10/09/2026
巴赫醫生(Bach)生活在一個步調較為緩慢的時代。那時沒有來自世界各地即時跳出的新聞訊息,而個人生活的基本根基,在某種程度上,也受到保護,不必像今日的我們一樣,在每一個二十四小時的循環中,不斷面對各種快速襲來、衝擊情緒的要求與刺激。
科技正席捲我們的生活,並以令人難以追蹤的速度,改變著我們生活與工作的方式。政治與經濟的影響,也能在短短數小時內席捲全球,改變我們對自身安全感的感受。
要找到自己的平衡,有時並不容易。
在這樣的背景下,胡桃(Walnut)是一種很有意思的花精。巴赫創製它,是為了幫助人們抵禦那些可能造成心理、情緒與身體狀態失衡,以及帶來根本性轉變的影響。長牙、青春期、開始一份新工作、搬到新的住處……等,這些都是生活中常見的經驗,卻都可能打亂我們原有的生活節奏。
然而,或許在今天,更值得我們關注的,是這支花精所蘊含的核心精神。
巴赫醫生曾說:「我們必須完全而徹底地獲得自己的自由,使我們所做的一切、每一個行動,不,甚至是我們的每一個念頭,都源自於我們自己。如此,我們才能自由地生活與付出,並且完全出於自己的意願。」
這是一支召喚我們回到自己內在的花精。它提醒我們,要依循自己內在的真實而生活,而不是因為周遭的權力、影響力,或不斷起伏的輿論浪潮,而使自己失去原有的形狀與方向。
當我們周遭的生活變得愈來愈緊密連結,節奏也愈來愈快速時,胡桃(Walnut)提供了一條回到我們內在中心的道路,使我們能夠在自己之中找到穩定——即使這個世界無法提供我們這份穩定。
Bach lived in a time when the pace of life was slower. There were no instant pings of news from around the world and the foundations of individual life were, to some extent, shielded from the rapid-fire demands on our emotions that we experience today through every 24-hour cycle.
Technology is sweeping through our lives and changing the way we live and work at a speed it is hard to keep track of. Political and economic influences sweep the world in a matter of hours changing how safe we feel.
It can be hard to find your balance.
Walnut is an interesting essence in this context. Bach created it to help shield people from the imbalances and fundamental shifts to mental, emotional and physical states. Teething, puberty, starting a new job, moving to a new home - regular experiences that bring disruption to our rhythms.
But it is, perhaps, the underlying ethos of the essence that is more interesting today.
Bach said, “We must gain our freedom absolutely and completely, so that all we do, our every action – nay even our every thought – derives its origin in ourselves, thus enabling us to live and give freely of our own accord, and of our own accord alone.”
It is an essence that calls us back to ourselves and asks us to live from our internal truths, rather than being bent out of shape by the powers or swells of opinion around us.
While life around us becomes increasingly connected and moves ever faster, Walnut offers a route back to our centres to find stability in ourselves, even when the world cannot offer it.
https://www.healingherbs.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/The-Essence-Within.pdf