It is not easy to choose treatment for yourself, because humans are complex and it is often difficult to see yourself as you really are. However, it is helpful if you are to see the issues that require treatment and to understand how you need to be different. It may be easy to see surface symptoms, but harder to gain awareness of the underlying causes.
Choosing an Issure for Self-Treatment
Some lovers of essences never attempt to choose flower for themselves, preferring to seek the advice of a fellow essence practitioner, and to do the same for them in return. However, making a commitment to treating yourself can provide a unique opportunity for personal growth, self-love and realization.
Put aside the time to just "be" with yourself, perhaps through meditation or prayer.
Take time to step back and pay more attention to the ups and downs of daily life. If things could be changed to make life better, what would they be?
Pose yourself the same questions you would ask a client as a useful exercise in self-treatment.
Choose a single issue to work on rather than several. Select something that, if changed, would prove supportive to your life and in which improvements would be easily discernible.
Time to Change
Be ready for change, as often people say they are when they are not. True change may invoke pain and it could be that you unconsciously avoid it. Remember that essences give support and bring comfort during difficult moments. Read widely, aim ot gain as much understanding about flower as possible, and see if any seem to be a match for any specific issue. At first, you may think that all are needed since they represent the "human condition" and appear so familiar. Flower essences from a "language" by which you can understand others and yourself better. Perhaps the subtleties and nuances of feelings have never before been so discerned, and can provide the fine shading which is essential to real self-knowledge.
The Twilight Zone
Many people have lost touch with their feelings and repress them into the unconscious, which is ultimately destruction to wellbeing. However , in the morning, just before you get up and click into the "daily face"-in that moment between waking and sleeping something known as the twilight zone-your true-feeling state can be revealed. Pay attention to this and note down what those feeling are as this is invaluable insight into the most effectiveand healing choice of flower essence.
Dreams as an Insight to Self-Treatment
These same feelings can be expressed during sleep, in dreams. It is helpful to write these down upon waking, before the memory slips away. A consistent theme may repeat itself, which could suggest helpful essences to address some deep issue in need of healing.
Ways to Choose Essences
With all this information in mind, finally make a selection of possible essences. If it appears there are too many, use some of the suggested intuitive processes, such as dowsing, pictures, or feeling the essences' energy, to narrow the selection down. Experiment with these different approaches and see if you get consistent results. At this point, talk to a friend and ask how they see you. Do the chosen remedies match their comments?
A Flower Essence Diary
Be prepared to take successive bottles of essences, reviewing the combination after the end of each treatment. A diary can, over a period of time, provide useful insights into how the therapy is affecting you, insights which, if not noted down, may then be forgotten. You are the best laboratory through which to experience and understand flower essences, which is essential if you are planning to help others.
Using Affirmation With Flower Essences for Self-Treatment
Be positive at all times: positive thinking attracts positive experiences and strengthens the immune system.
Many producers suggest repeating a positive affirmation each time a flower essence is ingested, enhancing the healing energy taken into the system and supporting change. This is a valuable self-help mechanism, as flower essences can assist in the positive reprogramming of negativity in the mind and emotions. Conscious co-operation improves the effectiveness of this process, since you are reminded, four times a day, to reprogram the mind. Select affirmations that relate to the essences in the bottle or choose something general such as, "May all changes be for my highest good," or "I love and approve of myself."
The most receptive time to implant positive affirmations is 30 minutes before sleeping, since that is when the grain is at its most suggestive and also when the lat daily dose of flower essences is take, so never forget this opportunity. Writing affirmations out by hand is particularly helpful because in this way the critical mind can be bypassed and the positive suggestions go straight into the subconscious mind where, bit by bit, reprogramming can progress. Dreaming goes on to integrate these new patterns and clear out the old. Ten minutes of written suggestions of the right kind, before sleep, will provide positive and consistent reinforcement where it is needed.
The subconscious mind cannot distinguish between fact and fiction. It is simply programmed to perform in a certain way, keeping the individual confined within the limits of that paradigm. This is why is may feel so scary to change-since most of this programming was done during childhood, you are operating from some simple and outdated software.
