transitions: nature’s wisdom
My friends have been talking a lot about blooming lately. So I’ve had the image of a flower in my mind. Springtime, when everything feels like it’s coming back to life, sprouting, growing, blooming. Transitioning.
I’m going through some big transition phase right now. And it feels uncomfortable. And I’m the kind of person that wants everything right now. I want to push and force myself out of this cocoon. To push all my petals open into a beautiful flower.
But looking to the wisdom of nature, does the caterpillar forcefully shove itself through the cocoon immediately after it goes in? Does the flower push all its petals open the moment the stem grows through the soil? No. They wait. Patience. They slowly unfold and emerge, all in divine timing. I don’t think they have these rushing thoughts in their mind that they have to bloom and emerge immediately. They wait for the moment when everything aligns and is ready, when it’s time. They know when that is intuitively. And that’s when they come out into the world in all their beauty.
Whether I’m coming out as a butterfly or a flower, I know it’ll be soon that the world will be able to see all this beauty inside me on the outside. So I’m leaning into grace and self compassion, patience with myself and trust that I’ll know when I’m ready to emerge from the cocoon or open my petals. I don’t need to know what I’ll look like when I come out, all I have to do is trust that I am growing, and that’s enough. ✨🖤
And on this topic of transitions and spring, I tried out this meditation today by Marissa Halterman on Insight Timer
