What Are Flower Essences?
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Flower essences are herbal infusions or decoctions, made from the flowering part of the plant, which uniquely address emotional and mental aspects of wellness. The first 38 flower remedies were formulated by a British physician, Dr. Edward Bach, in the 1930's, although new remedies from other plant species are now available.

Most of our illnesses relate to our way of living and our attitudes to life and the world around us. Diet and environment do have a major influence on health but so also do our mental attitudes. Indeed for many people, mental attitudes are the key factors which affect their health, for good or ill. Fears and tensions can lock up muscles, distort the skeleton, depress the immune system, affect all endocrine secretions, and therefore compromise our health. On the other hand, if we are relaxed and coping easily with the stresses of life, then our health will benefit accordingly. Mind and body are not separate and the reactions of each depend on what is happening to the other. Indeed, they should really be called body-mind – a composite whole.

So How Can they Help with Learning Difficulties?
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All learning dysfunctions, hence difficulty in learning, have their root in how the brain functions. The brain is designed to learn. From the time we are born until we die, learning is as natural as breathing and certainly as important since our very survival depends on it.

Emotions play a huge part in our learning process, infact far more than we give them credit for, especially if you are a very sensitive person, I mean how many of us can relate to remembering a lesson when we where at school when a particular teacher made us feel totally inadequate by making us feel embarrassed, scared, stupid! At the age of 10, I can clearly remember such an occasion with my math teacher.

Mr. Abbot thin with grey hair and glasses, I had simply gone up to him to ask him about something I didn’t quite understand he got really cross and starting shouting at me and then I felt really embarrassed and stupid especially being in front of the class, then bang that was it, funny I never progressed at math after that, infact I stayed in the bottom set of math and didn’t have the confidence to sit my math exam as I was sure to “to fail” because I “wasn’t any good” and even into my adult life would panic if someone asked me to add something up or take it away in my head I just hated it!

So the wonderful thing about flower essences is they quite simply treat the negative blocks that have been presented to us, from our early childhood either by our parents (which I am sure many of them never meant to do!) our teachers, friends, or just day to day life experiences. The flower essences put back the positive aspects of a quality, shifting you from negative to positive.

A useful analogy is that we all have a bright light shining from within us out onto the world. This light shines through different windows, each representing a particular quality. Sometimes the windows are misted up, covered with cobwebs, or the shutters are closed. Taking the appropriate remedy gradually opens the shutters, blows away the cobwebs and unmists the glass, allowing the light to shine out in full brightness again.

With regards to learning difficulties, one of the first things we need to approach is to help these children release their negative blocks. It is my job to find exactly which essences each child needs (we must remember that no two children are the same and no two children have the same learning difficulties)

I work with many essences, some Bach Flower Essences, some Australian bush Flower essences, Alaskan Flower Essences, Baileys, Master Essences, Indigos and some that are made for me especially for my clients and imported from Canada, to name but a few, no two clients will have the same combination of essences.

How Do Flower Essences Work?
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Flower essences are tools for transformation, catalysts for change, they work by enhancing the positive aspects of the qualities of mind, emotion and personality. By flooding a person with positive qualities the negative aspects or lack of positive are dissolved, and health is restored.

Once we  identify the areas that need addressing we can put them back into balance naturally, it is wonderful to see children begin to blossom and to release all the negative beliefs they have about themselves, when this starts to happen with the essences you start to see the truly gifted child that you really have!   

We can resonate with Plato in asking the question: "What is Healing?" -

"The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body."

-          Plato  -