A Primer On Sacred Plant Medicine
Blocking the “Shadow” and healing the emotions
Sacred Plant Medicine are tinctures and/or solutions of water and drinking alcohol, or glycerine. Usually, the water contains extreme dilutions of flower material. Proponents of these solutions claim that the dew found or some other component on flower petals or other parts of the plant retain unique vibrational qualities, and /or the qi or healing properties of that plant.
From a metaphysical and mystic perspective, Sacred Plant Medicine can be used as a tool to neutralize shadow forces, dissolve body armor, balance the chakras, and free cellular memory. Sacred Plant Medicine can also subconsciously shift language patterns.
Sacred Plant Medicine is especially valuable for empaths who are uncomfortable with being touched. This also applies to individuals with Asperger’s Syndrome or who are on the Autism Spectrum.
A Quick Review Of Sacred Plant Medicine (Flower Remedies)
There is no one reason for CUSD (chronic unhappiness, sadness, and depression), or intrusive voices in Lucid dreams or during astral projection. This is also so concerning the shadow.
Each individual is likely to have a unique history of dysfunctional relationships, traumatic childhood, stress, financial hardships, insomnia and sleep disorders, unresolved grief, genetic predisposition, aging, serious physical illness, or family environment. Individually or in combination, some or all of these factors may initiate a downward spiraling cycle that results in emotional or mental challenges of one type or another.
Homeopathically prepared herbal-based flower remedies can help heal different types of emotional, mental, and spiritual challenges and achieve this on a vibrational/energetic level.
These homeopathically prepared plant essences support the individual in dealing with these mental, and emotional challenges.
The remedies help balance qi, and by doing so open the intuitive door for the individual to recognize and address issues such as personal growth, self-observation, forgiving, getting in touch with repressed feelings, expressing gratitude, effective communication, ending procrastination, making choices instead of excuses, ending self-isolation, impatience, hopelessness, a sense of impending doom, and despondency.
General, mental, and emotional stress, trauma, spiritual longing, and energetic imbalances alone or in combination are all major causes of mental and emotional challenges.
In the case of situational CUSD the ability of a person to control responses to stress, rather than becoming a victim of unpleasant situations has a great impact on the healing process.
There are many different systems of energetically based flower remedies, however, by far the most commonly used and most easily available are those developed in the 1930s by the British pathologist, homeopath, and research scientist (in bacteriology, pathology, and immunology) Dr. Edward Bach. Dr Bach took the vibrational principles so frequently associated with Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine today and applied them to balancing emotional states through homeopathically prepared flower remedies. Bach discovered that behind every patient’s situational depression and emotional and psychological disturbances is a vibrational link.
Over a number of years, Dr. Bach isolated remedies, one by one, each remedy intended to treat a different negative and counterproductive emotion. Bach discovered that picking certain species of wildflowers at certain times in their blooming cycle and preparing them homeopathically maximized their vibrationally based healing qualities. Eliminating toxic plants or those that might produce side effects, he discovered 38 flowering plants, trees, and special waters which had a profound influence on balancing various dysfunctional behavior patterns as well as different mental, and emotional stresses.
By looking beyond the limitations of allopathic medicine and the psychoanalytic approach dominant at that time he was able to take into account the feelings of his patients rather than just treating their psychological symptoms. By addressing the cause-and-effect relationship of pain when dealing with illness he bridged the gap between physical and emotional pain.
Bach was able to see before virtually any Western physicians or researchers the strong link between emotional imbalance and immunity. He describes in his writings that emotional challenges, especially, loss of hope, worry, anxiety, resentment, feelings of despair, fear, and lack of self-confidence, can deplete a patient’s vitality to the extent they may lose natural resistance and become susceptible to a host of physical illnesses.
Today one would be hard-pressed to find a knowledgeable progressive-thinking scientist or physician who does not at least look into the mental, emotional, and spiritual variables affecting an individual when attempting to treat a physical illness.
Dr. Bach’s remedies were and still are prepared by placing the petals and blooms of the specific herb in spring water and allowing sunlight to activate their potential. This process is a homeopathic approach called ‘potentising’ of the remedy. This sun “energized” liquid is then naturally preserved with a small amount of brandy. Those who wish to avoid all alcohol can place the liquid in very hot (not boiling) water to evaporate the brandy.
Because they are “energetically-based,” the Bach Flower remedies offer a spiritual dimension to the healing of CUSD, mental, emotional, and spiritual trauma, intrusive voices, and forms that might appear when an individual is in a state of flow or some other altered state of consciousness.
The remedies create a system for bolstering faith hope, and mental, emotional, and spiritual clarity.
Dr. Bach’s system (one of many that I work with) is based on the concept that everyone deserves love and that there is a power greater than ourselves that will help us to restore love and sanity in our lives. The flower remedies are not a crutch, they are a vehicle for clarity.
If you accidentally choose a remedy that is inappropriate for a specific emotional state the remedy has no effect at all, remaining neutral. The remedies do not work biochemically, but rather by gently re-establishing emotional and psychological equilibrium through energetic, or vibrational shifts. While other drug-based approaches as well as many herbs, and nutrients address brain chemistry and depression, the flower remedies do not specifically influence brain chemistry nor do they target specific symptoms. Rather they address the state of mind of the depressed or emotionally stressed individual. They balance chi by going to the person’s energy source. These remedies are considered a transformation event in the treatment of emotional problems through natural healing and homeopathy.
These flower remedies have been used for over eighty years by medical doctors, and psychologists, as well as the general public. Many mental-health professionals and spiritual teachers integrate these gentle homeopathic remedies into an emotional healing program specifically for CUSD, and qi imbalances in the physical plane, and in altered states. They are available in most natural food stores and are easily prepared by adding a few drops into spring water.
All of the 38 Bach remedies may affect CUSD in some indirect way. I had the opportunity to study in 1976 at Mt. Vernon, Dr. Bach’s home in England, and later with Marjorie Spaulding a long-term master of the remedies who had herself studied with Nora Weeks Dr. Bach’s successor. I also developed a long and deep friendship with the late, Leslie Kasloff, who through his family's distributing company had a major role in gaining recognition for the remedies in the American healing community. A master herbalist Leslie pointed out that the remedies that seemed to be most specific for CUSD were gorse, gentian, mustard, and sweet chestnut. Through my own experience I have seen these four remedies, particularly Gorse, help individuals who consistently experience feelings of hopelessness and despair.
Here are a few other combinations that I have seen these work effectively in specific situations,
* Obsessive Compulsive Disorder — Crab Apple, Heather and White Chestnut
* Fatigue exhaustion — Olive and Hornbeam
* Fear: Aspen, cherry Plum, Mimulus, Red Chestnut, and Rock Rose
* Insomnia — White chestnut, Olive Vervain
* Emotional insecurity and lack of confidence — Larch, Centaury, Cerato
* Loneliness — Water violet, Heather
* Stress — Olive, Vervain, Elm, Oak
* Suicidal thoughts — Cherry plum Agrimony
* Worry — White Chestnut, Agrimoney, Red chestnut
* Situation depression — Walnut. Larch, Mimulus, Aspen. Scleranthus
The Takeaway
You can get these at many independently owned natural food stores and also online. The particular brand you are looking for is Bach Flower remedies.
Remember, part of what Sacred Plant Medicine does, is magnify positive intention on the physical and spiritual planes.
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