A friend recently asked on social media whether anyone else was suffering from fears of an unknown future. She suffered a devastating loss last year, it was shockingly unexpected, and now she has fears of some unknown but equally horrifying event happening again. Several people had thoughtful things to say and many people had similar fears. And some people expressed that living through a time period when chaotic and horrifying news is being generated daily by our own government has them feeling the same way. PTSD can be purposely induced and that is certainly happening to many of us these days.
There are several flower essences used for fear and, honestly, I think more than one might apply to this situation. I often recommend Rock Rose or my Releasing Worry and Fear formula for coping with extreme experiences of anxiety bordering on terror. But Dr. Edward Bach differentiated between a variety of different types of fear and he created Aspen flower essence for the specific situation of fear of an unknown origin or an unknown future.
This is different from known fears that you can name and potentially do something about. Unknown fears carry the added layer of not knowing how to prepare because you don’t know what’s coming. But you know in your gut (either intuitively or reflexively) that something is! There’s a fear of being blindsided because in that experience a person can be overwhelmed with shock and grief and feel unable to cope (at least temporarily). If you’ve ever had an experience like that, you certainly don’t want to experience it again. It leads to a sense of dread or a confusing premonition-like feeling of foreboding. Is this intuition? Should I be on the look-out for something? Or is this the return of dark memories that lurk in the shadows of our mind? It feels embarrassing to talk about because you don’t know why you’re having these feelings! And that’s often hard to explain.
Even harder is that sensitive or psychically open people often DO have premonitions that come true! But in the true Aspen state, a person does not glean enough information about what is coming to make sense of the feelings. And that lack of knowing can be terrifying.
Aspen Flower Essence can help restore peace of mind and the confidence to face the future without having to know what is happening around every bend. It can help you let go of the habit of unconsciously scanning the air for what might be coming next. If you are psychically inclined, it can help you tune down the volume of random input and learn to use your perception in more skillful ways. The first step is always to get grounded and that’s one of the gifts Aspen has to offer.
I sell Reiki-infused, dosage strength Aspen Flower essence dropper bottles and unscented sprays in my Etsy shop.
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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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