In the spiritual plane, we might say that planting seeds is like setting good intentions. They take time to grow and manifest. When farmers plant seeds, they intend to visualize and hope for an abundant harvest. For example, corn seeds will give rise to tall, green stalks laden with spikes of fresh delicious corn – if everything goes right. We might ask ourselves the question - What does it take the process of growth?
The process involves many phases: having the motivation and deciding to plant, having the space or the right soil to plant, envisioning the outcome to help us organize the space needed, learning everything you can about soil, the weather conditions, the patterns, about compost, fertilizer, insects or animals that can damage your crop, having the tools to do the work, etc. But no matter how much we learn in this process and how hard we work, a big important part of it or “the most important part” of the process, I might say, is intention.
Intention is the potent act of believing that you are accountable. You put the faith in your acts. You set the intention. You align your will to what it takes for the seeds to make all the way to manifest, to grow what they are meant to become – in this sense, allowing corn to be what is meant to be, just corn. Not a rosebush, not mint or lavender.
This powerful act of intention is an act of faith that gives your goals direction - allowing our vision to move from the realm of thought into the realm of manifestation. We don’t control the weather, the clouds, the rain, the sun, the bugs or the corn itself – we are the only ones as witness and collaborators of so many acts to manifest. We are the faithful gardeners that set in motion all creation, assisting to co-create the reality.
The process involves many phases: having the motivation and deciding to plant, having the space or the right soil to plant, envisioning the outcome to help us organize the space needed, learning everything you can about soil, the weather conditions, the patterns, about compost, fertilizer, insects or animals that can damage your crop, having the tools to do the work, etc. But no matter how much we learn in this process and how hard we work, a big important part of it or “the most important part” of the process, I might say, is intention.
Intention is the potent act of believing that you are accountable. You put the faith in your acts. You set the intention. You align your will to what it takes for the seeds to make all the way to manifest, to grow what they are meant to become – in this sense, allowing corn to be what is meant to be, just corn. Not a rosebush, not mint or lavender.
This powerful act of intention is an act of faith that gives your goals direction - allowing our vision to move from the realm of thought into the realm of manifestation. We don’t control the weather, the clouds, the rain, the sun, the bugs or the corn itself – we are the only ones as witness and collaborators of so many acts to manifest. We are the faithful gardeners that set in motion all creation, assisting to co-create the reality.
Many spiritual and philosophical traditions that study the wisdom of life itself warn us of the danger of confusing intention with attachment. Jesus, in his sermon in the Mount, tells us to renounce all anxiety about the future in times of uncertainty for the future. Being worried about the outcome is not going to add one inch to your corn. Krishna teaches in the Bahgavad Gita that “work without attachment to the fruits of work.” Trying to grasp things, you can lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you can ruin what was almost ripe.” In this regard, in the Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu also advice us that “rushing into action, we can fail.”
All these teachings gives us a good advice that we cannot make the corn grow faster and stronger by any other means than witnessing with love and taking care of the process. It won’t help yelling at it, tugging on it, or other action that comes from a nervous or anxious state or mind.
Our task at hand is not to grow the corn. Our job is to co-create the conditions in which the seed can grow itself. The seed already knows its way, far more than us about how to become who is meant to be. Whether we are growing corn, raising children, or building a career, the same principles apply. All we can do is set the intentions, compromise to the learning process, do the work it takes to cultivate and allow the power of the seed to become and manifest.
All these teachings gives us a good advice that we cannot make the corn grow faster and stronger by any other means than witnessing with love and taking care of the process. It won’t help yelling at it, tugging on it, or other action that comes from a nervous or anxious state or mind.
Our task at hand is not to grow the corn. Our job is to co-create the conditions in which the seed can grow itself. The seed already knows its way, far more than us about how to become who is meant to be. Whether we are growing corn, raising children, or building a career, the same principles apply. All we can do is set the intentions, compromise to the learning process, do the work it takes to cultivate and allow the power of the seed to become and manifest.
The same principles are in motion in our inner world which encourages us to be the gardeners and the witness of our own growth and our own creations. How we then plant seeds that will bring an abundant harvest in our lives? How do we create the right conditions to become who we want to become? Setting intentions can help us very much when we are in treatment with the Bach Flower Remedies.
The Bach Flower remedies are also seeds that need to manifest in you. They energetically correct and address in you what is not aligned in our energetic field, what is not working well. And you can choose to be in alliance with them by setting good intentions. Your good fruits will grow faster and better! I can guarantee! But the minute you slip into the seductive delusion that you are in control and become distrustful, which may be in conflict to the work to be done, chaos reigns and the only crop you will yield can be suffering and despair.
I have seen many times how many people resist to believe or understand that there are unconscious forces or subtle energies that we don’t see or we don’t control. At some level, they are resisting to heal and finally, this leads to fail in doing the work that the treatment requires. They fail to do the work it takes for lack perseverance, patience and trust, because they have no faith to nurture the process of that it takes to harvest. The lack of faith and holding the intention would be in this case who ruins or savotages the process.
With dreams happens the same. Dreams don’t come as easily as we would like. We need to be harnessing the moment - What in dreamwork we call “incubating”. The inner process of setting this intention helps us to cultivate the inner circumstances to wait patiently for a revelatory dream or dreams to take place and make its way to us and help us understand what is blocking us (what we don't exactly know and we need more information). Or better said, its way through us to help us heal, as understanding ourselves is a way to healing.
When you take the remedies, they do its way. The same that dreams do. You don’t control what they can do for you. You just allow things to happen, trusting its process by setting your best intentions. Thus, dreams can visit you, synchronicities just happen, things come together through your insights and by witnessing your inner reality in combination of being aware how things transform and change.
Thanks to you for being present as the main character or protagonist, and setting the right intentions, you can be in alliance with the nature of reality. Flower essences are the helpers for all this to happen and for you to flourish!
Many of us and probably yourself as well, have worked for micromanagers, bosses who hover over you, directing every move you need to make. Under these circumstances, we might say that there is not much space for growth and spontaneity. Workers lose their enthusiasm and creativity. Instead, they become sad and passive aggressive robots and all the potentiality that was there gets lost – as the best outcomes sometimes comes from the not planned, not seen, not controlled.
Not being able to listen to that and pay close attention to the talent of people and helping them to grow, that is such a lost for many companies that are trying to set up too rigid work environments. In this situation, you might feel that you are seen not as a human being but as an extension of your boss, with no heart, with no vision, and the only reason you show up at work is for the paycheck. Then, the cruel and sad results are that you are dehumanized by the system, by your boss, and your soul chose to live in exile. The soil, your environment to grow is not fertile and you have to find a way, your inner way to grow your seeds and enjoy your creativity someplace else that it can be accepted, nourished and encouraged.
As a leader in your company or in your own life, you have an important question to guide you in the growing process: How can I support you today? That response could be, for example in my business and purpose, to help you take the flower remedies that help you to grow! How can I/ how can you creatively support yourself and your personal growth? Doing what? How? In what way?
A good leader is a planter of seeds. Taking leadership in your own life is a matter of humbly but not boldly (setting up) intentions, let them do its course (letting go of the outcome) and after some time, (coming back) to revisit what happened in the process. Are my intentions growing well? Is this working well? Do I miss something?
When I went to see Amma in her ashram in San Ramon (CA), close where I live in Berkeley many years ago, I got a quote that I always carry with me since then and I often like to remember. I believe that the quote applies for the theme of this Blog. The quote says: “Amma sows the seeds and moves forward. Some sprout tomorrow, some the day after, others only years later.”
So, are you ready to do what it takes for you to grow and nurture this fascinating process? Are you ready to become a better and more evolved version of yourself? Are you up to change your negative patterns that holds you back? Are you committed to your personal growth? Are you in alliance with developing and unfolding your full potential?
As Lao Tzu wrote, “If you want to be a great leader, you must learn to follow the Tao. Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.” So we might have to find the way to plant seeds, set intentions and allow the work to do its course! Would you like some help and support along the way?
Not being able to listen to that and pay close attention to the talent of people and helping them to grow, that is such a lost for many companies that are trying to set up too rigid work environments. In this situation, you might feel that you are seen not as a human being but as an extension of your boss, with no heart, with no vision, and the only reason you show up at work is for the paycheck. Then, the cruel and sad results are that you are dehumanized by the system, by your boss, and your soul chose to live in exile. The soil, your environment to grow is not fertile and you have to find a way, your inner way to grow your seeds and enjoy your creativity someplace else that it can be accepted, nourished and encouraged.
As a leader in your company or in your own life, you have an important question to guide you in the growing process: How can I support you today? That response could be, for example in my business and purpose, to help you take the flower remedies that help you to grow! How can I/ how can you creatively support yourself and your personal growth? Doing what? How? In what way?
A good leader is a planter of seeds. Taking leadership in your own life is a matter of humbly but not boldly (setting up) intentions, let them do its course (letting go of the outcome) and after some time, (coming back) to revisit what happened in the process. Are my intentions growing well? Is this working well? Do I miss something?
When I went to see Amma in her ashram in San Ramon (CA), close where I live in Berkeley many years ago, I got a quote that I always carry with me since then and I often like to remember. I believe that the quote applies for the theme of this Blog. The quote says: “Amma sows the seeds and moves forward. Some sprout tomorrow, some the day after, others only years later.”
So, are you ready to do what it takes for you to grow and nurture this fascinating process? Are you ready to become a better and more evolved version of yourself? Are you up to change your negative patterns that holds you back? Are you committed to your personal growth? Are you in alliance with developing and unfolding your full potential?
As Lao Tzu wrote, “If you want to be a great leader, you must learn to follow the Tao. Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.” So we might have to find the way to plant seeds, set intentions and allow the work to do its course! Would you like some help and support along the way?
All the Bach Flower essences help us to plant our seeds and intentions in different ways. They are helpers in the process of growth. Here I write you some examples of the ones that can help you to plant good seeds for your future:
Beech – For irritability and lack of compassion.
Chestnut Bud – For slow learners to learn from their mistakes.
Elm – For over workers or over harder gardeners who need to let go and let God or the Universal Force also do the work.
Gorse – When there is no hope, no illusion to keep planting new seeds, no trust they will grow.
Holly – Some reactionary suspicions about the goods that can grow due to an inability to love and be loved.
Hornbeam – For procrastinators who wait and wait to plant.. they feel constantly tired to envision the harvest.
Aspen – Fear and anxiety to even start the process. Too much unknown, does not feel safe to take the adventure.
Gentian – For self-doubt and hesitations.
Honeysuckle – Allows to be in the moment and let go of projects did not come to fruition.
Impatiens – Brings patience and a more relaxed attitude.
Wild Rose – Fights apathy, lack of will-power and resignation.
Olive – Restoring vitality, strength and faith in the future.
Beech – For irritability and lack of compassion.
Chestnut Bud – For slow learners to learn from their mistakes.
Elm – For over workers or over harder gardeners who need to let go and let God or the Universal Force also do the work.
Gorse – When there is no hope, no illusion to keep planting new seeds, no trust they will grow.
Holly – Some reactionary suspicions about the goods that can grow due to an inability to love and be loved.
Hornbeam – For procrastinators who wait and wait to plant.. they feel constantly tired to envision the harvest.
Aspen – Fear and anxiety to even start the process. Too much unknown, does not feel safe to take the adventure.
Gentian – For self-doubt and hesitations.
Honeysuckle – Allows to be in the moment and let go of projects did not come to fruition.
Impatiens – Brings patience and a more relaxed attitude.
Wild Rose – Fights apathy, lack of will-power and resignation.
Olive – Restoring vitality, strength and faith in the future.
“I believe miracles are like seeds. When planted and watered by our attention and appreciation, they bloom.” - James Van Praagh
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