Mimulus - Dr. Bach Flower Essences

For known fears of everyday life, such as pain, the dark, being alone, etc.Positive qualities:
Courage and confidence to face life's challenges.

Patterns of imbalance:
Known fears of everyday life; shyness.

Mimulus flower essence is one of the most basic remedies for fear. Those needing this flower essence are hypersensitive and live with a great many small fears of ordinary and everyday events. They are especially afflicted in the solar plexus, which churns with great anxiety and unease. Eventually, if these fears are not met and transformed, the soul becomes quite darkened and introverted as it withdraws more and more from the stresses of daily living.

Mimulus flower essence brings the light of courage back to such souls. It helps the individual shift its fixation form myriad lesser fears to awareness of a more basic, usually unconscious fear. This is a fear of the physical body, or of physical life itself, which can sometimes be traced to actual hesitation at the moment of incarnation. A pattern is thus set deep within the substrata of the soul which must be healed.

Mimulus flower essence helps the soul to contact the strength and purpose of its Higher Self, and thus sets it free to experience life with greater curiosity, exuberance, and joy.

- from the "Flower Essence Repertory", by Patricia Kaminsky and Richard Katz. The most comprehensive and user-friendly flower essence book we've found. Highly recommended for any practitioner.