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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 - f or 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

Someone once told me, that courageous people don’t worry about things that are out of their control or things that are unlikely to happen. They concentrate on what they can control. Well, I don’t know about you, but when I’m in FEAR I’m not thinking about things I can control because my emotions are out of control! I am in fear all the way to my tippy toes. Now, I have had plenty of experiences of staying in fear! It’s not a fun place to be and can be quite unsettling. As I have moved through fear I have begun to understand it on a more personal level. I have learned there are five levels of fear which can bring up many different emotions. 1-There is fear of things we know about. Experiences we have been through. 2-There is fear for others. Such as family members and friends. 3-There is also fear of the unknown. 4-There is fear of things that appear to have no hope. 5- Last but not least, fear of losing one’s mind. Heading for a breakdown, nerves are stretched. Now that I’ve completely helped you become fearful of the world and everything in it. Let’s break some things down. Understanding Fear: I do know when you push against something it gets bigger. So, if I’m pushing against say fear of social anxieties, I’m not going to want to go outside. I will want to stay in my house as long as I possibly can, not answer the phone, or doorbell. Heaven forbid, I have to talk to someone! One thing that really helps me is knowing somewhere I do have inner strength. It is a conviction of courage through the light within me. When I am in fear it’s hard to find this place or feeling. I like to close my eyes and take two or three deep slow breaths, which helps me to collect my thoughts. At this point, there’s always going to be a choice to make. If you can’t do it I understand and it’s OK, but the more you try getting to this place within you, the more you will succeed. It truly is one step at a time that gives you the "Strength" to be Courageous... You "Can" have courage while you are in fear. You don’t have to wait to be out of fear to find the courage to make that one scary step. Just one step forward will put a big smile on your face and a sense of clarity within you. It’s like a breath of fresh air and a sense that life is a journey. It helps to lift your spirits and find your way through the dark. "Courage and Fear, Ebb and Flow" within each other. There cannot be Courage without Fear. Debra Rudd

(My walk-in grief with the death of my dearly beloved granddaughter. Avery my heart walks with you. ) Grief, brings deep sorrow, a place of confusion and loneliness. It becomes overwhelming to the mind, body, and spirit in an instant, and each one of them will process separately for a while in your grief. This creates a great divide, a great disconnect of the soul. This kind of grief can take a while to process, it is very difficult and different for each individual. It is sometimes impossible for your mind to feel or see your way out of the dark that surrounds you, the undeniable heartbreak that feels heavy, all-consuming of extreme sadness, anger, rage, hollowness, and emptiness of heart and soul. It can also feel like you can’t breathe. Yet, there seems to be a mist, a fog that keeps your mind safe from reality. Your body feels like your moving in slow motion and your eyes want to stay shut from mental and physical exhaustion. You can sleep for days and have reoccurring thoughts like an actor on a stage rehearsing in your mind how this tragedy must have played out. Every horror-able detail of your own personal thoughts of how this happened, can bring on nightmares. Your mind also helps you through your grief, it will allow the body to be still for a while because your energy is exhausted and depleted physically, mentally, and spiritually. Healing from grief takes time, there is a process. “Hope” of surviving grief seems far away. Some can not even recognize hope even though it has been there the whole time. Somewhere deep inside you, there is something, like a life raft drifting in the unknown. You seem to be able to sense this raft in the distance, it is in the dark, in the deepest despair, it is “Hope”. The Hope of healing, the hope of rescue, the gift of light. When you finally find the strength to tug on the lifeline of Hope you can begin to see it clearly and can identify it and acknowledge that it is tangible, it is there, it is the light of Christ, the hope of surviving that allows you to focus to see through the fog of grief, the experiences that are more than we can do alone. When you are ready to find your Hope, hope for a better tomorrow, and hope of understanding the reality you are in. Then and only then can you find your strength mentality, physically, and spiritually. This will pull it closer to your broken heart which in turn will start to heal your weakness and turn it into your strength, which in turn allows you to regain your “Faith” in Jesus Christ, God, and your physical body, mind, and spirit which is your soul. This is about re-finding your balance in life. Restoring the light within you. The gift of light and knowledge Christ gave you through his atonement. He has already borne your sadness and your grief. This moment of allowing your thoughts to refresh and re-direct your movement forward, up, and out of the darkness into the light is when you are able to reconnect with your path of light, your destiny, and your God-given right as a child of Heavenly Father. Together, you can meet in the middle and make the next step possible for you to truly heal from your very personal loss. When you are on your way to healing from a tragic loss of a loved one there is something that happens inside you. Compassion for yourself. You are not broken. Grief is real and it can be healed. In time you will find a space within you, that beacon of light, that lives inside you through Christ. You will find Joy again. Grief is not meant to bear alone. Christ is walking beside you, and sometimes we need a friend, for support. Someone to reach out to, someone you trust. When you have someone to help lift the load you are carrying it will become lighter in time, in your time. Through compassion for yourself, you will see the beauty in the spaces around you again. You will have an understanding of what grief feels like, and you will be able to reach out to others who are where you have been. You can then, in return, help lift their burdens to find their own Joy and the Love of Jesus Christ again. Debra Rudd

We all want it and definitely need it from time to time. Inspiration is warmth, love, and personal for me. It reaches a place within my soul. To get to that place there has to be prayer, pondering of thoughts and feelings, a willingness to listen with my heart, and quiet moments of time and space. A place no one but me and my Heavenly Father can go. Those times of inspiration come for me in the very early morning hours when the dawn is breaking and a promise of a new day has begun. When the sweet feelings and thoughts began, I have pencil and paper ready, so I don't forget the love and understanding my Heavenly Father has for me. Inspiration is unique to every one of us and even though very personal, it is sometimes meant to share. Debra...

The remedies never replace God. They are the helpers so to speak, that can help keep our body and spirit in alignment with harmony and clarity, which can keep our connection clearer with God... We as humans in our human ways are the ones who move away from him in our thoughts and feelings, it's not God abandoning us. When we are mindful of where we are in our thoughts and feelings, it is easier to understand the information that the remedies have as helpers. They can help lift your negative vibration to a positive one. This can bring a great understanding of ourselves through our thought processes, not someone else's... The remedies help to create harmony & alignment, like a conduit for God to talk to us and for us to hear him spiritually. It is harder to hear him when our minds are foggy and distant with confusion of the heart. Feelings of being stuck in our past do not help us move forward... Bach Flowers can help you with more clarity which in turn brings more harmony to the soul. God is Order, Clarity, and Harmony... Confusion and Conflict are the opposite... Clarity is where God's voice can be heard... Clarity; is the quality of being coherent and intelligible. The quality of being certain or definite. The quality of transparency or purity... Bach Flowers are a virtue for healing, and God put them on earth for us... HONEYSUCKLE... In the negative Honeysuckle state, you are holding onto the past longer than being in the present, while moving forward to the future. When we are in Clarity & Harmony, we are in the present moments in our lives, having experiences and learning from them. We can and should learn from our past which is important. But it's not meant to linger there and feel stuck... Honeysuckle relates to the soul's ability to adapt. If you're in the negative Honeysuckle state, you strive to hold onto things in the past, feeling stuck and out of reach with the flow of life. The problem in the negative Honeysuckle state is a lack of inner movement. You're mentally lingering in the wrong place at the wrong time. Therefore you are unable to act as clearly as you could in the present moments of your life... If you are in the positive Honeysuckle state, you have a living connection to the past, while learning from it, and keeping the things that are worth keeping. The memories that help you move forward positively. Being in a positive Honeysuckle state will help you find more clarity in your destiny moving forward...

One of the greatest gifts given to us is to know that we travel not alone but in the company of others. We are shaped by the hands we hold in ours, and our hearts to keep us warm. We're not defined by the things that make us separate and distinct but by the moments we share, and the memories we make. We should cherish those moments... God has given us our free agency to choose what we want to do, to choose who we want to be, to choose who we want to be with and choose how we want to act. He's also giving us guidelines to make choices that can make us Happy, bring us Joy, bring us Peace, and brings us, Love... We all have been given the light of Christ within us when we were born. We all have different opinions and different ways of receiving things that we learn through and, around the people we live with or spend our time with. If we can but learn to listen with our heart instead of our ears, hold fast to the Love and Compassion for ourselves and for others and teach with Grace, and have the courage to do what is right with the power of God's Grace and Love... Well; we together can move mountains, unite better, have more friends than enemies, have fewer fears, anxieties, and insecurities, and replace them with our personal spiritual rights of divine nature that we hold within us. Hold tight to what Jesus taught. Love One Another... We travel not alone... Debra