Serenity In The Garden For Positive Life Changes

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BENEFITS
Visualisation used here, can turbo-charge positive changes in your life as it has a powerful effect on the mind. Use weeds to symbolise negative habits you want to drop, which helps to reduce negative emotions and promote positive growth.

TO START
Try this meditation while you’re weeding. Get out your gardening gloves and collect any tools you might need such as a trowel or fork.

STEP 1
Sit under a tree. Bring to mind any negative habits you may have, such as a tendency to lose your temper or procrastinate. Think of as many as you like. Imagine that the weeds in the patch are are the physical representation of your negative habits.

STEP 2
Get up from under the tree and approach the area you are planning to weed. See the whole as your mind. See the flowers and plants as your positive traits and the weeds as those negative traits that you want to eliminate.

STEP 3
As you begin to weed, try to stay very focused and mindful. When you pull out a weed by the roots, think that you are pulling out your negative habit by the roots. Continue this way until all the weeds are removed.

STEP 4
Finish by cultivating, feeding and watering the plants and flowers. Think of them as your positive traits that you would like to nurture.