Bach flowers in despair

Which Bach flowers are used?

The following Bach flowers can be used for people who suffer from despair and discouragement:

• Crab Apple (crab apple)
• Elm (elm)
• Oak
• Pine (Scottish Pine)
• Larch (lark)
• Willow (yellow willow)
• Sweet Chestnut (sweet chestnut)
• Star of Bethlehem (Doldiger Milchstern)

Crab Apple (crab apple)

• You feel polluted, unclean or infected inside and out
• Cleansing bloom
• One strives for purity, order, perfection
• One has a keen sense of mental hygiene, one feels sinful and defiled
• You don't want any disorder in public or private life
• Everything has to look like it's peeled from an egg (Addiction to cleaning) and one also strives for cleanliness in interpersonal relationships
• Outwardly everything is fine (conflicts are swept under the rug!)
• One is disgusted with dirt, insects, bacteria and also with one's own symptoms of illness (rashes, WasZen etc.)
• This strong need for cleaning can lead to compulsive behavior (Neuroses how Compulsory washing, Order etc.)
• People who Crab Apple need are often petty shopkeepers and pedants
• You lose sight of the essentials and get irritated by little things

Positive development opportunities: Generosity, sense of general context, details become unimportant.

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Elm (elm)

• You have the temporary feeling that you are not up to your task, that you do not have the strength to do everything you want and need
• Elm is the smelling salt of the strong in the hour of weakness
• One has taken over
• You have a sense of responsibility and ideals and tend to take on too much responsibility, you load yourself up a lot and risk being overwhelmed and overloaded
• The breakdown is mostly on a psychological level (for example, a blackout during exams), but injuries due to excessive physical activity are also possible
• Elm is usually a flower that is only needed temporarily.

Positive development opportunities: strong personality with strong skills, compassionate attitude, positive leadership personality.

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Oak

• You feel like a dejected, brave fighter who continues anyway
• You take responsibility voluntarily (Pine for example is forced to take responsibility), is active, persevering, wants to do everything himself
• Oak personalities do not give up, they feel like the pillars, must not get sick, cannot delegate
• Duty is more important. This results in excessive demands on your own person, you are exhausted but still carry on
• Other people are pressured to be hardworking too
• Diseases like high blood pressure and arteriosclerosis are common

Positive development opportunities: Strength, endurance, strength, perseverance, reason in relation to one's own physical needs (periods of rest).

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Pine (Scottish Pine)

• You blame yourself, feel guilty
• has the feeling of not being worth something
• One has fear Made a mistake and fears punishment
• You place the highest demands on yourself - more than you do on others - and feel guilty when you can't meet them
• Pine personalities Often apologize, downplay their own performance, and sometimes feel responsible for others' mistakes
• One is forced to take responsibility (example: single parents feel guilty about their children, are overworked and drained)

Positive development opportunities: Ability to recognize errors as normal

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Larch (lark)

• One has Inferiority complexes
• Expectation of failure Lack of self-confidence
• You don't trust yourself, you have too little courage, you have inner fears and you don't want to fail (you don't even try!)
• One is afraid to embarrass oneself
• You feel inferior to other people right from the start and don't doubt this attitude, but are convinced of your own inability
• People in need of Larch often suffered from negative parental attitudes in childhood
• The sense of achievement is missing and the self-esteem is broken (children don't dare to say anything at school because they are afraid of being laughed at)
• Larch types appear very sensible, feel useless, are wistful, comfortable (inner comfort) but also vain
• As physical symptoms are often used Back pain described (no backbone!)

Positive development opportunities: see things more realistically and more relaxed, do not let setbacks discourage you.

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Willow (yellow willow)

• One is bitter, feels like a "victim of fate"
• has self-pity
• You have to give up privileges, life situation worsens (unemployed, chronically ill etc.)
• You're in a bad mood instead of making the most of it
• You only see difficulties and no opportunities
• Compare to previous happy times
• People who Willow need have often become mentally and physically immobile (illnesses that limit mobility).

Positive development opportunities: Personal responsibility, constructive thinking, how can I make the best of this situation.

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Sweet Chestnut (sweet chestnut)

• It is believed that the limits of what a person can endure have now been reached
• Personality has run out of Latin and seeks help from other people
• It is said: “I'm finished, I don't know how to continue”.
• You are in an extreme mental state of emergency:
  with the move on the wall, between heaven and earth, in nowhere, at night, without day again!
• People who Sweet Chestnut need, believe god forgot her.

Positive development opportunities: Learning that it has to be night to be day again. Get up like a phoenix from the ashes.

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Star of Bethlehem (Doldiger Milchstern)

• One has not yet coped with a mental or physical shock. "
• The comforter of the soul "
• You are in State of shock
• Traumatic experiences that sometimes appear insignificant to the outside world cannot be forgotten
• It has not been processed and is blocked
• Often suddenly occurring diseases (Speech disorders triggered by shock, soft speech, frozen facial expressions).

Positive development opportunities: Awakening and reorientation.

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