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.

Written by: J.R. Martinsson & C. Cargill