Welcome to Help4Animals.com! My Name is Donna Williamson and i am the owner of Bottled Blessings, a manufacturer of flower essence formulas designed to help harmonize your relationship with your pets! I hope you find this blog edifying, fun and productive. Please feel free to comment or ask questions.


Flower essences belong to a wider category of remedies, called vibrational remedies. Vibrational medicine is a new and emerging medicine that is based in resonant energy fields, and the new physics, developed in the last century. The models for this new medicine have existed for thousands of years, but we did not have the science to really understand the significance of these models. Elements of these models can be seen in Oriental medicine, ancient Egyptian medicine, Greek medicine, all herbal and acupuncture, as well as modern psychology, and philosophy.

According to modern physics, everything is a form of energy, either slowed down or sped up. This means everything. So abstractions such as thought and feeling and consciousness are also forms of energy.

Modern medicine is showing us that many diseases that attack the physical body actually have their cause in the psyche, or the emotional level of the individual. The problem is, we haven’t really had a way to safely treat the emotions like we treat an earache. They are messy and they change, and who knows where they even are? Furthermore, all we have to treat them with are pharmaceuticals that have intense and undesirable side effects, especially for long term use.

For the first time in history (at least the history we know of) we now have a way to treat the emotions and balance them for peace and contentment. This doesn’t pacify, or addict. It isn’t a kinder, gentler lobotomy, but a deep rearrangement of triggers and responses and interactions. Vibrational medicine works in the causal levels- where disease and distress begin- and they do it safely. They never interfere with higher cognition or free will, at least in humans. They aren’t a way to take over the world.

We now have the technology- a totally natural, safe technology -to change human consciousness positively without bypassing thought or will, or self- control. In animals, the changes are even more pronounced and amazing.

Vibrational medicine is the new medicine of the 21st century and promises to change society, medicine, education, criminal justice, psychiatry, and many other areas of human endeavor. It promises to completely change our relationship to our selves spiritually and to nature as a whole. Vibrational medicine is composed of:

Flower essences- treating the soul and the emotions
Gem Elixers-treating the etheric/physical body and the spirit
Reiki- treating the etheric and the physical
Crystal therapy- physical/emotional/mental and spiritual

These treatments work deeper than pharmaceuticals, on causal levels, and they work without any unwanted side effects. They are perfect medicine, as if the Creator wanted us all to live healthy, happy and harmonious lives. Wow!

When I was a practicing physical therapist, I would have given anything to have known about these amazing technologies to really help my patients on a deeper level than I could otherwise treat. I had no formal academic training in emotions that so affected my patients- emotions like fear and anger. All I could recommend were things like prayer; not that that’s a bad thing, but sometimes it takes so long to work and it doesn’t always work the way we want. I guess we always want it our way.

The Constitution of Man
 
According to ancient models, humans consist of layers of ever finer energies, ranging from the dense physical body you see in front of you, to ever finer energy bodies. From the physical, you have:

Physical
Etheric
Emotional
Mental
Soul
Higher mind
Intuition
Spiritual will
 
All vibrational medicines work on the etheric level. This level is the same level that herbal medicine, Qi Gong, Reiki and acupuncture work on. It is extremely sensitive to all emotional and mental energies. It is the scaffolding around which physical atoms from our food are arranged in the form of our body. This framework is intelligent and is responsible for the automatic functions of our bodies such as metabolism, embryo development, growth and healing. Each level is in a more causal relationship, like an onion, the outer layers form and control the denser, inner layer. That is why the physical body is merely a hardcopy of all the thoughts and feelings an individual has. When I was working as a physical therapist, I could tell what a person was feeling and what his/her major life challenges were simply from the body posture.

Intelligent problem solving tells us that the deeper we can treat imbalances, the more powerfully positive will the changes be. Modern psychology tells us the younger we can treat the problem, the more pain can be avoided, although there are powerful vibrational tools that reach way back and change long standing wounds from early on. Vibrational remedies are safe enough to use on babies and pregnant moms.

Vibrational medicine always supports the soul- the inner healer- and never short circuits personal power or will and always has a positive outcome- or none at all. This evolution in medicine represents a revolution in personal empowerment, a milestone in human relations and a profound development in human consciousness. IMHO, it represents a wondrous and sublime interaction with God’s will and His powerful love for each of us.

When we begin to see such abstractions such as a belief, as a thing from the mental level, or literally as energy of the mental level, we can begin to understand how the vibrational remedies go to work. If we harbor a belief, such as “Martians are bad and therefore it’s alright to hate them,” we need to understand that this belief system is first and foremost not compatible with the universal principle of love. This automatically begins to make us sick. It is right to say- hey simply change your beliefs and get well, but that’s also simplistic. Many or our most powerful beliefs are buried so deep in our consciousness, we don’t even know what they are anymore, or even if we have any. In other words, we don’t even know that we don’t know.

When I was a child, I had asthma very bad. I would wake up at three in the morning unable to breathe, and my mother- bless her- who was the cause of my anxiety that caused the asthma to begin with, would have to take me to the hospital. The situation was bad because there was alcoholism, which caused the anxiety which caused the asthma. It was all very unconscious, except the asthma. I began to form beliefs about his life- hard beliefs- about living and about pain and about fighting to live and struggle until, at about age ten, as I lie crying in some emergency room after a shot of epinephrine, something inside said- this life is nothing but struggle- struggle to breathe, struggle to be, to live. Now as an adult, I have a very low threshold for stress, because trying seems so futile sometimes. And struggle- oh yeah, that’s what this whole last decade of my life has been. But the good news- now I am aware of it, and I can change it. It’s the getting aware of it part that is the hardest.

Then, when we can’t let go of the inevitable hurts that are thrown our way in the course of life, all of these serve to block the healing and life giving flow of energy from higher spiritual levels. As we age, our bodies literally begin to show off the blows we have sustained in this life. How we deal with these is our choice, but now we have very real and meaningful ways to handle these energies. I personally have a huge struggle with forgiveness. I can realize the power of it, I see plainly the necessity of it, yet I myself cannot “let it go”. It’s more than just “getting over it”, especially when someone has hurt you so deeply, that it has colored every aspect of your life. This is monumental stuff. A lot of people pay very educated professionals a lot of money to help them “just get over it”. Sometimes it takes years of praying for help to “just get over it”.

So when we have powerful tools that can assist this process, and take away pain without taking away the wisdom to be gained, as a healer, I say “Yeah!” When we can, as the Buddha suggested, “detach from our pain” we can see it, we can learn from it, but we don’t have to feel it. What a blessing is that?

Some people believe this whole life is about learning. “Learning what?” I say. Is it learning about pain? Is it learning wisdom? Or is it both? Vibrational medicine offers us powerful, safe tools to transform unhelpful energies for growth and healing. As we look at ourselves, we need to ask ourselves, why am I unhealthy, or why am I unhappy. The methods we use to create health and happiness for ourselves can be used to help children, and pets.

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Flower essences work energetically on the emotional level. Let’s say we had a magic machine that could measure emotions. We hooked up a number of people and animals and we noticed that serene people and animals had a printout that looked like:


 
All parameters are the same intensity, or measurement. Now, let’s say we measure someone that is jealous and their chart looks like:


 
What flower essences do is even out all the missing energies so that after treatment the machine will measure something that looks like:


 
As you can see, the bars are all even now, showing that the energies are now all equalized, resembling the “serene” state.

As time goes by and the new, more stabilized energies become ingrained, or locked in, the machine might even see this as all green, as in the first chart, depicting an entirely serene and balanced individual.

All of this is hypothetical, as I know of no machine that can actually measure emotion. It may be that one exists, I just don’t know of it. It doesn’t really matter, since we see changes before us regardless of whether a machine measures it or not. I certainly don’t need a machine to tell me what my eyes are seeing.

In animals, these changes are particularly pronounced because they don’t have the mental ability to check their emotions. Thus an enraged chimp will tear its enemy to pieces and a scared dog will run for its life. With animals, what’s on the inside translates directly to what’s on the outside. That’s why we can safely say that emotional balance leads directly to behavioral improvement.
 
Most people can’t tell the difference between thought and emotion. But with animals this is a crucial differentiation, since they are at the mercy of their emotions and instincts. With humans, we can overrule our emotions with thought, rationalization and moral teaching. It’s what the philosophers and theologians say sets us apart from animals. When we are enraged, we can stop ourselves form killing. When our hormones are raging, we can stop ourselves from having sex. We can override our emotions and biology. But with animals, it’s a different thing altogether and the instinctual responses in animals are hardwired.

So when we can find substances that can change emotions and emotional responses in animals and humans without any side effects, we have stumbled on a very amazing and powerful thing. Currently, the only substances that really work on these levels are pharmaceuticals and psychotropics. Now I’m not a fanatic about anything really, and I say that there is a time and a place for everything, but by and large, the side effects of these chemicals don’t really lend themselves to long term use, and, they don’t treat on a causal level, unless brain chemistry is the problem.

The biggest problem I have found in treating with flower essences is the difficulty in finding the exact combination to treat the exact imbalance. With animals it is much easier to formulate for a given behavior and emotion on a mass scale since many of their emotions are stereotypical and their mind/mental function is not as developed. This also goes for small children as well, and flower essences are phenomenal for children caught in unpleasant situations such as divorce, or demonstrating problems such as ADD. In older children, the mind becomes more developed and the efficacy of flower essences changes, with formulation becoming more challenging.

The typical problem we see in treating animals is in dosing. First we have to establish that the formula can work, and this we do by giving standard doses for about two weeks and observe behavior. If there are changes in behavior and with no other factors changed, it is safe to assume that the changes are due to the flower essences. Then we can change the dose, doubling or even tripling it as needed. There are no safety concerns here, so there is no problem in dosing as such.
 
The length of treatment usually depends on how ingrained the behavior is. Obviously the longer the behavior has been going on, the longer the treatment will need to be undergone, because what we are talking about here is changing behavior.

After a while, the flower essences will have reached a plateau of efficacy. This means that you have reached about as much good as your going to get from the formula. This can be three months, or it can be six months, but at some point, it’s as good as it gets.

Now, some animals get amazing, stunning, even miraculous changes. They are not typical. Some animals see nothing at all. But by and large, most animals see some to remarkable change in the first month to six weeks. At of this point, we are unable to predict who will see what changes and when they will occur. Much, I suspect , has to do with human compliance.

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As many of us bring animals to live with us in our homes, we need to know how to compassionately handle and lead our furry and feathered friends for maximum harmony in the home. Without this harmony, our pets do little to add to our quality of life, and we can’t really add to theirs either.

Cats and dogs, as well as other species have different sensibilities than we, as humans, have. If there is tension in the home, perhaps because of a sick member or a pending divorce, our pets pick this up and respond. Our stress becomes their stress almost by osmosis. We can really see how this "energy" spreads in herd psychology, riots and in the psychology of the stock market as well. Nothing moves as fast as fear in a crowd. When we begin to understand that emotions are energies, we can begin to understand how this happens, and how flower essences can work.

According to many ancient texts, as well as modern physics, everything is a form of energy. This includes emotion and thought. When we are in harmony in our thoughts and emotions, energy can flow freely from our souls into our bodies, and out into our environment. We, as humans, become a force for healing and joy. If we look at the example of the great St Francis, we see this principle demonstrated perfectly.

Now most of us are far from this saintly perfection, but as we work on ourselves, we begin to open our hearts to love. For many of us, our pets are our teachers of this love and that is why we spoil them and pour our affection out on them as if they were our children.

In loving our pets and serving their highest good, we need to examine our practices and habits of being with them. When we treat our pets like people, we are not necessarily acting for their highest good, and trouble can soon ensue. The truth is, they are not people and they don’t necessarily want to be.

As humans, we need to take the lead and be the pack leader. This goes for whatever species you keep at home- dog, cat or parrot. When animals sense weakness, they feel a void in leadership and they will move to fill the vacuum. This is where a lot of problems start. As Cesar Milan and others are showing, it’s not cruel to teach an animal its place. What is cruel is having an animal run amok and then re-homed, or worse yet, euthanized because of our ignorance and inability to handle a bad situation that was created by us to begin with.

For most pets, not being the boss is a huge relief, and one that allows them to happily go about their business of being a cat, or a dog, or a cockatoo. This has made a huge change in my own pet’s behavior, and has its roots in mammalian and even some avian psychology. As animals become more and more social, the psychological need for hierarchy coevolves and we see this as dominant/submissive behavior. Anyone who is watching the hit show Meerkat Manor sees just how important this social evolution is to the survival of both the group and the individual.

Human leadership in the home needn’t be tyrannical or abusive. On the contrary, it should involve adequate food, exercise, play and affection. But it also involves boundaries and sometimes discipline to enforce boundaries. Just as in parenthood, healthy boundaries and positive leadership are essential to let everyone know where they stand, and that you are in charge, not them. You have it all under control, so they can relax. This promotes harmony in the home, dependable relationships, consistent routines and is enormous stress relief to your pet, and ultimately you.

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By far one of the most important things you can do to improve the lives of your pets, and spend quality time together is training. Whether you have a horse, a Jack Russell, or a cockatoo, one of the ways we say I love you to our animals is engage them in fun and stimulating activity. And most animals thrive. I believe that not only does training activity improve your pet’s behavior; it improves the quality of your relationship. This creates a loving and grateful animal who will listen and by and large obey, especially when treated with love and respect. I also believe this helps them evolve along their spiritual path. Training helps to develop the mental faculties of animals. When we can combine this with fun and affection, it becomes a treat in and of itself. Flower essences help this process in a myriad of ways. They can speed up the rate of comprehension and the probability of successful outcome. This goes a long way to creating confidence and motivation for both you and your pet. Flower essences are another tool in a whole array of techniques and tools for animal training. They do not replace time, or effort, but make the most of both. Whatever process, school of thought, or technique you follow, flower essences can help you and your pet reach your training goals. Bottled Blessings has taken the guess work out of it with our handy formulas- Dog Train & Horse Train. Cat lovers- flower essences are a god-send for cat lovers. If you have a misbehaving cat, you can simply help balance their behavior without the harsh pharmaceuticals that kill their spirit. Keep the good stuff and balance the other parts with flower essences.