"Be yourself: no one can ever say you are doing it wrong."--Elizabeth Wiley, BFRP

Teapot and Shamrocks

The title of this article is a quote from my first, and most beloved, teacher of the Original Bach Flower Remedies system of healing. 

The year was 2000. Listening to her gentle opening of her understanding of the Flowers to us was like sitting outside on a perfect summer day to me, even though there was quite a number of us in a class room in Pennsylvania.

Her gentleness was  part of who she was and she was doing herself perfectly.

She was a living hologram of balance and serenity, with many many singing flowers enlivening her soul.  She was what told me, by the way she spoke and moved, who and what the flowers are and what they do.

Bach Centre, Mount Vernon, England

"They bring us back to being Quite Ourselves again" to use a phrase of Dr. Bach's.

Grandmother reading story

Any one of her students (myself for an example) will never look like Elizabeth Wiley, however, if you would see and meet me. The Flowers have their singing working  in my soul, but it is My Soul they sing in, MY Soul that they create the harmonies and melody in. Without a doubt, I become again under the influence of my better self as I take my particular combination of Flowers four drops at a time or a few sips at a time (depending the method I am using). But, I always come back to being Me.  The Flowers never get Me wrong.


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Happy picture of SNAIL, BUTTERFLY, FLOWER and HOUSE of happy grand daughter who is quite herself and the picture shows how sweet that Self  is

Granddaughter #5 was given Rescue Remedy  (cream and/or dilute form) if she would tumble or be bruised or frightened from her "toddling",  as toddlers have the habit of doing (falling, bruising, being startled and afraid).   Mommy would bring her Rescue Remedy, to sip(diluted) or apply as cream to the "oouwie". She always recovered quickly and got up and toddled on her way after her mother's ministrations. What became interesting to her mother and myself was that, through her tears and weeping,  she started on her own, to ask Mommy "I need my Remedy" and of course, she would get the Remedy, and quickly Become  Herself Quite again.  

Like that sweet grand daughter who wanted to get back to her toddling fearlessly and happily and freely, we all also want to be ourselves, our best selves, our happy selves, our courageous selves, our serene and hopeful selves. 

And again and again, whether it is Rescue Remedy or one's own special combinations, the  Bach Flower Remedies escort us back. To where we can never be wrong. Back to ourselves.


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