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Exam time is upon us once again. There is huge pressure on our teenagers to do really well in their exams.

Bach Flower Remedies are a natural and simple way to help with the anxiety of exams (and all anxieties and fears). They can diminish anxiety and fears and boost confidence.

Clematis
If your child seems indifferent to the exams and would rather sleep than study, then Clematis will help. Clematis is indifferent and don’t want to be involved in life. They are day-dreamers. Clematis will ground them and help them to remember what they’ve learnt.

Elm feels the heaviness of the responsibility of getting good results – which can lead to depression. It’s not so much about the lack of confidence, but the huge responsibility of doing well. The weight of the responsibility will erode any confidence your child had.  

Elm will give them the confidence they need to get good results.

Larch
Larch is a wonderful remedy and I feel we should all take it every day, because we’re dealing with stress every day. Larch is the confidence flower. It works subtly (as they all do) so your child wont really notice being more confident…but in 3 days, you will!

White Chestnut
Another wonderful remedy. This one is for the merry-go-round of unresolved thoughts that open stop sleep. You can’t stop these thoughts going around and around, and there’s no way out. White Chestnut brings clarity and therefore a solution.

How to take the remedies
The most effective way to take the remedies is to make up a Treatment Bottle. This is a small, brown 30ml bottle with a dropper. If you don’t have one, you can get one from a health shop or sometimes from a well-known High Street chemist.

Treatment Bottle
To make up a Treatment Bottle, fill the bottle to the shoulder with either mineral, filtered or cooled boiled water.

Then add 2 drops of each of the chosen Remedies (add 4 drops if using Rescue Remedy) – up to a maximum of 6. Remember: When you use Rescue Remedy in a Treatment Bottle, it only counts as 1 remedy.

Then take 4 drops from the Treatment Bottle that you have just made at least 4 times a day.

Or you can use your child’s water bottle as a treatment bottle. Put into their bottle, 2 drops of each remedy for ½ ltr of water and ask them to sip it frequently.

Or the remedy can be dropped straight onto the tongue (but don’t let the dropper touch the tongue) or you can put 4 drops into a glass of water and sip it frequently, every 10 to 15 minutes or so.

The frequency of the dose is more important that the quantity.

If you have any questions, please get in touch.

And over to you…

As always, I love to hear from you, so please leave your thoughts and comments in the Comment Box below. I read and personally reply to all your comments. 

I look forward to hearing from you.

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‘Depression’ seems to cover a number of feelings that are all involved with poor ‘mental health’.

There are two words that comes to my mind in connection with Mental Health and they are ‘Anxiety’ and ‘Depression’ and anyone who lives with either or both of these feelings often suffers from severe loneliness.

So it seems to me, that its a vicious circle, because these feelings feed each other constantly. 

The way I see it is, that ‘depression’ is the result of anxiety and lack of confidence, at a very deep level,  that we’ve lived with for longer than we realise. And there’ll be a few other feelings in there too: self blame for example.  

I have been using Bach Flower Remedies for over 40 years for myself, my family and my clients. These amazing remedies can heal painful feelings and as I’m sure you know, we’re all different and we react to experiences in different ways, so we often need different remedies. It might be that two people with seemingly similar ‘depressions’ might need different remedies for a healing.  

So I’ve put together a few suggestions for Bach Flower Remedies that could perhaps help you out of the mist and on the road to recovery.    

One of the best ways to help you choose remedies for yourself, is to use the Bach Flower Guides. I’m often asked what’s the difference between anxiety and panic. It is the intensity of your feelings that’s different. You can find out this, and more about the remedies from the Guides.

If you feel really intense anxiety that changes how you live, that is Rock Rose.  

If you’re a ‘worrier’ and are anxious about the things of everyday life, that needs Mimulus.

If you find it confusing to select the best remedy to help you, these Bach Flower Guides below will help you.

Here are some remedies that can help you with Depression and Anxiety:

Rescue Remedy – its brilliant in emergency situations and for grief. It ‘sticks you back together’ when you feel you’re ‘falling apart’. So this remedy can do a lot of good to everyone with Depression. Rescue Remedy contains Rock Rose, the remedy for panic and intense anxiety and Star of Bethlehem is for shock, trauma and sadness – even if your feelings are from childhood.

Mustard for a depression that comes on suddenly, out of the blue. It’s as if a dark cloud falls on you and you feel as if you’re living in fog. Your mind isn’t working and you’ve no clarity of thought. The most important indicator for Mustard, is there appears to be no cause for these awful feelings.

Larch is for the lack of self-confidence. Few realise that lacking confidence can put you into an extremely deep state of despair. You don’t try to do anything because you believe you can’t do it – and everyone can do it better than you. So you don’t try.

Pine is for self-reproach, it’s for when thoughts similar to “I should have done better. I could have done more. I wish I hadn’t said this or done that” run through your mind. I’m sure you know what I mean. We all need Pine at some time.  

Mimulus –  If you know what you’re afraid of, Mimulus is for you. Mimulus is afraid of ‘life’  They don’t talk about their anxieties and push them down into their stomach. Mimulus children often get stomach ache when they’re anxious. 

Sweet Chestnut is for anguish. Despair. The dark night of the soul: unendurable desolation and desperation.

These remedies will help you through the dark days of mental and emotional confusion.

If you or someone you know, suffers from despair and depression this blog here will help you to find Bach Flower Remedies to help.

You can mix up to 6 remedies together. I’ve written a blog on the most effective way to take the remedies, so perhaps you might like to have a look at that?

Mental health has been brought very much to the fore since Princes William and Harry admitted having difficulty dealing with their mother’s death. And now the Prince and Princess of Wales are championing the importance of Mental Health for happy and productive lives. Your mental and emotional health are everything.

I believe that feeling good is the most important thing in our lives and if you don’t feel good, then Bach Flower Remedies are a really simple way of healing your feelings. 

Click here to find out how you can study the Bach Flower Remedies so you can manage your own and your family’s emotions.

And over to you…

This is a long blog today because its such an important subject, so please leave your thoughts and comments in the Comment Box below. 

As always, I love to hear from you.  Take care.  Rose.

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Everywhere you look, there is something to worry about! Global health crisis, wars, food prices… energy prices; the list goes on!

Rising energy prices seem to the a great concern for many. My electricity bill has increased by 400%. I’ve spoken to my energy supplier and was told “that’s how it is…“.

Even if “that is how it is.’ it’s not helpful and our anxiety levels are skyrocketing along with the cost of electricity…..And to crown it all, the country is in political chaos too!

We can’t control or do anything about the political situation.

We can’t control the rising prices of energy.

But we can ‘control’ (and heal) are rising anxieties.

If anxiety and fear is distrusting your day – and your sleep too – then the Bach Flower Remedies can help you through this most difficult of times.

Anxiety is debilitating and crippling and it takes over our lives.

Anxiety can range from a subtle murmur in the pit of your stomach to being so intense that it restricts your chest and you can hardly breath. This is the most intense form of fear and is generally what we call a ‘panic attack’.

I’ve given you a few suggestions about remedies that might help you with anxiety, but one of the other Bach Flower Remedies might be helpful for you.

 

What Causes Anxiety?

My understanding is that anxiety comes from fear….and no, they are not the same thing.

Imagine a volcano. Anxiety is like the hot molten rock that swirls and churns far beneath the surface of the earth. It’s always there, just looking for a ‘trigger’ and a crack in the earth’s crust so it can force its way through. It then erupts into hot, full blown fear that paralyses us.

I believe the cause of anxiety comes from being afraid you’ll be hurt. It also comes from feeling you have no self-confidence and wont be able to cope with what life throws at you. As well as having no confidence, being criticised is extremely hurtful. 

And right now, our anxiety about how we are going to manage today – let alone being anxious about the future – is extremely high.

You may not have thought of it in this way, but we don’t feel just one emotion at a time.  So within our anxiety, there’ll be a few other feelings but the bottom line will be that your anxiety sucks every ounce of confidence out of you.

 

Confidence

I know I’ve said it before, and I’m sure I’ll say it again, I believe that confidence is the foundation of a happy life. Even if you’re confident, you might not be able to cope with every situation that life throws at you, but at least you’re confident enough to give it a try.

Here are a few suggestions to help you with anxiety and those awful feelings of intense anxiety and panic attacks, and of course a little about the remedy to give you confidence.

Finding the right remedy to help you has as much to do with how you respond to your anxiety as the anxiety itself.  Not every remedy will heal your anxiety – but chose the ‘right’ one, and it will literary begin to change your life sooner than you think.

 

Mimulus

Mimulus is one of the most commonly bought remedies for anxiety – which shows how common anxiety is. Mimulus is for known fears.

If you know what you’re anxious about, then Mimulus will help you. If you need Mimulus, you’ll keep your worry to yourself, you won’t talk about it or discuss it. You’ll just push it down – probably into your stomach. A young child might not realise they’re anxious but will complain of stomach pains when they’re facing something new or they’re not sure about.

 

Rock Rose

This remedy is taken daily by millions in Rescue Remedy. It’s the remedy for ‘urgent fear’ – panic!  The Rock Rose fear (or intense anxiety) is the volcano erupting! 

There are some people who live in a chronic state of high-level fear every day! Rock Rose, over time, will heal this chronic condition. (However, if this is you, you’ll probably benefit from professional advice to help you.) 

You can find out which remedy you need by asking yourself how intense your feelings are. Extremely intense so that they rule your day means you need Rock Rose.

Bach Flower Remedies are so much more than Rescue Remedy. There are 38 remedies that cover every emotion felt by mankind. You can discover in my many blogs, remedies that you might need, that you didn’t know about.

 

Larch

This is the confidence remedy…and it is absolutely brilliant.

Here are a few other things that Larch can help: You don’t believe in yourself and/or you don’t attempt new things because you expect to fail.

This remedy will restore your confidence and as you take this remedy, you’ll find you’ll be less anxious.
You can see how Larch goes well with the anxiety and fear remedies. In fact, I would go so far as to say, don’t take one Mimulus without taking Larch.

 

 

 

Red Chestnut

Just a few words on Red Chestnut. This is the remedy to help if you’re really anxious about loved ones. These are trying times and I know that we’ve all had a lot to contend with and this has increased our worry about our family.

If you’re interested in find out about this natural, simple and extremely powerful healing system, get in touch with me. As you can tell – I just love them – and know you will too!

 

Over to You..

I hope you found the blog helpful. The remedies are natural, simple and safe to take. They make a tremendous difference in my life, and they can do in yours too.

As always, I’d love to hear from you, so please leave our comments in the Comment Box below. 

I look forward to hearing from you. 

Thank you. Rose

 

 

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You might not realise it, (unless you’ve experienced it) that a lack of confidence has far reaching effects. It can bring deep despair and a “depression” that affects every area of life. These days the word ‘depression’ is handed out to almost everyone who has difficulty dealing with some parts of life.

Like a rotten apple in the barrel, it only takes one apple to infect the whole barrel…and a lack of courage and confidence is the same – it infects every area of life.

Here’s Jessica’s story

Jesscia had been self-conscious since early childhood. She can still remember how embarrassed she got when people talked to her and how she always felt she couldn’t do as well as the other children her age.

She didn’t mix well with others, so was inclined to kept to herself.

But there’s more and I wonder if you can relate to any of these:

• You automatically feel inferior to others.
• You admire people who are successful, but don’t believe you’re capable of being successful yourself.
• You expect failure.
• Have used illness as an excuse so you don’t have to tackle something.
• Feel useless and have no feelings of self-worth or self-esteem.

If so, your problem is simple – just like Jessica and you’re filled with self-doubt, you lack self- confidence.

It’s so quick and simple to say, and yet the lack of confidence, and having no courage, has a profound effect and influences every part of your life – it is the ‘rotten apple’ that affects the whole barrel.

Back to Jessica

As you can imagine, Jessica never made much of her career – even though she was quite capable. She did her work – but never any more. She’d never take risks or applied for promotion.

Jessica sat at the back of the office and plodded along. She was not prepared to step ‘outside the  box’ because she was absolutely convinced she would fail. She knew what she could do and she stuck to it.

Do you doubt yourself and lack confidence? 

It’s a blunt question I know, particularly as we might not know each other well. If you do then, relax, I know how you feel – because I’ve been there – more often than I’d care to admit!  And I have a solution for you, so read on. I’ve suffered with self-doubt and have felt the knock-on effects all my life.

How well I remember trying to work out which remedy I needed when I first started to use the Bach Remedies. Not only did I find it difficult to identify how I felt but I couldn’t work out which remedy I needed. I didn’t realise then that we could have more than one feeling at once!

But we do, all the time. No wonder you find it difficult to identify how you feel.

A Nervous Breakdown

Jessica had never been good at handling the stress of life and some years ago had a nervous breakdown.

How does a  ‘nervous breakdown’ show itself? For Jessica, it showed at first as an extremely severe bout of debilitating ‘flu, which hung about for months. She was emotionally and physically exhausted. She didn’t have the power: the confidence to face the world.

She was severely shaken by her bout of flu and she lost what little confidence she had and so had not been able to return to work.

During this time Jessica felt very alone. She’d often felt lonely but didn’t have the courage or confidence to meet new people and try new things. She blamed herself for not doing what she felt she should have done to live a fulfilling life. She said she felt she was constantly living with an undercurrent of shame and guilt that she hadn’t done more with her life.

Not Sleeping Well

Jessica wasn’t sleeping well either.  She would wake around 3 am with the same anxieties: the same worrying thoughts night after night.  She said it was rather like all her thoughts jumped onto a child’s merry-go-round and played there for hours. She couldn’t find a solution to any of her problems and night after night she would be awake while her troubles played on the merry-go-round.

Jessica was tired – exhausted in fact. She wanted to feel better and hoped to regain enough confidence to be able to go back to work.

So I mixed the following remedies together, especially for Jessica’s feelings.

The Courage and Confidence Mix

Larch – for self-confidence

Mimulus– gives courage to face the anxieties of life

Pine – to help heal the shame and guilt she felt for not trying to live a happier and more fulfilling life.

White Chestnut – to stop the unresolved thoughts from going around and around.

Olive – to help with fatigue and exhaustion

Gentian – as she was very discouraged from the set-back of his illness.

I’m sure you can relate to some of these feelings (if not all of them) and you can see how these remedies all work together beautifully to strengthen and give courage and confidence.

If you’re not sure to take the Remedies, click here for the most effective way to take Bach Flower Remedies.

If you’re lack of confidence has gone so deep that its turned into depression, perhaps this article will help you.

Over to you…

As always, I love to hear from you, so please leave your comments in the Comment Box below the blog – and of course ask your questions too. 

I look forward to hearing from you. Rose

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