Flower Essence Sweet Chestnut

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Sweet Chestnut – (Loss of All Hope, Dark Night of the Soul)

Positive Balanced Qualities

o   Spiritual depth, faith derived from encountering adversity, solitude rooted in spiritual communion.

Patterns of Imbalance

o   Pronounced despair and agony, feeling of aloofness of abandonment due to a “dark night of the soul”.

From The Twelve Healers by Edward Bach

o   “For those moments which happen to some people when the anguish is so great as to be unbearable. When the mind or body feels as if it had borne to the uttermost limit of its endurance, and that now it must give way…”

Note:

o   Known depression.

o   Sweet chestnut helps the wound to heal and to begin to move things forward. It helps you to take the time for yourself and find the way out (light at the end of the tunnel).

o   They can feel a quiet void, nothing left, no way out, either they are not feeling or feel hollow.

o   Usually, the result of something enduring for a long time. They have finally given up and feel empty.

o   Sweet chestnut can be a gift when you have finally let go, you are then open to possibility.