Asian Gateway Flower Remedies
By Katharina Bless
Introduction
Since 1980, Flower Essences have been a very important part of my life’s journey. Through all these years I have learned to appreciate Mother Gaia's natural medicines and to experience how powerful the subtle remedies are! Not only on the emotional levels, as many believe, but right down to the physical body, easing symptoms within seconds!
The Asian Flower Essences are different from other flower essences. I was told in my meditation with Pink Lotus, that they are the gateway and transformation essences for the present time. They help people to move faster into a higher level of consciousness and also open doors into “heart thinking”.
They have a positive effect on our physical health too. Every day that we take the flower essences, stress and tension between the personality and the Higher Self are reduced or eliminated; as a result, as we become more aligned with the highest version of ourselves, the healthier we become.
One of the most remarkable discoveries was how easy it is to make the essences and that virtually everyone can do it. The process of connecting with the spirit of the flowers and receiving their messages was more rewarding than any amount of money I could ever receive.
We don't need expensive medicine to be healthy!
Everything we need is found in nature and, for the past three decades, I haven’t found the need to use any of the allopathic medical services. The only exception is dental work since I still pay for the Swiss chocolate “sins” of my youth and even today this is my biggest “sweet” temptation.
For my well-being, one of the first things I learned was to replace all processed foods with fresh fruits and vegetables, most of which are organically grown in my own yard. I have learned to appreciate their fresh taste and now eat a mostly vegan diet. In addition to the Flower Essences, I take tissue salt from Dr. Schüssler and if there are symptoms of ill health in my body, I use homeopathic remedies, herbs and other traditional medicine.
If a symptom manifests in the body, I sit in meditation with the intent to understand that symptom. Some messages come fast and clear, often in the form of pictures, and then the dis-ease and/or pain disappears. Some symptoms remain and are more difficult to get rid of. I am not yet perfectly healthy but I remind myself my soul is on a journey that’s expressed through this physical body.
Last year I had a bad cat bite on my wrist and went to the hospital to check what they would do: vaccination and antibiotics. I took the antibiotics home because the young doctor was so worried, but at home I used Flower Essences, homeopathy and also dressed the wounds with raw honey. It healed very well, without the vaccine or the antibiotics.
Flowers are magical and are the divine feminine expression of beauty and playfulness. In addition, they carry powerful messages and each of them has a specific healing power. It is a grand journey: discovering the truth each flower holds and understanding the energy signature of the flowers. Their magical messages will uplift your life, inspire you and heal your soul. This is what I now teach and it is very rewarding to see others having the same experience.
After writing the first book on Bach Flower Essences, it was an important step forward to experiment with the Asian Flower Essences.
In 1993, while living on the island of Phuket, I made my first essences. A decade later, my first Flower Healing Power book was published. It took another seven years to gather all the necessary essences to create my first set of Asian Gateway Flower Essences.
It has been a long journey and a rewarding one and it will continue as long as I live. There are already many flower scripts in a folder on my desk top and essences in my office waiting!
Katharina Bless - August 2011
October 2013
The book was a great help for all the students and a precious tool to work with the Asian Flower essences. We could verify many times the power of these essences and for many they are now like a precious companion in their daily lives.
When ever we work with the Asian Flower Essences, we are positively surprised again and again, how clear the message is that they give us and how easy it is to work with them on a daily bases.
Ever time I read again in the book, I wanted to add things since in the mean time we have much more experienced their power of healing. Therefore, I decided to create this second addition and did rewrite and add a lot of things for this second edition. The new cover page shows now shows my new design of the logo for the Soma Retreat Center.
The second edition is finished and ready for the opening of the new Soma Retreat Center and will be launched on November 8th 2013 at the opening Ceremony.
I want to express my gratitude to all those who helped to finish this project. It is a great and powerful help for people and I also have the same vision as Dr. Edward Bach hat: one day each household has flower essences and people rediscover the power of Mother Nature and the Divine Creation!
Katharina Bless October 2013
The message of the Flower Essences
The more I witnessed and worked with the healing power of the Flower Remedies, the more I understood the message of Dr. Bach, who was the one to discover the Essences again in Europe in the early 20th century. Flower essence therapy is not meant to fight illness, but to support the harmony between the body and the soul. Illness cannot grow, if one has no affinity with it and the person is in harmony and aligned to her or his spiritual goal. Illness is an expression of disharmony, and as such, is both teacher and guide. If we understand the symptom, the healing process can start.
As lived and practiced by Ghandi, Dr. Martin Luther King and other highly enlightened souls, fighting does not achieve anything, but always brings loss. The whole allopathic system is based on fighting disease, and therefore, from a spiritual point of view it can never be successful.
The energy frequency of the Flower Remedies enhances the life qualities that we need under certain circumstances to courageously face whatever appears in our life. It helps us to honestly see our life path: to realize that we are here to evolve, to eventually reconnect with the Divine and meet our true Self that lies beyond the veil of the three-dimensional illusion.
The Asian and other Flower Essence, Bach Flower Remedies and other subtle healing systems, such as Sound, Gem stone essences, homeopathic remedies, just to mention a few, are, in my opinion, the only way to truly heal, as healing always includes the whole person – body, soul and spirit - not just the body.
The Language of Illness
“There is no true healing unless there is a change in outlook, peace of mind and inner happiness,” Dr. Edward Bach
Every physical symptom is here to tell us that something is not in harmony anymore in our life. It is like the little red light in a car that blinks as a warning when there is something wrong with the engine, something that we can’t see.
Imagine you are driving your car and the red light comes on. You stop at the nearest garage and tell the attendant that the light is blinking and you don’t want it to blink! So the attendant says, “No problem, let’s take it out!” and promptly removes it so it no longer blinks. About an hour later, while driving on, you suddenly hear a strange sound and foul smelling smoke pours from the engine. You have to immediately stop the car and get out fast before it explodes.
You may laugh. Of course, you wouldn’t do such an incredulous thing! You would know that the red light is not there as a distraction that simply must be removed, but serves as a warning for you to repair your engine.
Ironically, this is exactly what we do in allopathic medicine when we take a pain killer.
Pain is the warning light and if you just stop the pain - the blinking - the problem causing the pain goes unresolved. Most people never take the time to listen to their symptoms, to hear what they are telling them. So the symptoms return in a more intense form. Even then, people seldom listen, and instead return to their doctor for more and stronger painkillers and medication.
This is how the vicious circle starts: pain, painkiller, more pain, more painkiller and stronger medicine. The more medicine taken the more ill the body becomes. The cause of the illness remains undiscovered and untreated and the drugs’ side effects make the body the ideal “soil” for even more ill making parasites.
Thus people carry on with their daily agendas, not realizing it is only a matter of time before they will again become ill. It’s like a time bomb is ticking in the body.
In addition, many people are eating a poor quality diet or food that is toxic to the body like Aspartame, MSG and other hidden ingredients in processed food. Doctors usually don’t tells us that what we eat has a direct effect on our health and we are bombarded with advertisements encouraging us to eat “fast food”. This is actually pure poison, especially when it is cooked or heated in a microwave oven. Most processed and canned food, are extremely unhealthy. The older we get, and the longer our bodies are exposed to such poison we call food, the more unhealthy our bodies become. Statistics prove this in an indisputable and frightening way.
Illness is a result of disharmony and the abandonment of a naturally balanced regime for the body and soul, and our life path. Disharmony begins within our consciousness, at the informational level, before manifesting in the physical body. The body reflects all aspects of consciousness, as well as the processes and changes that are going on within consciousness. If we are in stress situations, experience fear or other negativity, this becomes visible and tangible in the form of physical symptoms.
Every symptom that manifests in the body is trying to give us a message. To understand this message is crucial to healing. If one understands what the body is trying to tell us and takes the appropriate action, the illness is unable to “take root” and healing can take place.
Healing is connected with “holiness” or “wholeness” and involves our whole being: body, soul and spirit; in other words, our four bodies: our physical, mental - emotional and spiritual bodies. Symptoms warn us that the balance between our four bodies is disturbed. They often materialize as an energy disorder in the emotional body first as a feeling of not being well, irritation or being depressed. Later, if we don’t pay attention, the physical body starts to react and to tell us that there is a disturbance in the harmony of our being.
Symptoms connected with the stomach especially are very obvious and quite easy to recognize. They show us what we can’t “digest” or “assimilate” anymore on all levels. We might suddenly have reaction to certain food, which stand for a certain topic, like sweet things are connected with love (we might not get or give), spicy and well flavored food stands for the “spices in life” that might be missing because life has become too boring and we miss action and the true adventure we are born to experience. Instead we watch the adventures in the movies and on TV and identify our selves with the hero to have at least something exciting on the emotional level and therefore degrade ourselves to have only a “second hand” life.
The process of healing requires our active cooperation and participation, instead of handing over responsibility for our health to doctors. In a medical “cure” we allow doctors to make the decisions for us, giving our power away. In healing, we take back our power, taking responsibility for our own wellbeing.
Holistic remedies, such as Flower Essences, heal because they encompass and treat all of our four bodies in the process. A Flower consultant should be able to investigate traumas or dogmatic stuck belief systems, which are harming the person, to find the right flower essence combination that can lead to conscious healing. They could also use visualization to help the person transmute old behavior patterns and should understand the subtle, but powerful potential of Flower essences and not use them in the same way like painkillers “against” something.
Again and again, I have seen people selling Bach Flowers mainly as a money-making business, dispensing remedies like a pharmacist in a drugstore. They don’t understand the different effects of this subtle therapy and think the Bach Flower therapy is similar to other herbal medicine – which it certainly is not. Often they ask clients to choose up to six different flowers, which they mix together, often including the Rescue remedy, which in itself consists of five different flowers. The patient often returns home with a remedy mixture, including the Rescue Remedy, which may add up to 10, 12, or even more flowers.
In older books on Bach Flower therapy, such as Philip M. Chancellor’s “Bach Flower Remedies” (first printed in 1971), most of the practical examples give only two to three flower remedies, with a maximum of four - which is usually added later on.
Each flower triggers a healing process, and if too many are used, the process becomes totally confused and healing can’t take place. The information transmitted becomes so complex and indecipherable that the soul can’t understand or absorb the varying information.
An effective Bach or Asian Flower remedy consists of a strong personality flower supported by one or two other flowers. For the Bach Flower remedies, this may involve choosing one character remedy, such as Beech, Oak, Elm or Agrimony, with one or two supporting flowers, for example, Honeysuckle to let go of negativity, or Star of Bethlehem to bring the system back into flow, releasing blockages, and supporting the healing process.
In the Asian Flower Essences strong personality flowers like Pink Lotus, Red Hibiscus or Roselle etc., can be supported by Cascade Orchid to bring things back into flow or Trinity, which is connected to time and helps to stay in the now or the Violet Flame to remove old sabotaging believe systems to get rid of the mental/emotional stress.
To quote Thorwald Dethlefsen and Dr. Rüdiger Dahlke in “The Healing Power of Illness – The Meaning of Symptoms and how to interpret them:”
“To understand the language of illness is uncomfortable; it deprives one of illness as an alibi for unresolved problems.”
I recommend their book as a prerequisite for those involved in holistic healing methods, because it explains in detail the causes of different symptoms and why people manifest them. In my opinion, this is a “must read” and only after this is clearly understood and integrated a person is able to be a holistic healer.
Every thing has its purpose, but sometimes it isn’t able to unfold on its own! Take, for example, seeds – the beginning of all plant life on the physical level, as well as physical life. If you have wonderful seeds, with all the possibilities in them, but you let them fall on rocks or in an unsuitable environment, they won’t have the right soil to grow. I once tried to grow lavender in my garden in Chiang Mai, but the soil was not conducive for this kind of plant, so it didn’t grow.
As we know, every seed needs the right climate and a fertile environment to grow!
Similarly all bacteria and viruses need a particular environment to grow and affect the body. If we are healthy and happy, there is no prerequisite for bacteria or a virus to grow because the immune system is strong. However, when we are depressed or fearful, the immune system becomes weak and fosters the right “soil” for illness to spread.
If a person has the created “environment” of a negative program based on resisting one’s life path of the soul, living in fear, depression and denial, illness has a good chance to “take root” and grow. This is also true in a larger content, e.g. of a city to attract other disease-carrying parasites, like rats, for example. They flourish only in polluted environments, and threaten the health of the inhabitants.
Flower Essences are truly precious because their information reaches the soul directly. It can be said that the information goes to the person’s control center to harmonize the body, it does not affect in a way of a chemical reaction the physical body from a lower frequency of matter, but from the higher frequency of the soul. This is why we feel the effects of the Flower Essences within seconds upon intake.
Let’s give the last word to Dr. Bach, whom I lovingly call “the father of the flower essences”:
“The action of these remedies is to raise our vibrations and open up our channels for the reception of the Spiritual Self; to flood our natures with the particular virtue we need, and wash out from us the fault that is causing the harm.
They are able, like beautiful music or any glorious uplifting thing, which gives us inspiration, to raise our very natures, and bring us nearer to our souls and by that very act to bring us peace and relieve our sufferings.
They cure, not by attacking the disease, but by flooding our bodies with the beautiful vibrations of our Higher Nature, in the presence of which, disease melts away as snow in the sunshine.”
