Back to School time – already!

It seems like summer just got started, and here it is, time for kids to

head back to school. 

Some are eagerly awaiting the first day – happy to begin first grade or to get back in the classroom with their friends. 

Others are dreading it, wishing for the days to go slower before they’ll be required to show up.

Your child may be dreading school because it is an entirely new experience, or because it hasn’t been a pleasant experience. He or she may have been bullied or teased. There may be classmates – or even teachers – that make each day unpleasant. 

Perhaps you and your children have moved to a new community over the summer – so everything is different and scary. He or she won’t know anyone, won’t know the layout of the school, and won’t know any of the teachers. For a lot of kids, this is terrifying. 

Your child may have just moved from middle school to Junior High School. Or from Junior High to Senior High – or high school to college. Everyone is subjected to those rites of passage, but that doesn’t make it any easier for a student who is filled with anxiety over the change. 

How can you help?

First, by being understanding without being “enabling.” Let your child know that his or her feelings are perfectly normal. A whole lot of kids feel the same way. If you experienced the same anxiety, talk about how you got through it. Understand it, but don’t make a bigger problem out of it.

Second, by providing your child with a bottle of Feel5ive from FeelBach!. 

Feel5ive is the anti-stress formula Doctor Bach created to deal with fear and anxiety. It’s there to help on those fearful first days, and at times when you have to face something like a job interview or an audition, a dental appointment, surgery, or meeting your sweetheart’s Mom for the first time.  

Four drops 3 or 4 times a day will help keep your child on an even keel. Since schools are suspicious of anything they don’t know, put the mid-day drops in a bottle of water or juice that your child will take to school. 

Oh – and if you are the one who is anxious about your child going off to school, it will help you too! 

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What the world needs now is Holly

No, not the plant we use for decoration in winter, the essence that Dr. Bach developed.

Holly is the essence of love. It dispels hatred and gives us compassion and sympathy for those who disagree with us. It banishes jealousy and resentment and allows us to be comfortable “in our own skin” without needing to tear someone else down.

Willow also helps dispel bitterness, grudges, and hatred. It allows us to see what is good in our lives and stop dwelling on what others may or may not do. 

The world also needs Beech. This flower essence gives us understanding and tolerance for other people’s beliefs and uniqueness. It allows us to go on with our own lives without the need to change anyone else. Perhaps it would put an end to the personal attacks and the destruction that so many see as the answer to every dispute. 

• I’m not suggesting that universal love will erase all disagreement in the world.. 
• I’m not suggesting that we should fail to protect ourselves and our loved ones. 
• I’m not suggesting that we should accept the evil that some do and say it’s OK because its their belief or personal morality. 

 What I’m suggesting is that with daily doses of Holly, Willow, and Beech, people might cease the hateful words and deeds – which only make everything worse. 

While we do need to protect our families from harm, we might learn to mind our own business, do our own personal best, and stop insisting that everyone else agree with us. 

It would definitely be a good thing if individuals stopped causing harm to others who don’t share their opinions! 

If you have strong opinions and beliefs that produce hate, do realize that those feelings can only do you harm. Hatred, envy, and anger all do damage to both your mental and physical health. In addition, because the Law of Attraction is a natural law that cannot be broken, harboring those feelings can only bring more of the same into your life. 

Take care of yourself. Use the flower essences that Dr. Bach created to release your feelings of hatred, anger, bitterness, and envy. Give yourself the freedom to experience love and joy – and live your life to the fullest.

Come to FeelBach! and get what you need to feel good again.  

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Which of Dr. Bach’s flower essences was needed here?

Perhaps it was Impatiens, the flower essence that promotes patience. 

Or…it might be Elm, the flower essence that helps us cope when we’re faced with too many chores and responsibilities. 

Why was either one needed? 

In an already busy day/week/month, I was confronted by an unexpected chore. We decided that since we hadn’t used our boat in years, we should offer it for sale. And, since summer doesn’t last forever, we should get busy with getting it polished and ready to go. 

Unfortunately… When we took it out of storage to get it ready, we found that we’d had winter guests, and that they had brought their own dinner. In fact, they’d brought enough to last for months.

They’d also eaten dinner many times and left the remains for us to dispose of. Here’s the scene that greeted us when we opened the door to the cabin…

Every possible storage space was stuffed with pine cones – I removed about a dozen 5-gallon buckets full of pine cones. After counting one bucket full, the estimate is about 800 cones left behind – plus the remains of the ones that had been torn apart. (In case you’re not familiar with squirrels, they rip the cone apart to get at the seeds, which they eat.)

As you might expect, it took hours to remove the cones, then vacuum up the small pieces and scrub down the cabin. Thankfully, squirrels do not soil their “kitchens” – there were no droppings to clean up. 

I did need patience, and I did feel frustrated over this unexpected chore. I already had a full schedule of work to do, plus a garden full of weeds that needed to be pulled. I had no time for this! 

Impatiens is generally used to promote patience in dealing with other people. It might be children who argue or fail to do their chores. It might be co-workers or employees who seem to be dragging their feet or not doing their work correctly. In this case, it was simply impatience over wanting to hurry up and finish a job that necessarily took more hours than I wanted to spend. 

Elm is the flower essence for people who become overwhelmed because they take on too much work and don’t leave time for themselves. Often, the Elm personality believes they need to do it all – and do it all immediately. 

In this case, Elm was the flower essence to promote putting things in perspective. The cleaning needed to be done right away – so which other chores could be temporarily set aside?

Whatever obstacles you’re facing in life, they come down to an imbalance in your energies and perhaps an inability to listen to your inner voice. 

Fortunately for us, Dr. Bach discovered the secret to re-balancing those energies. He left the world with 38 different flower essences, each with the ability to help us overcome the obstacles and get back to leading happy lives. 

If YOU are out of balance… turn to Dr. Bach’s flower remedies. Learn all about them at Feel Bach!