Bachflower Crisis
Bachflower Crisis
Bachflower Crisis
Contents
Introduction: Using Bach Flower Therapy to Resolve Emotional Crises How to Use This Book
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11. Lena (age 14): No one understands me and my world. 12. Judith (age 37): I no longer understand the world my 14-year-old daughter lives in. 13. My son (age 19) doesnt want to live at home anymore. 14. I became unexpectedly pregnant in the middle of college. What am I supposed to do?
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35. I feel like Im being attacked. 36. I feel burned out. 37. I have lost my job and I have existential angst.
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Aging
38. I am upset about getting old. 39. Im having trouble adjusting to my husbands retirement. 41. I feel exploited in my role as a grandmother. 42. The idea of having to move into a senior home makes me panic. 00 00 00 00 00
Other Crises
43. Our son, aged 19, died suddenly. 44. Since my accident, I cant sleep anymore. 45. As a foreigner, I keep going back and forth on whether I should stay in the United States. 46. I am upset that Im so disorganized. 47. HelpI cant control my weight! 49. I have to give away my beloved dog. I cant bear it. 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
48. My horse broke his leg. Do I have to have him put to sleep? 50. My dog rules this house.
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22. Oak: The Endurance Flower 23. Olive: The Regeneration Flower 24. Pine: The Self-Acceptance Flower 25. Red Chestnut: The Cutting-Free Flower 26. Rock Rose: The Liberation Flower 27. Rock Water: The Flexibility Flower 28. Scleranthus: The Balance Flower 29. Star of Bethlehem: The Comfort Flower 30. Sweet Chestnut: The Deliverance Flower 31. Vervain: The Enthusiasm Flower 32. Vine: The Authority Flower 33. Walnut: The Midwife Flower 34. Water Violet: The Communication Flower 35. White Chestnut: The Thought Flower 36. Wild Oat: The Vocational Calling Flower 37. Wild Rose: The Zest for Life Flower 38. Willow: The Destiny Flower 39. Rescue RemedyThe Emergency Remedy
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Introduction
Using Bach Flower Therapy to Resolve Emotional Crises
Crises as Catalysts
Life is an eternal process of development. Those who accept this, and go with the flow, will have an easier time traveling the river of life. If one blocks this flowstruggling against it consciously or unconsciouslydevelopmental energy will be blocked and a crisis will occur. This crisis creates the chaos necessary for new movement to take place. Developmental energy comes back into flow, making possible the next step in the journey of life. Thus every crisis is a tool for psychic self-help.
Spiritual Misunderstandings
Spiritual misunderstandings cause our personality to act without the inspiration of our inner guidance. The personality then sees itself not as a part of the Great Whole; instead it lives under the illusion of being entirely independent. Under these conditions, the personality does not turn inward but outward. For example, it relies exclusively upon social norms
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or the advice of other people, thus deviating from its own life plan. This leads to an interruption in the cosmic energy flow and to blockages in the development of character. We experience these blockages as destructive behavior patterns, such as being impatient, apathetic, or domineering. Edward Bach defined thirty-eight negative psychic states or distorted reaction patterns. These thirty-eight states form a repertoire of behavior that can be observed in all people, irrespective of time, race, and culture. Manifesting as symptoms, they show us in what areas we have lost our connection to our inner guidance and have been cut off from the energy flow. In crisis situations it can be observed that a great number of people repeatedly express identical reaction clusters in the form of negative beliefs. For each of these thirty-eight reaction clusters Bach identified a flower essence that would harmonize the negative energies, bringing them back into line with the wisdom of inner guidance. In this book, you will find fifty common crisis situations including the reaction clusters expressed by the affected person and the flower essence necessary to harmonize each reaction. At the beginning of a crisis you can determine your appropriate flower mixture to a great degree from the described cases.
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Recommendations
1. Write down your answers to the following question: Which reactions and flowers correspond to me? If too few reactions are found, read the other cases in this chapter. 2. Refer as necessary to the Reaction Clusters section of this book. 3. Read the further steps in the How to Use This Book section.
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How do I react, and what Bach Flower patterns are identifiable? ) It is very hard for me to leave my child at the kindergarten. ) I feel like a bad mother when my child looks sadly back at me after I kiss her good-bye. ) The teachers tell me things are going well for my child in kindergarten, but perhaps they just want to placate me and theyre holding back the truth? ) I cant fully enjoy the things I do while my child is at kindergarten, because I have a guilty conscience. Red Chestnut
Pine
Gentian
Pine
) I often think back on my own unhappy kindergarten days. Honeysuckle ) I am afraid that Im worrying too much about my daughter and projecting my own memories onto her. Cerato, Red Chestnut
Red Chestnut
Pine
Gentian
Honeysuckle
Cerato
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Red Chestnut
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anxiety from other people, and you do not feel really free and independent internally.