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International Research Journal Online • Winter-Early Spring 2011
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Read a report written by Julia Graves and Thupten Jinpa after they returned from a second trip to Haiti in 2010 where they organized a community health clinic. An extended group of practitioners accompanied them and offered homeopathic, herbal, flower essence, aromatherapy and related treatments to all those who came to the clinic. Flower essences played a central role in helping with the emotional trauma still prevalent among the people served. | |||
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This is a report written by Vera Gondim, a flower essence practitioner and teacher in Brazil. After the devastating and disastrous floods in the country, she and an already well-organized social service group of flower essence practitioners went to deliver flower essence therapy to those in need of emotional support. Read the report here. | |||
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“Working in Ringoma, providing Bach flower therapy was such a rich and full experience. It helped develop my realization that universally, all peoples of the world experience the same emotional conflicts, and have concerns for family.” Read about Joan Ryan's commitment to offering her practitioner skills and doing volunteer work in places where people have experienced traumas. | |||
Practitioner Reports
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Flower essence practitioner, Linda Cohen, writes about her personal experience and insights in regard to using Pretty Face flower essence. Read what she has to say about the quality of selflessness, which is nurtured by the essence. |
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“Flower essences are especially important because they help women struggling with menopausal problems, those who usually don't know where else to turn for relief except to pharmaceutical medications, since all the allopathic medical community wants to do is prescribe pills. The fact that the essences are so natural, cost considerably less, can help without side effects, and really do work, is a god-send for those of us suffering with these symptoms.” Read Vicka Lanier's case observations using Rosemary and Fuchsia as lead flower essences for the symptoms of menopause. |
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Plant Study |
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One of the principle contributions of the Flower Essence Society has been the development of flower essence plant studies, particularly the relationship of botanical classifications with flower essence qualities. These correlations are based on the perception that the forms and structures of the essence plants are expressions of their underlying qualities and energetic properties. Before entering the FES Certification Program, one must complete a plant study; read Theresa Melia’s study of the Queen Anne’s Lace which was submitted for the 2010 FES Practitioner Certification Program. Read further comments exploring the plant signature of Queen Anne’s Lace and its healing qualities as a flower essence by Patricia Kaminski and Richard Katz. |
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Archetypal Character Study |
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Editorial staff: Jann Garitty, Patricia Kaminski, Richard Katz, Jon Enos, Melony Vance |
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One of the aims of the FES Certification Program is to help each student come into greater awareness of archetypal reality, both in the language and images of the soul, and in the larger soul expressions of Nature. The ability to become articulate in this language is fundamental to practitioner skill in flower essence therapy. A core assignment involves exploration of an archetype that can be clearly evidenced in visual art, literature, film, human biography or larger culture, and how this archetype is reflected in the context of a particular flower archetype.