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Hi, thank you for listening to Chasing Life, a podcast aimed to help encourage you to chase a positive, healthy, and fulfilling life. I'm your host, Sarah Kane, and I'm so grateful you decided to join me. I'm a single 30-something dog mom, runner, and higher educational professional.
After struggling with a quarter-life crisis where I learned a lot about myself, I pursued and earned my MBA, got the good job, bought a house, but still struggle with fulfillment and continue to chase goals in running my career and life. I feel called to share what I've learned and continue to learn in the hopes that my story and tips will help make an impact on your day and help you feel less alone. Let's chase life together.
So remember this, take a look at any challenges, those times of challenge you may currently have in your life and give thanks for them. See them as the wind and yourself as a tree. Deepen your roots in the truth. Hello and welcome to another episode of Chasing Life. I'm Sarah and today I want to share with you a lesson that I heard
twice this week. One from one of my friends when we were talking about the growth that we've experienced in our 20s and 30s of becoming strong and independent women. And the second was when I was listening to the audiobook Think Like a Monk by Jay Shetty. So I felt like this was the universe trying to tell me that I should share this message with other people too because I heard the same message within two days.
So it's called the Biodome Lesson. There was a great experiment done in the early 1980s in the American desert called the Biodome. It was an exercise in attempting to create the perfect living environment for human, plant, and animal life.
A huge glass dome was constructed and an artificial controlled environment was created with purified air, water, filtered light, etc. offering the perfect growing condition for trees, fruits, and vegetables, as well as humans. People lived in the biodome for many months at a time and it was wonderful because everything seemed to do well with one exception. When the trees that had been planted there grew to a certain height, they would simply topple over.
It baffled scientists for the longest time until one day they realized the one natural element they had forgotten to recreate in the biodome: wind. Trees need wind to blow against them, which in turn causes their root systems to grow deeper into the soil, which in turn supports the trees as they grow taller. What a great lesson from nature we can take from this experiment. Who among us doesn't long for our own perfect growing environment with no disruptions from outside influences?
We strive to avoid the times of strife and tension, those times when the challenges of daily life push against us. And when they do, our normal tendency is to push back against them. Well, don't be normal, be natural. If the trees could talk, I wonder if we would hear them curse the wind each time they encountered a storm. I doubt it. More likely, I believe we would hear them thank the winds for assisting them in deepening their root system, enabling them to grow stronger and taller.
We can learn a lot from the nature of a tree if we open the lesson. Watch how a tree bends and sways gracefully when the wind blows against it. It does not stand rigid, resisting the flow of energy. It does not push back.
The tree quietly accepts the strong wind as a blessing which helps it grow. Like a tree, we too need the winds of strife pushing against us, strengthening us. In those times, if we hang on tight, flowing with the difficulties of life, accepting them as helping us to learn to stand tall, then we can view the challenges in our lives as blessing. Be flexible, give thanks, grow deep, and you'll someday stand tall and upright and realize that this is only helping to make you stronger.
I hope you found this lesson helpful. I hope you have a great day. Thank you for listening. If you enjoyed today's episode, please be sure to subscribe and leave a review. I would love to hear from you. Even better, take a screenshot and tag me in your Instagram stories at sarahchasinglife.