the Bach Flower Remedy:
Rock Water

Rock Water: Remedy from the set of the Seven Helpers

About this music

Realised as a song with lyrics by Harriet Edwards and performed in version for voice, flute, sax, piano, bass and drums on several occasions.

A simple AABA song in A minor with a strong emphasis on the interval of a sixth.

Lyrics for Rock Water

Lyrics by Harriet Edwards. Show lyrics

About Rock Water, the Bach Flower Remedy

Rock Water is not a flower remedy in the strict sense of the phrase: it is not made from flowers. Rock Water, says Bach, should be taken from any well or spring ‘which has been known to be a healing centre and which is still left free in its natural state, unhampered by the shrines of man. Water from the spring is taken in a thin glass bowl and set down nearby so that it may receive clear uninterrupted sunshine.’

Rock Water is for idealists who ‘have very strong opinions about religion or politics or reform’. They are ruled by theories, are disapproving, critical and strict ‘and so lose much of the joy of life’. They want to lead by example but end up giving themselves and everybody else a hard time.

The basic presentation of a person in the Rock Water state shows the rigidity and obduracy of stone that contrasts with the softening fluid movement of water.

The water that is being born from a spring has come from a place which is out of existence, a place of death. This cycle of birth, life and death may not be attractive to the literal mind, but consider the deep places within the earth that are without light and life. The visible world is continuous existence even into deep space; only the internal and the invisible part of the planet is really out of existence. When water has fallen upon the land and it disappears from sight it has begun a journey of transformation in the underworld.

When we dip a glass bowl into the pool of a Rock Water spring we are in contact with the forces of the newborn. And just as a baby carries something of another reality, so this water has a memory of the underworld. If the land is healthy and the water pure then the healing strength is there, naturally. By putting the bowl of water out in the sunlight we imprint upon it the clear light of life and the quality of the time and place, the environment around. The remedy then carries the imprint of a new beginning. This is the positive quality of Rock Water: to see all things anew and not through the prejudice of theory. It brings ‘the understanding of allowing everyone to gain their own experience and find their own salvation’.

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

For full information see HealingHerbs.co.uk→.

Products in our Store that include the musical remedy Rock Water: