Seeds of Resilience

Have you ever considered the profound lessons a tiny seed can teach us about resilience? In this soothing guided visualization, I invite you to experience the extraordinary journey from seed to bloom—a powerful metaphor for your own growth through life's challenges.

This episode is part of our summer "Play it Forward" series, designed to cultivate a spirit of playfulness and lightheartedness you can share with everyone you meet. The visualization creates a peaceful space where imagination becomes a way of listening and connecting with something greater than ourselves. 

"Growing Like a Seed" takes you on a sensory-rich meditation where you become the seed, feeling the warmth of soil around you, the gentle touch of rain, and the persistent push toward sunlight. Together, we'll experience the transformation that occurs as you germinate, sprout your first leaves, and strengthen your stalk. But this journey isn't just about ideal conditions—you'll weather intense downpours and face gusting winds that test your resolve, just as we all encounter obstacles in life.  As your imaginary seed finally blossoms into a glorious flower, you'll recognize your own capacity for resilience and transformation.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome to Create Harmony
• 0:25 Introducing Play it Forward Series
• 1:26 Growing Like a Seed Visualization
• 5:37 Seeds of Resilience Reflection
• 7:59 Closing and Next Episode Preview

Transcript

Speaker 2: 0:06

you've just joined the create harmony podcast. This is a place where we use our imagination as a way of listening to god and we tune ourselves into nature and our senses. You can find your place right here, and while you're doing that, we hope you also find some peace. So this is episode 131. And I am your host, sally Burlington, and we are in summertime right now and we are doing a series this summer called Play it Forward. So play P-L-A-Y and we and hopefully what we're doing as part of this Play it Forward is creating the spirit of playfulness and lightheartedness and fun, lovingness and bringing that into your lives. And then you take that spirit out to the world around you, to all the people you touch. You're feeling more bright and light and energetic and therefore other people are starting to catch a glimpse of that energy. So that's what Play it Forward is all about, and the rhythm of Play it Forward is that one week we do a guided visualization and it's usually something nature related, summertime like and then the next week we have story time and we literally read a child's story and we channel our inner child. So this is a week for a guided visualization and we are going to do one called Growing Like a Seed. So now we're going to shift into our more mindful posture, and you do that by settling yourself. Think about your body and if there's any tension you can feel yourself holding on, to just shake that out right now. Settle your body wherever you are, whatever you're doing. You can continue doing that, but just try to settle your spirit a little and take a deep breath, breathe in possibilities and breathe out gratitude, and if it makes sense for you to close your eyes, you can do that now. Now picture yourself becoming a seed that is just under the soil, been planted in the spring and you're ready to grow.

Speaker 2: 2:49

The soil gets warm around you, you get fresh water and it's time to germinate. You begin to open yourself up and sprout. You push on the soil. You begin to feel the sunshine. It warms your small leaves and you grow some more. After a while the sun gets pretty hot, but you persevere. You grow some more and your stalk is getting strong. Now you have even more leaves to soak up nutrients and it begins to rain.

Speaker 2: 4:11

First, a gentle shower of raindrops coming down on you. It feels soothing and cool. You feel refreshed. The water soaks into the ground and nour come really fast. Rain is hitting your leaves with some force. You have to brace yourself to withstand the downpour. Rain keeps coming, but you hold steady, meet the challenge. Soon the droplets get smaller and the clouds begin.

Speaker 2: 5:54

Your leaves in the breeze. At first it is a gentle, light breeze. At first it is a gentle, light breeze, but then it gets more intense and gusts blow hard on your stalk and your leaves. But your roots tighten into the ground and hold you firm. You meet the challenge and prevail, and the wind subsides and next you begin to grow a bloom. It starts as a tiny bud, but it grows bigger and opens into a lovely blossom. What an accomplishment.

Speaker 2: 7:01

You started out as a tiny seed. With each challenge you grew and changed until it came time to bloom. You are resilient, your bloom is glorious and now it's time to bring your awareness back to where you started. We're going to come back together on the podcast. Take a final deep breath, breathe in possibilities and breathe out gratitude. Remember the beauty of your bloom and come back together. If you closed your eyes at the beginning, you can open them now. Thanks so much for joining us today as we are going through our play it forward series and we went through our growing a seed visualization. Hopefully you'll come back next week as we'll have another childlike story and you are channeling the energy of our play it forward theme and hope you'll no-transcript.