Chakras & Bach Flower Essences for Uncertainty

Chakras are the principle components of the human energy system. I see them as the Divine Life Force itself viewed as a prism. Because chakras are energetic, energetic treatment modalities are ideal.

For the next week or so, I’ll write about the chakra system, and the remarkable work known as The Bach Flower Remedies. Here’s an intro:

Dr. Edward Bach is the homeopath & M.D. who created the Bach Flower Essences. There are 38 in his set. Lots of other companies make flower essences, and you can even make your own, but the only ones I am familiar with and use are the Bach Flower Essences. Again, how and where they are manufactured matters. Caveat emptor.

Dr. Bach divided those 38 into seven groups. Did he mean them to be the chakras? No one knows. However, Anna Jeoffroy and Philip Salmon, authors of the only book I’ve found on Bach Flower Essences and the chakras, seem to think he did.

Dr. Bach wrote, “Disease of the body itself is nothing but the result of the disharmony between soul and mind. Remove the disharmony, and we regain harmony between soul and mind, and the body is once more perfect in all its parts.”

He called the remedies in each emotional grouping: The Helpers. Here is the list of the remedies which go with the Third Yellow Solar Chakra group; they address Uncertainty.

Cerato: Helps you trust your own judgment in decision-making.

Gentian: Helps when you get discouraged and depressed when things go wrong or when you are faced with even small delays or difficulties.

Gorse: Helps when you feel great hopelessness, and have given up belief that more can be done.

Hornbeam: Helps when you feel that you do not have a sufficient amount of strength mentally or physically to carry the burden that life has placed on you.

Scleranthus: Helps when you have a hard time choosing between two things, such as Mexican or Chinese food, you simply cannot decide which restaurant to go to.

Wild Oat: Helps when you are at a crossroad in life and are uncertain as to which direction to choose.

If you’re human — and I’m assuming that if you’re reading this, you are — we all have occasions where the world becomes just too much and can cause us to visit uncertainty. Keyword: visit. Don’t buy a house. Don’t sign a lease. Dowse for a remedy, and find something beautiful to look at, listen to, touch, taste, or smell. The uncertainty will lift.

How do I know? Been there, done that.