Learning From Nature - When Things Take Time

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We bought a house about 2 years ago, and finally we got our shiz together and planted a garden a couple of months ago. So last year in Australia was coming to the end of winter and we set up all the garden beds one weekend, and then we transplanted lots of the plants that I had had in pots on our veranda.

I got some cuttings from family from my mum from friends for some random lady down the road and planted some seeds, so fascinating this morning now, a couple of months on or in the last few weeks.

Spring has really hit its stride, all of the flowers coming out to play and all of the trees and the bushes and well all the little trees at the moment, and the shrubs that were growing or sprouting leaves.

And it was such a reflection for me because we've been away for the last couple of weeks as well like coming back and knowing all of my plant friends so intimately in my garden. I could go through and look at each one and be like Wow, you've got like an extra five flowers on you and you have these brand new leaves when you haven't before and you've tripled in size.

It was like coming back and seeing how all of my little plant friends and allies had grown. But for so long, like for this couple of months between planting them, getting it all set up and then now, for a long time, nothing happened.

Well, it looked like nothing was happening. We put some plants in and maybe it looked like that they withered a little bit and some of the leaves on the outside of the bush or the little grass, you know, like shrivelled up, Or just it wasn't growing, it wasn't wilting or wasn't dying. It was stationary and just sitting. Or you know its petals closed off and it kind of looked like it was going dormant a little bit.

And being someone brand new to this gardening in the Earth game - t's just so easy for those stories to blow your head to be like, Am I doing it right? Is it dying am I feeding it? Is it in the right spot? Is it getting enough sun? I don't really know. I feel a little bit unsure about all of this.

And then all of a sudden, you know all of these shoots will show up and all of these new leaves will come through and all of these buds will start to grow. There had to be a time in between. And I really think that all of us, especially us who are consciously aware and trying to live, you know, emotionally rich lives. We are always in a time of transition. We're always in a time in between where we explore something we ponder we desire to make change or we wish to reach a goal. And then there's a scene between states where we're working towards achieving or yearning for and wondering how it could come to be and surrendering, waiting for the answer to arrive.

And this is so reflected in nature. You know we are nature, and it's just very what I really want to remind you here is all the stories that came up to me with my garden, where so much was going on underneath the surface. You know they have been planted in fresh new Earth these plants, which in our analogy is akin to our new ideas or new dreams, and they had to send that energy down or they had to bring that energy inward for a period to create roots and to connect with a new environment they were in and then they could start to flourish on the outside with new leaves or new flowers when the buds.

But so much was happening underneath the surface in that time that I couldn't see. And in that time where nothing looks like it was changing. When really so much was, that's when all those stories came up for me being like, Am I doing this right? Is this really going to be, these desires that I have for this garden are they going to come true? Am I doing right? Am I doing it wrong?

It's so natural for these things to come up when we're in the midst of a personal transformation, but something is happening. Something is changing. There are things going on. The most beautiful, most utmost example is the butterfly going into the chrysalis coming out as the butterfly. You know from an external observer, it looks like nothing is happening in that little chrysalis, a raindrop looking thing hanging on the bottom level, when really inside of it there isliterally the soup of the catapillar, that ceases its current form and then completely rebuilds itself into something new, and that is such a feminine way to flow with life.

Our truest superpower is surrender. And the more that we can work on harnessing that the more that we can be in those times in between and be like heck yeah, I've got this.

Heck yeah these stories coming up of like, Is this for me? And is this too much? Will come up. But I know that it might look like nothing's happening. But the answer is coming to me. And the truth will be illuminated or the change that I desire is coming or the changes that I'm making in my day to day life or how I run my energy or live my life are all adding up to something. I know this to be true.

So please take this to any part of your life that you are transitioning. When you're at a stage or space in between - that you are in the incubation, you are the beautiful little seedling newly within the Earth. It might look like no change is happening when really everything is happening. And you're having a magnificent interaction with the environment around you and what is going to happen will come to pass. It's just some surrender in the meantime.