Thriving Under The Harshest Conditions
There’s all sorts of cool patterns in nature that we can apply to our lives by a metaphor of some form.
Here’s an example:
Sunflowers and a few other certain flowers like the Arctic Poppy (seen below) do this weird thing where the flowerhead rotates to follow the movement of the sun.
This is called heliotropism. How the flowers do this is interesting but not nearly as important as WHY they do it.
Sun equals energy for these (and all) flowers — energy that they use to live and thrive.
The Sunflowers, the Arctic Poppies…these are the flowers that have figured out what it means to be a plant. They follow their light, their source of positive energy.
Now, it is your turn to figure out what it means to be human. What is your light? What is your source of positive energy?
For some, it might be a God.
For others, it might be a specific friend or family member, an energizing activity or environment, a quote or image you look at often, etc.
Can we have more than one source?
Of course we can! The point is to make that source of energy a larger more frequent part of our lives…because it is what gives us life.
The Arctic Poppy, as mentioned earlier, is found in northern Scandinavia, in the harshest of weather conditions (snow on the ground 240 days of the year).
It is able to grow and thrive under these conditions because of this heliotropic effect.
This applies to us too. We can grow and thrive under the harshest conditions, IF we follow our sun, our energy source.
Good luck!
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