Flower Essences Uplift Your Ch'i

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Flower Essences Uplift Your Ch'i

 

by Elyse Furlong

 

Feng Shui has long been recognized and appreciated for its ability to allow us

to live in harmony with our environment. The teachings of this ancient practice

allow us to enhance the quality of our lives. By applying the principles of feng

shui we move closer to realizing our desires in our careers, partnerships,

prosperity and health.

 

The state of our personal ch'i is just as important as our external environment.

While putting pairs of objects in the partnership gua of our home and bedroom

can provide the energetic assistance needed to bring a partner into our lives,

the type of individual that we attract and how successful that relationship is,

will be determined by the quality of our ch'i.

 

By adjusting our outer environment with feng shui, and " curing " our inner selves

with flower essences, we create lives that are filled with harmony, balance and

promise. In this article I would like to share the benefits that you can

experience by using flower essences to adjust your inner ch'i.

 

While there are thousands of flower and gem essences available in the

marketplace today, the flower essences that I discuss in this article are the

first essences ever discovered. They have stood the test of time and have helped

countless people the world over. They are the Bach Flower Essences, developed by

the brilliant British physician and gifted intuitive, Dr. Edward Bach. This

elegantly simple system contains thirty-eight flower essences each acting as an

antidote for a specific negative emotion. By combining them we are able to treat

any negative emotions. These subtle liquid extracts can change forever the way

that we relate to ourselves and our world. They bring us home, back to our true

selves. By replacing fear with courage, depression with joy, anger and hatred

with love, we move out of the personality based self into our true self. As Dr.

Bach so eloquently stated in the 1930's " our health and happiness depends on

being in harmony with our souls. " By following the dictates of our soul, we

experience harmony and peace and joy.

 

To use flower essences effectively, simply identify the negative emotion that

you are experiencing and select the essence that counteracts that emotion. For

example, if you've recently relocated and find that you're terribly homesick;

you miss your old city, friends and job and can't imagine how you will ever feel

as happy in your new life, you would need the flower essence, Honeysuckle.

Honeysuckle would energetically shift your ch'i out of the past and into the

present, gently awakening an interest in the here and now.

 

These essences are taken under the tongue four times a day, until you experience

a positive emotional shift. Generally six or seven essences can be effectively

combined at one time. By alchemically transforming our negative emotions into

their positive counterparts, we learn how to find our strength by embracing our

shadow side and uplifting it. What we resist persists. What we face and uplift,

uplifts us.

 

A new client asked me to feng shui her home. She contacted me because her career

was stalled. Despite her efforts to get her writing career off the ground, she

had been unable to sell any of her short stories or more commercial pieces. Her

savings were running low, and she decided that a feng shui consultation was in

order. When I arrived at her home, I noticed that the path leading up to her

front door was very narrow, and the walkway was lined with scraggly, half-dead

white and light pink bushes that had overgrown the already narrow path. I almost

felt like I had to " squeeze " through them to get up to her door. She was also

located on the curve of a busy street, and the ch'i from the road seemed to fly

by her home. I advised her to pull up all the plants along her walkway and to

visually widen the path by placing river rock on both sides of the path. The

black color of the river rock symbolically enhanced the water element of the

career gua of her home. I recommended that she place fresh healthy plants along

the outside border of the river rock. We decided a colorful banner type flag

would be the appropriate " ch'i catcher " that she needed to attract some of the

energy that had been racing by her home. Shortly after my consultation, she

called me to report that " it was working " - she had gotten two excellent

opportunities to write for national magazines. While this story seems to have a

happy ending, it doesn't, at least not yet. Two months later she called me

sounding very distraught and asked if she could be helped by flower essences.

Both writing assignments had fallen through. Upon further questioning she told

me that she procrastinated about getting the assignments completed, and the

articles were never published. It seems that she had a fear of failing. She kept

working on draft after draft, yet never feeling that any of them were good

enough. This client told me that she was concerned that she had made a mistake

by thinking that she could make a living as a freelance writer. While writing

had always been her hobby, how could she think that she was good enough to do

this professionally? She said, " All this time I was afraid that I wouldn't get

any jobs, and yet when I got them after improving my feng shui, I was more

afraid that I wasn't capable enough to do the job. " She told me she felt guilty

and embarrassed that she had failed, and didn't know what she should do with her

career.

 

After discussing her concerns and issues, I prepared a flower essence dosage

bottle containing five essences.

 

 

Larch - to give her confidence in her skills and abilities, and an increase her

willingness to take the risks that are necessary to succeed

 

 

Mimulus - to allay her fears and give her courage

 

 

Pine - for her self-recrimination and perfectionism

 

 

Wild Oat - to assist her in figuring out what she wants to do with her life and

then to help her manifest those dreams

 

 

Gentian - for feeling discouraged and wanting to give up.

 

 

She remained on this mixture for two months and experienced a big boost in her

confidence and desire to " go for it " . She was recently published in a national

trade magazine, and is working on several other projects. She is confident that

she is finally on her way to a career as a professional writer. She said to me,

" Between the Feng Shui and the Flower Essences, how could I miss! "

 

This story highlights the benefits of addressing our inner emotional clutter

with flower essences, while balancing our environmental issues with feng shui.

The combination of these two modalities allows us to enhance both our inner and

outer chi, bringing us into more perfect harmony.

 

 

 

Elyse Furlong has worked with the Bach Flower Essences since the mid 1980's. She

graduated in the first Bach Flower International Practitioner Training Program

held in the United States. She has a Masters Degree in Public Health Education

and is Practitioner of Black Sect Feng Shui. Elyse offers seminars on the Flower

Essences as well as private consultations in person or by phone. Her greatest

joy is seeing the benefits that people gain from these amazing essences. Her

company, Essential Harmony is located in Miami Beach, Florida.

www.essentialharmony.com, elyse, 305 - 534-6788

[Guest guest]

Hi,

 

 

 

I'm a relatively new member and I'm interested in alternative healing.

 

 

 

This article is of particular interest to me as I have used Bach Flower

Remedies for the past 11 years and over the years have used them and treated

many people on an almost daily basis. To me, they are nature's greatest

gifts.

 

 

 

Blessings,

 

 

 

Gary