Australian Bush Flower Essence
By Adam Rubinstein
Flower essences can normally be made up to create a personalized
combination according to your needs at a particular time.
The essences can be chosen from one or more of the sets
available (Bush, Bach, Bailey, FES, etc). There are however
many ready made combinations which can be helpful in everyday
situations, for example Bach Rescue Remedy (Five Flower
Essence).
In the Australian Bush Essence range there are many ready
made combinations including: Relationship, Travel, Adol,
Cognis, Dynamis, Sexuality, Confid, Transition, Emergency,
Abund, etc.
This is my experience of a combination called Heartsong,
which helps open the heart and throat chakras to enable
one to express oneself fully and deeply.
My father died recently after a short illness. He had had
a full and productive life and had just celebrated his 80th
birthday at a big party with family and friends. Although
I have no experience of public speaking, I was to read a
something at his funeral and had chosen The Farewell from
Mailers Song of the Earth, which I found among his papers.
I practiced reading it, and usually became quite emotional
while doing so, but my reading was impersonal and somehow
unsatisfactory. When I started taking Heartsong Essence,
however, not only did my voice relax and strengthen, but
I also found a new understanding of the poem and was more
attuned to the importance of the inflection of each word
and how that affected the meaning.
As I continued to learn with the help of Headstrong, I
found a place of stillness deep inside from which I could
express this beautiful, lonely poem. In the church, I took
a few drops just before I was to speak. Although it was
an emotional occasion I was able to keep my center and express
myself from this deep place giving the poem a quality that
was personal to me and spoke directly of my relationship
with my father. Many people afterwards said how beautiful
it had been.
Heartsong enables us to give full voice in our self-expression.
Whether through speaking, writing, painting, dancing, or
any other form, it seems to open the gates and allow us
to sing.
