Mother Nature’s Chrysalis
As I reflected on this day, I had some deep insights to our past, present, and future. We are still in our chrysalis stage, but we can see where were are on our journey. See the possibilities:
Reflecting on our world’s butterfly cycle:
On March 13, 2020, our world turned upside down and began to create our chrysalis. Moving into the transformation stage, there are two mindset choices...
1: What If? and 2: I Wonder.
The mindset determines the outcome.
The chrysalis stage is HARD, every part of it. However, the caterpillar trusts:
Hang upside down for a long time...
Shed my body...
Realize my body becomes my home...
Turn into mush (imaginal cells)...
Grow parts I never had...
Create wings...
Use all of my strength to rip open what once was my body...
Wait until I am ready to use my wings...
Trust to take action (fly), even though I never have before...
FLY!
Help flowers and myself grow...
BE my true self, embrace my colors and wings...
Create a new and even better world...
Start a new cycle…
The pandemic was the moment we turned upside down.
We are no longer who we were.
We were in our homes to allow us to go inward into our true home (self).
We are entering the mush.
The mush within the war.
The mush is the imaginal cells at work.
This is where we create our new self.
This is where our mindset matters the most.
Keep the mindset of wonder and of possibility.
Choose love, choose hope, choose the butterfly.
What is to come is something beautiful, despite the mush.
The butterfly is Mother Nature's proof that the best is yet to come.
Know it, believe it, BE it.
"BE THE CHANGE YOU WISH TO SEE IN THE WORLD"
Grow the parts of you that you never knew you had within.
Grow your wings.
Gather the strength to take action.
Gather the courage to burst out of the chrysalis.
Trust the timing and the right moment to spread your wings, our wings.
Get ready to do something you never have done before...
3...2...1...
FLY!
Find the first flower, use skills for the first time.
Then, find another flower...and another.
Be a part of coloring our world with beauty, love, and grace.
Be the butterfly within, all of us.
Let the Butterfly Effect
be the effect of all of our wings
TOGETHER
as a ripple for
the "power of love to be greater than the love of power."
Be
The
Butterfly
Within...
FLY!
Consider reading my children’s book, Big Change, Better You, Beautiful World, to spark this conversation with the children in your life. The pandemic and all of the changes in our world are what inspired me to write this book in 2020. In my book, there is the flower goal for how to give back to the world, which happens to be a giant sunflower. Take a moment to honor Ukraine today, write a wish on the flower and consider sharing with me and the world (@LindseyFrank88, @TheButterflyWithin).
The Butterfly Within me sees, honors, and values The Butterfly Within you,
Lindsey
