Loneliness is one of the deepest of all our emotions. It’s right down there with feelings of worthlessness that create a hollow feeling inside. It’s a dreadful feeling. Even if you’re not feeling lonely now, I know you’ve been there. We all have – often.

The next step down from loneliness is hopelessness and despair and the feeling that life has no meaning. This is a dark place to be.

Is this something I should be talking about with Valentines Day just around the corner? However, if you’ve got something planned you’ll probably not be reading this. But, if you’re lonely right now – then this is something that is uppermost in your mind.

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Bach Flower Remedies, a gentle and natural system developed by Edward Bach in the 1930s, offers a holistic approach to managing emotional well-being during this seasonal shift.

One of the key benefits of Bach Flower Remedies in autumn is their ability to support you through your emotional ups and downs, as we put the clocks back and our daylight hours decrease and routines change.

For some, the shorter days and longer nights can lead to feelings of sadness, lethargy, or even mild depression, commonly known as the “autumn blues”.

Remedies such as Mustard can be particularly helpful for those experiencing unexplained gloom, while Walnut is often used to assist with adapting to change, making it ideal for those struggling with the chilly and damp weather of Autumn (Autumn is often ‘flu weather!)

Autumn Bach Remedies

Autumn can also bring about increased stress and anxiety as the pace of life picks up after the summer holidays, with work, school, and family commitments intensifying.

So again Bach Flower Remedies can come to the rescue!

Autumn Bach Remedies for Stress and Anxiety

There is a Bach Flower Remedy for every negative emotion you have, I’ve just given you a few suggestions to help you. 

These remedies are a safe, non-addictive way to nurture emotional strengths, bring peace of mind during autumn enabling individuals to embrace the season’s changes with greater ease and well-being.

Over to you

And now, as always, it’s over to you.  If you have any questions or would like to leave a comment in comment box below, please do. I always read all your thoughts and comments on the Bach Remedies.  

I look forward to hearing from you.

Thank you.

 

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This is not like my usual blogs but I believe it’s important.  I recently watched a programme about a young boy who was on the Autistic Spectrum.  It was very interesting, but so very sad – for the child and the parents. 

Please don’t click away now. 

I know this subject is not relevant to everyone. If it’s not for you, perhaps you know someone who it could help.  If publishing it can help just one child and one family then I’ll be content. There are so many children being born on the Spectrum and they don’t know how to live in our world.  They are frightened by our world: they live with intense anxiety (perhaps you couold call it panic) they feel isolated and lonely.

 

Help for those on the Autistic Spectrum 

 

Peter had been coming to see me for some time.  He was in a very difficult marriage with a young son. The Bach Flower Remedies “made life liveable” for Peter. 

However, Peter’s young son Tom, did not develop as he should and was soon diagnosed as being on the Autistic Spectrum.

Rescue Remedy now became the ‘glue’ that kept the family afloat.  It helped both parents and it helped young Tom a lot.  This is why.

 

Rescue Remedy

 

Rescue Remedy could have been specially ‘made’ Tom and others like him.  It contains 5 remedies mixed together that, when combined, they ‘Rescue’.  Just look at the healing that takes place with Rescue Remedy.  

 

Star of Bethlehem. The remedy made from this small white flower heals shock, trauma and sadness. The child in the TV programme was lonely – no one would play with him – and he was sad.  Let alone the trauma he had to face in daily life. And he said he was sad because he was different.

 

Rock Rose heals the fear that rises into panic, the intense anxity that overwhelms them, when the children have to go into a situation that’s unknown to them, or they’re being asked to remember something they’ve forgotten.  It helps when they’re in a situation they don’t know how to deal with.

Cherry Plum is brilliant for the obsessive thoughts: irrational thoughts that they can’t stop.  This remedy helps O.C.D: is soothing and healing.

Impatiens for the frustration they feel when they can’t do what they want to do: can’t find the words to say what they mean.  Impatiens soothes the frustration and irritability they feel.

Clematis is the grounding remedy.  It helps bring the daydreamers to earth.  Those on the Autistic Spectrum live in a different realm to us, Clematis can help ground them.

 

Other remedies that help

 

There are three other remedies that Peter found really helped Tom.

Heather.  After Rescue Remedy, Heather is the best remedy to help bring your children (or anyone one on the Spectrum) out of their shell and helps them deal better with life around them.  This remedy is essential to help everyone on the Spectrum.

 

Holly. The remedy made from the tiny white flowers of Holly is for anger and violent rage.  (No wonder – look at the prickly leaves!)  Tom would go beyond frustration and go into anger that he couldn’t control.  Peter soon learnt the signs that Tom was going into a Holly state, and would give him the remedy before he got out of control.   Holly heals and melts the anger, making life easier for Tom and for his family too.

 

Chestnut Bud is the remedy to help when we don’t learn something from experience.  It helps with the ability to absorb knowledge.   

This is the link to the blog on Chestnut Bud if you’d like to find out more.

 

Please Remember

 

Rescue Remedy and the other remedies will not ‘fix’ being on the Autistic Spectrum – but they certainly do help, bringing relief to both the child and the parents – as Nicki discovered.

 

Meet Noah

 

Nicki’s 9 year old son, Noah,  is on the Autistic Spectrum.  For some time, Nicki has been giving him 2 Sprays of Rescue Remedy his mouth, just before he goes into school every morning (and also when he was facing something he wasn’t comfortably with).

However, being a busy mum she would sometimes forget ‘ Spray’.  One day, when  she forgot the Spray, when she collected her son from school, she was met by the teacher with “You forgot today didn’t you?”

 

Even the teaching staff recognised the difference  Rescue Remedy made to Noah.

The Bach Flower Remedies are natural, simple to use and safe for everyone.  They makes life easier for the child, for the family and for the teachers too.  And, after all, isn’t that all everyone wants – to make life easier.

 

Dosage

 

If you have a spray – 2 sprays when needed will help the world go around.
(This is the most common brand of Bach Flower Remedies sold in UK.  But there are other brands available that are equally effective.)

If you use the liquid remedy, put 4 drops into approximate ½ pint (300mm) of water or drink, so they can drinking it throughout the day.

It will make a difference. 

Even if this blog doesn’t apply to you, perhaps you know someone who has a child on the Spectrum.  If so, please forwarded this to anyone you know that might find it helpful.  Thank you.

 

Over to you.

 

As always, I love to hear from you, so please leave your thoughts, comments, and of course questions.  I’m delighted to hear from you and I answer every comment myself.  

Take care, thank you for your help in sharing this blog. 

Warm wishes Rose

 

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Both emotions give birth to a whole host of other feelings from despair, being discouraged and disappointment.  Leading to loneliness and lack of self-worth. And of course, it conjures up feelings of “how am I going to manage without him/her?”  

Bach Flower Remedies can help you heal your grief, and sooth other feelings too.  But sometimes its difficult to chose which of the 38 remedies suit you best.  These FREE Bach Flower Guides can help you.  

his blog is about grief : the pain of a broken heart.   But if anger is raging within you then this blog will help you too.

At sometime in our lives we all suffer from the loss of someone or a pet we love dearly.  I’m afraid its part of being human and no one escapes this feeling.  It happens to us all – more than once I’m afraid.

Please don’t misunderstand me, I’m  not belittling bereavement or sorrow. I’ve been there and got the T shirt.  In fact, I’ve got lots of these T shirts – just like you – relationships that broke my heart and of course, the loss of my beloved parents.  And how I wish I’d know about the Remedies in those days.

Grief at the loss of a loved one

A bereavement is always a shock, even when you expect it, it’s still a shock. And then comes the pain.
You feel as if there’s a stone in your stomach and your heart is literary broken – both that the same time.  The feelings of being completely lost and alone are mixed together so you’re unable to distinguish one feeling from another. And the only thought you can muster is “how do I get through today”? 

Without healing, that thought (and similar ones) run through your mind continuously, usually for months.

Where do you go now? What do you do now?  How can you pull your life together?

And what if you were unable to get to the bedside quick enough to say the words you know you should have said long ago.   What then?  Self-blame!  Guilt!  Such awful turmoil – all mixed up with sadness.

Broken Relationshiops

But these feelings are not exclusive to the death of a loved one, many have a broken heart from a broken relationship – a long marriage where one partner thinks all is well and is shocked and broken-hearted when the other wants to leave. 

t’s not the length of the relationship that signifies the depth or the pain.  We can fall into the deepest of loves in a matter of minutes (we all know that love-at-first-sight is true!)  The breaking of a relationship brings the same pain and we ask ourselves the same question?  “How am I going to get through today”?

And, in my house, (before I knew about Bach Flower Remedies) we got through the day by making endless tea!

Bach Remedies can heal a broken heart

Here are three remedies that will help heal your grief – even if its from 20 years ago: even if you’ve pushed grief down, it will have become loneliness and depression – these Bach Flower Remedies will see you on the road to recovery.

Sue came to one of my afternoon workshops on the Bach Flower Remedies.  This is Sue’s tale.  Her husband had died ten months earlier and she was not adjusting well at all.  Her family were hugely supportive and very worried.  As well as grieving the lost of the love of her life and her constant companion since mid teens, she was lonely and depressed too.

Star of Bethlehem is the first remedy you need

It doesn’t matter how old your grief is, this remedy will help.  It’s also the remedy for shock and trauma as well.

Star of Bethlehem is one of the remedies in Rescue Remedy.   So if you don’t have Star of Bethlehem, take Rescue Remedy,

Gentian

Gentian is needed when you are ‘knocked back’ by an experience. It seems to over simplify and belittle the depth of emotions you may feel, if I say ‘you’ve suffered a set-back’.

You think everything is going well, and then you find out about an affair or your loved one wants to move on. You’re shaken to your core as well as being broken hearted This is a huge set-back for you.

You are bitterly disappointed and become depressed (Gentian is an excellent remedy for depression – if you can remember your ‘set-back’). You’re so discouraged by your experiences that you’re sceptical about life ever getting better. You’d like to get better, but you don’t believe you can.

It’s worthwhile having Gentian in your Bach-kit because it isn’t only for the big disappointments. If your child didn’t do as well as they hoped at school, or wasn’t chosen for the sports team or didn’t receive the phone call or text from the new boyfriend/girlfriend – the Gentian will take away the feelings of disappointment before they festers and go deeper.

Pine will help you, when you feel ashamed

If only I’d….

If you don’t get to the bedside in time; if you’ve been working so hard for too long that your partner moves out: if you didn’t do enough for your parents – you always meant to visit once a month, but never got around to it, then you’re going to feel guilty about it.  You meant to go and help your mum with the housekeeping and dad with garden – but you never got around to it – and now its too late and Guilt takes over. You can push guilt down until it turns into depression

If only .. ” runs through your mind constantly.  And you feel awful. You’re ashamed of yourself.  The list of ‘should haves’ and ‘could haves’ run endlessly through your mind as you’re filled with guilt!  And no matter what you try to do: talking yourself out of, going partying, watching junk on the TV – nothing helps. The Bach Flower Remedy Pine will help you.

These are just three of the 38 Bach Remedies.  Although these three will help you, you could benefit from some of the other remedies too.

Once again, if you’d like to find out more about the Bach Flower Remedies click here now to find which remedy would be best for you.

Over to you

As always, I love to hear from you, so please leave your thoughts and comments in the Comment box below.

Thank you.

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