FLOWER REMEDIES
Emotional Wellbeing through Bach Flower Remedies
INTRODUCTION
The Bach Flower
Philosophy
Dr Edward Bach invented the Bach Flower Remedies over one hundred years ago and they are still as powerful in promoting restfulness and calmness today as they did back then. From the flower fields next to his home came a legacy that continues to live on.
Dr Bach said, "Healing with the clean, pure, beautiful agents of nature is surely the one method of all which appeals to most of us.”
He believed that the healing of emotions has a knock-on effect on a person's physical well-being.
During the 1920s and the 1930s, he discovered the flower remedies from the fields next to his home. His cottage in Mount Vernon, United Kingdom is the home of the Bach Centre. This is his story.
THE COLLECTION
Promoting Emotional Wellbeing and Balance
The Bach Flower Remedies include a collection of 38 different remedies that can be applied to alleviate symptoms of a variety of emotional stresses.
Each remedy is associated with a specific human emotion and can be used to treat anxiety, fear, and many more. When the remedies are applied, these emotions subside which allows a person to function normally.
I conduct a one-on-one consultation with you to ascertain which emotional distresses you may be experiencing and I offer a unique, bespoke remedy to assist you in managing these emotional imbalances. I’ll request a follow-up consultation to assess the shift in energy and how these remedies may have helped you.
Dr. Edward Bach
THE BACH LEGACY
The Making of a100-Year-Old Legacy
Dr. Edward Bach was born in 1886 in a village called Moseley, near Birmingham, England.
After he completed his medicine studies at the University College Hospital, London, he remained at the hospital as a house surgeon.
Despite his success, he felt dissatisfied with the way doctors focused on diseases all while ignoring the people who were suffering from these diseases, namely the patients.
THE TURNING POINT
From Traditional Medicine to Homeopathy
After practicing as a bacteriologist and his research in immunology, he turned his attention toward homeopathy.
In 1919 he joined the laboratories of the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital.
He came to believe that illness was the effect of disharmony between body and mind. Finally in 1928 after receiving only limited recognition for his work, he started working on developing remedies made from plants.
In 1930, at the age of forty-three, he gave up his lucrative practice on Harley Street and left London. He wanted to focus his attention full time on finding a new system of healing involving plant remedies.
Spending much time in Wales and the English countryside, he discovered and started preparing new herbal remedies. By 1932 he discovered the first of his 12 remedies, using the remedies on patients who came to him for treatment. A year later, in 1933, he started making the second group of remedies, the 7 helpers.
FULL CIRCLE
The Journey Toward Completion
In 1934 Dr. Bach moved to Mount Vernon in Oxfordshire. It was in the lanes and fields nearby that he found the remaining 19 remedies that he needed to complete the series.
He would suffer the emotional state that he needed to cure and then try various plants and flowers until he found the one single plant that could help him. In this way, through great personal suffering and sacrifice, he completed his life’s work.
He published his work, principally in public lectures and in magazine articles. He wrote articles and gave lectures between 1933 and 1936 in relation to the remedies. He advertised his herbal remedies in two of the daily newspapers. This brought him numerous inquiries from the public, but the General Medical Council disapproved strongly of his advertising.
THE LAST DAYS
A Legacy Lives On
Just as he had abandoned his old home, office, and work, so now he abandoned the scientific methods he had used up until now. Instead, he chose to rely on his natural gifts as a healer, and use his intuition to guide him.
One by one he found the remedies he wanted, each aimed at a particular mental state or emotion. His life followed a seasonal pattern: the spring and summer spent looking for and preparing the remedies, the winter spent giving help and advice to all who came looking for them.
He found that when he treated the personalities and feelings of his patients their unhappiness and physical distress would be alleviated as the natural healing potential in their bodies was unblocked and allowed to work once more.
Dr. Bach passed away peacefully on the evening of November 27th, 1936. He was only 50 years old, but he had left behind him several lifetime’s experience and effort, and a system of medicine that is now used all over the world.
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