Participate in Flower Essence Research
Posted by admin on Jul 24, 2010
To Vibration’s Readers from the editors:
We recieved this from Patricia Meyer, and felt we should support this research by a grad student who is conducting a research study on how essence practitioners work for her master’s degree. The more we know about our field, the more we can all grow. If you’re willing to complete the questionnaire, cut and paste it into a document and forward it to Erin Galiger.
Greetings, My name is Erin Galiger and I am a graduate student at the University of Kent, at Canterbury, researching Flower Essence Therapy (FET) for my master’s degree in Ethnobotany. I am a U.S. citizen currently living in California. I am also a massage therapist, which is how I became introduced to flower essences. I think an academic study on Flower Essence Therapy would greatly benefit this healing modality and help get more information out to the public and healthcare community. Along with that intention, I am focusing on the perspective of flower essence practitioners and discovering core features of flower essence therapy.
Healing With Flowers Conference
Posted by admin on Jul 15, 2009
Courtesy of the Healing with Flowers Conference
Editors’ Note: While we cannot keep up with posting all essence education events such as individual classes and so forth, Vibration will publish information about large-scale events such conferences that have a heavy focus on essence education. Of particular interest will be conferences that do not focus on any single essence company’s products, but on broad-based use of essences and more than two companies’ products.
September 25-27, 2009 — Rowe, Massachusetts, USA
The mere presence of flowers in a bouquet or adorning a garden walk can change the energy of people and places. The arena of plant consciousness is gaining widespread attention as science begins to recognize what shamans have known for milennia: plants are intelligent beings who have led the way of conscious evolution for both people and the planet while having the ability to effect profound healing. Read the rest of this entry »
Becoming Essence Warriors
Posted by admin on Jul 11, 2009
By Deborah Bier, PhD, co-editor of Vibration Magazine
Editors’ Note: As part of our 11th anniversary retrospective of Vibration Magazine, we reprise here an adapted form of this article first published in the Vibration Magazine February 2003 issue. It still addresses some of the pivotal issues of our time, both in the world at large, and within the essence community. O, would the need for such applications become out-of-date.
We certainly do live in turbulent times. Often, Vibration Magazine has focused on the vast, rapid and deep changes unfolding around and within us. The anxiety and stress they create — and the opportunity and challenge they present — are considerable. Vibrational and flower essences are fantastic partners on this crazy ride we call the beginning of the 21st century.
One response has been to call forth the Warrior: in nations, communities, families, and individuals. Certainly, we all need strength, courage, integrity, leadership, endurance and action to get through these changing times. We see that political and economic unrest has brought both military and terrorist action. But war-making is not the only face of the Warrior; automatically applying aggression to all situations is not the way of balance for a Warrior. The Warrior’s approach also includes strategy, self-less service and even surrender. Read the rest of this entry »
The Weirdness of Essence Education
Posted by admin on Jun 28, 2009
By Deborah Bier, PhD, co-editor of Vibration Magazine Blog, and maker of Whole Energy Essences
Editors’ Note: In this continuing look backwards at Vibration’s 11 years of publication, we comment upon three trends below. First, Vibration has a long history of calling out both the strengths and weaknesses of our field in a variety of editorials we published over the years, including some about essence education, from which the below is adapted. Second, Vibration is the only place we know of that publishes such a broad number of viewpoints and voices about vibrational and flower essences without sanitizing them to meet any single manufacturers’ self-interest. Third, our articles are not dedicated to the products of any single essence maker; we find it important to feature a wide variety. Read the rest of this entry »
Part Two: The World Wide Web as a Healing Tool — Evoking the Essence of Essences
Posted by admin on Jun 19, 2009
©2009 by Donna Cunningham, MSW (Part 2 of 2)
This month Vibration Magazine celebrates its 11th year and has begun to explore the potentials of the blogosphere as both a medium for disseminating information about flower essences and for healing in and of itself. Last week we traced the evolution of Vibration’s work to evoke the power of essences through powerful art, color healing, and attunement to plants. Here are two more methods we’ve relied on. Read the rest of this entry »
A Call to All of Our Authors
Posted by admin on Jun 6, 2009
Editors’ Note: We received the below email and think our authors might find it of interest. Since Vibration Magazine doesn’t own the rights to any of your work, we cannot give permission on your behalf. If you’d like to participate, you should contact Pieter directly. We do ask, since we are making this connection possible for you, that you ask him to include the statement “As published previously in Vibration Magazine” and link that to http://www.FlowerEssenceMagazine. Thanks, and good luck!
My name is Pieter Heydenrych. I am the webmaster and owner of a site called “Esoteric library” located at http://esoteric.2hav.net. I am contacting you because I believe that this may in fact interest you.
It’s Vibration Magazine’s 11th Anniversary!
Posted by GreaterWellbeing on Jun 6, 2009
By Deborah Bier, PhD, co-Editor and Publisher of this blog.
Vibration Magazine, the Journal of Vibration and Flower Essences has now officially entered into its second decade of publication. From my and my co-Editor, Donna Cunningham’s viewpoint, it doesn’t seem possible that we have published over 40 issues, though we indeed have done so.
Successful Trademark Challenge to “Bach Flower Remedies”
Posted by admin on Apr 11, 2009
Editors’ Note: Continuing on our theme of “The Wide, Weird, Wonderful Web,” we are bringing news we got word of via the Internet.
Many of us were taught never to write the term “Bach Flower Remedies” on a dosage bottle because it would be a violation of someone’s trademark to do so. Well, this may not actually be the case.
Julian Barnard of Healing Herbs, maker of the absolutely lovely Bach Flower Remedies put out under that label’s name, has been challenging Nelson Bach’s trademark to the term “Bach Flower Remedies” for a couple of decades now. Late last year we found out both via email and by Googling around for additional information that Julian prevailed in his challenge in both the United Kingdom and the European Union Courts. Read the rest of this entry »
Flower Essences & Homeopathy (Part 1 of 2)
Posted by GreaterWellbeing on Apr 6, 2009
By Peggy Malnati, Donna Cunningham, MSW and Deborah Bier, PhD
Editors’ Note: As part of our theme “The Wide, Weird, Wonderful Web,” we offer this three-way email conversation below. The authors were in Massachusetts, Oregon and Minnesota and communicated entirely by email within a day’s time. Read the rest of this entry »
Found on the Web: Essences in Ice Cream
Posted by GreaterWellbeing on Apr 5, 2009
By Deborah Bier, PhD
What could make premium commercial ice cream even better? Hot fudge sauce, you suggest? Sliced strawberries? Chopped nuts? Whipped cream?
Well, how about FLOWER ESSENCES added to ice cream? This was what Mackie’s of Scotland did, and crowed about in a press release we found while crawling around on the ‘net some time back. Read the rest of this entry »
