Flower Energy Work – Historical Context | Bach Flower Rescue Remedy

No Comments By Katherine C. H. E. on June 5th, 2010

Flower Energy Work – Historical Context

Category: Bach Flower Rescue Remedy

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The use of flowers to improve well-being goes back at least 60,000 years. Imagine that: 60,000 years! A multitude of ways flowers were used developed over the years, including teas, tinctures, capsules, and compresses to name just a few. Throughout the world, many systems using flowers have developed, and they have been more and less main-stream for these many thousands of years – but ALWAYS an important part of maintaining well-being in this world.

Even in our society today, we use flowers to uplift and with the intention of making people feel better. We are so used to doing it that we don’t even think about it in that way. Think about some of the times you send flowers or take people flowers – when they are sick or recovering from a sickness and to funerals. In these cases, the intent is to improve the well-being of the recipient – to help them to feel better, to be healthier, to uplift them.

Physical flowers have been used and are still in use to this day to improve health and well-being. Then, aromatherapy, using the fragrance, came along at least 6,000 years ago. (And, it is interesting to note here that 6,000 years ago also coincides roughly with the first time written records were kept. It is hard to know about the use of smells before people could write down their experiences; so, it seems very likely that this approach could be much, much older. Nonetheless, we know of its importance for at least 6,000 years.)

So, first flowers themselves were used and then the smell of flowers — first, the physical flower and then something associated with the physical flower but not using the flower itself, just its smell.

And then, in the first decade of the 1800’s (just 200 years ago), a new approach to well-being came along called homeopathy in which the substance used to treat an illness is extremely, extremely diluted. The original intent was to preserve a substance’s therapeutic properties while removing its harmful effects – like side-effects. The idea was that extreme dilution would (as the founder of homeopathy put it) arouse and enhance the “spirit-like medicinal powers held within a drug.”

This again takes us one step further away from the thing itself and one more step toward the Energy of the thing. The thing used in homeopathy is not practically or measurably present in the homeopathic remedies – say, echinacea. (In the echinacea remedy – in the pills or solution – you cannot find any chemical traces of the echinacea itself.) It is the memory or the energetic imprint or the electrical or energetic pattern of the echinacea which remains – and it remains in a physical form – in a solution or in a little, tiny pill. Those tiny pills are all about their Energetic content and not their medicinal content. Here again is another step removed from the thing itself. Here, the energy is transferred from the thing to the little pills and then on to the person who uses them. Many homeopathic remedies are based on flowers. (And, the flower essences so popular today, like the Bach Flower Remedies rely on this same theory of dilution and energetic or electrical transfer from homeopathy. The Bach Flower Remedies is an entire system based almost exclusively on flowers.)

So, what is the next logical step in this progression?

First, humans used the flowers themselves; then the smell of the flower; and then the energetic imprint of the flower on another substance… I believe the next logical step is to tap directly into the Energy of the flower – without anything physical whatsoever. This is really ground-breaking – working with something specific (in this case, flowers) – and yet doing so without any thing physical, just the power of our thoughts about flowers!

When we work purely with the energy of flowers, that means that all people at all times have access to all the benefits of all flowers. We don’t need drops or pills or even the physical flowers themselves. Someone in the middle of the winter in the arctic has just as much access to this energy as someone in the middle of a tropical flower farm! So, try thinking about your favorite flowers and see how much better you feel.

Katherine C. H. E. is a Flower Energy Consultant and Flower Meditation Coach. She helps empower her clients to take charge of their own well-being to empower themselves – with flowers – to live the BEST LIFE POSSIBLE.

Check out her website http://www.KatherineCHE.com for meditation audio (including some free downloads and meditations designed specifically to help to uplift in different ways). For more information, go to her website: http://www.KatherineCHE.com

Author: Katherine C. H. E.
Article Source: EzineArticles.com
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