Using Flower Essences for Mental-Emotional Balance

Are flower essences magic? Yes. Do they work on everyone? It depends how open that person is.

Oakland Star Tulip

This will be a short post.

I’ve been spending way more time in my body and out of my head. But my soul is still calling to express itself through writing!

Today, I want to talk about the healing magic of flower essences.

Like most women, I love a colorful, beautiful bouquet that greets me as I enter my house. But as an herbalist, when I learned how spiritually potent flowers are, I was intrigued.

Yes, there are many flowers that are known for their physical healing properties: chamomile, lavender, hops, passionflower, dandelion, hibiscus, goldenrod—the list goes on and on.

But flowers also have a spirit that, like a guardian angel, is there to gently nudge you and help you along your way.

This is where flower essences come in.

Flower essences are flower parts and petals that have been distilled in water and a small amount of alcohol. They produce a liquid that is usually odorless, colorless, and tasteless, although you can sometimes taste a sweetness layered beneath the faint taste of alcohol.

You place a few drops under or on your tongue, multiple times a day.

I use flower essences for mental and emotional balancing. Mental-emotional healing is often neglected in physical healing, but it’s so important in holistic treatments of chronic dis-eases.

Because each flower resonates with a unique, healing frequency, each essence transports different emotional and mental healing benefits to the user. For example, some flower essences help with anger, since they vibrate on a frequency of calmness and peace, while others can help with creative or sexual blocks, since they may vibrate on a frequency that connects to the fertility of a woman’s mind, body, and soul.

My favorite flower essence at the moment is Star Tulip. Its spiritual calling helps to make you more receptive to wisdom from higher worlds, calming your spirit and creating a serene inner world.

As the drops dissolve on my tongue, I instantly feel lighter and more grounded in my divine femininity.

For example, I was having a tense discussion with my husband once, and I realized that I was veering into using coarse language. I immediately caught myself, dropped some Star Tulip on my tongue, took a deep breath, and came back into the conversation with love and tenderness, plus respect for both him and me. We were able to quickly get on the same page and connect from a deeper space.

Are flower essences magic? Yes.

Do they work on everyone? It depends how open that person is.

From experience, I know that in order for flower essences to work their magic, you have to be doing the work in other areas of your life. You have to believe and know they can help you. You have to have faith.

It’s like not having faith in God but expecting Her/Him to answer your prayer.

Or, like, if you don’t believe in fairies, how can they ever sprinkle that healing fairy dust on you?

You have to surrender to the healing power of flower essences. Case in point: I bought that Star Tulip four years ago. I used it a couple of times, didn’t feel any difference, and then stored it in my medicine cabinet, untouched for years…until a couple of months ago.

Four years ago, I wasn’t open to its medicine yet. My heart, mind, and spirit were closed off; or maybe distracted.

I didn’t yet know how crucial the act of surrendering and being receptive would be for my womb health. And unsurprisingly, surrender and receptivity are key to working with flower medicine.

Now, as I embark on a new and unexpected part of my journey, I am ready to accept the flowers’ infinite wisdom and use these wise teachers in my sacred woman healing.