FLOWER ESSENCES
Making flower essences – the transferring of the vibrations of the flower to a water medium – is not complex or difficult. This profound act of tapping the healing nature of the natural world can be accomplished with a few simple tools and the intent to capture the restorative powers of the plant world in drops of water.
All elements of Nature have a chord or a note that is innate to that element. Each flower has a vibration like a musical note that emanates from the blossom to the area surrounding it and it is this vibration that has healing potential when made into a flower essence. Dr. Edward Bach pioneered these new forms of healing in the 1920’s in England and made the first 38 remedies and his well-known Rescue Remedy at that time. In the intervening years his marvelous healing drops have helped many people and sparked an ever growing wave of new flower essence producers, practitioners and related healing modalities. There are essence producers who live in all regions and climates of the globe producing new essences and making them available to their regions and worldwide; Australia, Alaska, East Coast, West Coast, Desert, Northwest and Hawaiian are a few of the regions producing new essence collections.
To make an essence you will need flowers, pure water, spring well or filtered, a clear glass bowl and a bright sunny morning preferably with out clouds. I like to make my essences between the hours of eight AM and eleven before the noonday sun hits them. I get up and if I have already decided which flowers I am going to make I go to that plant and greet it often saying good morning! I gently cut or pick the flowers handling them as little as possible and using chop sticks gently place the flowers in the water in the glass bowl. When the bowl is full of flowers I carry it to a place in the garden where no shadows will fall across the bowl while the essence is being made. Why? Because the water that the flowers are floating in is in the process of being imprinted with the vibration of the flowers and everything else that passes between the sun and the water. The shadow from your power line will also imprint, as would your dog walking by – or drinking from the bowl!! I do not worry about garden insects that fly around but I do try to avoid person made or large animal imprints when making essences.
Place your bowl in an unobstructed area in the sun and see or sense the flowers imprinting the water. Then go about your morning. Around 11:00 I bring the bowl in under my outdoor umbrella or indoors if the weather is cold. Using the chopsticks I pick the flowers out of the water and pour the essence water into a storage jar that is clean and ready sieving out botanical material if necessary. Then add a good quality brandy – many essence makers like Korbel – about one-third to two-thirds essence water to preserve your essence. This is your mother tincture essence. From this you can make stock bottles by adding twelve drops of the mother to a one third brandy, two thirds water mix in a one or two ounce dropper bottle. It is from the stock bottle that you can then make dosage bottles for yourself, your family and friends or clients.
Making flower essences – the transferring of the vibrations of the flower to a water medium – is not complex or difficult. This profound act of tapping the healing nature of the natural world can be accomplished with a few simple tools and the intent to capture the restorative powers of the plant world in drops of water.
All elements of Nature have a chord or a note that is innate to that element. Each flower has a vibration like a musical note that emanates from the blossom to the area surrounding it and it is this vibration that has healing potential when made into a flower essence. Dr. Edward Bach pioneered these new forms of healing in the 1920’s in England and made the first 38 remedies and his well-known Rescue Remedy at that time. In the intervening years his marvelous healing drops have helped many people and sparked an ever growing wave of new flower essence producers, practitioners and related healing modalities. There are essence producers who live in all regions and climates of the globe producing new essences and making them available to their regions and worldwide; Australia, Alaska, East Coast, West Coast, Desert, Northwest and Hawaiian are a few of the regions producing new essence collections.
To make an essence you will need flowers, pure water, spring well or filtered, a clear glass bowl and a bright sunny morning preferably with out clouds. I like to make my essences between the hours of eight AM and eleven before the noonday sun hits them. I get up and if I have already decided which flowers I am going to make I go to that plant and greet it often saying good morning! I gently cut or pick the flowers handling them as little as possible and using chop sticks gently place the flowers in the water in the glass bowl. When the bowl is full of flowers I carry it to a place in the garden where no shadows will fall across the bowl while the essence is being made. Why? Because the water that the flowers are floating in is in the process of being imprinted with the vibration of the flowers and everything else that passes between the sun and the water. The shadow from your power line will also imprint, as would your dog walking by – or drinking from the bowl!! I do not worry about garden insects that fly around but I do try to avoid person made or large animal imprints when making essences.
Place your bowl in an unobstructed area in the sun and see or sense the flowers imprinting the water. Then go about your morning. Around 11:00 I bring the bowl in under my outdoor umbrella or indoors if the weather is cold. Using the chopsticks I pick the flowers out of the water and pour the essence water into a storage jar that is clean and ready sieving out botanical material if necessary. Then add a good quality brandy – many essence makers like Korbel – about one-third to two-thirds essence water to preserve your essence. This is your mother tincture essence. From this you can make stock bottles by adding twelve drops of the mother to a one third brandy, two thirds water mix in a one or two ounce dropper bottle. It is from the stock bottle that you can then make dosage bottles for yourself, your family and friends or clients.
