Mama Love for Troubled Times (now called “Support for Troubled Times”) was the first flower essence product I ever made. It is a scented oil, used similarly to an essential oil product, and is, in fact, made with essential oils specially chosen to work synergistically with the unscented flower essences I use and then Reiki-infused. It was spiritually guided to me when I was going through a divorce and couldn’t stop crying. A few drops of this rubbed on my chest and belly was instantly soothing. It made me feel as safe as a baby held in my mother’s arms so I started giving it away to anyone going through a hard time. They clamored for more and my Mama Love business was born —named for this very product.
Ironically, the people at the Flower Essence Society where I got my training and who make the flower essence ingredients I use in this product, believed that two of the ingredients (Splendid Mariposa Lily and Green-Cross Gentian) were going to be essential for the times ahead. That was twenty years ago and I believe we are in those times today.
I used to think the crises they anticipated were going to be about climate change and I still think that is true. But I did not anticipate that the political upheavals and dramatic economic challenges that scientists warned would come with climate crisis could possibly look like what we are seeing today! I don’t even think the current political chaos is specifically related to climate change at all . . . but it is not completely unrelated as this administration is particularly targeting climate-related previous legislation. And that means it is playing a crucial part of the jockeying for economic position and political upheaval that has always gone along with climate instability.
But perhaps I just digressed too much from the issue at hand. How do we deal with the stress of current times — regardless of what it is about — in our personal lives? Well, let me tell you what is in this product:
Splendid Mariposa Lily is for deep inner nurturing for those coping with alienation because of divisions between people or alienation from their homeland or nation. It’s about BIG mothering not only for yourself but in your capacity to extend that support to others.
Green-Cross Gentian is for renewed hope and resolve in the face of tragic setbacks and overwhelm about the state of the world. It helps provide more faith and inner strength to persevere despite what is going on.
Star of Bethlehem is one of the most soothing flower essences I know about. It is one of the original Bach Flower Remedies and is used in cases of grief, shock and trauma. It provides deep comfort especially when a person seems like they can’t be consoled.
Self-Heal helps you rally your inner healing forces when you feel like you have been rocked to your core and don’t know if you can recover. It brings up an inner well-spring of support that you can tap to support whatever journey you’re on and where that might take you.
This is a POWERFUL combination on its own without essential oils added, and you can buy a conventional dosage strength flower essence dropper bottle or unscented spray from me if you prefer something scent-free. But my original oil formula and now my scented spray add Rose, Ylang-Ylang, Jasmine, Angelica, and Rosewood essential oils (certified organic at a 1.5% dilution) for feeling loved, safe, grounded and protected, to ease sadness and pain, to encourage relaxation, and ease a worried mind. And, of course, the entire combination is infused with Reiki to make it the best and most effective product I can make.
I’m using it a lot these days and wouldn’t be without it on my shelf.
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Flower essences are used to assist with mind-body-spirit interactions and individual results may vary. They are extremely dilute which makes them quite safe. But because so little physical substance can be detected in a flower essence solution, these products are presumed to work on an energetic or vibrational level—something that cannot be adequately tested by western scientific methods. Claims made by me, therefore, are based on personal experiences and the evidence of the combined multiple decades of case notes by Dr. Edward Bach as well as Healing Herbs and Flower Essence Services (the companies who make the ingredients I use in my products). This is not, however, accepted medical evidence or substantiated scientific evidence from a modern allopathic point of view. I am not a medical doctor or licensed healthcare practitioner.
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