Winter allows us a moment to reset, with introspection and simplicity.
Share a small moment in your day to read and harness a new quiet, restful, introspection.
Introspection can sometimes feel difficult or heavy, and we must not rush into it without first taking a step back to understand what result we wish to achieve, and our desire for a renewed sense of simplicity.
The Bach flowers are here to help us find this balance within ourselves, and as we know, both remedies and introspection go hand in hand.
WINTER is a time when many animals forage for nuts and fruits, for as squirrels indulge, caching acorns from autumn’s buried harvest, birds feast on berries leftover from an abundant autumn, and deer browse on buds and bark.
However, others sleep, rest, and recover throughout the winter’s chill, like hedgehogs, dormice, and bats, who only awaken to the merry hustle when warmer months appear.
Just like these little creatures, we should remember this side of winter too. Remember to distance ourselves from the noise, and allow our bodies and minds to re-coup and rest, so that we can feel energised once again as spring comes around.
The start of a new year creates a wonderful moment for introspection.
Thoughts gather about what the past year has looked like for us, all the things we have done, people we have met, and how things look different from the outside, or how we feel different from within.
For this, it is a moment of contemplation, but also of decision. Going into a new year can offer a fresh start, and we get to decide what we carry with us and what we wish to leave behind.
This process of shedding gives way to a restored mindset and renewed sense of self. A fresh start evoked by the early signs of spring poking through a frosted ground in January.
But, let us take our time to decide, there is no rush to know what it is that we want from this new year, and there is no time in which we need to know it, there is only our innermost purest intentions, and if they make us happy, healthy and better, then we’re doing something right.
Of course, Dr Bach’s 38 flower remedies are always there to offer a helping hand, and you may find some remedies are more beneficial in this moment than others: Wild Oat, Scleranthus, Olive, Willow, Gentian and Impatiens, are but a few that may spring to mind.
So now, let us sit back and witness life softly pass, as we contemplate a future yet to live. Watch how the leaves that drifted down to the ground in autumn, turned brown with the last memories of summer, now lie still with frosted tips.
The landscape coated in white, glistening with snowy sparkles in a glittery bath of the early morning sun, and sheep grazing on chilled fields, their coats shimmering like icy cobwebs on frozen branches. A picture of simplicity.
Take a breath, watch the little moments, the quiet beauty behind the hustle, and as Dr Bach says in his book Heal Thyself:
“It is in the simple things in life – the simple things because they are nearer the great Truth – that real pleasure is to be found.”
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