How to Choose Flower Essences for Yourself
Choosing the right flower & vibrational essences is simple and easy and can bring about deep change and transformation.
Flower, Gem & Crystal Essences help with a wide range of emotional, psychological and energetic issues. From bringing balance to your everyday thoughts and feelings, to working with any core emotions and beliefs that are holding you back. So whether you're looking for help with feeling unworthy, afraid or ungrounded, or need to feel more connected to your heart and unconditional love, or need to deepen your soul connection, flower, gem & crystal essences are a wonderful tool to help you on your inner journey.
Where to Start When Choosing An Essence
The best place to start with choosing a flower, gem & crystal essence is to go within and focus on what it is that you feel you most need help with. Remember you're simply looking for an Essence that will help you bring greater balance to how you're thinking and feeling right now. Choosing the right essences to help you is often simply a process of self-reflection and observation. Here are a few things to consider:
- What is going on for me?
- How am I thinking and feeling?
- What emotions do I need help with?
- Where are the energetic blocks within me?
- What qualities do I want to strengthen to help me move forward in life?
- What are the issues within me that are stopping me from fulfilling my potential?
The best place to start with choosing a flower essence is to go within and focus on what it is that you feel you most need help with
Sometimes you'll know instinctively what it is that is going on for you and what you most need help with right now. At other times it may feel less clear or more complicated to know where to start, and this is when you may need to take a little extra time to to connect more deeply within and let yourself feel into the emotions, beliefs and thought patterns that you most need help with.
Be very open and honest with yourself and allow yourself to feel whatever there is there to feel. You might find this easiest in quiet contemplation or meditation, or by writing your thoughts and feelings down, by being out in nature or by discussing it with a friend or therapist.
The more conscious you are of what is going on for you, the more conscious you become of your journey of self discovery and healing and this can be very profound and life changing.
Need Any Help? We offer two flower essence consultation options to help you find the flower essences that are right for you. Each consultation provides the time and space to explore the issues you're facing, uncover underlying patterns, and identify the essences that can best support your healing and growth. Book a Flower Essence Consultation
Choosing Your Flower Essences
When you're clear in yourself what you're needing help with, you can choose some essences rationally or intuitively or by a combination of both methods. There is no right or wrong way to choose your essences, so flow with what feels right to you. Here are some good places to start with finding the right essence to help you with what you're working with:
- Find An Essence to Help section or you can use our 'Essence Selector' below. Or
- You can also explore by Essence range: Divine Harmony Essence, Chakra Essences and Inner Child Essences. The Pure Vibrations Essence Sprays, Bach Flower Remedies and Karmic Essences are all easy places to start too.
Resources for Choosing An Essence
Deeper Acting Essence Selector
The deeper acting Essences have the ability to work with our most deeply held pattern, helping you to release them layer by layer until you get to the root of the issue.
Bach Flower Remedy Selector
The Bach Flower Remedies help you with how you are thinking and feeling in the moment and can help you to achieve greater balance & harmony in your daily life. More on Choosing Bach Flower Remedies.
Six Tips for Choosing An Essence
- Quiet Space to Focus: Sit quietly and connect with how you’re feeling about what’s going on in your life, and see if there are any particular themes, patterns or issues that you can identify. Once you’ve identified the main area you want to focus on (e.g. abundance, feeling safe, creativity), you can choose the appropriate essence to help.
- Intuition: use your inner knowing, or dowse, to let yourself be drawn to the most appropriate essence(s) to help with the particular issue that you're working with or to check a selection that you have made rationally. Working in this way helps to take your mind out of the selection process and can often help you to pick an essence that you really need rather than an essence that your mind thinks you need.
- What Quality Do I Need? You may find it helpful to ask yourself ‘which quality do I most need for balance?’ and see which answers come into your awareness.
- Body Wisdom: Tune into your body. Are there any areas where you are feeling tension, pain, strong sensations or a lack of energy? Listening to your body can be a wonderful way to get in touch with the underlying emotions and beliefs that can be transformed by taking essences.
- Visual Choice: Looking at images of essences (from website, leaflet or cards) can be a great way to choose your essences intuitively.
- Where's Your Focus? Think about your main focus for taking essences at this time, and then use the descriptions in the relevant section on our website to narrow down your choice.
Help & Advice: we love talking to people about essences and we are always happy to offer essence advice to anyone who needs it. If you're not sure which of our essences would most help you, and your query is relatively simple and can be discussed in around ten minutes or so, we will do our best to help when you phone up. We do not charge for this kind of advice – it is always free! Contact Us For more indepth help, you can book one of our Flower Essence Consultations.
Tip for using Essences: you can use flower essences as and when you feel you need them for acute situations, but really you get the most benefit when you use them over a longer period of time for deep-seated emotional and mental change and transformation.
F.A.Q.s - Choosing EssencesHow Many Essences Can I Take At Once?
How many Essences to use at one time depends on which of our essences you’re taking. Taking flower & crystal essences can be a profound process and so you want to make sure that you are taking the right number of essences to best facilitate change, but without it feeling overwhelming. You find specific details on the individual essence pages and a general overview here:
How Many Essences Can I Take One Time
What to Expect When You Take a Flower Essence?
When you take a flower, gem & crystal essences, sometimes you'll find that it will have an immediate effect and you'll feel a shift almost straight away. At other times the process can feel more like a journey that unfolds over a longer period of time as the old patterns and layers are peeled away, rather like the layers of an onion. The time it takes an Essence to work can vary considerably depending on how sensitive you are to Essences and on how deeply held the pattern, issue or state is.
Children, Pregnancy & Animals
Choosing Essences for Children
Children respond very quickly to vibrational essences so it is important to choose the most appropriate type of essence when using them with children, particularly babies or very young children.
Choosing Essences for Pregnancy & Birth
Flower essences can be very supportive during pregnancy, birth and post-partum – both for mother and baby. You can find out more about choosing the right essences here.
Choosing Essences for Animals
Many people find that their animals gain great benefit from using essences and the effects are usually noticeable quite quickly. You can find out more about choosing the right essences here.
Crystal Herbs - Flower, Gem & Crystal Essences
Here at Crystal Herbs we have been hand making and developing our range of flower, gem & crystal essences for over 35 years. Crystal Herbs is run by Catherine Keattch and Sam Cremnitz, along with a dedicated team who are all trained practitioners and healers in their own right. We are a specialist Flower Essence producer and we're passionate about all aspects of Flower & Vibrational Essences.
You can find our full range of Essences in the Flower Essence Shop, or an overview of the different essences we make here and you can find out more about us here: Crystal Herbs
