Donna Cunningham, MSW and Deborah Bier, MEd, Co-Editors of Vibration Magazine
By September 11th, we here at Vibration Magazine already had this current issue ready for proofing. Our theme, Essences and the Workplace, seemed a little off kilter the first couple of days following. "Could we...SHOULD we...publish an edition about WORK?," we asked each other. "Who feels like working now, anyway? Who would care?"
It quickly became clear this is exactly WHY we must go ahead with this issue as planned. We need to get back to work and to all the other activities and states of being which encompass daily life -- as changed as our lives may become. Not because we encourage readers to ignore the monumental events of our times...no, not at all. But as a response to them.
We somehow have to find a way to live in SOME state of harmony with our pain, grief, anger, fear and disbelief. This time calls upon us to reassess our personal and community sense of purpose and priorities. And perhaps most of all, we are challenged to answer a strong and vibrant call to life, despite how to many this seems difficult to achieve. We feel it's no betrayal to those who have suffered and lost to live our lives to their fullest. In fact, it's quite the opposite: it's a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit.
And what better occasion for the support of vibrational essences?
As a result of both global circumstances and personal reconsideration, our work (and much else) may change. We can find this to be an occasion for growth, flexibility and adaptation or we can freeze, resist, and panic around every turn. It's up to each of us to choose; essences can help make that choice a real one.
WHAT ESSENCES ARE BEST?
We happen to offer several articles in this issue which are just right for this occasion. Our Essences for Burnt-Out Helping Professionals and Martin Bulgerin's Living on Overwhelm are two good choices. Pansy's Garden of Misinformation, by our new staff member, Pansy Rosebud Pepperplant, is a must to lighten the burden. And discussions about how we are all using essences in response to terrorism and war are going on right now on our message board (see our article about this board, also in this issue). It is also a great place to let us know what essences have been helpful for you in this difficult time.
We don't usually publish a new issue of Vibration in tandem with a new Virtual Booklet (VB). But because the need is so great right now, we have created a brand new VB called Essences for Crisis and Trauma. It gathers dozens of articles from our back issues about the kinds of profound emotional upsets many of us are feeling right now.
Our entire September, 2000 issue was about essences as combined with other healing modalities. As the level of stress and uproar may be so much that essences alone may not be enough, their combination with other forms of healing may be required (and vice versa); these articles may therefore be of aid.
The Practitioner Education Booklet can be informative if you are a helping professional using (or thinking of adding) essences in your practice. What with so many feeling so stressed, practitioners need all the help and support they can get dealing with their caseloads.
While concentrating on work can be difficult with events like these, work can in itself be healing, for it absorbs our minds and tires the body enough to rest. Even more, it helps maintain a kind of normalcy and routine in our lives when everything else is so strange and uncertain. Abraham Lincoln once said, "As an antidote to worry, work is better than whiskey." We hope this special issue will help you return to work with an easier heart.
The World Wide Essence Society does not mean to imply any recommendation of nor give certification to any individuals or companies above. This article is provided purely for informational purposes. We ask consumers to make their own determination as to quality of the services and products offered above. This article is not meant to be advice, and the information is not meant to replace medical or psychological treatment.
  
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