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This section is dedicated to flower essences that help with emotional issues related to intimacy. Also included are essences that help with aspects related to intimacy such as:
- Brokenheartedness
- Relationships
- Sexuality
- Shame/Guilt
Brokenheartedness:
Bleeding Heart: FES
A superb heart healing remedy it helps to strengthen and clear the heart. It is useful for learning the lessons of the heart, how to give love freely. This essences helps you to live with emotional freedom and love others unconditionally.This essences treats possessiveness, co-dependencey and fear based relationships. This is a great essence to use when you’ve ended a relationship but are still holding on with your heart. It eases heart ache and heart break. This essence is also wonderful for animals who suffer separation anxiety. Useful for broken hearts.
Borage: FES
This essence adds buoyancy to the heart helping to lift it in times of despair, darkness and discouragement. Borage helps one to develop optimism and a courageous heart. This essences is great when one feels weighed down by the demands of life. Useful when feeling dis’couraged’ and disheartened. Helps build faith, courage and optimism.
California Wild Rose: FES
Much like Bach’s wild rose essence, California Wild Rose provides the vibration of ‘essential’ enthusiasm and love for life. It helps one to really take hold of life and overcome apathy. Use this when faced with apathy and when it causes a distortion in ones ability to mobilize will forces with the enthusiasm of the heart.
Forget Me Not: FES
This essence treats feelings of loneliness and isolation, especially after the loss of a loved one. Forget Me Not, helps one feel more connection to the spiritual world, helping one to gain a mindfulness of the trans-personal aspects of relationships.
Holly: Bach
Holly is an excellent remedy to treat anger, jealousy and envy. It is helpful if something in your personality prevents you from experiencing happiness. This can be very corrosive when left unchecked. Holly is also helpful for treating bitterness and suspicion, which corrupts the ability to love. This essence engenders compassion in the heart and soul, enhancing the ability to love inclusively. This is a tremendously powerful remedy that helps you feel and channel love through your heart and extend it to others. Dr. Bach felt Holly was one of the most important and widely applicable remedies.
Honeysuckle: Bach
Honeysuckle helps you be more present, especially when there is a longing for the “good old days.” This longing can prevent you from being fully in the moment and accepting life as it is. Honeysuckle helps you gain a greater interest and emotional engagement with the present. Useful for pining after a relationship has ended.
Indian Pipe: Delta
Expanding awareness of the presence of universal love; developing sensitivity and receptivity to a higher love vibration; seeing and feeling the love in every moment; for stages when one feels unloved.
Love Lies Bleeding: FES
Ability to move beyond personal pain, suffering or mental anguish; trans-personal vision; compassionate acceptance of karma. Treats intense pain due to isolation and over-personalization of one’s pain.
Penstemon: FES
Great inner fortitude despite outer hardships; perseverance. Enormous strengthening powers helping us tap into reserves of courage and resilience.
Pink Monkeyflower: FES
This essence treats fear of being exposed, this may be due to feelings of shame, guilt or unworthiness. Those needing this remedy are often afraid to be seen both literally and metaphorically. Pink Monkeyflower helps one feel at ease emotionally and encourages emotional openness and honesty. It also helps one have the courage to take emotional risks with others.
Star Jasmine:Delta
Helps lighten feelings of somberness, heaviness or fatigue; helps with types of depression from feeling overburdened; brings joy of spirit closer to the physical a ‘lightener’ in many essence combinations.
Stinging Nettle:Delta
For releasing pain and grief related to partings and endings; for those who are often in conflict with others; for healing deep hurt from abandonment.
Sweet Chestnut: Bach
Sweet Chestnut flower essence is indicated for times of deep pain and agony accompanied by feelings of despair and loneliness. Feelings like this are likened the ‘dark night of the soul’ when the human soul is tested by periods of dark despair. This essence fosters spiritual depth, instilling faith that we can overcome adversity through spiritual communion.
Yerba Santa: FES
This essence helps to open the free flow of emotions; allowing us to express the full range of human emotion, especially pain and sadness. Those needing Yerba Santa often have constricted feelings, particularly in the chest; internalized grief and melancholy, deeply repressed emotions.
Intimacay
Baby Blue Eyes: FES
A small blue wildflower native to California, baby blue eyes helps to re-awaken innocence. It is also useful for re-establishing a healthy relationship with the father or a father figure. This remedy is useful where the lack of trust or innocence then develops as a hard shell and defensive behavior. This essence is useful to develop a healthy relationship with ones father.
Basil: FES
Basil helps one integrate sexuality with spirituality, facilitating a positive sexual expression based on acknowledging the sacredness of sexuality. Great for marital stress and clandestine sexual behavior. This essence is also helpful for those with a strong attraction to pornography and debased, destructive sexual expressions. This essence is very healing to human sexual expression helping us to see that sex is not sinful or nonspiritual but is part of a greater spiritual expression of being human.
Billy Goat Plum: Australian Bush (coming soon)This essence treats feelings of shame around sex, for those who feel it is dirty. Helpful for shame, self disgust and self loathing and feelings of uncleanliness after sex.
Blackberry Lily: Delta Gardens
For releasing unconscious or unresolved problems concerning past relationships. For treating deep fears around sexuality and treating sexual trauma from rape, abuse or molestation.
Evening Primrose: FES
Evening Primrose is useful for healing early traumas and painful emotions passed through family and in utero. This essence helps heal and resolve relationship and commitment issues. This remedy is a wonderful balm to the spirit and emotions. It helps to renew faith and open oneself to deeper emotions and relationships.
Flannel Flower: Australian Bush (coming soon)This essence is for those who are uncomfortable with emotional intimacy and physical touch. It promotes gentleness and sensitivity and enhances this aspect in sexual relationships.
Jewel Weed: Delta Gardens
For fear of closeness; fear of being touched; fears surrounding sexuality.
Mariposa Lily: FES
Warm feminine, nurturing maternal consciousness; mother child bonding, positive connection to mother and similar feminine figures. Treats childhood abandonment or abuse issues, also for alienation from mother and for women alienated from the mothering role.
Pink Yarrow: FES
This essence helps to build emotional boundaries, allowing loving awareness from a self contained space. Use this essence for emotional clarity and to strengthen an overly absorbent auric field.
Poison Oak: FES
This essence is for emotional openness and vulnerability, helping one to make close contact with others. Those needing this remedy fear intimate contact are protective of personal boundaries and can be hostile or distant. Many overly macho men can benefit from this essence as it helps to soften a hardened exterior and allow for more openness.
Scarlet Monkeyflower: FES
This essence is for those who are afraid of deep emotions and intense feelings. Often these intense feelings or emotions get repressed because of fear. Scarlet Monkey Flower helps one to get in touch with strong emotions, it promotes emotional honesty and integration of the emotional ‘shadow’. It also gives people the courage to express intense feeling and emotions.
Star Tulip: FES
Star Tulip enhances our ability to be open and receptive; helping us to get in touch with our softer side.
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Relationships
Butterflyweed: Delta
A remedy for ‘love addiction’ helps those who cannot commit to long term relationships, for sadness when the initial stages of being ‘in love’ shift.
Buttercup: FES
This essence helps one to feel and value their uniqueness in a way that is unattached to outer recognition. Use buttercup for feelings of low self esteem, lack of self worth and when there is an inability to acknowledge and cherish ones inner light and uniqueness.
Calendula: FES
Calendula encourages a healing and warm receptivity with the use of the spoken word. It helps to balance communication towards more compassionate expression. This essences is useful for argumentative types it eases the use of sharp words and destructive dialogue.
Chicory: Bach
If you tend to be overly demanding, needy and attempt to get attention through negative, manipulative, self centered behavior, Chicory flower essence may be of assistance. Chicory is an ally in helping you to cultivate selfless love. Chicory supports you to give love freely and to respect the freedom and individuality of others.
Deerbrush: FES
This essence is for purity and clarity of motive and action that is aligned with one’s true feelings. Treats mixed conflicted motives; dishonest or impolite responses not based on genuine feeling. Promotes honesty with ourselves, our affairs and others.
Gravel Root: Delta
Helps those who suffer from loneliness or fear of being alone; helps with anxiety over friendships and/or relationships.
Hemp Agrimony: Delta
Enhances the awareness of the interconnectedness of all things through the heart; feelings and perceptions of aloneness, or disconnectedness are eased.
Pink Amaranthus: Delta
Helps with relationship fears; for confidence when entering a new relationship.
Water Violet: Bach Remedy
This essence address a profound quality of the soul expressed through the personality as withdraw from social contact(s). I say profound because water violet is for the highly refined soul who does not desire conflict or competition. But in the water violet type it has become so pronounced as to shun relationship altogether. This is due to fear, a fear of upsetting their inner composure. Water violet is a profound remedy for those who have kept relationships at bay. It will help them to come out and begin to form social bonds and be open to connections with others, a profound remedy for the refined soul.
Wood Betony: Delta Gardens
Helps clarify deeper meanings of relationship, friendship and sexuality; for those who prefer to be alone but are working on authentic ways to connect with others.
Sexuality
Alpine Lily: FES
Helpful for women who want to gain a greater acceptance of the grounded earthy aspects of femininity and female sexuality. This essence is for women who reject the earthy feminine and have an imbalanced expression of femininity. Alpine lily is for those who tend towards more cosmic spiritual femininity, rejecting the earthly bodily feminine.
Blue Cohosh: Woodland Essence
Gentle support for those feeling shy or awkward in their sexuality, especially during times of transition; (e.g. puberty, pregnancy, menopause and mid-life). Opens one to the mysteries and energy of one’s sexuality as sacred and life-affirming. Graceful acceptance of the changes aging brings.
Calla Lily: FES
This remedy is for clarity about sexual identity, such as gender or orientation.
Easter Lily: FES
This essence treats tension in sexual identity; conflicting sexual values; virgin/whore split in the psyche. Easter lily promotes soul purity which embraces all aspects of life and body, especially sexual identity.
Hibiscus: FES
Warmth and responsiveness in sexuality; integration of soul warmth and bodily passion. Helps when there is an inability to enjoy sexual experiences; lack of warmth due to abuse or exploitation.
Lobelia: Delta Gardens
Courage to speak the truth regarding one’s self; for shyness or shame around expressing one’s sexual nature.
Pink Lady’s Slipper: Woodland Essences
Clarity and creative expression of inner purpose-true calling. Ability to express self more easily. Releasing shame. Understanding and delight in one’s sexuality, opening one to deeper levels of intimacy.
Snapdragon: FES
This essence treats all forms of verb aggression and/or tension in the jaw. Snapdragon treats repressed or misdirected libido energy which is expressed in a hostile verbal manner. This essence balances the libido and emotional verbal communication; harmonizing sexual creative energy into healthy channels.
Sticky Monkeyflower: FES
This essence balances the integration of human warmth and sexual intimacy; it helps one to express deep feelings of love and connectedness, especially in sexual relationships. Helpful when there is a fear of intimacy, repressed sexual feelings and an inability to experience warmth in sexual experiences.
Shame/Guilt
Crab Apple: Bach
Crab apple is a cleanser and brings a sense of inner purity. This remedy helps steady obsessive compulsive behavior as well as obsessions with perceived imperfections. It helps alleviate the emotional tension of feeling unclean, excellent for those who feel sex is unclean or who feel unclean after sex. Use this essence proactively while cleansing and fasting to assist with deeper purification. Crab apple is also a great skin cleanser and helps with rashes or irritations.
Hyssop:FES
Releasing guilt; helps those who have built personalities and lifestyles around guild imprints; reawakens impulses of worthiness and receiving. Treats guilt passed through the family.
Lobelia: Delta Gardens
Courage to speak the truth regarding one’s self; for shyness or shame around expressing one’s sexual nature.
Pine: Bach
Pine is the flower essence for treating all matters related to guilt. Guilt can take many forms in the personality; from self blame, self criticism to an inability to accept oneself. Use Pine for any of the above negative personality traits and to accentuate self acceptance, self forgiveness and to free yourself from inappropriate guilt and blame.