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Bach Flower Remedies

How Do Bach Remedies Work?

Bach believed that the body maintains its own state of internal balance and health. When this balance is compromised, the body becomes susceptible to various illnesses, bacteria and viruses that it would otherwise defend against quite naturally. This is why several people can be exposed to a virus, yet only some may become ill. Some people never appear to get sick, while others catch whatever may be around them. Bach felt that the individual personality and the emotions exhibited had a direct correlation to the health of the body. The more happy, uplifted, and fulfilled the individual, the more he noticed a sense of general health and well-being. When they did become sick, they appeared to recover quicker and more completely. The more frustrated, unhappy, and unfulfilled the individual, the more susceptible they appeared to sickness and the more chronic the experience. Based on these observations, Bach believed that treating a person according to their emotional state would help rectify the emotional imbalance, in turn triggering the body’s natural healing mechanism.

Although such notions were quickly dismissed earlier on by traditional medicine, today there is no doubt that many conditions are stress-related and that happy people tend to live longer and healthier lives. It is now medically recognized that there is a biological link between emotional health and the immune system. This branch of medicine is called psychoneuroimmunology (PNI).

It is not medically known how the remedies actually impact the body, only that they do.  Although no full scale clinical trials have been conducted to date, scientific research of note has been formally conducted by several medical doctors in Italy, showing conclusively the impact of the remedies upon the body.  One theory is that different parts of the body vibrate at different frequencies, and we know that these frequencies can be altered by sound and light.  The vibration of the flower remedies may cause a corresponding resonance within the body (where the higher vibration of the remedies causes vibrations within the body to entrain or “synchronize” with the higher frequency). 

Kirlian photographsA system of photography founded by Semyon and Valentina Kirlian in 1939 which photographs the energy pattern or "aura" of humans, plants and animals of patients published in Germany show the change in the energy patterns of the patient associated with the use of various remedies.

Provided the right flower remedy has been chosen, the process of harmonizing the imbalance begins to occur naturally as the body becomes more in tune with its natural state of health.  The effect is very subtle.

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