Dear Friends,
Thank you for all the years of supporting Anaflora essences.
Unfortunately, after many years of making magnificent flower essences, Anaflora has closed.
Sharon Callahan has passed on to me several recommendations for people who want to continue using flower essences and can no longer get the Anaflora essences they want.
First, if you have some remaining Anaflora essences you can continue to top off and use these essences indefinitely. She has done this for years with the essences she has had for her own use. You do this by adding brandy and bottled spring water to the remaining essence (Crystal Geyser spring water comes to mind for me because it is bottled at the source of the spring there near to Mt. Shasta).
Basically, you would fill the part of the bottle that has been used (and therefore is empty) with 1/3 brandy and 2/3 bottled spring water. Shake it a little bit (not much), and it will be ready to be used. Vibrational remedies like flower essences and homeopathy actually gain potency as they age so there is no limit on how long you can top off an essence.
If you don’t have any Anaflora essences to top off, Sharon encourages people to make their own essences from whatever is growing close to you, especially in your own yard, if you have one. Her book, Healing Animals Naturally with Flower Essences and Intuitive Listening, has instructions on how to make your own essences.
If you’re not able or not drawn to making flower essences, you can commune with the flowers in your environment or even purchase a deck of Flower cards and look at and commune with the ones to which you are drawn in a meditative way.
Humans have a natural analytical tendency which inclines them to want the exact thing for precisely what they feel they need-in this case, the exact Anaflora essence that they may have used in the past for their own or their animals’ issues. However, that exact thing is not really necessary.
If you have some Return to Joy left, you can top that off continually and use it for any issue that arises for you or your animal. It was the first essence that Sharon was inspired to make and the most powerful of all of Anaflora’s essences. She has always said that it will do whatever is needed and can take the place of any of the other essences. So, if you have some of that, keep topping it off and using it for whatever comes up in your life with your animals.
If you don’t have Return to Joy, and even if you do, Sharon has always said that whatever is growing close to you is the most powerful thing you can use as an essence. She has said that even the dandelion growing up through a crack in the sidewalk will gladly do whatever you need. Humans, again, have a tendency to think that something that is exotic and comes from far away will be better, but, in fact, that which is close by is actually best. Her book, again, will tell you how to make it into an essence (it’s not hard!) or you can commune with it as described above.
I hope you all will take some comfort in this information and give one or more of these methods a try. For myself, I’m topping off the essences I have remaining for my personal use and am beginning to make essences from the flowers and trees that grow close by and with whom I feel a strong affinity.
With many blessings and good wishes to you all,
Elizabeth
