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Bach Flower Remedies and Flower, Gem & Crystal Essences are simple and easy to use

Flower and vibrational essences capture the subtle, life-enhancing energy of flowers, gems, crystals, minerals, or geometric patterns in liquid form. When you take an essence, you are connecting with these natural energies, which gently encourage balance, clarity, and positive transformation. In this way, nature’s own apothecary supports your emotional well-being, nurtures your inner harmony, and supports you on your journey of personal and spiritual growth.

How Do I Use My Essences?

Once you’ve chosen your essences, using them is really simple and easy! There are three main ways of taking a Flower or Vibrational Essence:

• Internally - use orally on or under your tongue.
• Externally - sprayed into your aura.
• Topically - applied to your skin.

Using An Essence Internally: This is usually the most powerful way of using an essence as it goes straight into your bodies subtle energy system. When you use an essence orally, you would normally take your essence 4 drops on or under the tongue directly from the dropper bottle. The number of times you would take your essence a day depends on the type of essence you're using. A good tip is to allow the essence to mix with the saliva in your mouth for a few moments before swallowing. It's usually best to take your essence at least 10 minutes away from food. Tip: to maintain the quality of your essence, make sure that the glass dropper does not touch your tongue or the essence may become contaminated.

Using an Essence Externally: Essences sprayed into the auric field have a more instantaneous impact, but also do not work quite so deeply, as a combination taken orally will. Essences used in your auric field will very quickly help you to re-balance and re-align your energy fields, and for that reason are very good for those sensitive souls who find it difficult to take deep acting combinations of essences internally for any length of time.  If you're using a spray Essence then you can either spray it liberally in your auric field or alternatively any of our spray essences can also be used orally.

Using An Essence Internally: Essences can also be applied topically on your skin. They can be applied to your chakra points, other energy centres, or to your pulse points. You can do this either by dropping 4 drops onto the area if your choice, or you can add the essence to a cream base.

Some Tip For Working With Your Essence:

• Giving yourself time everyday to connect with how you are thinking and feeling is really important.
• Allow whatever old emotions, thoughts and feelings that you carry to come more into your conscious awareness so that they can release and clear through.
• Taking time to breath and centre yourself in your heart is a great way to deepen your connection with yourself and how you are feeling.
• Being very mindful of how you are reacting to the people and situations in your life.

Consciously working with the essences that you are taking in this way is a powerful way to speed up the change you are trying to facilitate.

What Happens When Your Use Your Flower Essences?

What happens when I take my essence?

Each Essence carries a unique energy or vibrational frequency which helps to remind your mind, emotion, body & spirit of it's natural harmony and balance. Essences work with you at an energetic level and on all levels of your being; from balancing core emotions and thought patterns, through to opening up channels of spiritual wisdom and transforming old blocks in your bodies chakras and subtle energy systems.

What to Expect When Taking Your Essences

Flower & Vibrational Essences invite you into deeper connection with yourself, so each time you take your essence, take a few deep breaths and slow down to notice how you’re feeling. When working with an essence, the experience may feel gentle and calm, while at other times it can bring about profound shifts that stir deep emotions. Both are part of the process. Intense feelings are simply a sign that the essence is helping to clear and release deeply buried old patterns, energies, and issues that are ready to be transformed.

How Long Do I Take My Essence For?

Essences work uniquely for each person. Sometimes their effect is immediate, bringing a noticeable shift right away. At other times the changes unfold more gradually, working on subtle levels as old patterns release and layers gently fall away, much like peeling the layers of an onion.

The time it takes an Essence to work can vary considerably depending on how sensitive you are to Essences and on how deeply held the emotional/mental pattern, issue or state is. For example, Revival Remedy works very quickly in the moment to restore calm in stressful or emergency situations so the benefits are usually noticeable quickly. Whereas if you are working on a lifelong pattern - such as deeply held fears - you may find that you need to work with the relevant essences consistently over a period of months before these states really shift.

Generally we recommend taking an essence until the bottle is finished. When you take an essence over a longer period of time, it reaches into different levels and layers of your consciousness, mind, emotions, spirit and energy field for greater balance and transformation.

How Often Should I Take My Essences?

How often essences are taken for depends which essence you’re using and whether it’s for an adult, child or animal.

A typical adult dosage for our essences would be as follows:

• Bach Flower Remedy treatment level combination: 4 drops on the tongue 8 x a day until the bottle is finished.
• Single Essences - Flower Essences, Gem & Crystal Essences, Karmic Essences, Angel Essences, Archangel Essences, Rose Essences, Platonic Solid Essences: 4 drops on the tongue 3-4 x a day until the bottle is finished.
• Combination Essences: Divine Harmony Essences, Chakra Essences, Rose Collection Combinations, Inner Child Essences: 4 drops on the tongue 3-4 x a day until the bottle is finished.
• Combination Sprays: Pure Vibrations Collection. For external use: spray liberally into the auric field 4 x a day. For internal use: 2 sprays on the tongue up to 4 x a day until the bottle is finished for longer-lasting transformation or use ‘as needed’ for ongoing support.
• Rainbow Light Body Essences: 4 drops on the tongue 1-2 x a day until the bottle is finished.

Each essence range has its own guidance for use and you can find specific details on the individual essence pages.

Some Frequently Asked Questions on Using Flower Essences

Can I Take To Much or Overdose. Are There Any Side Effects?

Flower essences work is at a subtle energetic level and don't interact with you at a physical level in the way that pharmaceutical drugs do. The 'active ingredients' in an essence are the natural subtle vibrational frequencies of the flower, gem or crystal used to make the essence. So when you take an essence you can’t overdose in the way that you could with pharmaceutical drugs. However that is not to say that if you take an essence too often you won’t necessarily notice it! Taking too many essences at once, or using deeper-acting essences too frequently, can feel quite uncomfortable. This may temporarily intensify the emotions or issues being released, simply because the clearing process is moving too quickly. In that case, it’s best to reduce how many essences you’re using or how often you take them.

Essences only help to release patterns or issues that you already carry, they will not create an inverse reaction in you. Vibrational essences are basically self-adjusting and if you choose an essence that you do not really need it will simply cancel itself out in your body’s energy system.

Can I Use Flower & Vibrational Essences during Pregnancy, Birth and Post-partum?

Bach Flower Remedies and Flower Essences can be very supportive during pregnancy, birth and post-partum, both for mother and baby. You can find out more here: Flower Essences for Pregnancy, Birth and Post-partum.

Can I Use Flower Essences with Children?

Children respond very quickly to vibrational essences so it is important to choose the most appropriate type of essence when using them with children, particularly babies or very young children. You can find some general guidelines & further suggestions for choosing and using essences with children here: Flower Essences for Children.

Can I Use Flower Essences with Animals?

Many people find that their animals gain great benefit from using essences and the effects are usually noticeable quite quickly. You can find more information on how to use Flower & Vibrational Essences with Animals here: Essences for Animals page.

How Long Will My Essence Last?

• 10ml bottles: there are approximately 200 drops in a 10ml bottle. This equates to about 50 doses ( 4 drops on tongue ) and when used 4 drops 4 x a day will last approximately 12.5 days.
• 25ml bottles: there are approximately 550 drops in a 25ml bottle. This equates to about 136 doses ( 4 drops on tongue ) and when used 4 drops 4 x a day will last approximately 34 days.
• 15ml bottles ( Rainbow Light Body & Inner Child only ): there are approximately 300 drops in a 15ml bottle. This equates to about 75 doses ( 4 drops on tongue ) and when used 4 drops 4 x a day will last approximately 19 days.
• 30ml Spray: there are approximately 230 sprays per 30ml bottle.
• 50ml Spray: there are approximately 385 sprays per 50ml bottle.

How Do I Store My Essences?

It is best to store essences in a cool dark place away from excessive heat such as fires and radiators. Do not place near TV's, microwaves, computer screens, mobile phones, hi-fi speakers or magnets. Looked after in the right way Crystal Herbs essences will last for many years.

Essences & Conventional Medicine

Essences are not intended to replace medical treatment where necessary, however, they can be used in conjunction with, and as a complement to, almost any other form of treatment.

Full F.A.Q. - Using Flower & Vibrational Essences