Seeds As A Valuable Metaphor For Life Itself

How You Can Learn From Their Process

Seeds and the process of germination is an excellent metaphor for life. Life is that way, if we pay more attention we'll observe lessons that are often inspiring. We could talk about the ants like the Bible did, but today we talk about seeds. How do such small things turn out to be, all manner of things really, from ecstatic flowers to deep-rooted oak trees?

Science has studied seeds (of course they have), generated information, and then further categorized all the data into what we now know as Seed Biology. Yes, there's such a thing, and admittedly, I learned this just as I was about to write this post. But what's biology got to do with it? Have you been listening? There's a lot we could learn from mother nature and life itself.

This one thing is true: Life is hard, or at least it can be. But that's a part of it you know? In the same way that plants have to be covered with soil to grow, we as humans have to go through the dirt sometimes. There's the first lesson right there. Read it again! As with many things in life, it's ironic, but it's just the way it is.

At the moment, while you go through the dirt, it might just feel like life's unfair, and sometimes it can be. But we must get our perspective right, and our attitude too. That way we can appreciate the dirt and just be, trusting the process, which is what it is most of the time.

In seed planting, the first thing to do to guarantee healthy plants is to choose a good seed. It's choosing the things you love, the things that spark your light, that's your good seed. By getting this right, you ensure that you don't get stuck in the unpleasantness of the dirt.

When you've chosen the right seed, and you plant (yourself) in a healthy environment, you are sure that your seed will grow. Now you water your seed. While you do this, germination may take a while to come up out of the soil. But things are happening, just below that, you can't see. Now you have to trust, in the seed and in the environment, and your efforts.

Oh, there will be weeds, that's for sure. Weeds that may grow rapidly than your seed will. Weeds that you will have to pull to protect your seed. Distractions - Focus! The weeds are natural for any healthy soil, you should expect them. There's no stopping them, the best you can do is try to control them.

You must never let your weeds kill your seed, you must always return to watering your seed. You must let it break open. You must give it time to bud. Please do not pull it out to see if it's germinating! Remember, things are happening that you just can't see.

If you've planted, watered, and tended the weeds, and your seeds are just breaking forth, or are just not as you would want them to. Then perhaps you've not exposed it to the right amount of light. Yet another thing to do? Well yes! You can't leave your seed in the dark, it needs the light to blossom.

If you've planted, then water. If you've watered, then tend. If you've tended, then let the light shine in it. If you've let the light shine on it, then wait! Perhaps the most difficult part of the process (which is what it is, a process). Just be, stand your ground, and watch what happens when it breaks free.

PLANT. WATER. LET IT SHINE. JUST BE… YOU'LL BREAK FREE!