the Bach Flower Remedy:
Beech

Beech: Remedy from the set of the Second Nineteen

About this music

The last of the Remedies to be written. Not yet realised in performance (May 09).

Plans to further develop this piece for the trumpet.

Fanfare like opening leading to bluesy melody with strong rhythmic accompaniment. Coda goes into 5/8 time and gradually increase tempo before the Tempo I returns for the last few bars.

Lyrics for Beech

Beech is an instrumental piece.

About Beech, the Bach Flower Remedy

Beech is for intolerance, criticism, fault finding.

‘For those who feel the need to see more good and beauty in all that surrounds them’

Beech people criticize the world around for its imperfections. They are judgmental. Life for them could be good enough if only they concentrated less upon what needs to be corrected.

Although much appears to be wrong, they need to have the ability to see the good growing within. A remedy for the critic, not the criticized. However valid the criticism may be, the Beech state narrows and restricts joy in life and so narrows and restricts vitality, leading inevitably to ill health.

Not a soul state but a condition which builds up over time owing to a reactive dislike for something, expressed as:

‘life does not do what I want so I will criticize everything and everybody to show how wrong it all is’

Beech people suffer from
‘…..an inner sense of inferiority and hypersensitivity which is projected on to others. Very often such persons grew up in an environment of criticism and harsh expectation and so they inwardly feel very vulnerable and insecure. However they learn to cope by condemning others instead of healing themselves.’

Tall smooth trunks rise like slender pillars to the vaulting leaf canopy. Shafts of light shine into shaded aisles. So complete is the high roof’s delicate tracery of branches that other plants are starved of light.

In the Beech state a person becomes isolated, lonely and cut off from others. Criticism and intolerance push people away. It is the same with the beech trees. If left to fight their battles unaided, the Beech will be the conqueror. In a mixed wood of Beech and Oak, the Beech will dominate and ultimately take over completely.

Personal insecurity leads to other people being pushed away with criticism just as Beech trees prevent other species from entering into their growing space. This dominance suggests a kind of vulnerability – Beech cannot tolerate competition and the rough play of life and so closes out all other species. Although they appear strong and confident, Beech people are sensitive and vulnerable.

This account of this Bach Flower Remedy is based on the book Bach Flower Remedies : Form and Function by Julian Barnard.

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