Bach Flower Remedy

Case history for Agrimony

A 20-year old girl is living alone with her father as her mother is no more. Most of the time, her father is not around as he developed a drinking habit and comes home late.

The father was brought to me here. His daughter told me that she was alone at home as everyday her father comes home late after he gets drunk. Therefore, she was worried about him.

I asked her for how long he was drinking. She replied that for the last two years after her mother died. After death of wife, he wasn’t able to forget her.

I decided that it is no point advising him to stop drinking. I gave him Agrimony and White chestnut – for when he is alone he was thinking constantly about his wife.

Case history for White Chestnut

15 years back somebody called from Triplicane. He said, “I am taking lot of medicines for this problem. The moment I wake up in the morning, I sneeze for 100 times. I live in Triplicane where my family lives with four other families in the house. I feel ashamed as I disturb others due to my sneezing”.

I told him to take White Chestnut. Next week he came to see me with fruits.

Periodicity of the problem indicates White Chestnut.

Hiccups: White Chestnut and Scleranthus

After two days of affiliation if the patient becomes desperate: then instead of White Chestnut take Sweet Chestnut. It will work. Where White Chestnut stops working Sweet Chestnut will work. See the subtleness.

Running nose: take White Chestnut, Crab Apple and Walnut. If it doesn’t stop, replace White Chestnut with Sweet Chestnut.

Case history for Honey Suckle

Ramachandran retired from his government services. He got a sum of five lakhs of rupees towards his final settlement.

Ramachandran was always thinking about his office. I gave him Walnut (for transition) and Honeysuckle (not to think about the office) separately.

Chandran a friend of Ramachandran asked him to deposit a sum of five lakhs of rupees in a benefit fund, where Chandran is working and he had meet his target.

Ramachandran said yes. He wrote the cheque and asked his friend to collect it in the evening, as the time then is auspicious.

Around 11 am, Ramachandran heard the news that his uncle has passed away. Therefore, he left for Coimbatore.

“Life events happen without asking us. We are always concerned about our children, our environment and us. However, for divinity, every molecule in this Universe is important. It would have preferred him not to give the cheque.”

He informed Chandran from the bus stand, that he would come back and give the cheque after two days. Nevertheless, Chandran insisted that he needs it to complete his target ASAP. Ramachandran pleaded his inability to give the cheque.

Ramachandran came back after 3 days, just to realize the closure of the benefit fund due to lack of funds. He mentioned to me that one of the flowers has stopped him from paying the money and losing it. I told him, “It is Honey Suckle.”

Before taking any important decisions, take honeysuckle, for example in the case of letting out our homes or leasing it.

1.  A loss in business

Impatiens is the flower for a person who makes loss in business.

Naran is out to the supermarket, after making his purchases he is at the pay counter waiting for his turn. Suddenly he is pushed aside by an elderly customer who seems rather agitated and is screaming at the counter sales person. He was lamenting 92……92…… the bonus points have not been accounted. He was so impatient that he did not allow the recipient to even assimilate what is happening.

Naran silently observes the drama, tapping on himself and affirming – I choose to be patient.

The elderly customer leaves the place heated and keeps screams that the loss is his.

Naran recounts his observation, Impatience leads to loses. The flip side being when a person has a loss he will be impatient. Impatiens is the divine healer here. It will ensure that the person sees profits and gains.

On the roads, amidst traffic drivers are advised to chant Impatiens for accident free journeys.

Prostrations to the Flowers, the Divine Grace.

2.  Being cheated

Ram and Barath, his subordinate are on a sales tour. Ram neither carries the company’s money with him nor his credit card. Barath had to foot all the bills amounting to Rs.13,000/- as he did not have a choice. He was also assured an immediate reimbursement on his return to the head office at New Delhi.

Two months passed by and Barath did not see of his reimbursement. This was the time he got a better offer and wanted to leave. In order not to hassle his relieving process he did not ask for his money.

He was in his new job. He came to Naran telling him that he still felt he ought to get the money that was due to him. Ram was intending to cheat him and was not even answering his phone calls.

Naran advises him to take the flowers Rock Water and Chestnut bud.

A week later Barath reverts with a negative and no movement. Naran adds on Impatiens ,yet another Divine flower.

Within the next three days , Barath happily gets his money back.

The inference here is that , the cheater and the person being cheated are one and the same. Rock Water and Chestnut bud are like two sides of the same coin.

3. Feeling disempowered

Maya called Naran and tells him that she was visiting her tenants and asking them to vacate her house. She was expecting trouble from them and also felt that as a lady she mightn’t be able to handle them alone. She was wondering if she had to take someone along. She asked Naran for his advice.

Naran promptly told her to take the Divine flowers Agrimony, Beech and Walnut as her company. Put down these names on paper and let it be on your person i.e., your bag, wallet etc., The flowers will take care of you. Don’t bother.

Empowered with flowers Maya visits her tenant and he agrees to vacate the house in fifteen days without any quirms.

Naran had suggested Agrimony for avoiding any conflicts that might envisage, Beech for proper understanding and communication. Walnut is for flexibility, yielding and creating a conducive environment. Hence one is channelizing the energy of tolerance from Beech, flexibility and yielding through Walnut and peace through Agrimony.

4. Anger due to lack of understanding

Mr.Prabhu had a complaint against his boss. He had not been paid his salary for the past five months. Prabhu said, ‘I want to quit and seek a new job, but I can’t get a job elsewhere. I have to get a certificate from my present employment. On completion of one year my boss would be willing to give a certificate with three years experience. On quitting now, I lose the money I’m due for, the certificate and my prospects for a better job. I am very angry and do not feel like even looking at my boss.

Can you give one positive reason working for him? ,asked Naran.

Prabhu said that he was getting an excellent training, hence a wonderful learning opportunity. The work experience he gathered from here was also vast. But I feel I must be paid my dues.

Naran tells him to shift his thought pattern. This is a place where you are getting paid to be trained. This means that the learning comes to you free of cost. There is nothing wrong if your boss has not been paying the salary for the past 5 months.

Reframe your attitude – the company is providing you with an excellent training and work experience. Thank your boss for the learning opportunity, forget about demanding for money and request him to forgive you. Keep chanting – My boss is a great person and I thank him for teaching me free of cost. This will bring you a lot of peace and your anger will also subside.

Prabhu was also supported with the Divine flowers Centaury for not being able to ask for his salary assertively, Willow for his anger and tendency to blame and Water violet for distancing from his boss.

Naran elucidates – Reframing: A unique path to your life?

Reframing, a powerful technique, is a different way of thinking about an event or incident. It brings another perspective to an issue.

The pattern changes from being totally negative to being totally positive.

When this positivism occurs the dynamics change. A whole new world of joy, satisfaction, love, confidence and exuberance open up. A miracle transforms the body into a wonderful being.

For example, when you catch a cold, the discomfort, stress and sadness causes you to curse the state you are in. Anger and resentment follow. This gets recorded as a negative pattern in the body.

Reframe your thought pattern here. Think differently; listen to your inner call for the cold – A time to rest in peace. You will feel a difference. You will no longer remain stressful or angry or resent your state of mind and body.

The Origin of Bach Flower Remedies

Edward Bach the founder of Bach Flower Remedies was a microbiologist. He was practicing homeopathy for some-time.  He leant how to create nosodes. It’s made from cells taken from diseased organs and potentizing it. He discovered seven nosodes. This would take care of the basic constituency of the patients.

However, he thought Homeopathy is highly cumbersome very difficult. If a patient has time and meets ten homeopathy doctors, each one of them would prescribe differently for him. He concluded that there should be a simpler method and any disease – both mental and physical, should be able to be handled easily.

His entire last twelve years of his life was spent in wild forest in England to discover those simple remedies he envisaged. He found 39 remedies, out of which 37 remedies were from flowers, one from spring water and another one was a combination of remedies.

What is the specialty of Bach Flower Remedies?

Whatever an expression or emotional state may be, there is a remedy in Bach Flower Remedies. Edward Bach was a pioneer in finding the value of expressions while counselling patients, which was followed by later day psychologists.

He was able to find subtle difference between emotions and thoughts. For each emotion the thought in the person’s mind could be different from another person. In a depressed state, I might say, “I am not lucky. Others are getting what they want. I am not getting the same”. Another person might say, “While others are happy. I am not happy”. Thus, for each and every state, there is a different thinking process for different people.

What is the difference between Bach Flower Remedies and Counselling?

In counselling, you are giving the cause of your problem. Dr Bach says don’t try to find, what’s the cause. Find out what the patient says. Find out how he expresses his problem. What are the words he utters when he enters your clinic? That is very important. Instead, if you start analysing why he talks the way he talks then you won’t find the right remedy.

Choosing the remedies

First and foremost principle is what the patient says. How he expresses himself. He may be in two or three states. He might have fear and at the same time be angry too, or sad and angry. May be, he may be fearful and worrying also.

For each and every expression of the patient, just note down the mental states. This expression is fear, worry, anger or sadness. Based on those states, you would arrive at 6 to 9 remedies.

You are not the doer

We are always anxious that patient should be alright immediately. That expectation or desire should not be there. When a person consults you, Bach Flowers takes over you. You are not there. Have the mind set, “I am not the doer”. Those points should come into your mind.

If remedies want to go to a person they will go to them or they will go away. Let me give you an example that happened recently.

A girl approached Shobana for remedies for her interview. Mother came to pick up the remedies. When she reached home, she found while there were other remedies, the interview pack went home was missing. The girl came to the centre, picked up the remedies, but failed in the interview.

There is a reason behind it. You are not selecting the remedy. Whenever you think of the remedy, suggest a remedy or prescribe it, just prostrate to it mentally. Please pray to them and tell them if healing has to happen, then let it happen.

Do not expect healing to happen immediately. Sometime healing happen some times it doesn’t. How come? Even if somebody doesn’t take cigarettes, they get cancer. While somebody who smokes cigarettes, doesn’t get it. There must be some secret codes to the cells to happen or not to happen. The particular point that certain people are getting or not getting is due to epigenetic reasons. See the power of divinity here.

So have the thought, “I am not the doer. The flowers do all the work”.

Initial Categorization of Remedies

Bach divided into 7 divisions. Original classification is bit confusing. If you read any book on Bach Flower Remedies, after completing the book you will be more confused.

I have divided into five groups.

1. Fear – four different states of fear, when a person is fearful
2. Worry – five states
3. Sadness and depression – around ten states
4. Anger – some states
5. Behavioural states – lack of concentration, postponement, mental fatigue, mental over-enthusiasm, confusion, indecision.

This way diagnosis is easy.