The Healing Guide to Flower Essences: How to Use Gaia's Magick and Medicine for Wellness, Transformation and Emotional Balance

by Alena Hennessy, Jane Hennessy (Illustrator)

Overview

Connect with the magick and frequency of 100 flower essences.

The power of Nature to heal has been accepted for many millennia. Flowers inspire us with their beauty, beguile us with their fragrance, and can have medicinal properties in their oils and plant matter. However, the healing properties of flowers go even deeper. Each flower holds a unique energetic fingerprint or essence that can be used for healing, wellness, and self-discovery.

Organized by categories such as transformation, inspiration, boundaries, healing, and self-esteem, The Healing Guide to Flower Essences helps you quickly find the right remedy for your wellness and self-discovery. For example, you can use Larch for overcoming doubt and insecurity, Gentian for perseverance and optimism after a setback, or Cherry Plum for surrender and trust in one’s soul path.

Each flower entry provides a list of what its essence can assist you with along with an invocation and a description of its physical properties, uses, and benefits.

Written by noted artist and flower essence practitioner Alena Hennessy and lovingly illustrated with original botanical art and illustration with co-illustrator Jane Hennessy,this user-friendly guide also includes:

• The history of flower essences dating back almost 3,000 years
• The original 38 flower remedies created by Dr. Bach
• How to connect more deeply with the properties and messages of the flowers by making your own flower essence remedies
• What it’s like to work with flower essences through insightful personal interviews with flower essence practitioners
• A resource section and an index

Embrace the subtle, beautiful, and transformational power of flower essences.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781592339389
Publisher:	Fair Winds Press
Publication date:	05/05/2020
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	515,105
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Alena Hennessy is a flower essence practitioner, energy healer, Reiki Master, and noted artist. Her work has been featured in numerous magazines and publications, including Spirituality & Health, Natural Health, Redbook, The Washington Post, and Good Morning America. She is the author of the Mysteries of Love Oracle Deck, Cultivating Your Creative Life, The Painting Workbook, and Intuitive Painting Workshop; a beloved teacher of the art-making process, both online and at select retreats; and a sacred space-holder for women’s creative expression. Her paintings combine spiritual inspiration and heartfelt expression with botanical detail. She has exhibited across major cities in the US, along with several museum shows.

Jane Hennessy credits her formal education as much as the benefit of traveling extensively while with her family for her success. After graduating high school, she received her BA from Florida State University, majoring in design, printmaking, and art history. Throughout her professional career, she has worked in merchandising design for JC Penny, owned Custom Signs & Murals for twelve years, and later was a digital artist for Fox Television in Tampa, Florida, for nine years. Jane, mother of three accomplished children, now enjoys painting and living in Asheville, North Carolina. Visit her online at janessy.com.

Table of Contents

Ch 1 What Flower Essences Actually Are 9

Ch 2 Dr. Bach's 38 Essential Remedies 13

How to Make Your Own Flower Essences

How to Take Flower Essences

Ch 3 Flower Essences for Anxiety 17

Aloe Vera

Cherry Plum

Mimulus

Passion Flower

Yarrow

Chamomile

Lavender

Olive

White Chestnut

Ch 4 Flower Essences for the Blues 29

Blazing Star

Buttercup

Saint John's Wort

Willow

Baby Blue Eyes

Mustard

Scotch Broom

Yerba Santa

Ch 5 Flower Essences for Boundaries 43

Agrimony

Centaury

Oak

Red Chestnut

Black Cohosh

Chicory

Quince

Scarlet Monkeyflower

Ch 6 Flower Essences for a Broken Heart 57

Bleeding Heart

Forget-Me-Not

Jasmine

Pink Yarrow

Borage

Honeysuckle

Love Lies Bleeding

Rose

Ch 7 Flower Essences for Clairvoyance 71

Angelica

Aspen

Cerato

Monkshod

Star Tulip

Angel's Trumpet

Black-Eyed Susan

Cosmos

Queen Anne's Lace

Ch 8 Flower Essences for Courage 85

Gentian

Mountain Pride

Penstemon

Red Clover

Sweet Chestnut

Larch

Oregon Grape

Pink Monkeyflower

Rock Rose

Ch 9 Flower Essences for Frustration 99

Beech

Fuchsia

Holly

Ocotillo

Calendula

Hawthorn

Impatiens

Tiger Lily

Ch 10 Flower Essences for Grounding 111

Almond

Clematis

Lady's Slipper

Sweet Pea

Blackberry

Dandelion

Rosemary

Vervain

Ch 11 Flower Essences for Healing

Arnica

Dogwood

Evening Primrose

Self-Heal

Crab Apple

Echinacea

Mariposa Lily

Star of Bethlehem

Ch 12 Flower Essences for Inspiration 135

Columbine

Green Rose

Indian Paintbrush

Wild Oat

Desert Lily

Hornbeam

Iris

Wild Rose

Ch 13 Flower Essences for Self-Esteem 147

California Peony

Fawn Lily

Larkspur

Mountain Pennyroyal

Elm

Goldenrod

Mallow

Prettyface

Ch 14 Flower Essences for Transformation 159

Alpine Aster

Lilac

Lupine

Sage

Snapdragon

Cayenne

Lotus

Pedicularis

Shooting Star

Ch 15 Interviews with Flower Essence Practitioners 173

Joseph Aldo

Daisy Marquis

Lena Ruark-Eastes

Brooke Sullivan

Kristina Crabtree

Lupo Lauren Passero

Asia Suler

Resources 201

How to Become a Certified Flower Essence Practitioner

Where to Buy Flower Essences

About the Author 204

Acknowledgments 205

Index 206

Editorial Reviews

05/08/2020

Flowers have been used for thousands of years in treatment of physical ailments and injuries. In more recent times, flower essences, created by an almost homeopathic level of distillation, have been used by complementary healers to address emotional conditions that accompany or presage illness. Hennessy (Intuitive Painting Workshop; The Painting Workbook) presents a beautifully illustrated, comprehensive lexicon of flower essences for emotional healing and personal growth. Stressing safety, she encourages home preparation, which is remarkably easy. Dosages reflect the vibrational character of the healing apparatus utilized. Appropriately, Hennessy begins with acknowledgement of the repertory created by Edward Bach, the early 20th century British physician who championed and set the standard for the use of flower remedies. Bach's flowers are included but do not make up the majority of the 100 flowers described for their potential in resolving emotional patterns or assisting expansion of consciousness. Conversations with flower remedy healers about their transformative experiences concludes the title. VERDICT Excellent for readers that either wish to explore the subtlest of herbal medicine and personal self-care or expand their knowledge of this unique healing practice.—Janet Tapper, formerly with Univ. of Western States Lib., Portland, OR

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