Bach flowers are wild plants packaged in the form of flower elixirs obtained by a process of maceration. At the crossroads of homeopathy and herbal medicine, they would contain the energy of the original plant, which would promote the body’s self-healing process. But what are the effects of Bach flowers?
I have always considered Bach flowers to be an essential tool for well-being. Thanks to them, it is possible to get rid of some of our limiting beliefs: “I can’t speak in public”, “I don’t feel up to it”, “I am anxious”, “I have fear of flying…
Is there a solution to face the thousand obstacles of our daily life? A simple and natural solution to manage our emotions and see life in a positive way? It seems so…
What are Bach flowers?
What we know as “Bach Flowers” cannot be bought from florists. These are herbal and flower-based preparations designed to treat a number of problems, which are becoming increasingly popular in France.
The main reasons for such interest are simple: people are looking for effective remedies, close to nature, without side effects and easy to use. And Bach flowers seem to meet these criteria. Acting as catalysts, they allow the body to balance itself.
Often, we discover the effects of Bach flowers by chance, on the advice of an enthusiastic friend. We try them just “to see” and we are seduced. We thus go to the discovery of the Bach flowers to find or maintain one’s own balance and thus live “in harmony”.
” It is certain that the conflict-free personality is immune to disease. writes Doctor Bach, the creator of the flower elixirs which bear his name, Flower Healingone of the rare works written directly by his pen.
The vocation of Dr. Bach
Born in 1886 near Birmingham, Doctor of Medicine, Edward Bach specialized in surgery and immunology. During the First World War, he fell ill. The doctors give him only three months of life. He then decided to throw himself totally into his passion: research. He will live until 1936. This experience will allow him to understand that a vocation can help to heal and that it is essential to keep or acquire physical and moral well-being.
Doctor Bach devotes his life to healing others. However, he realizes the limits of his activity as a doctor. He understands that to cure an illness, you must first know the causes and also know how to highlight the negative and disturbing moods that can be at the origin. In this regard, he will say: it is the patient who must be treated, not the disease“.
It was at the age of 43 that he decided to change his life. Convinced that the disease is the result of an inner conflicthe is looking for a simple treatment, which can be considered a bit like the medicine of the future.
He then left his office in London to return to his native country and start looking for plants. He is certain that it is in nature that there is the solution to illnesses. Thanks to his personal feelings, his intuition and his sensitivity, he discovers the 38 flowers and plantscorresponding to the emotions and feelings that he considers disturbing for human beings.
The effects of Bach Flowers
By dint of experimenting, he discovered the effects of Bach flowers: certain plants can help transform negative states into their positive opposite. For example, fear into courage, discouragement into hope, excessive fear for others being able to take care of others without anxiety, anger into generosity.
The effects of Bach Flowers are therefore not directly oriented towards the cure of a specific disease. They will rather help to develop in us thes positive qualities related to negative emotions and disruptive. The goal is to regain serenity, relying on our self-healing abilities.
Doctor Bach wanted a holistic approach to human beings. He had understood that emotional tensions uselessly consume our vital energy, creating physical and psychological fatigue, pain and a drop in our immune system. ” As long as the soul, body and spirit are in harmony, nothing can affect us ” he said.
To help the user, he has divided the flowers into 7 families, corresponding to emotional states and conflicts that lead away from our true nature: fear, hypersensitivity to ideas and influences, loneliness, lack of interest in the present, despair and discouragement, uncertainty, excessive sensitivity to the lives of others.
For each of these disturbing states, Dr. Bach has indicated the appropriate remedies, according to the different characteristics of the problem. Each flower, having a specific effect, brings about a change, which gives rise to a positive state and an energy balance.
The Rescue Remedy, a remedy apart
The Rescue Remedy, the emergency remedy, a set of 5 flowers, is the best known and most used today. Always keep in your bag, it allows you to instantly manage the small and big shocks of everyday life: bad news that upsets us, the fear of going to the dentist, an event that worries us, an argument, before a review… Users often have the same comment: you quickly feel better.
Some people are skeptical about the effects of Bach flowers which are nowadays used all over the world and evoke the placebo effect. Yes, but… It would seem that many positive results with Bach flowers have been obtained on babies, animals and even, it seems, on plants. The debate remains open…
