My Journey with Flower Essences – A 5 Minute Freewrite

I have no doubt that there is magic in flowers.

As a young man (26, which is young depending on where you stand in relation to it), I dated a woman who was a flower essence practitioner, essentially a New Age witch. She prescribed flower essences to me, I suppose as a way to 'work on her man,' as women are wont to do.

(Flower essences are made with flower petals distilled in water and/or alcohol to capture the vibration of the plant. The vibration is then used to treat particular emotional and physical maladies.)

I don't think we had identified a particular emotional malady at the time that my girlfriend prescribed them. It was just meant as a general support.

The first day that I took the essences (as drops), I had a vision. I saw myself as a brilliant pink cloud, with a steady sphere of light in its center. The cloud rotated around the center: the cloud was myself in temporal form, while the center was my eternal, unchanging self.

Of course, it has taken me years to put those words to the vision I saw. And the vision was the beginning of a yearslong healing journey.

But, I'd say flowers are pretty magical, considering I began that journey by taking just a few drops of their essence!

^{Image from Pixabay, by WikiImages}

The photo above of a nebula (the Lagoon Nebula, according the photographer WikiImages) is a fair representation of how I saw myself in my vision. Except that I experienced it from the bright white center, looking out. What I realized, at the time and with developing understanding as the years have passed, is that I am the unchanging, eternal center, while my physical/ego self is the rotating, changeable cloud.

I felt a lot of peace in those moments when I was seeing this – I knew that I was going to be okay, that I was okay. It's a knowledge I needed in the coming weeks and years, as soon after I began recovering memories of childhood sexual abuse, and started on my healing from that trauma.

I still draw on my vision today, when I need to be reminded that all is well, and that I am okay.

Information about Flower Essences

You can read more about flower essences on these websites. I used all three of these essences on my journey. I especially recommend the Australian Bush essences; those help you get to the core of matter really quick!

I think, for my vision, I was taking the Bach essences.

Bach Flower Essences

Australian Bush Flower Essences

Fox Mountain Flower Essences