It’s the cultivation of years of hard work and patience conducted by Artist and Syracuse University professor, Sam Van Aken. He is responsible for creating an absolute wonder – a tree that bears 40 different kinds of fruit, achieved by harnessing an ancient technique called “chip grafting.”

The blooms of this magnificent tree are breathtaking enough, with hot pink, white, purple, and fuchsia bursting forth every spring and summer season like an Andy Warhol painting on steroids.

What is even more fascinating is that the tree preserves many heirloom varieties of stone fruit, from peaches to nectarines, and even almonds! All on the same tree!

Utilizing what Aken calls “sculpture through grafting,” he says that “I can design and essentially sculpt a tree and how it blooms.”

by Dawn Demers

There is so much change happening around us and in our lives at this time. It is important to understand that it is no surprise so many of us are feeling drained and tired. As the Earth is going through its changes, our bodies are also shifting on all levels. This can increase the stress on our systems causing us to feel exhausted. You may be finding it hard to sleep despite the fact that you are so tired, or finding it hard to wake up, feeling as if you have not slept at all! According to Celia Fenn, “Archangel Michael explains that there are three different processes that cause the fatigue. These are emotional body cleansing, detoxification of physical and subtle bodies, and the development of our multifunctional consciousness.”

By Carmen Allgood
Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

From our first breath until our last, most of us will be on the hunt for a mind-altering, insanely intense love experience that will save us from the doldrums of life on earth. Typically we are seeking for consummation with the understanding that we might have to search for a while until we find “the one” to make our life complete. For what is our purpose in life without love?

Most of our search will be spent trying to find a permanent fix through material means, with sex at the top of the list as the way to solidify our “special relationship.” But our first clue that sex is not the cement of any relationship should be obvious with the current divorce rate parked at nearly 40 percent.

By Indra
Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

If we are creating our realities, why are we creating realities packed with negative, painful and traumatic experiences? Why aren’t we just creating beautiful, wonderful realities for ourselves?

I’ll start by saying that we create our realities with our senses. We use our feelings, our sight, our smell, our thoughts – every sensation within our body contributes to creating our reality. In other words, your sensations are your reality. How you’re feeling is the projector through which you experience the rest of your life. If your projector screen is dirty, then you’re going to experience elements of that in your reality; there’s a frequency disturbance, there are lower vibrational manifestations in your life.

Have you ever applied compassion to yourself? We highly recommend you try it. It is like giving yourself a hug filled with unconditional love, nurturing and understanding. ~Archangel Gabriel

http://trinityesoterics.com/2015/08/02/daily-message-sunday-august-2-2015/

In the near future, you will be given a choice to go into and feed the fear of impending doom or remain peaceful in the face of supposed danger.  My lovely child; if you remember where you came from and where you will return when your Earth plane existence is concluded, there will be no reason to ‘buy into’ the chaos around you. 
Continue your beautiful journey, know that there is joy in every single moment of your life and always, always hold the belief that you are loved beyond measure and cradled lovingly in the arms of The Universe. ~ Creator

https://thecreatorwritings.wordpress.com/2015/08/02/in-the-arms-of-the-universe/

Our emotions and thoughts deeply affect us because they are physically connected to our bodies through the immune, endocrine and central nervous system. All the emotions, even those that are suppressed and unexpressed, have physical consequences.

Unexpressed emotions remain in the body like little time bombs – they are diseases that will flourish in the future.

Subsequently, every emotion that you do not understand or suppress will turn into a disease. In other words, the diseases that you now have are caused by your emotions.

A team led by Harvard-affiliated researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital demonstrated that meditation builds brain cells and increases gray matter in the brain. The researchers used magnetic imaging (MRI), and found that meditation produced physiological changes in the brain’s gray matter.

They noticed thickening in some areas of the participants’ brains after only eight weeks of meditation. This research was published in 2011 and it was the first documented proof that meditation can cause physical changes to the brain.

This research was funded by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the NIH. The participants in the research spent eight weeks doing a mindfulness meditation program. During the trial, the participants listened to audio recordings of guided meditation for an average of 27 minutes a day.