Refilling an Essence

Flower Essence Great Debate: Refilling an Essence

When you have a flower essence formula, you do not have any physical piece of a flower. On the physical level, all you have is a bottle containing a mixture of water and alcohol (or water and apple cider vinegar). That's it. If you analyzed the physical contents that is all you would find. But that liquid is holding something more. If you dissected a human body, would you find a soul? If you dissected a heart, would you find love? If you dissected a brain, would you find a thought? Some real things cannot be detected with our five senses.

When our minds do not believe that we can refill a flower essence and have it be equally effective as when we began with it, we are stuck in materialistic thinking. If you have a glass of orange juice, drink 90% of it, and then add enough water to refill the glass, you do not have the same thing that you started with. You have diluted orange juice. That is because what you are looking for in a glass of orange juice is actual juice from an actual orange. But if you do the same thing with a flower essence, you will not have a diluted flower essence because you are not looking for actual juice from a flower. You are just looking for the subtle, or spiritual vibration of that flower. The spirit of a flower does not dilute.

It is commonly accepted that one can take a flower essence by adding a few drops from a 'stock bottle' (a misleading description if we think the stock bottle is all powerful) to a plain glass of water, and then sipping that water. It is also commonly accepted that one can take a flower essence by adding a few drops from a stock bottle into another dropper bottle with water and alcohol (or vinegar), and then taking a few more drops from the new bottle. In either case, one is already diluting one's flower essence to 99% of what the stock bottle is (and even the stock bottle is thoroughly diluted--see below). Yet, these are the absolutely, most commonly accepted processes for taking flower essences.

Why, then, if one refills a bottle at 10% of its original volume, would that bottle not work just as well as the above mentioned approaches? Or, for that matter, why cannot one do this again and again? One can definitely do this, and one's flower essences will work at the same capacity that they originally did. If one can add a drop to water, why can't one add water to a drop? There is clearly no reasonable answer to this question. There is no difference between adding a teaspoon of salt to a glass of water and adding water to a glass containing a teaspoon of salt. Shake it up, and there's no difference in the two.

When I train flower essence practitioners, I demonstrate the above. We find an essence that we can all take and immediately feel the effect of, usually a gemstone essence, because gems are usually felt more powerfully than flowers. Then we take a drop from that stock bottle and put it in a glass of water. We stir it around, and then take a drop from that bottle, and add it to another glass of water. We do this ten times, so that we have created a 'tenth generation' essence, with only one drop added from each generation to the next. Then we try the tenth generation essence and compare it with the experience of the first essence. We always find that the final essence feels exactly the same as the first essence. You can experiment with this, and find out for yourself if this is true. Just use an essence that you can feel the effect of very quickly (this is easier to do than it sounds. Just take an essence, sit quietly, and notice if there are any shifts or changes in your mind/body/spirit/emotions. It's easier than you might think).

It's good to realize that even the coveted 'stock bottles' from flower essence companies are already extraordinary diluted, and therefore any bottle made from a stock bottle. They contain liquid that has had some small number of drops added to it from the 'mother tincture,' or first batch. If one add a few drops from one's stock bottle into another bottle, then one's essence already contains fractions of a percent of the original essence. Yet flower essence practitioners widely agree that such an approach is 100% effective.

One thing that can make this scientific inquiry more difficult is that the longer one takes an essence, the less dramatically one will tend to feel the result anyway. In other words, when you first start an essence, the change can be quite dramatic, so it seems 'louder.' After some time, even if you are still taking the same essence from the same bottle, the effect might seem 'quieter' because you have grown more accustomed to the shifts that have occurred within you. So I would keep this in mind if you work with refilling a bottle; if your mind already contains a lot of doubt, I think you might use the long term 'quieting' as a reason to feel that the essence formula is no longer working, even though it probably is.

In my opinion, one can definitely refill a flower essence formula indefinitely without compromising its effectiveness. All of my flower essence experience has shown me that this is absolutely true. But don't take my word for it. Please find out for yourself.

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