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New Bach Flower Therapies: Healing the Emotional and Spiritual Causes of Illness

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I purchased this book 4-5 years ago, being really interested in the author's theory of "tracks". Dietmar Kramer has taken the Bach flower remedies and classified them into what he calls "tracks", e.g. centuary-holy-pine, where the centaury-associated inability to say no, if not treated, leads as compensation into a Holy state and then into a pine state as decompensation. Treatment follows the track, start with Pine and proceed with Holy and then Centaury.

The problem is that the classification of the remedies into tracks is arbitrary. Problems such as the ones that the Bach remedies seek to treat are not linear. A Pine state for instance does not necessarily have to result from something else and if it does, that something does not have to be holy or centaury. It could very well be related and/or caused by a dozen other states. This applies to all Bach flower "tracks".

Great care must be taken when proposing such theories.

I agree with the two posted reviews. The descriptions of the individual flowers ('tracks' aside) are quite good. I'm not in total agreement with how he 'assigned' his 'tracks' - it is quite linear, but he does give you a different perspective that could be helpful when faced with a client to give further possibilities in explaining the nature and possible history to reveal the reasoning behind their behavior- as with everything, don't take his interpretation as law. Trust your own knowledge, experience and intuition.

I too really enjoyed the astrology piece, the missing flower for Leo by process of elimination is Vervain.

I am looking forward to reading Peter Damian's "The Twelve Healers of the Zodiac".

This book has a really easy way of explaining the usage of Bach Flowers, plus the advantage of including the "tracts" which improves the way we treat ourselves or our patients. Is really useful along with the "Body Maps' book from the same author.

I liked the perspective of astrological remedies. Does anybody know what the remedy for the sign Leo? It was (mistakenly?) left out of the 12 astrological remedies on page 120. Please respond to: missyflynn@maui.net. Thanks!