I feel moved to share a short anecdote about the kind of “journey” flower essences can take you on in as little as an hour or less. I was putting together an order for someone who asked for Zinnia (one of my favorite flower essences these days). I thought to myself, “I should take this myself right now! I really need to lighten up.”
You see, earlier in the day I had had a conversation with someone that brought up some really old hard feelings. I was dwelling on that and making mountains out of molehills. Or so I thought. So I tried Zinnia and immediately started to feel grief and cry. (Not what it is supposed to do. Zinnia is for lightening up and having a more playful attitude, perhaps more of a sense of humor about things.) And then I thought that I really needed to forgive this person! So I did. That was easy, but I was still in grief and crying.
Up popped the idea that I needed to forgive myself! And THAT was something I couldn’t bring myself to do. What a shock! I didn’t even know I was blaming myself for anything! But I was—I was blaming myself for not having taken care of myself better in that old situation and because I “should have known better.” That’s the definition of when you should use Pine Bach Flower Remedy! It’s for when you blame yourself in excess even for things that weren’t really your fault.
So I tried Pine and repeated the intention to forgive myself, and this time it was EASY to do. I felt much better and immediately stopped ruminating on my old grievance. The intense hold it had on me was gone! And then I did feel lighter in attitude.