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Carolyn makes your Personal Essence Combination from the following Flower Essence Sets:
Bach Flower Remedies
New Zealand New Perception Flower Essences
First Light Flower Essences of New Zealand
Perelandra Essences
Gurudas Essences
Golden Bay Essences made by Carolyn
BACH FLOWERS - INDICATIONS
Remedy indications courtesy of the Bach Centre
www.bachcentre.com/centre/remedies.htm
Agrimony - mental torture behind a cheerful face
Aspen - fear of unknown things
Beech - intolerance
Centaury - inability to say 'no'
Cerato - lack of trust in one's own decisions
Cherry Plum - fear of the mind giving way
Chestnut Bud - failure to learn from mistakes
Chicory - selfish, possessive love
Clematis - dreaming of the future without working in the present
Crab Apple - cleansing remedy, also for self-hatred
Elm - overwhelmed by responsibility
Gentian - discouragement after a setback
Gorse - hopelessness and despair
Heather - self-centeredness and self-concern
Holly - hatred, envy and jealousy
Honeysuckle - living in the past
Hornbeam - procrastination, tiredness at the thought of doing something
Impatiens - impatience
Larch - lack of confidence and self-esteem
Mimulus - fear of known things
Mustard - deep gloom for no reason
Oak - the plodder who keeps going past the point of exhaustion
Olive - exhaustion following mental or physical effort
Pine - guilt
Red Chestnut - over-concern for the welfare of loved ones
Rock Rose - terror and fright
Rock Water - self-denial, rigidity and self-repression
Scleranthus - inability to choose between alternatives
Star of Bethlehem - shock
Sweet Chestnut - extreme mental anguish, when everything has been tried and there is no light left
Vervain - over-enthusiasm
Vine - dominance and inflexibility
Walnut - protection from change and unwanted influences
Water Violet - pride and aloofness
White Chestnut - unwanted thoughts and mental arguments
Wild Oat - uncertainty over one's direction in life
Wild Rose - drifting, resignation, apathy
Willow - self-pity and resentment
Rescue Remedy –a combination of Star of Bethlehem, Rock Rose, Cherry Plum, Clematis and Impatiens
NZ NEW PERCEPTION FLOWER ESSENCES
New Zealand New Perception Flower Essences Set
Descriptions adapted from the work originated by Mary Garbely
Abelia
Integration and realignment of right and left brain hemispheres; co-ordinates and extends brain activity and function. For strokes and brain damage. Enhances imagination, visualisation and intuition.
Acorn
Feeling overwhelmed and wanting to isolate.
Helps you to accept what is happening in the world with a strong heart and a positive vision.
Agapanthus
For deeply embedded hereditary patterns of negativity: deep subconscious fears; negative archetypal or collective unconscious memories.
Gives balanced perspective and ability to focus on positive human experience.
Autumn Crocus
A catalyst. Helps to integrate wisdom and loving intent with the knowing that you co-create your own reality. Enhances ability to transition through change while staying aligned to soul purpose.
Basil
Holding onto what is no longer useful from the past.
To move in a new direction, intuitively knowing what to give up and having the drive to move on from it. Helps decision making.
Belladonna
For doubt and confusion. Mental, emotional and spiritual instability, mental breakdown.
Gives courage, trust, stability. Removes doubt. Boundary setting, knowing what is your responsibility and what is not.
Blessings Mix (Kowhai, Puriri, Kauri & Acianthus in combination)
To lift yourself above the pain of struggle. Giving gratitude – counting your blessings and experiencing the freedom, joy and enlightenment this brings.
Cabbage Tree (Ti Kouka)
Believing in lack or scarcity. Focusing on past losses.
Realigns with abundance, success and vitality. Simplicity. Unlimited potential.
Choko
Deep subconscious fear that paralyses. Frozen – can’t move or think clearly.
Clears the mind, strengthens and revitalises.
Clematis
Daydreaming, idealistic fantasising. Unrealistic fearful imaginings.
Brings awareness into the present moment. Able to move forward realistically and responsibly.
Daisy
Recurring problems in areas of relationship, money or health.
Gives awareness and understanding of unresolved life patterns. Ability to respond, not react. Allows you recognise, understand and move on.
Dandelion
For mental stress, rigid attitude, negative outlook causing muscular tension.
Helps ease tension in body, relaxing physically and mentally. Enhances open mindedness, concentration and direction of energy.
Dill
Unresolved issues that fester and build up pressure, needing a release valve. Fear of death. Helps open expression and discussion; regrowth, regeneration. Facilitates labour and birth.
Erigeron Daisy & Whau
Losing faith in your body’s innate wisdom and healing ability, leading to physical problems.
For treating your body compassionately as your best friend, nurturing yourself. Boosting your immune function through trust and confidence in your body.
Eucalyptus
Fear of being alone, feeling unsupported.
To feel strength in unity (all-one-ness), knowing you are connected. Gives inner strength, peace and balance.
Euphorbia
Rejecting the self, self hatred, self denial.
Helps loving acceptance of yourself just as you are, with no regrets, leading to stable relationships and teamwork. Cleanses and purifies. Helps restore immune system after long illness.
Evening Primrose
Smothering over-concern, feeling stifled. Independence curtailed. Suppressed crying.
Gives ability to release emotion and move towards freedom and independence.
Everlasting Pea
Stuck in ego, limiting your self expression and application.
Gives self discipline, consistency and determination in pursuit of the highest vision for yourself. Always working for the highest good for yourself and others.
Five Finger
Fear of enclosed spaces. Feeling oversensitive, overwhelmed, helpless.
Brings awareness of how to use your well-developed sensitivity positively.
Flax
Fear of the unknown, of the future, of situations not previously experienced. Collective fears e.g. nuclear war, climate instability.
Stabilises your sensory system. Dispels fear, giving acceptance of the unknown situation. Ability to go with the flow, inner knowing that all is well.
Forget Me Not
Blaming others, self pity, feeling left out or thinking life is unfair.
Gives recognition that life is win:win, no one loses. Helps expand your vision of yourself to be creative, not reactive.
Ginger Blossom
Anger, irritability, hate, frustration, futility. Intense relationship causing defensiveness.
Helps to honour the other with patience, loving acceptance, humility and stability. Give and take in one-to-one relationships.
Hangehange
Restrictive and outdated patterns of learning. Low self esteem.
Gives courage to develop and extend your capacity for learning and creating successful outcomes. Helps deal with the hurt of lost loved ones, keeping the heart open and receptive to loving others.
Heather
Isolation, defensiveness, fear of being hurt creating barriers to relationship.
Helps to develop trust in personal and group relationships.
Himalayan Blue Clover
For individuals whose ideas and views go against the norm. When others’ opinions oppose and undermine yours.
Helps retain hope, joy and faith in your inner knowing. If you leap in blind faith, you will land.
Impatiens
Emotional insecurity re attachment to family, nation or race when accepted links are broken. Gives awareness of connections still existing on other levels. To love unconditionally without emotional need. Gives compassion and humility.
Iris
Controlling and planning every detail. Not trusting the process.
Restores trust and security. Helps you to step back and allow the natural flow. To get out of your own way and be present with the process. Enhancing clear intention. Inviting synchronicity. Trusting inner guidance and Nature.
Jasmine
Out of touch with soul purpose. Searching without recognising your purpose in the present moment.
Gives acceptance of your current role and inspiration to create an intentional future from where you are right now. Helps to align with purpose and set goals.
Jonquil
Sudden trauma generating fear that "things will never be the same again".
Gives stability to overcome fears, attune to loving warm connection and accept the unknown.
Kohekohe
Out of touch with Nature. Colluding with environmental destruction through inaction.
Balances masculine and feminine energies, encouraging conscious cooperation with Nature and acceptance of your role as steward of our planet.
Kohia (Native Passion Flower)
Bizarre negative thoughts flooding the mind; intense dark thoughts; destructive impulses.
Floods the mind with light and restores balance. Integration of your shadow, loving and accepting both light and dark aspects of yourself.
Koromiko
Indecisive, stuck in disharmony, unwilling to rock the boat, in stalemate.
For ability to work cooperatively with conflict, creating peaceful decisions and dynamic forward movement.
Kowhai
For spiritual redirection of sexual desire. Clears unresolved patterns that limit its expression. Transmutes the energy of desire and clears the way for spiritual regeneration in an evolutionary quantum leap.
Lasiandra
Worry, anxiety, overconcern. Dwelling on issues rather than taking steps to resolve them.
Gives courage to address and resolve disturbing issues. Strengthens the heart chakra. Creates inner stillness, strength and understanding.
Lemon Balm
Overwork, over responsibility for healing others, causing health problems and blocks to your spiritual growth.
Helps regain the wisdom and understanding of the true healing role, opening the way to spiritual progress. Enhancing the healer/client dynamic with healthy boundaries.
Lobelia
Impatient and hard on yourself. Unforgiving of your own perceived imperfections.
Helps to lovingly accept all aspects of yourself. Increases experience of synchronicity and the natural flow of energy by focusing attention on life’s abundant blessings.
London Pride
Intolerant and judgemental of others.
Recognising the divine in others and strengthening your connections with compassion and understanding.
Loquat
Limiting your worldview. Stuck in ideas and fears that restrict your experience.
Helps expand your horizons and widen your perception so change is embraced.
Luffa
Manipulative, controlling behaviour. Imposing your will on others.
An integrating and balancing essence. Heals soul damage, balances ego input.
Manuka
Helps heal blocks to the awareness of love.
Enhances expression of universal love. Spiritually uplifts by aligning you through all levels to the vibration of divine love.
Marigold (French)
Switching off, not attentive to internal or external messages. Disconnected from your life.
Strengthens inner knowing and connection with life. Gives ability to process and respond to information received. Calms central nervous system and restores inner timing.
Mexican Sunflower
Holding onto your security blanket. Fears of scarcity and loss. Identifying with material possessions.
Brings a sense of abundance and inner security.
Mingimingi
Distress and tension re difficult home and family dynamics. Emotional insecurity and reactivity.
Helps ease stress. For thoughtful interactions and loving responses. Secure relationships.
Montbretia
Feeling disempowered, out of control and helpless.
Realigns your power centre in harmony with soul purpose. Restores breaks in aura and helps avert physical ill health.
Morning Glory (Blue)
Disconnected from the flow of life. Loss of faith; out of balance with your creative spark.
Connects you with the spark of life and your unique part in Nature’s all-inclusive creative dynamic. Expressing light, love and spiritual vitality in each moment. Reverence.
Oak
Out of balance with soul direction and life purpose.
Balances body/soul fusion and strengthens divinely inspired wise action.
Orange Blossom or Native Greenhood Orchid
Dwelling in the past, disappointment lowering your vitality and love of life.
Centres your attention in the present moment, loving life and living to your potential.
Papaya (Mountain Paw Paw)
Self pity and burnout due to imbalance between work demands and meeting own needs. Healers essence for strengthening healthy boundaries. Helps you make wise choices and maintain balance as your healing role develops.
Peach
Grief and trauma, debilitating stress causing illness.
A catalyst, enhances and speeds up any healing process, balances and realigns on all levels.
Peace Rose
When experiencing difficult transitions. Uncertain of your direction.
Gives ability to harmonise with conscious soul direction when choosing your path. Brings peace of mind, surrender, trust and faith.
Pennyroyal
Avenue of expression blocked at throat chakra. Unable to give voice to your feelings.
Helps vocal expression in any form. Empowers you to speak your true thoughts and feelings confidently. Frees up throat charka and opens avenue of expression.
Pohutukawa
Disempowered, out of touch with your personal power base.
Helps you take responsibility for accessing the power within yourself and using it with wisdom and honourable intention. Living creatively in self empowerment.
Polyanthus (yellow)
Self critical, assuming guilt and taking on the blame.
Helps increase self respect. Gives compassion and generosity for yourself. Accepting and loving yourself when feeling vulnerable.
Puriri
False pride, arrogant thinking or misdirected power.
Balances authority and power with humility and wisdom. Body, mind and spirit in harmony with soul direction and aligned with Nature in co-creative action.
Ragwort
Feeling insecure and unworthy of love. Wary of opening your heart to others. Fear of failure in relationships.
Gives inner security to extend yourself to others with love and commitment. Secure in your ability to love and be loved.
Rata Vine (red)
Body and mind out of balance causing physical disharmony. Mind ego-focused and disrupting natural order. Body rhythms disturbed and energy lowered.
Balances and harmonises energy patterns at all levels. Restores vitality and synchronises mind and body rhythms. Aligns ego with soul direction.
Rata Vine (white)
Lowered vitality after illness, shock or grief. Resignation, loss of interest in life.
Helps revive energy and love of life. Restorative effect on endocrine and immune response.
Raupo
Gradual undermining of spirit causing negative self image. Feeling like you’ve been ‘kicked in the guts’. Build-up of resistance from ongoing stress depletes health of mind and body.
Helps uplift the spirit, enhancing spontaneity and a positive sense of self. Restores energy for living life to the full.
Rewarewa
Racial, religious or nationalist disharmony and tension. Archaic wounds still unresolved, causing hard-heartedness or envy.
Helps cleanse and heal old emotional wounds. Restores sense of connection with all humanity.
Honouring and appreciating difference. Knowing your own truths, strengths and weaknesses.
Rhododendron “Frangrantissima”
Feeling overwhelmed by responsibility. Emotionally over-involved in helping others. Heart connection shut down to protect against feeling too intensely. Adrenal overload.
Helps to stay grounded and centred in yourself while compassionate in service to others. Keeps the heart open and empathetic.
Rhododendron "Sir Robert Peel"
Rejecting your shadow side, wanting to attack and subdue what you see as negative in yourself.
Helps you shift from an attacking warrior stance to the role of the courageous adventurer on life’s journey. Embracing of your shadow side so you integrate it with understanding and love for yourself.
Salvia
Irresponsible, selfish, critical, ego-driven. Rebellious and defiant, blaming others.
Brings atonement – being at one with yourself in a spirit of self love. Helps youto recognise you are responsible for choosing your path. Staying open minded and taking charge of your actions and their consequences. Making positive choices for yourself in work and society.
Sunflower
Righteous desire to improve the world. Selfish superiority or ambition overshadowing others’ rights or needs.
Brings humility and willingness to stand alongside others and work cooperatively for humanitarian goals. Compassionate interaction.
Totara seed
Limiting your consciousness to the physical plane. Fear of death. Struggling with major life transitions. Forgetting that life is eternal.
Releases your consciousness from physical limitations and fearful struggle. Helps to transcend fear and embrace life at soul level. For conscious transitions, including death of the body.
Valerian
Stress and worry causing tension and a restless nervous system. Disturbed sleep, no vitality.
Calms thoughts and relaxes a troubled mind, releasing physical tension, giving sound sleep and restoring energy.
Verbascum
Feelings of insecurity grown out of proportion into fears that overwhelm. “Making mountains out of molehills.”
Helps you face your fears and put them in perspective. Able to meet difficulties with your sense of humour intact.
Veronica
Manipulative and “needy” behaviour. Passive domination or letting yourself be exploited. Bargaining love for gain.
Strengthens the heart chakra so love is expressed unconditionally, freely and joyfully. Restores spontaneity and playfulness. Equality and individuality in relationships.
Viola (white)
Thinking you are unworthy or a burden to others.
Increases your sense of self worth and ability to value yourself as you are. Helps you gracefully receive assistance and care from others.
Watermelon
Holding onto grievances, thinking life is unfair and lacking confidence to speak up for yourself. Resentment from suppressed anger, angry outbursts. Focused on inferiority, scarcity and loss. Adrenals overworked from unresolved emotional stress.
Assists you to claim your place in the world and empowers you to say what’s on your mind. Strengthens your convictions so you can confidently challenge authority figures. Giving freely of yourself with an attitude of abundance.
Wild Fennel
Survival trauma. Lowered vibration and weakened aura from exposure to negative or shocking psychic influences. Finding the world overwhelming or disorienting. Addictions.
Protects from outside influences and clears negativity from aura. Helps uplift your vibration and maintain positive energy, so negative thought forms have no influence. Strengthens healthy boundaries.
FIRST LIGHT ESSENCES OF NEW ZEALAND
Carolyn uses the following sets:
Ferns (37 - 43) www.nzfloweressences.co.nz/collections/fern-collection-no-s-37-43/
Trees (44 - 50) www.nzfloweressences.co.nz/collections/tree-collection-no-s-44-50/
Seeds (51 - 62) www.nzfloweressences.co.nz/collections/seed-collection-no-s-51-62/
Plants (63 -84) www.nzfloweressences.co.nz/collections/plant-collection-no-s-63-84/
Healers Collection (85 - 96) www.nzfloweressences.co.nz/collections/healers-collection-no-s-85-96/
PERELANDRA ESSENCES Set Lists
Carolyn uses the following sets:
Rose Essences I
This first set of Rose Essences assists with developing and expanding 8 qualities
of positive functioning involved in processing everyday challenging experiences.
Gruss an Aachen
Peace
Eclipse
Orange Ruffles
Ambassador
Nymphenburg
White Lightnin’
Royal Highness
Rose Essences II
This second set of Rose Essences assists the body to process and integrate deeply challenging life experiences, initiated at soul level. These experiences create an opportunity for expansion of consciousness, requiring corresponding changes in functioning to accommodate the expansion. Each of these 8 essences helps to balance and stabilise changes to a specific aspect of core physiological functioning, working within the body’s craniosacral system.
Blaze Improved Climbing Rose
Maybelle Stearns
Mr Lincoln
Sonia
Chicago Peace
Betty Prior
Tiffany
Oregold
Soul Ray Essences
Numbered 1 to 8
Nature Program Essences
V-1, F-1, B-1
V-2, F-2, B-2
Sobopla
Moon
Bowl
Click here to download the Perelandra Essences Brochure for definitions of all Perelandra essences.
Angelica
Indicated in psychological imbalances esp. autism, schizophrenia, obsession. Disorientation, lack of confidence, poor integration of information into the personality.
Has a connecting effect on all levels from subtle bodies through to cellular level. Bonds together all the diverse aspects of the personality. Enhances meditation, psychotherapy, biofeedback and hypnotherapy. Knitting effect helps rejuvenate torn tissue and repair cellular DNA structure.
Apricot
Helps the body to alleviate cancerous tumours, gallbladder stones and related inflammation. Helps purify appendix (in non-acute stage). Influences blood sugar and fatty tissue, strengthening pancreas and helping regulate blood sugar, moderating related mood swings and influencing weight control. Enhances assimilation of proteins, minerals and vitamins B and C. Relieves stress in kidneys leading to allergies.
Blackberry
Lethargic or disassociated state. Fear of death. Helps purify endocrine system. Stimulates female fertility. Helps align causal and spiritual bodies with physical body.
Dandelion
Benefits highly strung, nervous people with poor posture.
Relieves mental stress causing muscular tension, relaxing the entire body.
Grapefruit
Headaches. Muscular and skeletal stress.
Helps adjustand align cranial bones, relieving pressure from the atlas (C1). Assists clarity through release of tension held in bones and muscles of temples, head and jaw. Helps whole body alignment. Tones meridians and stimulates pineal gland.
Hawthorne (English)
Effective on the physical body, especially at cellular level. Useful in cancer therapy and precancerous emotional states such as extreme stress or grief from death of a loved one or a broken heart. Enhances visualisation therapy.
Hyssop
Helps to alleviate guilt, through honest confrontation with the basic cause of one’s thoughts and actions. Helps develop more constructive responses. Releases nervous and muscular tension. Eases guilt-related diseases.
Iris
Magnifies right brain function. For artistic inspiration and creativity. Opens the heart chakra and releases blockages in the second chakra so that creative energy can be channelled into art.
Lemon
Helps mental blocks, lack of humour, extreme emotional states.
Stimulates left brain function. Works with mental body to create clarity and decisiveness.
Mallow
Fear of aging. Mid-life crisis. Insecurity re physical appearance. Diseases of the aging process.
Helps move through transitional stages of life with dignity. Tonic for endocrine system. Reinforces tissue regeneration. Invigorating and rejuvenating effect.
Morning Glory
Tonic for entire nervous system, especially the sympathetic. Helps maintain vitality and stamina throughout the day. Strengthens the mental body and all the meridians.
Nettle
Helps ease emotional stress of a broken home e.g. adoption, divorce, sibling rivalry. A tonic for kidneys, lungs and nervous system.
Orange
Brings clarity and calm to any highly charged emotional state. Helps release trauma from deep in the subconscious, as an adjunct to therapy or counselling work.
Pansy
Anti-viral effect on most viruses - from common cold to herpes or hepatitis.
Peach
An excellent catalyst in combination with other remedies to decrease healing time. Enhances a sense of joy, lightness and ease in sleep. Aligns all the subtle bodies, bringing their harmonics into the physical body.
Pennyroyal
Repels thought forms, especially negative ones. Protects against psychic attack. The etheric body is strengthened to such a degree that negative thought forms cannot enter the physical body or psyche. Eases mental confusion.
Snapdragon
Treats imbalances in the vocal cords, lips, jaw, facial tissues and muscles. Aligns cranial bones. Opens and strengthens all structures associated with the avenue of expression.
Squash
Eases hormonal imbalances and enhances fertility. Rejuvenates reproductive organs and slows the aging process. Treats imbalances and diseases associated with reproduction and sexuality.
Thyme
Amplifies effects of other flower essences. Amplifies the time flow (a “liquid time machine”) – useful in past life therapies.
Yarrow
Protects from negative influences e.g. radioactive fallout, psychic attack, extreme emotionalism. Enhances the aura and balances polarities.
GOLDEN BAY ESSENCES MADE BY CAROLYN - INDICATIONS
Aotea Stone
Core survival issues; Life journeys;
Vulnerability of a new life form unfolding in the world. Oppressive weight of responsibility suppressing vitality. Brings opening, expansion, ease and flow of movement, uplifts and transcends. Accessing the wisdom of the divine feminine.
Foxglove
Nurturing; Seeds of a new generation; Starlight
Connection with the new age. Aids the process of rebirth after relinquishing the old ways and leaving oneself open to what is to come.
Kyanite Gem Essence – made from Kyanite crystal
Throat chakra; third eye chakra
Strengthens throat chakra. Enhances creative expression, communication, truth, loyalty, reliability, serenity. Connection to causal plane.
Facilitates astral/ interdimensional travel.
Nasturtium
2; Duality; Yin/Yang; Crown Chakra;
Synthesis; Peace; Protection;
Faith & Obedience
Works with dual principle i.e. with twos. Brings complementary energies together and strengthens a partnership through the creative process of dual forces synthesising a new energy form. Encourages positive partnerships and brings individuals into relationship with one another.
Yin and Yang principle. The meeting of two different energies is positive and creative with each honouring what the other brings to the partnership. Complementary energies embrace and produce the spark of creation. This essence teaches faith in the duality principle and the creativity and growth that can occur through being in a partnership. Nasturtium encourages individuals to reach out to another person, and to have faith in love. It also encourages obedience to one’s inner truth and guide.
Poroporo
Radiance; Personal Power; Transformational
Ability to radiate personal power so as to share one’s unique gift with the world. Has a transforming effect through expanding one’s influence and individual contribution to the whole.
Wisteria
Compassion; Softness; Gentleness
Dissolves hard-heartedness through compassionate embrace. Encourages resolution of destructive emotions with softness and gentleness. To help lighten your touch, reduce the force of your impact on others.
Mary Garbely - A New Perception: Flower Essences of New Zealand; a user’s manual.
Published 1995 by NZ Flower Essence Co-operative Trust
Order from: Bruce and Joan Dewe,
NZ New Perception Flower Essences Ltd, P O Box 25162,
St Helliers, Auckland 1300, NZ
Ph: 64 9 5740077
Email: office@icpkp.com
Mechthild Scheffer - Bach Flower Therapy; theory and practice.
Published 1990. Thorsons: London
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