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.
The Role of Published Works in Essence Education
Given the scattershot quality of essence education, written materials of all kinds naturally play an important role for both consumers and practitioners alike. Books and magazine articles have been more recently supplemented by the marvelous Internet in offering a variety of views and learning opportunities for interested student at all levels of experience.
To facilitate this type of learning, the next Vibration Magazine -- December, 2000 -- will be an all-reprint issue, with a smorgasbord of articles from already-published works by authors from around the world. If you are not already signed up, you can get your free subscription to Vibration here. We will email you when the December issue is published.
About the Author: Deborah Bier, M.Ed. is a frequent contributor to Vibration Magazine. See her biographical and contact information here.
Art Credits: Backgrounds by Dev Woman. Other art by Pats Web Graphics.
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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