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Mimulus belongs to Bach's group For Those who Have Fear, along with the remedies of Rock Rose, Cherry Plum, Aspen, and Red Chestnut. Specifically, Mimulus treats concrete fears of a known origin.

In the Mimulus state, the mind envisions concrete fearful events, objects, or persons and shrinks away from them with a sense of dread. Or one lives in a constant state of fear, shyness, and nervousness, due to immediate unfavorable circumstances plus chronic engagement in faulty thinking patterns.
Usually, Mimulus treats anticipatory fears which may even subside as the dreaded situation is encountered. This would apply to concrete events such as exams, surgery, a public appearance. Or one carries phobias of a chronic nature which reassert occasionally. These are fixations or obsessions of the mind, usually generated by a coupling of fearful experiences with a certain object, symbol, or event. Mimulus also treats deep-seated existential fears such as fear of death, of poverty, of accidents, of loneliness, and of other kinds of misfortunes. Hypochondriasis (cf. Chicory, Heather), excessive self-observation (cf. Cerato, Larch), and carefulness in one's endeavors are further signs of the Mimulus state.
The main differentiation from other remedies covering fears is the concrete nature of the content feared. In the Mimulus state, the mind always knows exactly what is feared, what is the object of dread. Dreaded things, persons, or events are seen as a hurdle or as a dangerous deterrence that one seeks to avoid and retreats from. The remedy heals by lessening the impact of fearful content; dreaded events, objects, or persons become just one usual occurrence in the continuum of life, instead of looming ahead and overshadowing one's consciousness. The remedy instills courage, a sense of being in charge.
This remedy is invaluable in all forms of anxiety disorders and phobias when there are concrete objects, persons, or situations of fear (cf. Cherry Plum, Rock Rose).

Fearfulness, shyness, or nervousness undermine the self-image, and one may feel inferior to others and embarrassed about one's lack of courage, tendency to fearful worry, and fear of appraisal. For this reason, fears are often not shared with others. On the contrary, one may try to conceal inner insecurities from others with an outward show of bravado, this state being defined in the Webster's dictionary as "pretended courage or defiant confidence, where there is really little or none." Depending on the case, this could grow into a potentially dangerous state of recklessness or demoralization of behavior. Usually, under milder circumstances, people secretly bear their dread.
Mimulus treats chronically shy people. A common emotion accompanying this state is regret or sadness about such internal hindrances which they often feel powerless to rise above. Shyness may also manifest physically and lead to easily aroused nervousness, usually responded to by the individual with attempts to hide this state from others; Mimulus successfully treats this state as well.
In severe states of dread, there can be a sense of internal agony or a slumping of personal vitality.

To give freedom from internal stumbling blocks of a fearful kind, lessen preoccupation with fears, keep the mind in the here-and-now, and create feelings of safety and trust.