In a compelling interview with Christopher Hoyt, presented by MysticMag, the profound benefits of Bach Flower Remedies in promoting a happier and healthier lifestyle are brought to light with remarkable clarity. Hoyt delves into the unique mind/body healing paradigm these remedies offer, highlighting their capacity to alleviate negative, stress-related mental states, thereby activating the body’s inherent healing capabilities.
By targeting the foundational causes of illness through a straightforward, natural approach, Bach Flower Remedies emerge as a holistic pathway to well-being, transcending conventional symptom management.
This introductory overview, unveils an accessible yet deeply effective means to enrich life’s quality, emphasizing the remedies’ significance in gracefully navigating the complexities of contemporary life.
How do Bach Flower Remedies contribute to a happier and healthier lifestyle?
The Bach Flower Remedies are a mind/body healing system that works to reduce certain negative, stressful, health-damaging outlooks in order to prompt our body’s healing systems to become active.
The Bach Flower Remedies address both the physical and the emotional/mental realm and thus are invaluable in terms of our living a happier and healthier life. Therefore, the Bach Flower Remedies can help make us healthier and happier in pretty much every way, and in every facet of life.
They are like the core essential treatment to prime the body for healing, and to bring out our happiest and best in all our endeavors. This is because they address the key underlying cause of disease, and unlike pretty much every other therapy only need to be taken on a short-term basis to do so. And, as a result of treatment, our mood and outlook automatically shift to a happier, more positive and optimistic state of mind—bringing more joy and fulfillment into our lives, while simultaneously activating our body’s innate and all-powerful ability to heal.
They can help with typical day-to-day life difficulties, too, such as helping to eliminate the stress of work, by reducing worrisome thoughts and anxiety that we may be suffering from. They also help bring out our true selves and help us to follow our passions better, by staying true to ourselves in spite of outside pressure or difficulty—which also helps us to enjoy life more, and really feel the joy in day-to-day living. They can even help us improve in areas such as sports (such as by enhancing our discipline and focus), and can definitely help make relationships more fulfilling and rewarding by helping us to communicate openly honestly, and calmly with each other.
Once you’ve learned the system (which is quite easy to do), the Bach Flower Remedies can help with basically any of life’s problems in a simple, safe, and natural way. Simply put, stress and disease are no match for the Bach Flower Remedies! They truly are the perfect tool for bringing out our true and best selves to conquer all of life’s difficulties, and to vastly improve our health in the process! They represent a deeper, previously unknown, insight and approach to treating illness and disease, one that really cuts to the core of the issue and shows that we are ultimately in charge of our own health and well-being.
Can you explain the process of self-healing with Bach Flower Remedies?
Dr. Edward Bach, the individual who came up with the healing systems known as the Bach Flower Remedies, discovered a key insight into health and healing and then found 38 natural and safe flower-based remedies to help us heal, based on that insight.
Dr. Bach discovered, in essence, that whenever the body is sick or ill one or more of 38 specific mental outlooks would automatically come out within us, as a sort of early warning system that something was going wrong in the body. And to counteract that underlying shift in physiology, and its resulting effect on our mood and outlook, he found 38 flower-based remedies that gently and safely brought about the opposite, positive, states of mind that would normally be present when we were in good health.
He found that these healing agents directly influence the underlying physiology in the body—activating our body to heal itself, and as a result, bringing about a positive state of mind in the patient through mind/body interactions. He used it to cure countless diseases and illnesses in his patients, even many said to be “incurable” in his time, and he gave up conventional medicine completely because of the amazing healing results he achieved with his system. It is a way to supercharge health, and speed healing, by bringing all of the body’s healing systems online in order to combat disease and ill health.
So, practically speaking, instead of worrying about any of the physical symptoms of illness, per se, when deciding on a course of treatment (even for injuries that we may suffer), you only have to look at what the person is feeling and experiencing in terms of the 38 Negative “Bach” outlooks and to give the corresponding Bach Flower Remedy to target treatment.
For example, if someone suffered from asthma, and it turned out they were experiencing constant worry for a loved one’s safety, such as their teenage child being killed in a car accident every time they went out for a drive at night, Bach Flower Remedy Red Chestnut would be indicated, and that would be given to combat the asthma in that individual.
However, treatment is always targeted to the individual, not the disease. So a different patient with asthma that was always critical of others, and filled with bitterness towards life, say, would need Bach Flower Remedy Beech (for being critical) and Willow (for being embittered), to activate their body’s innate and all-powerful ability to heal itself. Same disease in a physical sense, but the body is subtly indicating which healing systems need to be activated in order to heal via the resulting mental state of the patient.
So, in essence, it is a mind/body healing system, where the only thing that matters in activating the body to heal and overcome the disease is to look at the individual in terms of the 38 different mental states Dr. Bach identified. In that regard, it is unlike basically every other healing modality, and still cutting edge in its approach to treating disease and improving health, some 90 years after being developed.
How do the 38 thought patterns identified by Dr. Bach Relate to our health and well-being?
Each of the negative 38 Bach states of mind—if cultivated in the mind of the individual, say from habit or upbringing—will eventually lead to disease in the body, as those states of mind impair healing and the maintenance functions of the body, by the corresponding knock-on effects in the body, physiologically-speaking.
These states of mind also, as mentioned, come about when we are ill, and thus we experience them through no real fault of our own, simply as a result of what is going on in our body. Our body can constantly get thrown out of whack/ill through exposure to unhealthy foods, chemicals, life stress, etc. And so our moods can sour and become negative despite our best intentions since these negative states of mind come about automatically and invariably when our body is not in optimal health.
It is a two-way street when it comes to mind/body health.
So, the Bach Flower Remedies are invaluable for addressing the underlying true cause of disease and illness in the body. They can be used to activate the all-powerful physiological healing systems in the body to both overcome existing diseases and to help counteract all the ongoing detrimental effects of daily living. They prompt the body to automatically bring about good health in the individual, and so are the key to healing, in a broader sense. And since they set the stage for healing, they, therefore, allow other modalities to work far more effectively, too, since the body will be better able to take advantage of them to fully heal—things like herbs, exercise, and even conventional medicines, too.
And, on a subjective level, they are invaluable for our mental and emotional well-being by bringing about all the positive states of mind that make life worth living—things like joy, a sense of purpose, kindness, understanding, and love for others.
They make life more enjoyable by bringing out the best that we have inside, our true natures if you will, and helping make life the magical and wonderful experience it always should be. Happiness and joy and all the positive states of mind the Bach Remedies help bring out in us are the true keys to health, so never be afraid to let yourself experience these positive emotions, as they are good for us!
In what ways do Bach Flower Remedies help in eliminating negative emotions and stress?
Dr. Bach’s system is basically comprised of two parts: the deeper insight into the ultimate cause of disease (the presence of the 38 negative mental states he identified), and 38 Remedies you can take to help quickly shift you from the negative, health-damaging, states of mind to their opposite positive states of mind.
So, in that way, you simply need to match up whatever negative, stressful, states of mind you are currently experiencing to the corresponding Remedy or Remedies that will help to eliminate them.
Each person is unique, and made up of their own combination of positive and negative-Bach mental states, of course. It’s sort of like just how a relatively small number of elements make up all the substances in the universe; these different positive and negative states of mind make up how we feel and view the world. So we always target treatment to the individual, and to specifically what they are feeling and experiencing in their lives on an individual basis. But you only need the 38 Remedies to do that, no matter what feelings that person is currently experiencing, or how complex it may at first appear.
Some people may suffer from fear, others from uncertainty, others from despondency, and so forth. But whatever stressful feelings you have can be eliminated dramatically faster by taking the corresponding Bach Flower Remedies than by trying to change your mood/outlook through sheer force of will alone. It’s like self-help in a bottle, as I like to say…they automatically do most of the hard work for you, by shifting the underlying physiology to the positive state that will bring these positive states of mind about on its own, and in a lasting way.
In order to use this system, just identify your particular anxiety or stress, and take the corresponding Bach Remedy or Remedies until you feel like that mental state is no longer an issue for you. Then you can stop treatment. It’s as simple as that! And they truly work, and on the deepest of levels!
How can individuals start incorporating Bach Flower Remedies into their daily lives for improved health?
The first thing to do is to become familiar with the 38 Bach mental states so that you will know which corresponding Bach Flower Remedies to take to help improve your health and quality of life. My book (Heal Yourself!) is a great resource, as it is focused on the often forgotten healing aspect of the Bach Remedies, but the information about the specific remedies is also easily findable online, on sites like the Bach Centre’s website.
Then just pick up the corresponding Bach Remedies that you feel would most help with what is going on in your life at the present moment, and take them. The key in this system is to reassess what you are feeling every so often, as you always want to be taking the Bach Flower Remedies that correspond to what you are feeling NOW, as that is your body’s way of indicating what it needs in order to become healthy and at its best.
So, if the first ones you tried worked great, the temptation is often to just stick with them. But the best way to actually keep improving your health is to switch to working on whatever states of mind are most prevalent within you at the present time. That could be the same ones as before or different ones, but you always have to match which remedies you are taking to what you are feeling now, to have the most success with this system. The frequency of taking them is key, too: you will have more success by taking a few drops a few times a day—especially when you are acutely feeling the mood they are designed to treat—than by taking one big dose instead.
But, like any treatment, be sure to take them long enough to give them time to work and address the problem. Longstanding problems/mental states will typically take longer to treat than short-term passing moods, of course, so really stick with it and give it a shot and you will be surprised with the results! Just like how two plus two is four, addressing these negative states of mind will improve your health. It’s the way our bodies work!
Simplicity is key with this system. Don’t overthink it. Dr. Bach repeatedly emphasized that you should just take the Bach Remedies for what you are feeling now, and that way you will be giving your body exactly what it needs to begin healing itself from whatever physical condition you happen to have.
Dr. Bach always emphasized that this is a 100% safe and effective system for both personal growth and to help activate healing. And, personally speaking, I couldn’t imagine a life without them! They have helped me immensely throughout the years!
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