When it seems impossible to carry on

 When it seems impossible to carry on

Which tree is this?  Here’s a clue, it is standing in a graveyard.  The Bach remedy from this tree is the one to take when we’re in such a state of anguish, maybe because a loved one has died, that we have no idea how to carry on living without them.  There is nothing but pain in our life.

Sweet Chestnut is in the Despair Group.  Unlike Gorse, which is in the Uncertainty Group, those needing Sweet Chestnut feel they are in a black pit of despair with no way out.  All light in their life is extinguished.

In the Despair and Despondency Group seven of the eight remedies are from trees.  What does that tell us?  That trees have a strength, a might, that can only do us good.  All the flower remedies restore us to emotional balance but trees do it with their own particular brand of resilience and resourcefulness.  The woody element in them is fortified with a substance called lignin – it allows them to grow tall and upright, which prevents them from ‘weeping’. 

Trees have a lot to teach us about endurance and survival, about giving of ourselves and renewal.  In the Welsh language there is a phrase ‘dod yn ôl fy nghoed’. It means to return to a balanced state of mind, but translates literally as ‘to return to my trees’.  When we are bowed down with sorrow and despair and have no idea how to get through each day, the tree remedies will provide us with a reason to live optimistically again.

 

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