Remember the John Lennon song about a new year just begun? ‘Let’s hope it’s a good one, without any fear.’ If that hope seems vain at present, we need to remember that fear is divisive – it makes us mistrust, exclude or despise people around us. ‘Divide and conquer’ is never more effective than when we divide people in their opinions, beliefs or convictions.
The remedy to overcome anxiety is Mimulus*. It encourages us to see events and the
possibility of events in their true perspective. We will never eradicate fear entirely, nor
should we want to, as it serves a basic need of self-preservation. But when our fears are being played upon –
often deliberately – by those whose job or malign intent is to sell media
attention and addiction, we need to become self-aware as never before, and take
whatever precautions we can in order to see scare-mongering in its true light.
Bach Flower Remedies help stabilise our reactions or negative
emotions and restore tranquillity. They foster our natural ability to raise an
energetic shield or shell around our psyche so that we can keep our vibrations
high, thereby helping to offset the negativity in the world. The Beatles’ new year song also contains the
refrain, ‘War is over, if we want it.’ That sadly is unlikely to be true,
internationally, for the foreseeable future but we can take it to heart
individually: if we want to stop our internal war of fear, anxiety or a dozen
other negative responses, then we can start by trying a course of flower
remedies.
Thinking of Hamlet’s ‘sea of troubles’, I wrote about choosing
to float above it all, like a glass bottle, uncontaminated by so much designed
merely to deceive, antagonise or frighten us:
my glass bottle floats serene,
its message clear to read:
remain unswamped, hope intact.
Untouched by alarm, we thrive.
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