M. Catherine Thomas, quoted in her book Light in the Wilderness, "It’s the work we put into our souls to understand all things as much as we can; it brings an awakened awareness and yielding of our hearts to God. It can take the weight out of emotionally heavy things, which seem to control everything physical, but not spiritual. "Everything we thought we needed from other sources, we can find in Jesus Christ, and that turning our will over to him becomes the greatest relief, and is beautiful and full of goodness, and puts us in a new harmony." I feel as I read and ponder the writings of those who have passed, with the leaving behind of their own divine knowledge, things that they have learned, it is slow and hard for me to understand the volume of the task I have to understand in my soul, and the principles of my soul, and what it has learned step-by-step. I get impatient sometimes because learning 'line upon line' is slow, and I truly want to understand them now. I feel that I have to live it to learn it—to feel it within me with all aspects of who I am: physically, spiritually, and emotionally, which takes time. As I am getting older myself, sometimes I feel that time is running out. I need to remember that I have an eternity to learn it. But I crave to learn the things that fill my soul with love and joy and their opposites, for I cannot have one without the other while in my earthly body. Debra Rudd "In my writing, I shared how I sometimes get impatient with the slow, ‘line upon line’ nature of spiritual growth. In the world of Bach Flower remedies, the essence of Impatiens is the beautiful counterweight to this internal rush. Just as I crave to understand the depths of my soul now, Impatiens helps soften that urgency. It allows us to yield our hearts to God’s timing rather than our own, transforming our restless frustration into a ‘new harmony’ where we can finally breathe and simply be in the process."

If you can liken each emotion, mental pattern, or thought pattern as being a certain vibrational frequency, as each carries its own cell energy or vibration, then you can start to have an understanding of some of the most fundamental laws and how we are each creating in every moment energies around us and in fact, creating our own reality. These vibrations can be seen as energy fields around each of our bodies. Each vibration has its own color frequency related to the particular thoughts and beliefs we carry. These vibrational energies affect our chakras and meridians in our bodies and extend from within us through our thoughts and actions outwardly. Poor health is caused by outside forces, that in some way push us to create our own experiences and illnesses by our negative beliefs or unbalanced emotions, thus drawing negativity into our body through the subtle realms of thought, down into dense matter. (Body) Change our thoughts and change our lives. That’s what flower essences do. There is no other form of medicine that helps us bring these permanent, positive changes. They have become the tools to help us live a happier and healthier life. We can also help to rise our spiritual awareness with Prayer to a loving Heavenly Father who will help us bring peace to ourselves and others. Debra Rudd

In the beautiful English countryside of 1838, inspiration seemed to flow from the heavens, awaiting those men and women willing to receive it. Edward Bach was one of those young spiritual individuals, taught by his mother and grandmother, waiting to receive it. Edward Bach was a young boy full of imagination who loved living in the countryside. He felt its energy, loved nature, and everything about it. He often watched his mother and grandmother working in the meadow fields and joined them often, as they picked and gathered herbs from their usual growing spots. He would bring them home and watch as they prepared the herbs, through the process of drying, boiling, or mashing. No matter the method, they were making healing tonics, just as their mothers and grandmothers had done before them. It was their tradition to gather herbs from the fields that God had provided for healing. WE NEED TO BLOOM WHERE WE ARE PLANTED… Edward, I believe, was fascinated with watching his mother and grandmother over and over again, trailing behind them, as he helped, observed, and learned while hunting for the herbs himself. He always had a premonition that he would be a doctor one day who would help heal and make people better. As he grew into his teens and finished school, his dream of being a doctor was still very strong. He never told his parents about it because he knew they couldn’t afford to send him to medical school. So he ended up going to work in the factories. To be specific, the brass factory in London with his father. It was very arduous work; it was dark, it was gloomy and cold, it was muggy, dirty work. He saw many depressed people working there and probably became a little depressed himself. After three years of saving his money from working in the brass factory, he finally told his parents that he wanted to become a doctor. They gave him their blessing, so he took the money he had, went back to London, and started school. He became the doctor he was so inspired to be, even as a child. He worked hard, and he loved every minute of it. He not only became a family physician, but he also became a Botanist. He loved understanding and working within and figuring out the Scientific ways of the plant world… Dr. Edward Bach not only earned a degree in Botany but also became a Bacteriologist. He made and produced vaccines for hospitals in London and other hospitals nearby. One of the vaccines he made for gut health earned him a Nobel Prize. Later in his practice, he went on to learn and study more with Dr. Hanneman, the co-founder of Homeopathy. Dr. Bach, for many years, had a vast London Harley Medical Practice. He was a spiritual and intuitive man who realized that physical health is seen and felt. Throughout his studies and career, he continued to dive deeper into the "emotional health mind." He soon discovered 38 different "Emotional Flower Therapies" that helped heal "vibrational" emotions within us. This short story of his life is what got him to where he wanted to be. But one of the biggest things that moved him was his knowledge of God, his knowledge of inspiration, and his journey of going through the things that he learned, which in turn put him in a pivotal place in time and space for others to learn from. His inspirational work has been documented and is invaluable to those moving forward with his work all around the world. GOD IS IN THE DETAILS OF OUR LIVES… Now today one hundred and 30 years forward, Bach Flower Remedies are still being used for emotional healing around the world. It is being used as a Vibrational, Energetic Healing, which helps to bridge the disconnect between spirit and body… Now my story for me is fascinating also. I grew up in a loving home, as Edward Bach did. I believe in God and Jesus Christ as he did. I have had disappointments along the way as he did. I love nature and flowers as he did. (I don’t believe that when it is our time to leave our earthly existence, we leave behind the things that we loved, we bring them with us through our memories!!) When I was 18, I married a man who wanted to go to Chiropractic college, which was a whole new thought process and experience for me. Chiropractors were still trying to make their way, and there were a lot of people in the medical field who did not understand them and tried hard to abolish them. We had moved to Portland, Oregon, so that he could go to school. I was young and impressionable about the things that he was learning, it was a different way than the way I understood medicine to be and how it worked… I learned about energies, I learned a little bit about Bach Flower's holistic vibrational healing remedies through an experience I had. I had some emotional stress that needed help, and I didn’t know how to go about it. I was given a Bach Flower tincture, a specific Bach Flower Remedy for what I was going through, and I was amazed at how much it did help me with that particular problem. As my husband finished school and we came back to Utah to set up his practice, I decided to go to school to become a midwife. Now, back then, midwives were not well accepted by the medical field either. Midwives were birthing babies at home; they were not allowed in hospitals yet. After I graduated, I decided that the threat of losing a mother or baby on my watch was not something I wanted to be a part of. I learned a lot, but I decided to continue just being a mother to five daughters… WITH HOPE THERE IS ANOTHER CHAPTER TO OUR LIVES… Now, during these years of growing a family and helping to start a practice for my husband, there were a lot of ups and downs, there were a lot of emotions, including depression, love, joy, insecurities, feeling isolated, and becoming frustrated. Because my husband wasn’t home much, I felt the heaviness of my situation, and emotionally, I just went down, down, down. I loved my girls with all my heart, but I struggled with myself and didn’t know how to take care of those struggles, so our marriage ended in divorce, and nothing changed except that I moved out, and we shared the love in raising our beautiful daughters back and forth. I was divorced for six years. After six years, I met Alan. At that time, I didn't know he would play a big part in allowing me to spread my wings and fly. The hard part of this union was that I had five daughters and he had three daughters and two sons, which made 10 children altogether!! Now, going back in time, when I was a junior in high school. I started to have the same dream for two weeks every night. I had an impression that I was going to adopt a baby girl, and I think it took two weeks for it to solidify in my conscience that this was meant to be. Well, in my first marriage, we had five daughters, and adopting a baby girl just wasn’t going to happen... Now coming forward again to my 2nd marriage with 10 children. As Alan and I were dating, and before we were married, we had many conversations about some of the difficulties of blending our families. I remember sitting on a bench one day, and I said to him, “I have something to tell you.” I told him of the dream that I had had over and over about adopting a little girl and how much it meant to me, and to my surprise, he seemed to know that my convictions of this dream were coming from heaven above, and it would happen someday… MAKE ROOM FOR GOD, AND HE WILL FILL YOUR LIFE FOR GOOD IN SO MANY WAYS YOU WOULD HAVE NEVER IMAGINED… Me and My Youngest Daughter We were married for five years before deciding to pursue the adoption of a baby girl. We went through several opportunities, but we knew it was not the daughter that we were to adopt. Finally, after much prayer and fasting, and when everything was correct and in place with God's timing, it happened easily and quickly… This daughter has been a great joy in our lives; she cemented our family, our two separate families. There were also challenges that we had to go through with her as she grew older. With her tender heart and love for us as her parents, she wanted to know about her adoption. Through tears of frustration, insecurities, and lack of understanding in her mind, we, together, went through many hurdles with Ashley, with our loving Heavenly Father at the helm. We together have experienced great growth from those experiences mightily… She is now 21. (2021) Has depression and social anxiety. She is still living at home and walking through her journey with love and support from me, her father, and her brothers and sisters. I know she will make it. Each of us has our journey to go through… WHEN THE STUDENT IS READY, THE TEACHER WILL APPEAR… Now, at this time in my life, I have been searching and searching for help to understand the emotional wellness of our daughter, Ashley. Something that would help support her naturally. I also was not feeling well and discovered that I had Graves' disease, which is an autoimmune disease of the thyroid. I prayed mightily for inspiration and answers, not only for myself but for Ashley. Through the grace of God, I was led to read two very important writings by Dr. Edward Bach. “Heal Thy Self” and Free Thy Self. I read the books through, not putting them down once, and I knew without a doubt that it was something I was to learn and understand. I read everything about Bach Flower Remedies and Dr. Edward Bach. I cried tears while reading it, and I knew I must learn MORE!! IT CHALLENGED AND CHANGED MY LIFE FOR GOOD!! Being afraid of flying on airplanes, I still got on one. I flew to England to take the courses to become a Practitioner of Bach Flower therapy, and boy, did it open up my eyes and my feelings and awareness of energetic vibrational healing!!! From there, I also learned about Chakras. I also learned the Emotion Code and how it works with healing emotions, energetically. I went to school to become a massage therapist, and I have also studied IFS, Internal Family Systems Therapy… I had now learned several different ways of healing from the way I had been brought up, knowing. It was a very important turning point in my life. I was now on my journey of healing my Graves’ disease of the thyroid, which is caused by extreme emotional distress. Through my journey and the shared knowledge of others, which I have studied, and the love and grace of my Heavenly Father, I have been able to heal myself. My endocrinologist shakes his head every time he sees my new blood work and how completely balanced it is!!! I am continually learning about balance in life, and it doesn’t stop here. I am still searching, I’m still learning, I’m still sharing, and I’m still loving compassionately others who need this in their life. I am still working with our daughter, and I know that with my help, she will be able to get through this and be able to continue to see the sweet, amazing person she is and be able to live the destiny that she has to live. But now, she is experiencing life that will help her to move forward. Fast forward one year, and Ashley has learned a lot about herself and has moved forward with her life. She has found joy within herself and now is sharing it with her new husband, Mark. They were married in September 2022, and now live in Austin, Texas!! SELF-DOUBT IS A VERY GOOD SEEDBED FOR PROGRESS, AND HUMILITY IS THE PERFECT FERTILIZER… I am now 68 years old. I have been through a lot in my life with emotions moving through me. Raising and combining 11 children with my husband and all their emotions!! I’ve learned a lot about Humility through Emotional Movement. I had never really understood destiny and how very present I needed to be to fulfill it in the way that I was meant to live it in my life and share it with others… As I have learned step by step, I now know that part of my destiny is being a mother and stepmother to 11 children, 9 girls, and 2 boys. Also a grandmother of 34 grandchildren and 1 great-grandmother so far!! I honor them all, while they are continuing to learn to walk their journeys… Because of my life lessons, I have had to learn step by step, and I am in a place to help them when they’re ready to receive. I understand balance in life. I have more understanding of my new movement through life as a spiritual, emotional, and physical daughter, mother, wife, grandmother, and a Bach Flower Practitioner. I have learned that force is not the way to the soul's path to Healing, but that balancing Love, Charity, Grace, and Timing, God's timing is the most important part of Healing. There can be no Healing (I have learned) without finding the love of Christ, knowing him, and having him in my heart, soul, and mind always. Of course, there are still going to be ups and downs. There are going to be hills to climb. There are going to be cliffs that we fall over. There are going to be times for healing and times for getting up and starting over… It serves us to listen for the answers. It will manifest itself in many ways. It will guide our life to find the Joy in it… FEAR CAN KEEP US TETHERED, TERROR CAN TIP OUR WINGS, BUT TRUST EASES PAIN, HOPE CAN LIGHTEN THE SKY, LOVE MAKES US COURAGEOUS… Just sharing our stories helps others to be strong enough to get up and try again… Christ is the Master Healer. Just knowing, in your darkest moments, that he is always there, even if you can’t feel him. There is a time for us to learn and keep moving forward in the dark spaces of our lives… It helps our testimonies of spiritual things and physical things to become stronger… The awareness of what your destiny is can come at different times in life; some get it early, as Dr. Edward Bach did, and he went through his whole life working that destiny… Understanding and sharing my destiny has come in many shapes and sizes, but my personal healing destiny has come later in life for me… Dr. Edward Bach has helped me understand many things that I wish I had learned earlier in life. And sometimes it makes me mad at myself for not listening to my intuitions, that still small voice, and finding it earlier, but I have to remember that everything about life is timing. We must learn before we can receive the answer. Life experiences have to come together that are not in my control, as with the adoption of our daughter. It took many years after my dreams, so I’m learning patience… I am still moving forward in my life, and for now, I am feeling the healing of my soul in many ways. I love sharing it, and love talking about it… I love seeing the change in me and in other people who are using their Inspiration in their lives for good. It will bring Joy, Peace, and Contentment to all who are reaching to find it... In times of sorrow, it has brought a closer connection within me, a wider understanding of things of the spirit and also physical things of the mind and body, and how they all connect… I see and understand more of the things that we are all connected to in the world. I have a greater understanding of others who also have their paths to walk, their desires, and their feelings of understanding along the way. Their purpose… I also love the beauties of the world, herbs of the fields, trees, animals, babbling streams, beautiful mountains, and rolling hills of sand as far as you can see. They each have their unique destiny for their purpose to share with us as human beings… Let us continue to try to be our best within ourselves to find Joy in and around us in a world of darkness. The darkness around us is not our enemy. Challenges create change, and change promotes growth, and growth helps us to push through until we can see and feel the light around and within us. Make an effort to find the beacon of light within you. Sometimes even the smallest of gestures from someone else can help us to move to do amazing things. One step at a time is all it takes to find JOY in the moments that create the rhythms of life, your time here on earth… Debra Rudd

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. Debra Rudd

This research on “Bach Flowers and the Immune System” can be a little overwhelming for some of you who are reading it for the first time! So just take a deep breath and try to read between the lines… You will get out of it what you need to learn right now, and more understanding will come later. Remember that “Life is a journey, not a destination” Bach Flowers and the Immune System; Researchers in immunology have shown that negative feelings and stress weaken our immune response. The number of killer cells in the blood that destroy viruses and bacteria, for example, is significantly reduced in people who are depressed or resigned. Thus, it’s more difficult for these people to cope with illness-causing agents. If the negative feelings are harmonized, however, the immune system will be strengthened and can deal more effectively with incoming pathogens. From this point of view, Bach Flower Therapy can be seen as a new and effective form of psychological preventive health care. From the viewpoint of natural healing, Bach Flower Therapy can be seen as a cleansing and re-tuning therapy. Just as the metabolic waste products and leftovers from bad nutrition weigh on the physical body and can cause disease, so can psychological “waste” psycho-toxins hinder our physiological metabolism and the adequate simulation of mental and emotional impressions and responses. These psycho-toxins are washed away or transformed through the consumption of Bach Flowers. Health in an ideal state is the harmonious vibrational balance within and between all layers of the aura and the spirit. Disease is, according to its interpretation, disharmony or the distortion of frequencies within or between different levels of the aura and the spirit. The information pattern of the distortion shows itself in the etheric level, which obeys different laws of time in the physical body, weeks, months, or even years before it is manifested in the body. The deeper reasons for most diseases can also be detected within the emotional and mental levels of the aura, where subconscious and perceived reactions to feelings and thoughts are either blocked or stimulated. This leads to distortions in energy frequencies and, hence, to negative states such as fear, hate, jealousy, anger, impatience, and sadness. These act through the etheric level, first on the nervous system of the physical body and later in the organs. Bach says that the Flower Essences Open our channels to the messages of our higher self or spirit and that they act in all layers of the aura. While Bach Flowers are active as “divine impulses” reach all levels of vibration, other drugs and therapies affect only certain levels, mainly in the physical body. The aura encompasses all of the personality levels of consciousness and experience. On the trans-personal level, the higher self or “Spirit” forms the bridge between the personality and the soul. The soul's personality is made up of the union between the spirit and body. The Flowers that Bach used are “plants of higher order.” Each of them embodies a certain potential for the Soul that is expressed through its particular vibration. Each of these “Floral” Vibrational patterns corresponds to a matching Soul frequency within the human energy field. The human soul carries in principle, all of Bach’s 38 flowers in the form of virtues, the archetypal repertoire of harmonic behavior patterns, ( Things that you have learned from Prominent figures in your life like mothers, fathers, friends, teachers, etc. that have helped you to understand earthly and heavenly things that make up who you are, as you choose your own Yen and Yang. Then you begin to decide where you fit in this life. As you grow and mature, some of those things will change through new choices you make. The Bach Flowers are balanced differently in each of us. If for a potential such as self-confidence, there is a misunderstanding between the spirit and the body, (soul.) Intentions and the understanding of the personality, the frequency of the potential will be distorted and will become evident as a negative behavior pattern in the personality, presenting, for example, as a lack of trust in our abilities. The frequency of the Flower Essence “Larch” corresponds to the potential that has to do with self-esteem. Taking Larch sends harmonizing impulses into the specific area of the human energy field that is distorting this potential and helps to hold the positive emotion for a while and helps to keep it in a safe place for you. When taking Larch over time, it re-harmonizes and reestablishes the positive behavior pattern; lack of confidence transforms into self-esteem, harmonizing the self “chatter” into self-talk that is working together for you. In other words, the Bach Flower acts as a catalyst, recognizing the specific, blocked contact between the soul and the personality. The soul can be heard again by the personality. Where there are those harmonies and rigidity, Life flows once again. Or as Bach put it, “A person that wasn’t quite himself anymore is now restored to be fully himself.” (Etheric) The etheric body, the ether-body, is the first or lowest layer in the human energy field or aura. It is in immediate contact with the physical body, to sustain it and connect it with higher bodies of energy. Bach Flowers help to connect the bridge between the spirit and body. Dr. Edward Bach

(Research on physical and spiritual depression. By Jane Clayson Johnson) Much of the research surrounding depression and other mental illnesses is focused on the physical and, specifically, the chemical makeup of the brain and how its functions and malfunctions affect our minds and bodies. But spiritual depression symptoms are just as real. We are taught that the spirit and the body united is the soul of man. The two are explicitly linked. What affects the body also affects the spirit. Depression leads to the tripping of our circuit breakers. So the powers still try to get through, but the depression keeps us foggy and confused. There is a philosophical reason why this kind of breakdown happens. The system within your body that helps regulate your stress reaction and your moods and emotions includes a component known as the thymus and pituitary, located in the brain and adrenal glands, which are just above the kidneys. These glands are always talking to each other “biochemically” to determine what’s true and what’s not. As they communicate and make sense of the messages received and sent, they activate different systems within the body to respond. One role they take is helping us determine if something is a threat. Fears, anxieties, depression, etc. From a gospel perspective, this is very interesting because it means our Heavenly Father placed something in our brains: a system that indicates we are under threat, that this isn’t safe, and that something needs to happen. These threats are more internal and can come from how we think. Scientists now know that there is no difference between perceived and real threats. (hiking and seeing a rubber snake on the path) if you perceive it to be real, your reaction will be the same as if there were an actual rattlesnake on the path or trail. Apply this to our thoughts and feelings. And it’s easy to see how the feedback cycle can become negative. People believe things about themselves and the world around them that may not be true. And when we begin to incorporate these things into our minds and lives, our anxieties go into overdrive... When this happens, we get detached or disassociated from reality, and we become numb and depressed. It seems to take away love, joy, and peace. It is very important to know that when this happens, we feel detached and like we have lost spirit. But know that the feelings you are feeling are a symptom of depression, not reality, and certainly not a permanent condition. It is important to know that our physical and emotional states can affect our spiritual states. As you change your thought processes by creating a safe place where you can start to rebuild that joy and happiness through the things you tell yourself, your body will then start to turn off the stress responses, flipping off toxic stress hormones like cortisol and epinephrine and flipping on relaxation responses that release healing hormones like oxytocin, dopamine, nitric oxide, and endorphins. Not only does this turn on the body’s innate self-repair mechanisms and function as preventative medicine or treatment if you’re sick, but it also relaxes your nervous system and helps heal your mind of fears that cause depression, anxiety, anger, and feelings of disconnection.

A group of frogs was 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 it was hopeless and told the two frogs in the pit to 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. Debra Rudd

Medical Professional, Medical Doctor, Bacteriologist, Botanist, Surgeon, Vaccine Researcher, Homeopathy “And may we ever have joy and gratitude in our hearts that the great creator of all things and his love for us has placed the herbs in the fields for his healing. " As a young boy, Edward Bach was no mere dreamer. His certainty, his intensity of purpose, and his interest in all things, however small, combined to make a character of great genius; Though, as is usual with genius, he was destined to stand alone, for few can follow and understand the determination of one who knew his life’s work from the start and would allow nothing to interfere with that great aim. There were two significant interests in his life, overwhelming compassion for all who suffered, whether human beings, birds, or beasts, and love for nature, for her trees and plants. These two things combined led him to the knowledge of the healing that he sought. The one love helped the other, for he found in nature's storehouse the flowers of the field which heal all those in sickness and pain. Bach started his studies as a student at the University College Hospital of Medicine in London, England, His enthusiasm and intense desire to find true healing filled his life to the exclusion of all else. He had no love for city life. He loved the country and all its nature. Financially school was hard for him. The money he had saved from working in the factories with his father from age 18 to 20 was running out. His parents had little money to help, so he helped to substitute himself for money by correcting tests of the students for the teachers. After he graduated from medical school and started his practice, he noticed that many doctors had little opportunity to study their patients. They were taught the orthodox treatment of medicine and surgeries for long-standing chronic cases. Many of his patients improved, and many were cured, but their health was not always maintained. The apparent failure he felt, was because the majority of medical men had little opportunity to study their patients. They were kept too busy to think of the human side, concentrating too much upon the physical body and so forgetting that each individual was not in any respect built to a specific pattern. They were taught to be so concerned with a disease that they ignored the personality of the human being, and he was convinced that in this way, they were neglecting the most important symptoms of the patient. This made him look around for other methods of healing, and he became interested in different branches of medicine, like the immunity medical school. He became the assistant bacteriologist at the University College Hospital and hoped for bacteriology to find the answers to his problems. He discovered that certain intestinal germs, which up to now had been considered of little or no importance, were closely connected with chronic disease and its cure. These germs were present in the intestines of all persons suspected of suffering from chronic illness and were also present in healthy individuals. Still, in the first instance, they increased in numbers; in the latter, they were present in smaller proportions. Weeks and months of investigation followed, and as his research progressed, he became convinced that a vaccine made from these intestinal bacteria and injected into the patient’s bloodstream would have the effect of cleansing the system of the poison causing the chronic disease. The results he obtained by so doing were beyond all expectations. Not only did their general health improve, but also the patients remarked that they had never felt so well before and headaches, arthritis, rheumatism, etc., had disappeared. He and his colleagues were so thrilled with this discovery. These important discoveries revolutionized the treatment of chronic diseases. A few years later, and another school of medicine, the Homeopathic Hospital of Medicine, he continued his research upon improving and simplifying his discovery with added success and even better results than before. Dr. Edward Bach worked so many long hours that his own Health at this time was not good. The great war had started, and much to his sorrow, he was refused again and again for service abroad. However, there was much for him to do In London. He was in charge of over 400 War soldier's beds at the University College Hospital in addition to his research work in the bacteriology department, and he was also a demonstrator and clinical assistant of bacteriology at the hospital medical school. He worked unceasingly, giving himself no rest until he felt so ill that he fainted on the laboratory bench. His great determination was not to give in to his disabilities while there was so much to be done as so many needed help, so he kept himself going for a time, but in June, he had a severe hemorrhage and became unconscious. He was immediately operated on because of the hemorrhage caused by cancer. He survived the surgery but was still very gravely viewed by his colleagues. They told him he had three months to live as he woke from the anesthesia. After his operation, he lay in bed for weeks in excruciating pain from the surgery in an agony of body and mind. Those few weeks were almost beyond bearing for one who was so active and of a sensitive nature, with the burning urge to live and accomplish his purpose in life. Three months left in which to finish the work he knew had barely begun!! Gradually he became reconciled to the thought but determined that if he were to leave his work unfinished, he would make as good use as possible of the few weeks of life remaining to him. Still very weak, just able to walk about, he returned to the hospital laboratories, where he took entire charge of the department for some weeks. At once, he became so immersed in his experiments that he lost all count of time, working day and night until the light shining from his laboratory windows was called the “Light that never goes out.” As weeks and months slipped by, he forgot His disabilities and found himself growing stronger, and when the three months had elapsed, he suddenly realized he was in better health than he had been for some years. The men who had seen him at his worst were astonished at his recovery, so much so that one medical friend who had attended his operation and then left immediately for the war, on meeting him suddenly sometime afterward, exclaimed, “Oh my goodness, I thought, but you would be dead!" This made Bach pause to consider the reason for his marvelous recovery, of his return to life, as it were. He concluded that an Absorbing interest, a Great Love, and a Definite Purpose in life were the deciding factors of man’s happiness on earth and were, indeed, the incentive that had carried him through his difficulties and helped him in the regaining of his health. In his later work, this great truth was emphasized, for the herbal remedies he discovered held the power of soul revitalizing, of the mind and body, that they wish to live and do one’s work in life is regained, and with that desire good health returns. All he had done so far, he considered, was but a step towards this new healing, and he was impatient to begin seriously upon the fresh theories. He told his friends that he was about to give up his work in London and devote himself to the task of finding world types and searching for the future remedies that would heal these types and, by so doing, heal all the diseases from which they might suffer. This took his colleagues by surprise, but they had always looked upon him as a leader of scientific research, a genius who had made and would make, further discoveries in that branch of medicine. His Harley Street practice was bringing him an income of over $5000 a year, the work of preparing Vaccines to send to medical Doctors all over the world was in itself a full-time occupation, and, in addition to this, he was looked upon as an outstanding genius as a Physician and scientist, with an even bigger future before him. What concerned him most in his life at this point which became stronger as the days passed, was that his work lay in other directions and that he would find what he sought among the trees and plants of nature, which were already prepared for men by nature herself, and were only waiting to be discovered. Dr. Edward Bach, then 43 years old, was preparing to begin his work all over again, in an entirely different line. His great intellectual powers led him to make many scientific discoveries, the use of which brought and is still getting, through orthodox medicine and homeopathic, relief and healing to many suffering. Still, he felt within him that divine inspiration, intuition, the true wisdom. Guided by this, he was ready to forsake all scientific and artificial healing methods and return to nature's simple ways. Dr. Edeard Bach decided to leave London and devote all his time to new work and the finding of future herbal remedies. He divided his existing practice among his medical friends and closed down his laboratory. The evening before he left London, he was greatly encouraged by the words of one physician Dr. John H. Clark, who said to him, “My lad, forget all you have learned, forget the past, and go ahead. You will find what you were seeking, and when you have found it, I will welcome you back and give you my support. I have not long to live, but may I live to see the day of your return, for I know what you find will bring great joy and comfort to those for whom we, at present, can do so little. And I will, instead, set up as a practitioner of the new and better medicine you’ll find.”Dr. Clark lived to hear of the findings of the herbal remedies called the “12 Healers,” and before he died, he published the first account of them in his journal, the “Homeopathic World Journal.” During the years that followed, Dr. Bach walked many hundreds of miles, wandering all over the country, in Wells, the southern and eastern countries of England, by river and sea, watching people and nature, observing and gaining an understanding of both which led to the findings of the new system of herbal medication. Dr. Edward Bach had always looked upon healing, not as a profession. But as a divine art, he had grown more and more to feel that those who have the privilege of doing this work of healing should be prepared to give their services, for help was not a commercial commodity but something that was the right of every individual, therefore from the time he left London to the end of his earthly life he charged no fees for his advance and his help either, to the rich or the poor. His big-heartedness would never allow him to see others in need or go without; out of his little, he would always find enough to share with them. It was said of him he gave away more than he had. With contributions from grateful patients and gifts from understanding friends from time to time, he could continue his great work, and whenever he contemplated a fresh journey or some new departure in the work he found he always had enough for what he might need. This confirmed that he believed he was on the right track and that all he had to do was go ahead with complete trust in the Divine Source of all, Which he knew as God and Jesus Christ. Bach eventually settled down in a small Welch Village to work out his theory in the search for new remedies. He had no idea which plants held the medical properties he sought beyond the fact that he knew they would all be beneficial and would have a very high order, for he was convinced that poisonous substances in plants could have no real function in the healing of the human body. He felt the right remedies would cause no severe reactions either. Nor would they be unpleasant to take. They would be gentle and sure, healing body, mind, and spirit. He also felt that a new method of preparing these remedies would have to be discovered, a simpler process than had already been used. Doctor Bach’s botanist background helped him as he spent many long days examining the great variety of plants, noting where they grew, what soil they chose to expand upon, the color, shape, and number of their petals, what they spread by, tubers, or route of seed? He sat for hours by a single plant, also wading through bogs and marshes, climbing to the mountain tops, and tramping 4 miles along the lanes and through the fields in search of fresh specimens, learning all he could of the habitat and characteristics of each flower and plant and tree. Not finding what he was searching for, Bach concluded that the plants he needed would be found later in the year, they would bloom when the days were most prolonged and the sun was at the height of its power and strength to obtain their medical properties to the full he would need to use the flower heads alone, for the life of the plant was concentrated in its flower, that held the potential seed. The plants chosen would be the most perfect of their kind, with blooms and beautiful shapes, and, as nature was always lavish in her gifts to men, they would grow in profusion. One early morning in May, as he was walking through a field upon which the dew still lay heavily, the thought flashed into his mind that each dewdrop must contain some of the properties of the plant upon which it rests for the heat of the sun, acting through the fluid, would serve to draw out these properties until each drop was magnetized through the water. Then he realized that if he could obtain the medical properties of the plants he was seeking in this way, the resulting remedies would contain the plants' full perfect, uncontaminated power. They would heal, surely, as no medical preparations had been known to heal before. He decided to test his theory by collecting the due from certain flowers before the sun caused evaporation and trying it out upon himself. Through trial and error, none of the flowers contained the healing properties he sought, but he found out that the dew from each plant held a definite power of some kind. The important fact he gathered from this experiment was that the sun's heat was essential to the process of extraction, for the dew collected from plants in shady places was not as potent as that from the plants in full sun. Having proved that the sun-warmed dew absorbed the properties of the plant upon which it rested. So he set himself to perfect the new method of preparing healing remedies. By doing this, he found great satisfaction, for the water had been impregnated by the power of the plant and was very potent. He had now discovered the new method of preparation of medical remedies, which he had hoped for some years earlier in an address he had given at the British Homeopathic Society saying, “Perhaps at some future date a new form of potency may be discovered.” The first 19 of the herbal remedies he would later find were all prepared in this way. Bach was overjoyed at the discovery, for this method entailed no destruction or injury to the plants used, the whole process was carried out in the open air in the field where the plant itself group and the few flowers picked were at their freshest and in the perfection of their bloom lost none of their power during the process of making the tinctures. He was convinced that true knowledge was to be gained not through man’s intellect but through his ability to see and accept life's natural, simple truths. Dr. Bach kept journals of everything he did, and as he found flowers that he could use, he would document them, write his reports, and send them to medical journals to be read by medical professionals. In Dr. Bach’s journals, it has been made clear that disease of the body is not primarily due to physical causes but to certain disturbing moods or states of mind which interfere with the normal happiness of the individual, and how these moods, if allowed to continue, lead to a disturbance, of the functions of the bodily organs and tissues. The mind is in absolute control of every human's mental and physical condition. Thus any disturbance of mind, such as continued worry, fear, or depression, would not only result in a loss of peace and security but would be communicated to the physical body through the nerves, causing disorganization of the property of the proper functioning of its organs and loss of tone and vitality in its tissues. But so soon as the mind regained its normal peace and happiness, it would also regain its wise and perfect control over the body. Which would automatically be cleansed of any disease or complaint from which it suffered. These disturbing moods, then, are the actual indications for the treatment of illness, and the function of the remedies of the new farm-a-copia would be to assist the patient in ridding himself of the state of mind that was causing his ill health. As Bach wrote in his papers, the herbal remedies stated that the herbal powers would help elevate our negative vibrations and thus draw down spiritual power, which cleanses the mind and body and heals... At this point, Dr. Bach had written a book called “Heal thy Self” Bach stresses the importance of happiness in life, for not only does it bring help, but it indicates that the individual is living his life on earth to the fullest, and un-influenced by others, in so doing, bring the greatest help and service to his fellow man. From his own experience and through watching others closely, Bach realized that man, if he did but know it, was endowed with all the wisdom and knowledge necessary to guide him through his earthly life in the utmost happiness, joy, and health. This wisdom was imparted to him through his intuition and instincts, this was the means of communicating between man’s higher self (Spirit) and his earthly personality (physical body) and, being of divine origin, should be obeyed and trusted implicitly. True happiness, then, resulting from opening the Communication of our soul, or higher self, which we learn through instinct, is not only man’s birthright but brings with it all the qualities he strives to attain during his life on earth, the rates of gentleness, strength, of courage, steadfastness, wisdom, peace, and love. Unhappiness attracts the reverse side of these qualities: greed, cruelty, self-love, instability, ignorance, pride, and hate, which are the underlying causes of disease. The final paragraph of “Heal thy Self” again emphasizes the importance of happiness, which follows man’s dependence upon the wisdom of his divinity, for Bach wrote, “So come out my brothers and sisters into the glorious sunshine of the knowledge of your divinity, and earnestly and steadfastly set to work to join in the grand design of being happy and communicating happiness... The principles of the new healing method are now clearer in his mind, and he knew his immediate work was to classify the moods or states of mind of all types of individuals and find the remedy corresponding to each of these moods. The disease is a kind of awakening. The disease is a kind of consolation of a mental attitude, and it is only necessary to treat the mood of a patient then, the disease will disappear if it is in the early stage. Bach welcomed the chance to study the healthy, normal individual, for he found it gave him even greater insight and understanding of the difficulties of human nature than the years he had spent in the hospitals amongst the sick. Every individual belongs to a definite group or type. Having essentially the same kind of personality, character, or temperament as the others in that group. The members of each group are recognizable by their behavior, moods, or attitudes of mine, for instance, the nervous type was fearful of the first plunge into the sea, and the hesitant, undecided group took some time to make up their minds to go in, the impatient people walked straight in, the over-concerned tried the temperature of the water first and so on each behavior according to his type. The same thing would occur in times of sickness. The nature of the element or disease, therefore, need not be taken seriously into consideration, the moods were the indication for the treatment required, for bodily health was entirely dependent upon the state of mind. The remedies he was seeking would assist in the removal of these moods and so affect the cure. The remedies used in medicine relieve the physical symptoms of disease, but they do not remove the underlying cause, the -mood -and the patient was left without help to rise above his mental problems. For most, this was not easy, and for some, almost impossible, hence the long-continued suffering of so many. With acute disease resulting from violent or quickly passing moods, the organized effects upon the body were soon over. (Such as a car wreck or a must-have quick surgery.) These physical things happen quickly and then are over... But when the mood was not so rapidly dispelled, the disorganization continued, gaining a stronger hold on the organs and tissues. The after-effects might become permanent, resulting in chronic disease. Because of years of nonstop looking for all the remedies he needed, he finally formed the 12 healers and other remedies and declared his work was done. He trained his team with great care, for now, that his work of finding the herbs and perfecting the new method of the treatment of disease was completed, he wished to leave its application in their hands and in the hands of all those who scattered throughout the world and who were ready to use his system of herbal medication. On November 27, 1936, his 50th birthday, Dr. Edward Bach died peacefully in his sleep at his cottage in the country, knowing that his work was done. Years of his life had been short, but during those 50 years, he had worked without ceasing to find a pure and simple way of healing the sick. Then, having accomplished all that was possible for him on earth, he gladly laid down his physical body to continue his work in another sphere, content that those who had been with him would be unceasing in their efforts to spread the knowledge of these healing herbs. Those of us who had the privilege of being closely associated with Dr. Edward Bach during the latter years of his life can never be sufficiently grateful for the experience. In this healing work that he gave us, which we continue in his name, we gratefully acknowledge his inspiration and help. The keynote is "HAPPINESS." Dr. Bach believed happiness leads to good health, while unhappiness can cause disease. He identified fear, anxiety, and other negative emotions as happiness destroyers. Dr. Bach discovered certain natural herbs and trees that can alleviate these negative emotions and help restore joy and health. By addressing the patient's state of mind first, physical ailments tend to fade away. Patients often feel better mentally and then physically after using herbal remedies. Dr. Bach's herbal healing system focuses on restoring physical and mental health, ultimately bringing happiness and healing to individuals. A Friendship Forged in Healing: A Tribute to Dr. Bach "My first encounter with Dr. Edward Bach at the 1929 International Homeopathic Congress sparked a lasting friendship. We shared each new discovery, united by his selfless dedication to humanity. Dr. Bach found immense joy in each new remedy, viewing himself as a conduit for this knowledge. In a letter discussing a remedy's healing properties, he wrote, "This work is not mine. All credit goes to the one who grants us knowledge for the betterment of mankind." Though gone, Dr. Bach's legacy lives on, a testament to his unwavering pursuit of healing." (F. J. Wheeler, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.) My thoughts; Bach Flower Remedies offer insight into the unseen healing powers naturally present on Earth. These remedies address our fears, anxieties, and depression, which are increasingly prevalent today and affecting the lives of our children. I am grateful for this knowledge and firmly believe that nature provides us with healing. Dr. Edward Bach followed his gift wholeheartedly, guided by the wisdom of his soul. Debra Rudd

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. Debra Rudd

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... Debra Rudd

(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. 🌺 Debra Rudd