FLOWERBASE - Your personal self development tool.

Imagine if we could go through life having mastery over our emotions and mental spheres, and that we could no longer be plagued by lessons and challenges which seem to continually be dumped upon us all. We find our day to day lives filled with societal demands and challenges, which often leave us as unhappy individuals - demands such as those put on us through people, work, relationships, and other experiences which are universally common to us all as we work our way through life.

Since the ealier part of this century, psychology and psychiatry have turned the mysteries of the human psyche into a definable science, where we can categorise personality types, and define the many types of stress into terms such as depression, guilt, anger, lack of confidence, addiction, and many other terms which define how we react to the challenges in life. We now have many health services which help us deal with many of these issues, and we often find ourselves visiting a counsellor or psychologist when it all seems to much to handle by ourselves. One question which we should ask is are we winning the battle of combating mental and emotional dis-ease, and how important is it to combat these problems which we all experience? The simple fact is that we're fighting an uphill battle in society, and that we are dealing with problems through mainstream medicine using an outdated and wrong approach, which does not always provide the healing being sought. Why is there so much violence, relationship break ups, drug/alcohol addiction and unhappiness in our challenging world? This is a very debateable question, but one thing we can be sure of is that our challenges are ordained upon us from the universe to help us grow - while we are alive and in a physical body, its a spiritual law that we will always have a new challenge facing us, until we have worked through them all and attained a level of self realization, or mind/emotion mastery.

As the science of psychology became recognised through the work of Sigmund Froid, a new industry was shaped, and a direction was set in concrete in dealing with the human psyche. Many years later, a humble English Dr. Edward Bach discovered an alternative means of balancing emotional challenges through a natural means derived from the vibrational/spiritual properties of flowers, which when applied, would result in a balance, and sense of well being much quicker than through counselling and reasoning with patients. Since much of his insight into vibrational properties was based around the work of Samuel Hahnemann (the father of Homoeopathic medicine), the medical profession dismissed his work, as the mechanism of how vibrational properties work to heal an individual was not clearly understood. Science will need to move through new paradigms before the mechanism of healing is definable, and before flower essences are accepted into mainstream medicine - perhaps several hundred years. So here we are with two approaches to mental and emotional healing, one archaic and one natural and very effective, but unexplainable in orthodox scientific terms, and very misunderstood.

The next question is what happens if we ignore the subjective emotions which we feel? In wholistic medicine, it is accepted that ignored emotions become bottled up, creating the right conditions for dis-ease to set in (i.e., psychosomatic). Hubble suggests that 70% of all disease is psychosomatic in origin, which proves that we are not winning the battle of combating mental and emotional disease. As an example, someone who holds bitterness or resentment from a past experience often locks those emotions away subconsciously, creating a subsequent imbalance in their spleen/pancreas, which over time leads to digestive disorders, and an eventual malnourishment and run down of the physical body, thus physical dis-ease. Someone storing anger eventually has an imbalanced liver/gall bladder, leading to for instance constipation (bile is used to purge the colon), and subsequent autointoxication, and a run down physical body. The answer to maintaining good health could lie in eliminating stored emotional problems, through vibrational flower essences.

Since the work of Bach, theres been some 60 flower essence companies emerge world wide, some more successful than others. You may well ask why haven't I heard of flower essences? This lies in the fact that the industry currently lacks amalgamation, unlike the powerful drug companies which are currently being used to control your health.

The rest of this article will discuss flower essences, and how they can help you as an individual in achieving optimum well being and health.

Diagnosing emotional and mental problems and your flower essence remedies

While we all feel differing emotions in our day to day life, brought on through experiences and life lessons, we often feel apprehensive about seeking help. Many of us feel that by going and seeking the help from a psychiatrist that we are scarred for life, and have some form of weakness. While psychiatrists are very necessary for advanced mental and emotional symptoms, and should be sought in these cases, we are able to use flower essences to prevent us from getting to this stage in most cases. The problem that we all face is the availability of flower essences, and the skills in diagnosing for the right remedies. While some doctors and mental health professionals use flower essences, they are mainly used by wholistic therapists and empirical scientific research done over 16 years by Flower Essence Services California suggest that many of the diagnostic methods used to determine flower essence needs are inconsistent, especially through methods such as kineseology, dowsing etc.

One method of diagnosis which is proving to be both reliable and accurate is the Flowerbase method, involving an analytical computer based questionnaire, as well as a "find the right remedy" by "emotional key word". One nurse using Flowerbase claims "I continue to be amazed at the strength and precision of the experience clients have in going through the Flowerbase program. In people who are somewhat unstable- either physically, emotionally or energetically I've taken to only asking them to do it prior to a session with me ( I am a nurse practitioner and acupuncturist) as the questions can bring up issues on their own".

The most amazing thing about Flowerbase is that you can use the program to diagnose your own challenges and emotional discomfort, and Flowerbase will recommend the flower essence remedies which you need to wash away the harmful emotions, leading to a subsequent feeling of well being.

Although originally designed for professional therapists, more people are using the program at home as they work their way through their own personal issues, purchasing remedies from their local health outlet. Their personal issues remain between them, their computer. The transformation which people have received from this method is awe inspiring, levels not achievable through conventional orthodox means. The flower essence class of remedies penetrate to levels of consciousness deeper than any other substance can achieve, yet are totally safe. With what I have personally seen after using and prescibing flower essences over 10 years, I would recommend a course of remedies for anyone. For those of you familiar with homoeopathy, you will understand that you use the vibrational properties of a substance which promotes physical symptoms in its physical form (often a poison) to reverse the symptoms. Many who sample this modality in healing undergo a "healing crisis", a direct result of the "primary action" of healing needed to initiate a reverse action in the progress of dis-ease. Flower Essences are a newer art, which use the positive vibrational properties of flowers to initiate healing on a higher level, without the need for a patient to go through a healing crisis.

Flower Essences (not to be confused with essential oils and aromatherapy) have been around now for over 60 years, and are now well researched and documented, although poorly exposed. In the downloadable copy of Flowerbase, you'll find all the 38 remedies of Dr. Bach, and if you register, you can expand your system and receive access to over 400 mainstream remedies, previously not exposed from a poorly structured industry representing something which is so important to each of us as individuals for our time.

Remember that happiness and success are your divine birth right, and that you may be only a flower essence remedy away from achieving that!