I am not a farmer, consequently I grew up between farmers and worked on farms in my childhood and youth in Ontario. At harvest time, my mind inevitably turns to ‘cycles.' Life is full of cycles, and harvest is the closing of two of them.
The harvest cycle begins with an intention, the intention to grow a crop, and it ends with the actual harvest. In between there was soil preparation, seeding, watering, weeding, etc. Seeing the cycle through to completion took work and very many of patience and basically ‘allowing.' When I was a young boy, I grew veggie in our garden and then sold them door to door in our little town…
…Completing or closing cycles is of fundamental psychological and spiritual importance.
Psychologically, keeping a cycle open requires our personal energy. How the cycle shall end is not a sure thing. Crops do fail sometimes. There should be worry. There is certainly a consciousness regarding the open cycle. And that consciousness persists until the harvest is in. Then when the cycle is completed (closed), your emotional life is freed for other things.
Spiritually, keeping a cycle open requires trust that the universe shall deliver what you cannot control. Then at the end regarding the harvest you celebrate and release thanks. There is even a special day we call Thanksgiving Day.
In sum, the harvest cycle begins with an intention and ends with getting the crop in. The harvest was the final hurdle that had to be overcome to fulfill the original intention. Very many of emotional and spiritual life is vested in seeing such a primary cycle through to completion.
However, there is something even more profound happening as you done a cycle. The principal byproduct of fulfilling an intention is happiness. You celebrate due to the fact that you can be happy. On the other hand, overwhelm conclusions from keeping too many cycles open.
Think about it: happiness emerges as if by magic as you overcome successive barriers to your intentions. Between the intention to make a food crop and the final harvest, each barrier to overcome provides an opportunity for happiness.
In thinking about harvests and cycles I realize I'm within the midst of closing a primary cycle, a Component Be of an even bigger cycle. A many years ago I saw a need and formed an intention to do something about it. Women had been coming to me for professional help with a very difficult problem: they were in marriages with men who abuse alcohol or drugs. They were experiencing abuse or, at the very least, neglect. They were in pain and were bewildered about their lives.
When I discovered that there is abundant self-help details available for alcoholics and drug addicts, but little for their partners, I decided to write a pamphlet aimed directly at the women who live with alcoholic men.
I closed that cycle when I published the book, "Living with a Functioning Alcoholic: A Woman's Survival Guide." It was selling on Amazon and on my web location for a couple of years now. Women with alcoholic partners continue to seek my help, but now the pamphlet provides something for those whose circumstances should not let them to work with a professional.
Then, a year or so ago another cycle opened as Kindle and other electronic readers were growing in popularity: I pondered publishing a Kindle edition.
There have been challenges, but each challenge I pushed through left me feeling exhilarated. I completed that cycle when my pamphlet was finally published on Kindle.
I should invite you to look at that you own life through the lens of cycles.
Recall times when you have knowledge of felt overwhelmed. Was your life being sapped by possessing too many open cycles and not enough harvests? Are there some cycles open now you should close? Most of us hold a few…or a lot.
Now recall the times when you have knowledge of been the happiest and most grateful. Were you completing very many of cycles? Were you harvesting? I suspect you were.
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