I've been recording and studying my dreams since 1970. I noticed a
significant change in their quality when I began taking Bach Flower Remedies in
1989.
Bach Flower Remedies, discovered and developed in the early 1900s by Edward
Bach, MD, work to dissolve emotional blockages by flooding the being with the
opposite qualities characterized by the individual flower. For example, people
who feel little interest in physical or day-to-day reality, preferring to exist
in the world of imagination, would take Clematis. The result is usually a
deepened connection between the worlds of physical and imaginative existence,
which allows them to manifest their creative imagination in physical form.
It's my experience that much of the healing generated by Bach Flower Remedies
takes place in dreams as indicated in the following examples.
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I'm at a Center for the Wounded Child Within. I'm a weekly volunteer there. I
file cards, but I realize I want to do something more challenging. Then I feel
guilty. I think, "Well, everyone wants to do something more challenging.
Who's going to file cards?"
Everyone is on some kind of team. I keep on finding myself getting up, and
let other people know how I feel. Everyone else feels the same way about their
wounded children. I say I need therapy. There's some therapy at the center, but
you have to put in a lot of hours to get it. I don't know if it's worth it (or
is it that I don't know if I'm worth it?)
I was taking the Remedy Larch, for self-esteem and self-confidence. People in
need of Larch, although their capabilities are equal to those of others, are
convinced that they're incapable of success, and particularly resist doing
anything new. In the dream I defeat my desire to do something more challenging
by saying that someone has to do the routine work. The metaphor of a wounded
child tells me that my self-image is my problem, but when it comes to exploring
this via therapy I wonder whether I'm worth it.
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My partner is very ill and has been for some time. Her doctor has just done
surgery. He takes me inside and says that she has cancer all he did was open and
close her. He knew her cancer was incurable from the first time she went to see
him.
This shocks me because she went right away. He tells me he hasn't told her.
I'm sure she knows, and I feel I have to tell her. I call my store and ask
someone to arrange to fill my time for a few weeks so I can be with my partner.
I take a serious look at how my life is going to be. I want to take care of her,
and at the same time prepare myself for running the business alone. I also need
to take time out for recreation.
I was taking the Oak Remedy, for people who take on difficult to impossible
tasks out of a sense of duty, continuing long after most people would give up.
Taking on the responsibility of caring for a terminally ill person is just what
an Oak person would do and they would add it to their other commitments. In the
dream I both release my commitment to my store and realize that I will need to
take time for play. These decisions represent positive effects of the Oak
Remedy.
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I'm in an office building with my mother and father. My father begins to
viciously insult my mother and starts to hit her. She begins to cry. I become
furious and scream at him, "Don't you dare!" and slap him across the
face. I feel very good about having spoken up and defended her. Then the whole
building blows up.
I was taking the Agrimony Remedy, for the tendency to resist awareness of
disturbing feelings, and to conceal any unhappiness from others. The dream
reveals an aspect of the relationship between my parents of which I wasn't
consciously aware, and has me act on my response to this awareness. The building
blowing up represents the unleashing of deep feeling.
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I'm in a jungle. I see places where the land has been completely destroyed.
There are other places which are dark and swampy. The water is very deep, and
beneath it is the land of limited reality. It is ruled by an evil king who
controls everyone. I feel myself sinking into this land, which is very heavy
water. I feel the weight of it, and I know this is what happens when you don't
take responsibility for being the creator of your life.
I was taking the Willow Remedy. for those who blame external circumstances
and other people for their own misfortune. Resentment and bitterness are
keywords for Willow. People in need of this Remedy characteristically turn their
emotions inward, for which the swamp, a stagnant area, is a metaphor. In the
dream I feel the weight of the water (held-in emotions) and have a clear
appreciation of the emotional heaviness which results when I don't take
responsibility for my life.
Bach Flower Remedies have increased my ability to remember my dreams,
deepened their emotional quality, and made their symbolic content more
accessible to me. I recommend them to all dream voyagers.
Connie Barrett has been a certified Bach Flower Remedy practitioner since
1990. Her website, <http://www.rainbowcrystal.com">Beyond the
Rainbow</a>, contains extensive information about flower essences. You can
view this article there at http://www.rainbow crystal.com/bach/dream
Connie Barrett
Beyond the Rainbow
New Age CatalogHolistic Resource
http://www.rainbowcrystal.com
rainbow@ulster.net
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