Should You Consult With a Bach Practitioner?

Should you hire a Bach practitioner to help you choose and use Dr. Bach’s Flower Remedies, or should you simply fill out the questionnaire and do it on your own? 

The answer to that lies in how comfortable you are with sharing your feelings.

A Bach practitioner is trained to help you get to the root cause of an unpleasant emotion. For instance, you may think you're feeling anger at an adult child who doesn’t give you the attention you crave. That may lead you to think that you're too demanding or controlling.

In fact, your feelings may stem from something you've "hidden" from yourself, such as shame over something you said to that child - perhaps years ago. By talking through those feelings with the Bach practitioner, you may find a solution that lets you uncover - and release - a long standing guilt.

You may feel that you've developed an attention deficit because you can't stick with a project and get things done. You might think you need our Attention Deficit Remedy.

The Bach practitioner might discover that you're simply trying to do too much and please too many people. What you really need is Centaury to gain the balance and courage to say no to demands.

On the other hand, if you're such a private person that you couldn't possibly explore your feelings with someone else, you'll do better by digging deep into your own feelings, and filling out the questionnaire as honestly as possible. The questions are designed to help you get to the root of things, and re-balance the energies that are causing your distress.

Whether you go it alone or get help from an expert, turn to Dr. Bach's essences to re-balance your energies and get you back to loving life!

Is there such a thing as too much love?

Unfortunately, there is. Perhaps not too much love, but too much worry and concern for loved ones.

The fact is, you can love your friends and family so much that you can harm them. If you're doing this, you need Red Chestnut.

Red Chestnut is the Flower Essence for those who worry unnecessarily about the health and well-

being of their loved ones. For instance, the Father who can't allow a child to go off to summer camp because he or she might get hurt; the Mother who walks the floor until her adult child, or anyone else she loves, calls to say they have safely made it to a destination; and the Grandmother who tries to discourage her grandchildren from participating in sports because she fears for their safety.

Their constant thought is "what if..." and they imagine the worst. 

These parents and grandparents are suffering - there's no doubt, but unfortunately, they are not the only ones who suffer. While the concern is based in love, the over-protectiveness and hovering can be stifling and even emotionally damaging to those they worry about. 

In fact, this much "love" can cause physical symptoms as well. When writing about this malady, Dr. Bach told about the reactions of his friends when he had suffered an accident. He said he felt their worry as an acute physical pain in his own body.

Since the last thing you want to inflict on your loved ones is pain, visit FeelBach! today and learn how Dr. Bach's Essences can help you release the fears that keep you from enjoying having people to love.

Dr. Bach's Essences Can Smooth Life's Bumpy Road

All of us, at some time or another, encounter energy blocks that make life less than joyful. 

It could be indecision, it could be changes we don't particularly like, it could be an event that's left us

worried about the future.

It could be our relationships that are off-kilter. Maybe we're being impatient or too demanding. Maybe we're feeling used, ignored, or unloved by those we care for.

Maybe we're not happy with our own behavior. We're down on ourselves for not having the energy to tackle all we should do, or we're ashamed of procrastination. Maybe we've just gotten into a funk and don't want to do a darned thing!

Whatever the reason, any time we're not going about our days happy within our own skins, it's time to do something about it.

It doesn't matter if the problem is chronic or if it comes and goes. It still interferes with living and loving life.

So if you're feeling less than joyful all the time or if you just hit weeks when life throws you off balance, look to Dr. Bach's essences to pull you out of it.

You can visit this overview page to get an idea about the essences that will help you. Then go to our reference guide to get more detailed information about each of the essences.

If you're still not sure what flower essences to use to pull yourself out of the doldrums, go to the FeelBach! questionnaire. Be absolutely honest with yourself about your feelings, and the Feel Bach! experts will help you choose a blend that will put you back on the path to joyful living.

Life is too precious to waste your days feeling less than your best, so let Dr. Bach's essences help.

Using Flower Remedies Externally

We generally think of Dr. Bach's essences as something we take internally to help re-balance our energies.

However, according to the book:  Floral Acupuncture – Applying the Flower Essences of Dr. Bach to Acupuncture Sites, these healing essences are also effective when used externally.

The essences are used similarly to acupuncture, but instead of needles, practitioners apply a few drops of flower essence to points on a meridian. Then, as with acupuncture, the patient rests for about 45 minutes. 

The book introduces each of the 38 essences, tells what each is used for, and offers photographs showing the proper application points. Thus, this is treatment that can be applied at home by anyone willing to study the book and the illustrations.

According to the testimonials, relief can come quickly. For instance, a teacher who was mentally exhausted from a conflict with another teacher used Hornbeam to regain her cheerful outlook and enthusiasm. 

Hornbeam  can also relieve varicose veins and help soothe tired eyes when used as a compress. Since tired eyes seem to be a chronic ailment in our computer-oriented society, and since commercial eye drops do carry risks, this is welcome news.

White Chestnut applied to acupressure points gave another reader relief from thoughts that kept going round and round, preventing her from moving forward. White Chestnut re-patterned her thought process.

Yet another reader reported that this method of using Centaury helped her to set boundaries in her life – and stop being a “yes-person.” She used Centaury when faced with a specific situation.

If You're Plagued by Indecision...

Do you suffer when you have to make a decision – because you don’t trust your own judgment and you don’t know which of your friends or relatives has given you the right answer?

If so, you’re in a negative Cerato state.

This negative state occurs when you’ve lost belief in your higher self. It causes you to mistrust your inner voice and seek guidance from others, sometimes to your detriment.

It also causes friends and family to become annoyed with you. How many times does anyone want to tell someone else that they should wear the white shirt or the blue shirt, or that they should choose this movie or that one?

Worse, most of us really don't want to be responsible for telling people what to decide about major life changes. But the negative Cerato personality will persist in asking - and asking again.

The interesting part of this is that you probably do know the right answer to your question or solution to your problem. You just don’t trust that it’s right. So, you ask opinions of everyone. Naturally, those opinions will differ, so you’re left with a new decision – whose advice should you take?

Once back in a positive Cerato state, your inner voice grows stronger. So instead of agonizing over every decision, you’ll have an air of quiet certainty. What a relief!

Doctor Bach classified Cerato as one of the “Twelve Healers” in his collection of 38 flower essences. These twelve he described as key to transforming root personality imbalances, which he believed were associated with physical illness as well as mental and emotional distress.

If you're suffering from indecision, order your bottle of Cerato from Feel Bach today... so you can start trusting your higher self once again.