Our Mind is a Garden: Grow Roses, Not Weeds
Sometimes I like to think of our subconscious mind as soft and fertile soil, ready to grow whatever ideas we plant, through the seed of thought. It is there, ever between our ears, following our every command and producing like results. By itself it has no will; only we can decide what qualities of thought we choose to sow.
Therefore, surely it is only logical to choose to plant delightful and optimistic notions. To believe in love and beauty, to dwell on the positive and uplifting. To build a sacred place inside of us where all is well and nothing can harm us. To allow an abundance of roses to bloom in our mind, boosting our moral and raising our vibration.
We can make this choice… so why don’t we choose it?
Often it is because doubts, fears, and worries overwhelm us, and so we spend more time deliberating over our problems, than we do focussing on solutions or the positives in our life. We cloud our mind with thoughts of what could go wrong, why something might not go our way, and why we can’t expect an optimistic outcome.
We think of every reason not to do something and struggle against everything out of our control. These unproductive and defeatist thoughts are weeds, and the more we think about them, they only get stronger and stronger, until suddenly being within our own mind feels almost too hard to bear.
Sometimes these doubts or worries are passed onto us from our family members, and sometimes they have developed based on our own life experiences. Either way, it still seems odd to me that so many of us go through large portions of our lives without ever being told that we don’t have to feel this way. That we can choose to deal with these deep-seated beliefs by getting to the heart of where they came from, and learn that we can change the stories that we have been telling ourselves and replace them with better, more productive assumptions. In other words, it is important that we get rid of these weeds by pulling them out, root and all, ensuring that they do not grow back.
We must tend to our minds like the garden that it is. Once we have identified the weeds and cleared them away, we must be mindful over what it is that we replace them with; what thoughts and ideas we choose to plant.
As the subconscious mind is akin to arable land and is there to bring our convictions to fruition, let us grow roses, not weeds. Let our minds become a haven in which we are the monarch. Let us remain convinced of the mass of potential that hides behind the simple act of positive thought. Let us direct ourselves towards a future in which we prosper, thrive, and blossom.
