Which Bach Flowers are used?
The following Bach Flowers can be used for people who suffer from despair and despondency:
- Crab Apple (wooden apple)
- Elm (elm)
- Oak (oak)
- Pine (Scottish pine)
- Larch (Lark)
- Willow. – Sweet Chestnut
- Star of Bethlehem
Positive development opportunities: Generosity, a sense of context, details become irrelevant. – One feels internally and externally dirty, impure or infected
- Cleaning bloom
- One strives for purity, order, perfection
- One has a distinct feeling for mental hygiene, one feels sinful and stained
- You don’t want any disorder in public or private life
- Everything has to look like something out of the egg (cleaning addiction) and one strives for cleanliness in interpersonal relationships as well
- On the outside everything is fine (conflicts are swept under the carpet!)
- One is disgusted by dirt, insects, bacteria and also by one’s own symptoms of illness (rashes, warts, etc.) – This strong need for cleaning can lead to compulsive behaviour (neuroses such as washing, compulsion to keep order, etc.) – People who need Crab Apple are often peddlers and pedants
- You lose sight of the essentials and are irritated by trivialities
Positive development opportunities: strong personality with strong skills, compassionate attitude, positive leadership personality.
- You have the temporary feeling that you are not up to the task, that you do not have the strength to do everything you want and need to do. – Elm is the smelling salt of the strong in the hour of weakness
- You’ve overreached yourself
- One has a sense of responsibility and ideals and tends to take on too much responsibility, one loads oneself up a lot and risks overtaxing and overworking
- Usually the breakdown is on a psychological level (for example a black out during exams), but injuries due to sporting overwork are also possible
- Elm is usually a flower that is only used temporarily. Positive development opportunities: Power, endurance, strength, perseverance, rationality towards one’s own physical needs (rest periods).
- One feels as a downcast, brave fighter, who nevertheless continues
- You voluntarily take responsibility (Pine for example is forced to take responsibility), you are energetic, persistent, want to do everything yourself
- Oak personalities do not give up, they feel as supporting pillars, must not get sick, cannot delegate
- Fulfilment of duty is more important than anything else This results in overtaxing oneself, one is exhausted, but nevertheless continues
- Other people are put under pressure to also be diligent
- Diseases such as high blood pressure and arteriosclerosis are common
Positive development opportunities: Ability to recognize errors as normal
- You blame yourself, feel guilty. – feels he’s not worth a damn
- One is afraid to have made a mistake and fears punishment
- You make high demands on yourself – more than on others – and feel guilty if you cannot meet them
- Pine personalities often apologize, play down their own performance and sometimes feel responsible for the mistakes of others
- One is forced to take responsibility (example: single parents feel guilty towards their children, are overworked and exhausted)
Positive development opportunities: Seeing things realistically and loosely, not being discouraged by setbacks. – One has inferiority complexes
- Expectation of failure due to lack of self-confidence
- You don’t believe in yourself, you don’t have enough courage, you have inner fears and you don’t want to suffer failure (you don’t even try!)
- You are afraid of embarrassing yourself
- One feels inferior to other people right from the start and does not doubt this attitude, but is convinced of one’s own inability
- People who need Larch have often suffered in childhood from a negative attitude of their parents
- The sense of achievement is missing and the self-esteem is shattered (children dare not say anything at school, for fear of being laughed at)
- Larch types seem very reasonable, feel useless, are nostalgic, comfortable (inner comfort) but also vain
- Back pain is often described as physical symptoms (no backbone!) Positive development opportunities: Personal responsibility, constructive thinking, how can I make the best out of this situation. – One is bitter, feels like a “victim of fate
- Feels sorry for himself
- One has to give up privileges, life situation worsens (unemployed, chronically ill etc.)
- One is in a bad mood instead of making the best of it
- One sees only difficulties and no possibilities
- You compare it to previous happy times
- People who need Willow are often mentally and physically immobile (diseases that limit mobility). Positive development opportunities: Learning that it takes night to turn back to day. Rise like a phoenix from the ashes.
- It is believed that the limits of what a person can endure are now reached
- The personality is at the end of his Latin and seeks help from other people
- It is pronounced: ” I am at the end, I do not know how to go on”. – One is in an extreme state of emergency: with one’s back against the wall, between heaven and earth, in nothingness, in the night, without being able to become day again! – People who need Sweet Chestnut believe that God has forgotten them.
Positive development opportunities: Revival and reorientation. – One has not yet got over a mental or physical shock. “
- The comforter”
- One is in a state of shock
- Traumatic experiences, which sometimes seem trivial to the outside world, cannot be forgotten
- You haven’t processed it and it’s blocked
- Often suddenly occurring illnesses (speech disorders triggered by shock, soft speech, frozen facial expressions).
