One of the best pearls I ever heard is encapsulated by the Tao te Ching:
“Be the fertile valley, so the whole universe will flow to you.”
Most of my retreat patients have struggled for years to reach the top of the mountain – to achieve their careers, their sought after children, the life they want… and through the struggle, their poor, weary, stressed out bodies and minds didn’t have an ounce of fertility left to spare.
Yet, we can learn to reside in the fertile valley, where life effortlessly flows in, based on what we are calling back to us.
When our thoughts and emotions revolve around what we don’t have, we call more of it to us. When we notice the simple presence of our own beating heart, and the rich sensations within our own body, we are calling more abundance to roll down the hill to be received by the lap of our own acceptance. Doesn’t that sound more fertile than fighting for a child, or any other creative expression?
Mothering is about learning to let go - sometimes even before the manifestations of our desires arrive, and certainly after. Let life flow to you. Be the valley.
Randine Lewis, MSOM, Ph.D., L.Ac.
http://www.thefertilesoul.com/
author of The Infertility Cure, and The Way of the Fertile Soul
“Be the fertile valley, so the whole universe will flow to you.”
Most of my retreat patients have struggled for years to reach the top of the mountain – to achieve their careers, their sought after children, the life they want… and through the struggle, their poor, weary, stressed out bodies and minds didn’t have an ounce of fertility left to spare.
Yet, we can learn to reside in the fertile valley, where life effortlessly flows in, based on what we are calling back to us.
When our thoughts and emotions revolve around what we don’t have, we call more of it to us. When we notice the simple presence of our own beating heart, and the rich sensations within our own body, we are calling more abundance to roll down the hill to be received by the lap of our own acceptance. Doesn’t that sound more fertile than fighting for a child, or any other creative expression?
Mothering is about learning to let go - sometimes even before the manifestations of our desires arrive, and certainly after. Let life flow to you. Be the valley.
Randine Lewis, MSOM, Ph.D., L.Ac.
http://www.thefertilesoul.com/
author of The Infertility Cure, and The Way of the Fertile Soul
