Have you ever found yourself faced with an issue or dealing with a situation in your life that you see time and time again? You think you’ve dealt with it, only to find it pops up again sometime later. After a few re-appearances, you begin to feel mystified that the same thing keeps happening.
Meanwhile, you just want to move on with your life – move forwards and leave this whole problem behind.
If you’re sick of seeing the same old issue or situation cropping up, perhaps it’s time to press pause and look at things from a different angle.
I’ve put together three ways to help you take a step back from the situation and break that loop.
A Tarot or Oracle Card Spread
Bach Flower Remedy Suggestions
A Herb to Provide Clarity and Calm
Tarot or Oracle Card Spread
It’s designed to let you see the issue or situation from a new viewpoint. (You can use any tarot or oracle deck for this spread).
You can download the card spread here.
"Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know."
Pema Chödrön
Bach Flower Remedies
What are Bach Flower Remedies?
They are a system of 38 gentle yet powerful plant essences made by extracting the healing life force of each plant into pure spring water. The plant matter is then discarded, and the water is preserved with grape alcohol, glycerine, or cider vinegar.
How do the Remedies Work?
The remedies treat the whole personality, and frame of mind, rather than individual physical symptoms. They work via your emotions, helping you to become emotionally balanced and encouraging your body to kickstart its own healing abilities.
How to Use the Remedies
Bach flower remedies are very easy to use. They can be taken in any kind of drink, food and even applied to the skin. You can take them alongside any medication or medical treatment. You can take them for passing moods or for longer term emotional needs.
Passing Moods:
Choose the remedy that you feel will help relieve your current emotional state. Add 2 drops of that remedy to a glass of water (or any other drink) and take regular sips until the drink is finished. You can repeat this method as aften as you feel you need to.
You can read more about the Bach Flower Remedy System here
Out of the 38 individual remedies in the Bach Flower system, here are some suggestions to help with breaking out of a loop:
Chestnut Bud helps us break patterns that have been repeating in our life. It allows us to learn from our experiences and move forwards, rather than being stuck in a habitual loop.
Cherry Plum supports our ability to calmly explore and understand our emotions, gaining insights from our subconscious mind.
Honeysuckle encourages us to let go of anything that is holding us back emotionally. This allows us to choose what feelings and memories we want to keep and which ones we want to release. Honeysuckle also helps us integrate our past with our present and lets us move forward with positivity.
Star Of Bethlehem was called the “comforter and soother of pains and sorrows” by the creator of the Bach Flower Remedy system, Dr Edward Bach. It is a wonderful remedy for anyone who is stuck in a loop due to reliving trauma or any kind of shock to their system. Start of Bethlehem gently helps process distressing experiences and enables the body to restore itself, no matter how long ago the experience happened.
Willow is a supportive, empowering remedy - reassuring us that the universe is on our side after all! It helps us reflect on different sides of a situation, offering perspectives and clarity we may not have seen before. Willow encourages emotional insights that moves us beyond feeling powerless and into a place of self-determination.
Herb - Lemon Balm; for clarity and calm
Lemon balm helps us feel more balanced emotionally and helps us gain clarity around the situations and issues we find ourselves dealing with. Lemon Balm also helps us communicate with others more easily.
Using Lemon Balm as a Tea –
1 tablespoon of *fresh (roughly torn) leaves per cup or 1 teaspoon of dried leaves per cup. Add boiling water and leave it to brew for anything from 5 minutes to 20 minutes (depending on how strong you want the flavour and effect to be).
Lemon Balm has a refreshing taste, a light blend of lemon with a hint of mint. You can add a little honey if you’d prefer it sweeter.
*If you’re harvesting home-grown lemon balm for the tea: Only harvest if you are 100% certain of the plant’s identification. Ideally harvest the leaves before the flowers appear around June (in the UK). Also, if you harvest fresh, make sure it’s an organic lemon balm to avoid ingesting any pesticides.
If you want to try all three together, you could choose one or two flower remedies to add to your cup of lemon balm tea, while you try out the card reading!