Dr. Mary Beth Ford
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Life Balance Expert
Dr. Mary Beth Ford Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Life Balance, Spiritual Growth, Personal Empowerment
- Best Sellers
- "Wisdom from the Gardens: Life Lessons"
- Career Focus
- Author, Writer, Speaker, Teleseminar Presenter
- Affiliation
- Garden Wisdom Enterprises since 2005
Mary Beth Ford lives in Pennsylvania’s beautiful Brandywine Valley. For the past thirty years she has explored ways to enjoy more life balance. Nature has become her refuge. Mary Beth walks often in the area’s gardens where she also enjoys her many tree friends. Observing nature images and making connections with life experience began a remarkable journey. Mary Beth reflects on this journey and the lessons of garden wisdom through her writing. Her story is the search for a spirit-filled way of living that is both deeply personal and communal. Mary Beth shares simple rituals, inspiring stories and nature’s wisdom for life balance. She wants to help busy people live with Spirit in the world.
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How to Live without Resentments
Someone must risk returning injury with kindness,or hostility will never turn to goodwill. Tao Te Ching To live without resentments, you must change the way you hold onto them. Resentments survive and thrive because you are unwilling to let them go. At the heart of the matter is your ego’s need to be right. You extend kindness to yourself by letting go of your anger. As you practice love and forgiveness, you allow yourself to live in peace and harmony. To live beyond judgment, change the way you look at yourself and others.
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Wisdom of the Tao ~ Three Ways to Live Creatively
You are a creator. You are here on Earth to create a joyful life experience. Desires arise in you every day. Do you honor them? Or do you find ways to repress them? When you follow your desires, you feel passion. You feel energized. You feel joyful. You choose ways to create a happier and more fulfilled life. Tap into the unlimited field of creative energy that surrounds you. From modern science we know that a field of pure energy exists everywhere. It connects everything in the universe. We are deeply connected to everyone and everything in our world.
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Wisdom of the Tao – Three Ways to Live in the Flow
According to legend Lao-tzu wrote the “Tao Te Ching,” an ancient Chinese classic on the nature of existence. This book of wisdom has been translated more than any volume, except the Bible. “Tao” is generally interpreted as “the Way.” Lao-Tzu taught that the Tao and water are synonymous. He used water as a symbol for how to live the Tao.
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A Path to the Self ~ Three Ways to Improve Your Communication and Creativity
Communication involves inner and outer worlds through both speaking and listening. With self-expression you share what’s inside you. With good listening you learn what’s inside others. Creativity flows from within. You assimilate ideas from the world and give back something unique to you. New ways of approaching life emerge. As you express your personal truth and individuality, you allow the unfolding of your unique path on Earth. Find your own voice by speaking truthfully and clearly.
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A Path to the Self – Three Ways to Create Balance in Love
The world’s sacred traditions teach that love is the way of life. You are worthy of love. You have a basic right to love and be loved. With a balanced center you can express love for yourself and others. Love is your divine nature and love is your greatest lesson to learn.
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A Path to the Self – Three Ways to Honor Your Deepest Feelings
You incline naturally toward pleasure and away from pain. Pleasure invites you to delight in the experience of being alive. It frees life energy to move through your body and fuels your passion for life. Passion and pleasure are essential motivating forces for vitality, power and creativity. With them you live more fully in the present.
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A Path to the Self – Honor Your Body as the Home of Your Spirit
Your body is the home of your Spirit. When you live disconnected from your body, you become spiritually homeless. You ignore your physical surroundings and damage Earth’s body in the process. You value mind over body and lose access to the body’s own intelligence. Just as a plant needs roots to survive, so also you must be grounded in space/time and connected to your body and the environment. When you are grounded, you are present and focused in the here and now. You create a healing relationship with your body and the Earth.
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Your Inner Power – Three Ways to Cleanse and Raise Your Energy
You are an energetic being living in an energetic Universe. You have the Source Energy that creates worlds flowing through you. It is your responsibility to be vigilant and guard your energy. It is especially important to use your sacred energy wisely. As you cleanse and raise your energy, you release negative emotions. You feel the power of your Source Energy, Breath of Life, pulsing within you. You align with your true Self and your inner power. Cleanse and raise your energy with your good-feeling thoughts.
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A New Way of Being ~ Reconnect with Earth and Your True Self
You live in a fast-paced, noisy and high-tech world. This modern way of life has caused disastrous results for Planet Earth. It alienates you from your Divine Source and from the natural world. By reconnecting with Earth and your true Self, you can create a new way of being. You renew your life meaning and purpose. You live in a world separated from Planet Earth.
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Your True Self - Follow Your Desires and Access the Power of Your Inner Genius
Desires flow from deep within. They come from your True Self. The cost of ignoring them is high. The time may not be right. But you can nurture your desires. You can gradually move toward them. In doing so, you release your Inner Genius. Pay attention to your strong emotions and desires.
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Your True Self ~ Change Your State of Being and Create a New Life with Your Thoughts and Feelings
Are you living in ways that reflect the person you want to be? Do you resolve to make changes and then slip back into old routines? We could call this a rut. But real change involves more than just actions. Repetitive thoughts and feelings also impact our life experiences. They create the self we are becoming. How then do we live in ways that honor our true self?
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A Balanced Life - Reap the Benefits of Meditation for Body, Mind and Spirit
Life is a balancing act. How to juggle inner needs with responsibilities in the world? It is easy to lose your bearings in the midst of daily living. Your focus blurs. A balanced life requires wisdom. But you need quiet to hear your inner voice. How can you expect wisdom from within if you are never still enough to listen? Step away from the world and focus your attention within.
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Wisdom from the Gardens
Author Dr. Mary Beth Ford offers a blueprint of life balance for busy people who want to live with Spirit in the world. Includes book, brief talk by the author, book excerpt, articles and teleseminar information.
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www.wisdomfromthegardens.com
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Dr. Mary Beth Ford
The greatness of an artist lies in the building of an inner world, and in the ability to reconcile this inner world with the outer. --Albert Einstein Quiet times in nature restore your inner balance, make known your heartfelt desires, and release your deepest fears. You emerge prepared to share your gifts with the world. You go forth secure in your purpose and your trust in a Higher Power to help you always. --Mary Beth Ford Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th century mystic, understood our vulnerability. She described us as “mud-bound Spirits” in her Antiphon for Angels. She urged us to shake off the weight of our worldly concerns and release our Spirits to fulfill their purpose for being on earth.
Contacting Dr. Mary Beth Ford
Visit Mary Beth’s website at http://www.wisdomfromthegardens.com and hear an inspiring video message from Mary Beth. You can contact her at mbford@wisdomfromthegardens.com. Follow Mary Beth on Facebook and read her empowering thoughts for your life at http://www.facebook.com/WisdomtoEmpowerYourLife.
How to get started
Mary Beth specializes in the area of life balance which she describes as balance between outer world and inner self. She draws on nature wisdom for guidance in our human experience. In recent years Mary Beth has expanded her research to include science, along with nature, as a resource for her writing and speaking. She finds three areas of science intriguing: Quantum physics, self-organizing systems and chaos theory. From them we gain a powerful and holistic view of who we are in the universe. Mary Beth invites you to join her for an exhilarating journey of discovery through science and nature. You will come to see yourself and your world in a new and inspiring way.
Other highlights
Mary Beth is the author of Wisdom from the Gardens: Life Lessons and presenter of the Garden Wisdom Teleseminar series. She has created a CD titled Garden Wisdom: Five Ways to Grow in Life Balance and Joy. Through her work Mary Beth helps you learn to balance your activity in the world with time to nurture your inner self. From garden wisdom you receive a message of hope and healing.