I honor every
Experience I’ve had and
Let the old seeds burn.

I used to think that the point of emotional work was to get to a core issue or trauma and then do whatever was needed to let it go. Subsequent events that echoed that trauma were just opportunities to learn necessary lessons. They were experiences I presented to myself to illuminate that core issue and help me acknowledge it and let it go.

But now I’m coming to realize how layered life’s experiences are. There’s that core thing that has certainly been an animating principle. But all of those repetitions, so painful at the time, laid down their own tracks in my brain. They were real and added their seeds to the ground I walk each day.

There are so many karmic seeds just waiting to take root. It’s important to honor their power—each and every one.

And it’s vital that I embrace my power by choosing to burn rather than water them.