By Deborah Bier, PhD, Publisher and Co-Editor of this publication
Human intention is very important at every point in the process of making and handling essences. It is the key to shaping the essences' action and activity, in that directed
thought and feeling on the part of the humans involved affects them. Essences primarily act through the energy of what they are made from. However, that energy also combines with the intentions and thoughts of the maker, bottler, and others who handle and interact with them. This also includes the person who takes the essence.
Intention starts with the maker. It can be defined as a combination of the thoughts, ideas, feelings, state of being, and focus of the maker. It includes their purpose in making the essence -- even their sense of purpose in general. 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.
It is not possible for a person working with or making essences to
utterly absent themselves from the process. We are human beings, and we leave an effect wherever we go. The trick is through intention to
try to leave as positive a one as possible. Conscious focus helps
with this, and this is part of why makers enter into a meditative
state to enhance their focus.
This is partly what makes, say, a daisy essence from one manufacturer
somewhat different than one from another. Sure, they should have
major similarities, but they will also have important differences.
These differences are good in that they offer different types of
essences for different situations.
Sometimes, however, the differences are not so good, in that a maker who is in an emotionally turbulent or unfocused state may then transmit those unwanted qualities into the essences they make. Consumers need to be aware of this when they choose essences, but their own instincts and intuitions can guide them in their selections. See how you feel about an essence just by reading the manufacturer's literature or publications, holding a few bottles of their products, or by intuitively focusing on the energy present in the entire line. As a
result, if it doesn't feel good or right for you, don't use that
company's products.
Here are some examples of negative ways an intention can affect the
quality of an essence. Does the essence maker tend to personally act
out of all kinds of unconscious and unhealed pain from their own lives? That will be a form of "pollution" in their intention. Are they thinking about how pissed-off they are at their spouse during the essence
making/handling process? Or how much money they hope they will make with the essence? Do they hope the essence's success will make them
a guru to others? Are they thinking they have to rotate the tires on
their car? Or that their *&;#% hemorrhoids itch? These are all the
unresolved issues of the maker. They each become a part of the
essence, and I know these energies are ones I would not want to be taking in.
A student of mine relates the following experience, which is a perfect example of how an essence maker's not-so-lofty intentions can distort an essence's energy. She took a workshop conducted by an essence maker about that company's essences. My student became quite jazzed about them and bought several. But back at home, every time she took one, she felt the maker's presence... even heard her voice. She felt led to push aside her explorations of other companies' essences, as well as of making her own. When she realized this was happening, she stopped taking the essences she had purchased at the workshop. In a short time, she was re-energized and recommitted to her previous path of learning about and using other manufacturers' essences. It seems that the maker's personal abundance issues and need for self-promotion had crept into the essences themselves.
On the positive side: is the maker focusing meditatively and clearly
on providing a service for the highest good of all concerned? On
causing no harm? On allowing the Creator's energy and love to come through
them into the essence with as much clarity as possible? On permitting
the healing forces within the user to be enhanced through exposure to
the essence, affirming the user (not the essence's) strength? Essences
made this way are ones I'd surely prefer to use.
There is a lot of commercial competition between essence makers, and a failure to teach about essences in general as opposed to their own brand. (See my article here on this topic.) Given that intention is so basic to essences, I have to wonder how this tendency manifests beyond these products...out in the world in general. I note how very, very few new books about essences have been published in the past year. Are we seeing a contraction of our beloved field as an outgrowth of greed and personal self-interest, and not being guided by the highest good of all -- even if it means that the other guy gets to sell some product?
I'm not sure I have a way of answering this outside of the beliefs in my own heart and the answers to guidance I receive. But if you believe in the power of intention, and that intention is the key to essence making, then I invite you to draw your own conclusions.
NOTE: For more articles on the subject of making essences, check out this link.)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Deborah Bier, PhD., is the maker of Whole Energy Essences
and co-editor of Vibration Magazine. For more of her articles in Vibration Magazine, see here.
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