I am not sorry when sun and rain make April/my life is the life of the reaper and sower…
E.E. Cummings, “Religious Leanings”
It is Spring in our hemisphere, and we are surrounded by nature’s profusion. The earth is producing that which was planted deliberately by man or by default nature; existing plants were free to reseed the ground and yield up pretty much what they had before. In our lives, it’s all seasons happening at once, and in consciousness we are always planting something.
I have read about the law of attraction, by which we cultivate certain attitudes and expectancies and then draw into our lives corresponding conditions and circumstances. Lesser known, but just as powerful, is the law of repulsion, by which things undesired do not show up.
In my gardening metaphor the creative process is planting (the setting out to attract), and there is reaping (or gathering in what was attracted), but there is also weeding, fertilizing and alongside the determination of which crops to plant, the decision of which not to. The selection of one seed over another is an intellectual exercise, but the actual planning is emotional. Therefore we want to place more of our heart-energy around what we do desire than around what we don’t. Thus our “repulsion” is free of rancor: what we don’t select is fine and beautiful, and it’s just not for us today.
Today select your attitudes, desires and opinions and plant them securely in the fertile soil of your mind. Be free to uproot and set aside those state of mind you believe no longer serve you.
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