Botanical Bliss – a practical guide to making and administering a flower essence

A flower essence is the vibrational imprint of a flower that has been transferred and stabilised in water. Flower essences can help us recognise, resolve, or release different conditioned ways of perceiving the world and can help us experience greater wellbeing and harmony in our lives. By creating harmony within us, we often notice distinct changes in ourselves physically, emotionally and spiritually.

To begin

You will need a clear glass bowl, which can hold up to 500 ml of water. Use good quality spring water such as Valpré; NOT prepared water. You’ll also need stainless-steel tweezers, several amber glass dropper bottles sterilised in boiling water, a glass funnel, some labels for the bottles and brandy (as a preservative).

Method

Place your bowl outside on the soil or grass next to your desired flowers and fill the bowl with your water.

Pick blossoms or petals from organically grown flowering plants; pick only one kind of flower at a time; it’s fine to select from different plants and colours but just stick with a single species. A single flower is also fine.

It is very important to use only organically-raised flowers or wild flowers because we don’t want to use flowers treated with chemical pesticides.

Use the tweezers, or sterilised stainless steel scissors for picking, so as not to contaminate the essence

• Cover the surface of the water with the flowers or petals.
• Leave the water and flowers in the sunshine for three hours (solarising). If you begin in the early morning, while the dew is still on the petals, you may need to ‘solarise’ your water and flowers longer.
• Fill two sterile dosage bottles halfway with brandy.
• With your tweezers, remove the flowers and any debris from the water, or you may also use a leaf from the same plant, or even a cleansed and energised quartz crystal for the removal of the lowers and debris.
• Add this water to the bottles containing the brandy, filling them to the neck, sealing, labelling and dating them.

If you’re making more than one flower essence, wash your hands before proceeding to the next flower. Use unscented soap, as aromatic materials may interfere with the potency of flower essences. You now have what is referred to as a mother tincture.

Potentise your essences by shaking or hitting the bottom of the bottle against the heel of your hand in increments of eight shakes or firm taps.

Directions for use

For everyday use, add two drops of the mother tincture to another dropper bottle filled with equal amounts of spring water and a small amount of brandy.

A good rule of thumb is to mix one 30 ml (3 tablespoons) to two drops potentised flower essence and one teaspoon brandy; or substitute one teaspoon vegetable glycerine for the brandy, if you wish to avoid alcohol altogether, this is essential when treating animals and children under the age of six years.

Energetic infusions

Use your inner wisdom and intuitive guidance. You can send loving, healing, positive energy right into the essence. You can name your flower essence as ‘love’ or ‘tranquillity’, empowering the essence; much like Mararu Emoto does with water crystals.

Positive affirmations and intentions can be spoken aloud when using any flower essence. An affirmation may be placed on the bottle’s label: ‘This essence is empowered with positive, loving, healing energy’.

Administering the flower essence – self-made or purchased

Vigorously shake the dosage bottle vertically, in increments of eight shakes (24 is a good number) to energise the remedy each time before using.

Add six to 12 drops per tall glass of spring water or your bottle of drinking water.

Or

Fill a spray bottle and atomise the air with the appropriate essence.

Flower essences are taken four times a day. In cases of extreme stress, they may be given as often as every half-hour.

In a crisis administer every five to eight minutes, until you see improvement. If there is no visible improvement or symptoms worsen, consult your doctor or holistic practitioner. Using flower essences is not intended to substitute professional medical care but is rather to complement it and aid in self-healing.

This gentle and creative form of energy healing enables you to create something authentically yours; infused with love, light, wisdom.  An essence entirely of your own.