Flower Essences for Animals

Flower Essences are extremely safe and gentle in their actions. They may be readily introduced into any health care program and do not interfere with nor are they adversely affected by other forms of treatment, such as homeopathic remedies or prescription drugs. They can be a gift of healing to members of the animal and plant kingdoms.

Modern allopathic medicine can give relief to symptoms—though it often has serious side effects—but it does not address the underlying causes of illness. It ignores the deeper imbalances and so, on its own often fails to restore health and vitality.

Gardeners know from experience how healing it feels just being in a garden full of flowers but we also give flowers to people recovering from illness. Have you ever wondered why we feel comforted by flowers when we are feeling down? Or how being close to a flower can have a positive effect on your well being?

What Can Be Helped By Flower Essences?

Animals have always been a part of Flower Essence therapy and from the early days Dr Bach saw that his essences would benefit not just humans but all living creatures (including ailing plants). Animals are capable of a wide range of emotional / psychological disturbances, including fear of loud noises, thunder, wind, people or specific people, other animals. Confusion, nervousness, jealousy, stress, effects of past trauma and abuse, loss of the will to live, loss of confidence grief and many other problems that may beset them throughout their lives.

Animals make great Flower Essence patients, in general. They are essentially far healthier than humans in psychological terms, meaning that they do not carry with them the great baggage of false ideas and delusions, fear and superstition, pride and hate, greed and envy, etc, with which humans are commonly afflicted. For this reason, animals actually tend to respond better to Flower Essence therapy than adult humans (children are quite similar to animals in this respect), needing less of an adjustment to rebalance them and restore them to a state of emotional health and happiness.

About My Qualification

I qualified from the Society for Animal Flower Essence Research who believe that practitioners should not only study and know the Flower Essences but who know animals and take into account specific knowledge of animals’ behaviour, ways and views of the world. We cannot really understand animals without viewing them in their ethological context—that is, understanding how they have developed to think, behave and see things. The way the dog relates to us is in many ways dictated and shaped by his social instinct, in just the same way that your horse’s relationship with you is heavily coloured and influenced by the fact that he is a herd animal and also a prey animal that for millions of years has been traditionally killed and eaten by predators such as ourselves.

If we can understand their cultures and their values and learn to speak their languages, we can understand their distress signals and we can help them far more efficiently than we otherwise would. In this context, the Flower Essences are simply tools that we use where appropriate, alongside other tools (e.g. medical help, dietary advice, training etc.) to re-establish a balance of the animal. This implies the need for a dual approach to Animal Flower Essence therapy work combining a thorough knowledge of the essences with an equally thorough knowledge of animals’ thought processes and behaviour

One of the major stumbling blocks in animal therapy is the lack of clarity in attitudes towards animals’ behavioural / instinctual, as opposed to emotional / characterological issues. What may be thought of as a strictly emotional issue with an animal may in fact turn out to be partly a behavioural /training issue.