Learn how to reduce stress, balance your emotions and make positive lifestyle changes with rose flower essences. This book is a comprehensive guide to natural healing with 65 flower remedies made from organically grown roses. Learn how to make flower essences using roses from your own organic garden, the therapeutic uses of the essences, and how rose flower essences can inspire you towards your highest potential. Contains many creative and practical applications as well as biofeedback and clinical evidence with testimonials from holistic practitioners and users who have experienced their positive healing benefits. "A comprehensive guide to rose flower essences with objective and subjective evidence of their healing properties..." -- Amy R. Stine, MD "If you want to reduce stress and increase healing in your life, this book is for you." -- Judith Burnett Schneider, Co-Author, The Frantic Woman's Guide to Life "Quite interesting and enjoyable. I can certainly see its value as a reference guide... I will consult it." -- Dr. Cornelia Richardson-Boedler, N.M.D., H.M.D, Naturopathic/Homeopathic Physician, Specialist in Bach Flower Therapy "Rose Flower Essences...a book that opens the soul to sense the gifts of Mother Earth in our daily lives." -- Mary Nelson, Founder, LaStone Therapy Rose flower essences are a specialized area within the realm of flower essence therapy. Based upon more than fifteen years of research into vibrational essences, Tenanche Rose Golden introduces us to rose flower essences as a "branched" healing system that helps to address the emotional issues and stressors of the 21st Century. Within this system each rose supports healing that opens us to flow with and contribute to positive life changes rather than to be resigned to life's challenges. When using rose flower essences, we can begin to find joy, love, delight, and many other qualities that nurture and sustain the soul. What you'll find inside: * 52 Rose Flower Essence Profiles with their healing qualities * 13 Rose Flower Essence Combination Formulas and healing benefits * How to make your own rose flower essences using several methods * How to make positive lifestyle changes using rose flower essence therapy * How to experience your garden as a healing space with rose flower essences * Clinical case examples and anecdotal observations of the healing effects of rose flower essences * How rose flower essences express the healing memory of water * How biofeedback imaging shows the effects of specific rose flower essences on the human bio-energy field * How to use rose flower essences in bath therapy * And more! Tenanche Rose Golden, M.A., R.M.T., a floral herbalist and experienced flower essence practitioner and researcher who has been making and using mineral and flower essences since 1989. She has also studied Bach Flower Therapy with the British Institute of Homeopathy. A Reiki Master Practitioner and Teacher, Tenanche is a practicing bodyworker and energy healer who continues to research this field of energy medicine and has written articles about flower essences for several publications. She is the Founder and Director of the International Healing Rose Society (IHRS) and Healing Rose Press, vehicles to research and educate about the healing benefits of roses Excerpted from Rose Flower Essences: A New Guide to Natural Healing with 65 Remedies Made From The World's Most Beloved Flower by Tenanche Golden. Copyright © 2006. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Except from Chapter 2 Rose Flower Essences as a Branched Healing System The blossom of a rose makes a very effective flower essence. According the Dr. Edward Bach, founder of the Bach Flower Remedies in the 1930s, the flower essence of Wild Rose is a remedy for healing the personality imbalance of apathy or resignation to one s circumstances. In this case scenario, the person just gives up on finding any joy or purpose in life, resigning himself to life s struggles. Wild Rose essence helps to bring a person back to living a life of enthusiasm, pleasure and joy. Since Dr. Bach s discovery thousands of practitioners and self-care users have confirmed this healing quality of Wild Rose flower essence. The wild rose is also known as a species rose. This rose has not been crossbred with another rose. Dr. Bach used the species Rosa canina to make his remedy and discovered its healing benefits. During several years of research with essences made from cultivated roses, I have found that flower essences made from cross-bred (hybridized) roses also offer healing benefits. This demonstrates a branching of the rose s healing qualities among hybridized garden-grown roses. For example, while the Wild Rose flower essence specifically addresses resignation in the personality and cultivates pleasure and joy, as outlined by Dr. Bach, certain cultivated or garden-grown roses address the imbalance by supporting a broader range of positive soul qualities. A specific rose or gro