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I gotta admit ... when I was first introduced to the idea of flower essences as a treatment for maladies and psychological distress, I was in no mood to listen to "all that drivel and nonsense." I was in one of the many and more severe crises my once-upon-a-time husband had managed to dump us (or more specifically, me) in.

I had begun showing bizarre symptoms ... like sleepwalking (metaphorically, perhaps, trying to "escape") ... as a result of the stress. I lived with a crushing sense of panic such as I had never known. Sometimes I would just lie in bed at night and listen to my heart pound, before dropping off into the episodes of restless "journeying" or whatever you want to call what was happening to me.

I was not in good shape.

At the time, a sort-of-friend of mine was dating a couple of women who were studying in various classes at The New Mexico School of Natural Therapeutics. I thought both these women were a couple of ditzy, hippie types ... half a step away from la-la land, if that. I wasn't interested in their offers of massage treatments, or suggestions of herbal remedies, and I doubt I was terribly tactful in declining their advice.

Mostly I was embarrassed that my anxiety was so obvious.

Finally one of them forced a concoction on me and begged me to take it. As a favor. To humor her. Even if I thought it was two millimeters this side of witchcraft. She made me promise. It seemed harmless enough. They were drops of some kind in a brown glass bottle. A customized concoction she'd devised using a pendulum and some other hocus pocus.

I needed to take four drops on the tongue four times a day. I figured that wouldn't kill me ... and by this point I didn't much care if it did. After all, blessings sometimes come in strange disguises.

What she'd given me was a vial of flower essences, holistic remedies made from plant extracts whose theory of operation still doesn't make a lot of sense to me, but maybe it doesn't need to. I'm a pragmatic woman -- especially when it comes to my own comfort. What she gave me helped ... at a time when I figured I was riding hard on the cutting edge of crazy. Even if it was the placebo effect, I figured that where I was going with these little drops felt better than where I'd been living lately ... so I kept on taking them.

Unfortunately, that was not the last moment of high drama my former mate inflicted on both our lives. I hadn't heard the term "crisis junkie" at the time, but in the years that followed ... 15 of them ... I came to learn what life with one was like. Call me a glutton for punishment. (Call me thick as two planks. I believed "til death do you part" meant that, when I said it.)

I'm still not sure why flower essences seem to make a difference when life reaches overload and the temptation is strong to consider "radical options." But they do.

And given the side-effects, warnings, and other complications that go with prescription drugs (for which reasons I have religiously avoided them), and given my individual sensitivity and odd reactions to other pharmaceutical concoctions through the years (which makes me doubly cautious about such things) access to and use of these has indeed been a blessing.

They are available in almost any heath food store that deals in herbal medicine. The Bach Flower Remedies are perhaps the best known. They are also the most expensive. There are other companies putting out the same essences -- and more besides -- at about 2/3 the cost.

I'll discuss more of the theory behind the flower essence remedies, as well as that regarding holistic medicine itself, in upcoming articles. I'll also address a number of other issues and bits of information along the way, to give a more complete picture of this admittedly unorthodox therapeutic approach to stress and psychological upset.

As you will see as this series unfolds, flower essences address a multitude of psychological and spiritual emergencies, from the eminently practical to the distinctly abstract and mystical, states whose remedy can only be judged by those involved in them.

As always, I can only quote you my experiences and suggest if the thought appeals to you that you try them yourself and see. Truth, after all, is where you find it. And indeed, it seems blessings do come in odd disguises.

Enchanted Spirit assumes no liability for health care recommendations or treatments discussed by individual authors whose work is published on our website.

The information here is offered to help in your research and investigation of possible ways to manage your own health care issues. Common sense as well as solid professional advice from your own trusted medical care specialist or personal holistic health care practitioner should always be part of managing your health care choices.

Rebecca Brents writes on a wide variety of spiritual and occult subjects, including astrology, tarot, metaphysics, and self-improvement. She publishes the extensive online new age Ezine, The Enchanted Sprite on her website: Enchanted Spirit. Rebecca is also available for personal astrology and tarot readings and consultations.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
~ Soren Kierkegaard ~
Born May 5, 1813

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