Flower Essences For Past Life Issues

[Laurasia]

Hello everyone.

There is much discussion on the forums about using different flower essences for various issues that come up from trauma within past lives. This thread can be the place where such information is posted & gathered.

There is also another thread for general uses of flower essences which can be found here.

Sincerely,
Laurasia

[Laurasia]

This was originally posted by Kapt. Gunther Prien in another thread....

I wanted to post about this because some may find it helpful for spiritual transitioning. I wish I had known about this several years ago... as it would have been very helpful. I plan to buy this next month along with several other essences.

Here are the 'properties' of Mint Bush:

Negative Condition:
• perturbation
• confusion
• spiritual emergence
• initial turmoil and void of spiritual initiation

Positive Outcome:
• smooth spiritual initiation
• clarity
• calmness
• ability to cope

This Essence like many others, was made in the Valley of the Winds in the Olgas (or Katajuta) in central Australia. Mint Bush helps one to cope with the dross being burnt off before emerging at a new spiritual level. Just prior to any such initiation there are usually spiritual trials and tribulations that one goes through when one feels they are being tested, often to their limit. At this time there is usually a great deal of confusion and one can have a sense that everything is too difficult and too much to deal with and resolve. These feelings can also arise during intense changes in your life - divorce, bankruptcy, severe illness or accidents, changing religious beliefs or affiliations.

[kapitanprien]

(Copied from the general thread)

Essences for Trauma

Alaskan

Cotton Grass - Eriophorum sp.

Indications: shock and trauma resulting from an accident or injury of any kind; fixating on one's discomfort rather than on the healing process; unable to completely heal an old injury because of a lack of awareness of what led to its creation.


Healing Qualities: helps a person come to an understanding of the core issues that led to an accident or injury so that they can release the physical, emotional, and mental trauma associated with it.


Fireweed - Epilobium angustifolium


Indications: shock or trauma; energy stagnation on any level; feeling burned out; weak connection to the earth.


Healing Qualities: strengthens the grounding connection to the earth; helps break up and move out old energy patterns that are being held in the etheric body so that new cycles of revitalization and renewal can be initiated.


Green Bog Orchid - Platanthera obtusata


Indications: sensitivity to the self and others blocked by pain and fear held deep in the heart; lack of trust in one's deeper motivations; difficulty communicating from the heart.


Healing Qualities: stimulates the gentle release of pain and fear from deep levels of the heart; expands awareness of one's inner nature; supports the development of a heart connection with others and with the nature kingdoms.


Hairy Butterwort - Pinguicula villosa


Indications: unable to acknowledge or trust in higher guidance and support, especially when confronted with a challenging situation or life lesson; lack of awareness of the core issues that need to be addressed in order to resolve a situation.


Healing Qualities: helps us consciously access the support and guidance we need in order to move through transition, conflict, or difficulty with ease, grace, and deep understanding, and without the creation of crisis or illness.


Labrador Tea - Ledum palustre


Indications: addictions; attempting to balance one extreme with another; extreme imbalance in any area of life; difficulty coming back to center after a traumatic or unsettling experience.


Healing Qualities: centers energy-in the body-in the moment; relieves stress associated with the experience of extremes; helps us continually learn a new perspective of balance.


Ladies' Tresses - Spiranthes romanzoffiana


Indications: lack of awareness of the connection between our life lessons and our life purpose; difficulty reconnecting with the body after a serious injury or traumatic experience.

Healing Qualities: promotes deep internal realignment with life purpose through the release of trauma held at the cellular level; helps us reconnect energetically with parts of the body that have been injured or traumatized.


Mountain Wormwood - Artemisia tilesii


Indications: unresolved anger and resentment; cannot easily forgive the self or others for past actions regardless of the intent behind them.


Healing Qualities: stimulates the healing of old wounds and the release of resentment; supports us in surrendering unforgiven areas within ourselves and in our relationships with others.


Northern Lady's Slipper - Cypripedium passerinum


Indications: weak body/soul connection; traumatic birth experience; pain and trauma held very deeply in the body.



Healing Qualities: nurturing energy for the healing of core traumas and wounds that are being held very deeply in the body; helps us allow our beings to be touched and healed by infinite gentleness.


River Beauty - Epilobium latifolium


Indications: emotional devastation; overwhelmed by grief, sadness, or a sense of loss; shock and trauma from emotional or sexual abuse.



Healing Qualities: an essence of emotional recovery, reorientation and regeneration; helps us start over after emotionally devastating experiences; empowers us to use adverse circumstances as incentive for cleansing and growth.

Sweetgale - Myrica gale


Indications: emotional energies blocked in lower chakras; emotional communication with others is defensive, lacking clarity, and is characterized by conflict, blame, and the assignment of guilt.



Healing Qualities: helps us identify and release deep emotional pain and tension that undermines the quality of our communication and interactions with others, especially in male/female relationships.


Tundra Twayblade - Listera cordata


Indications: deep pain and anguish resulting from wounds suffered in the past; heart closed in an attempt to avoid feeling the pain that is stored there.


Healing Qualities: opens the heart to allow unconditional love complete access to areas of the body that are in need of healing; supports the clearing of trauma held at the cellular level of the body.


White Fireweed - Epilobium angustifolium


Indications: deep emotional shock and trauma; profound alienation from the body after an experience of sexual or emotional abuse.


Healing Qualities: calms the emotional body after a traumatic or shocking experience; helps us release the imprint of painful emotional experiences from the cellular memory so that rejuvenation can begin.

FES essences (for trauma)

Arnica

Positive qualities:

Conscious embodiment, especially during shock or trauma; recovery from deep-seated shock or trauma.

Patterns of imbalance:

Disconnection of Higher Self from body during shock or trauma; disassociation, unconsciousness.

Arnica flower essence helps to heal deep-seated shock or trauma which may become locked into the body and prevent full healing recovery. Especially during accidents or violent experiences, the Higher Self or soul disassociates from its physical vehicle, and may never properly re-enter certain parts of the body despite seeming recovery.


This remedy can be especially helpful for unlocking many puzzling or psychosomatic illnesses, which do not respond to obvious treatment. When Arnica is used for such cases, the soul will often relive or re-experience the emotional trauma which accompanied the original experience. In this way the soul is finally able to integrate the experience and to fully inhabit the part of the body which suffers.


Arnica flower essence can also be used on a short-term first-aid basis to allow rapid recovery from trauma. It especially helps the soul attain greater awareness of the parts of the psyche or body which may be under-utilized in the individual’s full expression of Self.

Echinacea



Positive qualities:

Core integrity, contacting and maintaining an integrated sense of Self, especially when severely challenged.


Patterns of imbalance:

Feeling shattered by severe trauma or abuse which has destroyed one's sense of Self; threatened by physical or emotional disintegration.

One of the most important initiations in the contemporary life of the soul is that of coming into right relationship to the Self, or spiritual ego. While inflation of the ego can be a formidable problem, there are equally devastating assaults to the positive spiritual identity of the human being. Until recent times, family, community, and Nature have provided the context for a certain kind of self-identity.

But the increasing anonymity of modern civilization, along with countless other mechanizing and alienating forces, leaves many souls bereft of earthly or human nourishment. More importantly, acts of crime, violence, and sexual or emotional degradation, often beginning even in early childhood, shatter the dignity of the Self. Many souls live a phantom-like existence, seeming to have a functioning persona when in fact only a meager connection to the true spiritual Self exists.

This is one of the underlying reasons, at the level of the soul reality, for the vast outbreak of immune-related diseases. Echinacea flower essence stimulates and awakens the true inner Self. This is a fundamental remedy for many soul and physical illnesses, especially when the individual has experienced shattering and destructive forces. Echinacea restores the soul’s true self-identity and essential dignity, inrelationship to the Earth and to the human family.


Fuchsia

Positive qualities:

Genuine emotional vitality, ability to express deep feelings.

Patterns of imbalance:

False states of emotionality which cover more deeply-seated pain and trauma; psychosomatic symptoms.


The soul can be trapped and hindered in its progress through suppression and denial of core emotions. The individual needing Fuchsia tends to mask true feelings with various states of hyper-emotionality or psychosomatic symptoms.

Such persons cry easily and have myriad physical complaints such as headaches or stomachaches. This false emotionality or suffering acts as a foil or cover for the deeper emotions which appear too powerful and overwhelming for the psyche to integrate. The soul longs to express feelings, but hopes it can do so without taking the “plunge” into more awesome and painful emotions.


Fuchsia flower essence helps such an individual towards emotional catharsis, so that the feeling life becomes more genuine, and conveys greater depth and presence. Emotions such as grief, deep-seated anger, or rejection can be encountered and effectively transformed through Fuchsia. The individual learns how to recognize pain and other strong feelings more immediately, thus freeing the soul life to become emotionally authentic and vital.


Golden Ear Drops

Positive qualities:

Contacting one's childhood experience as a source of emotional well-being; releasing painful memories from the past.


Patterns of imbalance:

Suppressed toxic memories of childhood; feelings of pain and trauma about past events which affect present emotional balance.


Emotional amnesia is a survival mechanism for the soul, especially during childhood, or any period of life when the individual is vulnerable to exploitation or abuse. This unconscious residue of traumatic memories must eventually be encountered with more awareness, or else it works like a toxic poison which corrodes the present emotional life.



Golden Ear Drop helps the soul to remember and feel unpleasant or painful episodes. This essence is an especially powerful cleanser of the heart, and may stimulate tears as a form of emotional discharge. Once the individual experiences this cleansing process, there is also the ability to contact the positive aspects of the past. This is especially true regarding the events of one’s childhood-when the personality suppresses painful aspects of the childhood experience, connection with the archetypal child as a source of positive spirituality is also severed.


Golden Ear Drop flower essence helps the soul to remember and reclaim this past, so that it becomes a source of strength, wisdom, and insight.


Love Lies Bleeding

Positive qualities:

Transcendent consciousness; ability to move beyond personal pain, suffering or mental anguish by finding larger, transpersonal meaning in such suffering; compassionate awareness of and attention to the meaning of suffering.


Patterns of imbalance:

Intensification of pain and suffering due to isolation; profound melancholia due to the over-personalization of one's pain.


Love-Lies-Bleeding flower essence enables the soul to encounter and to transmute pain and suffering. Such pain is felt in an intense manner, either as mental anguish, deep-seated bodily torment, or disease. While such suffering usually has a physical component, the experience of agony is also deep within the soul itself.


The effect of such torment is to push the consciousness deeply inward; such a person is truly deep-pressed, or in the throes of depression. Love-Lies-Bleeding des not play the role of an analgesic; it does not provide direct relief from such distress. It helps by moving the soul consciousness outward from over-personal identification and isolation, to transpersonal awareness of the meaning and purpose of such an experience.

This energetic shift can often be expressed directly in the physical body, in the cessation of symptoms of pain or as a general stimulus to the immune system. However, more typically the individual is able to experience physical and mental suffering differently, within the context of a larger shared human experience. For example, one suffering from a personal illness, a particular handicap, or addiction may be impelled to reach out to others who suffer similarly.

The deepest teaching of Love-Lies-Bleeding is centered around the meaning of compassion and sacrifice. This realization within the soul is often called “Christ consciousness”-the capacity to suffer or to “bleed” not for ourselves but for all of humanity and for the redemption of the Earth itself. The ability to understand that one’s own pain is part of a larger, deeper experience of the human conditions is the key to being able to truly experience love and compassion for all living beings.


Oregon Grape

Positive qualities:

Loving inclusion of others, positive expectation of good will from others, ability to trust.

Patterns of imbalance:

Feeling paranoid or self-protective; unfair projection or expectation of hostility from others.

To trust the goodness in others is to be nourished by the milk of human kindness.


Regrettably, many souls are malnourished; they are unable to receive the sustaining love of others. Oregon Grape flower essence is indicated for those persons who are filled with paranoia; they see the world and those around them as hostile and unfair.


These patterns were learned in childhood from the family or culture, and have not been healed; instead they fester in the soul and go on to infect all human relationships and social situations. Unfortunately, the soul who is gripped by this paranoid state creates the very hostile or mistrustful manner usually respond with an equal measure in return.

Oregon Grape flower essence is widely applicable, but is especially indicated for the tension and ill-will which predominates in many urban environments. Through Oregon Grape the soul learns to break the basic pattern of mistrust. It realizes that it can look instead for the positive intentions of others, and create situations which generate good will and loving inclusion.


Pink Monkeyflower



Positive qualities:

Emotional openness and honesty; courage to take emotional risks with others.


Patterns of imbalance:

Feelings of shame, guilt, unworthiness; fear of exposure and rejection, hiding essential Self from others, masking one's feelings.


Pink Monkeyflower treats a type of fear which reside in the deepest recesses of the soul: the fear of being exposed, of others seeing one’s pain and vulnerability. Such persons experience a profound sense of shame, and thus have a need to hide or mask themselves as a form of protection.


The Pink Monkeyflower remedy type withdraws in a way that is more pronounced than ordinary shyness, for the soul is attempting to cover deeply internalized wounds from the past. Most frequently, early childhood trauma or abuse-or exploitative and debasing experiences at any phase of life-are the hidden factors of behavior. These souls are highly sensitive and bear deep pain within themselves. They very much want to reach out and be loved by others, but often fail at making real contact. Such individuals are highly sensitive to being seen, both literally and metaphorically. They are also very vulnerable to being touched and making physical contact with others.


Pink Monkeyflower gently opens such souls by helping them to take emotional risks again. In this way, they begin to experience the love and the contact which they so desperately need and want. Pink Monkeyflower is a remedy which is especially effective for the heart, teaching that it is only by remaining open and risking-vulnerability that one can experience the warmth of human love and affection.


Poison Oak


Positive qualities:

Emotional openness and vulnerability, ability to be close and make contact with others.


Patterns of imbalance:

Fear of intimate contact, protective of personal boundaries; fear of being violated; hostile or distant.


Many souls have difficulty coping with softer, more vulnerable feelings. This can be especially true for men, who are culturally influenced to display little intimacy or emotion. Those who need Poison oak actually have within themselves very deep sensitivity, and can feel quite insecure about their personal boundaries. They fear that if they are too open or too intimate with others, their personal defenses will be violated.


Such persons, however, rarely show their vulnerability and sensitivity, for they learn to cope by projecting an overly tough, Mars-like exterior. They erect negative barriers between themselves and others by showing hostility, anger, and irritability, thus keeping a “safe” emotional distance. At the deepest level, such persons are afraid of the inner feminine or of being engulfed by feminine values. This attitude can sometimes extend to feelings about Nature, so that the individual develops a relationship with Nature only through sports or activities that conquer the elements.


Poison Oak flower essence teaches such souls to open gently by learning to identify and accept the softer side of themselves. In doing so, the soul creates boundaries that are inclusive rather than exclusive, learning that the essential strength of the Self also includes the most sensitive and gentle aspects.


Self Heal


This remarkable flower essence has been one of the leading remedies of the FES Quintessentials line of flower essences for over twenty years. Self-Heal flower essence addresses the core issue in all healing work - the inner commitment to be well.

Self-Heal is an excellent choice for beginning your personal wellness program. It enhances other flower essences and therapeutic programs, acting as a catalyst in the journey to mind-body health. Self-Heal flower essence is especially indicated for those who have lost belief in their own capacity to be well, or who have abdicated this inherent responsibility to healers or others. It is a very beneficial remedy for those who face great healing challenges, whether physical, mental, or spiritual.

The central teaching of Self-Heal is to enable the Self to affirm and to draw from the deep wellspring of life, toward true recovery and restoration. The name "Self-Heal" is perhaps its own best affirmation, since all healing depends on an inner commitment to be well. No variety of outer measures and techniques can bring about healing (physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual), if there is not a quickening from within the individual, a motivation to seek and affirm the wholeness of life.

FES: Healing Herbs (for trauma)

Agrimony

Positive qualities:

Emotional honesty, acknowledging and working with emotional pain, obtaining true inner peace.

Patterns of imbalance:

Anxiety hidden by a mask of cheerfulness; denial and avoidance of emotional pain, addictive behavior to anesthetize feelings.


The Agrimony flower essence personality appears happy, enthusiastic, popular and seemingly at peace with the world. However, if one is able to know such a person on a deeper level, it becomes clear that something is deeply troubling the soul. At the heart of such suffering is a secret torment that is hidden, not only from others, but most importantly from the Self. There may be a strong attraction to drugs, particularly alcohol, in order to maintain the mask of cheerfulness.


Such persons have often been raised with strict social conventions of politeness or repression, and find it difficult to show or admit vulnerability or pain. This conditioning is particularly strong in men who have been taught that it is unmanly to show feelings. Another variation of this attitude appears among those on a spiritual path who try to emulate a state of bliss by denying or repressing troubling emotions. The Agrimony flower essence person needs to find peace as an inner soul reality, rather than an outside state of behavior which others need to validate. it is thier lesson that true inner peace comes from honestly acknowledging pain and transforming it, rather than masking it with a superficial veneer of good cheer or polite tolerance. Such is the lesson of Agrimony flower essence.

Pine

Positive qualities:

Self-acceptance, self-forgiveness; freedom from inappropriate guilt and blame.

Patterns of imbalance:

Guilt, self-blame, self-criticism, inability to accept oneself.

Objective knowledge of one’s faults is an important soul virtue; when taken to an extreme, however, one can be wracked with undue guilt and misery. Those who need Pine flower essence get stuck in self-blame.


At times a real circumstance form the past may result in deep feelings of regret and remorse; however the Pine type often feels guilt which is entirely disproportionate to the actual events. These feelings may arise from childhoods, when the person learned to internalize blame for dysfunction in the family system, or they may stem from a religious background which emphasizes sin and error more than salvation and grace.


Pine flower essence helps the Self to learn true forgiveness by quite literally being for giving: learning to release rather than retain energy. The individual is encouraged to move forward rather than stay entangled in self-deprecation and emotional paralysis. At its highest level, Pine flower essence teaches self-acceptance and inner esteem as a pathway to the soul’s realization of its own sacredness and divinity.

Star of Bethlehem

Positive qualities:

Soothing, healing qualities, a sense of inner divinity.

Patterns of imbalance:

Shock or trauma, either recent or from a past experience; need for comfort and reassurance from the spiritual world.

Star of Bethlehem flower essence is a deeply restorative remedy, with calm, soothing properties for people who have experienced shock or trauma. It is particularly helpful for individuals who have never adequately addressed a disturbance from the past.


Such persons often seek to anesthetize this trauma in inappropriate ways, such as through drugs, occult ritual, or a numbing of awareness. There is a longing and seeking for a part of the Spiritual Self which seems inaccessible. The nervous system often becomes deadened, and the mental facilities are lacking in vibrancy and coherency. In some essential way, the personality is out of alignment with its higher components, and is stymied form full and vibrant functioning.

Star of Bethlehem flower essence helps bring about this much needed psychic and spiritual adjustment, although other therapeutic and counseling measures are often necessary to help the individual fully access the trauma and its causes. Star of Bethlehem flower essence is also one of the ingredients in the Five-Flower Formula indicated by Dr. Bach for broad-based emergency and first aid use.

Willow

Positive qualities:

Acceptance, forgiveness, taking resposibility for one's life situation, flowing with life.


Patterns of imbalance:

Feeling resentful, inflexible or bitter; feeling that life is unfair or that one is a victim.

Willow flower essence - If the physical body does not keep flexible, it becomes stiff and contracted. The good health of the soul also depends on its ability to be yielding, flowing, and “forgiving.” The Willow flower essence heals bitterness and resentment; it is for those who tend to “hold on” and become attached to negative emotions. Such persons often feel victimized by the circumstances of life-they feel that others are to blame for their misfortune; that life has been unfair to them; or they resent those who appear to have more status, prosperity, or felicity than themselves.

The aging process is especially difficult for Willow flower essence types. At an energetic level, such persons are unable to flow with the streaming of their lives. Negative feelings are dammed up and then become magnified and internalized, congesting the inner being. The physical body also suffers this stress, tending to manifest as stiff joints, rheumatism, arthritis, and other aches and pains. (It is interesting to note that Willow bark is the herbal precursor of aspirin, and is used particularly for such physical conditions.)


Willow flower essence restores a more “spring-like” disposition, helping the soul to respond with greater resilience and inward mobility to challenges and problems. In this way the Self takes more responsibility for its condition, and learns to flow more gently with, rather than against, the flow of life.

[kapitanprien]

(Copied from general thread)

Essences for Inner Truth

FES

Mullein

Positive qualities:

Strong sense of inner conscience, truthfulness, uprightness.

Patterns of imbalance:

Inability to hear one's inner voice; weakness and confusion, indecisiveness; lying or deceiving oneself or others.


Consciousness must also include conscience; as the soul gain greater awareness of itself it also acquires an inner voice or moral life. This morality must be generated from within; as long as laws or dictates are stamped on the personality from the outside, the Self will not develop real strength of character.

Mullein essence helps the individual at those times when it must wrestle with its own consciousness. It can be extremely beneficial for those who lack moral fortitude, and who may resort to dishonesty and deceit in conducting the affairs of the daily life. Through Mullein the soul awakens to its inner voice and develops the capacity to listen and respond to its true Self.


This remedy can be especially helpful when one must take a stand for personal authenticity, despite social pressure or confusing social mores. The Mullein flower assists the soul in achieving greater moral uprightness, infused with qualities of Light and Truth.


Walnut

Positive qualities:

Freedom from limiting influences, making healthy transitions in life, courage to follow ones own path and destiny.


Patterns of imbalance:

Overly influenced by the beliefs and values of family or community, or by past experiences.


Walnut flower essence - The human soul is akin to the plant in its patterns of growth. It grows slowly,almost imperceptibly from day to day, but there are moments when it makes radical, metamorphic changes, movingbeyond its current form to something utterly new. Thus the plant transforms from root, to shoot, to leaf, toflower, to fruit, to seed. Walnut flower essence is an important remedy for times of great life transition; itassists the soul in making metamorphic change.


This flower essence is indicated for those life passages when the Soul must becompletely and irrevocably transformed in order to continue its evolution. At these moments, the soul must beunwavering in its sense of inner purpose and conviction. If the mind experiences doubt or confusion, the progressof the Self is impeded, if not imperiled. Walnut flower essence is particularly helpful for those who may beeasily influenced by family ties, community mores, social conventions, strong personalities, or past habits,and who are unable to muster the strength to make a break with the past and with the ideas of others.

It is especially powerful in the mental field, helping to dispel any enchantment, illusion, or spell which may bind the soul tothe past. This remedy can be broadly applied and is valuable for all life transitions including birth and death,moving, career changes, and enduring or beginning relationships. Walnut flower essence helps the soul to perceive and follow its true Star of Destiny.

Purple Monkeyflower

Positive qualities:

Inner calm and clarity when experiencing any spiritual or psychic phenomenon; the courage to trust in one's own spiritual experience or guidance; love-based rather than fear-based spirituality.

Patterns of imbalance:

Fear of the occult, or of any spiritual experience; fear of retribution if one departs from religious conventions of family or community.

Like the other Mimulus (Monkeyflower) species, Purple Monkeyflower addresses a state of fear within the soul.This flower particularly addresses fear related to experiences of a spiritual or psychic nature. Most typically,the Purple Monkeyflower is beneficial for those individuals whose great need for security and safety causes them to cling to conventional social-religious structures, even though these may not meet the real evolutionary needs of the soul. This prompts an inner guidance versus outer conventions or expectations.

The fear of “going astray” and following one’s own authentic path can further be accentuated by harsh or judgmental religious dogma which includes threats of retribution or condemnation. This remedy is a powerful cleanser and stabilizer for projections based on cultural-religious superstition.

Purple Monkeyflower is also indicated for intense fear, hallucinations, or paranoia that may result from abrupt or unexpected psychic openings, such as through drugs, cultic ritual abuse, or psychic manipulation. In such cases the soul develops profound fear of the spiritual world as being demonic or horrific. The path of healing for such souls is that of courage – to gain one’s own authentic experience by encountering spiritual phenomena in a calm and conscious manner.Through this courage, the soul is able to find true spiritual guidance, sustenance and support for life on Earth.

[Laurasia]

Originally posted by Kapt. Gunther Prien...

This is actually in a blend I plan to get - their Transition blend. I will post the full info on all that is in the blend here:

Australian Bush Flower - Transition Blend

Autumn Leaves:

Negative Condition:
• difficulties in the transition of passing over from the physical plane to the spiritual world

Positive Outcome:
• letting go and moving on
• increase awareness and communication with loved ones in the spiritual world

Autumn Leaves allows one to hear, see and feel communication from the other side and be open to that guidance and communication. It also further emphasises the sense of letting go and moving on in a very profound way. The leaves themselves were collected from a sacred area, in autumn, at the exact moment of their release from the trees. The Essence was made only from these leaves.
The work of Dr Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and other workers with the dying, all note how common and important it is for the one passing over to be aware that help and guidance are around, especially the presence of loved ones who have already died. This Essence will ease the transition of the passing over from the physical plane to the spiritual world. Autumn Leaves is included in the Transition Essence Combination.

Bauhinia

Negative Condition:
• resistance to change
• rigidity
• reluctance

Positive Outcome:
• acceptance
• open mindedness

Made up near Geikie Gorge in the Kimberleys, this Essence is for embracing new concepts and ideas. There may be some hesitation or reluctance, initially, in coming to terms with these. It can even help when there is a person who is annoying you or whom you dislike. For example, a family of a different nationality may become neighbours and even though you may not be racist, you may have difficulty in accepting their different manners and customs. This remedy is also good for older people who are very set in their ways.

Bottlebrush

Negative Condition:
• unresolved mother issues
• overwhelmed by major life changes - old age, adolescence, parenthood, pregnancy, approaching death

Positive Outcome:
• serenity and calm
• ability to cope and move on
• mother-child bonding

This Essence helps people move through major life changes and the overwhelm that often goes with those changes, especially retirement, menopause, adolescence or death, etc. It 'brushes' out the past and allows the person to move on. An excellent remedy for pregnant women and new mothers who feel inadequate. It will help throughout pregnancy until after the birth and will assist with bonding between the mother and child. It is excellent for healing unresolved mother issues.

Bush Iris

Negative Condition:
• fear of death
• materialism
• atheism
• physical excess
• avarice

Positive Outcome:
• awakening of spirituality
• acceptance of death as a transition state
• clearing blocks in the base chakra and trust centre

This was one of the first Essences to be prepared. It is an Essence to open people up to their spirituality and to access the doorway to their higher perceptions. It allows the trinity to flow into a person and is an excellent remedy to give someone who has just started meditation or 'conscious' spiritual growth. In the negative mode there will be materialism and/or atheism. There may also be a deep seated fear of death.

Lichen

Negative Condition:
• not knowing to look for and move into the Light when passing over
• earth bound in the astral plane

Positive Outcome:
• eases one's transition into the Light
• assists separation between the physical and etheric body
• releases earth bound energies

Lichen helps an individual to be aware of, look for and go to the Light at the moment of physical death. The alternative to the soul going through to the Light is to stay earth bound in the astral plane — what we commonly refer to as 'a ghost'. There is a great deal of darkness operating on the astral plane and it is certainly a level that the soul would be well advised to move through quickly. A violent or sudden death can also result in the increased likelihood of the Spirit staying earthbound and the spraying of Lichen from an atomiser bottle would be of great benefit for those souls, helping them to see and go to the Light. Even in cases where there is an unexpected sudden death, eg. a car accident, the individual who dies in such an experience, is fully aware at the level of their Higher Self, of what is about to happen and that they are going to pass over. Two weeks before such an event the etheric body starts to disengage and unravel from the physical body. Lichen assists the etheric and the physical bodies to separate in preparation for passing over. Lichen is contained in the Transition Essence Combination. The latter can be taken by people who are in the process of passing over or else going through major changes in their life such as changing career, moving house, etc. In these latter circumstances one can rest assured that the Lichen in this Combination would definitely not lead to their etheric body separating from their physical body!

Mint Bush

Negative Condition:
• perturbation
• confusion
• spiritual emergence
• initial turmoil and void of spiritual initiation

Positive Outcome:
• smooth spiritual initiation
• clarity
• calmness
• ability to cope

This Essence like many others, was made in the Valley of the Winds in the Olgas (or Katajuta) in central Australia. Mint Bush helps one to cope with the dross being burnt off before emerging at a new spiritual level. Just prior to any such initiation there are usually spiritual trials and tribulations that one goes through when one feels they are being tested, often to their limit. At this time there is usually a great deal of confusion and one can have a sense that everything is too difficult and too much to deal with and resolve. These feelings can also arise during intense changes in your life - divorce, bankruptcy, severe illness or accidents, changing religious beliefs or affiliations.

Red Grevillea

Negative Condition:
• feeling stuck
• oversensitive
• affected by criticism and unpleasant people
• too reliant on others

Positive Outcome:
• boldness
• strength to leave unpleasant situations
• indifference to the judgment of others

This Essence is for people who feel stuck. It acts as a catalyst for those who know what they want to achieve but do not know how to go about it. It is for people who are too reliant on others. It promotes independence and boldness. This Essence is extremely effective though the changes may not be as anticipated. Like the Grey Spider Flower this plant is a member of the Grevillea family and its flowers are a dark red colour, similar in colour to the Waratah.

Silver Princess

Negative Condition:
• aimless
• despondent
• feeling flat
• lack of direction

Positive Outcome:
• motivation
• direction
• life purpose

This is another rare Eucalypt. Although widely cultivated there is only one remaining natural stand of this beautiful tree on a granite outcrop known as Boyagin Rock in the south west of Western Australia. Of all the Eucalypts, there is none more attractive than the Silver Princess. This Essence brings about an awareness of one's life direction. Though it may not always reveal to a person their full life plan, it will aid people who are at crossroads, helping to show them what their next step is. It helps give them an understanding of that direction. This Essence is also excellent when one has reached an important goal and yet one is left feeling very flat, thinking 'is this all there is'. In this case, it gives one a glimpse or a sense of what is next and allows one to enjoy the journey whilst striving for the goal.
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I've taken this before quite a few years ago - about 5-6 years ago and found it very helpful. I will be buying it again as I'm going through major changes with things.

[kapitanprien]

(Shadow Self healing - fear, guilt, anger, phobias, etc.)

Living Tree Orchid

Shadow Defense Combination

Shadow Defense is a combination of 3 essences: Defender from the Dark, Pushing Back the Night and Shadow Warrior. The latter helps us to not have our shadow side be dominant in our daily life, whilst Pushing Back the Night brings a powerful temple of energetic support to this process through strengthening & heightening our inner alignment. Defender from the Dark provides protection to this inner process, preventing exterior dark influences from interfering. In other words, this essence combination provides us with protection against both inner and outer shadow elements.

Defender from the Dark:

In response to a perceived global energetic challenge, this orchid called out to be made into an essence in early October 2010. The second part of the botanical name Pleurothallis phalangifera translates as "phalanx-bearing" meaning the orchid spike looks like it is carrying a small phalanx of soldiers. A dream-time image which came to Don repeatedly one night about this essence was of hundreds of elves with their bows on their shoulders, marshalling their forces, preparing for battle. And indeed the orchid looks reminiscent of that Tolkien-like image. There is a sense with this orchid that, while it knows the dark, it is not of the dark. Embodying deep goodness of being, it is nevertheless not naive about the threat posed at times by dark forces. There is an old adage in American football, that the "best defense is a good offense"; this essence provides both clearing of and protection from high levels of dark energies through its determined opposition to their intentions.

Pushing Back the Night:

Produces a state of mind where vision and light become inseparable. Helps elevate our thoughts to the point where we can see the Sacred in life. An essence to help heal the destiny of humanity. Not only does it aid our own personal growth, but also invites the Light of the Future to Take Back the Night. Blockages in the bahui centre, the Chinese Crown Chakra point, (on the top of the head) are pushed out of the aurice field; and in doing so, this enables us to extend an awareness vertically into a temple within a celestial domain. In this way the microcosm affects the macrocosm. In this time when many negative karmas are being released upon the world, this essence is especially important for helping people not be distracted from a spiritual purpose and light.

Shadow Warrior:

An extraordinary orchid, this essence was brought into being to assist the integration of one’s shadow side with the onward journey of the soul into the light. It stops the shadow from interacting negatively with challenging archetypes, and enables grounding of primitive fears. Enters the base of the skull and goes down the causal body to the root chakra and below, connecting the soul to the root of the soul's journey. This essence clears one's inner vision causing a change in perception, a deeper reality, and enhances clairaudience. Shadow Warrior is a very ‘yang’ essence, and the effect is sustained with a minimum dose.

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Shadow Facing

Connects one with the Hoop of Nations, the Council of All Creatures. Here the mosquito and the moose, the sparrow and the eagle all have equal voice. Shamanic mystery is encountered with this orchid, which also invites you to face your deepest fears. Not to be taken lightly or whimsically.

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Vital Core

Vital Core is strongly energizing of the Root and 2nd chakras, as well as the gall bladder meridian. While having some activity on the Crown, Throat and Heart chakras, its action is primarily in the two lower chakras whereby it provides a strong 'get up & go' effect. The effect on the 2nd chakra is intriguing: though energizing, it is not a sexual energizing. It helps to release stored / blocked energies, including stored negative energies, and thereby helps to resolve shadow aspects of the Sacral chakra. In this way, it seeks to restore the natural sacredness of the 2nd chakra.

Vital Core works at levels beyond that of Sacral Release; it can be a good idea to work with the latter first, and then to follow up with some days of Vital Core. In some respects Vital Core can be seen and used as a potent yang counterpoint to the yin qualities of Celestial Siren, which was made the same week in November 2009.

Phragmipedium besseae is a species of slipper orchid which was discovered in Peru in 1981. In our process of making this essence, the orchid requested to have the process take place largely in the evening and into the dark of the night. A full moon on that clear night shone through the partially-curtained window, its beam upon the orchid and the bowl of water. This not only brought out the yang qualities of the orchid, but also enabled it to better access the shadow aspects of our lower chakras. (This also accounts for Vital Core having some very different qualities to the essence Radiant Strength of the Dancing Light Orchid Essences of the USA, which was made with the same species of slipper orchid.)

South African

These are ones listed in this article: safloweressences.co.za/shadow.html

Chinkerinchee

Keynote:
Unethical behaviour; impeccability.

Description:

For those who lack a moral code, who are dishonest or unethical, untruthful with themselves or others. The purity of this essence awakens the inner voice of the Self, the voice of conscience and of inner guidance, enabling one to develop character, to establish principles and to apply them in one's life with impeccability.

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Borage

Keynote:
Courage.

Description:

For courage, for a heavy heart, for the disheartened, for discouragement, for times when the hurdles in life seem to be too high, when one is overwhelmed by adversity and sorrow. It is an esoteric principle that everyone has the inner resources to deal with the life lessons they attract to themselves. This essence is of assistance at times of tribulation; it increases courage and optimism, bringing in real courage as opposed to bravado, it restores buoyancy and puts one in touch with the inner strength and ability to handle, and learn from, what life has to offer.

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Disa

Keynote:
Dark night of the Soul.

Description:

The Base of the Cross Remedy. For complete and utter despair, the dark night of the Soul. For when one hits bottom. For those who are disillusioned, discouraged, weary and hopeless, for whom the future looks dark and bleak. This essence brings hope, abiding trust, tranquillity and optimism. It opens one to the Soul qualities of enchantment, beauty and joy, and to a new way of being.

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Strelitzia

Keynote:
Indecisiveness; procrastination; stuckness; self doubt.

Description:

The visionary essence. For feeling stuck, for indecisiveness, vacillation, dithering, endless deliberation, feeling torn between two possibilities, unable to make choices, for procrastination, fear of the future, feeling powerless to decide and doubting one's own ability. This essence stimulates the will forces, bringing clarity of purpose, conviction, an inner knowing, boldness - cutting through indecision and stagnation. It imparts the ability to stay with the polarities of paradox and find resolution, to hold the vision with intent and focus, discover one's destiny and bring about manifestation.

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Cancer Bush

Keynote:
Confrontation of the shadow; inner torment.

Description:

This essence allows one to confront one's shadow, to wrestle in the cave of one's being with the demons of the inner world, to transform the ugliness and the dark aspects of one's nature. It brings one face to face with that which one fears in oneself, revealing that which awakens terror in one, allowing one to gain mastery and peace by going through the experience to emerge victorious.

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Coral Tree

Keynote:
Generalised fear.

For generalised fear, for those who experience numerous fears, none of which is substantial in itself but which accumulate to become a heavy burden. Fears, such as these, often have their origins in past life experience which has resulted in the belief being imprinted on the subconscious mind that physicality is not safe, and which manifest in the continuous, or frequent, expectation of danger, loss, pain or self-sabotage. This essence lifts the pervading expectation of disaster. It also works at a much deeper level to clear the archetypal underlying fear and allows the Soul contact which puts one in touch with the sense of love, protection and an unending potential for joy.

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Cape Almond

Keynote:
Insecurity; fear of the unknown; emotional paralysis; personal power.

Description:

This essence grounds and centres, enabling one to find a safe space within and to feel secure. It allows one to act from one's own authority. Fear of the unknown, fear of the future, fear of failure, emotional paralysis and an inability to move forward, are all addressed by this essence. It enables one to cultivate boldness, to develop an innate confidence, to become the explorer, acting from a sense of personal power.

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Wild Ginger

Keynote:
Abusive or violent behaviour.

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For those who are prone to violent or abusive behaviour, for those who keep themselves under strict control, who resort to dogmatic views as a defence against an urge, whether conscious or unconscious, to violence. Many have an innate fear of their own potential violence. Mothers know the pitch of exhaustion and desperation to which they can be driven by infants or toddlers in a nuclear society where they are unnaturally isolated. Modern life sometimes causes unbearable stress which can force violent emotions to erupt to the surface. While such urges are judged, feared and denied, they will continue to exist in the dark recesses of the personality or be projected outward to manifest through others in one's reality. This essence facilitates the owning and acceptance of these aspects of the self, drawing them out of shadow consciousness, and allowing them to be transmuted.

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Geranium Incanum

Keynote:
Vengeful or morbid thoughts; integration of the shadow.

Description:

For a sense of brooding darkness within one which may be mirrored in the surroundings, for those who have vengeful, morbid thoughts, or who are caught in relationships which are destructive or abusive, who seem to attract enemies, threats and violence. This essence assists in the integration of the shadow, thereby freeing the enormously positive, powerful and magnetic energy which is locked within one.

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Auric Protection Combination

At times when we are exposed to negativity, of whatever nature, whether it be to bad vibes at the office, a family upset, or whether we just want to protect ourselves or our offspring at a club or a rave, Auric Protection Essence will be of assistance. It lifts the resonance of the aura and to a level where negativity cannot enter. It can also be useful if we are exposed to radiation of any kind.

Ingredients: Bluebell, Frangipani, Orange, Wild Garlic, Wild Jasmine, Wild Sage, Yarrow

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Crisis Remedy

This essence is an invaluable companion in any crisis situation. Use it in times of shock, panic, anxiety, fear, agitation, illness or dread. Whether for people, animals or plants, the relief is immediate. Remember that if it is difficult to give the essence internally, applying it on wrists, behind the ears or on the soles of the feet can be very effective.

Ingredients: Baeometra, Disa, Felicia, Flowering Quince, Orange Pincushion, Red Camellia, Strelitzia

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Yucca

Keynote:
Self -pity; transforming victimhood through taking personal responsibility

Description:

For victimhood and self-pity. Feelings of victimhood often originate in childhood when circumstances are beyond one's control. The patterns are set and resentment, bitterness, the perception that others are more fortunate and that one is bound to suffering and deprivation, become ingrained. Use of this essence allows one to take personal responsibility, to clear out the old stagnating emotions and to move forward with joy and forgiveness, thereby attracting positive life experiences.

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Grevillea

Keynote:
Affected by criticism; incorporation of the shadow; centring in the self.

Description:

For those who feel judged by others or unaccountably intimidated or stymied by a person or situation, who are badly affected by criticism, easily rattled or upset by something external to themselves. This essence centres one in the Self, empowering one through the understanding that the external reality mirrors the internal reality, that the place of power is within and that, by owning and incorporating the shadow, whole realities can be turned around.

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Pompom Tree

Keynote:
Fear of vulnerability; fear of rejection; shame.

Description:

For those who avoid intimate relationships and friendships for fear that, were others to know them, they would discover the terrible truth, whose fear of rejection, based on past life or childhood trauma, is so intense that they hide their feelings and needs behind a front of self-sufficiency and never allow anyone close to them, who suffer from a profound sense of shame and a terror of vulnerability. This essence gives one the courage to risk emotional contact, to allow others in, to heal and to rejoin the human family.

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Plumbago

Keynote:
Shame; undeservability; subjugation to the will of others.

Description:

Everyone has feelings of shame. This essence is for the shame that translates into low self-esteem and undeservability, for those who are apologetic about their very existence, who blame themselves and thus feel that they must subjugate themselves to the wishes and desires of others, seeking to please, allowing themselves to be bullied or easily led and influenced because they cannot trust their own judgement. It assists in putting one in touch with the integrity and strength of the true Self, allowing one to trust in one's intuition and inner guidance. A good remedy for adolescents.

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English Hawthorne

Keynote:
Broken-heartedness; intense grief; remorse.

Description:

For intense grief, broken-heartedness, deep hurt and unbearable pain and anguish. Such experiences can be doorways to new ways of being. Because of our belief structures, it is often only through intense pain that we become willing to change. This essence heals, brings emotional balance and facilitates using the pain as an opportunity for self-transformation. It is valuable at times of debilitating stress due to emotional upheavals. This essence has been used in the treatment of the emotional aspects of cancer because of its association with deep grief and remorse.

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Dog Rose

Keynote:
Unexpressed grief; inability to express deep emotions.

Description:

For denied, unexpressed or unaccessed grief or pain held in the heart and throat chakras, for those who lack the skills necessary for expression of emotion. This essence opens the flow of energy to the throat chakra allowing expression or communication of deep emotions - there is magic in the telling. It brings acknowledgement, integration and acceptance of the pain. It is particularly beneficial for children who suppress their emotions.

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Peach

Keynote:
Melancholy; effects of past trauma; fear of pain.

Description:

For the melancholic personality, for deep-seated melancholy, for the effects of past trauma or grief which continue to affect the present, for those who contract the aura defensively fearing pain. This essence has wonderfully restorative, soothing, healing qualities. It allows one to expand one's energy field and draw in vibrant energies which lift the resonance pattern and facilitate dealing with shock and disturbances lodged in the subtle bodies.

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Water Lily

Keynote:
Numbing of emotions; emotional repression; indifference.

Description:

This essence relates to the heart. It is indicated for those who cope with pain and deep emotions by numbing themselves to feelings, who hide behind a mask of indifference, for those who handle stress by refusing to react, by denying what is happening. It allows vulnerability, contact with real, previously hidden, emotions and a feeling of being connected to others.

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Pelargonium

Keynote:
Loneliness; isolation.

Description:

For those who feel lonely, isolated and alienated, who do not know how to bridge the gap, who feel cut off from others, desperately alone in the world and separated from their Soul and Spirit. This essence eases the pain, bringing a sense of oneness, of peace and joy. It allows one to change and to attract meaningful relationships. It is also an aid to meditation, to integrating the conscious and unconscious, and is of assistance in the utilisation of dreams.

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Daffodil

Keynote:
Self-criticism; self- hatred.

Description:

For a deep sense of gloom and despair which originates in frustration, self-hatred, self-condemnation and continuous self-criticism which is turned inward, for those who avoid expressing anger. This essence opens the lower self to the Higher Self, facilitating self-love and harmonious communication to lift the judgement imposed on the self, it allows compassion for the self to unlock the door to new avenues of beauty, wonder and passion for life.

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White Geranium

Keynote:
Self-pity; lack of focus; unreliability;

Description:

For those who are self-pitying, who feel done down by life and respond by suppressing anger and escaping into a fantasy world of daydreams, who become unfocused, forgetful, unreliable and irresponsible. Although they are not consciously aware of their anger, they effectively punish those around them. This is a joyous essence which brings a sense of aliveness, exhilaration and enchantment. It clears blockages around the heart chakra, stimulates the thymus gland and lifts energy through the throat to the third eye and crown chakras. It heightens mental focus, brings clarity to the mind, disperses resistance and facilitates involvement and commitment to life.

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Vygie

Keynote:
Manipulation; victimhood; martyrhood; self pity

Description:

For those who subtly manipulate, dominate and punish through playing victim or martyr, who cling, acting helpless, while holding the power, or who do things for others, appearing to be loving, but actually seeking to exercise power through keeping those they serve dependent upon them. For co- dependency and self-pity. Often there is an unconsciousness of motive and a denial of emotions. This essence enables one to love selflessly and empower others.

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Gazania

Keynote:
Feminine sexuality and creativity.

Description:

This essence works with the creativity and sexuality of the feminine; its energy relates to the female sacral chakra. It is for the woman who is conditioned to subjugate herself and her needs to others. It assists in the expression of suppressed female anger and strengthens and nurtures the inner feminine. Gazania is also of use in breaking down inhibitions and shifting repressive attitudes to sex. It assists the woman, who lives her life through a man or through her children, in finding, and freeing, her own power and creativity. It allows a woman to flower. This essence combines well with Pomegranate.
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Touch Me Not

Keynote:
Inhibition; prohibitions imposed by patriachal society.


Description:

This is essentially a female remedy. It is of assistance when the will is at variance with the expression of self. For inhibition - don't touch me - for when one has shut down and blocked the expression of who one is. This essence works on areas where one has been prohibited and bound by the ideologies of a patriarchal or chauvinistic society, alleviating restrictions and images which have been externally imposed and within which one lives. This remedy will gently break the patriarchal bonds. It also breaks down blockages between the third eye and the throat chakras.

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Lemon

Keynote:
Female anger; sexual imbalance.

Description:

For disallowed anger in women. This is an especially important remedy for women in whom this anger manifests as disturbances in the sexual and reproductive organs. It is also important for women who tend to either of the polarities of promiscuity, which degrades and lowers the resonance, or sexual prudishness, which denies an important aspect of the Self and prevents one from becoming whole. This essence assists one in focusing the anger and in coming to terms with the power of femininity and sexuality.

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Roella

Keynote:
Pride; elitism; prejudice; integration of shadow.

Description:

For those who are strongly in their negative egos, who have a deep need to appear important to others and in whom this manifests as pride, elitism, a sense of better than and superiority, as well as prejudice and discrimination against others who are different to them, whether it be racial, religious or other differences. This essence allows one perspective on the self, and access to the Real Self, to assist in handling the negative ego. It facilitates self-love, humility and the integration of the shadow.

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Inner Male Combination

The inner female and inner male aspects of ourselves are also well known components of psychology. Symbolised by yin/yang energy, this inner relationship is reflected in our interaction with the men and women in our lives. In order for us to be whole, it is important that these two aspects which exist within all of us, men and women alike, support and harmoniously balance each other. The Inner Female Essence works to strengthen our ability to conceive new ideas and to be, rather than to do, as well as our intuitive, receptive and nurturing qualities. The Inner Male Essence facilitates our ability to create, to concretise things in the outer world, to bring ideas into form, to initiate, act, protect and lead.

Ingredients: African Banana, Hibiscus, Marigold, Mock Orange, Sausage Tree, Sunflower, Zimbabwe Creeper

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Inner Female Combination

The inner female and inner male aspects of ourselves are also well known components of psychology. Symbolised by yin/yang energy, this inner relationship is reflected in our interaction with the men and women in our lives. In order for us to be whole, it is important that these two aspects which exist within all of us, men and women alike, support and harmoniously balance each other. The Inner Female Essence works to strengthen our ability to conceive new ideas and to be, rather than to do, as well as our intuitive, receptive and nurturing qualities. The Inner Male Essence facilitates our ability to create, to concretise things in the outer world, to bring ideas into form, to initiate, act, protect and lead.

Ingredients: Blushing Bride, Gazania, Lavender, Lemon, Plumbago, Pomegranate, Touch-Me-Not

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Lotus

Keynote:
Alignment of chakra energy; Soul contact.

Description:

Known as the Master Essence, this is an exceptionally powerful flower essence which works predominantly on the crown chakra; it also harmonises and aligns all the other energy centres. It brings a true sense of humility and assists in counteracting the effects of the negative ego and in incorporating the shadow. The thousand-petalled Lotus of ancient religions symbolises the enlightenment which this essence facilitates through contact with the Higher Self and Soul. Its use brings ineffable joy, allowing one to access one's destiny and find the treasures of one's Real Self and of one's Soul and Spirit.

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Black Eyed Susan

Positive qualities:
Awake consciousness capable of acknowledging all aspects of the Self; penetrating insight.

Patterns of imbalance:
Avoidance or repression of traumatic or painful aspects of the personality.

Black-Eyed-Susan flower essence is a powerful catalyst for confronting parts of the personality or traumatic episodes form the past that have been kept locked away in the recesses of the psyche.

Often these unclaimed parts of the psyche operate as shadow parts of the personality; for example, a person who as raped or abused may begin to exhibit the same behavior toward others later in life. In other instances this enormous repression does not manifest outwardly, but inwardly, in self-destructive tendencies or as mental or physical illness. In many cases Black-Eyed-Susan is indicated for individuals who suffer from emotional amnesia and paralysis, and are totally unaware of the healing issues they must confront. What is needed in these circumstances is an increase of awareness; the ability to shine the light of consciousness into the shadows of the psyche.

A great release of energy is felt in the soul once such buried parts of the psyche are consciously encountered and addressed in an appropriate therapeutic environment. Black-Eyed-Susan restores great light and conscious awareness, helping the soul to integrate and transform unclaimed parts of the psyche.

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Black Cohosh

Black CohoshPositive qualities:
Courage to confront rather than retreat from abusive or threatening situations.

Patterns of imbalance:
Being caught in relationships or lifestyle which are abusive, addictive, violent; dark, brooding emotions.

The Black Cohosh personality has the task of learning to wrestle with shadow parts in the Self and in others. These souls have the positive gifts of powerful magnetism and charisma, with especially strong activity in their lower energy centers. Therefore they naturally attract to themselves many challenging people and situations, which they must learn to confront.

They often experience quite tangible feelings of threat or fear, which are well-warranted due to actual circumstance. Their personal life, or the lives of those around them, usually contain themes of violence, abuse, or addiction. Such souls can easily get caught in a viscous cycle of destructive energy. The quality of the inner life is often disturbed, tending toward brooding, vengeful, or even morbid thoughts.

These imbalances can be reflected in physical illnesses, especially toxic or congested disturbances in the reproductive organs or general metabolism. Black Cohosh flower essence imparts the ability to confront and actively transform negative, destructive, or threatening circumstances. In this way such souls gain enormous power, and learn to balance and harness their innate strength and physical power.

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Scarlet Monkeyflower

Positive qualities:
Emotional honesty, direct and clear communication of deep feelings, integration of the emotional "shadow".

Patterns of imbalance:
Fear of intense feelings, repression of strong emotions; inability to resolve issues of anger and powerlessness. Need to be seen as 'nice' rather than 'real'.

The Scarlet Monkeyflower essence treats a particular state of fear within the human soul: the soul’s fear of its own “shadow self” or lower emotions. Those who need this remedy often keep a “lid” on unpleasant emotions. These feelings remain bottled up in the psyche, subject to increasing levels of tension and pressure, until the individual explodes in blind rage or other raw emotions.

Unfortunately, these episodes seem to confirm the worst fears-that there is an explosive, demonic force lurking inside-and so the soul is often caught in a viscous cycle of repressing the emotional material, only to have it ooze or explode full force when the ego’s “lid” can no longer hold it in. Scarlet Monkeyflower gives the soul courage to actively acknowledge and confront such feelings.

These emotions of anger or other intense feelings often have a legitimate basis, but because they are not dealt with ina timely fashion, they loom out of proportion in the psyche. As these experiences are more quickly and honestly acknowledged, the soul learns that it is healthier to integrate such material than to repress it. Scarlet Monkeyflower imparts emotional depth, honesty, and vitality to the soul in its journey toward true wholeness.

[kapitanprien]

If there are 'panic attacks' involved, you can also try the Healing Herbs version of the Bach Rescue Remedy - the Five Flower Formula:

The Five-Flower Formula is praised throughout the world by health practitioners and lay persons. The formula of five different flower essences - Clematis, Cherry Plum, Impatiens, Rock Rose, and Star of Bethlehem - was developed by Dr. Edward Bach in the 1930's through his own practice and observation. Over the years it has come to be regarded as a "rescue" combination for its remarkable ability to address emergency and crisis conditions. Prepared in rural England by renowned teacher and naturalist, Julian Barnard of Healingherbs, Ltd., the formula is made according to the original directions of Dr. Bach. True to Bach's original intentions, it is not prepared or labeled as a homeopathic remedy, and it is Biodynamic and organic.


Clematis:

Positive qualities:
Awake, focused presence; manifesting inspiration in practical life; embodiment.

Patterns of imbalance:
Avoidance of the present by daydreaming; other-worldly and impractical ideals.

The soul in need of Clematis flower essence has a strong inner life; the ability to image and dream is particularly well-developed. But these capacities are so strong that they overwhelm and distort the soul's connection with the body and the concrete physical world. This results in a personality that is overly dreamy, lacking a vibrant emotional and physical presence in the here-and-now. Thus the great talents of the Clematis flower essence types are largely untapped, and physical illness easily takes hold of the body because the warm forces of ego are lacking.

In extreme states, such soul will be attracted to drugs, particularly psychotropic drugs, in order to continue the soul's addiction to disincarnated psychic activity. Clematis flower essence helps such persons to realize that the great gifts within them can be constructively channeled into the physical world; in this way the soul forces grow warmer, richer, and more present for others.

Cherry Plum:

Positive qualities:
Spiritual surrender and trust, feeling guided and protected by a Higher Power; balance and equanimity despite extreme stress.

Patterns of imbalance:
Fear of losing control, or of mental and emotional breakdown; desperate, destructive impulses.

Cherry Plum flower essence - There are times when the soul has difficulty bearing the weight of its incarnation. The circumstances of life oppress and condense the soul, so that it literally feels that it cannot take any more pressure or stress. There is the fear that one will lose control and become erratic, destructive, or even suicidal or insane.

The soul tries to protect against this fear of losing control by tightening its grip, which only leads to more pressure and stress. At these extreme times, Cherry Plum flower essence is indicated. It helps the individual to re-connect with the Higher-Self, to surrender. Once the Self renews its trust in a Higher Power, the mind can then stabilize, and the individual feels the capacity to cope with life's challenges again. Cherry Plum flower essence brings strength and encouragement, helping the soul to overcome its extreme tension and fear.


Impatiens:

Positive qualities:
Patience, acceptance; flowing with the pace of life and others.

Patterns of imbalance:
Impatience, irritation, tension, intolerance.

The souls who need Impatiens flower essence find it difficult to be within the flow of time; their tendency is to rush ahead of experience. In doing so, they deny themselves full immersion in life, even though they may appear very busy and engaged.

In particular, these individuals miss the more gentle and subtle exchanges which can occur with others, or with the world around them. Their overabundance of fiery force flares up easily into irritation, impatience, intolerance, and anger. Although quite mentally agile and extremely capable, the great inner tension and excitability of such souls leads to various physical disease states or premature aging due to 'burnout'.

The Impatiens flower essence type needs to experience not only the powerful flaming of life, but also its gentle flowering. Through the Impatiens flower essence, the soul learns to still the attention and deepen the breathing so that the inner Self becomes more receptive to the unfolding moment. The precious flower of life is then experienced in all of its fleeting fragility and delicate beauty.

Rock Rose:

Positive qualities:
Self-transcending courage, inner peace and tranquility when facing great challenges.

Patterns of imbalance:
Fear, terror, panic; fear of death or annihilation.

Rock Rose flower essence addresses the soul's need for courage, especially when in very extreme circumstances. This remedy is indicated for moments when the soul has stepped almost completely outside the body and is in a survival mode of consciousness.

The Self is forced to address a severe emergency, usually of life-threatening proportions such as violent attack or a traumatic accident. This remedy can also be indicated for the process of dying, when the ego is gripped by the fear that it will be utterly annihilated or destroyed.

Rock Rose flower essence restores sun-like forces of courage to the human soul so it can meet these tremendous challenges with self-transcending strength. Although Rock Rose flower essence can be used alone, it is most commonly used in the composite "Five Flower Formula" (with Star of Bethlehem, Impatiens, Cherry Plum, and Clematis) for maximum benefit.


Star of Bethlehem:

Positive qualities:
Soothing, healing qualities, a sense of inner divinity.

Patterns of imbalance:
Shock or trauma, either recent or from a past experience; need for comfort and reassurance from the spiritual world.

Star of Bethlehem flower essence is a deeply restorative remedy, with calm, soothing properties for people who have experienced shock or trauma. It is particularly helpful for individuals who have never adequately addressed a disturbance from the past.

Such persons often seek to anesthetize this trauma in inappropriate ways, such as through drugs, occult ritual, or a numbing of awareness. There is a longing and seeking for a part of the Spiritual Self which seems inaccessible. The nervous system often becomes deadened, and the mental facilities are lacking in vibrancy and coherency. In some essential way, the personality is out of alignment with its higher components, and is stymied form full and vibrant functioning.

Star of Bethlehem flower essence helps bring about this much needed psychic and spiritual adjustment, although other therapeutic and counseling measures are often necessary to help the individual fully access the trauma and its causes. Star of Bethlehem flower essence is also one of the ingredients in the Five-Flower Formula indicated by Dr. Bach for broad-based emergency and first aid use.

[kapitanprien]

This is the only one I found that specifically states 'past life phobias':

Australian Bush Flower - Green Spider Orchid



Negative Condition:
• nightmares and phobias from past life experiences
• intense negative reactions to the sight of blood

Positive Outcome:
• telepathic communication
• ability to withhold information until timing is appropriate
• attunement

This remedy was also made up in Gariwerd (The Grampians) Victoria and is very much aligned with higher learnings, philosophies and deeper insight. This Essence can assist in working with telepathy, to attune a person to be more receptive to not only other people but also other species and kingdoms. It is for people who are teaching spiritual matters and understandings, helping them to impart that knowledge. It helps us to know when to share about our spiritual experiences, ideas before they are manifested and incomplete projects and when to remain silent to let the energy build. Green Spider Orchid can release nightmares, terror and phobias stemming from past lives.

[Miss Bothmann]

Great to have this all in one place you guys. Thanks for the easy reference.

[kapitanprien]

This is a blend/combination - It is by Living Tree Orchid Essences:

Active Serenity

Working primarily on the mental body centres, this combination is excellent for distress and fatigue. Tension held in the brain stem and alta major chakra (back of the head) is dissolved. One can experience relief in the frontal lobes, aiding critical thinking and decision making. The end result is that the crown chakra opens to a new clarity and mental energy which is calm yet energised. an excellent essence to use in times of major life transitions.

It has -

Angelic Canopy

Balm for the troubled soul. If you can only have one of the Living Tree Orchid Essences, this one should be seriously considered, as it is so helpful in these times. Angelic Canopy brings nurturing to those who are in grief, despair or who have lost hope. Releases the tension from the flight vs. fight response, thus helping to increase one's sense of security by realigning to the values of life. "All things can be done in Grace." Great for space clearing and cleansing crystals.

Clearing the Way

Serves to strengthen one's belief in one's own inner and outer spiritual resources, and one's ability to move forward with projects and goals. A wonderful "can do" essence. This essence helps relax tension in the 8th chakra, a result of trying too hard to be perfect and stay in control of everything in our lives.

Core of Being

A very important essence to realign to our spiritual axis. This essence enters into one's causal body, which is the "Spiritual White Light". It appears as the central axis, a small-diameter shaft of light running parallel to and just in front of the spine. It is the origin of the chakra system. In a gentle yet profound movement, the essence helps us to aling to the higher chakras that compose and create the causal body Light shaft and surrounding causal and celestial auric fields. In doing so, the etheric, astral and mental bodies harmonise very well.

Serene Overview

Gain a serene overview and perspective on life. Deva means radiant or shing one, while Devata refers to the spiritual potential of the soul, to the human heart warming the world with its noble presence. This spiritual charisma can be found in our nobler qualities: quietly regal, insistent but not aggressive, acting with integrity. "Beauty is Inner Truth made Perfect".

Shiva's Trident

This essence opens the yang polarity of the meridian system, the baihui point on the top of the head, bringing in a spiralling, very active energy. This essence is to a large degree the masculine counterpart to Devata, where we go inside to rediscover the Divine (listed above). Here the realignment to our spiritual purpose found at the outermost level of the universe opens the wisdom apsect of the crown chakra.

(I had originally planned to just get the Angelic Canopy - but due to having problems with some other things, and being in a state of constant transition - I thought it would be more beneficial and more economic to buy the blend.)

[kapitanprien]

Living Essences of Australia - Custom Blends

Having gone to their site - I noticed that they offer custom blends which is really convenient! I have decided to order a blend next month.

The cost isn't that bad - for one blend (you can get up to 10 essences in a custom blend and you can also state how many drops of each you want). To ship to the U.S. - from what I understood by registering and putting in a 'fake' order to see the shipping amount - the total would be $26 - which isn't bad considering it's coming all the way from Australia.

The only bummer is that you can't order two different blends in the same order - so I have to put in two separate orders for each blend.

Here is the link:

livingessences.com.au/index.php?o....hk=1&Item id=26

I hope people find this helpful with saving money, etc.

[kapitanprien]

[glow=blue,2,300]Healing the Higher Heart[/glow] by Living Tree Orchid

(I figured since we were discussing the Higher Heart around here, I'd post an essence on it)

The one orchid produced two forms, two essences: one by itself (Spirit of the Higher Heart) and this one which has essence of 24 karat gold added, which enhances the orchid�s energetic action. The higher heart chakra is a light turquoise color and is responsible for releasing the heart chakra from emotional blocks (either karmic or current). This essence centers itself in the spiritual chamber of the heart and sends it roots into the 3rd & root chakras. It then enters and heals the higher heart chakra.

[Storm]

I have just used a special blend of essences recommended by Kapitan Prien based on my own situation. It is a mix of Bailey essences, www.baileyessences.com, which Prien ever so kindly researched and advised me to try.

I have only used it today and already I do feel more able to cope with these feelings that are connected to my own PL issues.

I wanted to say a big thank you on this forum, (even though he does not use the forum now), as I do feel better, and to let others know that these essences do really work!

Kapitan Prien says, "I'd be happy to do the same with other members, if they would be willing to try them at least. If they know they don't work for them that's ok...but if they don't know and wanted to try, then I'd be willing."

I would personally recommend both Prien's knowledge on essence selection for specific issues and the special mix to order Bailey offer, which is only £6 for a mix of one's own selection, plus shipping. Great value!

My blend is:

Bladder Senna - link to info: www.baileyessences.com/cgi-bin/moreinfo_bailey.pl?BLADDERSENNA-10ML
Cyprus Rock Rose: www.baileyessences.com/cgi-bin/moreinfo_bailey.pl?CYPRUSROCKROSE-10ML
Dog Rose: www.baileyessences.com/cgi-bin/moreinfo_bailey.pl?DOGROSE-10ML
Moss: www.baileyessences.com/cgi-bin/moreinfo_bailey.pl?MOSS-10ML
Pink Purslane: www.baileyessences.com/cgi-bin/moreinfo_bailey.pl?PINKPURSLANE-10ML
Wood Anemone: www.baileyessences.com/cgi-bin/moreinfo_bailey.pl?WOODANEMONE-10ML
Yorkshire Fog: www.baileyessences.com/cgi-bin/moreinfo_bailey.pl?YORKSHIREFOG-10ML

Probably quite suited to an SS PL.

[Laurasia]

Hi SS3.

I am glad to hear that you are finding the essences helpful for you. Hopefully they will continue to be helpful the more that you use them. I have had instances where working with a certain crystal proved helpful at first, but later started causing problems with extended use....so hopefully that won't happen with these esences.

Sincerely,
Laurasia