This past weekend I was caring for a sweet cat, a beautiful home and a lovely garden while the owners were on vacation. I enjoyed sitting outside in the mild April air inhaling England’s spring scents and poking around their plants. Seven years ago when I moved from my house in the suburbs of Toronto to an apartment in the city, I said goodbye to my large garden and hello to window pots. Now, after eight months on the road, it was a treat to be hands-on with plants again, if only for a few days.
While trimming one of their houseplants, I remembered what my dad told me when I was a young teen helping him in the garden. He was showing me how to weed the flowerbeds and deadhead the flowers. I asked why we had to do that when no one weeds or deadheads a meadow. (Truthfully, I was trying to get out of doing the work.) He said, “The plant’s job is to create seeds or fruit. Once they’ve done that, they stop producing flowers. If you want more flowers, you have to keep encouraging their blooming by not letting the plant finish its cycle. Cutting off the dying flowers sends a signal to the plant that it’s not done yet. And we pull out the weeds so they don’t choke out the plants we want to encourage or rob them of their energy to grow strong.”
There’s so much we can learn from nature. While there are times to go with the cycles of the seasons and let nature run its course, it’s also possible to encourage more of what you want — more of the beauty and abundance that makes life joyful.
For instance, if you want better health, more love, greater wealth and abundance, and overall more happiness, you need to do what’s required to encourage its on-going experience in your life.
One way to do that is by weeding out the limiting beliefs, negative thought patterns, self-sabotaging behaviours and disempowering habits that take up space, drain your energy, and keep you from feeling strong and blossoming into your full glory and highest potential.
What’s one limiting belief, thought, behaviour or habit that stops you from blooming into the beautiful flower you know you are in your heart and soul?
What’s one empowering thought, belief, behaviour or habit that will encourage the abundance you desire?
Your inner landscape creates your outer experience.
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