How to Cultivate Your Mind Garden

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• First, you need to get to know your garden. Sit down in the middle of your garden and watch what is growing. Are you growing kindness and compassion? Is there a corner with anxiety, jealousy, and hate?

• The best way to make a garden audit is to go into meditation and just watch what’s coming up on your mind.

• It is beneficial to write down what you are observing every day. Later you can go back and see progress or identify what to focus on next.

• Set your intentions every morning what you would like to enhance. Ask yourself: What person would I like to be?

• When you achieve to form new neural pathways in your brain through repeated thoughts and experience, this is a real change. A rewired brain changes the mind and therefore your emotions and feelings.

• The brain is excellent at learning from bad experiences, but only half as good in learning from positive experiences. This phenomenon is called negativity bias.

• H — Have a good experience. E — Enrich the moment inside of you and let it grow. A — Absorb the feeling and let it sink in. L — Link negative and positive and let the good heal the bad emotions.