I’ve been helping a good friend with their anxiety about a recurring health issue. We’re not trying to cure the health problem this way because, honestly, this is just a temporary backslide on a very significantly improved situation. But every time this problem occurs, he acts completely panic-stricken and overwhelmed and doesn’t seem to even remember what choices worked in the past!
We’ve been trying the usual assortment of flower essences for worry and anxiety. But something has been missing: Elm for overwhelm.
I was a little surprised because you would think the flower essences for anxiety would be the same as what is needed for overwhelm—especially the heavy hitters like Rock Rose and Cherry Plum that people use for more extreme states like panic or fear of annihilation. Isn’t that level of fear overwhelming?
Yes! But not specific enough necessarily on their own. (At least in this case.) I asked my friend if they would try Elm flower essence without knowing what it was for and tell me what it did for them if anything. He agreed and reported that it was calming, grounding, and seemed to create clarity of mind.
And then this led to an outpouring of sudden awareness of why he was so overwhelmed. When he was a young man he felt invincible! He ate whatever he wanted, drove too fast, and did wild stunts on his motorcycle, and never felt like he paid much of a consequence until he crashed and messed up his knee. Even then, he still felt self-assured and capable. After all, he was doing some awesome tricks before that fall! But now in his 60s, he has been coping with situations where he doesn’t feel so effective and doesn’t always know what to do. That’s both in his life and in regards to his health. This is new and makes him freeze like a rabbit not knowing which way to turn—a way of being he rarely experienced in his life before! In fact, he used to walk with a bit of a cowboy-like swagger which is all but gone now. And that freaks him out even more.
This description of overwhelm is practically a textbook description of the person who could benefit from Elm. They’re people who are usually self-assured and capable and they are used to being that way, until something happens that feels like too much. Elm helps such a person regain their perspective, regain their confidence, and their ability to face the task at hand without being too overwhelmed to move.
You can find Reiki-infused Elm Flower Essence dropper bottles and sprays in my Etsy shop at dosage strength (ready to use without diluting further).
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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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