Your
mind is a garden. Are you its gardener ?
In our
modern society we are constantly bombarded with distractions, messages and
things that we have to process in our minds. And it’s so easy to get
sidetracked, even if you have made the best of lists to focus on. The reason is
that we only have a limited amount of capacity in our heads to handle
everything that goes on in daily life. And also, that most people seem to fill
up the space we do have, with a lot of meaningless crap that serves no good
purpose at all.
Most
people are walking around being unaware. Not just to what’s going on around
them, no even worse, they don’t pay any attention at all about what is
controlling their minds. They have no clue about the negativity that they allow
to enter and the thoughts that feed it.
If we
could plug in a speaker to peoples heads we would hear an endless amount of
uncontrolled chatter, saying the worst things about not only the people around
them, but to themselves in even more cases. And then asks questions like, ”why
is nothing going right in my life?”
Think of
your mind as a garden. You wouldn’t use the space you have to grow weeds,
right? You would want to grow beautiful flowers, vegetables and herbs to use to
put on your table, feeling proud and good about knowing that you made that
happen. Feeling blessed that you get to reap the rewards from your deliberate
intent to provide you and your loved ones with healthy, nutritious food. And
enjoy it in a beautiful environment since the flowers can keep you company with
it’s natural glory.
Our
minds and thoughts control the quality of the lives we live. You don’t want to fill it up with
space, taking up good for nothing thoughts that don’t help you forward in life.
Just like you wouldn’t replace the nutritious greens you planted carefully in
your garden with weeds that does absolutely nothing good for you.
I
remember a quote I read once that stuck with me and has served me as a reminder
ever since:
”Your
mind is a garden, your thoughts are the seeds.
You can
grow flowers, or You can grow weeds.”
Because
after all, we are responsible for what we allow to take root and grow. When we
become aware, we will notice when some kind of weed has snuck in and passed the
gate, and we will be able to extract it even before it even has time to land in
the soil.
And
after a while, you will notice that all available space that you possess is
taken up - but only by things that will bring a healthy, happy and clear mindset
to it’s gardener.
So don’t
be like the zombies walking around on the streets complaining about how nothing
good ever comes their way, no, you are the one who has to choose to be aware. Who
won’t allow negative input to enter, and if it should happen on an unguarded
moment, you will be able to react, and act upon it immediately and just yank it
out!
Because you
choose to be responsible for your life and not let your happiness depend on
circumstances you can’t control. Instead your focus is locked in on what you
actually can control, Your mindset and your thoughts.
And that
is why you know that every day is a blessing and another step towards reaching
your true potential.
No comments:
Post a Comment