Hi All

Lets learn from nature

I have let my thoughts wander while trying to find an introduction to my young entrepreneurs meeting and I started thinking about nature [again] it seems that we can learn so much from the natural world if only we look.
The main thing that we forget is that we are part of this wonderful natural world.
The first thing to consider is that everything in nature is programmed to become the best they can , plants, trees, animals, fish etc.. they are all pre programmed to achieve the very best status that they can. Like humans they encounter hurdles and obstacles, but they never change their programme. If a plant lacks water it withers and hangs on to life until it gets more water, the minute it gets more water it just carries on trying to achieve being the best it can. It does not say that was too hard I think I will just make do from now on.
When I thought about the humble acorn, I came up with a wonderful analogy. I have often said before that no one can tell an acorn that it will not grow into a mighty oak, but I had never considered the odds of it actually achieving its goal.

On one oak tree there are many thousands of acorns, they are all programmed to be very successful oak trees. Let us follow the journey of an acorn as it tries to fulfil its goal.

Once they fall to the ground things really start to hot up, squirrels start collecting them to store up for the winter, wild pigs eat them, birds start to eat them in fact things are looking a bit shaky.

The few who actually get blown or somehow arrive at a fertile place, start to germinate and take root. Once they are saplings they once again become food for various creatures.

So out of the thousands of acorns that fell from the tree, very few will actually reach their full potential.

What is the point of all this I hear you say.

Well the point is that although only a few acorns become big oak trees, if they had been blessed with a brain like us humans, I should think that the species would die out.

The actual hardships that they are faced with makes no difference to the individual acorn, because he has a programme that says he will grow into a mighty oak as soon as he is given the opportunity. He cannot think of what has happened to his brothers and sisters, and he cannot worry about what might happen once he germinates. He is only interested in becoming the best oak tree he can.

Once again I hear you saying Croz has finally lost it.

Well the difference between you and the acorn, is that you can position yourself at any time to reach your full potential. You are in control and not at the mercy of others.

If you just forgot about the past and all the negative programming and just said to yourself, I am going to be the best I can possibly be and achieve all I desire, and I will deal with any situation as it is presented, and not imagine things to solve, you too may become a mighty oak.

Humans are the only thing in the natural world that are born with a programme of success, and spend their whole life defusing it and making up reasons why they CANNOT achieve their goals.

As I say just a thought!!

Abundance to All

Croz

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Once again I hear you saying Croz has finally lost it.

I don't think so Croz. I think this was a great post with valuable real world explanations and parallels. I love lessons of nature - we are after all dealing with natural law! Thank you for sharing. You are indeed a mighty oak!

Thank you for that, Croz, very insightful, and makes me reflect, particularly this part, "not imagine things to solve." I have always admired the little acorn, its shape, and form, now I have a different view on this the potential oak tree.

Hi Croz,
I absolutely LOVE the analogy, thanks for posting it. Perhaps what you have "lost" is the old, no longer needed understanding of Nature being somehow separate from us. After all, Nature and Human Beings are expressions of the same Divine Consciousness/Thinking Stuff, and as such, we are all connected and thus mirrors of eachother.

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What is the point of all this I hear you say.

It is very helpful to have someone point this out, as you have so eloquently done here. And that IS the point.


Peace and Light,
Julia

Wow! Very insightful, and I am glad you shared this. I can't wait to share this with my husband tonight!

It was the acorn that saved the animals in Ice Age 2.

That might seem off the subject, but not really if you consider that the pushing of the acorn into the ice is what cracked it, freed Ellie, and caused the waters to dissipate allowing the tiger, mammoth, sloth and possums to survive.

It was like a domino effect. So it is in our lives. We are like that acorn. When planted in our chosen fertile soil, we blossom into mighty oaks-the careers, life styles, wealth we desire.

Another thought inspiring post, as always, croz.

Thanks Croz, That is a wonderful analogy. I grew with two huge oaks in my back yard in Kentucky, and they were two of the most wonderful, beautiful trees, and the acorns were a blast to play with. They made a great topping to mud pies. As I read it I thought about how hard, up until SOGR, I have tried to make myself successful, instead of relaxing into what is really already inside of me, inside all of us. Thanks for the visual reminder, I can still see the limbs as I laid at their trunks and watched the squirels climb and gather and fly to the next branch gathering their abundance of food and then scurrying to their nest made of oak leaves. Hmmm.....