What choice do we have?

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Among the flower remedies we think of Cerato and Scleranthus when it comes to doubt and indecision.  But when it comes to making the right choices throughout life, almost all the remedies offer us the opportunity to choose the best option in our daily actions and attitude, and to assess our moods critically.

The word critical stems from the same root as crisis, as in a crisis point in life, a critical juncture. Critical thinking is the ability to think across all the choices presented and perceive the right way forward with clarity. It’s related to ‘discriminate’ (as in discern) and ‘judge’ (decide).

Take Beech as an example. When we are in need of it we see life through a judgemental and intolerant eye. Or we can choose to recognise that a lack of compassion and understanding is unhelpful to our spiritual growth, and we should take Beech.  We can view the world at present in a state of hopelessness where optimism seems farcical or nothing is worth trying; or we we can decide to take Gorse in order to realise that hope is a suit of armour, not a soft pillow to help us sleep. And something similar is true of all the remedies. Do we choose to drift along in life believing nothing we can do will ever change things, or do we seize our power and reclaim our agency with Wild Rose? Or try again with Gentian? Every one of the 38 remedies offers us a choice: to remain in the pit of our emotions or to reclaim our fortitude and rise up out of the quagmire with renewed vigour.

Bach Flower Remedies help us to choose equanimity, peace and a sense of perspective. We know we owe it to ourselves and to others to take any remedies we need right now, in order to rise above the global atmosphere of toxicity and fear, and pursue, as Dr Bach would say, the work of our soul in the world.