Spring is Here!

The seeds you've planted are turning into plants
The plants that come back year after year are starting to put out new growth
Maybe you've gone to the nursery and picked up new plants to add to your garden
Maybe you've gotten cuttings from a friend/family member to add to your collection

As you assess what is in your garden
What needs tending?
What needs to be rescued?
What needs to be pulled out to make room for fuller growth?

Sometimes we're wanting to be rescued
We're conditioned to expect others to come save us
Just as plants that have been neglected needs extra care

Sometimes we're needing to be rescued
There's no other option but to ask for help
Just as we sometimes need to rescue plants from invasive weeds

Sometimes we just need to rescue ourselves
Taking a stand for what we want and desire
Just as some plants protect themselves with thorns
And push the edge of their growth outward

What would it look like if we rescued ourselves?
What qualities would we cultivate and possess?
What would we let die within us that no longer served us?

If you were no longer waiting, needing, and wanting to be rescued:
- What would you see?
- What would you touch?
- What would touch you?
- What would you feel - sensations/emotions?
- What would you hear?
- What would you taste?

Breathe that reality into your body
Feel the truth in it all

Then notice where in your body it feels sticky, constricted, limited, doubtful, resistant
Witness those parts of you that are holding you back
Move with it
Breath with it
Sound it out
Journal with it

What is all of this here to show you?
What are these parts of you wanting/needing to feel safe in this new reality where you don't have to be rescued?
Give that to those pieces of you that are resistant, if you can

Drop deeper into the reality of rescuing yourself and taking a stand for yourself
Let it fill you up
Let it move you
Let it sound through you
Let it breath itself into life as you

From this place, what is one tiny action/impulse the comes through?
Follow that impulse - see where it takes you
Impulse after impulse until that vision is reality