Or maybe this masterclass is less about selling you something and more about showing you how emotions play up in our lives.
Because you might say you are tired of these masterclasses or perfectly fine with them. Either way, what you say is usually just the top layer.
Other words we commonly use are, "I am stressed", "I am anxious", "I am angry", "I am exhausted", "I am feeling low", without necessarily knowing what the actual emotion underneath is.
And till the time we don't know what we are dealing with, we are mostly guessing what to do about it.
That solution could be a conversation, therapy, rest, exercise, a remedy or simply doing nothing for a while. But first, it helps to know what is actually happening.
Because, and I am not joking, many emotional issues become far easier to work with once you understand what you are looking at.
One of the tools I use for this kind of precision is Bach Flower Remedies.
Now, you may have heard of them or not. You may know a lot about them or nothing at all. Either way, these 90 minutes may change the way you look at emotions.
What you do with that later is completely up to you.
But seriously, does any of this seem like you?
Whatever out of these you are, there are emotions underneath.
Sometimes they are obvious. Sometimes they are not. Sometimes even the person feeling them does not have the right word for them.
And that is where precision matters.
Now with one person you might want to make a cup of tea.
With someone else you might suggest a beer.
With another person, you may make plans for shopping.
And there may be someone whom you simply tell to go home and get proper sleep.
The phrase is the same.
But you act differently depending on the person and what you know about them.
Because you are not really responding to the word "exhausted". You are responding to everything else you know about that person.
And if your answer to every kind of exhaustion is tea, sleep or shopping, maybe you are the one who needs one of them.
Now suppose there are three or four remedies which can all appear relevant to this exhaustion.
Which one do you choose?
That is where this gap becomes very visible.
You may know the meaning of tiredness. You may even know the remedies. But unless you understand what kind of tiredness this person is talking about, choosing the remedy becomes guesswork.
And we do the same thing in everyday life too.
We hear the word and think we understand the person.
Sometimes we do.
Sometimes we really don't.
You can read about them. You can learn their broad indications. You can probably remember quite a few of them after some time.
Then a real person starts talking.
They are worried, but also angry.
They are tired, but cannot stop working.
They say they have moved on, but somehow the conversation keeps coming back to the same person.
They say they lack confidence, but when you listen carefully, you realise they may actually know exactly what they want. They just don't trust their own decision.
Now suddenly, the 38 remedies don't look so simple.
Because people do not come to you speaking like a Bach Flower Remedies handbook.
They come with stories.
Sometimes they give you too much information.
Sometimes hardly anything.
Sometimes they are very clear.
Sometimes they say, "I don't know."
Sometimes what they say and what they do do not seem to match.
That is where the work actually starts becoming interesting.
I am not going to try and teach you all 38 remedies in 90 minutes. That would be rather pointless.
What I want to do is show you how an ordinary sentence can open up once you stop taking the first word literally.
We will take common things people say and look at what could actually be sitting underneath.
We will look at a few situations where more than one emotional state can appear to fit.
We will look at how one more question can sometimes completely change how you understand the person.
And then we will bring Bach Flower Remedies into the picture and see how the remedy system helps us become more specific.
If you already know Bach, you may recognise why you sometimes get stuck.
If you don't know Bach at all, you will still be able to follow because we will begin with people and emotions.
That is really the whole point.
Maybe not something dramatic.
You are not going to become a Bach practitioner in one session.
But perhaps the next time someone says, "I am anxious", you will not immediately assume you know what that means.
Perhaps when someone says, "I have no confidence", you may wonder whether they actually don't believe they can do something, or whether they simply don't trust their own judgement.
Perhaps when someone says, "I am exhausted", you will become more curious about what exactly is exhausting them.
And perhaps when someone says, "I'm fine", you may notice whether everything else about them is saying something different.
That shift matters.
Because once you begin hearing these differences, you start seeing them in many places.
You should probably have a good book anyway.
The descriptions of the 38 remedies are available everywhere now. Books, websites, videos, AI. The information itself is not difficult to find.
The difficulty usually starts after you have learnt the definitions.
What do you do when three remedies sound correct?
What if the person cannot tell you what they are feeling?
What if they give you their entire life story and everything sounds relevant?
What if the remedy that looked obvious in the beginning does not look so obvious after talking for twenty minutes?
What if what they are saying and what they are doing seem to point in different directions?
That is when a book becomes less helpful.
Because the book cannot interrupt you and ask why you chose one remedy over another.
It cannot ask you what you missed.
It cannot tell you that maybe you have heard the label but not the person.
That is the part I am more interested in.
And that is the part I want you to experience in this masterclass.
I spent 23 years in the Indian Army.
Bach Flower Remedies are probably not where most people who knew me then would have expected me to land.
But here I am.
What interested me was not simply that there were flowers attached to emotional states.
It was the amount of precision the system demanded.
Real people are messy.
They contradict themselves.
They behave differently with different people.
They may say one thing and feel another.
And sometimes they have repeated a certain way of behaving for so long that even they do not really notice it anymore.
Over the last six years and more than 150 cases, this is the part that has held my attention the most.
What exactly am I looking at?
What does this person actually mean?
What is happening underneath the first answer?
And which remedy genuinely fits that state?
That is also how I teach.
One of my students had already done a Bach Flower Remedies course before learning with me. She wrote:
Another student joined as a novice and wrote about how learning the 38 remedies showed her the interplay between different emotions and helped her understand the nuances rather than only remembering the remedies superficially.
That word, nuances, is important. Because that is really what this work comes down to.
I might as well tell you that now.
I teach a full Bach Flower Remedies programme. Towards the end of the masterclass, I will explain what it includes and who it is for. If you want to continue learning, you can consider it. If you have come because you are dealing with something personally and feel that an individual consultation makes more sense, I will tell you about that route too.
And if you don't want either, that is perfectly fine. You would still have attended a free 90-minute masterclass and hopefully learnt another way of looking at emotions.
So there is no surprise waiting for you in the last ten minutes. You know before registering.
Maybe from someone at home. Maybe from a friend. Maybe from a client. Maybe from yourself. The interesting part is whether after these 90 minutes you will hear exactly the same thing you used to hear earlier.
Don't come to get faster at naming emotions.
Come to get better at hearing them.