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Animal Healing with Australian Bush Flower Essences New Edition
Author(s): Marie Matthews (Author)
- Publisher: Findhorn Press
- Publication Date: 1 May 2013
- Edition: New
- Language: English
- Print length: 192 pages
- ISBN-10: 1844096106
- ISBN-13: 9781844096107
Book Description
Carefully researched and comprehensive, this reference gives extraordinary insights into the emotional world of animals and explores the healing powers of Australian Bush Flower Essences. Providing practical hints for keeping creatures fit and happy as well as dealing with health and behavior problems, this helpful guide offers naturopathic remedies that are both safe and time saving. Exploring a variety of case studies, particular Australian Bush Flower Essences are recommended to support sound management, balanced diet, and exercise by stabilizing the energy that is essential for the well-being of animals. While this handbook focuses primarily on dogs, cats, horses, and birds, more exotic creatures are covered in the Repertory of Symptoms section offered at the close.
Editorial Reviews
Review
"A wonderful job. Well done. You have emphasized the common problem areas with animal owners with thorough explanation from the animal’s point of view and without judgment." ― Clare Middle, Naturopathic Vet., East Freemantle
"The book you hold in your hands may help you remember some long forgotten truths, truths that our animal friends live with every day." ―
Peta Clarke, Animal Training Solutions Australia"This book is in direct response to the growing need and frequent requests we have from people wishing to enhance the wellbeing and healing of their pets and animals. Marie has tremendous passion, commitment, expertise and knowledge of the Bush Essences, qualities she has brought to her roles as Tutor of our Correspondence Course and Editor of the Bush Essence Newsletter. I highly commend this book." ―
Ian White, author of Australian Bush Flower Essences"Make no mistake about it animals do have emotions. They love, fear, grieve, to mention just a few." ―
Catherine Ferguson, Pet Psychic, the Jersey JournalAbout the Author
Marie Matthews is a writer, an Australian Bush Flower researcher, a tutor for the Bush Essence Correspondence Course, and the editor of the Essence--the newsletter of the Australian Bush Flower Essence Society.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Chapter 2
AUSTRALIAN BUSH FLOWER ESSENCES
What is love? Is it only ours?
Or does love whisper in the flowers?
J. DONALD WALTERS
THE HISTORY OF FLOWER ESSENCES
Flower Essences are made by extracting the healing vibrational qualities from specially selected flowers. The Australian Bush Flower Essences are continuing a very long tradition of healing with flowers. Ancient records show that over 3,000 years ago the Egyptians collected the dew from flowers to treat emotional imbalances. Australian Aborigines have used flowers to heal the emotions. They would eat the flower or sit next to a flowering tree to obtain the vibration of the plant. In fact, flowers have been used for healing in virtually all countries and cultures.
The earliest European records date back to Abbess Hildegard von Bingen in the twelfth century. She was an amazing woman who, from an early age, experienced visions instructing her in many areas of theology, medicine and music. In her major writings, Physica and Causae et Curae, Hildegard showed great insights into the Doctrine of Signatures, understanding the healing properties of a plant from its appearance, colour, size, texture and growth habits. Of the rose she wrote, ‘The rose is cold, and this coldness contains a useful mixture. During the early morning or when the day has already begun, take a petal of a rose and place it upon your eyes. It extracts the moisture, that is the seeping, and makes them clear.’ Of an evening, Hildegard had her nuns place muslin cloth over flowers or other plants so that they would absorb the dew that formed on the plants overnight. Next morning she would wring out the cloth, collecting the water and using it to treat emotional and physical problems in her patients.
Hildegard became a great healer and monastic leader but also an outstanding musician, writer, theologian, prophet and advisor to kings, emperors and popes. Although she was never formally canonized she has been long venerated as a saint and is listed in the Roman Martyrology. Of her visions she wrote, ‘These visions which I saw, I beheld neither in sleep nor dreaming nor in madness nor with my bodily eyes or ears, nor in hidden places; but I saw them in full view and according to God’s will, when I was wakeful and alert, with the eyes of the spirit and the inward ears.’ Her books are still consulted to this day and much of her music is now recorded and played worldwide.
Paracelsus, a famous Swiss alchemist and healer in the sixteenth century, is also credited with the use of flowers in healing, collecting the early-morning dew on flowers and using it to treat emotional problems and physical ailments. Paracelsus gave medical advice to the Dutch scholar Erasmus and came into contact with some of the more prominent scholars of the religious Reformation. He was appointed city physician and Professor of Medicine in the city of Basel. When describing his beliefs about healing he wrote, ‘The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.’
More recently Dr Edward Bach (1886–1936), an English doctor, became the modern pioneer of Flower Essences and brought them back into popular use. He had studied medicine at the University College Hospital, London, and was a house surgeon there. He worked as a bacteriologist and later a pathologist. Even though he was a success in his work with allopathic medicine he was not happy with the traditional focus on diseases rather than on the person being treated. He gave up his lucrative practice and devoted the rest of his life to a new system of medicine that could be found in nature. Over time he found the remedies he wanted in the fields and lanes of England. He discovered that when he treated the personalities and feelings of his patients their unhappiness and physical distress would be alleviated. Dr Bach wrote that the function of Flower Essences is ...
‘... to raise our vibrations and open up our channels for the reception of our spiritual self, to flood our natures with the particular virtues and to wash out from us the faults which were causing them. They are able, like beautiful music or any gloriously uplifting thing which gives us inspiration, to raise our very natures and bring us nearer to ourselves and by that very act to bring us peace and relieve our suffering. They cure not by attacking disease but by flooding our bodies with beautiful vibrations of our higher nature in the presence of which disease melts as snow in the sunshine.’
Since the early 1980s there has been an explosion in the use of Flower Essences right around the world. One of the pioneers in this area is Sydney naturopath and homoeopath Ian White who developed the Australian Bush Flower Essences.
Ian White comes from a family of herbal healers and is in fact a fifth generation Australian herbalist. As a small boy he used to spend much time in the bushland around Sydney with his grandmother, who like her mother before her had a passionate interest in the healing powers of Australian native plants. They were some of the first white people to work with the local flora. Ian started off his tertiary education in mainstream science but after a trip to India, where he became very ill with dysentery, he returned to Australia with his physical and emotional health in tatters. Attempts by his family to build up his strength with three good hot meals a day didn’t work. So he turned to alternative medicine and decided that was where he really wanted to go with his life. He enrolled at the New South Wales College of Natural Therapies and graduated as a naturopath and homoeopath. His interest in Australian plants continued but his initial training was with the Bach Flower Remedies. It was about this time that a dear friend of his was dying from bowel cancer. Ian started a meditation circle which met once a week to direct healing to his friend. The friend in time died but through his dying the Australian Bush Flower Essences were born. While meditating in the healing group one day, Ian was shown a picture of a plant and the best place in which to make up its Essence. As time went on these visions continued with a different flower being shown on each occasion. In his book Australian Bush Flower Essences he wrote, ‘If I was unfamiliar with a flower its name would appear beneath it. I was also given an understanding of its healing properties.’ Following these instructions he gradually made up 50 remedies.
Through observation of the effects of the Essences he was able to verify the channelled information. He also tested the remedies with kinesiology, Kirlian photography and medical electronic diagnostic equipment. Today there are 69 Essences which have all proved to have extremely powerful healing properties. These Essences are very safe – it is impossible to overdose – and they can be taken alone or in conjunction with allopathic treatment or other alternative healing modalities. The Bush Essences are now used right around the world. Ian travels in Australia and overseas presenting seminars to the public and to healthcare professionals. He has published three books about the Bush Essences and is a regular contributor to healthcare magazines, radio and television programmes.
HOW FLOWER ESSENCES ARE MADE
The Australian Bush Flower Essences are made by floating specially selected flowers in good quality purified, spring or mineral water in a clear glass bowl and leaving them in sunlight for approximately two hours in Australian conditions, longer in cooler climates. During this time an energy exchange occurs whereby healing qualities are released from the flowers into the water. The flowers are then removed and the newly charged water is added to an equal quantity of brandy, which is used as a preservative. This makes the...
AUSTRALIAN BUSH FLOWER ESSENCES
What is love? Is it only ours?
Or does love whisper in the flowers?
J. DONALD WALTERS
THE HISTORY OF FLOWER ESSENCES
Flower Essences are made by extracting the healing vibrational qualities from specially selected flowers. The Australian Bush Flower Essences are continuing a very long tradition of healing with flowers. Ancient records show that over 3,000 years ago the Egyptians collected the dew from flowers to treat emotional imbalances. Australian Aborigines have used flowers to heal the emotions. They would eat the flower or sit next to a flowering tree to obtain the vibration of the plant. In fact, flowers have been used for healing in virtually all countries and cultures.
The earliest European records date back to Abbess Hildegard von Bingen in the twelfth century. She was an amazing woman who, from an early age, experienced visions instructing her in many areas of theology, medicine and music. In her major writings, Physica and Causae et Curae, Hildegard showed great insights into the Doctrine of Signatures, understanding the healing properties of a plant from its appearance, colour, size, texture and growth habits. Of the rose she wrote, ‘The rose is cold, and this coldness contains a useful mixture. During the early morning or when the day has already begun, take a petal of a rose and place it upon your eyes. It extracts the moisture, that is the seeping, and makes them clear.’ Of an evening, Hildegard had her nuns place muslin cloth over flowers or other plants so that they would absorb the dew that formed on the plants overnight. Next morning she would wring out the cloth, collecting the water and using it to treat emotional and physical problems in her patients.
Hildegard became a great healer and monastic leader but also an outstanding musician, writer, theologian, prophet and advisor to kings, emperors and popes. Although she was never formally canonized she has been long venerated as a saint and is listed in the Roman Martyrology. Of her visions she wrote, ‘These visions which I saw, I beheld neither in sleep nor dreaming nor in madness nor with my bodily eyes or ears, nor in hidden places; but I saw them in full view and according to God’s will, when I was wakeful and alert, with the eyes of the spirit and the inward ears.’ Her books are still consulted to this day and much of her music is now recorded and played worldwide.
Paracelsus, a famous Swiss alchemist and healer in the sixteenth century, is also credited with the use of flowers in healing, collecting the early-morning dew on flowers and using it to treat emotional problems and physical ailments. Paracelsus gave medical advice to the Dutch scholar Erasmus and came into contact with some of the more prominent scholars of the religious Reformation. He was appointed city physician and Professor of Medicine in the city of Basel. When describing his beliefs about healing he wrote, ‘The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.’
More recently Dr Edward Bach (1886–1936), an English doctor, became the modern pioneer of Flower Essences and brought them back into popular use. He had studied medicine at the University College Hospital, London, and was a house surgeon there. He worked as a bacteriologist and later a pathologist. Even though he was a success in his work with allopathic medicine he was not happy with the traditional focus on diseases rather than on the person being treated. He gave up his lucrative practice and devoted the rest of his life to a new system of medicine that could be found in nature. Over time he found the remedies he wanted in the fields and lanes of England. He discovered that when he treated the personalities and feelings of his patients their unhappiness and physical distress would be alleviated. Dr Bach wrote that the function of Flower Essences is ...
‘... to raise our vibrations and open up our channels for the reception of our spiritual self, to flood our natures with the particular virtues and to wash out from us the faults which were causing them. They are able, like beautiful music or any gloriously uplifting thing which gives us inspiration, to raise our very natures and bring us nearer to ourselves and by that very act to bring us peace and relieve our suffering. They cure not by attacking disease but by flooding our bodies with beautiful vibrations of our higher nature in the presence of which disease melts as snow in the sunshine.’
Since the early 1980s there has been an explosion in the use of Flower Essences right around the world. One of the pioneers in this area is Sydney naturopath and homoeopath Ian White who developed the Australian Bush Flower Essences.
Ian White comes from a family of herbal healers and is in fact a fifth generation Australian herbalist. As a small boy he used to spend much time in the bushland around Sydney with his grandmother, who like her mother before her had a passionate interest in the healing powers of Australian native plants. They were some of the first white people to work with the local flora. Ian started off his tertiary education in mainstream science but after a trip to India, where he became very ill with dysentery, he returned to Australia with his physical and emotional health in tatters. Attempts by his family to build up his strength with three good hot meals a day didn’t work. So he turned to alternative medicine and decided that was where he really wanted to go with his life. He enrolled at the New South Wales College of Natural Therapies and graduated as a naturopath and homoeopath. His interest in Australian plants continued but his initial training was with the Bach Flower Remedies. It was about this time that a dear friend of his was dying from bowel cancer. Ian started a meditation circle which met once a week to direct healing to his friend. The friend in time died but through his dying the Australian Bush Flower Essences were born. While meditating in the healing group one day, Ian was shown a picture of a plant and the best place in which to make up its Essence. As time went on these visions continued with a different flower being shown on each occasion. In his book Australian Bush Flower Essences he wrote, ‘If I was unfamiliar with a flower its name would appear beneath it. I was also given an understanding of its healing properties.’ Following these instructions he gradually made up 50 remedies.
Through observation of the effects of the Essences he was able to verify the channelled information. He also tested the remedies with kinesiology, Kirlian photography and medical electronic diagnostic equipment. Today there are 69 Essences which have all proved to have extremely powerful healing properties. These Essences are very safe – it is impossible to overdose – and they can be taken alone or in conjunction with allopathic treatment or other alternative healing modalities. The Bush Essences are now used right around the world. Ian travels in Australia and overseas presenting seminars to the public and to healthcare professionals. He has published three books about the Bush Essences and is a regular contributor to healthcare magazines, radio and television programmes.
HOW FLOWER ESSENCES ARE MADE
The Australian Bush Flower Essences are made by floating specially selected flowers in good quality purified, spring or mineral water in a clear glass bowl and leaving them in sunlight for approximately two hours in Australian conditions, longer in cooler climates. During this time an energy exchange occurs whereby healing qualities are released from the flowers into the water. The flowers are then removed and the newly charged water is added to an equal quantity of brandy, which is used as a preservative. This makes the...
