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Charged Impressions 1

There is reason to leave such common terms as "remedy" and "potency" for "impression" and "charge". The matter is discussed briefly on another page: [LINK] - Tormod Kinnes
impressions In order to live worthy and fulfilling lives, we have to get support enough from the environment, including people. You may increase the odds of being "lucky" by increasing favourable conditions in general, lessen risk and hazards, and filter out bad options far and wide. We hardly lose all touch with real life if we try to get to the sunny side of the street, or fertile pastures and becoming gains. Getting wealthy enough helps foster your familiy and may support a living. Buddha is for that. [LINK 1] [LINK 2]
      Some problems are inborn, other are brought on to us from outside. Some have to be warded off, and others have to be combatted to the best of our ability.

What charged impressions could do

impressions A certain impression may be talked of as uplifting to some who are "under its influence", and subtly so.
      One or more impressions could combat stress and effects from a somewhat bad environment - tone up your inner resistance and perhaps ward off unwanted influences, among other things. They may induce old mirth too - and so on. They could assist an organism in many ways.
      Flower impressions could reach the mind and tone down several troubled mental and emotional states. Or the influence(s) may uplift, perhaps like a garden walk does to some, depending on the weight of cares and the possible charge of the flower impression(s). It is the same with homeopathy.
      Deep-seated problems may call for thinking, care, and patience.

Consulting

impressions You have to be honest with yourself, or ask a trusted companion to assess you. If not, do your best on your own. For example,
  1. Look at what sort of person you are considered.
  2. Consider how you feel at the moment.
  3. Also include some thought of special things or particular cravings. I
The British Bach Centre states: "You can select up to six or seven different impressions in this way. Any choice of impressions should leave children and adults without hurt and harm. Be that as it may. Dr Edward Bach, originator of the Bach Remedies, is known to have given nine remedies together on two occasions. And if the remedies follow suit with one another, we think fifteen in a good, balanced blend may be tackled too. Interestingly, a composite impression like Vita Florum (or Vita Fons II? ) by Elizabeth Bellhouse contains more. And there is an interesting passage in a British trade mark revocation from 2001 about Vita Florum:
The purpose of VITA FLORUM is not entirely clear, being described in the proprietor's evidence as "an energy which increases spiritual (or if you prefer "inner") awareness, giving the user greater ability to rise above (or overcome) psychological blocks (or problems), and the body greater ability to heal itself.". The products are recommended to maintain well being and also for use in the treatment of a range of physical and psychological conditions, although on their order form / pricelist dating from November 1997 the proprietors say that VITA FLORUM impressions have no medicinal properties. [Link]
That sums up the central problems in this field rather nicely. Do they work, how far, in case, and what sort of evidence can be had? Are such impressions draped in religious and quasi-religious jargon to hoodwink or bypass legal restrictions? To the latter topic the answer is: "In some cases, yes." But let us go on along another line of exposition right now:

Dr. Bach took pride in a limited range of impressions

impressions The British Dr. Edward Bach, originator of the Bach Flower Remedies, considered his system of 38 impressions completed, so you may wonder why more impressions have been added recently. Well, the British Dr Bach never went to India, for example. There are many, many plants in India, Pakistan and the Himalayas that don't fit in in the British landscape and gardens. And Bach never went to Micronesia, and there are many plants there too - and in the Andes mountains, and so on. Dr. Bach's experience with plants was severely limited, There are 270,000 estimated plants sorts in the world in all, most of them live outside Great Britain, and the doctor did not know most of them, as a matter of fact. This topic is presented in more detail somewhere else. [LINK]
      A limited choice of plants does not have to be so bad. Sharing plants with homeopathy is not either. Not a few of the plants that go into Bach flower remedies, are used in homeopathic impressions too. From the top of the list we find Agrimony, White Chestnut, Beech, Holly, and so on. They are also found in homeopathic Materia Medicas (Preparation collections).

Further flower selections

impressions There are other manufacturers of flower impressions than the Bach remedies. Elizabeth Bellhouse's Vita Florum contains a sort of "dipped" flowerpot assemby.
      Magneto-geometry is used to make impressions too. Dr. Edward Bach's sun-and-boil methods of impression yield correspond to low-potency homeopathic impressions [between the potencies c6 and c12], according to Malcolm Rae (in a personal communication).

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Charged Impressions 2

impressions In our modern and much complex celebrity-hailing consumerised society it is not easy to go against the dominant stream and try for a more harmonious, ecological and balanced lifestyle. Also, growth often demands tact and keeping up struggling. Life is a struggle, keeping healthy is a struggle, and being messy and overlooking hardly works for good in the longer run.
      There are many sorts of problems and troubles:
  1. Deep and faltering ones: Deep problems may tie in with inner infirmity, or being harassed, or even being unsettled. Deep may even mean too deep to tell (articulate).
  2. Those of the often visible symptom gallery: Symptoms that one may get aware of and communicate with one's doctor, are not as deep.
  3. Other troubles: There are inner and outer troubles, including feigning and being false.

Plant simile

A PLANT has to get certain basic requirements fulfilled in order to thrive. It depends on a not hostile climate that is suitable in the long run. It needs enough "food" from the soil and the light, it needs to breathe, and have enough space to grow into. Plants can fulfil their inborn schemes very well if any of these basic requirements are severely lacking or hindered, yet some hang in there.
      It is quite as with us. If our vital needs are being met, there is a tendency to express from inside, and that could be very well. However, artistry, soundness, and development into soundness can be counteracted by gruesome guys and bad conformism, including pretences, vain show-offs. etc. Gruesome "baboon" measures are not fully worthy of humans.
      They say "Bad leaders focus on blaming when things go wrong. Good leaders are intent on finding solutions." Many common troubles and irregularities today may reflect common adaptations and the faults of the large society, which is exploitive, often abusive. But try and look at yourself quite like a health professional and discern a bit between things you are good at (don't weaken in them; don't lose your strong sides), and other things, such as lack of candour.
      Health is a sign of being whole, and wholeness is not had by feigning, but by genuineness. To live a rewarding, fertile life, one has to be cautious and alert to vicious fellows and the trouble and havoc they may do.
      It is also necessary to have the "fuel" needed for overcoming rigid minds and their set-up defences. Not everybody succeeds, you know.

What charged impressions ("potentised preparations") may do

Drawing on information theory, charged impressions may be thought of as information carriers. Such a theoretical angling may be aligned with knowledge of how much and deeply psychosomatics affects physical and mental health, since body and mind are found to subsist and influence one another considerably.
      The developed "MGA impressions" are thought to effect mind and body very subtly, yet consistently. The so-called charged impressions we are into, may be put to use by those who care, in attempts to promote self-cures from deep inside; stimulate the body-mind (organism) toward better coping, and much else.
      Homeopathy, a 200 year-old tradition, has somewhat divergent guidelines, and some of them may be applicable for MGA impressions too. More than one homeopathic preparation may somehow affect a symptom. To hit the bull's eye in this camp means to prescribe a hit preparation - or several - that might impress an organism's mind deep down, its bio-mind, so to speak, and influence it for good. The practice of homeopathy and Dr Edward Bach's Remedies is staked on it.
      Impressions may be single or mixed. Single impressions ("remedies") are sought for in classical homeopathy. Mixed impressions ("remedy blends", etc) are used otherwise.
One or more fit impressions (impressions), a neat charge ("fire-power", charge) fit for the problem(s), and suitable repetitions of doses.
Charges (potencies) may be stepped up according to some rules of the game.
      If no conditions for cure are met with, betterment or cure may not be had, after all.

Types of Impressions

Bio-magnetic Impressions can hopefully be prepared in three main ways:
  1. By succusion, which is a way of shaking-and-diluting substances. Homeopathic pharmacies use this procedure in good faith.
  2. By magneto-geometric charging according to patterns of a sort. Some relate to the British Malcolm Rae's investigations and findings. There are other radionic methods that may work as well, but hardly or rarely with more ease.
  3. Dr. Edward Bach's two sun-and-boil methods (b) There is a dip-variant of this method used in producing certain gem impressions and Elizabeth Bellhouse's Vita Florum.

A HORNBEAM BLEND

In the blend above, the Bach Remedy Hornbeam goes into a blend for the purpose of hitting a "wider target", ie, cover a broader range of symptoms, ideally, or fill in somehow. The Bach Remedy (impression) Hornbeam is
used against feelings of exhaustion and tiredness that come before an effort has been made. The person in this state feels that he or she is too tired to cope with the demands of the day. It's easier to stay in bed or put off making a start - but if an effort can be made to get started the weariness will fade, a sign that unlike the Olive state this is a mental rather than a physical weariness." [Source]
Dr. Edward Bach's Hornbeam identification in The Twelve Healers and Other Remedies:
For those who feel that they have not sufficient strength, mentally or physically, to carry the burden of life placed upon them; the affairs of every day seem too much for them to accomplish, though they generally succeed in fulfilling their task. For those who believe that some part, of mind or body, needs to be strengthened before they can easily fulfil their work.

Agrimony and another mixture

If you wonder about Agrimony and want to see more about it, click on the name and see if you are lucky.
      Also, Agrimony may be administered along with other impressions (preparations, remedies) in a mixture, or blend for those who aim to get the most of it. One such blend adds Blue Clematis, Cock's-foot, Phillyrea angustifolia, and Woorari to Agrimony.
      To compose flower blends yourself, go to our onsite Mae West Repertory and pick flowers -


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