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Skin
Coach Marjo Horn's advice:
Work on yourself with flower remedies! Change negative
emotions into positive emotions in order to become a balanced
human being. This will not only give you better health
but also your skin will be radiant.
Willow
is for people who feel resentful and bitter about the
way their lives have gone. They begrudge others their
successes and happiness, and are reluctant to admit when
their own lives go well, preferring to concentrate on
what is going wrong. Willow people are grumblers, and
when ill make bad patients because they are never satisfied
with what is done for them.
Willow
can be compared to Holly in that it too is a negative
state directed towards others. But where Holly burns with
hatred and suspicion, Willow smoulders with resentment
and self-pity.
The
remedy is given to encourage the rebirth of optimism and
faith, and to help the person in the negative Willow state
to be more generous in praise of others and also more
aware of how his own negative thinking can attract the
very ill-fortune that he blames on others.
negative:
self pity, resentment,
blame,
make demands, isolated,
never satisfied, blame
their misfortune to others, embittered
positive: appreciate,
enthusiastic,
integrated, self-disciplined,
share, optimism, generous to others
How to use the Bach flower remedies:
Only one remedy can be taken, but if necessary you can
choose to take six to seven remedies. See below for other
remedies.
You can take the remedies in several ways. For the treatment
of a short-term mood or problem the easiest way is to
put two drops of each selected remedy in a glass of water
and sip as required, but at least four times a day, until
relief is obtained. If using Rescue Remedy, put in four
drops instead of two. For the treatment of more chronic
problems you should make up a treatment bottle, as this
is more economical and will make the precious stock remedies
go a bit further. Simply get a 30ml bottle with a dropper
in the lid (try the local pharmacy), and then add two
drops of each selected remedy (four drops of Rescue Remedy)
to the bottle. Top this up with still mineral water and
from this bottle take four drops four times a day. If
you keep them in the fridge, treatment bottles will last
two or three weeks. If you can't keep your bottle in the
fridge but have to keep it in your pocket or handbag then
you can add a teaspoon of brandy to the treatment bottle
- this will help to keep the water from going off. If
you don't want to use brandy, cider vinegar is an alternative,
although it isn't quite so effective.
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Links:
Agrimony
- mental torture behind cheerful face
Aspen
- fear of unknown things
Beech
- intolerance
Centaury
- the inability to say 'no'
Cerato
- lack of trust in one's own decisions
Cherry
Plum - fear of the mind giving way
Chestnut
Bud - failure to learn from mistakes
Chicory
- selfish, possessive love
Clematis
- dreaming of the future without working in the present
Crab
Apple - the cleansing remedy, also for self-hatred
Elm
- overwhelmed by responsibility
Gentian
- discouragement after a setback
Gorse
- hopelessness and despair
Heather
- self-centredness and self-concern
Holly
- hatred, envy and jealousy
Honeysuckle
- living in the past
Hornbeam
- procrastination, tiredness at the thought of doing something
Impatiens
- impatience
Larch
- lack of self confidence
Mimulus
- fear of known things
Mustard
- deep gloom for no reason, dark cloud
Oak
- the plodder who keeps going past the point of exhaustion
Olive
- exhaustion following mental or physical effort
Pine
- guilt feelings most of the time for no reasons
Red
Chestnut - over-concern for the welfare of loved ones
Rock
Rose - terror and fright
Rock
Water - self-denial, rigidity and self-repression
Scleranthus
- inability to choose between alternatives
Star
of Bethlehem - shock - trauma
Sweet
Chestnut - Extreme mental anguish, when everything
has been tried and there is no light left
Vervain
- over-enthusiasm
Vine
- dominance and inflexibility
Walnut
- protection from change and unwanted influences
Water
Violet - pride and aloofness
White
Chestnut - unwanted thoughts and mental arguments
Wild
Oat - uncertainty over one's direction in life
Wild
Rose - drifting, resignation, apathy
Willow
- self-pity and resentment
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