V : Growing a Regenerative Present: Building Resiliency through Seeds of Love
Discovering love as a state of being. Seeing seeds as the foundation of life.
Welcome to Module 5 on Seeds of Love. In this class we will learn about love, flowering, and seeds. We will share why we celebrate love in nature, in circle, singing with cacao and self love, so we can fly, and attracting love. As well as our favorite exercises to inspire growth and change. You will finish this class with new tools to plant seeds of love every day. Ready? Let’s plant.
Affirmation: I am love. Love is within me. Love surrounds me.
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
—Rumi
“Love the life you live.
Live the life you love.”
—Bob Marley
FLY (First Love Yourself)
“Until we love ourselves, we are not capable of loving nature or all beings. After the dismantling of one life, it took me a year and a half to come back to self-love and nature. I went through a phase of sadness and darkness, overwhelmed by witnessing human destruction, feeling isolated, and questioning everything. I was mad and frustrated with the status quo. I started to realize that I did not want to follow in the tracks of most of the people around me.” Jean Regenerate Your Reality Book
“Taking care of nature is taking care of humans. Taking care of humans is taking care of nature.” —Kenny Ausubel, Bioneer Co-founder
“It was through my purification practices and following my passion that I began to fall in love with each moment, in love with each person, and in love with life itself. I came back to the essence of love: to know thyself is to love thyself. Once I entered this state of love, feeling this beautiful energy within and around me, then I attracted a partner who also felt pure, unconditional love for nature, animals, and himself.
Every day, I fall in love with flowers and butterflies and little fungi, talk to the trees, and watch the fish kiss me in the river pools. It is a constant dance of romance with myself as I admire the simple beauty of these details. This feeling of love is universal. Most religions and philosophies describe this feeling of love as God . . . . I believe that God and love are one and the same. ” Jean Regenerate Your Reality Book
Love Is Our Nature
The way we see it, love is the highest vibration we can feel. Love is the frequency of the earth, and it exists in everything. Love is a garden that we need to continually nourish with our care and attention—and water. We can look at love the same way we look at a forest; when we see how the flowers, trees, insects, fungi, and fauna all coexist together, we understand that this ecosystem has been perfectly orchestrated to flow. Love is like that.
We humans are complex. Unlike other organisms, we think about the future and the past, and we contemplate the existence of all other beings. We are meant to thrive; we are meant to feel the love at the core of our being. There is no separation between us and the universe of love that surrounds us and fills us. We are interconnected with all life on this planet, and we are made from stardust.
“Love is not an intellectual concept or a moral imperative or anything else. It is a background emotion that exists when one is connected to the energy available in the universe, which, of course, is the energy of God . . .”
—James Redfield, Celestine Prophecy
“Bhakti is LOVE—loving God, loving your own self, and loving all beings. The small heart should become bigger and bigger and eventually, totally expansive! A spark can become a forest fire.”
—Ammachi, Spiritual Teacher
Love means seeing beauty in every situation—even when it’s messy.
Each time we dig deep into the darkness—the bottomless cave of traumas and social illness—we then come back into the light and it shines even brighter. The Toltec Way taught us how to make choices that result in love and happiness. This philosophy—or way of life—is based on the key concept that we don’t really see life at all; what we actually see is our filter system, which is composed of our beliefs, expectations, agreements, and assumptions.
Toltec Way
The Toltec Way is a path that teaches us to transcend our limiting beliefs and self-sabotaging patterns of behavior in order to live a fulfilling and authentic life. Toltec Way philosophy centers on four agreements:
Be impeccable with your word.
Don’t take anything personally.
Don’t make assumptions.
Always do your best.
The more we follow these agreements, the less internal and external drama we experience. We used to want to try to change things about my partners or family, but now we realize that we just love them for where they are. we accept them fully on their own unique life paths. However, that doesn’t mean that we don’t have boundaries. With family, especially, we set boundaries around hot topics that we know will be triggers. For example, when we’re together we try not to talk about politics, capitalism, or dietary choices. We don't want to waste energy on these arguments when we can simply accept our different perspectives and focus on enjoying their company.
Learning to see past our filters with the Toltec Way, we have recognized that in the moments in our life where we felt like an alien, or different from our peers, we was really just separated from our core self, from love.
At the core of all beings is a seed of love. Love grows and flourishes within each of us, especially if we can start our day with intention, appreciation of nature, and conscious consumption. Love can be compared to the “flowering of a plant when the necessary stage of maturity has been reached.” We each hold the ability to love—this seed, this potential—within us. It is up to us to nourish this seed of love with compassion, hope, grace, and positive affirmations.