Bach Flower Therapy Part 4: Remedies for Loneliness and Despair By Ms. Rukmini Iyer For info log on to www.healthlibrary.com.

1. BACH FLOWER
THERAPY PART 4
Remedies for Loneliness and Despair

2. The Seven Bach Flower Groups
• Fear
• Uncertainty
• Insufficient interest in present circumstances
• Loneliness
• Over-sensitivity to influences and ideas
• Despondency or despair
• Over-care for welfare of others

3. Remedies for Loneliness
Water Violet
• Helps people to prefer to be alone, but feel lonely
• Helps to build warmer relationships with people
• Reduces aloofness

4. Remedies for Loneliness
Impatiens
• Useful for impatient people with no tolerance for others’ slowness
• Teaches empathy and understanding
• Helps to lower stress levels
• Fast-acting remedy in reducing intolerance attitudes

5. Remedies for Loneliness
Heather
• For people who dislike being alone for any length of time
• Reduces need for compulsive sharing of one’s issues with others

6. Remedies for Despair
Larch
• Helps when one feels low about oneself
• Long term remedy to improve self-esteem and confidence
• Useful for people in a competitive environment

7. Remedies for Despair
Pine
• Remedy for guilt
• Helps to deal with perpetual discontent with one’s efforts and results
• Heals the tendency for self-reproach for anything that goes wrong

8. Remedies for Despair
Elm
• For weak moments in the lives of the strong
• Helps when feeling overwhelmed by responsibility
• General sense of depression and exhaustion

9. Remedies for Despair
Sweet Chestnut
• For moments when the anguish in unbearable
• When one feels one has reached the limits of endurance
• Heals despondent feeling when one thinks there is only destruction ahead

10. Remedies for Despair
Star of Bethlehem
• Part of the Rescue Remedy
• Heals distress and unhappiness
• Useful to deal with trauma, unhappiness or loss
• Brings peace after a shocking/unpleasant incident
• Good to use after childbirth
• Clears tissue memory of injuries

11. Remedies for Despair
Willow
• Remedy for sadness
• Helps to accept and overcome adversity and misfortune
• For people who feel sorry for themselves
• Helps when one is grumbling/sulking

12. Remedies for Despair
Oak
• Remedy for inner strength
• Helps people who overwork and ignore their tiredness
• Good for over-achievers
• Useful when one feels tired and enervated

13. Remedies for Despair
Crab Apple
• Remedy for cleansing
• For people who obsessively feel unclean
• Helps to purge toxins

14. Thank you
For more information on the topic, refer to:
• www.bachflower.org
• www.bachcentre.com
• www.healingherbs.co.uk
• www.nelsonsnaturalworld.com