How the Miraculous Power of Flower Essences Helped Heal My Body and Revitalized My Spirit

How the Miraculous Power of Flower Essences Helped Heal My Body and Revitalized My Spirit

By Patricia Rabin

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye”

–Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

I grew up in Buenos Aires, a huge city mostly covered by concrete and filled with very tall buildings. Its urban landscape boasts broad avenues, but the city is also clogged with traffic and noise. Yet, I had the good fortune of having to walk past a beautiful botanical garden on my way to elementary school. Each day, I left early enough to be able to visit the gardens, since the entrance was free, and I attended school only in the afternoons. Sitting and walking many morning hours by the abundant trees and flowers, I vividly remember the moment I first understood flowers to be the crowning achievement of the plant kingdom.

It happened in the spring with huge Jacaranda trees in bloom all around me. As I sat on a bench surrounding by their beauty, it was as if the flowers that fell on my shoulders in the soft breeze were caressing me, encouraging me, and giving me love—and I returned it with gratitude and joy. The more I loved and appreciated them with their glorious explosion of lightly scented purple flowers, the more alive I felt. From that mystical moment, I looked forward to any time I could spend in the garden.

A Journey of Recovery

Years later, while living in Los Angeles, a girlfriend was driving us home after an outing when a drunk driver hit our vehicle. I was 17 years old and the struggling survivor of that terrible car accident. I fractured a hipbone, as well as two fingers and a rib, and suffered a severe blow to the head. After three surgeries to remove pieces of broken glass from my skull, slowly but surely I began to recover.

My journey of recovery became a blueprint for understanding the healing process. That’s when I began using flower essences. The emotional support I received from them was nothing short of miraculous! As if suddenly transported back to the botanical gardens, I was filled with the healing expressions of the flowers. All at once, I understood that their divine creativity is also present on a subtle vibrational level, in which each flower embodies a life-affirming pattern of conscious energy. Flower essences, I learned, provide organized patterns of energy that can help us heal by resonance, offering a higher frequency to align with and to match.

Shining the Light of Awareness

The effect of using flower essences is to catalyze growth in consciousness. They can help us identify qualities within ourselves that need to be awakened, strengthened or tamed. With their assistance, that which is no longer contributing to our growth, can fall away. They enhance our best qualities and allow us to shine the light of awareness on whatever may be blocking the expression of who we really are. In this way, they provide a means for us to develop and expand into our highest potential.

Personally, they never fail to carry me back to the garden of my youth, where I first discovered their ability to help me make a shift in consciousness. There, I had experienced the co-creative relationship that exists between nature and the human spirit.

Big Sur Flower Essences

As I experimented using many lines of flower essences, I noticed the different qualities they supported. I found that desert flowers had different effects than Alaskan flowers, for example. And after spending a summer in Big Sur, California, I discovered that the wildflowers there had special healing qualities that helped me connect more deeply with my spirit and to be more present.

To my delight, I realized that by deeply listening while meditating next to the flowers, I could hear their messages directly with my heart. That summer I learned that my relationship with nature, like any good relationship, requires conscious communication in order to thrive. Flower essences helped me learn to slow down enough to match the rhythm of nature, to really pay attention and listen.

More than two decades ago, I took a course to learn how to make my own essences with the wildflowers of Big Sur. Flower essences offer a system of vibrational remedies by transferring their positive energy patterns into a liquid medium. This is accomplished by placing healthy flowers at the peak of their blossoming cycle into a bowl filled with pure water, which is then left to potentize in the sun. The resulting infusion is filtered, preserved and diluted for an array of internal and external uses.

Using this process, I created a unique line of 28 flower essences and a few blends, which are capable of enhancing consciousness, and releasing different kinds of issues and traumas. I have been using them quite successfully with my clients for many years.

With the help of nature and its many gifts, every day is an opportunity to grow and live more fully in the present. Both the gardens of Buenos Aires and my own healing journey have led me to a path of service in which the joy of giving and sharing is its own reward.

How to Use Flower Essences

First, choose your essences. This may be done intuitively or by reading the descriptions to decide which ones are right for you at any given time. It may also be helpful to work with a flower essence consultant in the selection process.

The standard dosage is four or five drops, four times a day, but individual testing can give a more accurate dosage frequency. The number of times the essences are taken increases their strength or effect, rather than the amount. Flower essences can be added to water, as well as used externally, by blending them with massage oils, lotions, creams, or adding them directly to your bath water. No matter how you use them, the transformation they provide is a gift directly from nature.

Patricia Rabin M.A., specializes in Craniosacral Therapy, Re-Connective Healing and Flower Essence Consultations. You may contact her at patriciarabin@gmail.com for more information.