the Bach Flower Remedy:
Larch

Larch: Remedy from the set of the Second Nineteen

About this music

Performed twice only in version for sax, piano bass and drums.

A slow piece for sax, piano bass and drums moving from 6/4 to 4/4
and back again. Unusual harmonies and modulations, and opportunity for the sax to improvise in last section.

Lyrics for Larch

Larch is an instrumental piece.

About Larch, the Bach Flower Remedy

This remedy helps those ‘who feel they will never be a success’; people whose confidence in themselves is low. It may be clear enough what needs to be done, but such people hang back because ‘They do not consider themselves as good or capable as those around them’.

The challenge is there but not the will to succeed. Characteristic of the boiling method remedies – they represent difficulties on the pathway of life.

The Larch condition is not inherent, not something we are born with, nor integral to the soul. It grows up as a response to trauma, a response to a particular setback. Larch calls for the attempt to be made, even at the risk of failure. Larch is the try again remedy.

The Larch tree is in fact both forward and confident and tentative and hesitant. It was grown extensively after its introduction in 1620 because of its strength and adaptability. It grows fast and straight with a single trunk and few branches. Yet the Larch is sensitive to pollution and prone to fatal diseases just like the Elm. Larch is a conifer, and its seed forms within the shelter of a cone. The Larch seed illustrates a tendency to drift in life – there is a temporary dissociation from any involvement in the material world. When the seed lands germination is uncertain, but sometimes seedlings may root in the cleft of stones where others cannot succeed. Larch braves difficulty.

Larch starts out as a typical conifer. For four years it is an evergreen. Then the tree becomes deciduous, with the leaves turning yellow then brown then dropping to the ground. The behaviour is unique amongst British trees.

Larch lacks the confidence that comes from a clear geometry. The slender drooping branches hang from the trunk like loose-slung cables. It expresses the Larch remedy state which collapses without resistance, not asserting the will. This is seen in the growing tip of the tree which seems to lose the impetus of going upwards and curves over, flattening out at the top as if the effort of vertical growth cannot be sustained.

And yet the Larch does eventually build a powerful trunk and is a fast growing tree, reaching a height of twenty-five metres in fifty years. So in the end it has a strength and stature which speak of the positive quality of the remedy.

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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