Your Path To Healing / Classical Homeopathy

07/03/2022

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Diets. Food. Eating. Instagram snaps of meals. There seems to be a lot of it about. Which set me thinking about the relationship that any of us have to food; those internal scripts that colour our feelings and behaviour. Such as does your body shape make you more Beech critical of your appearance? Or Crab Apple despondent that once-favourite clothes no longer fit properly? Or full of Pine self-recrimination that you didn’t start changing your eating habits sooner? Or is food a way of trying to keep control in a spiralling Cherry Plum situation?

However, while passing moods may come up, what about your innate personality that influences your relationship to food?

For example, are you in Bach flower terms, an Oak? Oak personalities tend to push on with their responsibilities, ignoring their body telling them to rest. This can lead to a habit of grabbing food as fuel to keep going, rather than mindfully sitting down to a balanced meal. Impatiens may be someone who is in such a hurry they gulp their food (not good for digestion) and leave the table before everyone else. There is Agrimony, vainly trying to sooth the internal angst by consuming tubs of favourite ice creams. There is the loneliness of Heather, where comfort eating is a way of trying to feel nurtured, however fleeting that may be. Clematis who are too disconnected to the here and now, forgetting to eat, when they need food to sustain that connection to the body, and remain grounded. Or Centaury, so intent on taking care of others and feeding them that by the time you sit down to eat there isn’t much left for you. Or Rock Water obsessive self-denial in reaching your self-imposed goals? Or Mimulus shyness and vulnerability where food is seen as an aid to keep yourself well covered and protected?

Maybe in dealing with any of the above, you might find Chestnut Bud helpful in that ‘I can’t believe I’m back here again,’ thought (which is what I imagine the photo below depicts), or Walnut so you’re not swayed by social media airbrushed images of ‘perfection’ (there really is no such thing) or if trauma is associated with food, then Star of Bethlehem, or Honeysuckle to let go of the past or Sweet Chestnut for the anguish you may feel. There are many possibilities from the 38 Bach flowers to choose up to 7 remedies to create the mix that is right for you.

Your unique mix will work by gently peeling back the layers of emotions, some of which may be surprising as you find what is hidden from view. Perhaps there is remorse, fear, grief, despair, anger… it could be anything. As new emotions emerge, tweak your mix. Whatever the emotions disrupting you, there are Bach flowers to help you regain balance.

Which Bach flowers have supported you in your relationship with food? 🌺

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03/11/2022

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01/16/2022

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12/29/2020

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07/09/2020

HOMEOPATHY got to love Bach Flowers
Sweet Chestnut an important Bach remedy when you feel like there is no light at the end of the tunnel.

There’s a phrase I keep noticing lately and that is: ‘existential despair’ - whether it is about lockdown, social injustices, protests, environmental issues, riots - it can disturb our own equilibrium and possibly trigger old issues too.

In terms of Bach flower remedies, it is useful to consider Sweet Chestnut, which as Dr Bach described, is “for those moments which happen to some people when the anguish is so great as to seem to be unbearable. When the mind or body feels as if it had borne to the uttermost limit of its endurance, and that now it must give way. When it seems there is nothing but destruction and annihilation left to face.”

A poem written by a Tibetan Buddhist, has a line: “life is as if eating honey off a razors edge” - and that to me encapsulates the sweetness of life while being mindful that there may be pain at some point. In my own experience, I discovered an unattended Sweet Chestnut state (being something of an Oak and Agrimony type it makes sense) and after I awoke from surgery (which happened to be in the region of my solar plexus) I literally felt the energetic weight of Sweet Chestnut leave me. Maybe helped by the Star of Bethlehem I took before and after... it heals old trauma.

I mention this only because it can be useful to reflect on your own life experiences, to pay attention to what you may have neglected to process, and explore whether some of your current sense of despair comes from the past and is being amplified by the present. There is a light at the end of the tunnel, so please be kind to yourself. Ask for the help you feel you need or go into action and offer practical support to others. It does help to change the energy.

The Bach flower remedies are a wonderful companion on this journey, gently revealing the layers that require healing and therefore enabling us to find inner peace. Remember while you may at times feel alone, you are never truly alone. 🌺

What are your experiences with Sweet Chestnut? 🌺

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06/19/2020

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05/19/2020

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03/12/2020

In 1935, Doctor Edward Bach MRCS had a long series of correspondence with the General Medical Council (GMC). They wrote that he was at risk of being struck off the register if he did not stop his work with the flower remedies. He was convinced they were beneficial and sent an appeal to the medical profession:

“After many years of research, I have found that certain Herbs have the most wonderful healing properties; and that with the aid of these, a large number of cases which by orthodox treatment we could only palliate, are now curable.
Moreover, on-coming disease can be treated and prevented at that stage when people say, ‘It is not bad enough to send for a doctor’.
But when we gain the confidence of those around that disease should be tackled in its very earliest stages, and moreover, when we are able to explain to them that in the most obstinate and chronic cases it is worth while persevering with treatment, our work will be widely extended. Because we shall have that army of people come to us, days, weeks or months before they otherwise would to have their health adjusted; and secondly, the chronic cases will not only send for us when they wish for relief of pain or discomfort, but will send to us to continue with their cases in the hopes of a cure being obtained.
The Herbs mentioned can be used in conjunction with any orthodox treatment, or added to any prescription, and will hasten and assist the treatment in all types of cases, acute or chronic, to be more successful.
It is a time amongst us when orthodox medicine is not fully coping with a proportion of disease in this country; and it is a time to regain the confidence of the people, and justify our noble Calling.
The Herbs are simple to every student of human nature to understand, and one of their properties is that they help us to prevent the onset of organic disease when the patient is in that functional state which, in either acute or chronic ailments, so often precedes them.”

The GMC never removed Dr Bach from their register. 🌺

From: The Original Writings of Edward Bach

What are your experiences of using Bach flowers when dealing with health issues?🌺