At our office, we have a woman who comes by and calls herself, “The Plant Lady.” She is awesome. She cheerfully shows up weekly and LOVES on our plants. She waters them, talks to them, tends to them and makes sure they are happy and growing good.

We visited briefly and recognized the fact that we do the same job. The same exact job. We both tend to LIFE. The force of life within you, that animates you, is the same force of life that animates the plant.

Have you ever looked deeply into your pets or an animal’s eyes and been stunned by the depth of wisdom in there? (Warning: Be careful if you do this with your cat, you might find it attached to your face fairly quickly. 😊)

This thing called life is a lot bigger than our analytical minds can process. Realize who you really are. You trim your fingernails; your hair gets cut and you may notice you look differently than you did when you were 6 years old. You didn’t mourn the loss of your fingernails, your hair, your size 3 feet, did you? No, because you are still inside, the life within. In fact, you’ve probably heard that 98% of the atoms that made you up aren’t there anymore within 1 year…and before you go thinking with the sponge of your brain, realize that includes your BRAIN over time too!! So where does the wisdom, the knowledge come from and how do you retain it for your lifetime?

We inherit our DNA, our blueprints, right? Have you ever thought about the fact that you’ve inherited your ancestors programming? The way they thought, how they dealt with love, with fear, their beliefs and prejudices that carry on, are all imprinted on you. Good or bad, you get to decide what you keep and what you discard when you tend to life in a loving way with awareness and intention.

Your body is constantly renewing and regenerating itself, because you have the force of life within you sparking your heart beat, digesting your food, causing your lungs to expand and contract, causing the fluid that bathes your brain and spinal cord to circulate at its own unique rate and rhythm. You have cells working overtime FOR YOU, you even have bacteria in your digestive tract that you house and support, while they necessarily exist FOR YOU.

Can you get a glimpse of how fortunate you are? You are made up of trillions of cells, TRILLIONS! They live and die within you, FOR YOU.

We are more than a shell of a body we see in a mirror. It’s so easy to look at that shell of a body and be frustrated with it, isn’t it? Well, let’s go for something different. Let’s realize how much must happen without our conscious minds being involved to animate us, to allow us to wake up every morning. Let’s realize we HAVE A GIFT, CALLED LIFE and let’s make something of it.

Honor yourself, honor those trillion cells. Tend to the LIFE that you are and care for it. Accept the responsibility, and talk to yourself like The Plant Lady talks to her plants that she cares for.

You are worth it, a TRILLION times worth it.