Rock Water - letting joy well up in our lives

Dr Bach first made the Rock Water remedy from a well with healing powers. A well is not necessarily a stone or brick-built structure for garnering water, but a place where a natural spring ‘wells up’ through the ground.  It bubbles up, nothing can hold it back, for as the Taoists say, water is the strongest element, it will find its way round any obstacle.

This joyous, unregulated gushing of water! Springs and wells are unstoppable whereas those in need of the remedy have ‘stop’ written large in their daily lives. ‘I must stop thinking about taking a break and get this work done instead.  I must stop watching this film as it’s bedtime and I always go to bed at 10 pm.’  The person who needs Rock Water has a regime, a set of rules by which they live their life.  They are rigid about it – like a rock they are immovable and unable to see any reason to alter, forgetting that there is no growth without change. This fixity of purpose, this regulated existence, means they push themselves too hard and that’s when taking the Bach remedy can help.

“Under heaven, nothing is more soft and yielding than water.
Yet for attacking the solid and strong, nothing is better.” Lao Tse 78

The spring water potentised by Dr Bach exerts its influence on the rock-like intransigence of those who need a little more fluidity in their mind-set, a little more kindness to themselves. 

When water springs up from the depths of the earth, its tendency – on the flat – is to spread itself out in all directions, with freely-given abundance.  It’s only if rocks impede its progress (or the confining hand of man) that it is directed into a fixed channel.  If we need Rock Water it’s because we are too harsh on ourselves, channelling our energies in the ‘correct’ manner as we see it.  There’s a spontaneity about a natural well which is missing from those who need this remedy. Taking it (when we recognise we have become inflexible in our self-discipline) helps us to flow like water, celebrating change and relaxation, enjoying life's bubbles. As John O’Donohue writes, “When a well awakens in the mind, new possibilities begin to flow; you find within your self a depth and excitement which you never knew you had.” 

Photo; Ally Matson

“Wells were revered as special apertures through which divinity flowed forth…. "          John O'Donohue, Anam Cara