In 1928 a Welsh Medical Doctor, Dr. Edward Bach, abandoned his practice. He felt that Mother Nature must have the answer for curing disease and he began a search of the English countryside that took him the final nine years of life and led to his discovery of 38 flowers with special healing properties. These became his now well-known Bach Flower Remedies.
Since Dr. Bach created his 38 flower remedies, people from many parts of the world have discovered and researched a multitude of other flowers with special healing properties to help clear negative emotional states.
Is Disease Simply Dis-Ease?
Dr. Bach observed with his patients that their physical illness appeared to be the result of some underlying negative emotional state. Some kind of dis-ease a person was feeling or a lack of alignment with their true source, their soul.
He decided to ignore their physical condition completely and simply treat the negative emotion a person was experiencing with one of his newly found flower remedies. After taking Dr. Bach's flower remedies his patients were able to clear their negative emotional states and astonishingly their physical conditions began to heal as well. Even serious diseases disappeared completely.
Dr. Bach observed, "They cure, not by attacking the disease, but by flooding our bodies with the beautiful vibrations of our higher nature, in the presence of which disease melts away, as snow in the sunshine."
Healing with Energy
Flower Essences belong to a field that has been called 'Vibrational Medicine'--healing with energy. Any type of healing that uses pure energy including sound, colour, crystals, gems or electro-magnetic fields is a variation of this field known as vibrational medicine.
According to Dr. Richard Gerber, author of the book Vibrational Medicine, "When the flower makes contact with the water, its life force or energy imprint, is transferred and stored in the water. And it is this that appears to be doing the healing. It's not a chemical effect at all like a herbal remedy. It's the energy, or vibration that is producing the results."
"When a person takes a flower essence, it has the effect of re-balancing energy blockages in their system. The person then seems to feel better, mentally, emotionally and in many cases, physical problems actually disappear," Dr. Gerber comments.
Like Cures Like - a principle of Homeopathy
Dr. Bach was greatly influenced by the work of German physician Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of Homeopathy. He wrote a book called "The Organon of Rational Medicine" and Bach was greatly impressed by this work that seemed to share his own view that one should treat the patient and not the disease.
The basic principle of Homeopathy is one of like cures like. In other words, the finding that a substance which produced disease symptoms in a healthy person will cure those same symptoms in a sick person. It's also been called the Law of Similars.
Orthodox medicine embodies what's known as the law of opposites, and that means if a person has diarrhea they're given something which has a constipating effect.
A Homeopathic remedy is prepared in a similar way to a flower essence. In other words, a substance which can be of animal, vegetable or mineral origin, is introduced to water and it is the energy imprint of that particular substance remaining stored in the water that produces the healing effect. It was through an understanding of Homeopathic principles that Dr. Bach went on to discover his flower essences.
How Flower Essences are Created
Dr. Bach used a method of placing particular flower blossoms in a bowl of spring water and leaving them in the sun for several hours in order for the vibration, or energy of the flower to be transferred into the water where it is stored. This flower water is then known as 'the mother essence' and it would be bottled along with some brandy as a preservative. Smaller bottles were then made up by diluting the mixture, and finally a dosage bottle would be made up with a particular number of drops in a bottle of spring water with a tiny bit of brandy to preserve the solution. A person would then take 4 to 7 drops of the essence several times a day.
In order to cause the least amount of trauma to a plant's subtle energy, some people prefer to make flower essences by simply dropping spring water through the flower blossoms with a dropper bottle and gathering the water in a bowl to later be stored in a bottle to which equal quantities of brandy has been added for preserving the essence. They then follow the same procedure as Dr. Bach did for making smaller bottles of flower essences to use for creating their dosage bottles.
Are We Really Beings of Light?
Mystics throughout the ages have referred to us as beings of light. It is only now that science has begun to validate the basic premise behind this statement.
"The discovery by physicists that the particles of an atom can behave as waves as well as particles has helped to give us a whole new understanding of the Universe and our relationship to it," says Dr. Gerber. "It has opened our eyes to the possibility that the world we have believed to be made of solid matter is also non-material, composed of energy fields, the very same energy fields we have in our bodies."
The concept of a universal field of energy is well accepted by many ancient cultures. In India, Universal Energy is known as prana, and Yoga postures were developed to encourage a healthy flow of prana to the vital organs of the body.
How Vibrational Remedies Work
If our bodies are not just sophisticated machines but complex biological mechanisms consisting of vital energy fields, then it goes a long way to explaining how a vibrational medicine, such as a flower essence could have a definite effect. Dr. Gerber explains that, "A vibrational medicine attempts to heal illness by manipulating our subtle energy fields by directing the more coherent energy patterns of a particular flower into the body, instead of manipulating the cells and organs through drugs or surgery."
As consciousness is rising on our planet we are beginning to have a greater understanding of the inter-connectedness of our mind, body and emotions and the important role our emotions play in us staying healthy.
It could be that sometime in the future vibrational remedies such as flower essences will become the main form of treatment for any disease or dis-ease of the human body. Perhaps drugs, and even some herbs, will no longer be necessary to keep us healthy.
SOURCES:
- Richard Gerber, M.D. 'Vibrational Medicine'
- Dr Eward Bach 'Heal Thyself' and 'The Twelve Healers and Other Remedies'
Maggie Lawrence - Maggie is an award winning copywriter, screenwriter and film maker. She has also written sitcoms and a children's book.
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