Cherry Plum
An absolute staple essence and one of the flowers in Dr. Edward Bach’s composite formula Rescue Remedy, also marketed as 5-Flower-Formula, Cherry Plum addresses the human tendency to seek control. In that we can only control ourselves and our own choices, seeking to control life and its terms is an exercise in futility, but one that we, as humans, try to gain nonetheless. This attempt to gain control over life and outcomes can create a feeling of being insane and OUT of control! It has us in a constant holding posture, gripping fanatically to conditions and external factors, trying to influence them to our liking. Cherry Plum helps to assume a posture of letting go, release, surrender. By its influence, we learn to offer life’s outcomes to a spiritual power. In so doing, we are able to achieve inner peace.
Information adapted from:
Kaminski, P. & Katz, R. Flower Essence Repertory, 2004.
Photo credit: Cherry Plum (Prunus cerasifera) flower, by Peter O’Connor. Image file is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license.