Chestnut Bud is one of the very few Bach remedies that is not a flower. It is the bud of the Horse Chestnut Tree, picked when it is just beginning to open early in the spring. You could call it the essence of making a new start, but this is not the start of a shoot coming out of the ground. It is a new season of the same tree with all the experiences and scars from the past.
As a metaphor this works very well for the person who might choose Chestnut Bud. You’re tired of making the same mistakes and not learning from past experience. You’re tired of repeating the same patterns and falling into the same pits that led to failure in the past. You’re ready to take hold of your life and are seeking help in order to do better or try something very different than you’ve tried before.
In some respects, this is similar to when a person might choose Walnut which is for making a change that seems challenging—and you could use both together. But by using Chestnut Bud you seek to learn from past mistakes so you won’t repeat them. With Walnut you can take that learning and add courage and steadfastness of purpose to make the changes needed despite outside influences who might steer you off your path.
In particular, Chestnut Bud is helpful if you tend to be impatient to get on with what you want to do next and are not inclined to do your research, study, or plan ahead. Chestnut Bud can help you gain insight from past experience and think through your plans. It can help you think twice when you are about to make similar mistakes or to think outside the boxes that lead you to failure.
As I wrote this, I am thinking about a repeating situation in my life where I really wanted something badly and have chosen to try, try, again without changing my behavior. Each time I have ultimately failed with worse and worse consequences, the last time being particularly devastating. So I know better, but I still want what I want! I could use Chestnut Bud for this, but a little me voice doesn’t want to be held back. I know very well that my intuition would tell me to slow down, plan ahead, and save more money, and that little me part just doesn’t want to hear that! LOL, that is EXACTLY the situation that calls for Chestnut Bud! This flower essence can help you hear your inner wisdom and pay attention to it.
For that reason, some people think those with a tendency to attention deficit disorder difficulties might benefit from Chestnut Bud. I don’t know if that is true; however, it does seem to help with the impulsivity that comes from wanting to rush off on an adventure without checking a road map. Other people say it helps them study or slow down and plan ahead more effectively.
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Flower essences are used to assist with mind-body-spirit interactions and individual results may vary. They are extremely dilute which makes them quite safe. But because so little physical substance can be detected in a flower essence solution, these products are presumed to work on an energetic or vibrational level—something that cannot be adequately tested by western scientific methods. Claims made by me, therefore, are based on personal experiences and the evidence of the combined multiple decades of case notes by Dr. Edward Bach as well as Healing Herbs and Flower Essence Services (the companies who make the ingredients I use in my products). This is not, however, accepted medical evidence or substantiated scientific evidence from a modern allopathic point of view. I am not a medical doctor or licensed healthcare practitioner.
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