The Cyprus Flower Essences: An Introduction

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The Cyprus Flower EssencesAn Introduction
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What are flower essences?

• Simple extracts of fresh flowers in pure water.
• Homeopathically diluted and potentised.
• An energy-based healing modality.
• Active mainly on the emotional level.
• Entirely safe to use no side effects.
• Effective on both acute and chronic states.

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Who discovered flower essences?

• The principle that flowers have an emotional
  energy has long been understood subconsciously
  (e.g. roses and love).
• Flowers were apparently used in ancient Egypt and
  elsewhere to treat the emotions.
• Dr Edward Bach rediscovered the use of flower
  essences to heal emotional and mental problems.
• During the 1920s and 1930s he developed a range
  of essences to treat some 38 negative mental /
  emotional states, using plants native or
  naturalised in Britain.

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What was Dr Bachs new idea?

• Dr Bach trained originally as a physician, but
  gradually realised that many physical illnesses
  have underlying emotional /mental causes.
• He had seen the effectiveness of energy healing
  using homeopathic remedies, based on the
  principle of treating like-with-like with
  highly diluted extracts of substances that would
  provoke the same range of symptoms that the
  patient showed.
• He then made the conceptual leap to energy
  healing for the emotions by using flower
  extracts.

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Are flower essences the same as Homeopathic
remedies?

• Flower essences are similar to homeopathic
  remedies in that
• They work best if diluted and potentised
  (energised)
• Small doses can still be effective
• They promote the bodys ability to heal itself,
  rather than salving the symptoms.

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• They differ from homeopathics in that
• The original flowers are entirely harmless
• They are effective at relatively lesser dilutions
  (typically 1X to 1C)
• They can be combined together without interfering
  with the effectiveness of any component essence
• They are much less sensitive to interfering
  substances such as mint or coffee

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What do flower essences do for us?

• Flower essences impact on our emotional and
  mental state, gently correcting imbalances so
  that we feel happier in ourselves.
• By bringing our thoughts and emotions into
  greater harmony they have a very positive effect
  on our bodily health.
• At the same time they help to remove negative
  thought patterns, beliefs and self-perceptions
  that hinder our spiritual development, thus
  ultimately facilitating our spiritual growth and
  long-term happiness.

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How did Dr Bach research the emotional properties
of flowers?

• Dr Edward Bach discovered that he had the ability
  to sense the properties of different flowers
  intuitively.
• If he needed to heal a particular problem, he
  would sometimes actually experience the symptoms
  himself until he came across a flower that would
  bring him relief.
• In this way he tapped into universal sources of
  healing knowledge, as countless shamans had done
  before him all over the world.

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How are new essences developed?

• The intuition is still the only route to
  discovering the properties of new flower essences
  there are no books to help!
• Useful techniques for accessing the intuition are
  dowsing (divining) and meditation.
• Many plants also hold subtle clues to their
  emotional properties the mediaeval Doctrine of
  Signatures.
• The attractiveness or otherwise of flowers gives
  no clue to their value. Many of the most useful
  are small and dowdy.

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Why develop new essences in Cyprus?

• Flowers coincidentally seem best able to heal
  the emotional temperaments of the area in which
  they are found (the local emotional climate).
• Any flower essences will work anywhere in the
  world, but the most effective are likely to be
  the local ones.
• Populated by highly emotional peoples, the
  Mediterranean has great need of effective local
  essences!
• They will also work well on anyone who has lived
  in this climate for more than a few months.
• The Cypriot healing plants generally are
  recognised as being amongst the most potent in
  the world.

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How many new essences are available?

• Up to now we have developed 34 new flower
  essences, plus two blends (Give-up Smoking
  Relationship Stress)
• 22 of these are Life Management Essences that
  relate to the typical day-to-day emotional
  disturbances.
• 12 are Spiritual Seeker Essences which relate
  particularly to the problems encountered by those
  pursuing a more spiritual path in life.

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Allium neapolitanumSelf conciousness and shame
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Anemone blandaHaste and hurry
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Brugmansia suaveolensAddiction
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Cistus creticusLow self-esteem
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Crithmum maritimumOverwhelmed by lifes obstacles
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Cupressus sempervirensGrief and depression from
loss.
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Gladiolus italicusStubborness rigidity of
views.
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Gynandiris sisyrinchiumIrrational fears, phobias
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Matthiola incanaAnxiety worry
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Muscari comosumSexual frustration hopelessness
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Orchis italicaIrrational anger
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Reseda luteaLovesick, heart-broken
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Romulea ramifloraJealousy
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Sinapis arvensisSense of injustice
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Verbena officinalisChaotic thoughts and emotions