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What are Essences?

Essences are liquid vibrational remedies imprinted with the life force and healing qualities of flowers, plants, gem and environments. Essences resonate and work with our body's electrical system by raising it's vibratory rate, thus helping the body re-balance itself, "naturally". Each Essence holds it's own emotional causation and powerful healing property that restores balance and harmony on all levels. "Dis-harmony" and illnesses are manifestations of emotional imbalances and our body's warning signal that some part of us needs attention and healing.

Essences are preserved in either brandy, vinegar, red shiso/vinegar or vegetable glycerine. They are not essential oils or aromatherapy and do not have an aroma.

Essences are elegant and gentle tools that help to enhance your life, purpose and spirituality. Using Essences enables you to become more aware of your limiting behaviors and thought patterns that block your path towards fulfillment. Once you understand your "blocks", you can then "shift" into the higher vibration that the Essences support and move towards positive change.

Gently encouraging us, Essences help us to gain the confidence and awareness that allow for positive change. We highly recommend using Essences along with other Natural and Wholistic modalities like Homeopathy, Meditation, Aromatherapy, Acupuncture, Kinesiology, Jin Shin and Bodywork to enhance their potency and results.

Whether you choose to enrich your spiritual life or just want to learn more about yourself, you will find that Essences are profound and elegant tools that will guide you towards greater awareness, wellness, and happiness!

How Essences are made

Flower Essences are a gentle form of treatment, unique in their ability to address physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects simultaneously. They offer complete healing.

Flower Essences are usually made by a delicate process of attunement, in which sunlight creates a transference of the flower's vibration into water. This process results in a potent healing essence, like a kind of liquid energy. Flower medicine has been known to man for many thousands of years for its calming effect on the mind and emotions.

When one is very sensitive and open to nature, it is clear that plants and their flowers each have their own character and qualities. When taken as an Essence, these can resonate with, and awaken the same qualities within a person. Nature offers us complete healing, restoring balance and well-being, allowing us to awaken to the truth of our wholeness and interconnectedness with all of life.

Choosing Essences
There are several ways you can choose the right Essences for yourself and others:

Reading the Definition

Following your Intuition

Using Kinesiology

Using a Pendulum

When choosing Essences for yourself, it is important to remember to trust yourself and your choices by listening to you body. If a definition "feels right", then honor that choice.

First you should choose one specific issue in your life that you would like to focus on. Choose an Essence or several Essences that directly address that issue. For best results, concentrate on one priority issue at a time. Take this Essence until you feel that you no longer need the Essence or you have tested for a specific length of time. Remember - Essences are training wheels until we can do it on our own!

As time goes on, we will be adding more and more information to our Home Page. This will give you as much information as we can in order to help you feel more comfortable and confident in using Essences.

The Many Ways to Use Essences

Usually Essences are taken orally - first shaking the bottle then placing a few drops under the tongue. Take a few moments to turn inward and feel the effects within. They can also be rubbed directly on the skin, added to skin creams and massage oils, added to baths and to water in mister sprays (4-5 drops from the stock bottle is enough). The spray method is excellent for clearing and refreshing rooms around the house.

(Flower Essences can be taken in conjunction with orthodox medicine, or after a course of medicine, to help relieve adverse effects and rebalance the body's energy system.

Here are a few more popular ways to use Essences. The uses are unlimited, be create and enjoy!

Under the tongue ~ one of the most common uses. On the tongue ~ great when one needs to verbalize or express the positive aspects of the Essences. In water ~ involves cleansing & washing away negative aspects of the Essence while engaging the positive aspects. Drops can also be added to juices etc. We also recommend using drops in a tall glass of water or a bottle of water that can be sipped slowly throughout the day. Bath water ~ soak at least 20 minutes to receive full benefit. Calming, energizing & cleansing. On the Body ~ in Massage oil or moisturizer. Place on chakra points, blocked points or stressful areas. This also enhances massage & releases tension where applied. Plants & Gardens ~ All of nature loves & responds to Essences. Highly recommended for repotting plants, major changes in environment or moves. Atomizers, aromatherapy diffusers, spray bottles (or bowl of water) ~ to cleanse rooms, all areas & physical auras to promote positive energy. Laundry ~ Cleanses your clothes & balances energies. Weddings & Celebrations of Life ~ Use appropriate Essences to enhance & celebrate life's major milestones. Letters & mailings ~ Spray mail to promote positivity & honest clear communication. "First Aid" Essences ~ keep these Essences in your kitchen, bathroom, office, car, within reach for acute situations. Animals ~ Spray &place drops in water to help reduce stressful situations & promote wellness. For additional information see Main Menu section "Animals & Essences". Gem stones, pyramids etc. ~ Placed on energized objects, magnifies energy.Clears & cleans objects of negative energies. Art ~ in oil paints, water colors, clay, jewelry making, pottery or any other medium of art. Brings the positive vibration into play for all of those that enjoy the artwork.

(Flower Essences can be taken in conjunction with orthodox medicine, or after a course of medicine,
to help relieve adverse effects and rebalance the body's energy system.)

 

Children & Essences

Children & Essences....the perfect combination. Since children usually (hopefully) have so much less emotional baggage than adults do, this makes them so prepared to accept the healing qualities of the Essences almost instantaneously

Children love to refer to their Essences as "flower drops" & "magic drops" & "flower remedies". The gentleness of these names makes them feel safe and confident about taking their Essences. I encourage parents to allow children to call the Essences whatever they want, to encourage their eagerness.

Please read the definitions to your children. They may not understand the entire context of the meaning, but some part of the definition will resonate with them on their own level. It's even fun to have the child give their own definition for the Essence or Essences they are taking.

One of the incredibly beautiful aspects of Essences is how they teach us to take back our power and who to use this power in healthy ways. By giving your children Essences, you are giving them one of the greatest healing gifts of all; the awareness that they can create happy and healthy lives for themselves. Any and all of the Essences we offer are appropriate for children of all ages.

How should Essences be given to children?

1> Put the recommended drops into a glass of water, milk, juice or any other beverage your child enjoys.

2> Apply Essences topically by placing drops on your child's wrists, 3rd eye, crown chakra or any other chakra or energy center you feel is most effective and receptive.

3> Have your child hold the bottle in his hands until he or she feels "better" or no longer wants to hold the bottle.

You can administer Essences to your animal by placing drops directly in their mouth, in their water, on treats or sprayed on them with a misting bottle.

All Essences are applicable to use with animals. There are also a few companies that have Essences that have been specifically created to resonate directly with the energy of animals. Please see Essences for more information.

Making Dosage Bottles

• Fill sterilized dosage bottles with one part brandy to three parts purified or spring water.

  Do not use plain distilled water (distilled water is dead - Essences are living).

  Use a water purifier or distilled water which has been left in a glass bottle in direct sunlight for at least a day.

  Put 7 drops of each STOCK remedy into your dosage bottles.

  IMPORTANT: Put Essences into bottles ALREADY filled with your preservative (brandy, vinegar, red shiso or vegetable glycerin) along with spring water.

  Also remember - the more brandy to water ratio, the longer the shelf life of the Essences.

  A few points to remember when you are making up a dosage bottle for yourself or someone special:

  1 ~ Get yourself centered, balanced and calm in whatever way is best for you. Otherwise, use Essences to help "clean and clear" your energy.

  2 ~ Call in your Higher Self, Guides, Angels, or whatever guides you to help you prepare the dosage, asking that your clear intention is for the highest good of all concerned.

Ethical Use of Essences

Flower Vision Research is dedicated to the integrity and education of Essences.

Integrity is the key word in using Essences. Essences cannot over-ride free will, so please administer Essences only to those who have given you their permission. It is not Ethical to give Essences to someone without their permission.

Individualized Dosage bottles are encouraged, however, please ask for permission of the Essence Creator before creating custom blends to be sold in more than one dosage bottle. Essence are unique and different from Essential Oils that are sold to be blended for other purposes. Essences are created "in their liquid form", undiluted for your use. They have been made available to be purchased by the end user, practitioner or retailer, and not to be further used as an addition to any other products without the permission of the Essence creator.

Enjoy your Essences ~ wonderful gifts that have been made with so much love and spirituality in a co-creative partnership with nature!

Caring for your Essences

To care for your Essences, please keep them out of direct sunlight, extreme heat, freezing, and away from magnetic or electrical equipment. You should not let bottles bang into each other. Keep your Essences in a box with dividers or Essence traveling bag for best protection. Personally, I do not feel airplane x-ray machines harm the Essences.

I always like to surround my Essences with light for protection. By doing this, the intention is that my Essences are safe and sound. I recommend you just use common sense and trust what feels right for you and your Essences.