Bach Flower Essence Therapy: A New Instrument for Emotional Support

對於助人工作者來說，持續地找尋幫助個案得到療癒的方法或工具，是項榮譽的任務。這個新方法要是安全的，不複雜而容易進行，同時也能在很短時間內得到正面的結果。而這個找尋的過程也往往包含了數個因素：追尋者的動機，嘗試新奇方式的意願，找尋與學習所花費的時間，追尋者與新方法之間的互動，以及些許的運氣。在想要幫助人們找到情緒的平衡與過著較快樂的生命的初始動機之下，作者尋得了巴哈花精療法，並且發現了花精(flower essence)在幫助個人情緒平衡上的價值。此篇文章提出愛德華•巴哈發展花精療法的過程，理論基礎，使用方式，個案報告，以及其協助情緒平衡的價值。

關鍵字

巴哈花精療法；花精；情緒平衡

並列摘要

As helping professionals, it is a responsibility as well as a privilege to continuously seek out methods or tools that will assist clients in their healing. We hope these methods and tools to be most beneficial: safe, non-complicated, easily applied, and preferably quick in having positive results. This searching process often involves several elements: the searcher intents, her willingness to learn and try out new or strange things, time, the encounter between the searching and the searched, and also, a little bit of luck. Driven by an intent to find ways to help heal human emotions, to help people live a less stressed and happier life, the author has encountered the Bach Flower Essence Therapy and found it to have tremendous values in emotional healing. This paper reports the results of the author's search.