Spring is a beautiful time of year.
After a long winter of resting, you can feel new life emerging.
Seeds that were planted and resting all winter, now have flowers emerging from beneath the ground with their unique blossoms and colours.
The air feels and smells different. There is an aliveness that brings with it the feeling of new and unlimited possibilities.
Perhaps you feel something emerging within your soul.
Just as it’s time to clear out the old debris in our garden and get rid of clutter in our home, it’s also an opportune time to clear out the dust bunnies in our mind creating fertile soil for positivity and possibility to grow and manifest.
How can we support the awakening of our soul? By planting the seeds in our minds so that happiness, peace, positivity, and possibility bloom from within.
We start in this moment.
I have been enjoying reflecting upon the questions…
What matters to me?
What do I want to nurture right now?
What seeds do I want to plant?
As I was thinking about this, I came across some photos from two years ago at Easter and it put a smile on my face. I love how a photo can bring back feelings of a moment in time.
This was when I made a guest appearance as Hunny Bunny on my sister Deb’s Facebook Live baking cookies class. I have to say I got right into the character. Who knows maybe HB will make another appearance this year!
This was a fun day and a great memory. And there I had my answer:
I want to plant more of these seeds: fun, creativity and play.
So, I ask you the same question…
What matters to you? What do you long for?
Maybe it’s balance, health, peace, connection, family, joy, play, self discovery, truth or maybe something else.
It’s a great question to reflect upon and one that’s answer will change as life changes.
Are there any thoughts percolating in your mind?
Explore this with curiousity. It’s an adventure! We never know where the journey is going to take us.
Quite often when life is busy, our mind is racing, we have demands being placed upon us, our list of ‘to dos’ is a mile long and our mind can become very focused on what we don’t want.
The mind is quick to focus on the negative, worrying about the future or regret/longing for the past and without realizing it, what we don’t want becomes our focus. We may find ourselves more stressed, less fulfilled and staying stuck in a vicious cycle.
However, we do have a choice.
A choice to be more present and live life in a more embodied way; connecting to our essence and living with more fulfillment as we really tune into our soul.
With mindfulness we start to recognize there is so much more available to us, we simply have to stop, live with intention, and get to know ourselves and what our soul really longs for.
Mindfulness means we are planting seeds with intention. We are practicing being more present and aware.
We don’t have to overwhelm ourselves and think we have to change everything all at once. This approach usually backfires. It can create push back from our Inner Critic and we can find ourselves easily giving up.
When we take time to be in this moment or be in meditation, we are opening up and connecting to the truth within. Something emerges.
Just like the plants emerge from the earth, there is light and truth that emerges from our soul.
Keep it simple. Be gentle.
When we become aware we aren’t present, we can stop, observe, breathe, reflect.
‘I am grateful for my…breath, life, this moment’
In this moment we meet ourselves where we are at.
In this moment I am grateful for you and for the opportunity to connect with you every week in this way.
Happy planting!
Diane