The Symbol: the
Magnificent Garden
The Virtue: Master your Mind
The Wisdom: Cultivate your Mind – it will
blossom beyond your expectations. The quality of your Life is determined by the
quality of your thoughts. There are no mistakes, only lessons to be learnt. See
setbacks as opportunities for personal expansion and spiritual growth.
The Techniques:
The heart of the Rose
Opposition thinking
The secret of the
Lake
The secret of
Happiness is “simple” - find out what you truly love to do and then direct all
your energy towards doing it. Once you do this, abundance flows into your life
and all your desires are filled with ease and grace. He
who selflessly serves the most, reaps the most; emotionally, physically,
mentally and spiritually. This is the way to
inner peace and outer fulfilment.
A
Most Extraordinary Garden
In the fable, the garden
is a symbol for the Mind. Most good gardeners will weed regularly and ensure no
contamination ever enters their gardens but yet look at the toxic waste we put
into the fertile gardens of our minds every single day: the worries and the
anxieties, the fretting about the past and the brooding about the future and
those self-created fears that wreak havoc within our inner world. All these
drain the mind and much of its power.
To live life to the
fullest, you must stand guard at the gate of your garden and let only the very
best information enter. You truly cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought.
Mental mastery comes through conditioning. We all have the power to determine
what we think about in any given moment. No matter what happens to you in your
life, you alone have the capacity to choose your response to it. By controlling
the thoughts that you think and the way you respond to events of your life, you
begin to create your destiny. All events, be it positive or negative, simply experience
them, celebrate
them and learn
from them.
The mind is a wonderful servant but
a terrible master. You must persist in exercising your mind positively and it
will do all wonderful things for you. Focused personal reflection each day
impacts on the quality of your life.
Daily exercise: Heart of the Rose
Find a quiet room and
a fresh rose. Stare at the centre of the rose, its heart. Notice its colour,
texture and design. Savour its fragrance and think only about this rose.
Initially, other thoughts will distract you but in time, through perseverance,
your mind will grow strong and disciplined and your focus will only be the
rose. This will be the first indication that you are taking back control of the
fortress of your mind. It will then focus on what you command it to focus on
and become a wonderful servant...
Opposition thinking: Replace
a negative thought immediately with a positive thought.
Secret of the Lake:
You are looking into the water at the edge of a lake and seeing your
reflection. Envisage your dreams becoming a reality. You will become the person
you mentally see yourself become. The mind works through pictures. Pictures
affect your self- image and this in turn affects the way you feel, act and
achieve. See yourself as you want to be. Run your own race. It doesn't matter
what others say about you. What is important is what you say to yourself.
Mental fitness: Success
on the outside indeed begins with success on the inside. By changing your
thoughts and attitude, you can positively change your life
Our
passion must in some way, improve or serve the lives of others. Once
you find out what your life's work is, your world will become alive with a
limitless reservoir of energy and enthusiasm.
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