Using Plant Medicine To Achieve Peak Emotional And Mental Health Naturally
Posted by Henry Jurk on March 5th, 2019
We strive for it - a positive state of mind- feeling our best self, its pure freedom! No anxiety, no depression, knowing our direction in life, feeling confident and happy. This is us in our most balanced state. But we can never stay in that state. We are confronted with negativity and challenges every day. From a single negative statement from a friend, to a huge trauma like death in a family we can change in an instant, become imbalanced and go from a positive state of mind right to the negative. That is how it starts. Something affects us on a mental level, and if we don't get back to our balanced, positive state of mind - it festers and can move to the physical.
There are daily challenges for everyone. It seems like life is getting tougher every day, doesn't it? With the introduction of social media, the political climate, the stress of supporting a family in this economy, life is tougher than ever, don't you think? Its hard to stay in a positive state of mind. So how do we achieve a positive state of mind and is it possible to achieve peak positive mental health naturally?
MEDICATION
Is it possible that natural remedies can be as strong as medication in helping our emotional and mental health and happiness? We grow up learning that medication will always help us. When we are not feeling well physically or emotionally, we go to the doctor. The doctor will help us to feel better by giving us the right pill. Did you know that the doctors learn about the “right” pills from the pharmaceutical company? You take the medication and if you don't feel better you take more. Sometimes you find a medication that helps you to feel good emotionally and hopefully the side effects are not so bad. Its what we are used to, how we were raised, what we are taught to settle for and be happy we have it. But is there another way? A more powerful, effective way to treat our state of mind, and can we do it ourselves - no side effects, no negatives? Yes - there is. Europe has been using plant medicine (aka flower remedies) for many years. Flower remedies date back all the way back to Hippocrates. How powerful are flower remedies? Dr. Weil shares information on what flower remedies are and how they help us. He speaks of Bach flower remedies, but there is more than Bach that works amazing for us.
POWERFUL, NATURAL FLOWER REMEDIES
Flower remedies target specifically our emotional and and mental health naturally. They are powerful remedies made from plant extracts. You can actually use these flower remedies to relieve your anxiety, sadness, and most imbalances in your mental and emotional well being. Robin shares information after her first month’s use of flower remedies and how they worked after a few months. This healing modality for our emotional health and wellness is not well known in the U.S. yet but is gaining popularity as more and more people learn how powerful they are on our emotional health without side effects. If we have been given on this earth all we need to survive - food, shelter, medicine - why wouldn’t mother earth provide powerful healing for our emotional state as well?
What brought them into vogue in the United States was Dr. Edward Bach who was a doctor, bacteriologist and pathologist. He found that when working with the same patients over and over again - the constant was always the emotional component and felt if he can cure the emotional challenge, their body would heal as well. That it did not come from the physical, that it first started in our emotional/mental state of mind. Heal the mind and the body will heal itself.
EVIDENCE-BASED RESEARCH
There is Science based research is beginning to pop up, this research is on Bach’s site, although it has been difficult in the past to create any research because it is considered energy/vibrational medicine. Whether there is science based evidence or testimonials - people are sharing their amazing changes back to themselves using plant medicine with the help of a certified Practitioner. There are some amazing brands of flower remedies besides Bach Flower Essences you can work with. There are also some amazing people sharing information on energy medicine.
Dr. Candace Pert (1946-2013) was an internationally recognized neuroscientist and pharmacologist who published over 250 research articles. She was a significant contributor to the emergence of Mind-Body Medicine as an area of legitimate scientific research in the 1980’s, earning her the title of “The Mother of Psychoneuroimmunology”, and “The Goddess of Neuroscience.”
She has some amazing quotes that speak to the correlation of science and alternative medicine for mental health naturally and more and more scientists and doctors are moving towards natural health and wellness even thought they may be ostracized for it.
“Most psychologists treat the mind as disembodied - a phenomenon with little or no connection to the physical body. Conversely, physicians treat the body with no regard to the mind or the emotions. But the body and mind are not separate, and we cannot treat one without the other.”
Your body is your subconscious mind and you cant heal it by talk alone.
Your mind is in every cell of your body.
The way our brain is wired up we only see what we believe is possible.
CONCLUSION
More and more proof is coming to the surface that are healing is part of a triangle of mind, body and spirit. We cannot heal totally without working on all three components which is where the term holistic medicine comes from. Meditation, yoga, energy medicine, foods, environment is all part of this triangle to health and in order to truly help yourself thrive, you need to work on all three and you can be in charge of your own family’s emotional and mental health naturally - without negative side effects. Look up flower remedies, learn about them, experiment - take control of your own health and wellness - you can do it and honestly - this is exactly what we are looking for!
