Indroneil Mukerjee, Founder and Principal Alchemist, All That Bach

 

Could you give a self-introduction to your audience?

 

Enabling transformation in human lives has been my life’s purpose. This purpose has manifested in my professional life in three phases of 15 years each:

 

PHASE 1

In this phase, I dedicated myself to self-transformation by going through immersive experiential learning of Applied Human Behavioural and humanistic sciences. While, at one level, it helped me in self-discovery and transformation, at another level, it gave me a thorough understanding of human emotions and behavioural processes, their drivers, the unconscious, and ways of making them surface.

 

PHASE 2

Equipped with an in-depth understanding of the humanistic sciences, I set out to enable transformation in the lives of individuals, working with corporates, through talent, leadership, and organization transformation. I set up iProdigy—a thought and practice-leading institution—to formalize my offerings.

Within a short time of 15 years, it touched and transformed the lives of more than 20,000 individuals, working across functions and responsibility bands, with close to 70 companies.

 

PHASE 3

In 2010, I happened to come across Bach Flower remedies. The fascinating effect of the remedies on moods and feelings made me very curious—I wanted to know more about them and how they function.

Guided by public domain wisdom, I started administering them to myself, my family members, my neighbours, friends, and even clients. All of them, without exception, were equally fascinated. Slowly, my practice, which I was unofficially carrying out then, started growing, and by 2014 I came out to announce myself as a Bach Flower practitioner.

Quite early in my practice, I learnt that Bach Flower remedies don’t just heal but also transform individuals. Quite a few of my clients, who have stayed on a sufficiently long healing journey, showed up completely transformed at the end of it. This drew me to take up Transformative Healing with Bach Flower essences as a practice, alongside Transformational Coaching.

 

 

Could you explain about your company, All That Bach, and its services?

 

All That Bach was instituted in 2019 with the purpose of evolving and establishing scientific standards for healing and transforming lives with Bach Flower essences and mainstreaming Floral Alchemy—Transformative Healing with Bach Flower Essences—widely.

 

We wanted to establish a scientific approach to the practice, in contrast to an ad hoc approach, in prevalence. We did this by introducing frameworks, models, and guidelines and trained / coached more than 350 practitioners in what we believe is the most effective way to heal and transform—the client-centric approach.

 

All That Bach also has the distinction of spearheading the evolution of the practice of healing and transforming lives with Bach Flower essences. We are proud to have brought the evolution to its third stage, which we have re-christened as Floral Alchemy™. Meanwhile, my practice grew with clients coming from all over the world, and today we have touched and healed more than a thousand clients.

 

 

Could you explain what “Floral Alchemy” means and how it changes the way traditional Bach healing journey works?

 

It is proven through practice that healing with Dr Bach’s floral essences enables the process of human transformation. While the journey may begin with addressing some immediate issues, if sustained for a significant period of time, which normally is required for the condition to heal completely, the individual inevitably goes through inside-out transformation.

 

This phenomenon completely re-defines and enhances the scope of and expectation from this modality. It’s not a new thing; you just need to see the process with new eyes. The root of the words ‘heal’, 'health', ‘holy’ and ‘whole’ is the same. As an individual begins to heal, he/she regains health (not just mental but emotional and physical too). Shadows start dissolving, which over a period of time makes him/her more ‘’holy’. Eventually, with the journey being sustained, the individual returns back to being a ‘whole’ being.

 

This alchemical journey is beautifully expressed by Dr Edward Bach, the discoverer of the 38 floral essences, as follows:

 

“Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which, by other means, we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt. Humans have a soul, which is their real higher self; a Divine, Mighty, Being.”

 

We, at All That Bach, have consciously chosen to therefore re-christen this process of transitioning to a realm of light and virtues with the help of Dr Bach's remedies as Floral Alchemy. While on the one hand this expands the scope and application of the enabling and healing process, on the other it takes away the connotation for illness and something amiss associated with the word like ‘healing journey’ and 'remedy’. After all, going by Dr Bach’s quote above, 'suffering’ is just a state of being without any negative or diminishing connotation. It’s just a wake-up alarm.

 

 

How is Bach Flower Healing journey different from other healing methods, and what specific problems does it aim to resolve?

 

Healing with Bach flower essences can help one dissolve almost all conceivable mental and emotional health issues and even physical ailments caused by leaving them suppressed and unhealed.

 

It is different from other healing methods in the following ways:

 

• No individual is involved in healing the client. The signature vibrations of the floral essences do the work. This eliminates the possibility of the shadow of the individual healer inadvertently being cast on the client.
• Bach flower essences do not carry any chemical or biochemical element. They carry energetic imprints of the flower they are derived from.
• Healing with Bach Flower essences is gentle, simple, safe, and without any side effects. They can be had with other systems of medicine too.
• The essences go beyond addressing or managing mental health issues. They heal an individual from the core.
• They require minimal time and effort. They do not require any rigor or long and repeated sessions of counselling or advice.
• As the essences are absolutely safe and without any side-effects, they can be taken for a prolonged period, even a lifetime.

 

 

With a client-first approach, how do you tailor your care to meet the distinct needs of each individual?

 

Becoming a client-centric bach flower practitioner initiates the client on a healing journey, stays committed to accompany her in the journey and sees her getting irreversibly healed from the root as an individual.

 

Not someone who prescribes and administers remedies to temporarily allay the symptoms and feel good about it till they reappear, earning a bad name for the practitioner and the practice.

 

To address the ever-increasingly complex mental and emotional health issues, the practice of Bach flower healing journey has evolved over the years and is still evolving. Notwithstanding stiff resistance from bigots and dogmatists and thanks to the practice knowledge of expert practitioners getting integrated with the fundamentals laid down by Dr Bach. A client-centric practitioner embraces such evolving practices instead of being obsessed with the archaic methods and tools and is driven to make choices eclectically with a single-minded focus to heal the client.

 

Here are some steps one needs to take to become a true client-centric Bach Flower practitioner:

 

MAKE A COMMITMENT - This is where a Bach Flower practitioner worth the salt distinguishes himself from fly-by-night remedecians. Right at the beginning of his engagement with the client, he makes a psychological contract with the client to accompany her in the healing journey. He impresses upon the client the need for sustained healing to heal from the root and invites her to commit to the same.

 

BUILD A TRUSTING BOND - The success of healing journey hinges on building a deeply trusting bond with the client right at the beginning. And the gateway to building the bond is listening. In the first few minutes of the conversation, one has to drop everything and listen. With hundred percent attention on what the client has to say, how she says, and even sensing why she says, what she says. One has to step out of his role as practitioner and listen to her as a human being. This would naturally make listening more acute, more empathic. Calling out and validating one’s sensing will assure the client that she is being listened to.

 

CARRY OUT A STRUCTURED CONSULTATION - A consultation is not a free-wheeling conversation. Neither is it going down the memory lane to gloss over the past. It’s an interview done in steps with the objective of knowing the client inside out. This includes, besides knowing the thoughts, feelings, and behaviours in the present, knowing that 90% of the individual is submerged below the water level of the iceberg—that which carries the deep-seated drivers, motives, needs, and even beliefs and blocks. This step is the heart of the healing journey and cannot be shortchanged, no matter what approach one takes. It therefore needs rigorous practice and presence.

 

ARRIVE AT A DIAGNOSIS - Unlike a medical practitioner, a Bach Flower practitioner delves deep to uncover the root cause of the illness. In order to do this, he connects the data gathered through the consultation to put together a whole picture of the client’s inner reality, like a jigsaw puzzle. While a client may report several symptoms in the consultation, a practitioner at this stage builds linkages and connects all the symptoms to one or two deep-seated causes. This causal approach to healing journey and healing is crucial for the client to be healed, as an individual, permanently.

 

KNOW THE REMEDIES - When one looks for something and finds it, it stays. Instead of trying to learn the 38 remedies by rote, when one looks for the right remedy to address the issues diagnosed, its understanding will go deep and stay. More than knowing what a remedy does, it’s important to know why it does what it does—its very essence. This helps in differentiating seemingly similar remedies.

 

MAKING HARMONIOUS COMPOSITES - Recent research by Dietmar Kramer, substantiated by practice wisdom, has established that certain remedies are inter-related. These inter-relationships are based on the fundamentals of behavioural science and are irrefutable. Only when a practitioner has understood this will he be able to decide on making composites that are effective, harmonious, and lend to healing the client gently, in stages / layers. He will also learn to be judicious in deciding the number of remedies that go into making the composites, depending on the acuteness of the client’s condition.

 

REVIEW AND FOLLOW UP - While some clients may report immediate change in the symptoms following ingestation of the composites, it takes 3 to 4 weeks for a layer to be completely dissolved. 

 

The practitioner needs to re-connect with the client to review progress. Here again, it is not a general conversation enquiring about the client’s well-being. It involves enquiring about the client’s response to the composite prescribed, going by one remedy at a time, finding out which symptoms have been healed and which haven’t. It also involves finding out what new symptoms could have surfaced and then carrying out the same process of structured consultation as discussed above. Based on the findings from this meeting, the practitioner makes new composite(s) and the cycle continues.

 

It’s surprising that despite the burgeoning growth of mental and emotional health situations in the country, there are very few client-centric Bach flower practitioners in the country. In order to fill the yawning gap, all aspiring and practicing Bach Flower practitioners are recommended to learn the above steps hands-on through proper guidance from one who is a proven expert and also has the ability to enable learning, instead of trying to learn only by reading books, browsing the web, and interacting on social media platforms. It’s time to find a teacher, a master of even a guru who can handhold the practitioner through deep exploration into the fathomless ocean of Bach and become a learner for life.

 

 

What makes your courses a comprehensive choice for both beginners and practicing Bach Flower practitioners and how do they equip individuals to effectively navigate the complex mental and emotional health challenges of today?

 

Our courses are aimed at making participants practice-ready.

 

We comprehensively cover all aspects of transformative healing beyond remedies, which include:

 

• How Bach Flower essences work and why is transformative healing with Bach Flower essences the most preferred alternative healing journey for holistic wellness?
• A structured framework for consultation and behavioural diagnosis to help understand the client, very deep.
• Addressing physical ailments through the language of organs.
• Understanding the core of each essence (not just the symptoms) and the subtle differences between seemingly similar essences (includes perspectives of Mechthild Scheffer).
• Understanding ‘tracks'—the inter-relationship of essences—from a behavioural perspective.
• Selection of essences based on their inter-relationships.
• Crafting a healing road map.
• Sensing the client to assess the crux of the illness and build a trusting bond
• Predictive diagnosis based on a ‘path of illness’ based on tracks.
• Correspondence of essences to chakras.
• Making ‘harmonious’ composites based on ‘path of healing’ and the clients’ conditions.
• Fundamentals of client-centrism.

 

 

How do you keep abreast of innovative ideas in mental health and well-being to consistently refine and elevate your practice?

 

I am a learner for life. Each client, in the course of accompanying her on her healing and transformational journey, offers me immense opportunity to gather new insights and make new discoveries related to the practice. These get ploughed back into the body of practice knowledge and wisdom and get suitably integrated with the practice.

 

 

What tips do you have for individuals looking to embrace self-healing through Bach Flower Healing journey?

 

The most difficult part of self-healing is self-diagnosis.

 

In order to do so in an unbiased manner, each individual must make self-reflection a practice to audit what emotions one is experiencing on a day-to-day basis.

 

Only on the basis of such self-understanding can one be able to self-diagnose and self-heal.

As an added practice, daily journaling is very useful. Periodically, referring to the journals in retrospect can reveal trends, the status of healing and the emergence of new layers to heal.