Seeds are miracles. How they work is a mystery. Each seed contains what is needed to reproduce an entire plant with hundreds of other seeds, ready to produce more plants.
A single pomegranate seed will produce a complete pomegranate tree, which will bear pomegranates filled with more seeds.
A single acorn produces an oak tree, which produces more acorns and the potential for more oak trees bearing…more acorns. This is how life, how Nature works.
Life reproduces itself, endlessly, predictably, easily. This reshaping and continuing perpetuate in this example, as seeds. The mystery lies, hidden, waiting for us to use it.
We all know that you don’t plant corn seeds if you want to grow watermelons. If you desire lettuce, then you don’t plant potatoes. We know by experience that there is predictability in the laws of nature.
Seeds are very accurate in their purpose and contain all they need to continue the direction of their original design.
If we look a little more closely at the example of seeds, we may understand the miracle and mystery of our own thinking and feeling, understanding we are more powerful than we realize.
Consider that each thought we have contains all it needs to reproduce itself. Thoughts about happiness produce happiness and what is needed for more happiness. Thoughts of sadness produce sadness and what is needed for more sadness.
Invisible, powerful, creative thoughts are the substance of our experience. They fill the screens of our bodies and minds and reproduce, freely, so long as we give them the attention that feeds and encourages them.
Attention is to thought what water, soil, and sunshine are to seeds. Thoughts keep on expanding, growing, and multiplying, as long as we nourish them with our attention.
Most people don’t take the time to understand this relationship. We may agree that thinking is a part of our lives, yet few of us practice the skill of observing our thoughts and feelings that accompany them.
Emotions are like fruit.
If thoughts are seeds, then emotions are the fruit of thought. Thoughts of joy bring forth the fruit of emotional joy. Thoughts of play, the fruit of playful emotions.
Do you experience emotions without thoughts? Do you think without feeling emotions?
Thoughts and emotions follow nature’s law of correspondence. Like plants and seeds, the type of emotional fruit we produce reflects the thoughts from which they originated. Negative thoughts (seeds) produce uncomfortable feelings (fruit).
We don’t have to understand why this is so, any more than we have to ask why the lemon tree produces lemons rather than apples. It all lies within the nature of the thing, itself…lemon seed, lemon tree, leaves, fruit. Thoughts of kindness…feelings of kindness.
Your life is in its own essence and understanding of how to be. As you observe the relationship between your mental and emotional foci, between thoughts and feelings, you become more understanding of your true nature, which is unlimited.
Using our powers of observation and choice, we apply the law of correspondence. We are capable, unlike the apple or the lemon, of changing the seeds we propagate. We ARE the ability to choose our own thoughts and feelings. If you don’t like what you’re feeling, then change your thinking.
Read more of this type of thinking at https://speakingoffeelings.com/
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Photo credits: By Ekaterina Kondratova (pomegranate seeds); grafnata (pomegranate trees); Dionisvera (acorn); Alexander Tolstykh (oak tree)