What are Bach Flower Essences?
EDWARD BACH, a physician and successful bacteriologist and homeopath in the early 1930’s, discovered that the expressed oils of certain wildflowers possessed powerful healing properties. Bach left his practice and devoted 6 years to focused experimentation and application development, before his death, at age 50, in 1936. Bach linked disease to Energy Blocks. These disturbed biochemical and neurological pathways within the body misdirected, negated, and complicated an individual’s contact with her/his soul … which he frequently came to refer to as one’s “Higher Self”. Heal Thyself: An explanation of the real cause and cure of disease, a book Bach published in 1931, outlined numerous fundamental health principles which have largely been ignored until recently. These included the negative influence on one’s health of many factors including: • intense and spiritually weak emotional states, • abusive communication patterns, • a diet including meat and animal fats, • lack of self-discipli