Week Fifty-Four: Blossoming

A colleague and I were talking the other day when she noticed some beautiful peonies that were in various stages of blossoming. As we talked, she mentioned how the flowers inspired her to think about her own blossoming, about how naturally and gently flowers open and offer their fragrance and beauty to the world without any particular effort. This brought to my mind the tremendous power inherent in being who we are, without effort, when we allow ourselves to blossom naturally. And, just as flowers need water, sunlight, fertilizer, weeding, and occasional pruning to optimize their beauty, we, too, need certain kinds of psychological and physical nourishment, care, and support to optimize our beauty.
For this week’s experiment, I invite you to bring into your awareness the ways in which you nourish your capacity to blossom. What are the kinds of encouraging “food” you give your psyche to support expressing your talents and capabilities, to encourage you in whatever ways you need? What activities, skill-building, or learning situations do you engage to help shape and support the ways of being you want to express in your world?

Blossoming is natural. What it needs is the right kind of support at the right time. This week’s experiment also offers an opportunity to “weed out” those beliefs and behaviors that create limitation or fear – that in any way constrain your own blossoming. Rather than making this experiment into a lot of work, engage it with a curiosity that allows you to notice the ways in which you may not nourish yourself, and also to notice the ways in which you do.

As with every other experiment, there’s no place to arrive with this one. Instead, if offers another opportunity to explore your thinking and responses, enhance your ability to be conscious of your thoughts and actions, to increase awareness of how you move through your world, and generate an opportunity to bring choice to the foreground of your experience.

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