Your mind is like a garden. You must tend to it, feed it and weed it.
Summary
- Your mind is like a garden. You must tend to it, feed it and weed it.
Details
- Watch it: sometimes we have feelings and we just have to observe them as they pass
- Feed it: what we absorb into our minds through our senses. What we watch, read, think about
- Weed it: look for unwanted habits and thoughts and work on removing them
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Imagine that your mind is a garden. You can tend to it in three ways: observe it, pull weeds, and plant flowers. Observing it is fundamental, and sometimes that’s all you can do. Perhaps something terrible has happened and you can only ride out the storm. But being with the mind is not enough; we must work with it as well. The mind is grounded in the brain, which is a physical system that doesn’t change for the better on its own. Weeds don’t get pulled and flowers don’t get planted simply by watching the garden.
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