Who doesn't agree that flowers are uplifting? It's why we bring them to friends and family who are homebound, hospitalized or send them to associates when loved ones have passed on. Flowers offer hope and remind us that life is good.
The beauty of a flower speaks to our hearts, and every child is fascinated by their fragrance, color, shape and feel and maybe their vibration. Like all things, flowers have a vibrational resonance. It's not simply our association to flowers that triggers a response deep our hearts, it may be that flowers send the message.
Author Stephen Harrod Buhner in "The Secret Teachings of Plants" encourages people to tune in to the subtle world of plant communication. "Everything that you experience with the plant is important and bears some relation to its uses as medicine, its function in the ecosystem, its own life history and desires and its relationship to humans and the world"
Becoming attentive to flowers can shift consciousness from the linear world to the nonlinear world. With a master's in transpersonal psychology therapy, flower essence practitioner and producer Sheryl Karas is a person who has experienced this shift. "If someone had told me years ago that I'd be accessing higher guidance with flower essences to work with my clients, I would have said 'You're out of your mind!'" she laughs. "I didn't have much of a spiritual focus"
With a bachelor's in communications and minor in psychology and women's studies from Simmons College, Karas grew up in traditional New England. But vibrational medicine in the U.S. has its roots going back through New England to our mother country, England.
World-renowned English homeopath and bacteriologist Dr. Edward Bach discovered in the 1920s that flowers had the power when offered as remedies to help his clients live emotionally healthier lives. Reaching back into Egyptian methods, he developed Bach Flower Remedies, which speak to specific emotional needs. Bach was one of the first medical physicians to work with vibrational medicine.
At the forefront of science today, vibrational medicine is a rapidly growing branch of traditional medicine. Researchers have created breakthrough surgical and medical technology based on sound waves, and a slew of books are available on research being conducted in Europe.
Even in the world of chemistry, there is a growing recognition of vibration as messenger. "Each individual plant makes thousands of chemical compounds, all of which are biologically active and full of impact," says Buhner. "But these compounds are transforms of messages. They are communications. And it is not necessary to understand plant chemistry to understand their communications"
So, too, you don't have to be a trained therapist to explore flower essences. Subtle, gentle and harmless they offer the layperson a wealth of conversation.