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 By Deborah Bier, M.Ed., editor for this publication. Deborah has a masters in counseling psychology and 10 years experience in private practice.
(see here for an earlier article on this subject)It would be no surprise to any type of therapist or health care practitioner to find that the Year 2000 (Y2K) Bug might cause their clients to be nervous. Even fearful. If not panicked, angry, grieving, and maybe even overwhelmed. In fact, many of us are already seeing the Y2K presence in our practices, and there is little chance this will abate anytime during the rest of 1999.Of course, essences can be turned to for help with all these emotional states. You may already have some of your favorites in mind for the job, and we made some initial suggestions for panic, denial, and worry in the last issues' Y2K article . It would be a good idea to keep a number of such choices on hand because as we get close to the millennium change, psychological pressures are bound to build. This is a normal and expected reaction to an anticipated set of stressors.
If we could open ourselves more to OTHER possible outcomes right now, then we could then consider that change might be interesting, challenging, hopeful, and exciting. We may still be frightened, upset, or disturbed by it, but these feelings could be balanced by more optimistic ones. So, when the change comes, we can better be in touch with all its qualities. What a wonderful opportunity for vibrational essences to play a role! Essences don't only work with "negative" states, but serve to midwife "positive" ones, too. So, essences which focus on accentuating our natural optimism, hopefulness, and creativity would be good choices at this time. Also, look for ones which help bring forward innate problem-solving abilities, flexibility, and calm. These can help change the mental framework from "oh, what a terrible loss this will be!" to "oh, what an interesting times we live in!" So, just what are the positive opportunities which Y2K represents? How could it bring us happy challenges? Well, any potential crisis can turn into an opportunity to reassess what is important to us...to think about what our values are and how we express them. And all over the world, Y2K is becoming an excuse to reaffirm and enhance our sense of community, as the conclusion many are coming to is that we can get through this better if we hang together and help one each other. It's a marvelous chance to learn new skills, meet new people, and reclaim parts of our lives we left behind when we got so busy and distracted by everyday life.
As practitioners, this is an approach we can offer to clients through our work, and the benefits can start immediately. After all: there is always change on a grand scale waiting in every life. If, in the final analysis, Y2K does not represent such a transition, there is something else in the future which will.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Deborah Bier, M.Ed. is co-editor of this publication and the founder of the World Wide Essence Society. She is the maker of Whole Energy Essences, fruit, flower, gem, Recovery, Full Moonlight and LifeStage essences. An educator and holistic health care practitioner, her practice in Concord and Brookline, Massachusetts, includes energy work, psychotherapy, and essences. Deborah is an internationally-published writer on food, health, and healing. This was excerpted from The Encyclopedia of Vibrational Essences: Wellness and Growth from Nature (see our book list). DESIGN CREDITS: Art on this page is made digitalizing the pattern on the author's great-grandmother's porcelain cocoa set. We may come to appreciate some of the pre-electricity skills from preceeding generations during our possible Y2K adjustment; so, too, can we enjoy art from that time translated to a new medium.
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DESERT ALCHEMY -- Desert energies are very hardy for survival. (quoted from Cynthia Athina Kemp Scherer's Alchemy of the Desert).
