12/25/2024
If you struggle with dense emotions you are not alone.
Though as the Buddhist teaching says: the lotus cannot bloom without mud.
So I lovingly invite you to consider this perspective:
“WHAT IS COMPOST IN A HUMAN HEART? Our heart’s pains, grief, anger, hurt, loneliness, we often reject like waste, and don’t want to know about.
We often call these ‘negatives’, and pretend they’re not happening; we should be able to cope better, should be more ‘positive’. People fear if they give voice to such emotions, they might be overwhelmed, and not able to find their way back to happiness. It’s hard to see how painful feelings could produce new growth.
Compost is nature’s ecosystem way to recycle. Ecosystems include dark, light, beauty and s**t. As gardeners and permaculturists we embrace all that. How do we embrace our dark and light emotions? Not cut off our pain or joy, and treat them all as nutrients, to help us flourish?
We can take our emotions through a transformation process. Composting emotions is an inner process, in each of us; and we can help each other do this by how we relate to each other’s difficult feelings. The same approach applies equally to how we care for our own hearts, and how we care for others who are suffering.
THE COMPOST HEAP
What dies rots, and feeds new life. A compost heap or worm bin provides good conditions for rotten smelly stuff to decompose, with the help of worms and bugs, and transform efficiently into rich nutritious soil to feed the veggies.”
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Image & quote both from PermacultureWomen.com
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