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  • Flower Essences

    Flower Essences

     

    What are flower essences and how do they work?  I am going to try my best to explain flower essences in this post along with sharing personal experiences that I have had over the course of the years using them.  I first discovered flower essences over 8 years ago while randomly listening to a podcast.  It was a two week self help workshop where a different contributor was being interviewed everyday.  I choose to listen to this particular podcast because it was described as anyone who loves flowers and promised we would learn about the essence and properties of flowers and how the flowers work for us and our emotional health in our everyday lives.  I had no idea what was in store.  The person being interviewed was Katie Hess the founder of Lotus Wei https://www.lotuswei.com/

     

    In a nutshell if I were to describe flower essences I remember someone explaining that back in mid evil times before there was a lot of medicine available if someone was feeling down they were told to find the essence or dew of their favorite flower and rub it on their face and drink the dew drops.  This act of rubbing the dew on oneself was supposed to help with a natural emotional healing as each flower has a different property that can address such emotional issues as depression, anger, frustration, guilt, jealousy, on and on.

    To describe it from Katie Hess

    “Flower elixirs are liquid infusions of fresh flowers. They consist of water that contains the bioenergetic imprint of the flowers. This energetic imprint travels through the acupuncture meridians, like an acupuncture treatment without the needles.

    Historically, these types of flower remedies are called flower essences. They do not have a scent. To avoid confusion with aromatherapy and essential oils, we have always referred to them as flower elixirs.

    When taken internally or applied externally, flower elixirs work through the acupuncture meridians to shift our state of mind, often within minutes, with an exponential effect over time.”

    My first time trying flower essences

    After I listened to the podcast I was pretty sold on trying out these flower essences.  I liked the concept and so I went on to the website to figure out which flower elixir I wanted to try.  There were various choices and also mixed flower blends on the site that would address such issues as happiness, inner peace, inspiration, sleep, and love.  The one I choose was called Infinite Love.  Low key was in the mind set of attracting love but the description as much as it said magnetizes others to be around you it also had about 8 other infinite love properties.  Mainly focusing on self love and being kind to yourself.  So I placed my order and patiently waited for my Lotus Wei Infinite Love flower elixir to arrive in the mail.  When my packaged arrive about 5 days later I started taking my elixir.  Basically comes in a glass bottle and is recommended to take up to 5 times a day.  So into my mouth goes the drops. Its a subtle wait where you start with the dosage, continue living and then, see what happens.  Did I notice a drastic change overnight?  No.  It says it takes about 2 to 3 days before you feel anything.  Well I did start to notice after a few days I would have these loving thoughts for myself and literally a voice in my head would say to me, ” Why would you think that about yourself that isn’t nice to think that way about yourself.”  It was very interesting because the self loving thoughts would come out of nowhere.  I did notice it though.  So I knew in some way this flower elixir was working.

    I will say at the time my cousin was staying with me and I talked her into trying these flower elixirs too.  She chose Quiet Mind and it was supposed to help with sleep issues.  She definitely fell asleep a lot faster using the elixir she choose.  One night she asked me if I wanted to try it and honestly I don’t have issues falling asleep but I was keen to give it a go.  I did the 5 drops under my tongue and I slept very deep that night.  So deep, that the next morning I woke up very groggy.  So with Infinite Love and a one time hit of Quiet Mind I experienced the beginning of my flower essence journey.

    All things flowers

    As the years passed I became more and more obsessed with anything flowers.  I started to see that flowers are here for us and they have so many innate healing properties. In the world of facial products I had seen various brands use flower essences or floral sprays to use on the face.  Initially I didn’t understand it.  For example if a brand had lavender water and said to spray on the face as a boost I always wondered why would you do that?  Why would you spray over your cream or your foundation?  Well as time passed and I became more and more into using make up and makeup application I was seeing everyone use setting spray to set their make up.  I had already ordered and used the Lotus Wei Infinite Love Aura Mist numerous times and that is when I decided that would be my setting spray.  I became obsessed with spraying on my face before I walked out the door or just adding a mist in the middle of the day to get my floral boost. I kind of imagine it like a bouquet of flowers being sprayed on your face and then who wouldn’t glow after that?

    Just a little plug here. That is why I choose the formulation I did for my element Lufu balancing face toner. https://elementlufu.com/store/gentle-balancing-toner/If you check the ingredient list you will find rose flower, green tea, chamomile and aloe vera.  Spray away and indulge in the bouquet of goodness for your spirit and you skin.

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    So as the years went on and I had been dabbling with the various elixirs offered by Lotus Wei I started to remember a brand of floral essences I had seen at health food stores in the vitamin section.  That brand was Bach Flower Remedies.  I was kind of wanting to try a new brand and see what the difference is.  I was researching on the website of Bach when I realized he was the grandfather of floral essences having started his brand in England in 1930.  The main difference is he used a base of homeopathy to mix his essences and his tinctures where mixed in alcohol (brandy).  Lotus Wei bases here elixirs in honey.  So I was down to try a new brand.  I had actually found some at my local Sprouts and they came in a three pack.  There were 3 different emotional issues being addressed in the 3 pack and you would choose the pack by the theme of the issues.  That local store supplied two of the 3 pack themes so I had to choose.  I basically was getting 3 different issues addressed in one box.

    Trying Bach Flower Remedies

    So I started my first bottle and was taking my suggested drops 3 times a day.  It is always the same feeling when you start to take a floral essence.  It takes time to kick in and is very subtle. It takes time but after a few days you do definitely notice something.  So in this case I had just started on one of the bottles and had been taking for about a week.  Here comes the deep part.  I started noticing out of nowhere I was having flashbacks of times I had spent with my ex.  Mind you this is my ex I had broken up with over 10 years prior.  I literally could see a flash of something that happened between us and I would think yeah I remember he used to do that or oh I remember that wasn’t a good experience.  This went on for about 3 days.  Just random flashbacks of my past with my ex and not positive memories.  I could literally see a scenario from my past happen with him and it would come out of nowhere.  It wasn’t making sense to me because I hadn’t thought about that guy in a long time.   All of a sudden it hit me it was the flower remedy I was taking.  I literally sat there and thought I don’t know why I’m having these memories flash up but this seems like grief.  Let me see what issue this flower remedy is supposed to address.  I grabbed the bottle and right on it was the word Grief.  For me I realized wow this stuff works.

    Now to tie these flower essences into skincare.  Besides the fact that once I learned how amazing floral essences are for the face and created my own toner with a bouquet of flowers,  I do feel from my own personal experience that once your internal body is glowing and your feeling more emotionally balanced your external appearance will glow.  I just love what floral essences do for your emotional healing.  Anytime I was giving a facial and a client may have felt that they were interested in a way of finding emotional balance naturally I would tell them my experience with flower essences.  I always make the comment if the whole world was using these things we would all be in a much more balanced space.  I’m obsessed and love using the flower remedies.  I always like to have a flower essence on hand.  Even if I may not necessarily feel the issue the essence is designed to address I just like having a flower essence available.

    Here is a list of links to use if you want to better understand flower remedies

    Conclusion

    Something that I literally stumbled upon while cleaning house one day turned out to be such a life changer.  Flower remedies are great.  They are harmless to the body and anyone can use them.  You can use on pets, babies, children even plants.  I find it fascinating that Dr. Bach’s theory on healing, stems from the idea that as long as your emotional state is good in your mindset then the body can heal.  He has 38 flowers dedicated to healing your emotional state. He was a big believer in healing mind, body and spirit.  I still stand by my idea that if everyone in the world was taking flower remedies we would have no problems.

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