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Touchwood Plant and
Flower Essences™
Touchwood is a member of the British Association of Flower Essence Producers
Plant and flower essences are vibrational essences made from the essential energy, or 
spirit, of the plants and flowers.
Bach essences are the best known
ones, and they are said to work on the emotional and spiritual level. The
Touchwood range started as 15 essences that I was led to create through
channelled information during 2004 (I've since been guided to make other ones).
I was surprised at several things that came through that channelled wisdom.
Firstly was the making of each essence at specific moon dates,
mainly at full moon. Also
most are mixtures, being a
purist I wanted to make
individual essences, and
then possibly use them blended, but
the information was specific on this: make them as a
blend at the first stage. Another intriguing instruction
was introducing other items such as crystals and light, it was only later that I
heard that some others also use similar vibrations. All mother essences were made meditatively with certain purifying and energising rituals. Each channelled recipe, instructions and information was double checked with a local dowser. I trust they are the best possible essences for the uses described. - Carrie Thomas
"The remedies are working! I've told friends about your essences, so hopefully they'll also find them useful!"
Using Essences Dilute by putting a few
drops in a glass of water and sipping over a few hours. However, essences may be used in many ways. Let your intuition guide you. A few drops under the tongue may be all that's necessary. Anointing your body is a very effective method: I'm frequently drawn to the pulse spots for myself: wrist or neck in particular. Chakra points are very powerful. You can add to your bath, to washing water, mouth rinses, flannel compresses or any of the many ways your imagination can guide you! NOTES: Touchwood essences are preserved in brandy
or vodka, keep away from children. Store in a cool, dark place away from electrical or magnetic sources. Touchwood Essences should have at least a 5 year shelf life (see Best Before End (BBE) on label), but may remain viable for 10 years or more.
Have you also seen my workshops on intuitively choosing and using essences? Also available as a party-plan option.
'Just-for-You'Essences
I
can create an essence Just-for-You by blending any of my necessary mother
essences into a dropper bottle that will help you through any emotional
difficulties you may have at this particular time. I work intuitively in the
selection and blending, and the essence will be named by myself or by you. You
choose. It can be very liberating to use such an essence through life's
difficulties and upsets....or merely to move on, grow and thrive, let alone to
accomplish great heights and surmount obstacles.
With grateful thanks to Izzy for the use of her
wonderful pastel drawing.
Don't forget your pets!
I have several stories about how well animals have responded to my essences. Let me share with you this one about Mia.
Morag, from
Scotland wrote asking if any of my 'Just for You' essences could help a cat. I
said yes, and asked for more info so that I could intuitively choose a blend for
her. Morag wrote: "Mia is a 6 year old Siamese cat who was recently rehomed by
my mother after her previous owner became unable to cope with Mia's behaviour
because she started urinating in the new baby's cot and eating the baby's
nappies. Mia has settled in extremely well with mum and absolutely adores being
the primary source of love and attention once more but appears to suffer from
separation anxiety whenever mum goes out of the house - even for as little as 10
minutes. Mia will then urinate in mum's chair or eat her bedding, throws etc.
I'd really like to minimise Mia's stress whilst providing
her with the reassurance that she obviously needs." I created 'Mia's Own'
to help her.
About
a month after I sent the essence, Morag wrote again saying: "Just a wee note to
give you 
some feedback on the essence you created for my mother's cat, Mia.
Well, what can I say? She's calm, settled, demanding, manipulative, raucous,
loving ...... pretty much everything all self respecting Siamese cats aspire to
BE. The response really has been amazing and the other thing that was quite
interesting was the fact that initially Mum used Bachs rescue remedy and Mimulus
- both eased Mia's anxiety levels but she continued to pee in her bed, on the
chairs .... everywhere but her litter tray. The other thing she did was to growl
at any male who happened to cross her path. All of that behaviour quite
literally changed within 3 days of using your essence and yesterday the little
madam even spent more time flirting with my husband than bothering with me!
Thank you so much for your help." Morag
BUCKIE'S STORY
"Hi, I was searching
on the web for some advice on what to do with one of my dogs and I found your
website. I became intrigued as I read along and almost forgot the reason for
looking in the first place. My dog is a really beautiful boy. He is a Rhodesian
Ridgeback who we rescued from a shelter. The problem is that he is VERY stubborn
and terribly overprotective of us. He tends to get very aggressive with other
dogs and even though I have taken him to training, he doesn't seem to be
improving. This may sound silly but I believe he needs help for his soul
more than help for his manners. Please let me know if you can help me or what
you would recommend Also I would really like a consultation with you about him,
but I live in Texas so it would have to be by phone. Thanks so much, Amanda"
We had the phone session, and I suggested some essences that could be sourced in
the USA. A couple of months later, I emailed to find out how Buckie was.
"Great to hear from you. Yes, my young psycho dog friend is doing a lot better
thank you. I haven't managed to track the down the turtle essence but I find
that rescue remedy and some of the Bach flower remedies seem to work well. I
think also though that after talking to you I started seeing him in a different
light and my approach has changed. Mandy and Buckie"
PRICES:
£4 for a 10ml dropper bottle (£35 for any 10, £60
for any 20, £75 for 30)
£5.50 for a 20ml dropper bottle (£45 for any 10, £80 for any 20)
Add 50p extra for a 'Just-for-You' essence.
Plus p&p: UK up to 5 bottles = £2.00; 6-10 bottles = £3.00
and 11-15 bottles = £4.00 More: £5
Bottles are sent double-padded-bag wrapped. If you wish first-class delivery; or insured-for delivery (needs signing for) please ask Carrie for current costs by the Post Office for the amount you require.
For shipping costs to other countries, and payment options, please contact Carrie.
-----While stocks last--------
Some of my
essences are
in a 10ml dropper bottle, with approximately 300 drops
£20 for 1, £35 for any 2, £60 for 4 or £100 for any 10
A 10ml bottle makes PLENTY of standard stock bottles, and almost infinite dosage bottles.
TOUCHWOOD ESSENCE LIST
Grounding (or Prosperity)
daisy Full moon, May 2004
primrose stirred with Solanum, the potato vine.
Use grounding preparation if you feel ‘on tightrope and trying not to fall, or if at edge of cliff, looking over and at risk of falling’. Like a breath of fresh air….clearing through, cleansing chakras and health.
Awakening new interests, blowing out the cobwebs set to bind you to past. Allowing a new air/wind to blow through and set you free from past hurts and emotions alike. Knowing oneself and others in their true spirit and allowing new breezes to set you on your path. A directional solution that will
bathe all in the light of prosperity and allow you to move forward easily
as all unwanted things shall fall away in dust, and your prosperity shall flourish.
Harmony
primrose, plus cosmic trio stones, and a blue light. Full moon, May 2004
Tranquillity and past repose, let it be known as harmony brew for all is harmonious in its light.
Re-newing Solution
hellebore with ultramarine Full moon, June 2004
A clearing preparation, …..to clear past bliss/joy from clogging chakras as much as for clearing past negative events. Hellebore restores the spirit, a cleansing brew to cut through past heals and hurts together. Refreshing the soul and allowing it to get on. Progression, moving forwards, a preparation to be used as directed by the soul. If the soul needs it, it will know, and encourage you to use this essence. A forward-looking blend against past hurts and ills. For moving forward/on. Unsticking. Hellebore: let it dispel darkness, mulch the ground and lie fallow. Renewing - springtime growth and harmony throughout all organs. Of truth and lightness/brightness.
Truth and Alignment
red-and-white aquilegia Full moon, June 2004
daisy, with quartz
This, too, is to do with the truth as it is known and practiced day by day. A purifier and a cleanser
at the physical level.
Of the mind: a purifier too, and cleansing out bad/harmful thoughts vibrations. A harmony/ harmonising brew. Aligning thoughts with facts; and encouraging action. Allow it to purge unworthy thoughts and replace them with calm. ‘Alignment out of fear’ (ie aligning away from fear)
Tranquillity
yellow and reddish orange double aquilegia Full moon, June 2004
clover leaf
Good for disorders of your protecting barrier and of your red liquid self-essence. Clarifies mind and soul, offers wholeness to one fragmented by truth. Odour of calm and tranquillity.
Four Hands
lemon balm
(green leaf) Full moon,
burnett, with quartz potentiator
A lightness of touch. For past emotional wounds regarding problems with opposite sex.
Where there is overprotection because of past hurts. Domino
nettle tips Full moon,
For feelings of being needled, nettled and irritated on any levels. Purifying and cleansing your system of allsorts of nonsense. Called Domino as all falls before its powers.
Help-mate
birch bark Full moon,
Heartsease
willow bark Blue moon, 
Self-explanatory - when things bound too tight – this releases and eases
Heartsease Formula 2 (second mother) also known as ‘Never-ease’
As above, but a further dilution down, to potentiate, and take away any misery caused by the first Formula. So if
Heartsease causes harm by awakening memories and not sweeping them away, use this to ‘chill things out’ for a bit.
Tip Manoeuvre
melilot green pods New moon,
willow tips oak leaves
buttercup flowers wild carrot flowers
wild parsnip flowers and yellow seed pods
with a Zauschneria californica flower to stir it, ‘to potentiate it’.
To clear rubbish. Renewal, growth, a blossoming forth in all things and all ways. Nothing is impossible with this brew, all things allowed before you. Wake up to your own potential! It is great! A brew with the special properties of that particular earth-link rather than the plants themselves.
There is a powerful position of the earth at that point and we link in with it
and bring the special power to you through plants that grow there.
A practitioner friend rang to say that after just one dosage she cleared out her cluttered shed (it had needed doing for ages)...she hadn't meant to do it, just got on and did so!
Dandelion leaf-tip
& sections of pared root. Full moon
Talking Essence
beech leaves Full moon
acorns with 4
Love and Laughter!
knapweed Approaching full moon
Enjoyment of life, frivolity and fun shall ensue from this brew.
Take late at night to entice good, learning dreams, and during the day to
entice good, learning environment, gaiety and laughter. Duly let this be called ‘Love and Laughter’, for it is a wonderful lightness of spirit.
(I’d thought it was to be called ‘Serendipity’ or ‘Synchronicity’) Not so, yet it would draw that down too: what ensues is laughter and all things come to the call of laughter - lighten up!
Moon Notion
Dicentra torulosa, bud (
aquilegia, long spurred, lilac-&-white, first year flowering, deformed largish seed-pod (
grass (end of spike) Pennisetum macrourum Japanese painted fern (Athyrium)
Clematis tangutica, young, deformed pod-head Used ‘Love and Laughter!’ mother with the water
I was told to use ‘any that take your fancy on the night’…..afterwards I discovered it was: 2 buds, two leaves, 3 pods (full lifespan plus deformity) 2 A’s and 2 Z’s…and species from much of the globe!
To lighten endeavours. Fill with laughter and warmth Guide the way with longing and realisation
- Build up the steam needed to guide you in the right/correct direction (I thought, ‘so will it show a guiding light to beckon?’) Not so, more a thrust from behind to help you up and out in the big wide world. A very practical approach. A very real friend/boon/guide beside you all the way.
NOTE: I have since found that many women are drawn to this, regarding their menstruation and general issues concerning their femininity.
King Cup
King Cup
Clear quartz 3-4/5/06 2006
Like a bucketful of sunshine! A lightness of touch for the healing of mind, body and soul. Lifting on up out of the morass of your life and on to higher things. When you feel bogged down by circumstances – take this and things will start to be clear – be seen in a clearer light on the morrow: things will never be the same again and you will have moved on – and grown besides.
An empowering formula to take all in your stride – and (learn to) love it! A circle of friends besides you all the way and a time to take time out and be gentle with yourself, and all will follow good and true in the dawn of your true life. Go forth in the hand of God waiting to guide you, oh, ever more gently in the ways of the world and of man. An uplifting experience besides your everyday values of truth and toiling for better things in the adversity of your life/years of earth. Plan something wonderful for your future to draw you onwards!
Observation Energy
Dandelion.
3-4/5/06 2006
There is a lightness of touch that heals, an ability to be all things to all people and yet not destroy your own individuality and integrity. Here is a beacon of light to follow in your life, drawing you onwards and upwards to the light. A hard act to follow – it keeps coming back to the self and smothering others in its embrace. Home from home. Deserving (of) care and realisation of: home is where the heart is. Use it to sort out broken loyalties – most of all to yourself and others close by your side. Eternal light and hope to all that pass. A clear energy and a bonus to all who are in your power – your circle of friends and allies. Eternal light and hope. Cleansing and clearing at all levels. Opening your eyes, and brow chakra to see more clearly.
Notes added after essence practitioners picked up information intuitively about its use at the BFVEA Gathering in Brecon, March 2008
Allowing you to see the bigger picture, keeping things in perspective. All three practitioners were also drawn to place the essence bottle at the heart chakra. It will help and allow you to make decisions based on love, most of all for yourself, and those dear to you.
Wood Anemone 3-4/5/06 2006
These particular wood anemones were brightly shining and flowering 3 feet up from the ground! They were growing in soil on the roots of a tree that had blown over in gales 8-10 years ago. A wonderful way of showing how to blossom despite problems!
Triumph in Adversity
A blend of the above 3, so:
King Cup Clear quartz 3-4/5/06 2006
Wood Anemone Dandelion.
Let it heal your heart and help you to move on. No need to get bogged down, good times blaze brightly ahead. Settle down, ride the rocky road, and get on with your fame and fortune! All things come to those that wait with a happy heart for good times coming from the dark! Rock on little one! All good is truth, and all is good really, despite appearances.
Clubmoss / Primal Scream
What
an enigma! This ‘no word’ essence has more words to describe it than any other I’ve ever made! I also channelled these words: “Relax, all is well.
Notes: Hind brain Your hind-brain also translates body-mind communication. It is sometimes called the reptilian hind-brain and controls everyday repetitive behaviours such as habits, rituals, routines and motor skills. You may call it your auto-pilot when you walk and daydream. Your hind-brain associates emotions with action. (Action might be called honest communication.) You communicate aggression, submission and sexual interest through your actions. Body movement and nonverbal communication involve the hind-brain,
and like your limbic system, your hind-brain responds to symbols. It controls and coordinates fundamental physiological processes, including breathing and blood circulation. Amygdala Your amygdala is a part of your limbic system that associates emotions (and phobias, traumatic response, rage, anger, aggression, sexuality) with symbols. If you remember the bitter taste and smell of lemon juice, what happens to your saliva flow? The amygdala responds as if imagined events were actually taking place. The amygdala processes a wide range of emotional "language". This language involves the 'sounds' of emotion, such as the squeals of delight, the sound that goes with crying, rage, happiness and that high pitched shriek that happens along with a true phobic response. And it responds to emotional stimuli conveyed through sound, kinaesthetically or by facial expression. It lays down and 'records' unconscious memory
"Talking
therapies" can be of limited effectiveness because the cortex, or higher reasoning area of the brain, has no ability to affect the real source of psychological pain in other areas of the brain. Instead letting out the primal frustrations or anguish as a bellow, a primal scream, can help assuage the hurt.
This is the first ‘standard’ Bach flower essence that I’ve produced, but this one also brings in the glory of the spectacular Glen Coe in the Scottish Highlands! Not knowing what Bach’s remedy is for, I channelled:
Sip slowly when tired and in need of fortification: when despondent and harmed by the atmosphere/environment in your mind. Tranquillity heals all. No need to blunder through life, sit back and enjoy the rich pickings! Use for despondency and deep dark nights of the soul. When relish for life fades and the path seems weary…all is not so! The path is there and gleams with your hidden desires and wells of strength. Fortify yourself! Drink deep of life’s delights and garrulousity of the soul.
Information about Bach’s Heather: For people who do not like to be alone and may talk at length about their issues, and unburden themselves to others without realising how long they’ve been talking. The remedy is given to help Heather people see their own concerns in the context of other people's, they become good listeners, and empathisers. As a result people seek them out for their compassion rather than possibly avoiding them because of their self-preoccupation.
Power & Strength.
It is.
Also for endurance and to clear and clarify – in a purposeful manner.
Short Circuit
Bringing things to a head in order to resolve difficulties. Be aware it may be painful - or painless: sometimes what we fear isn’t so much ‘going there’ as the approach of it. ie, the thought of facing something is often worse than it actually is. We build it up in our minds to something enormous. Once you’ve really faced the issues and its fears, it can harm you no more.
I am Labyrinth, I am Power
Made at Buckland Hall at the British Flower and Vibrational Essence Association Gathering 15th March 2008
At the Gathering, Linda created a scaled down, Chartres Cathedral-style labyrinth, all surrounded by candles. The photos show Buckland Hall and the Chartres labyrinth. Labyrinths are ancient tools for connecting with the spiritual self, through meditative progression, being led into, and out of the centre. I found it deeply moving as soon as I walked into the room containing the labyrinth, and both times I walked it were very different but both were very poignant for me.
For total empowerment. For inviting synergy, serendipity, and synchronicity into your life and into your work.
I
made this essence by carrying the water through the labyrinth as I walked. I
began chanting: ‘Walking the labyrinth, walking the power’. The chant changed
and evolved as I walked, including ‘walking labyrinth, walking power’, ‘singing
the labyrinth, singing the power’ and finally ‘I am labyrinth, I am power’. And
with that, I started walking freer and didn’t feel the need to chant again
although I was only about half-way in. In the centre, the candle was honoured,
and it gave its energy to the water. Tony and White Hawk were synchronicitly
present, and their natural synergy helped form the energy of this essence. For
example, with White Hawk in the centre, as I walked out, we naturally formed a
right angle, then a line, then the opposite right angle, just as she vocalised!
Amazing!
Links for the Labyrinth Society and an invitation to see movement through a Chartres type labyrinth.
Equinox
Vernal equinox, Full moon, Good Friday (on the earliest Easter in my whole lifetime)
Left out under the full moon, then the sun the next day, very blustery and even a few snowflakes fell that day.
For new
beginnings, for moving on, and for creating and celebrating the major life
transitions and initiations (eg maidenhood, marriage, motherhood, etc).
Good for new
projects, new beginnings, new starts, working out which way to go. Going your
own way, new thoughts, new ideas, new services, starts in all ways. Sowing (or
getting started) in order to harvest benefits. Helps us to bear troubles and to
reap rewards. Out with the old! A new broom that sweeps clean, clearing
the cobwebs away. For any time you
need an impetus: like the effect on a comet of
passing
near
a planet as it experiences a ‘sling-shot’ velocity boost due to gravity.
Note: I actually gave birth on the spring equinox, 25 years before making this essence. That's a perfect 'life transition'.
Photos on the left shows first the reflections of the moon, and then the sun, in the water.
...and don't forget:
'Just-for-You'Essences
I
can create an essence Just-for-You by blending any of my necessary mother
essences into a dropper bottle that will help you through any emotional
difficulties you may have at this particular time. I work intuitively in the
selection and blending, and the essence will be named by myself or by you. You
choose. It can be very liberating to use such an essence through life's
difficulties and upsets....or merely to move on, grow and thrive, let alone to
accomplish great heights and surmount obstacles.
With grateful thanks to Izzy for the use of her
wonderful pastel drawing.
