Bach Flowers and the mind-body connection

For a long time now doctors have been talking about stress and high blood pressure - but they usually talk about type A executives, driving themselves beyond their endurance to succeed more and more.

Well, the rest of us have stress too. It just isn't quite so visible.

And finally, doctors are realizing that stress can do more to our bodies than cause high blood pressure. It can cause an overall degeneration of many body parts, because after all, those parts are all connected!

Bach Flower Essences can help rebalance our energies to remove that stress and make the ups and downs in our lives easier to manage.

Dr. Bach, of course, talked about how our spiritual self affects our physical self. He believed there could be no true physical healing without emotional and vibrational healing. I personally believe that's why some people who "should" be well continue to be ill, while others with challenging injuries can heal quickly.

Bach Flowers can be preventative medicine - treating emotional upheaval before it takes a toll on our bodies. And they can be healing medicine, working in concert with traditional medicine to allow bodies to recover. Either way, because it's both inexpensive and totally harmless, I think using Bach Flower Essences is an intelligent approach to health care.

If you're interested in trying this natural approach to wellness, here's another book that could help you understand and choose the correct essences: Illustrated Handbook of the Bach Flower Remedies


You'll find Bach Flower Essences in many places around the web, but for fast service and the best prices I've seen, I recommend Feel Bach! More important, they use the same formula that Dr. Bach perfected back in the 30's, while many other manufacturers have chosen to use a cheaper method.

Note: For a selection of books that cover everything from using Bach Flowers for stress to treating pets, just type "bach flower remedies" into the Buy.com search box at the top of this page.

Yours for stress-free, joyful holidays,
Marte

Tomorrow: Meditation

Bach Flower Essences - to greet the Christmas season with joy

Do you know about Bach Flower Essences? They could help you enjoy the Christmas season this year.

The use of plants for healing dates back to Biblical times, so there's nothing new about knowing that plants are beneficial. But in the 1930's Dr. Edward Bach identified 38 different plants whose flowers affected not just physical well-being, but emotional well being.

Since modern science has no way to measure and quantify emotional vibration, no scientific explanation exists for why Bach Flower Essences work. But that doesn't matter to the millions of people who use them.

We all know that Christmas brings anxiety to many. Often it's the pressure of too much to do, and expecting too much of our own ability to do it all. Sometimes it's the dread of facing critical family members - and sometimes it's being that critical family member. Sometimes its overwhelming loneliness.

These are all emotional conditions tied to energy and our inner vibrations - and Bach Flowers can help bring things back into sync. The great part is that they're completely natural - there are no harmful side effects, no drug interactions, no worries about who can or cannot use them.

For generalized anxiety, many use a product called Feel5ive - it's Dr. Bach's original calmative formula to be used in times of stress. This is good for facing an important interview, visiting the dentist, taking an airplane ride, etc. It's also a great formula to use for pets under stress.

Treating other emotional situations requires a study of the 38 Bach Flower Essences and their qualities. Some rely on Bach Flower practitioners to help them choose the essences, while others do their own research. Feel Bach! offers a good explanation of each essence on their website, and will send you a quick reference brochure upon request.

If you'd like to learn more, I highly recommend the book I keep handy:
Bach Flower Therapy: Theory and Practice

Tomorrow we'll talk about the mind-body connection. Stay tuned...

Can't sleep? Try Bach Flower Remedies

This week-end a friend without computer access called to ask me if I'd order some "Sweet Dreams" from Feel Bach! for him. He'd run out and was once again experiencing sleepless nights. I said of course I would, and I did. Then I started thinking about how much Bach flower essences have helped him.

This is a man who was constantly worn out. He was sleeping only an hour or two at a time all night, every night. He's ill and on a LOT of medication. I'm sure that fact has a lot to do with his sleeplessness. Not only is he full of chemicals, but he's worried. He's afraid of the medication, but afraid not to take it.

Anyway, the doctors had given him prescription sleep aids, which helped a little but left him groggy and lethargic all day. The same happened with over the counter medications - some relief, but feeling terrible all day. At least - as far as we know - he didn't get up in the night and go driving in his sleep, as others have done when taking pharmaceutical sleep aids.

When I gave him a bottle of Sweet Dreams to try I expected that it might take several days before they had an effect, but I was mistaken. He called me the very next day to tell me he'd had the best sleep he'd gotten in months, and he felt rested and awake.

If you have sleep issues, give Bach flowers a try. They're safe for everyone and very inexpensive. Go to www.feelbach.com and read all about them. Then choose which sleep problem you have, and order accordingly.

Yours for good health,
Marte