An Introduction to
Flower, Gem & Crystal Essences
Flower, Gem & Crystal Essences are simple natural tools that everyone can use and benefit from. The positive natural energies that they contain promote harmony, balance and wholeness through all levels of your being, encouraging you to move beyond your limitations and to discover your true potential.
What are Flower, Gem & Crystal Essences
Each Flower, Gem or Crystal essence contains the life force or energy imprint of a particular flower, tree, gem, crystal or mineral. These wonderful energies provide a positive balancing force, which in a natural and gentle way helps to release the energetic patterning of old thoughts, attitudes and emotional issues that no longer serve us. This simple system of re-patterning effects change at a causal level offering us the powerful opportunity to bring harmony and balance to body, emotions, mind, & spirit.
The 38 Flower Remedies that Dr Edward Bach developed during the 1930's are a well-known example of the use of flower energies. Dr Bach is often considered to be the father of flower essences. He was certainly a way-shower - someone with a vision and an important message for us all. This message is revealed in the books & writings that he left to accompany his 38 Remedies. In a simple & direct way he provides us with the understandings that we need to create balance & wholeness in our lives. These truths are just as appropriate now as they were during Dr Bach's time & they form the basis for using all Flower, Gem & Crystal Essences today.
The Different Essence Types
Bach Flower Remedies
Bach Flower Remedies work best when used to bring balance to the surface layers of a pattern and are a wonderful resource to provide everyday balance. They work best when mixed into combinations of 6-8 remedies and taken often. They work very quickly on children and are often the only essences that young children need to return them to balance. For adults, as well as being very useful in their own right, a combination of Bach Flower remedies can be very helpful to take alongside a combination of deeper acting essences.
Deeper acting essences and combinations
The deeper acting Flower Essences carry a high level of consciousness and are able to remind us of our own innate wholeness – who we really are - and Essences made from gems, crystals and minerals will also work deeply into a pattern.
The Divine Harmony Essences, Chakra Combinations, Rainbow Light Body Essences and Inner Child Essences are all combinations of deep acting flower, gem, crystal or mineral essences specifically chosen for their ability to focus powerfully on a particular issue, pattern or positive potential. They make an excellent resource for those who want to work seriously with an issue.
Our range of single deeper acting Essences include the Karmic Essences, Angel Essences, Rose Essences, Archangel & Ascended Master Essences and of course our large selection of individual Flower, Gem & Crystal Essences.
How We Make our Essences
Making the Mother Tincture
Each Flower, Gem, Crystal or Mineral is placed in pure water in a thin glass bowl and left in full morning sunshine for three hours. Using the natural power of the four elements - Earth, Air, Fire & Water - the life-force or energy of the flower or mineral used is transferred to the water*. This unique positive energy is then preserved in brandy or vodka, creating a mother tincture, which is then amplified using crystals, pyramids and the natural elements under guidance. No physical part of the flower or mineral is used in the mother tincture - it is purely the vibrational frequency or energy.
*All our mother tinctures are made in this way with the exception of 18 of the Bach Flower Remedies - mother tinctures for these are made by the boiling method as instructed by Dr. Bach.
Making a stock bottle
The mother tinctures are used to make stock bottles, which are all hand bottled and labelled with loving care. These stock bottles are the dilution that you purchase from Crystal Herbs.
Handmade with Love & Care
From making the Mother Tincture to bottling and labelling the stock bottles that we send you, each essence is handmade with love and care, helping to ensure that we provide you with the best possible quality of essence.
