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Experiences in our lives help us to grow, mightily. Emotional changes are a big part of those challenges. Negative self-talk we tell ourselves distorts the views of one's self. We each have our unique movement through life. While on my life's journey of trying to understand my emotional wellness, I came across Dr. Edward Bach's article "Heal Thyself." It taught me many things, including "Bach Flower Remedies," which can help with emotional anxiety. I knew, without a doubt, that I wanted to learn and understand more about his work and methods, and this was the beginning of my Bach Flower journey. I studied at the Bach Center in England to become a Practitioner of Bach Flower Therapy. My eyes were open to the emotional feelings and awareness of energetic, vibrational healing. I discovered that our mind, body, and spirit all need to be in balance with each other to be able to perform and function properly. This became instrumental in helping me overcome Graves' disease. (an autoimmune disease of the thyroid.) Seeing the changes Bach Flower Remedies made in my life and others, I decided I wanted to share it. The peace, joy, happiness, and contentment it brought to me were life-changing. We each have our destiny unique to us. Some discover and understand it earlier in life than others. It can come in many different shapes and sizes. My healing came later in life and helped me to understand the things I wish I had learned when I was younger. At times I would feel angry with myself for not discovering it sooner. I needed a different lens to look through, a different perspective. One that would help me discover and understand the great joy and happiness that was right in front of me. In time I realized it was not just about trying to find greater joy and happiness. It had always been about adding to the love and joy I already had with my family, friends, and myself. Everything in life is about timing which we are not in control of. Life requires you to have more patience, a stronger push to keep moving forward, and an understanding that time is not the enemy. You can't force healing. Balance, Love, Charity, Grace, and Time, are all part of healing the inner heart and soul. I continued to expand my knowledge and education through the Emotional Code Technique, Chakras, IFS ( Internal Family Systems), and Spiritual healing. Learning, sharing, and loving more compassionately have taught me how to help others through their emotional healing journey. I have been through many things in my life. I am a wife, a mother, a grandmother, and now a great-grandmother. There will always be ups and downs, hills to climb, and cliffs to fall over. A time to heal, a time to get back up and keep moving forward. Life for me has brought a wider understanding of physical, spiritual, and emotional movement which can help me to see their connection and how they can work together for my good. It gives me Hope to see the purpose of life in the beauty of all creation. The gift of humanity who has the opportunity to see all things through the eyes of Love. There is much all around us in our world that can bring us joy. The herbs of the fields, animals, babbling brook, trees, beautiful mountains, and the rolling hills of meadow flowers. Each living within their sphere and creating their destiny, to learn to share Truth and Love… Share your story… Dr. Edward Bach's cottage where he spent the last days of his life.

A group of frogs were hopping contentedly through the woods, going about their froggy business, when two of them fell into a deep pit. All of the other frogs gathered around the pit to see what could be done to help their companions. When they saw how deep the pit was, the rest of the dismayed group agreed that it was hopeless and told the two frogs in the pit that they should prepare themselves for their fate, because they were as good as dead. Unwilling to accept this terrible fate, the two frogs began to jump with all of their might. Some of the frogs shouted into the pit that it was hopeless and that the two frogs wouldn't be in that situation if they had been more careful, more obedient to the froggy rules, and more responsible. The other frogs continued sorrowfully shouting that they should save their energy and give up since they were already as good as dead. The two frogs continued jumping as hard as they could and after several hours of desperate effort were quite weary. Finally, one of the frogs took heed to the calls of his fellows. Spent and disheartened, he quietly resolved himself to his fate, lay down at the bottom of the pit, and died as the others looked on in helpless grief. The other frog continued to jump with every ounce of energy he had, although his body was wracked with pain and he was completely exhausted. His companions began a new, yelling for him to accept his fate, stop the pain, and just die. The weary frog jumped harder and harder and - wonder of wonders! He finally leaped so high that he sprang from the pit. Amazed, the other frogs celebrated his miraculous freedom and then gathering around him asked, "Why did you continue jumping when we told you it was impossible?" Reading their lips, the astonished frog explained to them that he was deaf and that when he saw their gestures and shouting, he thought they were cheering him on. What he had perceived as encouragement inspired him to try harder and to succeed against all odds. This simple story contains a powerful lesson. Your encouraging words can lift someone and help him or her make it through the day. Your destructive words can cause deep wounds. They may be the weapons that destroy someone's desire to continue trying or even their life. Your destructive careless words can diminish someone in the eyes of others, destroy their influence, and have a lasting impact on the way others respond to them.

The potential goals our soul wishes to realize through the personality are not material. They are higher, ideal qualities that Dr. Edward Bach referred to as the virtues of our higher nature. They include gentleness, firmness, courage, constancy, wisdom, joyfulness, and purposefulness. Poets of all ages have praised these as noble qualities of character. They could also be called the ideal archetype soul qualities of mankind whose realization as part of the big picture embodies our true happiness. If these potential qualities are unrealized, sooner or later the opposite feeling-unhappiness will develop. The virtues that we have failed to realize now show themselves from their shadow side as vices such as pride, cruelty, hatred, self-love, ignorance, and greed. Dr. Bach referred to these vices as the primary diseases of mankind and stated that they are the ground from which physical illness grows.

Dr. Edward Bach’s Writings 🌺 Criteria for Choosing Plants Plants are of three types: The first group is relatively below that of a man; such as the primitive varieties, the plants that hurt us, the dodder (a parasitic climbing plant of the morning glory family), or poisonous plants, etc. The second class is on the same relative scale as men, which are harmless and may be used as food to keep our bodies healthy. The third group is relatively high or higher than average mankind. Of these, we must choose our remedies, for they have been given the power to heal and to bless. These plants are there to extend a helping hand to mankind in those dark hours of forgetfulness when they lose sight of their divinity and allow the cloud of fear or pain to obscure their vision.

An emperor in the Far East was growing old and knew it was time to choose his successor. Instead of choosing one of his assistants or his children, he decided on something different. He called young people in the kingdom together one day. He said, "It is time for me to step down and choose the next emperor. I have decided to choose one of you.' The kids were shocked! But the emperor continued. 'I am going to give each one of you a seed today. One very special seed…. I want you to plant the seed, water it, and come back here after one year from today with what you have grown from this one seed. I will then judge the plants that you bring and the one I choose will be the next emperor!" One boy named Ling was there that day and he, like the others, received a seed. He went home and excitedly told his mother the story. She helped him get a pot and plant-soil and he planted the seed and watered it carefully. Every day he would water it and watch to see if it had grown. After about three weeks, some of the other youths began to talk about their seeds and the plants that were beginning to grow. Ling kept checking his seed, but nothing ever grew. 3 weeks, 4 weeks, 5 weeks went by. Still nothing. By now, others were talking about their plants but Ling didn't have a plant, and he felt like a failure. Six months went by, and still nothing in Ling's pot. He just knew he had killed his seed. Everyone else had trees and tall plants, but he had nothing. Ling didn't say anything to his friends. However, he just kept waiting for his seed to grow. A year finally went by and all the youth of the kingdom brought their plants to the emperor for inspection. Ling told his mother that he wasn't going to take an empty pot. Be honest about what happened. Ling felt sick to his stomach, but he knew his mother was right. He took his empty pot to the palace, when Ling arrived, he was amazed at the variety of plants grown by the other youths. They were beautiful in all shapes and sizes. Ling put his empty pot on the floor and many of the other kids laughed at him. A few felt sorry for him and just said, "Hey nice try." When the emperor arrived, he surveyed the room and greeted the young people. Ling just tried to hide in the back. "What great plants, trees, and flowers you have grown,' said the emperor. Today, one of you will be appointed the next emperor:' All of a sudden, the emperor spotted Ling at the back of the room with his empty pot. He ordered his guards to bring him to the front. Ling was terrified…"The emperor knows I'm a failure! Maybe he will have me killed!" When Ling got to the front, the Emperor asked his name. ’My name is Ling,' he replied. All the kids were laughing and making fun of him. The emperor asked everyone to quiet down. He looked at Ling and then announced to the crowd, 'Behold your new emperor… His name is Ling!" Ling couldn't believe it. Ling couldn't even grow his seed. How could he be the new emperor? Then the emperor said, "One year ago today, I gave everyone here a seed. I told you to take the seed, plant it, water it, and bring it back to me today. But I gave you all boiled seeds which would not grow. All of you, except Ling, have brought me trees and plants and flowers, when you found that the seed would not grow, you substituted another seed for the one I gave you. Ling was the only one with the courage and honesty to bring me a pot with my seed in it. Therefore, he is the one who will be the new emperor." If you plant honesty, you will reap trust. If you plant goodness, you will reap friends. If you plant humility, you will reap greatness. If you plant perseverance, you will reap victory. If you plant consideration, you will reap harmony. If you plant hard work, you will reap success. If you plant forgiveness, you will reap reconciliation. If you plant openness, you will reap intimacy. If you plant patience, you will reap improvements. If you plant dishonesty, you will reap distrust. If you plant selfishness, you will reap loneliness. If you plant pride, you will reap destruction. If you plant envy, you will reap trouble. If you plant laziness, you will reap stagnation. If you plant bitterness, you will reap isolation. If you plant greed, you will reap loss. If you plant gossip, you will reap enemies. If you plant worries, you will reap wrinkles. If you plant sin, you will reap guilt. Remember, as you deal with others, you will reap what you sow, and what you send today will meet you tomorrow. So be careful what you plant now, it will determine what you will reap tomorrow. The seeds you now scatter will make life worse or better, your life or the ones who will come after. Yes, someday, you will enjoy the fruits or you will pay for the choices you plant today...

Let me tell you a little bit about two very different men. In some ways, their lives were very much alike. James Allen became a writer and philosopher, while Edward Bach became a physician. Both these men were born in the 1800s. James Allen was born in Leicester, England, in 1864. Edward Bach was born in Mosley Worcestershire, England, in 1886. He studied medicine at the University College Hospital, London, and obtained a diploma in public health at Cambridge in 1914... Both of these men are Shining Stars in a new era of time. I believe their destinies were foreshadowed by their own personal inspiration that fell upon them. They both walked their own paths in earnest... James Allen was a great author; having a philosophical turn of mind and a natural power of expression, he decided in 1902 to write full-time. One of his most inspiring books was named "As a Man Thinketh." When I first read this book, one of the chapters he wrote that stood out in my mind was this; "A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein and will continue to produce their kind... Just as a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds and growing the flowers and fruits which he requires, so may man tends the garden of his mind, weeding out all the wrong, useless, and impure thoughts cultivating toward perfection, the flowers and fruits of right, useful, and pure thoughts. By pursuing this process, a man sooner or later discovers that he is the master gardener of his soul, the Director of his life. He also reveals within himself, the laws of thought, and understanding with ever-increasing accuracy, how the thought forces and mind elements operate in the shaping of his character, circumstances, and destiny..." Dr. Edward Bach became a physician while studying medicine at the University College Hospital in London and obtained his doctorate diploma in public health at Cambridge in 1914... It's essential to understand the aspect of our physical body health and our connection of healing through body, mind, and spirit. Dr. Edward Bach not only developed Bach Flower remedies that are holistic healing for the mind, body, and spirit but, he has also written and published many books of findings he made in his medical journals. Three of his first writings; "Heal Thy Self, Free Thy Self, 12 healers & the Bach Flower Remedies... In the book, “The Bach Flower Remedies”, Dr. Edward Bach says, "Every time a person thinks a negative or depressing thought, it is chipping away at health, the thymus stops working for that moment. It focuses on the negative, and the thymus is continually being pounded. A healthy thymus is associated with love, joy, youth, and enthusiasm, one of the basic requirements. Dr. Bach said, "For treating any illness, the person must want to get well, and must be willing to take some responsibility for that. The element of will is definitely involved." He continues to say, "We must realize that the short passage on this earth, which we know as life, is but a moment in the course of our evolution, as one day at school is to a life, and although we can for the present only see and comprehend that one day, our intuition tells us that birth, was infinitely far from our beginning, and death, infinitely far from our ending…" Our Spirits, which are who we really are, “Immortal” and the Bodies of which we are, our “Temple,” are our “Souls,” which make up our Personality. When we are in harmony, all is joy, peace, happiness, and health. It is when our personalities have led a stray from the path laid down by the soul, either by our own worldly desires or by the persuasion of others, that a conflict arises. This conflict is the root cause of disease and unhappiness… James Allen and Dr. Edward Bach were both spiritual men and were very much enlightened, leaving legacies behind themselves for the good of humanity. They followed through with their desires to learn more about who they are, where they came from, and where they must go from here… Because of their inspiring work so long ago, We are Blessed Today... Debra

(The Truth about Bach Flower, by Max Highstein, Psychiatrist) There are 38 different Bach Flower Remedies, similar to homeopathic remedies, but they are vibrational meds. so to say, that work on our systems Energetically, rather than metabolically or mechanically. Each of the Bach Flower Remedies responds to a negative mental/emotional state, like fear, sadness, worry, or guilt. These emotional states themselves and the corresponding remedies are very specific. These are vibrational remedies, some call them Flower essences, but they are not essential oils. They are vibrational remedies. The vibrational property of the Bach Flower is transferred to the water. The water holds the memory of the flower's vibrational healing properties. When you take a drop of the remedy, your energetic field, or aura receives the God-given healing property of that flower. Energetic healing is very real!! The Bach Flower Remedies work on that principle and they work very well. They don’t work exactly in the way we are used to from medicines we take. Instead, all these remedies do is put positive energy, a very specific positive energy into our energetic field. These energies Lift our systems so we can release negativity, in the form of the specific negative, mental/emotional states we have gotten ourselves into. I’ll tell you about a few flowers and how their individual properties work. Willow - lifts a person out of bitter, resentful, states so they can start to appreciate their life and other people around them. Olive - for exhaustion spiritually, mentally, and physically. Impatiens - for Impatients. Beech - for being too judgmental. Rock Rose - for terror, feeling like there is no hope. Scleranthus - for indecision. The negative side effects of these 38 Remedies are none, NADA, ZIP, ZERO!! Every single one of them works, and every one of them does exactly what they are supposed to do. Some people feel immediate results and others seem to take a little longer. Bach flowers are like a healing gift of love from Mother Nature. When you take one that fits the condition you are in, it just works. Simple as that, no side effects and no counter-indications. Enjoy your walk through Bach Flower Remedies for your healing...

Our spirits when entering our physical body at birth brought with them their personalities. In addition to this personality, at birth, you take on the physical traits (DNA) which is another set of personality traits of your parents, grandparents, etc. As your personality develops, you will also take on other personality traits such as older brothers or sisters, grandparents, nannies, and those having the most influence on us during childhood. These traits can be positive or negative. Combining our spiritual traits and the physical traits given to us by our parents creates an interesting dynamic. These dynamics are our emotional thought processes. Used at any given moment, based on something that we are going through, we will create negative or positive energy through our thoughts, that will flow inwardly first then outwardly towards others. If there was extreme distress, sadness, or fear, as a child, you need to practice sending Love and forgiveness to those around you and also to yourself that caused this fear. As you grow from childhood you become more accountable for the choices you make. Then YOU decide what things are fearful to you. When you send love and forgiveness not only to yourself but to others it helps you to heal and become whole again. Dr. Bach discovered 38 different flower essences in total, each working to alleviate a different pattern within us. You could say that they cover all mental, and emotional states known to man, in any negative state we find ourselves in, there is an essence that will flood us with the positive vibration, that’s bringing Harmony. There are many aspects to diagnosing and working with the essence discovered by Dr. Edward Bach. The flowers are vibrational frequencies that are multi-dimensional in their healing power, often working in very subtle ways which, however, can bring profound change, healing, and transformation to the individual. What do Bach flowers help us with? They bring balance to our emotions. They help us to become calmer and less stressed with situations in life. They help us to become emotionally stronger. They cleanse and purify us. They help us to be more intuitive and in touch with our spirit. They help us to let go of the things that hold us back and relax into life. Thank you Dr. Edward Bach for your insight, hard work, and devotion to all people in this world who need this work, this healing from nature. 🌺

Being in sadness creates a chemical in the brain that brings you down to a low state of mind, body, and spirit it dulls the senses. Sadness also brings you to the knowledge of something that feels wrong or hurtful. It doesn't bring you to a space of something good in most cases. Having said that, Sadness is important for a short period because it brings you to a state of empathy which is the ability to understand and share the feelings of others and yourself. But we are not required to stay in that space for long periods because of the devastation it does to our body, mind, and spirit. We need to learn to acknowledge the feelings of sadness, then let it go and embrace Love instead. There will be times in our lives we are going to be confronted with grief and anguish, through personal things we are going through and also the loss of loved ones. Sometimes we feel the loss. Those moments of sadness seem to tarry for a while and bring us closer to God. It seems as if the tears of grief through sadness are a cleansing of our souls and a remembrance of who we truly are, children of God. Through those times of sadness, we can feel God's love for us and we can give that sadness up to him. You are not required to stay in sadness for someone who is old enough to make their own choices, which in turn gives them their own experiences. We are only required to Love one another. Love builds good relationships, good self-esteem, and Joy. Sadness brings low self-worth, can ruin relationships, and feeds anger, hurt, and hate. So the next time you are confronted with sadness stay only for a short time then give it up to God and continue Loving yourself and others. ❤️ Debra Rudd

To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. Let’s talk about humility. Humility is one of the most misunderstood and misapplied words in our language. Humility is not being passive and submissive, nor is it distinguished by slumped shoulders and subservient, downward glances. It is about being teachable and coachable. It implies a continual commitment to learning, growing, and expanding. It is living life in crescendo with shoulders back and heads up as we reach and stretch to become our very best, then extend ourselves to help others do the same. Then we start again! Humility is the hub of the wheel, the solid core between self-mastery and leadership. It empowers us to help, inspire, and potentially lead others. We cannot influence until we’ve been influenced. We can’t change the world until we are changed. Through humility, this transition can happen. The origin of “humility” is the Latin word “humus” meaning soil. When a seed is planted in fertile soil, it transforms into something far greater. An acorn becomes the oak tree, the smallest of seeds carefully planted in the spring becomes the bounteous harvest in the fall; it all starts with the nurturing quality of the soil. When we have sufficient “humus” in our lives (nurturing ourselves through growth), we grow, develop, and foster those around us to flourish. Humility produces growth. We have all been given gifts to learn and share. When we develop our gifts, we, in effect, unwrap and unfold them for the benefit of all, including ourselves. Our gifts and talents increase as we nurture our nature. In contrast, when we pretend to know it all, we close off promising opportunities to develop and expand our gifts. A garden reciprocates the love and care it receives from the gardener. To develop yourself is to love yourself. Success and humility are terms not commonly used interchangeably, yet the two words are intimately linked. Humility is known as the root of success and can be traced back to the soil. Success comes from the Latin word meaning “to come up through.” When a seed pushes through the dirt into the daylight, it follows the path of success. To come up through is to succeed. And the only way to come up through is to take advantage of the things that are put in our path to learn. We plant seeds of success by getting grounded and rooted in humility. There is no real humility without success and no real success without humility.

The Heart Brain; Your heart generates 60 to 1000 times more power and electromagnetic energy than your brain, easily making it the most powerful organ in your body. When you were in the womb, your heart was formed first, before your brain. Your heart beats about 100,000 times a day, 40 million times a year, and if your brain were severed, it would keep right on beating. (Your heart is the core of your being,(Soul) it is the core of who you are.) New research shows that our heart is much more than a mere pump. In the 1970s, scientists learned that the heart has an elaborate nervous system, a discovery that led to the creation of a new branch of medicine known as neurocardiology. The fact is, we all have two brains. Much to the scientist's surprise, they discovered that the brains in our heads are all "obeying" messages sent by "the brains in our hearts."Your heart is constantly sending out information to your body. Every beat carries critical messages that affect your emotional and physical health. When you feel love towards someone, you are sending out a powerful electromagnetic signal to them, using the Heart Brain. Medical research experiments have repeatedly shown that there are measurable positive effects on the body when we feel love and appreciation toward someone else. The same benefit occurs in your own body when you are on the receiving end when love and appreciation are being broadcast toward you. This can create positive or negative feelings depending on the intent given and received. Scientists have discovered that the electromagnetic signals radiating from your heart are detectable in the brain waves of another person. This phenomenon is strongest when two people are touching or are near, but is measurable at a distance as well. The heart has its unique intelligence. It can think, feel, and remember. There is now considerable evidence that the heart contains memories and feelings. A large number of heart transplant recipients have reported new food and drink preferences and cravings, as well as handwriting changes, musical preferences, and memories that don't seem to be their own. What's a Heart Wall? Have you ever felt that you needed to put up a wall to protect yourself in a negative situation? It appears that this common phrase has a basis in reality. We call this phenomenon the "Heart-Wall" and here is how we were led to discover it. People deal with uncomfortable situations all the time. Some attack, some retreat, and some hide, but usually, we feel the need to defend and shield ourselves from being hurt. Your heart is the core of your being. "Your subconscious mind knows that it must protect your heart, it must protect your delicate core in any way it can!! Words like "heartache" and "heartbreak" are so-called because of the peculiar physical sensation that occurs in the heart under strong emotional stress. Nearly everyone has felt this sensation at one time or another. Trapped emotions have substance. They consist of energy, just like everything else. When trapped emotions are created, they must reside somewhere in your body, and sometimes they will lodge in and around your heart. Your subconscious mind, which knows no limits, will sometimes use the energy of these trapped emotions to create a barrier or shield around your heart. It creates a wall of energy around your heart, to protect it. Dr. Bradly an EFT "Emotional Freedom Technique" Practitioner told a story of one of his patients. "One of my patients had learned to protect her feelings from childhood. She retreated to safety inside of herself, shutting out some of her positive feelings, and avoiding connection with those to whom she felt vulnerable. When there were volatile episodes in her home, she felt fear, resentment, and other negative emotions, some of which she expressed, but many that she internalized. Some of these feelings were never fully processed and they became trapped energies in her body. While she was constantly doing her best to deal with life, at the same time her subconscious was building a wall, and ultimate protection against her heart from being injured again. Each new trapped emotion gave her "Heart-Wall" additional thickness and strength. As I continued working with her we eventually got to the last trapped emotion. That day something very interesting happened". She said, "For the first time in my life, I am not on the outside anymore, she told me. I've longed to feel this way my whole life. Now I know what it feels like to be part of a family, a circle of friends, and part of a group. It's a very different feeling than I've ever had before, and it feels wonderful and right." Much of our personal and spiritual growth comes out of our love and interaction with others. The more open our hearts are, the stronger will be our connection to one another. The more connected we are, the more we can give and receive love, and the stronger and richer our lives will become.❤️ Written by Dr. Bradley

LIFE The adventure of life is to learn The purpose of life is to grow The nature of life is to change The challenge of life is to overcome The essence of life is to care The opportunity of life is to serve The secret of life is to dare The spice of life is to befriend The beauty of life is to give It takes a life time, but ENJOY the process! by James Sorenson