Relieving Holiday Stress & Feeling Joy with Bach Flower Remedies.
The holiday season should be a joyous time, right? Feelings of love and gratitude overflowing while spending time with family and friends. Sounds wonderful, but for many people the holiday season can be a stressful time. The holiday season can bring up painful memories, exacerbate grief, and cause additional stress on top of our already full and fast paced lives. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
How Bach Flower Remedies Can Help Relief Stress.
For longer than anyone can say, humans have used the healing powers of plants to bring our bodies back into balance. In the 1930s, the English physician Dr. Edward Bach helped to bring that ancient practice back to the forefront of modern society with his flower remedies. Using 38 different wild flowers and plants he developed unique herbal infusions to assist our bodies and minds in returning to a state of balance. And that goes for stress as well.
When we become stressed, overworked, run down, frazzled, pushed to our breaking points, we often don’t know where to turn as the feelings can become beyond overwhelming. Add on the pressure of the holiday season and it can all seem too much to bear. But by using the gentle, healing infusion of Bach Flower Remedies we have the chance to bring our bodies and our nervous systems back into alignment and back to a state of calm, even among the hustle and bustle of the holidays.
How Bach Flower Remedies Work.
Bach Flower Remedies are a very gentle form of therapy that can be used as an alternative or complimentary treatment. The different flowers are distilled in water, either by exposing the flowers in water to sunlight or boiling them for a time, before straining the flowers and diluting the water with an alcohol base. The tincture is then consumed either by taking drops throughout the day or by adding tincture drops to your water and drinking them throughout the day. The energy and vibration of the flower is subtly absorbed into your body, helping to bring you back to a more balanced, joyful state.
Which Bach Flower Remedy Is Best For Stress?
Dr. Bach believed that negative thoughts and emotions influenced our overall health and wellbeing, which we now know to be true. What affects the mind, affects the body. Dr. Bach developed seven major psychological causes of illness based on emotions: fear, uncertainty, lack of interest in present circumstance, loneliness, oversensitivity to influences and ideas, sadness or despair, over care for the welfare of others. While not one of these groups flat out says Stress, these different underlying main roots often play out in our day to day lives as stress, or manifest in a way that we can only define as stress. Working with a Bach Flower practitioner is the best way to explore the different areas in your life that are causing you stress, anxiety, depression, or whichever aliment you are experiencing, whether during the holiday season or year round. Once you’ve begun to identify the feelings that you are experiencing and have explored the different Bach Remedies that are available, you can come up with your own unique blend to help restore you mind, body, and spirit back to a place of balance, all year round.