Plants

I spent first half of Saturday at home watching my old Taiwanese dramas, then afternoon I came into the office to replace new soil to the office plants. I have been watering them but the soil is not absorbing the water, so the plant dries up pretty quickly. So I had been planning to get some soil to help them out. I finally took the time to do it, because I had some time before I meet Yee for dinner.

 

A lot of people wonder or ask why am I so nice to take care of the plants – just let them die if nobody waters it. It’s not your job.

 

Ever since I learned Reiki, I had appreciated “life” much more. Plants are a life form. I read a book that did experiments on Reiki and they did experiments on plants as well. They actually found out that not only plants just drink water and live – they actually have emotional levels. They connected the plant’s leaves to some type of machine that could monitor their cells (I don’t have the book with me so I’m typing according to my memory), they found out that they have stress levels, depending on their relaxed stage, or when they are not relaxed. Such instances that could give these plants stress levels are as follows:

 

-          Plants recognize their caretakers. When they feel their caretakers are around the corner, they get excited and happy

-          Plants can read thoughts (a.k.a. intentions). When you think about something that can endanger their life, they get scared and stressed. For example, a scientist had a thought of striking a match to burn the leaf, the machine picked up stressed levels on the plant.

-          Plants can pick up any dangerous actions nearby. A scientist carried a pot of boiling water and poured it over a shrimp in the NEXT room, where the plant couldn’t see the action, but the plant actually knew and got scared.

 

My friend at work is really good with plants, everyone asked her to take care of the plants for them. Why could some people take care of the plants so well and some can’t? So one day I told her that I read a book about plants actually have stress levels. She then told me that she talks to her plants everyday. She said she read that you have to talk to the plants to make them grow beautifully, so she tried and it worked. I think in this case it justifies how plants can actually pick up people’s intentions. Think about it….a person who waters her plants with love will have a better result than a person who just waters the plant for the sake of keeping it alive. I think that is the secret of being a good gardener.

 

Ever since then, I had been giving the plants my love. I didn’t actually talk to them, but I look at them and take notice of how well they grow every time I walk by, that is about 15 times a day. Knowing that plants have feelings actually make me love and appreciate them more. I no longer am the old me who thought of doing evil things to a plant or a tree. I was just being naughty by thinking about it, not like I’m really going to. But now I have replaced my evil intentions with love. I no longer think about throwing the plants away if they don’t seem to grow well. I saw a colleague throwing her perfectly healthy plant out, I got a little bit upset. I didn’t take it out of the garbage can though, because I don’t want her to think the wrong way. I think I should have picked it back up, if I have the guts.

 

I have noticed that people who are into New Age actually have very good hearts. They talk about spreading love into the world. The old me would just hear the statement and said, ok….whatever. Now when I hear that I actually comprehend the meaning and the intentions behind it. You don’t have to actually be doing something to spread the love. If you have kindness towards everything in the world, then the love is spread.

 

LOVE the world…..