DETAILS-A:
Which Remedy to Use?
APPEARANCES and PERCEPTIONS are often irrelevant.
One's Higher Self and the Life System of the client know the truth and cannot lie. That does not mean that the message cannot be garbled. Interference by the facilitator's Ego can cloud and even reverse the spiritual answer and thus must be guarded against. Entering a Sentic state of No-Emotion is a mandatory precaution.
RATIONALISTIC APPROACHES (Ego-and Superego-centered) are wasteful, usually inaccurate and ineffectual. The so-called "OBJECTIVISM" touted by pseudo scientists and spiritually confused so-called professionals is nothing more than the assumptions and expectations of the status quo Superego. While the worship of this status quo Superego increases the authority of the materialistic and mechanistic, its only constant contribution to the individual it is supposed to serve is dependency ... not freedom.
HISTORICAL EXAMPLES of simple and obvious truths which were overlooked for decades or centuries thanks to obedience to the ignorance, short-sightedness and power obsessiveness of status quo "objectivism" are many. This has been the political answer to the errors of individual "SUBJECTIVE" Ego desires and wants. Opposite strategies to failures usually produce --- not success --- but a different form of failure. The Higher Self System relies on NEITHER subjective nor objective interpretation. The spiritual nature of the quest and the answers received far exceeds the quality and accuracy of the other alternatives.
THE REALITY of the HUMAN CONDITION is that rational decision-making, when carefully tested, is shown to have little better success than chance: 50%. Any remedy can be misused or inefficiently used. The Bach Remedies are no different. Makers and retailers of Bach Remedies are instructed to, and frequently suggest, that the choice of remedy for an individual be made on the basis of expressed behaviors and obvious personality traits.
This RATIONAL ANALYSIS of how one speaks of his or her concerns, their apparent attitude, their style of speech, their past history of success and failures, the traits and habits of their parents, the body language they express ... and other factors --- is expected to indicate one or more relevant remedies. Consider that ALL of the above factors are being judged on a subjective and prejudicial basis.
PRECONCEPTIONS are brought by the interviewer and analyzer to the analysis about the meaning and significance of certain behaviors, tones, and traits. These usually do not allow for gender, individual, and, cultural communication patterns differences. For example, body language can have dramatically contrasted meaning when observed across different cultures, economic groups, communication styles and personality idiosyncrasies, in addition to unconscious patterns derived from innovation, superstition, and modeling.
It has been my finding that the remedies most often suggested by anyone's conscious rational mind are little more relevant than that of treating a surface symptom with little direct relationship to the one, several, or many energy blocks which are presenting SIMULTANEOUSLY.
A SECOND APPROACH, highly promoted in articles, books and expensive seminars --- is to rely upon INTUITION as a guide to Remedy selection. Accurate intuition relies upon the presence of a number of factors.
FIRST, the individual doing the selection must be largely free of energy blocks themselves. It is a fact that intuition working under the adversity of a number of energy blocks can frequently have its signals reversed before the Ego consciousness receives the result. In that case, the person using intuition may find that their answers, solutions and choices are WRONG 75% of the time. Unblocked, the equation usually reverses and the person with a gift or acquired skill of intuitive strength becomes CORRECT 75% of the time --- certainly a good improvement over the 50% level of a RATIONALIST.
SECONDLY, viable intuition also relies upon a considerable degree of experience and exposure to the process of Bach Flower treatments. It becomes an unconscious record of what works and doesn't work cross-referenced in the mind to a myriad of clues, often semiotic in nature, which the individual is usually unaware of. While there are other factors which could be considered in addition to these two, these two alone --- the presence of energy blocks and the degree of relevant experience --- would disqualify most people from an effective use of the remedies.
A THIRD APPROACH is available and the benefits warrant the effort required to develop the skill. The use of MUSCLE TESTING (Kinesiology, Touch for Health) finds that the physical and spiritual parts of the body are clearly aware of what they need and do not need in order to return to or maintain a balanced healthy lifestyle and life. Once this testing skill has been learned, relevant questions requiring a YES or NO response can be asked.
Definitive answers regarding all aspects of one's recovery can be obtained by a skilled facilitator ... which can include oneself. Such answers have always proven to be correct. That is, if the muscle testing is carried out carefully and in a non-compromising manner, AND, if the questions are specific and relevant enough for both the tester and the subject --- the answers are correct.
EXAMPLE:
Asking the question,
"Does this person need a lot of vitamin C ?"
is a largely useless question.
"A lot" will often signify widely differing amounts in the perception of any 2 or 3 people.
Asking the question,
"Does this person need 4-1000 mg timed release tablets now ?"
is much more definitive and much less likely to result in miscommunication and errors. This form of testing can be learned by most people who have a desire to do so. Surely 100% accuracy is preferential to 75%, 50%, or 25%.
A FOURTH METHOD of testing is also available:
MEDITATIVE COMMUNICATION. The major benefit here is that the analysis can be carried out much faster and without the contact required for muscle testing. For a facilitator with meditative skills and experience in the diagnosis of conditions for the use of Bach Remedies, the time saving can exceed 900% !
AN EXPERIENCE of 100% accuracy, repeatedly, by such a disciplined approach is also positive for the practitioner --- like that of accurate muscle testing. This is the only method of testing which may allow accurate testing of oneself by oneself.
SETTING CUES for oneself to indicate whether the answer is a YES, NO, or OTHER --- can be beneficial to the novice beginning to use this focused meditative approach.
A VISUAL VARIATION of cue setting is to imagine a stoplight standard with the
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GREEN light indicating YES,
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RED light indicating NO,
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YELLOW light indicating ASK A BETTER QUESTION.
A MORE SENSUAL VARIATION, is to have one side of a specific finger feel HOT for one answer and feel COLD for the other. Eventually, in the meditative approach, as practice develops expertise, the answer will begin to form in the conscious mind as one is thinking of the question. The question will actually complete itself with the correct variable inserted. And the follow-up answer will, of course, be yes.
TO MAINTAIN an open state of No-Emotion, founded on Reverence, one is encouraged to follow-up this accurate answer with Humility by confirming it. This step only takes a few seconds longer and its benefit is to maintain management over the Ego and prevent interference from it. This approach tremendously reduces the pre-session preparation time as ALL of the "range of" questions are often dispensed with.
A DOWNSIDE to this approach, for many people, is that this level of meditative decision-making often takes years of meditative practice to develop. Muscle testing can be learned in minutes to an hour or two. Most novices to the field will opt for muscle testing and work at introducing meditative enhancement as they can.
DETAILS - 2:
How many drops are needed?
OFTEN, the Bach Flower remedies are misused and misapplied --- resulting in considerable waste of both them and the time of the person being treated as well as that of the therapist. I have often overheard a store clerk or salesperson tell a novice that all that was necessary was for the determination of which remedy was required by simply choosing whichever remedy addressed the symptom of their concern. Then they were instructed to take a certain number of drops once or more often per day for a lengthy period of time, OR, until the supply ran out, OR, until they need to buy more.
INACCURATE means of testing, and technicians whose judgement is compromised by the presence of their own energy blocks, or, by a reliance on a testing process which is encumbered with high rates of errors --- also can lead to over- or under-use of the remedies. It is not uncommon for several energy blocks (even as many as 30 or more) to be presenting at the same time.
WHEN MULTIPLE BLOCKS ARE PRESENTING they collectively contribute to the resultant behavior, attitudes, and decision-making efforts with any one block acting as the dominant role-player in the outcome. Treating this one block does not release the others in the package or set. Without the release of the others, a new replacement block may be generated by the "hole" left in the pattern ... and the syndrome reasserts itself. In other word, a temporary relief may be obtained in place of a permanent one.
WITH PROPER SELECTION of the Bach Remedy being of the utmost importance, so also is the QUANTITY of remedy dispensed. The Bach Remedies act as biochemical targeting mechanisms working to find a chemical lock at the location of the energy block. Working in a biochemical soup of hormones, enzymes, blood components, and neurotransmitters ... they are attracted to all the biochemical energy blocks of the type associated with the Remedy. Having found a set of targets (blocks), your brain still requires the other details that will allow application to a specific energy block so it can be unlocked and released.
The EXACT number of drops and the CONCENTRATION of the Remedy, which will contribute to the combination required to "unlock" the block --- are also necessary. Too few drops will have no influence. No matter how often or for how long this insufficient dosage is taken, no influence other than wishful thinking will result. With the correct number of drops, the Bach Remedy contribution to the combination required to open the "lock" is satisfied.
NOW, depending on the combination of factors required by the "lock", the block may be released, or only weakened. If other factors are required, they must also be defined and their contribution added before the block is released. Administering a greater number of drops than is necessary produces no greater influence. While not hindering the process, no benefit is gained: the extra is wasted.
NOT CURRENTLY ACTIVE (presenting) blocks cannot be engaged in the balancing process and taking more drops will not influence them. Blocks which are either not dominant (top of the heap) or not activated (by the request of your Reptilian structure of the brain) cannot be treated or released.
WHEN A LIFE EXPERIENCE CHALLENGE stimulates the brain for a response, block-induced reactions, if present, are automatically applied to resolve the conflicts. This block-induced reactive behavior will then remain present until another one is called up from your memory to attempt to resolve another challenge, confrontation, or ambiguity. Leaving a presenting block untreated can thus result in it being taken "out-of-service."
THIS DISTRACTIVE STRATEGY, in which one trauma trigger is substituted for another, is actually very common. When the degree of violence presented in a communication escalates in stages, a need for acknowledgement is being replaced with a need for dominance. The first does not justify violence. IF met with rejection, a need for energy release from the building frustration justifies violence, at least to the Ego. Distraction is also common in abusive patterns such as the couple who must first fight before having sex together. Passion and abuse are not the same.
TIMELINESS of treatment may determine whether the analysis done yesterday or last week still applies today. Whenever possible, the Bach Remedies should be administered as soon as possible following the testing carried out. If a delay is necessary, the person should be retested when the remedy is at hand.
DETAILS - 3:
Time frame origin of the block?
THE REPTILIAN BRAIN STRUCTURE KEEPS A RECORD of the originating day or year of the energy block even though it may have been biochemically passed along through the heredity of many generations. This factor is often verified within the present life when a therapist describes a specific type and nature of an experience which has happened only once to the client and only during the exact year or month determined by the testing. These findings encourage us to show much greater respect and wonder for this life system and the God which created it.
A GREAT HISTORY OF THE HUMAN RACE, to some extent, is carried within the biochemistry of each human. For those who work in this field frequently enough and access this information, this reality is confirmed by the reference of the energy block characteristics of groups of individuals to traumatic incidents which have occurred at specific times in the past and are shared across a span of heritages. Whether seeking to target an energy block which was created last year, decades ago, or centuries ago, the origin time of the event can be an important part of the combination required to unlock and release the block.
Knowing what can be asked is only half the solution.
Never asking the question, results in never receiving the answer. Likewise, when fear or pride cloud our Ego with pre-judgements, we fail to ask questions out of fear, insecurity, or intolerance.
WHAT WAS THE ORIGIN ?
It is particularly important to determine not only the relative time but also whether the block was the result of a trauma arising out of the events of a duration of time, or, whether, the block was a direct outcome to a singular shocking event. The Higher Self Process helps you form the picture which the brain may require so that this particular block is not confused with other similar ones.
EACH PERSON IS INDIVIDUAL in her/his heritage, personal life experiences, Basic Personality features, culturally developed skills and attitudes, and self-developed abilities. The spiritual aspect of the guidance afforded by one's Higher Self does not provide detail, the conscious awareness of which could emotionally re-traumatize you. Whatever is provided enables you to grow past the energy block ... even if most of the details are left for your Unconscious mind to co-ordinate.
DETAILS - 4:
Relevance of the block to the individual?
The associations uncovered and revealed at this stage are important to the effectiveness of the therapy in the longer-term. They indicate the focus for the application of the following interactions with the Remedy Principle, Affirmations, and other references. That is, these associations or relationships help the conscious and unconscious aptitudes of the mind to target the new knowledge and perspectives to both the current energy block concerned as well as acting as a mentoring influence for future similar instances.
TO SIMPLY REMOVE THE BLOCK and leave the same weakness behind which led to the creation of the block initially is not an effective approach. If no improved coping capability was the outcome, the participant would simply be left primed to create a new replacement energy block at the earliest similar challenge. While this possibility cannot be completely averted without the individual learning more constructive communication and interaction skills and abilities, the targeting benefit of the definition of the relevance of the block and the following steps is immensely effective.
