Chamomile - Creature Comforter Essences

(Matricaria recutita) Positive qualities:

Serene, sun-like disposition, emotional balance.

Patterns of imbalance:

Easily upset, moody and irritable, inability to release emotional tension.

When we say that someone has a sunny disposition, we inherently recognize that such a soul has a harmonious emotional life. Like the sun which shines with constancy for all to see, so the soul must learn to regulate and harmonize its emotional life. Those needing

Chamomile flower essence are subject to very changeable moods and ever-fluctuating emotions. Their “inner weather” is stormy and easily “clouded” until they shift their consciousness to remember that the sun is always shining serenely behind all other phenomena. People needing Chamomile tend to accumulate psychic tension throughout the day, particularly in the stomach region. They will often have difficulty letting go of their emotional stress at night, and thus suffer from insomnia. This is particularly true of children, whose myriad of stomach complaints are often emotionally based.

Chamomile helps such souls to release tension from the stomach and solar plexus areas, and to harmonize their inner solar forces for greater emotional peace and stability. It subdues the many small emotions which vex the soul life, helping to consolidate these into a more fundamental soul essence of serenity and equanimity.

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Positive qualities: Peaceful, sunny disposition, emotional balance

Patterns of imbalance: Moody and irritable, easily upset with an inability to release emotional tension, especially in the stomach or solar plexus

Charmaine is moody, irritable and easily upset. Because she is not able to release emotional tension, it gets stored in her stomach and solar plexus. Like a ‘thunder storm’, moodiness comes over Charmaine for the smallest thing and stays until a more pleasant event clears the ‘clouds’ and she can feel her sunny side again. This internalization of tension often affects her sleep, causing bouts of insomnia. As a child she would spend hours screaming, especially in the evening and she was even diagnosed with hyperactivity and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). As an adult, Charmaine doesn’t seem to hold emotional tension quite as long as she used to, but she knows this is still a problem for her.

Charmaine longs to be in emotional balance with a peaceful, sunny disposition. She wants to cultivate a peaceful centeredness in her heart.

Chamomile is one of those few remedies where the whole herb, flower essence and homeopathic action are very similar.

Chamomile is very specific for children, especially the child who always insists on being held, and begins screaming the moment they are put down. This child will demand something for no reason and then immediately discard it. Chamomile will calm childhood temper tantrums, and will also calm adults displaying the same characteristics, which can often happen when one is going through a sensitive time in life. For both children and adults it makes one feel safe, loved, as if being held.

Chamomile flower essence allows us all to be kids again. It can help heal family issues that have been passed down through the generations. It will gently release family pain that is stuck in the physical or energetic bodies.

Even though most of the tension resolved by Chamomile flower essence is held in the stomach and solar plexus, it is also specific for PMS and menstrual sensitivities. It will release menstrual cramping, and the emotional congestion that comes along with it.

Chamomile FE is the great remedy for mood swings and hyperactivity. It is useful for sensitive people who internalize tension. It is especially beneficial to people diagnosed with ADHD. Chamomile brings harmony into these people’s lives, helping them connect with their inner self and creating a sense of inner peace. Chamomile will help to slow down a person’s world, creating a space for quietness.

Chamomile FE works well on animals, calming barking, nervously upset puppies. It is beneficial for high strung animals that seem to be too sensitive and for animals with stomach distress, such as gas or vomiting.

Chakra: Solar plexus and sacral

Angels: Arch Angels Jeremiel and Jophiel

Affirmation: I have a serene, sunny disposition and am emotionally balanced.

Symptoms Which Indicate
Acid reflux, Addiction, Adolescence, Adrenals, Aggression, Childhood, Colic, Depression/Grief, Digestive Disturbances, Eating Disorders, Eliminating, Hyperactivity, Indigestion, Insomnia, Irritable, Kidney Disorders/dysfunction, Learning Difficulties, Meditative, Moody, Nervous System Disorders, Perfectionist, Personal Relationships, Pregnancy, Relaxation, Stress/Tension, Worry.