A clinical trial a few years ago concluded that stress plays a role in sickness. This idea is not new to natural therapists, who have always believed in treating “the whole person” – hence the term “wholistic” therapies. Natural therapists work on the premise that you as a person are more than just your body parts and need to be treated on more than just a physical level.

On the first evening of my herbal medicine training with renown Australian herbalist Dorothy Hall, we were drawn a triangle (pyramid) to represent any disease. The top apex represented the physical body. The bottom two apexes were “Emotions and Attitudes” & “Environment and Circumstances” respectively. This, we were told, was how we needed to view every single person who ever sought our help.

As time went by, we were taught that herbs treat the physical body, and that flower essences are the tool for treating emotions and attitudes. Dorothy Hall always maintained that once strengthened and balanced physically and emotionally, most people then feel strong enough to make the necessary decisions about and changes to their environment and circumstances. I have continued with this philosophy in my own clinical practice and find it extremely effective. Flower essences are literally medicine for the emotions.

Flower Essences are not therapeutic drugs but work on the mind, soul and spirit. They are obtained by extracting the healing vibrational quality from the highest evolved part of the plant – the flowers. They work on an emotional level and heal the negative emotions and belief patterns, held in the subconscious mind. Australian Aboriginals have used flowers to heal emotional imbalances and physical injuries for thousands of years. Flower Essences were also used in Ancient Egypt, as well as Asia, Europe and South America. This system of healing was rediscovered and popularised seventy years ago by Dr. Edward Bach with his use of English flowering plants. Naturopath, Ian White has further developed this method using plants from all over Australia for his Australian Bush Flower Essences. His grandmother and great grandmother were herbalists, among the first white people to research the medicinal qualities of Australian plants, and his grandmother taught him from an early age. Ian has taken their knowledge one step further and worked with the plants and their influence on emotions.

Flower Essences are completely natural, perfectly safe, free from side effects and adjust to the needs of the individual taking them. It is not possible to overdose or harm when prescribing. If an inappropriate remedy is chosen, it simply will not work. Adults and children as well as animals can use the Essences. We are all functioning on beliefs and emotions, which may not necessarily be helpful to us. By changing our thoughts and beliefs we can relieve stress, which can then ultimately assist in restoring our health. Flower Essences can improve the quality of our life and bring us clarity, courage, strength and commitment to follow and pursue our life goals and visions. As well as resolving upsets and distress in one’s life they also help us to develop a higher level of intuition, self esteem, spirituality, fun and creativity.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has been associating certain emotions with specific body areas for over five thousand year, so this concept is not new. The notion that emotions affect our physical health has been explored in modern times by Louise Hay, and detailed in her classic book “You Can Heal Your Life”.  The beauty of the Australian Bush Flower Essences is that some also work energetically on specific organs and body systems. For example Dagger Hakea addresses the emotions of resentment, irritability and bitterness. These feelings have traditionally been thought by TCM to be held in the liver. Ancient wisdom held that clues to a plant’s healing qualities were clearly visible via a language and process known as the Doctrine of Signatures. When this system is applied to Dagger Hakea, it is found that this plant has a strong energetic resonance with the liver and gall bladder.

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Parents, siblings, grandparents, neighbours, friends, teachers, TV, radio, movies – young children absorb information like sponges from all these sources whilst still mostly pre-verbal. Nature wired us this way so that we could figure out how to negotiate our environment. However, nature did this when we were living in small tribes close to nature (a very different scenario to modern living in western culture).

It is estimated that 90% of our sub conscious patterning is formed by the time we are 3 years old. Given that much of our conscious behaviour is driven by our subconscious patterning, this gives serious pause for thought.So, if your view of the world was mostly formed by the time you were three – whose programs are running in the background? How much are these programs pulling your strings? Are these values aligned with your own values, dreams and goals? When something stressful or traumatic happens, do you respond or react? How old are you at these times? Interesting questions to contemplate…

As a parent, are you concerned about the effect of this myriad of influences on your own children? If you see your child taking on values not congruent with your own, or if they experience a trauma, would you like to have a natural, accessible means of helping them?

One way is with flower essences – gentle, self adjusting remedies that help bring into balance intense or negative thought patterns and emotions. One of the most beautiful things about flower essences is that they are a totally safe – you simply cannot do any harm with a flower essence. Anyone can choose and use a flower essence, and it is impossible to overdose on them. If you take the wrong one, all that happens is that it doesn’t work.

Australian Bush Flower Essences have 69 flower essences to assist with a wide range of emotional, attitudinal and spiritual patterns. One is a remedy called Paw Paw, which is specific for resolving conflict between conscious thoughts and sub conscious programming.

Is your teenager bowing to peer pressure? Sturt Desert Rose can assist them to stay true to their own personal integrity and values. Is lack of confidence an issue? Try some Five Corners. Perhaps bullying is a problem – Rough Bluebell helps perpetrators gain a sense of empathy, while Southern Cross allows those being victimised to more easily stand up for themselves.

Learning and literacy problems, as well as ADD and ADHD often benefit from Bush Fuchsia.

Tantrums? Mountain Devil works wonders.

Feeling like you don’t fit in? Tall Yellow Top.

Rebirthing is form of guided meditation – a healing technique used to discover whether specific beliefs were taken on board during the birthing process or while still in the womb. For example practitioners experienced in rebirthing have documented that if a baby got stuck during the birth, they may grow into a person with a pattern of getting stuck later in life. If they were ‘rescued’ via medical intervention during the labour, they often wait to be rescued if they ‘get stuck’ in life. Whereas if they went on to be born naturally, they can often push through the obstacle themselves. It really is fascinating research. Our birth story is powerful, and knowing it can bring deep insights about our life and emotional patterns.

Imagine a world where your past traumas have been healed and your negative beliefs and limiting thought patterns dissolved, so that you are free to be the best person you can be. Imagine entering adulthood knowing who you are and what you want to do with your life, with good self esteem and the confidence to go out into the world and just go for it. Imagine a world full of people who are healthy in mind, body, heart and spirit.

I truly believe that Australian Bush Flower Essences can help bring this about, especially when I see the profound differences they have made in countless adult’s lives, including my own, and when I meet teenagers and young adults who have been raised on the Essences. I see it in my own family. I see it in the many children in my community whom I have given the Essences over the past ten years, sometimes from birth.

I am fortunate to also see this often as I teach my workshops around Australia and North America. Many people come back for new workshops over the years, or repeat a course just to be amongst like minded people for the weekend. It is wonderful to hear them describe how the Essences have enabled them to let go of and heal patterns that were not serving them. It is beautiful and heart warming to watch them blossomed as a result. Their journeys are truly inspiring.

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Childrens issues are covered in detail during the ABFE Level 1 workshops and also in the Children and ABFE workshop.

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With so much talk about the economy, now is a good time to talk about how flower essences can be used to help you avoid being caught up in the anxiety being felt in mass consciousness in this regard. There are always individuals who thrive even in times of the worst adversity and there is no reason why you can’t be one of them. A lot of it comes down to attitude.

In the Level 2 workshop for Australian Bush Flower Essences, one of the themes is creating abundance – not so you can go off and indulge in greed, avarice and conspicuous consumption, but more so that you can create an environment in your life where your basic necessities are easily met (the definition of ‘basic necessities’ varies with everyone). With these met, you can then focus on following your true life path and purpose rather than being locked into a situation that you “have” to continue with in order to survive. I like to imagine what the world would look like if everyone had an opportunity to earn their income doing what they loved to do and were good at. It would be much happier I suspect.

Part of this process is being clear about what your goals are, writing them down and regularly reviewing them. Another useful exercise is to consciously become aware of what it is you most love to do.

However many people still come unstuck financially purely through subconscious patterns that ultimately undermine and sabotage all attempts to create long term financial security.

Probably the biggest of these is the attitudes towards money you absorbed as a child from your family. ‘Money is the root of all evil”, “You have to work hard for your money”, “Money burns a hole in your pocket”, “Money doesn’t grow on trees”, are just a few examples. The Australian Bush Flower Essence Boab is useful for releasing negative family attitudes and patterns, including around money.

Worthiness is another good issue to consider. If you feel, deep down, you don’t deserve it, no matter what good things you create in your life, or what opportunities come your way, you will eventually find a way to mess it all up. Five Corners is used to help release these sabotage patterns, raise your self esteem, and improve your sense of worthiness.

An ‘attitude of gratitude’ is also important. We have all seen people who have oodles of material things and other blessings who don’t appreciate them at all. For all their riches they still aren’t happy, so in reality they are actually poor. Poor is a state of mind. Other people focus so much on what they haven’t got, that they fail to see what they do have. The saying ‘you never appreciate what you’ve got until it’s gone’ is food for thought in both these instances. Just ask anyone who has lost their health or a loved one. Pink Flannel Flower is a Bush Essence which helps you to move into a state of gratitude, and to appreciate the beauty in small moments. Most people living in Western societies are blessed beyond belief in comparison to the rest of the world. This is so even taking the global economic crisis into consideration.

A very simple but effective way of shifting your focus from one of lack, to one of abundance, is to keep a ‘Gratitude Diary’. Every evening before bed, write down five things that you are grateful for. It’s free, it’s easy, its fast, and it’s powerful.

Philotheca is another Bush Essence for opening you up to abundance. It is used to help you become more open to receive. If we divided the wealth of the world evenly amongst every man woman and child, everyone would have over $US 1 million. So it is not a lack of money that is the problem (even right now). If you feel uncomfortable receiving, it will be difficult for you to draw abundance to you. Ask yourself: how comfortable are you with receiving compliments? If you can’t even take in a compliment, how are you going to feel about accepting your one million dollars?

This, along with the other subconscious patterns mentioned above, and lack of financial education, is why over 90% of people who win the lottery have lost the lot within two years. So it is worthwhile having a think about whether your attitudes around money could do with an overhaul.

Australian Bush Flower Essences can assist the whole process by shifting your vibrational pattern, attitudes, and emotions around money. Try their combination “Abundessence”, which contains all the flowers discussed here, plus more. There have been some quite astounding testimonials sent in from people describing the events that unfolded after taking this essence.

And remember that abundance isn’t just about money. It includes job satisfaction, happiness within your relationship, friendships and family, spiritual fulfilment, health, and outlook upon life, just to mention a few.

If you would like to learn more about the healing qualities of Australian Bush Flower Essences, click here to see when Linn is teaching a workshop near you in the USA or Australia.

Or click here for the full workshop schedule of Australian Bush Flower Essences in Australia, the UK, North and South America, Asia and Europe.

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