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Sweet Chestnut from the Bach Flower Remedies
The beautiful flowers of the Sweet Chestnut tree were used by Edward Bach to make a remedy for “those moments which happen to some people when the anguish is so great as to seem to be unbearable”.
The Sweet Chestnut state is not an easy one to go through. It’s often called the dark night of the soul, when you feel like you’ve reached the limits of your endurance and are at the end of the road. In this extreme state you might feel an absolute and utter despair or hopelessness – a state of desolation in which you feel isolated from the rest of mankind. Sweet Chestnut’s gift is its ability to restore your connection to your Soul’s light and love and bring back the light and joy to life, dissolving the darkness. So it’s a very supportive flower essence to use to help you to rise from the ashes after dark times and to feel connected to love and your own inner light again.
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Flower Essences: Helping You to Make Friends With Fear
If you’re finding things are quite full on at the moment, take heart, you are definitely not alone. The recent energetics and events have been fast moving and filled with rich opportunities to open up your inner journey to deeper pathways of exploration. This process is certainly not without its challenges though and can temporarily leave you feeling a little distracted and off centre, until you find a new level of balance again. So we thought that we would highlight one of the strongest themes that we have seen coming up for people recently - that of fear - and offer some essence suggestions that are specific to help you work with that somewhat challenging thread of energy.
Astrological Essence for the Month
Towards the end of his life, Dr Bach was exploring the link between the first 12 Bach Flower Remedies he discovered (The Twelve Healers) and the 12 astrological signs.
Clematis Flower Remedy for Cancerians
We are in Cancer season, the astrological sign that Dr Bach felt would most benefit from Clematis Flower Remedy.
Nurturing, sensitive and intuitive, Cancerians are highly attuned to the emotional realm and feel everything very deeply. Creative dreamers with vivid imaginations, it’s all too easy for them to drift off into daydreams or fantasies about the future as a way of avoiding the realities of life.
If your astrological sun or moon sign are in Cancer, Clematis will be a great choice to ground your energy so that you can feel more part of the world.
Transform your dreams into reality
Do you get ‘ungrounded’, think about the future a lot, or have your head in the clouds? Is it difficult for you to focus and concentrate because you drift off in your imagination? Do you tend to leave your body and escape into a fantasy world when you find it hard to cope with reality?
The soul journey for Cancer is to become fully present in the moment so that you can bring your spiritual gifts from the intuitive, imaginal realm into manifestation in the here and now.
Abundance and Inner Flow
The Open to Receive Essence
Open to Receive Essence helps to help clear away old beliefs and emotions that block abundance in all forms, so it’s a great choice if you feel fearful about not having enough or have difficulty receiving. It’s a very supportive Essence if you feel an underlying sense of lack in your life, or if life is bringing up issues about abundance. An inner sense of abundance comes from knowing that there is a plentiful supply of life’s riches available to us, being able to receive them fully, appreciate them whole-heartedly, and share them generously.
From the consciousness of the heart we remember that giving and receiving are one and the same, so as we feel more abundant in ourselves we become a source of abundance for others. Open to Receive Essence gently dissolves distorted beliefs, stories, patterns and emotional imprints about abundance so that new pathways to abundance can blossom instead.
Open to Receive Essence‘The huge collective belief pattern that there is ‘not enough’ is at the root of many problems in our world today, most obviously the vast imbalance in how we share planetary resources. ’
Tips for Consciously Working With Essences…
4 Tips for stepping more into your heart
How easy do you find it to slow down, relax and switch off at the moment? If the answer to that question is not very easy at all, then you are in good company. The Inner Harmony Essence helps to promote a state of inner relaxation in which new perspectives become possible as the consciousness of the mind and that of the heart come into greater balance.
Tips for working consciously and purposefully with the Inner Harmony Essence....
- As you take the essence pay attention to anything that comes into your awareness as it begins to unlock the old energies that have become stuck in your body, mind & emotions. Be willing to explore any old ‘stories’ that might present themselves. For instance, an inherited reason for needing to keep busy, or an unconscious thread of anxiety that winds you up without apparent reason.
- Consciously take time out for yourself to slow down and allow things to unwind within. Notice anything that particularly triggers you to start feeling wound up and frazzled again. Make sensible choices about how much you engage with social media, TV or the news.
- Try to organise your daily routine so that you have some time to just breath, meditate or go for a walk in nature.
- Ground yourself well and often so that you can more easily release old stale energies and bring in new life enhancing ones instead.
The White Chestnut Remedy & Flowers
We're absolutely loving the amazing flower display on the Horse Chestnut trees this year! Everywhere we go at the moment these majestic trees are in full bloom and are looking really stunning.
"We must gain our freedom absolutely and completely, so that all we do, our every action – nay even our every thought – derives its origin in ourselves, thus enabling us to live and give freely of our own accord, and of our own accord alone."
This is a lovely quote from Dr Edward Bach, recognising that our inner freedom comes when we are genuinely being true to who we really are. True to our own inner voice and intuition, a true reflection of our own inner thoughts, feelings and emotions. When we’re truly ourselves, we shape our lives according to our own inner selves and connections, from the space of our hearts.
Staying Balanced in a Changing World: E-Light May 2025
In this month’s E-Light we explore the invitation for us to step deeper into the transformational energies of awakening that are being presented to us in the current cosmic energy flow. We also explore the importance of loving our shadow selves and allowing any fragmented aspects of personality to reintegrate so that we have a solid foundation that we can rely upon to help us stay balanced, awake and aware in a fast-changing world.
Keeping Your Balance in a Changing World
I am sure that you have noticed that the roller coaster ride of change and transformation has gone up a few degrees in intensity over the last few months and while this can sometimes feel challenging to move through it is also very exciting and full of potential for the future.
The cosmic energy flow for May is inviting us all to step deeper into this new phase of change as it brings forward more opportunities for us to align with the expansive energies of awakening. We are now entering a time of cosmic reset where over the next few months many of the planets in our solar system will be moving into new positions in the sky as seen from our vantage point on Earth. One by one they are opening new doorways of opportunity and inviting us to step out of the old and....... [...]
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Coming to terms with the pain of bereavement, separation, sadness and loss, is something that we all have to do at times in our lives. Snowdrop flower essence is one of our favourite essences for helping you through this process. The beautiful vibrations of the snowdrop flowers helps to defrost the pain of loss so you can allow the natural process of grieving to take place. It helps you to restore joy and optimism so you can move forward with greater peace, able to re-engage with life with a renewed sense hope and joy for the future. This is a lovely single flower essence to use and it is also one of the essences in the Healing Bereavement combination.
Snowdrop Flower EssenceSupporting & Initiating Change
The Restoring Patience Essence
The Restoring Patience Essence helps you to work with deep-rooted patterns of impatience, frustration and irritability or a tendency to ‘blow a fuse’ at the slightest irritation. The essences in this combination will help you to dissolve the often uncomfortable vibrations of impatience, frustration & irritability, encouraging a greater inner stillness and the ability to be patiently and calmly in the now. Impatience and frustration are very common emotions in our often fast moving world. It can be easy to forget that there is a place and time for everything when we follow the promptings of our own inner voice, rather than the demands of our personality. The energy of impatience can keep us from being fully in the moment and often acts as a defence against having to be still and face our inner emotional world.
Restoring Patience Essence‘Patience is a quality that you can most easily find in the stillness of your inner connection, where the knowing of the heart helps you to step into the natural flow of life and the people around you.’
‘Being present with yourself takes practice and a degree of mindfulness, but it is very powerful. Simply being present with what is, can make space for previously unseen opportunities to appear, rather like a doorway appearing that we had no idea was there.’
The Being Present Essences is a very helpful combination for staying fully present and focused in the now. It's a really good choice if you find yourself easily ‘spaced out’, ungrounded or if you drift off into a dream world of ‘what ifs’, making it difficult to stay present and focused. It's also a good choice if you find it difficult to start or complete jobs or projects.
Flower Essences are Catalysts for Change
Embracing & Making Change - what is your relationship with change like? It can be an interesting question because at various times in our lives, we’ll all experience moments when we feel a deep inner need for change. A sense of feeling stuck and that our inner journey has arrived at a fork in the road, an intuitive knowing that something needs to change so that we can move forward in life. A feeling that we need to be able to look at life from a different perspective. Change is not always easy, but Flower Essences are really good catalysts for helping you to make those changes. Find out more about change and flower essences in our new blog post.
The Life of Nora Weeks - the story of the lady behind the Bach Flower Remedies
Over on our dedicated Bach Flower Remedy website you can find the story of the lady behind the Bach Flower Remedies....
....This is a story about Nora Weeks, the lady behind the Bach Flower Remedies. Her story is integral to the story of Dr Edward Bach and the Bach Remedies, and it is a story of quiet tenacity and dedication. Without Nora Weeks’ determination to preserve her friend and colleague’s work, it is doubtful that the Bach Flower Remedies and the understandings of Edward Bach would have flourished in the way that they have. Discover more about Nora and how she took Bach’s legacy out into the world.
What Flower Essences Are We Taking?
We love using our Flower, Gem & Crystal Essences! Here we share some of our personal experiences of using a particular Essence or Combination and how it has helped us.
This month Sam shares his experiences of taking the Emotional Body Essence....
Emotional Body Essence
Is anyone else feeling the emotional ebbs and flows at the moment? I’ve been feeling a strong inner push to work on what feels like a rich seam of old buried emotions and it’s bringing with it a new and deeper understanding of myself.
It feels really liberating, it’s fun ( sort of ), rewarding and interesting, but equally quite intense and hard work. Well I suppose that seems to be the way things are at the moment energetically!
To support this inner journey, I’ve been taking the Emotional Body Essence. It’s a Flower, Gem & Crystal essence combination from the Rainbow Light Body Essence range, and as the name suggests it’s all about working with your emotions.
I always find this a really potent combination for doing deep emotional work and releasing old deeply held feelings. Often when I’m taking it I find I’m able to connect more deeply with issues that I’m consciously working with, and at other times there can be some quite unexpected things that come up to be released.
It’s a really, really interesting essence to use and if there is deep emotional work to be done, this is a very good Essence to support you through it. It’s one that I find I need to take from time to time and one that I will often recommend when working with people needing to clear and release old emotional patterns.
Sam Cremnitz
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Creating Inner Harmony & Balance With a Bach Flower Remedy Set
We love the Bach Flower Remedies! A set Bach Flower Remedies makes a wonderful resource for yourself, family & friends or as part of a professional practice.
Our 10ml Bach Flower Remedy set contains all 38 Bach Remedies along with two bottles of Revival Remedy combination, each handmade with love and care according to the original instructions of Dr Edward Bach. The set comes in a beautiful natural Linden wood box with a hinged lid. The Bach Flower Remedies are a set of flower essences that were created by Dr. Edward Bach in the 1930's. They are very simple, natural, and effective remedies for working with the everyday thoughts, feelings and emotions that we all experience in our daily lives. The gentle, subtle energies of nature in the 38 remedies help you to develop a deeper inner peace, well-being and equilibrium in your mind, body & spirit.
Bach Flower Remedy Sets- Learn more about the Bach Flower Remedies here
Hemimorphite Crystal Essence: Updated Definition
Our Hemimorphite crystal essence is a really interesting and very useful crystal essence. It has an uplifting, harmonising, balancing energy that helps to promote understanding of how to use the unlimited creativity of yourself as spirit within the limitations of physical life. This is the essence to use when you feel stuck or frustrated because you cannot seem to manifest all that you know is possible. We've just updated the definition for this essence, and have really enjoyed re-connecting with it's energies. You can find out more here:
Art is like flower essences because both are transmissions of energy. Like an essence, art works on the energetic layer and shifts and transforms the consciousness of the person who’s perceiving it....
...And whether it’s art or essences, the more sensitive you are, the more you will be aware of how this energetic transmission is impacting you. Soul artist and vibrational healer Beki Crowell has spent her life exploring how the beautiful vibrations of nature dissolve patterns of disconnection and she is sharing her story, her wisdom, and a process for you to receive a transmission of Beauty for your heart and your soul.
The other day RHS posted on Threads asking people to name plants that don’t have the letter ‘a’ in their name. I’m really not sure why, but it set our minds going here thinking about the Bach Flower Remedies which don’t use the letter ‘a’. Well, it turns out that 17 of the 38 Bach Remedies have no ‘a’ in their name. If you were wondering which ones they are, to save you working it out, they are: Beech, Cherry Plum, Chestnut Bud, Chicory, Elm, Gorse, Holly, Mimulus, Olive, Pine, Red Chestnut, Rock Rose, Sweet Chestnut, Vine, White Chestnut, Wild Rose & Willow.
Always Useful Essences
These are the essences that people most often tell us they wouldn’t want to be without because they are so useful for balancing emotions, soothing the mind and uplifting the spirits.
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Positive Vibrations Essence Spray
Use this spray to cleanse and purify your personal energy field and as a space clearing spray to clear your living or workspace. Maintaining positive mental and emotional attitudes is as important as physical cleanliness for our overall health and well-being.
Thoughts and feelings are all energetic frequencies and those that we choose to be predominate in our everyday reality will be the ones that set the universal law of attraction into motion to bring forward new life experiences.
It is not only our personal energy field that is affected by the vibrational frequencies we choose to entertain. Those around us as well as the places in which we live and work will also be affected, positively or negatively, by our choices. Use this spray to cleanse and purify your personal energy field or use it as a space clearing spray for your living or workspace. Calling in the transformational Violet Flame when you use this spray will enhance its effectiveness.
Positive Vibrations Essence Spray - cleansing negativity & space clearing
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Mimulus Bach Flower Remedy
Mimulus helps those who feel they need greater courage to face up to the everyday events of life. Those in need of Mimulus suffer unnecessary fear and worry about everyday situations, such as visiting the dentist, flying, swimming, spiders or perhaps taking their driving test. They can appear nervous, shy or timid and may hesitate or blush easily when in situations where they feel vulnerable. Sensitivity to crowds, loud noises, or bright lights are other examples of states for which Mimulus would be beneficial. As Mimulus dissolves their fears and worries those with this personality trait find themselves able to create a more positive mental approach to life.
Mimulus Bach Essence - for known fears & worries
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Revival Remedy
Revival Remedy is a combination of Cherry Plum, Clematis, Impatiens, Rock Rose & Star of Bethlehem and was originally formulated by Dr Bach for use in situations requiring ‘emergency rescue’. It acts as a very swift emotional stabiliser in circumstances where there is much fear, panic, trauma, or other severe upset such as a serious accident or unexpected bereavement. It is also a very effective support for those less traumatic but still challenging events in life like exams, driving tests, visits to the dentist, presentations etc.
Revival Remedy | Bach Flower Remedies
The Power of Acceptance: Loving Acceptance Rose Essence Spray
The beautiful space of loving acceptance is a state that is so needed in the world right now. It takes us out of the right / wrong, us / them, polarized, separative dynamic that has been so much part of our world up to now, and reminds us how to see everything from a more unified perspective, where we are free to make positive, new choices for ourselves. Holding this frequency consistently also means that we broadcast it into the world around us, strengthening the collective field of loving acceptance and offering others the opportunity to remember and connect with it themselves. Our new Rose Essence Essence spray will take you deep into your heart to embody more of the powerfully transformative energies of loving acceptance. You can find out more in-depth here:
The Power of Acceptance: Loving Acceptance Rose Essence Spray
Pink Rose Flower Essence: Transforming Deep Seated Fears
Fear is very common but it can be a tricky vibration to work with because it feels so real if you get stuck in it. It creates a very effective smokescreen that prevents you from seeing beyond it if you are not very mindful. We can all be affected by fear because it is a vibrational frequency that sits at the bottom of many of the old emotional patterns and stories that we have. Today we’re exploring the Pink Rose Flower Essence which is an excellent essence for when you feel like you cannot get to the root of a deeply held karmic fear or for if you experience general phobias or fears with no apparent cause in this lifetime.
Latest Special Offers
Each month we offer special offer discounts on a selection of our Flower, Gem & Crystal Essences - from individual Essences to Essence Sets. Discounts are usually 20% or more and you can find our current special offers for the month here:
Our 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
