Understanding Flower Essences can be a challenge. An explanation of Essences usually includes odd words like vibration and electrical field. To add insult to injury, when you ask us questions, we say more peculiar things like, "Any amount of Essence you use will work fine," or, "Rubbing Essences on your dog's ears will work as well as putting it in his water bowl." How can this be? Here is my latest attempt to explain these marvelous tools.

Flower Essences are INFORMATION, specifically electrical information.

Though they come in a liquid, Flower Essences are NOT CHEMICAL. They will not do anything to you in the way that a chemical remedy might kill germs in your system. The liquid in the bottle is a way to store the electrical information of the Flower Essence because liquid holds electricity well. Here's an analogy. The paper that a newspaper is printed on is, to the news, as the liquid a Flower Essence is stored in is to a Flower Essence. Both the paper and the liquid are vehicles for information to get to you.

Your electrical system seeks helpful electrical information to maintain itself.

Much as our world concentrates on our reality as physical beings of chemical composition, we are just as much electrical beings, holding various electrical frequencies in our body. Flower Essences offer helpful electrical information to your electrical system which is always problem solving and searching for solutions to keep your electrical system running well. Your electrical system is not controlled by your personality so it makes wise decisions about what electrical information to pay attention to and what to disregard.

If you go to a strip joint on 42nd Street in New York City, your electrical system will not copy the electrical vibration of the place. It will, in fact, work very hard NOT to copy the vibration of the place. If you offer your electrical system the electrical vibration of a Flower Essence holding a specific piece of data about vibrating more harmoniously, then your electrical system will take notice and copy this data but ONLY if it serves your well being!

When you offer your electrical system the electrical information of a Flower Essence, your electrical system knows if the information is relevant and helpful to its electrical well being. It knows what is not needed. Your electrical system evaluates everything from an electrical point of view all day long. It knows immediately what will literally "add to the light of the situation" and what won't. That is why sometimes you may feel an almost magnetic pull to a Flower Essence. Your electrical system is trying to tune into the frequency of the Flower Essence that it knows will offer helpful information but it needs you to come closer to the Essence so that it can read the data.

To belabor the point (as I love to do!), your electrical system is working for your highest good and will seek out harmony over disharmony.

This is why you can trust it to make good decisions about how to use the electrical information of a Flower Essence. First of all, Flower Essences are models of HIGH vibrations. A Flower Essence cannot offer your electrical system a bad vibration of anything. Even if you did offer your system a bad electrical vibration, let's say an evening with Marilyn Manson and his heavy metal band, your electrical system would naturally know not to assimilate this vibration, just as it knows not to assimilate the vibration of the New York City strip joint. It knows what it needs. It knows what it does not need. It knows how to use the information a Flower Essence provides.

When you experience any emotional, mental, spiritual or physical symptom, it indicates that there is an electrical roadblock in your electrical system. Specific symptoms are linked to specific electrical roadblocks in specific parts of your body. This is why our Guidebook can link the vibration of an Essence to a symptom. This is why, if your electrical system solves the electrical roadblock, the symptom is resolved as well.

Many of these roadblocks are daily occurrences quickly solved by life's daily rhythms. For example, when your electrical system needs the restorative downtime sleep provides, you get sleepy and go to bed. Sleep, good food, connection with the natural world and joyful communion with others help us to vibrate more harmoniously and correct temporary roadblocks in our electrical systems.

Flower Essences are roadmaps to help when your electrical system runs into roadblocks that it cannot figure out how to solve. Flower Essences offer very specific electrical problem solving solutions for these more complicated roadblocks.

Your electrical system needs your help to bring the useful electrical information of Flower Essences into your electrical field where it can be read by your electrical system. However your electrical system will make the repairs without your help, once it has the electrical information it needs.

Here's an analogy. If you were Arnold Schwarzenegger with a new 15-foot jacuzzi hot tub about to be wired into your Bel Air mansion, you might need to give your electrician a map of the wiring schematics for the installation. However, you, Arnold, would not have to splice the wires together. So too with Essences, you might need to offer your electrical system helpful information from various Flower Essences that might address an electrical roadblock in your electrical system. However, once your electrical system has the corrective information from the Flower Essence, it will do the repairs.

One reason why we suggest that you trust your inner guidance about the Essences which call to you is because your electrical system really does know which problem solving tools it needs. It really does know which Flower Essences are calling out with a precise solution. It still NEEDS YOU to do the legwork, though, of providing the Flower Essence for it to copy.

Sometimes our electrical system can copy the vibration of a Flower Essence on first encounter and shift our electrical pattern to greater electrical harmony immediately. Sometimes it takes repeated exposures for our electrical systems to be able to copy and hold the harmonious pattern- especially if we are trying to hold this pattern in a variety of complicated electrical situations.

Let's say an electrical roadblock in your electrical system manifests itself in the symptoms of discouragement and a heavy heart. You choose Borage to address this roadblock. Your electrical system might be able to easily copy the electrical vibration of good cheer and courage offered by Borage Flower Essence when you are sitting quietly on a beloved friend's back porch but it might also need to be given the electrical pattern of Borage again during a spin on the Los Angeles freeway.

The last couple of days we have had a number of calls about cats going on trips and needing help to stay calm. We have tried to help the cat caretakers to understand that the traveling cat that has taken our combination Flower Essence "Anxiety" is not lolling about the back seat of the car in a restful calm because a chemical has sedated him. Instead the cat is calm because the electrical information of the Flower Essence has given this cat's sophisticated and receptive electrical system the electrical data it needed to be calm in a new and stressful situation.

Because Essences are electrical information and not chemical, all discussion of how much and whether there will be adverse chemical reactions are not relevant. Understanding that Essences are electrical information, not chemicals used to change body chemistry, is the central paradigm shift required to understand Essences. Blessedly, Essences still help even when we don't understand this shift. This is because it's not our minds that make Essences work but our electrical systems that take this information and run with it.

Animals are such a good example of this truth. Unlike us humans, who often think we need to suffer in order to get better, the animals in your life do not believe that healing has to be so complicated. They search for good electrical information and once they find it, they leave their electrical systems to do the job of automatically and efficiently copying it. One difficulty for animals is that they have less volition about finding solutions for themselves than humans. This is why they will frequently sit in complete delight upon your UPS package full of Essences. They recognize the solution to their electrical snafus when they feel it!

In recent years, the animals have been combing their world for electrical solutions for baffling and battering human-made vibrational dissonances. If you think all our technology isn't filling the airwaves with a disorienting amount of junk, just ask an animal! The Angels want me to mention our combination remedy Golden Armor here because it offers much helpful electrical information, for animal and human alike, about ways to electronically buffer ourselves from our chaotic airwaves. I am sure if the animals could order for themselves, this would be in almost all of their orders.