The Law of Growth

(extracted from "You can have an amazing life in just 60 days "by Dr Demartini

I think of life as a tree: as a tree grows, its little sprigs reach out to get as much of the sun as they can, to acquire greater respiration and life. The branches that don’t aggressively push themselves towards the sun become shaded over and they eventually die and fall off.

As you grow, you may shed "leaves" as well; friends, acquaintances and colleagues. And you build new friendships as you drop the old ones along your journey of life. Yet you may be afraid to discard your past and instead hold on to those around you when you really need to let them go and move on.

Those who start out "in sync" – sharing the same level of ambition and having common goals and interests – may find they’ve diverged sometime later. We all have plateaus in life when it’s best to stay put, just as we all have periods of intense drive and focus. It’s important to recognise when you have fallen out of sync with someone. If you want to expand and go further in life, you may have to leave behind some of those less ambitious people who aren’t willing to continue to grow – at least not in the direction that you desire to. It’s wise to associate with individuals you resonate with, those who are where you’d love to be.

Sometimes people let their fears block progress and imagine they are going to lose their best friends. If you have difficulty letting go of a relationship, remember that you may greatly honour yourself and the other person by allowing you both to evolve. You don’t serve the world by shrinking, but by shining and allowing others to have the freedom – as you let yourself free by developing and becoming the person you are truly capable of being. Let yourself shed your leaves and sprout new ones. You may have to rake occasionally, but with every spring comes a new surge of glorious growth.