This is an article by Deborah Bier, Aug 16, 2008:
Dozens of Essence Makers Beyond Bach Have Useful Health Applications
Did you know that there are dozens of companies around the globe manufacturing vibrational and flower essences today?
Most people know the 38 Bach Flower Remedies. However, starting back in the 1970s, essence companies have cropped up all around the world. Their total of thousands of products differ widely, consumers because increasing the range of the essences available and the types of challenges they are able to address.
There can be considerable differences between the essences made from the same species of plant from one company's offerings to another. Why is this? Is it a problem with manufacturing or testing procedures? Poor quality control? Or something else?
These differences are not a result of some failing on the part of essence companies. Instead, they’re an illustration of some of the fascinating qualities, laws, and methodologies of energy healing.
A Wide Variety of Factors Make a Difference
The individual plant or flower used makes one difference. It is not correct to assume that each, say, tulip is identical energetically to every other one of the species and type. Gardeners can affirm the differences between individual plants in the ways each thrives and grows (or the way they don't). If such variety exists on the physical plane, of course the same would be true of the non-physical world where the life force of essences reside.
Location of the essence making (and consumption, too) is another factor. The energies in one region of the world -- or even on one particular patch of land -- are different from those found in others, and will effect the experience of both making and using the essence.
The vibrational or flower essence maker is yet another important factor. Each "line" of essences has its own internal consistency and focus. Each plant/mineral/whatever has many, many energies but each maker captures only certain ones. There will be commonalities between essences by different makers made from the same species of plant, but there will certainly be differences that will affect each person's experience with the essence.
The Effects of Individual Beliefs, Feelings, and Thoughts
Differences also come about from other humans who may be involved in the essence process, from maker to practitioner to consumer. Their conscious and unconscious intentions play an unknown part in the effect the essence has on the final product and its effects.
Intention can be defined as a combination of the thoughts, ideas, feelings, state of being, and focus of each of the humans involved. Because essences work in the realm of energy, they are affected by other energies like thoughts and feelings, particularly of the person involved in the making and selecting.
In a similar way, the person who uses an essence for himself or loved ones can influence its action through his expectations, beliefs and intentions.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Deborah Bier, PhD, is a health care practitioner, teacher, journalist, and artist in Concord, Massachusetts. She is the director of the metro Boston office of Caring Companion Connections, an agency providing para-professional home care for elders and the disabled.
For 20 years, her private health care practice focused on working with multi-generation families where one or more member was chronically or seriously ill, helping them to find complementary methods to improve their health, and to increase their wellness despite their health challenges.
Deborah is the publisher, co-editor of and frequent contributor to Vibration Magazine, an 11-year-old free online quarterly journal about vibrational and flower essences. She is the author of four books and countless articles on health, healing, food, and issues local to her historic town.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
How Flower Essence Companies Differ
Monday, November 29, 2010
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Swim with the current.
"Ina po’i ke kai ia ‘oe, e ‘au me ke au.
If a wave pulls you into the water, swim with the current."
Monday, November 1, 2010
Root meaning of Hawai'i
The word "Hawai'i" is not only the name of several islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, it is also the name of an ancient people.
As all Hawaiian words are conceptual in nature and have many meanings, what they mean is determined by the context in which they are used.
Let's break the word Ha-wai-i into some of it's root meanings.
"Ha" is the sacred breath of creation of life;
"wai" is the sacred water that sustains life and a symbol of great abundance;
"i" emphasizes what comes before it.
So, a very simplified translation of Hawaii is
"an abundance of the forces that create and sustain life" within these people and their islands called Hawaii, and Aloha is their way of life.
Aloha is pure joy.
Aloha is the wondrous rhythm of Life, as well as the Spirit in and behind all Creation.
From Kala Kos's website Hawai'i Heart
The Way of Aloha
by Wayne Kealohi Powell
E Komo Mai! Aloha & Welcome!
"Are you ready to experience and follow your BLISS?
We are here as, Shamanic Bodywork, Lomilomi Temple Healing, a school of sacred bodywork, to empower you and accelerate your personal and spiritual growth.
Lomilomi comes from the aina, (land), and there are many meanings and styles of Hawaiian healing called lomilomi. All of them are a form of prayer, connecting to a higher source for healing.
In today’s world, lomilomi from all lineages and traditions is a fundamental tool for serving the spirit of aloha.
Temple Lomilomi offers the receiver the empowerment of being a temple, and taking on the responsibility of committing to the spiritual practice of loving one’s self as a path to enlightenment.
'The Way of Aloha' is a practice that emphasizes acceptance, forgiveness and cooperation through the development of spiritual awareness.
It is the cultivation of Mana (divine inner-power), friendship and unity, a very real and easily integrated practice of skills that allows the individual to explore existing personal realities while simultaneously immersing oneself in the ethic of true acceptance.
Aloha Mana means, "Miracle Love." Aloha mana is our birth right.
Mana is the principle of divine inner power that is essential to the Aloha philosophy. It encompasses the idea that each one of us has the authority to think for ourselves and live our own truth.
Kahi Loa means "Infinite Oneness".
'The Way of Aloha' is a path of love, harmony and appreciation for the beauty in all things and it is only available in the eternal moment of manawa (now).
Aloha is pure joy.
Aloha is the wondrous rhythm of Life, as well as the Spirit in and behind all Creation.
Please take a moment now and just say the word slowly:
A-lo-ha. Say it again even more slowly: A-L-O-H-A. Taste it in your heart, and feel it in your body!
What if you close your eyes and feel your energy change as you say it a few more times, letting it in while breathing deeply for one full minute can change your day, your mood and your life.
Feel the warm loving feeling this generates--the sun is shining in your heart! This is the great gift of Aloha. Enjoy!
E ho'omaika'i O la'a kea me ke aloha pau ole
Blessings of sacred light and everlasting love.
Mahalo to my friends Wayne and Patti
