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Distance Learning Programme

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Distance Learning Programme

Lesson One: First Steps

Your name and address:

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About lesson one

Welcome to the first lesson in the Dr Edward Bach Centres Distance
Learning Programme (DLP). This is the first of five lessons. It
introduces some of the Bach flower remedies to you for the first
time, in particular the traditional crisis mix.
Your objectives in completing this lesson are:

To get used to the format that will be used throughout the

course

To understand the basic principles of using Bach flower

remedies

To understand when and how to use the liquid and cream

crisis mixes

To get to know five remedies for different kinds of fear:

Mimulus, Red Chestnut, Aspen, Rock Rose and Cherry Plum

To learn how to take remedies to deal with passing moods and

crises

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How to complete a lesson

Each lesson in the DLP will include a number of topics, each one on
a page by itself. The topics in lesson one are:

About you

The crisis mix

Basic principles

The cream

Mimulus, Aspen and Rock Rose

Taking the remedies - quick and easy methods

Red Chestnut and Cherry Plum

Recap

Your questions

You could complete all the topics in one day if you wanted to, but
you will learn more if you set aside thirty or forty minutes a day,
and complete only one or two topics at a time.
Use your set books to help you find the answers to questions. Write
or type all your work in the space provided in the lesson. Please
write or type clearly and use a blue or black pen if possible. Please
do not attach supplementary sheets. Use a separate notebook to
record any questions, insights or ideas that come to you as you
work.
Try to complete and return this lesson within six weeks of
the day you received it. Remember to write your name and
address in the box on page 1.

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What you need before you start

The two set books, The Bach Remedies Workbook and Bach
Flower Remedies Step by Step

A pen or pencil

A notebook

A bottle of crisis formula *

A bottle of any single Bach flower remedy

The best-known brand is called Rescue Remedy; other brands available

include Five Flower Remedy and Recovery Remedy

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You
1. Write down your main reason for doing this course:

2. Write down three things that you hope to be able to do by the

time you have finished this course:

3. Describe an occasion in the past when you have taken (or could
have taken) a remedy:

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The crisis mix

1. Look up the crisis or emergency mix in the set books it may be
listed under one of the brand names given at the bottom of Page
4
2. In your own words, describe some situations in which you might
use this emergency formula:

3. Say how many drops of the crisis formula you would use at a
time:

4. Describe two different ways of taking the crisis mix:

5. List the five remedies in the formula and say what each one is for:

6. Keep your bottle of the crisis mix in your pocket or handbag for a
few days, and use it at appropriate times. Write down how you
felt before you used it for the first time:

7. .. now say how you felt after you used it for the first time:

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Basic principles
1. Referring to the set books if necessary, say what Dr Bach meant
by the true cause of disease:

2. Look through the set books and find as many references to

simplicity as you can

3. Write down why you think simplicity was so important to Dr Bach:

4. Say why there are only 38 remedies in the system, and why no
new remedies have ever been added:

5. Look in the set books and the introduction to this course for
information about safety and contraindications. Say what if any
special precautions you think recovering alcoholics might take
before using the remedies:

6. and say what (if any) precautions people taking other

medicines might need to take:

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The cream
1. Look up the cream version of the crisis mix in the set books as
before, it may be listed under one of the brand names given at
the bottom of Page 4
2. Give two examples from your own past when you either did or
could have used the cream:

3. Name the remedies in the cream:

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Mimulus, Aspen and Rock Rose

1. Look up all references to Mimulus, Aspen and Rock Rose in the
set books

2. Imagine you are afraid of the dark. Say more about your fear
assuming that you need to take both Mimulus and Aspen:

3. Now describe your fear of the dark assuming you need to take
Mimulus but not Aspen:

4. Think of an occasion in the past when you needed to take Rock

Rose. Say why you would have preferred Rock Rose to either
Mimulus or Aspen:

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Taking the remedies - quick and easy methods

1. Read everything the set books have to say about taking remedies
for passing moods and in emergencies

2. Describe how you would make up and take a mix of Mimulus and
the crisis mix in a glass of water:

3. Describe what you would do if you needed some Rock Rose but
had no water in which to dilute it:

4. If you take a sip from a glass of water containing four drops of the
crisis formula, say whether this is less effective, more effective,
or the same as taking four drops direct from the stock bottle:

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Red Chestnut and Cherry Plum

1. Look up all references to Red Chestnut and Cherry Plum in the
set books

2. Describe what Cherry Plum is for:

3. Given that Red Chestnut and Mimulus people are both anxious
about something specific, describe the difference between these
two states:

4. Describe a situation in your past when you would have found

Cherry Plum helpful:

5. Describe a situation in your past when you would have found Red
Chestnut helpful:

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Recap
1. You have looked at six remedies in this lesson. Without referring
to the set books or your other answers, list these remedies and
in two or three words describe what each one is for:
A:
B:
C:
D:
E:
F:

2. Say which remedy would be most appropriate for the following

people:
A. A child screaming in a temper tantrum:
B. A mother worried because her son is home late from school:
C. A child screaming in terror after waking from a nightmare:
D.A jogger scared of a dog:
E. A passer-by shaken up after witnessing an accident:
F. Someone anxious because it is Friday the 13 th and something
may happen:

3. Say what you think is the most important thing you have learned
while completing this lesson:

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Your questions
If you havent understood anything covered in this lesson, or you
would like your mentor to give you further information on anything,
write your questions or comments here.

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What to do now

This is the end of lesson one.

When you have completed this lesson send it to your mentor at the
address given in the accompanying letter. Your work will be sent
back to you within four weeks of receipt, along with your mentors
response and the next lesson.
We strongly advise you to keep a copy of your work. Neither
the Centre nor your mentor can be responsible for work lost
or delayed in the post.

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Things to do while you wait for lesson two

Work through Day 1 of The Bach Remedies Workbook,

completing all the exercises and activities.

Try to use at least one of the remedies introduced in this

lesson (assuming you need to), and record the results in your
notebook.

Look for examples of people behaving in a fearful or anxious

way, either in real life or on television, and try to select the
right remedy for each person.

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