CL - 4/15/16 "Planting Seeds"

Do you feel it? The struggle to stay afloat. To stay smiling. To stay hopeful. 

While we may "know" that our experience is in our total control, (though some prefer to stay unaware of this and for obvious reasons) it can be difficult to take full ownership of every moment, especially when faced with one of our trigger buttons. It's easy to cave. To give into patterns and stories and conditioned responses. To our programmed self-limiting beliefs. 

But, before you give in, wait for just one more moment!

You cannot abandon your seeds and expect flowers to bloom.

It takes time, patience and nurturing for seeds to grow.  Planting the seed is just the first step.  Walking away, abandoning your seed, leaves your plant no chance at sustainable life. 

Planting seeds is only a tiny fraction of the growing process! 

And useless if you don't continue to care for them.

Watch your plant (life) blossom:

1. Plant your seed.
2. Give it time and practice gentleness, patience. 
3. Keep a good attitude.
4. Water and nourish your plant continually, and as needed.
5. Open yourself to receive, remove resistance and allow the Universe to work its magic.
6. DO NOT GIVE UP.

One of the most important parts of the growing process is to NOT get discouraged right before the plant blooms. When do we normally turn our back? About one second too soon! And we push away the good, rejecting the blossoming right as it's about to happen. 

In coaching, we are taught to hold space for our clients.  We are told to pause and hold silence for a few seconds longer than feels comfortable. That is when the magic happens: in those few extra seconds of discomfort.  Discomfort allows us to stretch to find new comfort (expansion). In the silence, clients process their emotions, reflect and have beautiful ah-ha moments.  

This is no different.  The magic manifests in those moments when you hold out just a tad longer than feels comfortable.  Right before you give up, hang tight.  Hold the space.  It is holding onto the belief that will allow the blossoming, the unfolding, the new to come. 

Hold the space for your seed to blossom. Just a few extra moments.  And revel in your beautiful garden.