My Orange Essence Story

By Jyoti Patkar

Upon completing my Day One of the YFE Practitioner Training Program, I went home and experimented with the wrist-holding technique (our method used in conducting a consultation) for my eighty-two-year-old mother. I was so eager to help her. I’d been quite worried about her, thinking, “Will she just drag herself through the rest of her life?”

 As her daughter, I wanted to see her have happy and graceful years. While we can’t change people’s situations, at most we can try to keep them happy.

My mother wasn’t able to face the imminent separation from her grandson, who had decided to move out of her home to make his own life. In India, the family structure is still very much alive. Yet of course, it has started changing here too. Kids sometimes move out to have their adventures—even though it’s not yet that common. 

For my mother, her grandson was in many ways her security in old age. He’d become a doctor. He was also the one person whose life she’d been the most involved in since his birth. He was her pride. His act of “leaving an old grandmother in the lurch,” as she saw it, was something she couldn’t bear to face. She considered his departure as her failure in his upbringing—and as deception on his part.

My mother felt very ashamed. She had stopped socializing for fear of how she might reply to people’s questions. She was nervous all the time, and she wasn’t sleeping well due to disturbing thoughts. Basically, she was shrinking as a human being. 

In our wrist-holding session, the Orange Flower Essence “came up” for my mother. The next day, I immediately purchased it and started her on the essence. A day later, she said, “I slept very well.”

To me, this was her first sign of recovery. As the days passed, she began to look more relaxed. You could even say that her aura was changing and her anxiety level had decreased.

My mother then began to show interest in things other than just being glued to the television. It looked as though she was slowly coming out of her pain. She completed the Orange Essence program in about twenty to twenty-five days. Soon she began taking care of herself and was going out for short walks around the neighbourhood. She even went for a massage! 

Most importantly, now she’s ready and eager to socialise. My mother wants to enjoy her life with her family. I recently bought her four dresses for our holiday trip, which she enthusiastically agreed to wear. Throughout her entire life, she’s only worn sarees.

We are all so happy to see this positive transformation in our mother. Seeing her embrace her life has lowered a great deal of my stress as well. Thank you, Orange Essence, for the enthusiasm you’ve generated within her. You have helped my mother to deal positively with her emotions.

Most of all, you have given her new hope in life!