5-31-21 Weeding your garden of your thoughts

 5-31-21 Weeding your garden of your thoughts

Is a metaphor for weeding things that no longer serve you. They are your thoughts and memories of the past – of all the things that have come and gone. That we hang onto that we think we should have done better or experiences that showed us that we are not who we say we are or what we should be in order to be happy or more successful, by what we thought or others people’s views or standards of what that (life) should look like. 

We are not really taught to check in with ourselves. We go through the day doing what is expected of ourselves, never really stopping along the way for long enough to say this is not what I want for myself. Never questioning what it is that fills us up? What fills me with joy, happiness, or peace, so I can live from a place within that no matter what it will not knock me to the ground. 

Starting over seems to be something that I have been doing more times than I can count at this point. All the obstacles and opportunities that have come and gone. Fear of getting it wrong or making a mistake because we’re taught to get it right the first time or a least learn it by the second time. Life will give you exactly what you need even if it takes several tries and years to get it, to some degree. 

It a game that you play with yourselves to show us exactly what needs to be look at, even when we aren’t even present for it in the moment! If you remove all the- doings, the have to, chatter, all outside distracts of people, the media, this things, or any other things, what do you have? Just this moment. What does that moment feel like or sound like? Is your mind quiet and idol or is simply being! A yogi would say there nothing to say or do, “because you already are and that is all that is needed, because you already exist, everything else is there as a distraction to distract you from what is”. 

The “Is” is you, and everything that exist, you are, or the great I am that I am. Nothing is outside of you. Just a reflection of you in the world -life is how to see it, the whole of everything that exists.