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Flower Essences and the Birthing Process by Diana Pepper

Giving birth. What a wondrous, exhausting, beautiful, potentially life and death experience! As with other challenging situations, your body, mind, emotions, and even spirit can become very stressed. Flower essences are a reliable ally during the birth process.

Humans are complex electrical/vibrational beings. We have an electrical system within and surrounding our physical bodies. It couples with our nervous, circulatory and glandular systems, subtle bodies, chakras and all that is around us. When the circuits in our electrical system are stressed from intense situations like giving birth, they can sometimes overload, short-circuit or shut down. Flower essences help to strengthen the circuits and keep the mother and baby in balance.

Flower essences can be helpful in many ways during pregnancy and the birthing process itself. A woman may consciously or subconsciously remember previous traumas, perhaps her own birth process. Even if this situation is not conscious, flower essences can address what is happening. A mother’s trauma is less likely to be passed on to the child and the birth will be easier. Comfrey, Pennyroyal and Snowberry essences help the mother heal these emotional/energetic wounds.

Flower essences support a mother in labor to have strength and courage to push during the contractions, even when she is exhausted. She can then relax and recharge during the pauses. If the mother intentionally focuses on sending the essences to the baby, they will help the child, too. Mullein and Rosemary essences and S.O.S. Flower Remedy blend are helpful during labor.

Flower essences are most commonly taken orally from the dropper. They can also be very effective when used on the skin, in drinking water, in bath water, or in a spray mist. During the birth process, the easiest ways to use flower essences are in the mother’s drinking water or in a mister that can be sprayed around her.

Flower essences also work well with essential oils. Adding essential oils - such as lavender and thyme, which are relaxing, mood uplifting and antimicrobial - to a mister containing flower essences is a convenient way to administer this type of combination. It can help not only the mother, but also people who are assisting with the birthing process.

And it is always nice to welcome the new baby into our world in a gentle healing way. Self Heal essence helps to balance the mind/body integration and pressure in the head. It aligns and balances the chakras and strengthens the connection with the subtle bodies. It also supports cellular regeneration. Put a drop of Self Heal in a glass of water, and then put a drop from the glass on the new baby. This will help to offset any energetic disruptions that may have occurred during the travel through the birth canal or during the C-section operation.

Since flower essences start as a vibrational remedy and remain a vibrational remedy, they are completely safe to use. If you administer one that you or the baby don’t need, the flower essence will move through your energy fields and dissipate since there is no break in your electrical system to match.

Even though I have given some suggestions of flower essences that you could use during a birthing process, I always encourage people to choose for themselves. Sometimes the name of the essence or the description of the essence will resonate deeply with you. Sometimes you may experience a feeling, magnetic draw or a distinctive body sensation when you touch a bottle. Some people use a pendulum. There are also trained practitioners who help people choose the most effective essence(s) for their situation.

Flower essences support our life, learning and healing processes and can be used with any healing modality for humans, animals, plants, land and the larger systems we call our environment. During pregnancy and the birthing process, flower essences offer tremendous support.

Diana Pepper produces alcohol free flower essences at Tree Frog Farm on Lummi Island, in Washington State. She offers individual flower essences, flower essences blends and flower essence/aromatherapy products. http://www.treefrogfarm.com

You can view and purchase some of Tree Frog Farm flower essences for mother and baby on Babynut here:

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