BACH FLOWER REMEDIES: SCLERANTHUS
Indecision, double mindedness, uncertainly, postponing. Scleranthus relates to the soul quality of stability and balance.
In the positive Scleranthus state, the person has poise and a balance of mind which is not disturbed under any circumstances. He takes his own decisions and sticks to them and is not influenced by others’ opinions. People respect him as a reliable person. In the negative Scleranthus state the person does not know his own mind which is always vacillating between two options. He cannot make a decision, he takes long to come to a decision, goes on postponing it till the last, and when ultimately he speaks of his decision, nobody believes that he would stick to that decision. In his inner most heart he himself is not sure of the finality of his decision—he may still change it at the last moment. He has what they call’ a grasshopper mind’. The worst part is that he does not take anybody’s help to arrive at a decision. He is incapable of taking a quick decision. So he goes on postponing it, thereby wasting much useful time. Sometimes he may come to grief and suffer irretrievable loss because of his indecisiveness. He may fail to make a quick decision whether an emergent case should be shifted to a nursing home, which is expensive but reliable, or a doctor should be called in to attend to the patient.
The patient may die due to delay in giving treatment, while crossing a busy road, he may find himself stranded in the middle of the road undecided whether to put a step forward or backward, and may be over-run by a fast moving vehicle. According to an anecdote S. Pratap Singh Kairon, the late Chief-Minister of Punjab, witnessed a squirrel being crushed under the wheel of his car, inspite of the best efforts of his driver to save it. Mr. Kairon asked the other 2 gentlemen sitting on his side in the car, why the squirrel died. One said it was its fate to die as she did. The other man replied, perhaps the driver was not adept in making a save in such emergencies.
“No” replied Mr. Kairon very firmly. “The squirrel lost its life because of its indecisiveness. It could not decide whether to go to the right or go to the left’. Similar is the fate of the people who have a vacillating mind”.
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