ESSENCES: Essences and Other Healing Modalities: The Wave of the Future

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Essences and Other Healing Modalities: The Wave of the Future

by Deborah Bier, M.Ed., founder of the World Wide Essence Society,

publisher and co-editor of this ezine.

 

Essences used by chiropractors. Essences combined with social work,

psychotherapy and counseling. Essences using in combination with

acupuncture, massage, energy work, nutritional counseling, herbal

healing, mainstream medicine, naturopathy, astrology, homeopathy.

Essences can empower and speed the healing benefits of just about any

other therapy. And these other modalities enrich and enhance the action

of essences. Who could ask for a better marriage?

 

Multi-modality essence practice is a growing and vitally important area

which deserves more attention than it has received up until now. Thus we

devote this issue of Vibration Magazine to vibrational/flower essences

as combined with a great variety of healing practices.

 

Multi-Modalities: A Common Path To Essence Work

 

Healers all over the world are combining essences with their modalities,

and that's not just because the results are so darned convincing. It's

happening because it represents a common path that healing professionals

take to the world of essences. Healers everywhere are looking for new

ways to expand their work and to improve the health of those they serve.

Trained in a variety of other fields, one way or another they stumble

upon flower remedies and often they know instinctively they have to find

a way to add them to their pre-existing work.

 

Essences' potential recognized immediately, just how to do that

combining is often the question. We hope the 13 articles in this issue

will help answer this question.

 

Healthcare professionals--or consumers of these services--please contact

us if you have developed good ways to blend essences with another

healing modality. These multi-modality features will continue in future

issues, and we can all learn from your experiences.

 

What's Wrong with this Kind of Essence Education?

 

Though I am always thrilled to hear how essences have made their way

into other fields, there can be problem inherent with a happenstance route.

 

For several years, I've been teaching essences to Boston pharmacy

students. When they ask me about how essence practitioners are educated,

I always use the following analogy: what if you were to go the

Hoffmann-LaRoche school of pharmacy, learning only about their products

during your study? When you were done, you'd go to the Ciba-Geigy

school. After that, you'd have to enroll in and graduate from the Merck

school. And so on. It would be a pretty silly way to be educated, no? Of

course, they instead first learn the foundations of anatomy, physiology,

biochemistry, treatment methodologies, patient management, etc. They

learn about specific drug company's products only as the topics covered

require.

 

This describes a real obstacle in essence education -- learning the

basic tenants of healing and essence use FIRST and THEN different

company's work seems more sensible. But no school is truly devoid of

focus on one or (at most) two company's products. The lack of a basic

type of essence practitioner education means we all have to find our way

to this field on an individual, eccentric path.

 

So, frequently professionals enter essence work from some other type of

healing modality, only adding them as they learn what powerful tools

they are in conjunction with whatever else it is they practice.

Education somehow takes place as people cobble together classes, books,

articles, and classes with teachers certified by one company or another.

 

The exact same thing is true for consumers who want to explore the

entire modality: they generally can't. They, too, have to put together

enough info to figure out what essences are and how they can help

themselves and their families using them. The results can lack the

dimension, perspective or reach they should because they were (of

necessity) arrived at in such a patchwork fashion.

 

Of course, this is one of the main reasons why I founded the World Wide

Essence Society. The WWES and its publication Vibration Magazine are one

of the very few ways to learn about essences as a healing modality in

general...where readers can get the BIG picture of the art along with

information about many company's products without bias toward just one

or two.

 

Learned folks like my co-editor, Donna Cunningham, are perfect for this

type of education as she has already devoted much of her teaching and

writing life to exactly this sort of education. We are blessed by her

enthusiastic and generous presence.

 

 

About the Author: Deborah Bier, M.Ed. is a frequent contributor to

Vibration Magazine. See her biographical and contact information here.

http://www.essences.com/vibration/contributors/deborahbier.html

 

http://www.essences.com/vibration/sep00/multimodality.html

 

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