18/04/2025
“The way negative patterns act upon the body (both physical and emotional) can be visualised. A shock will tear the fabric allowing life force to flow out like blood from a wound. Rigid mental attitudes progressively remove the suppleness from the body just as ageing makes the bones brittle… Fear restricts the flow of life force so that change is less possible just as it creates shallow breathing and so reduces the exchange of gases. The effect of this can be traced through the whole metabolism: less oxygen (and so the pallor fear), less efficient digestions, poor circulation and so cold, fatigue and poor health are inevitable. These are all physical effects of a poor pattern of breathing. But the breathing is a result of a more subtle cause – the restriction of the life force that a prolonged pattern of fear or nervousness will induce.” Extract from Patterns of Life Force
In Patterns of Life Force, Julian Barnard explores the ability of Bach flower essences to alter the patterning of illness by going beyond the obvious.
Intense emotions slow the life activity within the body because localised pressure of emotion leads to physical imbalance within the body which opens the door to illness. Rebalancing the emotions becomes the starting point of restoring health.
It is a logical progression but how does an essence, which has no chemical compounds of the plant, achieve the necessary rebalancing.
The flowers confer upon the water used to make the essence a patterning that the subtle fields, the emotional body of a person, can read or understand to reharmonise the emotions. This restores the flow of life force and allows the body to come back into health.
How the body reads this message is the subject of Julian Barnard’s Book Bach Flower Essences & The Patterning of Water. Julian has formed his own opinions from considerable research on this topic but recognises that the path to healing is unique.
So perhaps it is more appropriate to ask, how do you think the body reads the message of the flower and what have your experiences shown you?
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