Have you ever come up with an ‘elevator speech’ where you succinctly tell people what you do for a living? I struggle with mine, I really do. You see officially I’m a vibrational medicine practitioner but it’s a peculiar phrase that seems to conjure up strange visions for people. I’ve variously been asked if I make music, conduct laser eye surgery or work with sex toys. Just for the record no, No and NO ….although I find the notion of these as alternative career choices very very funny!

I’d like you to imagine we’re standing beside each other in an elevator, zooming up from the basement when you catch my eye and ask me what I do.

“I’m a vibrational medicine practitioner” I say and you raise an eyebrow, inviting me to elaborate. It’s good we’re standing so close because my voice is quiet and you can tell I prefer one-to-one conversations to group discussions.

I start to talk, drawing pictures in the air as I describe how vibrational medicine works and how I use it with people.

“Everything in nature vibrates at a particular frequency.

Scientific research has shown that different parts of our bodies have their own vibration and a healthy organ has a different vibration from an unhealthy one.

Similarly a loving thought has a different vibration from a hateful thought, and angry feelings have a different vibration from vulnerable feelings.

Take a moment to call to mind a time when you felt absolutely furious. Remember your feelings of rage and notice how your body responds. You might feel heat and notice your heart pumping or your body shaking. There may be a sense that you’re solid and immovable. You might frown or set your jaw solidly as your entire energy field responds to the emotion of anger.

Now let that feeling go as you take a few deep breaths to release it.

Now think of a time when you felt really vulnerable and insecure. Remember the feelings of uncertainty and notice how your body responds to that. You might feel small or cold or wobbly. There may be a sense that you’re not even really here and you could fall over or stumble easily. You might go pale, look down or even huddle up to protect yourself. Notice how different that feels to when you felt anger.

Now let that feeling go as you take a few deep breaths to release it.

Emotions are energy in motion and they’re meant to come and go easily, but often unhealthy emotions get stuck in our energy fields and we need help to release their vibrations.

That’s where I come in.

As a vibrational medicine practitioner I’m tuning into the vibration or energy of the patterns and issues that someone brings to me so I can match them to the most appropriate vibrational medicine to bring balance.

Our personal vibration is made up of the frequencies of our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual bodies interlinked together.  Every thought, feeling, belief and action contributes to our unique vibrations as individuals. That vibration or energy is constantly changing depending on what we’re eating, how we’re moving our bodies, what we’re doing, how we’re feeling, what we’re thinking and how we’re responding to life.

If you’re feeling really apathetic, haven’t left the house all day and you’ve been eating takeaway pizza and watching TV, your vibration will be much lower than if you’re feeling in love with life, you’ve been on a big walk in gorgeous countryside and you’ve had a green smoothie for breakfast.

Different flower and and crystal essences have different vibrations that correspond with the energy of particular emotions or beliefs or parts of the physical body. Essences that balance anger are different from essences that release feelings of vulnerability. Essences that energetically support the functioning of the heart are different from essences that support the reproductive system. 

Each essence contains the life force or vibration of a particular flower or gem or crystal. Think about an oak tree and the qualities it embodies. If you were to describe an oak tree what sorts of words would you use?  Words like strong, resilient and steady? These are the very qualities that oak flower essence restores when you take it.

If you were to describe a rose you might describe it as soft, romantic and beautiful.  Roses have long been regarded as symbols of love and all rose essences work on the heart; in one way or another opening it up more and more so we can experience divine love.

When you match the most resonant essence to an emotion or belief or physical issue, the vibration changes and deep transformation takes place.

Vibrational medicine (like flower and crystal essences) changes your vibration, so that you’ll feel better from the inside out. This makes them incredibly potent tools for personal growth and transformation.  I’d like to share this quote from Abraham Hicks with you:

“The amount of time it takes you to get from where you are to where you want to be, is only the amount of time it takes you to change the vibration within you. Instant manifestation could be yours if you could instantly change the vibration.”

I wonder where you want to be? What’s the vibration that needs to change so you can get there?

As you take essences, your vibration changes because you’re releasing the energy of old beliefs and emotions and disharmony. Most people say they feel lighter and closer to their true nature while they’re taking essences.

When we use vibrational medicine, we bring balance to our personalities and expand our consciousness.

We move deeper into our hearts and discover the nature of our own souls, experiencing more love and peace.

We realign with our truth, joy and purpose and and we feel it in every single cell. Life flows, we feel creative, inspired, fulfilled, joyful and truly alive.

From this place of greater alignment with our true essence, we manifest what we’re really here for.

We feel loving, expansive and connected and our inner light shines for all to see.”

Edward Bach, the pioneering medical doctor who discovered the Bach Flower Remedies in the 1930s would have been good at writing an elevator speech. In around a hundred words he expresses what it took me over a thousand to say:

“The action of these remedies is to raise our vibrations and open up our channels for the reception of our Spiritual Self, to flood our natures with the particular virtue we need, and wash out from us the fault which is causing harm. They are able, like beautiful music, or any gloriously uplifting thing which gives us inspiration, to raise our very natures, and bring us nearer to our Souls: and by that very act bring us peace and relieve our sufferings. They cure, not by attacking disease, but by flooding our bodies with the beautiful vibrations of our Higher Nature, in the presence of which disease melts as snow in the sunshine.”

So when people ask what I do, maybe all I need to say is “I help people to find peace and relieve suffering” and maybe all you need to say is “thanks for reminding me I need to pop into here and here on the way home!”

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These beautiful images are by Jason Smalley

Images by Jason Smalley

Just when I thought all the flowers in the garden had given way to winter, I noticed the wild mustard (charlock) that Bach’s mustard flower remedy is made from. Flowering since May, these four-petalled yellow flowers are still budding with new growth and that makes me smile.

The mustard flowers have been the light bearers through the winter, shining lemon-bright in the garden when everything else was hiding and that is so very apt.

Mustard flower remedy is often needed at this time of year in the northern hemisphere when people struggle with the lack of light. As Edward Bach said “this remedy dispels gloom, and brings joy to life”.

Mustard flower remedy is one of a handful of Bach Flower Remedies used for depression (gorse, gentian, wild rose and sweet chestnut treat other aspects of depression).

Mustard is for when there’s no logical reason for you feeling down. You feel heavy headed, slow, unmotivated and melancholy – as though there is a soul deep sadness that you can’t quite express. You feel separate from the world, locked into a heavy gloom that others don’t understand and you just can’t put a brave face on it.

Bach described mustard for “Those who are liable to times of gloom, or even despair, as though a cold dark cloud overshadowed them and hid the light and the joy of life. It may not be possible to give any reason or explanation for such attacks. Under these conditions it is almost impossible to appear happy or cheerful”.

People who experience this state are usually incredibly sensitive to the energies of others and to planetary energies like moon phases and solar flares and global events.

It’s as though you are less able to filter out these experiences than other people, so you absorb all the negativity unconsciously and it lowers your vibration. When your vibration is low, your energy levels are low and it becomes almost impossible to find the motivation to do the very activities that will top up your levels of inner light.

You know that spiritual practice or exercise or healthy food or fresh air would help but it feels too much and you just can’t motivate yourself to do any of these things, so you become paralysed in your own darkness, unable to move through it.

On a Soul level, this can be an important initiation: sitting in the dark and meeting the parts of your personality that hide in the shadows. Whenever we embrace the gloom we move closer to the light.

Taking mustard flower remedy floods your energy field with the vibrations of light and joy so that the flicker of inner light that is always inside you (even when you can’t see it) begins to grow bright again. The bright light of mustard dispels the gloom like the sun coming out from behind a cloud.

If you’re in this gloomy dark state at the moment here’s my tried and tested list of what to do:

1. Take mustard flower remedy. I buy mine here.
2. Give yourself permission to feel exactly how you’re feeling. It will pass.
3. Write Morning Pages: learn more here
4. Exercise – dance, running, walking, martial arts or anything else that you actually quite like will get those happy chemicals flowing in your brain.
5. Spiritual practice – yoga, meditation, shamanic drumming, prayer, ritual.
6. Eat leafy greens like kale and spinach because they are full of chlorophyll so, in essence, when you eat leafy greens you’re consuming sunlight.
7. Get fresh air – there is evidence that even 5 minutes a day boosts mental wellbeing.
8. List the things you’re grateful for every day – there are days you might struggle to think of one thing but try, really try and you’ll find something.

Gradually you’ll feel more resilient, more joyful and part of the world again. Your soul will find its way back home and your inner light will glow bright again.

Rainy Friday Giveaway – Win a Bach Flower Remedy Combination + Gorgeous Bach Flower Print

Interested in winning your own personalised combination of Bach Flower Remedies? You might be feeling gloomy today or you might be interested in taking Bach Flower Remedies to boost your confidence, help decision making, release anxiety or improve your relationships. Whatever emotional support you’re looking for, there are Bach flower remedies to help.

You can win a free Bach Flower Remedy Combination for you, your child or your pet accompanied by a print of your favourite Bach flower from this gallery of Bach Flower Remedy images.

How to take part:  Sign up to the Flower Spirit mailing list on the right hand side of this site and leave a comment below stating that you want to participate in the giveaway. If you’ve already signed up to the mailing list, that’s OK you can still take part by leaving a comment. N.B. If you’re on the Essence of Wild mailing list you won’t be entered in the draw unless you sign up to the Flower Spirit mailing list too.

I’ll pick the winner and announce it here on Friday 27^th January 2012.