So I didn't get very far sharing my learning of the Bach Flower Remedies with you all - I think I got to Cerato. I had to take a different quicker route to learning as doing a flower a day wasn't working or sticking in my brain so I bought the CD which is available from the Bach Centre www.bachcentre.com and I listened to this in the car day and night going to and from work. This really worked for me, learning by listening and then interacting in verbal exercises. In 10 days I had pretty much memorised 30 of the 38 remedies and their key indications.
I got stuck on the Chestnuts! Not Red Chestnut though for some reason I can always remember that because its in the Fear category - why I am so good with the fear remedies I don't know! I don't think its because of my fear, I think probably I associate each fear remedy with animals, probably dogs specifically. So for those of you who are interested Red Chestnut is for the Fear for others but especially for loved ones.
The other Chestnut Remedies are Sweet Chestnut for Extreme Mental Anguish, Chestnut Bud for people who don't learn from experience so keep repeating mistakes in life and White Chestnut for obsessive unwanted thoughts that are impossible to control so the sufferer will have these thoughts go over and over and over in their minds with no resolution. A White Chestnut person will probably not be able to sleep because of it.
I also got stuck at Gorse which is for hopelessness - its so similar to Mustard and Gentian but I had to remember that if you are hopeless then at some point you had hope - Mustard are for people who have a deep depression for no apparent reason and Gentian is for people who are depressed after a setback. So they are all so similar but I now have them stored in my brain and know that I have to seek more information on how a person is feeling before you can absolutely decide which remedy I would select for them.
Wild Rose was another of my sticking remedies - could not remember it and would get it confused with Rock Water which is for inflexibility and rigidity where as Wild Rose is for people who are apathetic and accepting of the way things are so quite different remedies so if I got them mixed up in a session with someone I would be giving them the completely wrong remedy so they wouldn't get the help they need. Fortunately I seem to have been able to remember Wild Rose because Wild is the opposite of Apathy so it now has stuck in my head and Rock Water because Rocks are inflexible.
Willow was another one I had difficulty remembering - its for self pity, bitterness and resentment so I remember it as Weeping Willow and that seems to help.
So I am hoping that I got all of those straight enough in my head before the exam and that the 2.5 hours of writings I had to complete in the exam were good examples of my knowledge! I need to get 75% before I am allowed to move onto the next stage - its quite high isn't it but I suppose thats a good thing so only potential practitioners with a really good working knowledge of the remedies get to move to the next stage.
Of course my reason for starting down the road on Bach Flower Remedies was to be able to do the Animal course - I don't have to be a human practitioner to do it but I had to get to level 2 for humans before I could apply for the animal course so I thought why not just go to level 3 for humans and see what happens - also quite often you have to treat the human before the animal and sometimes by treating the human the animal gets better itself as animals quite often will bear the burden of their human guardians emotions. so fingers crossed I pass so I can continue on to become a human practitioner and I am really looking forward to starting my Animal Bach learning so head off to Wales to the Natural Animal Centre the week after next.
So more news on Bach will follow from Wales - apparently its really tough going on the course because an animal can't tell you how it feels so you have to look at the animal behaviour to be able to select remedies for them. As some of you will know I love animal behaviour and studied Canine Psychology so I am hoping I arrive on the course with some knowledge that is helpful.
Meantime I am starting my case studies for EFT - did I mention I had passed my EFT written exam? Anyway I did so I have to do 3 case studies - one on myself (have no idea where to start!!) one on a person who has an issue we can resolve in one consultation and another person who will need at least 3 consultations so I am going to work with my friend Scott who wants to stop smoking for that one - so fingers crossed I can help him!
I still have to do my colour therapy written work and case studies too but will get to it in the next month or two with my sister as we are studying this together.
suzxxx
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