Reply #59: I know what you mean [View All]

[Eloriel]

The first several times I tried the Bach remedies, they "didn't work" for me either.

Actually, I think there are at least two things going on. First, in my own case and in other cases I've seen, one has to know what to look for and how to look for it to detect the changes. There's a certain level of introspection required, and while I'd always been introspective, I was looking for larger, grander changes at grosser levels, if that makes sense. What I often sugget to people who are first using FEs or believe they don't work is to write down in detail how they feel about the situation for which they're seeking assistance. The shifts that happen are often very subtle, but there ARE shifts. And, it's also a bit like peeling an onion -- you peel away one layer, and there's another to deal with, even on the same problem.

The other thing I truly believe, based on my own experience and observation, is that some people may need something akin to an initiation or perhaps a sensitization to FEs. I don't know how else to describe it, but what I mean is they need to take FEs in general or sometimes a specific FE for a period of time before they are really "attuned" to them. And then, after that, they work in general or a specific FE works much more quickly than before.

As for homeopathy, it's wonderful and while I don't know a great deal about it, I've most certainly benefitted from it myself. But it's not really an alternative to FEs, AFAIK. Isn't homeopathy for physical conditions primarily? FEs are for mental/emotional/spiritual conditions. So, they don't seem like alternatives to one another.

But I love my FEs. I woke up this morning in the very foulest of moods. Some of the negative emotional "stuff" I've been dealing with over the last year was all right there in full-blown mode again and -- I just can't tell you how negative I felt. I think it'd been growing for a few days, and boom! there it was in ALL its ugly glory this morning. I mean, "life isn't even worth living" foul.

So I brewed up a formula:

* Freedom From Fear
* Mustard -- for gloom
* Clematis -- for being ungrounded, out of touch with reality (I figured feeling THAT negative wasn't at all realistic)
* Aspen - apprehension
* Gentian - pessimism
* Honeysuckle - regrets over past
* Scleranthus - mood swings, feeling "out of balance"

I took one swig (a couple of drops on the tongue) and swoosh! I literally felt the shift within a few seconds or so. It was a little like someone turned on the lights, or lifted a veil. I think that's the first time that's ever happened to me in quite such a dramatic way. I felt like lavenderdiva in her smudging thread: wow, was that my imgaination? No, it wasn't. That much I know for sure, after my several decades of using them.

I've continued taking a swig every time I think of it, and I'm feeling actually in a fairly GOOD mood (as opposed to just neutral) tonight. Thank heaven. I just can't imagine what it would have taken to get me out of this evolving funk otherwise.