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By Deborah Bier, M.Ed., Co-Editor of Vibration Magazine This edition of Vibration Magazine focuses on essences to tap into our strengths. Included is a special section of inspiring articles by readers telling about how some very powerful essences helped them uncover the strength they needed in the midst of a life crisis. You know the expression: "He doesn't know his own strength"? It's usually associated with huge guys who, being so muscle-bound and brainless, commit inadvertantly destructive acts through not having sufficient control over their powers. They cause pain in their and others' lives because they use their strength without awareness. It is also often said about very young children who have yet to understand their own capacities. As a healer, I apply this same expression to everyone (including myself), but I interpret the phrase rather differently. We don't so much cause pain because we don't know our own strength -- I think we remain in pain because we don't know we have the strength to heal.
Traditional therapies usually focus on how to fix a problem. This might include exploring what caused the problem, the extent of the problem, and how to reduce its effects though some type of intervention. But sadly, few healing modalities focus on how to expand and accentuate our strengths. This is a great loss because, after all, aren't our talents, gifts and abilities the very tools we will use to solve our problems -- or at least learn how to live with them better and more joyously? (For another view on the differences between essences for problems versus strengths, see Lila Devi's article here.) Despite our gifts, we may still carry wounds from the past and will again experience trauma in the future. But when we know our strengths, there is a greater chance we will not collapse around these injuries -- that we'll use our abilities to gain wisdom where only pain existed. Pale Yellow Lily essence -- described below -- aids us in knowing and developing exactly this type of strength.
 I feel helpless. Life brings many hardships and burdens. Whole Energy Essences' Pale Yellow Lily knows we have great inner gifts to meet these difficulties. It understands our inborn strength, even if we have not yet learned to tap it. It supports the emergence of our power into our daily lives.
When we feel helpless and weak, it can be difficult to be vulnerable with others. But life requires some level of risk, and we can find ourselves hampered by the unhealed hurts of the past. Once we find a way to access our inner strengths, we can feel powerful enough to allow ourselves to be vulnerable. We find the courage to take our light from beneath that bushel where we've been hiding it and put it back into the world. And we learn to trust that the strength we need will be there when we call upon it. Under the yoke of hardship, we may dabble in negative thinking. "Oh, this is going to be awful... I can't do it... Everything happens to me." Sunset Lily ("Freedom from Extremes") complements Pale Yellow Lily as it reminds us that rigidly taking any extreme position is self-defeating and out of touch with reality. 
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Deborah Bier, M.Ed. is Co-Editor, a frequent contributor to Vibration Magazine, and maker of Whole Energy Essences. For more information about her and for more of her articles, see here.ART CREDITS: Art Today.
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Our strength is made up of that blend of innate skills, gifts and talents which we possess in abundance and that is uniquely our own. These are the abilities we could be using to heal our (and others') lives, invent new solutions to old problems, create happy relationships, forge solid futures, and the million other things that constitute our wildest hopes and dreams. But if we don't know what talents we possess -- or they have not been developed and nurtured into full blossom -- we become stuck in our pain.
One of the most profound services a helper can provide for others is
to allow them to realize and use their own strengths: Pale Yellow
Lily has a similar action. Once we know our tools and how capable we
are of using them, we meet our burdens with greater grace. This is
powerfully transforming: victims become victors...the helpless,
hopeful.