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Bach Flowers and The BaGua - FENGSHUI
Bach Flowers and The BaGua - FENGSHUI
http://www.oneheartconnection.com/bach-flower-remedies-and-the-bagua-chart-in-the-body/
Bach Flowers (pronounced Batch) heal from the inside out. They work at the invisible level of
energy and transform a negative condition into a positive one. If you’re an old-hand at Bach
Flower Remedies you will understand this concept right away. If you’re new to the remedies,
maybe the explanation ahead will help you.
Decades ago I became interested in the Bach Flower Remedies because I liked how I responded
to Rescue Remedy – the Big Daddy of the remedy collection. Rescue Remedy was my go-to
potion when I was under stress or facing a challenge. It worked so well for me, and changed my
pent-up anxiety into such a calm front, that I bought a book so I could learn more.
I found the information in that book to be dense and intimidating. I bought another book
thinking the new author would make learning easier. It didn’t happen. The more books I
bought, the more confused I became. Ten books later, and a great deal of experience with the
remedies, I decided to cut to the chase and write my own book. I honed down volumes of
information onto one page to make the information not only easy to digest, but also easy to
apply and use.
According to Dr. Bach, illness is an imbalance in the systems of the mind, body and soul. He
believed that if you could change the mental state causing the illness, you would heal the
person. He spent his life looking for compatible plants that held the vibration of qualities that
would alleviate various conditions.
Dr. Bach was not an airy-fairy bark-eater who lived in the woods and only conversed with
squirrels. He was a celebrated, leading-edge medical doctor who had been educated in London
and who invented vaccines to cure bacterial infections which caused many illnesses. He related
certain strains of bacteria to specific types of personalities and thus made the mind-body
connection back in the 1920′s.
Bach grew up in Wales and his greatest joy came from his love of the countryside. He was
curious and observed everything he came into contact with. His pulse raced when he was in
natural surroundings and he loved how nature made him feel when he was engulfed by it. He
learned huge life lessons from nature and was so inspired by what he observed that his entire
career was dedicated to bringing harmony, balance and connection to each person suffering
with illness so they might heal through their minds, hearts and bodies, simultaneously. He
believed our mental states bring about our ills and, by changing those, perfect health would
ensue.
Bach chose flowers as his messengers and through the essences he cultivated from the
blossoms, he was able to transfer living, healing energy into each person as they consumed a
potion of his remedies diluted in spring water.
His first set of floral remedies were called the Twelve Healers. With the success he garnered in
healing people from this first group, he expanded his research and created the 38 remedies and
the bonus 39th, Rescue Remedy. Dr. Bach was a selfless man, in love with the idea of curing all
illness through non-invasive techniques which brought out the highest of human qualities in
each person. His lab was a place where “the lights never went out.”
Each flower used in the remedies possesses a specific vibration, that when transferred to water,
can be used to shift a blocked mental state into one with positive qualities. Each essence
fosters the top qualities of human existence. These positive vibrations help us overcome the
harmful, limiting pulsations caused by a negative mental picture. In other words, thoughts
create our reality and we can control our thoughts using the remedies as helpers and guides.
Often we are unaware of the mental state that is causing illness or imbalance. It’s invisible and
imperceptible in many cases. In the back of my book I created an index of mental states and
emotional response that will help you identify what remedy you need to alleviate the physical
condition you wish to improve. All you have to do is follow your emotions, whatever they are,
and they will lead you to the cause of your discomfort. By “diagnosing” the cause, you can
apply the remedy and begin healing.
Bach’s discoveries are not dissimilar to the principles we use in Feng Shui. Our bodies, like each
square of the BaGua, are energetic centers of positive and negative charges. When the ions,
hormones and systems of our physical selves are in harmony with each other, we experience
health. When our parts are out of balance, we experience distress. Even though Dr. Edward
Bach did not learn or practice formal Feng Shui, he understood the inner summons to balance
the energies and forces of nature.
Each precious square of the BaGua Chart is infused with power, consciousness and vitality.
Every day we have the opportunity to mindfully use the nourishing energy each square provides
to enhance and improve our lives. We can also disregard this energy, ignore it, block it and
watch it wane and stagnate or we can remedy the situation. So too with Bach Flowers.
As babies our energy fields are neutral. As we progress in life, we pick up the mental and
emotional fields that will govern how we think, feel and react in life. Just like baby bodies,
energy starts out neutral in each Gua. It either flows freely, like water through a garden
hose, or it becomes kinked and restricted. The good news is that we have our hand on the
spigot at all times. We control whether the current flows freely and nourishes our lives, or
whether it is stopped-up and we become parched and dehydrated. In Feng Shui we learn how
to balance the Guas, so we become the maestros of our music. We can use Bach’s Remedies to
assist us.
If you think of your body as a BaGua Chart, you can apply certain flower remedies for each Gua
to enhance your mental outlook and create a new vibration that will elevate the negative
quality which is blocking your path.
From my extensive reading and research on both these subjects, I believe Dr. Bach would
appreciate the teachings of Feng Shui and support the remedies I’ve chosen to strengthen each
Gua. How the BaGua incorporates the healing properties of Bach Flower Remedies is an
extension of my book and I hope it helps us all to heal combining the principles of Feng Shui
with Dr. Bach’s natural flower essences.