Rock Water
Strict with yourself, holding to rules and standards that never let up
What it feels like
The rules are for you, not for anyone else. You get up at the same time on a Sunday. You do not skip the run, even with a cold. You have views about what you eat and you keep to them, and a missed day feels like a failure rather than a day. You would never impose any of this on other people, and you are often quietly held up as an example, which makes it harder to loosen. There is real discipline here and it has achieved real things. What has gone is any room for an ordinary human evening where nothing is optimized and nobody is being improved.
Signs you might need it
- You set rules for yourself that you would never impose on others
- Missing a routine feels like a failure
- You deny yourself things you would happily let a friend enjoy
- You are hard on yourself in a way you would call unkind in anyone else
- You keep going with a regime even when it is clearly not helping
- You would like to be an example to other people
What it helps with
The discipline stays and the harshness goes. People describe keeping their standards while being able to let a day be a day, which usually makes the standards easier to sustain, not harder.
Not to be confused with
Vine, which applies that firmness to other people rather than to itself. Pine is guilt about failings rather than strictness about standards, and Crab Apple is a sense of being unclean rather than a set of rules.
Those who are very strict in their way of living. They deny themselves many of the joys and pleasures of life because they consider it might interfere with their work. They are hard masters to themselves. They wish to be well and strong and active, and will do anything which they believe will keep them so.
The plant
Rock Water is the only one of the 38 made without a plant. It is prepared from water taken from a small natural spring with a local reputation for healing, then left in the sun in a bowl in exactly the same way as the flower remedies.
How to take it
The usual way is two drops from the stock bottle into a small glass of water, sipped through the day. If you are mixing several remedies, put two drops of each into a 30ml bottle of spring water and take four drops from that, four times a day.
There is no need to time it around meals, and you can take it as often as you like. Most people give it two weeks before deciding whether it is doing anything. The full guide to taking them covers mixing bottles, timing and the alcohol question.
Often mixed up with Rock Water
Often taken alongside
Common questions
These are about Rock Water. The questions about the remedies in general, alcohol, children, timing, live in the FAQ.
Why is there no flower in Rock Water?
Bach made this one from water rather than a plant, using a small natural spring that local people considered healing. It is prepared by the sun method like the others, just without a flower floating in it, which makes it the odd one out among the 38.
What is the difference between Rock Water and Vine?
Who the strictness is aimed at. Rock Water sets hard rules for itself and leaves everyone else alone. Vine expects other people to follow. Same firmness, pointed in opposite directions.
Is Rock Water useful for perfectionism?
It is the closest match for the self-directed kind, the rules and routines you cannot let yourself break. If the perfectionism shows up more as guilt about falling short, Pine is worth looking at too.
Not sure Rock Water is the one?
Choosing works by recognizing yourself in a description, so if this one only half fits, it is worth seeing what else comes up. The quiz narrows all 38 in about a minute, and the over-care for others group holds the nearest neighbors.
Where to buy Rock Water
Bach remedies are widely stocked. If you are buying online, check the bottle says Rock Water and comes in the standard 20ml stock size.
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