How Do You Feel About Uprooting and Transplanting Plants and People?
Your Soul and Brain
A gardener will tell you that working in the dirt is soothing to your soul and your brain.
Yellow Brain To Do List
Today, I finally completed my Yellow Brain Garden To Do List, which included feeding all the plantes in my gardens. I also transplanted the several hostas. I carefully I dug up each plant. I am always amazed at the enmeshed, intricate, and delicate roots in each clump of soil the plant was growing in. Just as people are enmeshed and have roots in their communities.
As I transplanted each plant, I sprinkled a little Rootone on the roots to encourage their growth. Then I watered each plant with a mixture of Miracle-Gro Quick Star to help the plant from going into shock and a little Miracle Gro Plant Food to to give the plant and soil healthy nutrients it needs to grow and thrive in its new home. We can do the same with people by offering them a gift of healthy food selections, helpful information about the community (schools, hospitals, service businesses), and important/emergency phone numbers, emails, and websites for their family.
Uprooting and Transplanting
My uprooting and transplanting process began to create images and metaphors about people when they are are uprooted and transplanted because of joyful and tragic circumstances. It seemed like each of my plants was an immigrant in a new home.
Brain Color Perspectives
My Logical Green Brain began thinking about each Brain Color Perspective and how individuals respond to being uprooted and transplanted by choice, fear, age, opportunity, weather disasters, economics, birth, death, war, or government mandates.
Yellow Brainers would find being uprooted and transplanted difficult because they need stability in their lives. They would find it easier to adapt if they were able to prepare and plan for their new home.
Blue Brainers would find being uprooted and transplanted difficult because they might have to leave some, if not all, the people they love. They would find it easier to adapt if they knew when and where they would reunited with their loved ones.
Green Brainers would find being uprooted and transplanted difficult because they would leave behind the privacy and calmness of the life they know. They would find it easier to adapt if the were able to research and learn more about where they were going.
Orange Brainer would find being uprooted and transplanted difficult because someone else might be in charge of their life and they would have to abide by that person’s rules. They would find it easier to adapt than the other Brain Color personalities because they could look at the experience, as an adventure.
Closing Thoughts
- I have been musing about how grand it would be if uprooting and transplanting people could be as gentle and comfortable for each child and/or adult, as it was for my lovingly well cared for plants.
- The next time learn about someone being uprooted and transplanted or meet someone has had that experience, I trust you will think about this metaphor and that individual’s experience from a different perspective.
- Maybe you can offer them something to help them feel rooted, well feed, and nurtured, so they can grow and thrive in their new home. It can be as easy as a smile and a kind word!
- How would you feel if you were Uprooted and Transplanted?
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