Dig Deep, You Will Find More
As we further enter the harvest season, we explore the idea of depth.
Your hands can enter the dirt, and dig and feel and look.
You start by seeing the top of your crop. The surface layer.
Maybe it's an inch wide.
Then you dig.
And it expands.
It widens.
You realize there is more than met the eye.
The next thing you know, you find yourself eight inches into the soil, needing both hands to grab around the enormous vegetable you are digging up.
What started out as an inch on the surface, you now find out, has width and depth you couldn't possibly have predicted.
And that is like your personal work.
Sure, you act, behave, have routines, operate day to day.
You function, get by, get along, speak to, communicate with...
A normal person functions as a normal person does.
Then you are asked to sit with yourself.
To slow things down.
To begin to sense, to feel, to observe.
What's Beneath the Surface?
Now this is where the surface vegetable begins to be seen for what it really is.
What really drives my day-to-day actions? What's my motive?
WHO chooses the motive? WHO did I learn that motive from?
Whose rules am I operating with? Are they my rules? Someone else's?
Getting to know yourself at some level of depth provides an opportunity, just like pulling that vegetable out, to actually appreciate yourself on another level. With greater appreciation, with greater wow-factor, with more amazement.
That's what depth provides.
It's no more scary to get to know yourself at a deeper level than it is to dig up that vegetable.
What Happens When You Don't Dig?
But NOT digging it up HAS CONSEQUENCES.
Because what stays buried doesn't simply disappear.
The rules you inherited keep making decisions for you.
The motives you've never questioned keep driving your days.
And the parts of yourself you've never met keep asking to be seen, often through the same frustrations, the same conflicts, the same feeling that there must be more.
There is more.
You don't have to dig up your entire life in one afternoon. Just put your hands in the soil. Get curious about what's beneath the surface.
You may find a pattern you're ready to change.
You may also find a strength you never knew was yours.
Either way, you'll know yourself more deeply than you did before.
Dig deep. You will find more.
Continue the Conversation
What might you discover about yourself if you got curious about a pattern you've never questioned?
Continue Exploring
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