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. They bring a natural harmony and balance to mind, body & spirit, and help to open channels of spiritual wisdom and transform old blocks in your bodies chakras and subtle energy systems.
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 and vibrational essences are a wonderful tool to help you on your inner journey.
Where to Start When Choosing An Essence
Flower Essences are effective, safe and easy to use. 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?
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 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.
How to Choose a Flower & Vibrational Essence
When you are clear in yourself about what you're needing help with, you can choose some essences to help rationally or intuitively or by a combination of both methods. You can experiment to find out what works best for you.
Choosing an essence rationally... when you know what the issue is that you most need help with, you can explore the essences that work with that issue and see which one resonates with you most. You can use the essence selector on this page or explore our Find an Essence to Help section. Don't forget that we are all intuitive and connected to our inner knowing at some level, so don't be afraid to choose an essence based on a gut feeling, or on the look or feel of the bottle or flower, this could be your instinct or intuition helping you out.
Choosing intuitively... using your intuition / inner knowing, dowsing or muscle testing can all be powerful ways of choosing essences to work 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. Before working in this way always allow yourself a quiet space to focus deeply within yourself and to ask for the help of your Higher Self.
Finding Your Essence... you can find essence recommendations for particular issues in our Find An Essence to Help section or by using the Essence Selector on this page. A good starting place to explore is also our pre-made combinations which cover many or the most common issues that we all need help with: 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.
What Are The Best Flower Essences For...
Feeling Unworthy Grief Protection Anger Grounding Worry Letting Go Trauma Soul Connection Space Clearing Inner KnowingChoosing An Essence: Resources
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.
Need Any Help Choosing an Essence?
If you need any help or advice choosing an Essence, please call us on 01379 608059 or contact us here.
How Many Essences Can I Take At Once?
How many Flower & Vibrational Essences to use at one time is one of the questions we are asked most often and the answer depends on which of our essences you’re taking. When you take a Flower or vibrational essence you're working at an energetic level to bring about deep change and transformation and balance to how you are thinking and feeling and to your bodies subtle energy systems. This can be quite a profound process and so you want to make sure that you are taking the right number of essences to best facilitate that change, but without it feeling overwhelming. You find specific details on the individual essence pages and a general overview here:
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.
Six Top Tips for Choosing An Essence
- Visual Choice: Looking at images of essences (from website, leaflet or cards) can be a great way to choose your essences intuitively.
- 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.
- 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.
- Intuition: If you dowse then simply let yourself be drawn to the most appropriate essence(s) to help with the particular issue that you're working with.
- 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.
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 postpartum – 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.
Frequently Asked Questions on Choosing Essences
Choosing a flower or vibrational essence is a simple process. Here you can find some answers to frequently asked questions about how to choose the right Essence for the issues that you are working with.
F.A.Q.s - Choosing EssencesHow to Use Flower & Vibrational Essences
If you'd like to find out more about how to use your chosen essences, here is our expert guide on how to use flower & vibrational essences and how to make the most out of taking your essence.
Choosing & Using the Bach Flower Remedies
The Bach Flower Remedies are really supportive remedies for helping you to re-balance your thoughts and emotions and for working with how you are thinking and feeling. They help you to bring about positive change in your life and to remind you of your inherent inner peace, balance and equilibrium.
The Bach Remedies are gentle acting remedies that work best on issues at a surface level of awareness - so how you are thinking and feeling in the moment. There are 38 different Bach Remedies and they are very simple and easy to choose & use and are particularly effective when mixed into combinations.
Choosing & Using the Bach Flower Remedies
Getting Help From Crystal Herbs
General advice and information is freely available from us at Crystal Herbs, simply call us and we'd be happy to help. If you would like more in-depth personal help we also offer a consultation service.
Personal Essence Consultation
A Personal Essence Consultation offers the opportunity to get greater clarity and guidance on the issues that you are experiencing together with suggestions for the most appropriate essences to help you with those issues.
Find Out More: What Are Flower, Gem & Crystal Essences and How Can They Help You?
Flower, Gem & Crystal Essences work at an energetic level to help you to re-balance your thoughts, feelings and subtle energy systems and are powerful tools for inner change & transformation. Using Essences can have a profound influence on your inner journey of personal & spiritual growth, and can help you to raise your level of awareness and consciousness.
Crystal Herbs - Flower, Gem & Crystal Essences
Here at Crystal Herbs we have been making and developing our range of Essences for nearly 30 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 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
