• pushing the contestants to breaking point emotionally during early training sessions
• then digging into their past to reveal when the weight started going on
• uncovering the emotions at that time
• identifying triggers
• then changing mindset

• Monga Waratah – feelings of emptiness, looking outside for fulfillment
• Crowea – feelings of anxiety
• Mountain Devil – feelings of anger
• Tall Yellow Top – feelings of depression, isolation or lonliness
• Bottlebrush – It’s a habit
• Boab – Your learnt this response from your family
• Boronia – You can’t stop thinking about that food (obsessing)
• Five Corners – low self esteem and/or confidence

One of our common native trees, the humble Bottlebrush, has strong healing qualities when taken as a flower Essence.

On an emotional level it is very good for helping us with the process of letting go, which in turn allows us to move forward in life. Creating space allows room for the new.

It will enhance the action of any detox program, especially those cleansing the bowel.

Indications for Bottlebrush Essence

• unresolved mother issues
• overwhelmed by major life changes
• old age, adolescence, parenthood, pregnancy, approaching death

Healing Qualities of Bottlebrush Essence

• serenity and calm
• ability to cope and move on
• mother-child bonding

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Also part of the following Combination Essences:

Adol Essence

Calm & Clear

Purifying Essence

Relationship Essence

Transition Essence

Travel Essence

Woman Essence

Learn more about Bottlebrush Essence during the Level 1 Australian Bush Flower Essences Workshop.

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Red Helmet Orchid grows high in the Stirling ranges of in Western Australia.

As a flower essence, Red Helmet Orchid helps a man bond to his child or children and to remember to make room in his life for quality family time.

It is also for anyone with unresolved father issues. A recurrent rebellious attitude to authority figures – police, headmasters, bosses, etc – is often an indication of this.

Red Helmet Orchid Essence is especially good for teenagers, as part of their psychological development at this time is to explore their individual nature – to discover who they are. This often involves a temporary rejection of their parents and manifests itself as rebelliousness or defiance.

Indications for Red Helmet Orchid Essence

• Rebelliousness
• Hot Headed
• Unresolved father issues
• Selfishness

Healing Qualities of Red Helmet Orchid Essence

• Male Bonding
• Sensitivity
• Respect
• Consideration

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Also part of the following Combination Essences:

Adol Essence

Relationship Essence

Learn more about Red Helmet Orchid Essence during the Level 1 Australian Bush Flower Essences Workshop.

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Grey Spider Flower is an unusual looking flower that provokes a strong response in some people. It grows in the Sydney sandstone region and the flowering head as a whole can be reminiscent of of a spider rearing up ready to strike. Those who are familiar with the Sydney Funnel Web spider will especially notice the resemblance.

This is an Essence to deal with the intense emotions experienced during extreme terror, especially terror experienced in life-threatening situations or psychic attack. Grey Spider Flower also deals with panic, nightmares and phobias.

It helps restore faith and trust.

Indications for Grey Spider Flower Essence

• terror
• fear of supernatural and psychic attack
• nightmares
• phobias

Healing Qualities of Grey Spider Flower Essence

• faith
• calm
• courage

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Also part of the following Combination Essences:

Emergency Essence

Learn more about Grey Spider Flower Essence during the Level 1 Australian Bush Flower Essences Workshop.

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Sexuality Essence is helpful for releasing shame and the effects of physical or sexual abuse and trauma. It allows one to feel comfortable with and to fully accept one’s body.

Sexuality Essence enables the individual to be open to sensuality and touch and to enjoy physical and emotional intimacy.

It renews passion and interest in relationships.

Negative Condition:
• Effects of sexual abuse
• Shame
• Uptight about sexuality
• Fear of intimacy

Positive Outcome:
• Renews passion
• Sensuality
• Enjoy touch and intimacy
• Playfullness
• Fulfilment

Sexuality Essence contains the following Bush Flower Essences: Billy Goat Plum, Bush Gardenia, Flannel Flower, Fringed Violet, Little Flannel Flower, Sturt Desert Rose and Wisteria.

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Learn more about Sexuality Essence during the Level 2 and Women’s Wellbeing Workshops.

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Relationship essence from Australian Bush Flower Essences enhances the quality of all relationships, especially intimate ones.

It clears and releases resentment, blocked emotions and the confusion, emotional pain and turmoil of a rocky relationship.

Relationship Essences helps one to verbalise, express feelings and improve communication.

It breaks the early negative family conditioning and patterns which effect us in our current adult relationships. For those in intimate relationships Sexuality Essence is a perfect remedy to follow Relationship Essence.

Negative Condition:
• Emotion pain and turmoil
• Confusion
• Resentment
• Blocked, held in emotions
• Inability to relate

Positive Outcome:
• Expressing feelings
• Enhanced communication
• Forgiveness
• Breaks negative family conditioning
• Renews interest
• Enhances parental-child bonding

Relationship Essence contains the following Bush Flower Essences: Bluebell, Boab, Bottlebrush, Bush Gardenia, Dagger Hakea, Flannel Flower, Mint Bush, Red Helmet Orchid, Red Suva Frangipani and Wedding Bush.

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Transition Essence helps one to cope and move through any major life change.

It brings about an awareness of one’s life direction especially for people who are at a crossroad. Alternatively those who know what they want but do not know how to achieve it will benefit from this combination.

Transition Essence also eases the fear of death as well as helping one come to terms with it. This remedy, consequently, allows one to easily and gently pass over with calmness, dignity and serenity.
Negative Condition:
• Feeling stuck
• Lack of direction
• Fear of death
• Fear of unknown
• Non acceptance

Positive Outcome:
• Acceptance of change
• Serenity
• Eases fear of death
• Passing over in peace

Transition Essence contains the following Bush Flower Essences: Autumn Leaves, Bauhinia, Bottlebrush, Bush Iris, Lichen, Mint Bush, Red Grevillea and Silver Princess.

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Emergency Essence from Australian Bush Flower Essences is excellent for any emotional upset. It has a calming effect during a crisis.

It is a wonderful remedy for calming children for children and animals.

If a person needs specialised medical help, this Essence will provide comfort until treatment is available.

Administer this remedy every hour or more frequently if necessary, until the person feels better.

Negative Condition:
• Panic
• Distress
• Fear

Positive Outcome:
• Ability to cope

Emergency essence contains the following Bush Flower Essences: Angelsword, Crowea, Dog Rose of the Wild Forces, Fringed Violet, Grey Spider Flower, Sundew and Waratah.
**Slender Rice Flower and Spinifex have also been added to the Cream Formulations.

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The Confid combination by Australian Bush Flower Essences brings out the positive qualities of self esteem and confidence.

It allows us to feel comfortable around other people and resolve negative beliefs we may hold about ourselves as well as any guilt we may harbour from past actions.

Confid also helps us to take responsibility for situations and events that occur in our lives and realise that we have the ability and power not only to change those events, but also to create those we want.

Negative Condition:
• Low Self Esteem
• Guilt
• Shyness
• Lack of Conviction
• Victim Mentality

Positive Outcome:
• Taking responsibility for one’s life
• Integrity
• Confidence
• Personal power
• True to one’s self

Bush Flower Essences: Boab, Dog Rose, Five Corners, Southern Cross and Sturt Desert Rose.

Confidence and self esteem are themes explored in the Level 1 Workshop with Australian Bush Flower Essences.

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There are so many things going on emotionally, mentally, physically and spiritually during the teen years, and Australian Bush Flower Essences can be of great assistance on the journey from child to adult. Bush Essences are safe and natural – anyone can use them. They are pleasant tasting, easy to take and have no side effects.

Puberty

The body is shifting from childhood to adulthood which, from a physical point of view, is huge. Hormones are extremely potent substances and during puberty they are circulating in large quantities. She Oak for girls, and Flannel Flower for boys can help enormously with this. Puberty is a natural process but hormones can take a while to settle into the new rhythm. These remedies really help ease the transition.

Anxiety benefits from Crowea, as do muscles which are sore from growing so fast or playing  a lot of sport. Moods can swing all over the place, which is as confusing for the child as it is for everyone around them; and the Essence Peach Flowered Tea Tree can be helpful.

Self Esteem

We all struggle with this one from time to time, but teenagers especially so. If self esteem or confidence are an issue, Five Corners is excellent. Low self esteem often manifests physically as acne – the face we are showing the world. Billy Goat Plum is also helpful for teens as they are ‘grossed out’ by any number of things, and this flower is good for feelings of repulsion or shame.

Sexuality

Teens can feel guilty over some of their activities, including sexual. Sturt Desert Rose is useful in these situations and is especially good for helping one to resist peer pressure and remain true to one’s own morals and values. Flannel Flower is very good for feeling comfortable with physical touch and for setting and maintaining appropriate boundaries within close personal relationships. This last is especially important for teens beginning to explore their sexuality. There are also Essences to help release any trauma from inappropriate sexual advances or incidents that may occur at this time (or have occurred in the past).

Rebellion

Until about the age of twelve parents are the major influence on their children. After that their peer group becomes much more influential. It is a natural psychological process for teenagers to begin to separate from their family as they begin to establish their own sense of separate identity. Bottlebrush is good to help parents let go. This means being comfortable with allowing them to begin to step out into the world. It can also help the child who is clinging too tightly to their mother and is appropriate at any age.

If the restrictions on them are too tight, teens will rebel. At the same time, they need firm guidelines of what is acceptable behaviour and what is not. Red Helmet Orchid is the remedy for knowing when to stop, and for whenever there is any issue with authority. It helps give a greater sense of responsibility and a sense of inner authority and respect. These qualities can  be less strongly developed if the child has had a father who was absent either emotionally or physically.

Depression

Unfortunately some teens sink into depression. This may be partly hormonal or due to poor self esteem. Tall Yellow Top is very good for depression and also for feeling lonely, isolated and as if you don’t fit in. If the depression has reached black despair, Waratah is more appropriate and is very fast acting.

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