WHAT ARE FLOWER ESSENCES?

Flower essences awaken us to our natural, harmonized selves by infusing us with its vitality and sharing its life force with us. Flower essences help liberate "stuck" energies of our body. These can come across as fatigue, negativity, stress, depression, anxiety, lack of purpose, addiction, loss of creativity or joy, or any expression of imbalance. Flower essences can also help when life is wonderful but you would like to fully explore your potentials and talents.

Evolution.  Flowers are the highest expression, or most evolved form, of a plant or a tree. The blossom of the flower opens up to the sunlight and has a higher vibrational frequency, while being grounded and connected to the earth. It is said that Earth has existed for 4.6 billion years. Land fungi existed on Earth 1300 million years ago, while plants existed on Earth 700 million years ago, and trees existed on land about 430 million years ago. Flowers, by comparison, have only existed 130 million years ago, but has expanded dominantly across the Earth as a species as well as in its diversity. This is partially due to their co-evolution with insects.

Flowers carry with it the message of abundance and significance. 

Subtle Body. Each flower has their signature vibration. This code or key is imprinted in water through alchemy with the sun, and helps unlock different aspects of ourselves on subtle body levels. This can be mental, emotional, pranic or beyond, such as astral, auric, etheric, radiant, or celestial.

Water has the ability to retain memory. This was shown through many experiments, the most famous ones conducted by Dr. Masaru Emoto, showing how the energies of words and the environment were able to change the molecular structure of water. Hence, water is the perfect medium for storing the flower's vibrations, to be shared with us.

Dosage. Flower essences are ingested by taking 3 drops orally, 3 times a day. It can also be applied onto the body through certain meridian or accupuncture points. 

Other ways flower essences are used is to diluted in a cup of water or tea, place drops in a bath, place a few drops in a humidifier or an essential oil diffuser, or to even use it as a room or facial mist.

If you test the chemical components of a flower essence, you will basically conclude that it is watered down brandy (a little alcohol is put into the water to prevent bacteria). That brings us to the next question....HOW DO FLOWER ESSENCES WORK?

HOW DO FLOWER ESSENCES WORK?

To be honest, it is very difficult to explain how and why flower essences work because we are trying to explain the non-physical aspects of life. Once we abandon our preconceptions of how things “should” work and simply experience it for ourselves, there is no denying the transformative effects of flower essences.

But I will try to explain how flower essences work starting with bees and following up with Einstein’s theory of relativity.

Bees. Research has shown that, other than bright colors, patterns of the petals and the scent of sweet nectar, bees and flowers communicate with each other through electrical fields. As far back as the 1960s, it was already shown that flowers produce a negative charge while bees contain a positive charge and when they come together, this opposition in charge literally makes pollen fly from the flower onto the bee. When a bee visits a flower, it changes the electric voltage of the flower slightly. This helps to notify other bees that a flower has recently been visited and the nectar level is low. This also provides the flower a much-needed break so it can rebuild its supply of nectar.

There is a  steady stream of communication occuring between the flowers and the bees. This exemplifies the intelligence of nature and we are just tapping into our intuition and slowing down enough to communicate with flowers. Yet our skills, compared to the bees, are far from adequate.

I think the first step is to acknowledge that there is an energetic field of communication and that plant life is profoundly intelligent.

Einstein. Now Einstein, in his theory of general relativity, explained that space is not empty but it consinsts of a gravitational field which is curved. Therefore, gravity which we feel as a force grounding us to the surface of Earth is actually caused by this curvature of space. Space ripples and sways similar to the waves of the ocean. These are called "gravitational waves" and transport energy. This is what causes the Earth and planets to spin. 

What we can take away from this over-simplified explanation of Einstein's theory is that there are vibrations or waves which we can not see causing something we can physically see (spinning of planets) and physically feel (gravity). 

Therefore, space is not empty and is filled with information. Flower essences gather the energy and information of the flower and this sentiment is communicated to us through the energetic pathways of our bodies similar to how acupuncture, meditation or yoga works. 

What is special about the hudson valley flower essences?

It is no secret that the environment has an impact on us as our teachers and our molders. The prana, or life force energy, of the surrounding environment also dictates the energy of the flower as it grows and the types of flowers which thrive. That is the reason we chose to use native wild flowers of the Hudson Valley. 

The area of the Hudson Valley where the flower essences are created is the protected valley in between the Catskill Mountains and the Shawangunk Mountains. This valley is nurtured by these two majestic natural barriers and everything in it flourishes.

This valley is also a haven for birds of all sorts, from owls to hawks to blue herons to cranes to finches to hummingbirds and blue jays, and many more. Their collective song adds to the prana of the land. 

The natural beauty of the lustrous light that softly glows on this valley has always been appreciated by those who are in tune with nature. It has attracted many landscape artists throughout history who often painted the tranquil and calm atmosphere with its soft skies, pasteural fields of flowers and its creeks, streams and waterfalls which trickle throughout the land.  

what can i expect when i use flower essences?

Flower essences work very quickly yet they also work very gracefully. If there is a deep-rooted blockage, the flower essence will generally not reveal it all at once. It will slowly peel back a few layers and even bring the root cause of imbalance to your attention through a dream. Flower essences are known to work through dreams.

Flower essences are not pills that you can take to hide pain or to shun a specific symptom. Flower essences give you the courage to do the work to face and then eliminate the underlying reasons for imbalance. You may feel the desire to remove or address toxins in your life. These can be in the form of people, patterns and habits, food, or the environment. You may start to view these patterns differently or take notice of them. Your nervous system will start to be more at ease.

Flower essences reaffirms your belief in the synchronicities of life and awakens the adventurous, playful sense of joy that all humans innately retain at their core.

Flower essences help deepen meditation practices (or any other practice that focuses on awareness) and enhances intuition. It elevates your consciousness.

It levers you up to view things at a macro level and also amplifies the radiance which you exude. With this magnetism, you start to attract more of the birds that are of the same feather.

Flower essences allow you to dig into your creative potential, and gives you confidence to step onto the path of your life's purpose to share your gifts with the world.