What Are Mystic Flower Remedies

My jouney in using Plant Spirit Medicine

There is no one reason for our emotional states. There are many. I have studied this as a student and teacher of shamanism

Each individual will have a unique history concerning their core resources. There is love, empathy, compassion, etc, but there may also be dysfunctional relationships, traumatic childhood issues, stress, financial hardships, insomnia and sleep disorders, shadow influences, intrusive voices, unresolved grief, genetic predisposition, aging, serious physical illness, time, space, or family environment.

I have seen that individually or in combination, some or all of these factors may initiate a downward spiraling cycle that results in emotional disconnects and dysfunction. Plant spirits have their own unique intelligence, and are quite active.

They exist in many traditions, including these explored by Joseph Campbell in his work in mythology.

One of the pioneers in this work, in a different tradition from my own was Elliot Cowin. This how he described his work.

“Humans and plants have lived together for countless generations. We are family. Our plant relatives are generous and helpful, offering us food, shelter, and medicine. Like us, plants have spirit, and their spirit can nurture and heal us. Their spirits have the unique capacity to touch and heal our spirit, bringing us into balance and harmony, restoring us to our essential nature.

Plant Spirit Medicine is a form of healing that calls upon the plant spirits to heal. Through the opening of their senses, healers learn to listen to the root of a person’s illness, listen to the medicine of the plants, and call upon the healing power of the plants for the benefit of that person. Our ancestors lived in this way, where nature was alive and there was no illusion of separation from nature. They had a relationship with the spirits of nature and would call upon them for healing and wisdom.

This ancient practice, long forgotten in the modern world, was remembered, revitalized, and reintroduced by the Blue Deer’s Founder, the late teacher and healer, Eliot Cowan. I visited his center and his work has proven to be as effective in today’s world as in past times.

I was taught by my own teacher’s that Plant Spirit Medicine differs from many forms of herbalism in the importance it places on the relationship with the spirit of the plant. Using the common everyday plants, like the ones you might find outside your home, including the trees, the weeds, the plants growing between the cracks in the cement, or the plants growing in the wild, plants have much to offer us in the form of healing and wisdom. And, luckily for us, they are willing to share with us.

“Living in this type of relationship with the living nature of the plants gives us a deeper and richer experience of life. Whether we need healing in our bodies, minds, or spirits, the plants can offer help.”

I tell my student’s “We will be exploring the role Plant Spirit Mystic Integration (PSMI) can play in the journey of a Lucid Dreamer and practitioner of astral projection.”

Herbal based flower extracts (chemical or energetic) help to expand our consciousness on a vibrational/energetic level. These homeopathically prepared plant essences support the individual in recognizing and addressing 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, despondency, shadow states, and altered states of consciousness.

General, emotional stress, trauma, spiritual longing, and energetic imbalances alone or in combination are all major causes of our disconnect in the material world. In the case of situational depression the ability of a person to control responses to stress, rather than becoming a victim of unpleasant situations, and spaces has a great impact on the healing and self-awareness process. There are many different systems of energetically based flower remedies, and I use many of them.

Among 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, as well as shamanic work and applied them to balancing emotional states through specially prepared flower remedies. Bach discovered that behind every patient’s situational and emotional awareness 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 to maximize their vibrationally based qualities. Eliminating toxic plants or those that might produce side effects, he discovering 38 flowering plants, trees, and special waters which had profound influence on balancing various dysfunctional behavior patterns as well as different mental, emotional stresses.

By looking beyond the limitation of allopathic medicine and the psychoanalytic approach dominant at that time he was able to take into account the feelings of his patients rather then 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 person’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 psychological and emotional 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 water to evaporate the brandy.

Because they are “energetically-based,” the Bach Flower remedies offer a spiritual dimension to the healing of emotional challenges. The remedies create a system for bolstering faith and hope, and magnifying individual intention.

Dr. Bach’s system 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.

In fact if you accidentally choose a remedy that is inappropriate for a specific emotional state the remedy has no affect 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 qi by going to the person’s energy source. These remedies are considered a transformation event in the treatment of emotional challenges and constraints to mystic knowledge.

My knowledge in this work began with Vincent Collura, Later I went to England to study directly at the Bach Center with the students of Nora Weeks, who had been Dr. Bach’s associate.

When I returned to the States I studied further with a master teacher Marjorie Spaulding.

She was a great secret. I looked for her on line and found this.

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