Indications: unable to maintain one's boundaries while witnessing a highly charged emotional experience; getting swept away by other people's negative feelings; emotionally codependent; difficulty containing one's own emotional energy, especially in group dynamics.

Healing Qualities: strengthens energetic boundaries in the emotional body; promotes emotional independence rather than codependence; helps us maintain a state of compassionate detachment while witnessing intense emotions in others; helps us boundary our own emotions in a responsible way.

To understand how flower essences work requires a recognition that the human being is more than a physical body, but also incorporates a "body" of life energy, a "body" of sensitivity and feelings, and a spiritual essence or Self. Flower essences are energetic imprints of the life force of plants which interact with these subtle bodies of the human being, and evoke specific qualities within us. We can say that they work in a similar way to inspirational music or art, which carry meaning through the vehicle of sound or light, while the flower essences work through the medium of water.

Modern physics has known for nearly a century that matter and consciousness are intertwined. However, medical science still generally works with a nineteenth century model of the human being as a mechanism in a world of machines. We expect that in the coming century medical science will develop ways of studying the impact of consciousness on health, and we will learn more about the ways in which flower essences work. However, empirical research, which consists of the collection of case studies and practitioner reports, will remain the primary source of knowledge about how flower essences work.         (content from Flower Essence Services)