How can Aspen help us overcome fear?

Aspen is one of the Bach flower remedies to help with fear. As one of the fear flowers, it is called for when there is a feeling of being engulfed by pervasive fears – those which are not specific but seem to feel as if you are somehow spooked, scared of your own shadow or feeling as though something “bad” will happen.

Much like an ill wind or a sense of foreboding, this feeling can just come upon you, feeling uneasy – sometimes similar to the way you do after seeing a horror film or being in the company of malevolence. It can be accompanied by shaking or trembling and feel like a nagging anguish, constant and knotted in your stomach. Sometimes, this is also the way we feel when we have a nightmare and wake still feeling chilled by it. When there are fears of death or coming to an ill ending or being punished in a religious sense. Or by some kind of retribution.

Sometimes, those who are in this fear state feel ashamed to talk about it because its origin might be unknown or without obvious relatable causation. It is also a very lonely space if it is singularly felt. 

Aspen can be very helpful for young children as well as adults and also pets when they have bad dreams. It can be one of the flower remedies used to help those suffering from panic attacks and anxiety states. 

Aspen helps restore confidence and good feelings of safety and that all, is well in the world. 

Here are some of the fear states that Aspen can help with:

• Unexplained panic.
• Anxiety - The anxiety will be a spooky kind, like something will befall you.
• Phobias - These can be of any kind or even picking up bad vibes in general as if nothing feels safe out there.
• Terrifying fantasies - These can be in nightmares but also imagined states.
• Nightmares - Great for dispelling that awful feeling when the nightmare feels so real. Aspen is also very helpful for children who have 'daymares' when waking from a morning or afternoon nap. 
• Bizarre ideas - Aspen is good for rumination and fearful overthinking.
• Strange feelings of unease - this kind of speaks for itself, but when you feel unsafe without reason, always listen to this feeling otherwise.
• Premonitions - Feelings of doom and disaster.
• Psychic attack - Aspen can help enormously.
• Panic attacks - Aspen is marvellous in the prevention and also the comfort.
• PTSD - Of all kinds.

When in an Aspen state, one’s clear awareness is thwarted by the type of fear it brings, whereby these fears are a never-ending torment. This state can exist after experiencing a terrible event, whereby the sufferer can imagine all kinds of terrible things happening, and a huge feeling of uncertainty prevails that leaves behind in its wake a frail constitution - where trust in life has been deeply affected.

The change and benefits that taking Aspen brings you 

Aspen dispels fear in an absolutely wonderful way and replaces it with equilibrium and calm.

When taken, this fear flower becomes the very essence of renewed courage, it is very helpful against anxiety and foreboding. It levels out the fear and brings and renewed feeling of safety and goodness. It can be very helpful with seasonal changes in the weather and SAD (seasonal affective) disorder when the days and darker.