Dr. Mary Beth Ford
Official Guide
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.
Articles by this expert
SelfGrowth articles and saved writing connected to this expert.
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Accept Death, Embrace Change and Live a Purposeful Life
You were an Infinite Being before you were born. You are an Infinite Being even now. You will remain an Infinite Being after you die.
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Wisdom For Relationships - Life Lessons From Nature
The natural world reminds us that relationships are wondrously varied and complex. Through nature's diversity, we observe some cooperation and some competition. But we cannot look for parallels in nature to resolve our life questions. The answers lie deep within us, waiting to be discovered. ...
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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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Wisdom of the Tao ~ Your Life Makes a Difference
The Tao Te Ching is an ancient Chinese text on the nature of existence. According to legend Lao-Tzu wrote this book of wisdom. It has been translated more than any other volume, except for the Bible. The creative Source of the universe flows around you and through you. Be flexible and open to all possibilities. Release your need to be right. Be willing either to resolve your daily challenges or to resist pushing against them. When you achieve flexibility, you become stronger and more successful. Appreciate what you have and let go of the need to accumulate more.
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Your Inner Power – Be the Deliberate Creator of a Happier Life and Better World
You have the freedom and power to create with your heart-based feelings and thoughts. New scientific discoveries reveal what timeless wisdom has told us. You are the architect of your own reality. You play a powerful role in the universe. The key to creating your dreams into reality is within your reach. By shifting your thoughts and feelings, you can change your life and your world. You can reclaim your inner power and embrace your true Self. You are a vibrational being living in a vibrational universe.
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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 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 – Three Ways to Claim Your Personal Power
The true purpose of power is to transform yourself and your world. A sense of empowerment renews your life purpose. Shame is the demon. It takes away your joy. The healing process involves letting go of shame that who you are and what you do is not good enough.
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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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Life Balance and the Need for Solitude--Lessons from Nature
We seek many things in this world to bring us happiness and inner peace. We set goals and work hard to achieve them. But in doing so, we often neglect our inner needs--the desires of our spirit. We struggle with the push-pulls between inner and outer worlds. Quiet time alone renews us and helps restore our life balance. Solitude is not a luxury. We all have a need for solitude--for quiet time alone.
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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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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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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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Wisdom from the Gardens for Balance betwee World and Spirit
Author Dr. Mary Beth Ford provides a blueprint for life balance to help busy people who want to live with Spirit in the world. A slide show depicts her five lessons of garden wisdom. Includes a brief talk by the author, book excerpt, articles, news, events and The Garden Wisdom Store.
July 2, 2012
Contributor website
www.wisdomfromthegardens.com
http://www.wisdomfromthegardens.com
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.