Find your 'Butterfly Quotient'

You will agree with me that life is all about continuous learning. Being in Human Resources I have heard this phrase of continuous learning almost on daily basis. Learnings can come from any corner and anyone Big or Small in this universe. I was always impressed and fascinated by birds, they are my first love, till my focus ( due to lockdown) changed towards butterflies in the society garden. If birds are a symbol of vibrant colour, unique voice and migration pattern then butterflies are a symbol of shiny colours, beauty, growth and transformation, which is described as the thorough change in the form of appearance or character, usually for the betterment. Under the influence and curious to know more, I woke up in the middle of the night a few weeks ago with this inspiration: let's study the butterflies i.e. the tiny & fluttering creature. Monarch butterfly attracted the eye first, but one needs to be in Canada, USA or Mexico. During the lockdown, the home town was the best option. The deeper I am understanding about butterflies, I am getting more fascinating. Equally fascinating know Different Cultures and Different Customs have embraced butterflies differently.

Hindu:           Lord Brahma upon observing the transformation of the butterfly, became convinced that the path to perfection is achieved through rebirth

Christian:      Butterfly is a symbol of Resurrection

Greek:          Psyche’ is represented in the form of the butterfly. Psyche, which literally translates to “soul,” Greeks believed that these beautiful insects were the souls of the dearly departed

Mexican:        Butterfly is a symbol of the spirit. A small village in Anguangeo, a steady stream of Monarchs show up at the time of ‘Dia de Los Muertos’ (Day of the Dead) 

Harminder:    Butterflies have a special part in our life”. The World view the butterfly as representing endurance, change, hope and beautiful life ”

Butterflies have one of the most fascinating life cycles of all creatures. Three lessons I have learned so far in the last three months. I know it is a long journey but, one thing is for sure, like humans, butterflies flourish when facing favourable conditions.  Three lessons are, Joy, Faith and Transformation

1.   How to have JOY despite all odds and favourable conditions. Don't run after joy and happiness, but appreciate each and every single moment you have and see happiness will come flying and land on you. No Need to take things in life so seriously, keep yourself up and moving thought the phase of struggle. All these experiences are part of the journey. These experiences need not be painful and traumatic. Just like PUPA has courage and faith to leave its cocoon, we can deal with any difficult situation in our life. Take inspiration from pupa cocoon as our limiting belief and thinking pattern. If we stay in safe surroundings and never attempt anything new out of the fear that something bad might happen, we will never experience the magic and JOY if we don't fo outside our comfort zone

2.    Second lesson I would like to share with you is about having full FAITH. Imagine a scenario when pupa found itself in a self-constructed cocoon but has 100% faith that it will get out soon from the cocoon and something beautiful will happen. Right from the moment, it crawled out of the egg as a caterpillar it had faith, that there would be more to my life one day than just eating and damaging plants. Similarly, humans need to have more faith in themselves and their team members. Believe in yourselves, don’t ever give up, keep going. And, just know that change is inevitable, but with faith and by being positive one will get where one needs to be. One needs to ‘Let Go’ all the anger, all the resentment, all the sadness, all the blame games. Self-Love, Self-Acceptance, Self-Forgiveness and Self-Gratitude with lots of Patience and Faith.

3.    Third and last lesson is the ease of TRANSFORMATION. We need to accept and embrace the fine changes in our lives, whether it is good or bad. We must believe that everything or every person in our life has come for a solid reason. These phases of change are needed in our lives. Change makes us stronger and influences towards entire environments. From generations, we constantly need new ideas, new visions and we want to recreate who we are. But just as us adult butterfly will only emerge when all conditions are right, our ideas, our creations and our visions will only flourish when our conditions are right. The only constant in our lives is that we always changing whether we acknowledge it or not. We should learn how to spread our wings and fly off when the winds of change are positive.

Find your 'Butterfly Quotient', when

1)    You are not scared of Change/ Transformation

2)    You are ready to show the Bright side to the world

3)    You accept different Stages of life with grace

4)    Your presence is making a Positive Atmosphere

5)    You are ready for Shedding the old Patterns

6)    You are Happy & ready to Shine to make the world brighter