How to Start Planting Seeds of Prosperity, Happiness, and Abundance
Instead of weeds of needs in your soul garden
Before my spiritual awakening, I was planting weeds of needs.
I need more money.
I need a better job.
I need to be happy.
I need more time.
I need to write.
And I needed all those things yesterday!
I worked towards those needs like Sisyphus, a mythical Greek God sentenced for all eternity to push a boulder up a hill to have it roll back down and try again.
Fortunately, pushing boulders up a hill for a lifetime is not my fate.
Thanks to my first spiritual awakening, I now plant seeds of abundance.
It is not necessary to have a spiritual awakening to plant seeds of abundance.
I learned that lesson the hard way, but you can start right now!
Grab your gardening tools!
Let’s get dirty!
Prepare the soil by weeding out limitations
To make room for abundance, we need to prep the soil.
Use your rakes, trowels, and hoes to remove those pesky weeds and old sod.
By weeds and old sod, I am referring to our trauma, guilt, anger, hurt, disappointments, and sadness. Any heavy or dense emotion, feeling, or memory that prevents your seeds from flourishing.
The roots of those weeds have been allowed to run amok deep for years.
You might need a backhoe to dig them up and extricate them from your soil.
By backhoe, I am referring to shadow work, therapy, journaling, introspection, breathwork, inner-child work, or reflection.
Use the mode of release that resonates with you.
I finally allowed myself to seek therapy last year.
As a result, I identified and resolved childhood issues that have haunted me for decades.
It is okay to ask for help to deal with our trauma.
For most of my life, I buried my issues in a vault and threw away the key.
All hell broke loose when I had burnout from a job in 2021.
I could no longer contain it.
The avalanche of anger, sadness, grief, exhaustion, and misery swept me up at 200 miles per hour and snapped me like a matchstick.
Bits of pieces of me were lying on the cold, icy snow after running into a wall of burnout.
I had to figure out which pieces were still me and which I had to discard.
I tossed out the shattered old version of myself and created a new identity.
A phoenix rises out of the ashes.
A lotus flower surfaces out of the mud to bloom untainted above the muddy waters.
A caterpillar emerges out of its cocoon.
You get the picture.
Takeaway: Do the internal work. Release what no longer serves you so you can make room for abundance.
Choose the seeds that align with your vision, passion, and goals
Now that you prepared your soil by removing the weeds, you can start choosing the right seeds to plant.
Not everyone wants to choose the same type of seeds.
How you define abundance may not be similar to how someone else defines it, which is perfectly fine.
How do you want your life to look?
If you could have your dream life, what would that be?
What vision, idea, goal, concept, wish, aspiration, dream, desire, or intention do you want to manifest?
When you were a child, what activity sparked your curiosity, bliss, and imagination?
Since I was a teenager, I wanted to be a writer.
Choose the seeds that light you up!
Takeaway: Pay attention to what resonates within you. Listen to what your soul is calling you to be and do. Tune into your inner child.
Plant seeds with a high vibration and aligned action
You have prepped your soil and chosen your seeds.
You have done the internal work and identified the dreams to pursue.
Now comes the planting.
Take aligned actionable steps toward your lifelong dream.
Combine the action with believing and feeling for it to happen.
Often, we choose to feel love after we find the right person or feel flush with money after we receive a promotion. Feel gratitude before anything happens.
Believe you are because you are.
I wanted to be a writer for a long time but sabotaged myself with imposter syndrome.
I had to believe I was a writer before I even wrote.
Believe before you do.
If you want to be in a loving relationship, love yourself first.
If you want financial abundance, feel and visualize being able to pay your bills without worry.
Imagine achieving your dream. How would it taste, touch, feel, smell, and sound? Immerse yourself in all those feelings and vibrate at that high frequency.
Plant yourself in your dream and imagine the bounty of your harvest.
Be excited, ecstatic, grateful, and happy with the fruits of your garden.
Next, let go of needing your dream to manifest based on your expectations.
Release those dreams to the universe.
Be open-minded to how it all will unfold.
Let the universe co-create with you by giving up your need for control.
Takeaway: After taking aligned action toward a goal, surrender the expectations, and allow the universe to work its manifestation magic.
Tend to your soul garden with love and mindful weeding
Although it took me six months of starts and stops to publish my first article, I will always be grateful for the decision to start planting my writing seeds even when I wasn’t ready because now, I have a garden I am proud of.
Remember to stay on top of the weeds to give your dreams a good chance to survive and thrive.
Nip any negative thoughts and self-sabotage in the bud.
Water yourself with love, kindness, and empathy.
Protect your garden from pests by establishing and reinforcing good boundaries to preserve your energy for you.
Sit back and watch your seeds of abundance grow into a cornucopia of blessings, opportunities, and miracles.
Happy gardening and harvesting!
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Please leave a comment to share the seeds of abundance you want to plant or have already planted.
You have expressed the essence of living abundantly - well done!
As more people realize they are already abundant, the shift from "weeds of needs" to "seeds of abundance" will accelerate.
Thank you for writing - your words are a gift to the world!