Tend to Your Garden
What would you call a person who
plants onions and expects to reap apples? Crazy maybe? Or at best an idiot,
Right?
Can a cactus tree possibly produce
watermelons? Of course, it is
impossible.
Unknowingly, we go around our daily
lives assuming the above “crazy” or “impossible” attitudes without evening
noticing it. We plant seeds of
negativity, lack, and intolerance in our own minds every day and expect them to
germinate happiness, abundance, success, and love.
I hear you saying, “mind you… I
don’t plant anything, I don’t even have a garden…what are you talking about?”
Well, I am talking about the garden
of our existence, our minds. But
before we proceed, we need to make a distinction between brain and mind.
Brain or mind?
The brain is that magical soft matter
that resides inside your skull. It is the diamond of your existence and the one
organ that operates the rest of your wondrous human body, orchestrates the way
your perfect organs complement one another and steers you through your life.
The mind, on the other hand, is much more than the physical entity of the brain with its right and left hemispheres- though it is sometimes confused with it. The mind is part of the invisible,
transcendent world of thought, feeling, attitude, belief, and imagination. The
brain is the physical organ most associated with mind and consciousness, but
the mind is not confined to the brain. The intelligence of your mind permeates
every cell of your body, not just brain cells.
Metaphorically, the mind is divided
into three parts: conscious,
subconscious, and unconscious. The concept of three levels of mind is nothing
new; Sigmund Freud, the famous Austrian psychologist was probably the first to
popularize it into mainstream society as we know it today. To drive our idea home, we are going to
simplify things a little bit here: the mind is like a huge iceberg where only a
fraction of it is showing above the water. This part constitutes the conscious
mind which is less than 10 percent of the mind while the sub and unconscious
minds constitute the remaining invisible 90 percent under the water.
The conscious mind is the thinking mind;
it is responsible for logic, numbers, planning, creativity, language and how
you deal with the world. The rest of the
mind serves as the storeroom of your emotions and beliefs; it keeps all your
experiences, every word you have ever heard, every sight you have seen even the
ones you have forgotten intact. Out of these long-forgotten experiences, your
sub and unconscious mind wire your conscious mind to react to the outside
world. It is also the orchestrator of
all your bodily functions; it controls your breath, heartbeats, blood pressure
and how your internal organs go about their miraculous daily jobs without fail
24 hours a day to the last day of our lives.
See how powerful the unconscious mind is?
Plant the Right
Seeds
To go back to the analogy of the
garden above, the unconscious mind, which is like the deep dark bottom of the
ocean, is the fertile soil that is always ready for sowing. Thoughts and experiences
are the seeds you plant inside it. Actions
are the water you use to help it grow and the sun is your feelings about your
produce. Your unconscious mind goes
about its non-stop process of sow and reap every single moment of your life; it
registers every thought and move you make, it stores your choice of
programming. In the garden of the
unconscious mind, as in any soil, weeds tend to sprout up automatically from
time to time. Weeds are the negative
thoughts of failure and doubt, of hate and intolerance. Since we live in a
world that is obsessed with drama, we tend to pick up on this vibration. We are unconsciously influenced by media which
plays a huge role in negatively programming our minds. If we are not selective of what we watch, read
and the people we associate with, we become passive prey of all that is
negative; we encourage weeds to grow and spread.
Life is a Game
of Boomerangs
The soil does not care what you sow;
if you plant flower seeds , you get flowers, you plant cactus seeds, you reap
cactus. Likewise, you cannot dwell on
thoughts of failure and produce success. If you are selective of what you cultivate
in your mind, it will never fail you. You
are the one who decides what kind of seeds you place in the soil of your garden
and therefore, you are responsible for the end result: the fruits you
reap. Whatever you plant in the garden
of your mind, you will eventually reap. Life itself is constant reaping and sowing;
what you give, you receive; the energy you get out, will come back to you; what
you do to others, will be done to you. The
game of life is the game of boomerangs; thoughts and deeds come back full
circle to you with astounding accuracy.
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