Flowers are beautiful. And in their beauty lies immense healing and rejuvenation benefits. Flower essence therapy is an ancient technique used to harness these benefits. Did you know that this practice dates back to over 3000 years ago in Egypt? In this article, I will shed more light on flower essence therapy, the commonly used flowers, and their benefits.
What is Flower Essence Therapy?
Flower blossoms have subtle energy, which when harnessed (via their essences) resonates with your body to unblock patterns that hinder you from enjoying your daily life. Just like sound therapy, which uses tuning forks to resonate your chi energies, flower essence has unique alchemy and energy, which respond differently in every person.
Similarly, each flower contains different energy, and it is, therefore, important to understand which essence to use for different situations. You can extract the essence at home or buy some from a store. The store-bought essence is also derived from living flowers. However, they add Brandy to stabilize it.
Commonly Used Flowers
- Lemon flower, plucked from a lemon tree, helps with clarity. It will sharpen your focus by clearing any mental fog.
- Passionflower, plucked from the passion fruit tree, connects us with a divine path by uniting our spiritual realm.
- Grape hyacinth eases and relieves stress related to emotional and physical trauma.
- Hibiscus, my favorite flower essence, arouses your passion by supporting sacral and root chakras. As a result, your sexual and reproductive energy is stimulated.
- Nasturtium, the orange flower, works on your mental barriers and reconnects your body’s chakras.
This list is not even half of the options available to you. But I find my flower essence therapy complete with these five.
What to Expect During a Flower Essence Therapy Session
First, I need you to understand that flower essence therapy works by harnessing Plant Spirit Medicine and transforming your body through consciousness. The therapist will start by performing a cleansing ritual on herself. This removes any negative energy she might have from being passed on to you. You will then take a quick questionnaire for her to decide the essence you need for your situation.
During the question-answer session, the therapist will provoke your deepest emotions. This is how we apply conscious healing. After the emotional breakdown, you’ll focus on meditation with the help of a few drops of flower essence to help you calm down even further and release any remaining discomfort or negative signals.
When your session is over (it usually lasts an hour or so), you can go back home, but you need to follow up with routine therapy sessions at home for at least 3 months. These sessions involve deep meditation using a few drops of the flower essences. With time, you will notice a significant change in your emotional choices and behavioral adaptations.
The Benefits of Flower Essence Therapy
Flower essence therapy can treat mild to moderate depression. There are different flowers used to address anxiety, the impact of stress reactions, depression, fear, worry, resentment, and similar emotional turmoil. All these situations result in depression. The treatment was introduced by Dr. Batch in his book Heal Thyself. And today, several therapists have reported success in their treatment.
The therapy can also treat chronic ailments such as chronic pain. Because of its holistic approach, flower essence therapy alleviates emotional, spiritual, and mental conditions directly.
The essence is an alternative distraction from drug addictions – both prescription drugs and illegal drug abuse.
This therapy makes you aware of your Chakra System. With time, you understand and appreciate how your energetic centers work.
You achieve self-love once you restore your connection to your higher self.
Your spirit connects deeper with your body. You become free, and your life becomes more enjoyable.
Despite all these proven benefits, you need to consult with a certified medical practitioner before embarking on flower essence therapy as an alternative treatment for serious medical conditions.
How is Flower Essence Prepared?
Flower essences are a dilute infusion of the fresh flower blossoms. Please note that not all flowers can create the therapeutic essence. Very early in the morning, handpick the specific flowers once they attain full bloom. The reason we pick these flowers in the morning and not at any other time of the day is that in the morning the blossoms are full of dew.
After picking, place the flowers on a surface of a clear glass bowl filled with fresh, clean water. Then you can choose to either expose them to direct sunlight for 3 hours or boil them for 30 minutes. The idea is to infuse the water with flower juices.
Now collect this water and preserve it with brandy. For every pint of flower-infused water, you add one pint of brandy (one-to-one ratio). We call this the mother essence. Commercially, the mother essence is further diluted with alcohol using 0.2% ratio to now produce flower essence stock.
They further dilute the stock before packaging for sale. You might be thinking this is already too dilute. Well, it is. However, remember that flower essence therapy is about not only the essences but also more of holistic therapy. We are, therefore, not interested in the concentration of the flowers but rather tapping into the subtle energy they contain.
Commonly Asked Questions and Answers
Is flower essence therapy similar to aromatherapy?
No. Aromatherapy uses scent while flower essences don’t carry any scent. In fact, you administer flower essence using a mist sprayer or eyedroppers. We simply Harness the energy they contain.
Who Discovered Flower Essence?
Dr. Bach is the father of flower essences because of his famous 38 flowers remedies.
Are Flower essences similar to essential oils?
No, they are not. Essential oils cure the physical body while flower essences treat the psychological (emotional) issues. However, it is advisable to use the two simultaneously. They complement each other well.
How many flowers do I need to extract enough essence?
You just need one flower. Unlike essential oils that require a lot of plant material, you need only one flower to make an essence.
In Conclusion
Flower essence therapy does not focus on specific medical symptoms like depression or a backache, for example. Instead, the therapists delve in your spiritual, mental, and emotional imbalance for holistic healing. The essences then restore any imbalance as you consciously change your emotional and mental patterns.
In a nutshell, flower essence therapy repairs trauma, balances energy at all levels and moods, connects you to the natural world energies (which gives you intuitive wisdom), and changes obsolete behavior.