Why do we keep reacting the same way?
Some emotional patterns are easy to recognize. Others have become so familiar or unconscious that they simply feel like part of who we are.
- Perhaps you replay conversations long after they’ve ended.
- Always feeling guilty, you apologize even when something wasn’t your fault.
- You put everyone else’s needs before your own.
- You seek reassurance before making even small decisions.
- Feeling over-sensitive to the moods of others and environment has become exhausting.
Over time, moods or reactions can become emotional habits.
Yoga teaches that the mind develops patterns. Ayurveda recognizes that our unique constitution influences how we respond to life’s experiences. Bach Flower Essences offer another lens—helping us gently recognize these recurring patterns so they no longer unconsciously shape our choices, relationships, and sense of purpose.
The Flower Essences are prepared from high vibrational, common plants, trees, and wildflowers including familiar names such as Oak, Pine, Agrimony, Willow, Holly, Beech, Elm, Heather and Clematis.
During a Bach Flower consultation, we explore these patterns together and select the flower essences that best reflect how you are feeling now, towards supporting greater emotional clarity and a deeper awareness of your own Inner Wisdom.
AGRIMONY
Which Pattern Feels Most Familiar to You?
FEAR
Your phone rings late at night. Before you even answer, your mind has imagined the worst.
Fear doesn’t always arrive during major life events. Sometimes it quietly shapes everyday decisions, conversations, and possibilities before they even unfold.
This group includes familiar flower essences such as Mimulus, Aspen, Rock Rose, Cherry Plum, and Red Chestnut, each reflecting a different experience of worry, anxiety or fear.
UNCERTAINTY
You already know what feels right… yet you keep asking one more person for their opinion. Or perhaps you hesitate so long that the opportunity passes altogether.
This pattern often reflects a temporary loss of trust in your own inner knowing.
This group includes flower essences such as Cerato, Scleranthus, Gentian, Gorse, Hornbeam, and Wild Oat, each relating to different experiences of uncertainty, confidence, or direction.
LACKING SUFFICIENT INTEREST IN PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCES
Your body is making dinner. Your mind is replaying yesterday… or rehearsing tomorrow.
Yoga reminds us that life is only ever lived in the present moment, yet many of us spend surprisingly little time in the here and now.
This group includes flower essences such as Clematis, Honeysuckle, White Chestnut, Olive, Mustard, Wild Rose, and Chestnut Bud, reflecting different ways we avoid or become disconnected from the power of the present.
LONELINESS
You enjoy being around people, yet often feel disconnected. Or perhaps you prefer your own company, but others experience you as distant or difficult.
Sometimes loneliness is less about being alone and more about how we relate to others.
This group includes flower essences such as Water Violet, Heather, and Impatiens, each reflecting a different capacity for meaningful connection to others.
OVER-SENSITIVITY TO OUTSIDE INFLUENCES AND IDEAS
You leave a conversation feeling certain. Ten minutes later, someone offers a different opinion. Now you’re questioning yourself….
Or perhaps you naturally adapt to keep the peace, saying “yes” when your heart quietly says “no, no, no.”
You begin to live according to the needs, opinions, and expectations of others opinions, while your own boundaries become blurred and your Inner Guidance grows quieter.
This group includes flower essences such as Agrimony, Centaury, Walnut, and Holly, reflecting different ways we may become influenced by the environment, media, relationships, emotions, or the expectations of others.
DESPONDENCY OR DESPAIR
People admire how dependable you are. But they don’t see how heavy everything feels.
You keep going because that’s what you’ve always done—even when you’re exhausted, discouraged, or quietly blaming yourself for things beyond your control.
This group includes familiar Flower Essences such as Oak, Pine, Elm, Larch, Willow, Crab Apple, Sweet Chestnut, and Star of Bethlehem, each reflecting different experiences of sadness, heaviness, obligation, responsibility, or self-doubt.
OVER-CARE FOR THE WELFARE OF OTHERS
You genuinely want the best for the people you love and care about. Before long, you’re solving their problems, worrying about their choices or shouldering the responsibility for their happiness.
Caring is a beautiful quality. Carrying everyone else is something entirely different.
This group includes Flower Essences such as Beech, Chicory, Rock Water, Vervain, and Vine, reflecting different ways we may become overly invested in the welfare, decisions or choices of others.
CHICORY
Real Life Stories
“The Bach Flower Essences have helped me uncover layers of emotion that have contributed to numerous health issues (especially headaches and migraines). With very little effort, the flowers essences can provide space in your mind and heart to recognize and release emotions. They seem to have the power to open your heart.”
~ Susan Difabio
How Guidance Can Be Helpful
Choosing a Flower Essences isn’t always as straightforward as it seems.
The emotional pattern we notice first is not always the one asking for the most support. Through thoughtful conversation, gentle questions, and careful listening, it often becomes easier to recognize what is happening beneath the surface.
Drawing on her decades of experience in yoga, ayurveda, meditation, herbal healing, and one-to-one wellness consultations, Shankari brings a broad perspective to supporting emotional well-being and helping people recognize and heal recurring patterns with compassion and clarity.
A Bach Flower Essence Consultation provides a supportive space to explore your current emotional landscape and select Flower Essences that genuinely reflect how you are feeling today. Many people find that this process brings greater clarity and confidence, not only in their current selection but also in developing a deeper personal understanding of the Bach Flower Remedies. The consultation is designed to support your own simple, confident use of the Flower Essences at home.
Real Life Stories
At age 79, Jean feels discouraged, and exhausted with the aches of body and the demands of a life he struggles to keep up with. After just one week of taking a personalized Flower Essence combo chosen specifically for his current moods, he looks taller, standing more confident. Jean has noticed that falling asleep is easier and his chronic leg pain is diminishing.
A Conversation, Not a Questionnaire
A Bach Flower Essence Consultation is much more than choosing flower essences from a list.
It is an opportunity to notice the patterns that quietly influence your life, your relationships, your decisions, and your sense of purpose.
As these patterns become clearer, it often becomes easier to hear something that yoga, ayurveda, and the flower essences all point toward—the quiet wisdom that already exists within you.
Looking Beyond the Pattern
What if the greatest obstacle to moving forward isn’t what is happening around you, but the familiar emotional pattern through which you experience it?
The flower essences don’t tell you who to become.
They simply help reduce some of the emotional interference, making it easier to recognize who you’ve been all along and reconnect with your own Inner Wisdom.
As familiar or unconscious emotional habits begin to soften, we experience more space for clarity, confidence, and authentic choice. Rather than reacting from old patterns, you can respond with greater awareness and greater alignment towards your own unique path.
If you’re curious about which emotional patterns are most active for you, a 60-minute Bach Flower Essence Session offers a thoughtful, personalized opportunity to explore your current emotional landscape and create a personalized flower essences that reflect where you are today. It is a supportive conversation designed to help you reconnect with your own Inner Wisdom.
