. The freedom in realising that it’s not simply ‘how you are’ but something you can release.

Flower Essences are a tool I’ve had in my toolbox since I was first introduced to them in my early 20’s. My story…

I began studying Flower Essences and started training in prescribing them as a practitioner not long after first taking them. I initially studied the Australian Bush Flower Essences as they were the Flower Essences that were prescribed to me and influenced me so profoundly.

I also have a specific connection to Australia; my grandfather was a Chemist in Western Australia. He ran an Apothecary and was known and accepted by the local indigenous people who taught him a lot about native Australian plants, it was very unusual for a white settler to be accepted as he was. I think this work was in my lineage for a reason!

For many years I studied with, and attended workshops with Ian White, the founder of The Australian Bush Flower Essences, whilst building my collection of Essences and treating friends and family. I gave consultations and prescribed and blended remedies for friends and family for free, but I was gaining experience and feedback.

More importantly I now realise, I was also unknowingly building relationship with the essences. When you take an essence, you are building an alliance, a collaboration. I liken the essences to good friends; I am lucky to have a wide-ranging circle of friends from many different chapters of my life.

If you can relate, you’ll know how you turn to different friends at different times in different situations. Flower Essences are such allies. You are crafting an energetic relationship when you work with a Flower Essence and that remains with you. In the interim years I have also studied and trained with the Bach Flower Remedies, the English Flower Remedies of Dr Bach.

Summary

I think Flower Essences currently sit somewhere outside the bounds of ‘conventional treatments’ but this brings an extra layer of satisfaction when clients see benefits and change through taking them even if, or perhaps more so if, they had a level of scepticism. You don’t have to believe in them for them to work, you just need to take them.

I have Flower Essence clients who are body builders, teachers, athletes, and toddlers. I have used Flower Essence remedies to support animals terrified by fireworks, children sick at the prospect of going to school, teeth grinders, the anxious, the heartbroken, those seeking direction and those supporting chronic burnout.

We can of course all be, or experience, all, or any of these things at any time. Flower Essences can support us through our human experience.