Flower Essences:

Resonating Joy & Healing The Source of Imbalance

“…regardless of what supplements you take and what kind of exercise you do, when all is said and done it is your attitude, your beliefs, and your daily thought patterns that have the most profound effect on your health.”

—Christiane Northrup, MD, The Wisdom of Menopause: Creating Physical & Emotional Health and Healing During the Change.

One of Few “Medicines” to Reach & Balance Our Emotional State

Our thoughts and emotions affect every cell and hormone of our bodies. It makes sense to bring our awareness, and loving attention, to exactly where healing is needed most—the source of imbalance. Seventy years ago, flower essence pioneer Dr. Bach made the link between stress, emotions, and illness. More recently, in Molecules of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine, Dr. Candace Pert offers scientific proof of the direct impact our emotions have on our body chemistry and physical wellness. Our beliefs and unprocessed emotions can sap our energy, cause body imbalances, and even lead to disease. Flower essences are one of the few “medicines” that work directly on our emotional/mental state to bring issues to resolution. For example, Oregon Grape helps us build inner trust.

Opening Awareness, Releasing Stress

Supportive flower essences are important tools in these times of rapid change. Not only do they address our emotional and mental state and assist our emotional healing process, they help us release stress. Flower essences allow a shift in perspective by opening our awareness. This renewed perspective allows our body and mind to adjust its response—from stress or fearful reactions to harmonious patterns of acceptance. In addition, our body’s energy centers (chakras) have a “model” to learn healthy patterns of flow. For example, the wild Phantom Orchid, opens us to seeing truth by releasing fears, blocks, and resistance. The wild lilies are supportive of feminine sensitivity and creative energies.

Flower Essences Support Our Natural Healing Process

Flower essences, a form of “vibrational medicine,” support our own natural healing process. Vibrational medicine is defined as a way of treating and balancing your subtle energy system (chakras, energy fields, meridians) using energy. Flower essences are an unscented, water-based solution preserved with brandy that contains the etheric imprint of a flower. They are most often used by placing a few drops under the tongue or in water and drinking, two or three times a day or as needed.

Enhance Chiropractic, Bodywork, Accupunture…

Flower essences are powerful tools when used in conjunction with bodywork, counseling, spiritual practices, as well as medical treatments including surgery. The healing process quickens because the flower essences reconnect breaks in the optimal flow of energy within the body. Results from acupuncture, energy work, massage, cranial sacral, homeopathy, chiropractic treatments can be greatly improved. Taking a few drops of flower essences before, during, and/or after a chiropractic treatment, for example, helps the body “hold” positive adjustments by assisting the nervous system with re-patterning as well as releasing the emotional/mental blocks surrounding the issue.

Nourish & Balance Our Whole Being

Nature can assist us, our children, and our pets in opening, softening, and becoming more compassionate. Using flower essences is a perfect way to center, nourish, and honor our full being. As we infuse ourselves with Nature’s intelligence, we receive energetic nourishment for the body and soul. The “light” we take in from flowers actually “feeds” our nervous system and opens our evolutionary flowering process by harmonizing the relationship between our personality and higher self. Flower essences can be easily incorporated into our daily lives. Just a few drops, several times a day infuses us with the beauty and joy of flowers.

Pet Support

Animals get out of balance too, especially when their “human” is going through change. Flower essences offer a safe, natural alternative for many behavioral, emotional, or health issues that animals face. To use, simply add drops to their water or food bowl or place 3 drops in your palm and “pet” into their fur. It’s best to use flower essences two or three times a day for several weeks for longer standing issues. [3 Flowers Healing formulas: Paws- calm fears, Let’s Play- renew energy, Pet Pals- healthy relationships, Purrrrr-healing dis-ease.]

Flower Essences & Children

Sensitivity is a beautiful thing to nurture in our children, and ourselves. Our imagination blooms from connecting in subtle, deeper ways. Being sensitive and open can mean children become off-balance more easily. Flower essences work beautifully to balance their energy and strengthen their ability to be around different people and situations. Kids feel calmer and stronger. Some children quickly find balance. Others benefit from using flower essences over a longer period of time. Deeper issues require a more consistent use, for example twice a day for three weeks for feelings of abandonment. Have your child add a few “flower drops” to their bath to calm and clear their energy at the end of the day.

Flower Essences: Commonly Asked Questions

What are flower essences?

Flower essences are an unscented water-based solution that contains the healing chi (life force imprint) of a flower. They can instantly calm, support and stabilize you, your children, and your pets during crisis or work more gradually as a truly holistic means for achieving long-term emotional and mental balance. Flower essences can also catalyze transformation or needed change.

When do I need flower essences?

Use when feeling stressed, during change or crisis times, when feeling blocked, to ease emotional process, when injured, making big decisions, wanting to change behaviors, feeling overly sensitive, when over-thinking, experiencing physical issues or disease, feeling depressed or negative, or are expanding spiritually. Flower essences support a healthier perspective and your natural healing process.

What You May Experience

You may not experience any tangible shifts when you begin taking flower essences as change may be gentle and gradual. Some may experience immediate energy shifts or a sense of grounding. You may notice your awareness opening and your ability to change behaviors, patterns, and limited thinking much easier. You may open to deeper healing or release feelings of stress, anxiety or physical problems. Some look back after taking them and notice, "I feel stronger, more trusting, more balanced." The flower essences can be subtle or a strong catalyst. Keep using them (3-6 weeks). Allow yourself to open and trust in the process of change and growth and the gifts these wildflowers offer. You will notice more and more positive changes as you use flower essences.

How do I take them?

• Take 3-6 drops directly under the tongue.

• Add drops to water or a daily water bottle. Drink throughout the day.

• Add drops to a bath or directly on the skin.

• Add drops to an atomizer filled with distilled water. Mist around your body.

• For animals, add to water bowl, food or apply to fur, scales, feathers.

How often?

Take 2-3 times a day for 3-6 weeks or as needed during crisis. You can never overdose. Take more often if you need grounding or calming during the day. Try One-Minute De-Stressing: take 3 drops, sit quietly, and focus on receiving healing flower energies. Breathe deeply.

Are they safe?

Flower essence are very safe for babies, children, pregnant women, elders, and animals. They will not interfere with meds or birth control pills. Actually they improve the results of other healing modalities. The shelf life is over 11 years if stored away from strong energies like computers and excess heat. Flower essences are often preserved in brandy, to limit alcohol add 3-6 drops to bath, atomizer, or in quart of water.

How do flower essences work?

Flower essences are a form of vibrational or “energy” medicine. Each flower holds a specific healing energy pattern that balances discordant energy patterns.

•Flower essences release stress. They work by strengthening, repairing, and realigning your electrical energy system or nervous system.

•Flower essences help you cultivate healthy beliefs & attitudes. They open your awareness and understanding of how your thoughts and beliefs can create stress. Focusing your thoughts in a more positive way is a powerful path to wellness.

•Flower essences help create emotional balance within by helping you resolve and release the past. By freeing fears and wounds, healthy balance is restored.

•Flower essences are “Soul Therapy.” They are both grounding and spiritually opening and nurture your soul’s growth.

How do I choose the right flower essence to take?

You can choose by reading the descriptions, by meditating, using your intuition, dowsing, or trusting a feeling you have. That is your intuition.

Stock Bottles & Making Formulas

All bottles are stock strength (concentrate) and preserved with brandy and will last ten years or more. To make a formula, add 3 drops of one or more single flower essences to a bottle with 50% brandy, glyercine, or vinegar and 50% distilled or srping water. Formula bottles (dosage bottles) can be used or given to friends, clients, or patients.

Columbia River Gorge Flower Essences:

How to Thrive During Extreme Change

The wildflowers of The Columbia River Gorge are imbued with the knowledge of how to thrive with the dynamics of extreme change. The Gorge was formed from extreme volcanic activity and cataclysmic flooding. These wildflowers hold an untamed, wildness— a specific frequency to ‘remind’ our cells of wellness.

How I Create My Flower Essences

These flower essences (formulas also called Wildflower Solutions) are created in a sacred way by opening spiritually to the wildflowers in The Columbia River Gorge with intention to create medicine. Great love flows through Camilla as she communes with the plants and Mother Earth in this co-creation. The powerful Columbia River Gorge energizes and activates the full potential of these flowers as healing agents. No harvesting is necessary to make essences— they are sustainable ‘green’ medicine. Growing wild and free, these wildflowers help you find balance, peace, and recognition of your unique gifts.

Why I Make “Medicine” from Gorge Wildflowers

The Columbia River Gorge contains a rich tapestry of healing medicine. I felt the native indigenous wildflowers calling me to make medicine in sacred sites of the Columbia River Gorge and by Mt. Hood (W’Yeast), Mt. Adams (P’toe), and Mt. Saint Helens. I can sense the deep sacredness of this land. I can hear the whispering of the flowers. I felt like I was tapping into a long lost part of myself—one that walks in deep reverence of the Earth. These wildflowers offer their gifts to assist people in finding greater balance and compassion—emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. Flower essences are created vibrationally so no harvesting is necessary.

Cataclysmic Floods & Volcanos Created The Gorge

Geologically, The Columbia River Gorge was created from extreme volcanic activity combined with cataclysmic flooding due to huge melting and breaking ice dams. The land is relatively young and changeable. The wildflowers and plants that grow here are imbued with the knowledge of how to thrive with the dynamics of extreme change! These flower essences are powerful tools for us to use during this rapidly shifting time on earth.

Sacred Sites, Waterfalls, Rain Forests, & Mountain Peaks

The Columbia River Gorge runs east/west about 100 miles along the mighty Columbia River which separates Washington and Oregon. Volcanic snow-capped mountains, including Mt. Hood, inspire awe through the seasons. World famous winds funnel and dance through the Gorge. There are many powerful places: natural stone arches, unique rock formations, hundreds of waterfalls, alpine meadows. Wildflowers grow everywhere. Elevation ranges from sea level to over 12,000 ft. Climate ranges from rain forests in the west to arid desert grasslands in the east, creating incredible plant diversity. The Columbia River Gorge deepens our relationship with Nature’s beauty and incredible potential.