What are you watering?

"Your life is your garden, your thoughts are your seeds, your life isn't awesome, you've been watering the weeds."

Nishan Panwar

In my past, I  payed attention to the seeds of destruction.  Unbeknownst to me, I  listened to old messages.

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Its easy to find myself entertaining fear and unrest; allowing the toxic and poisonous thoughts in.  It takes great practice to instinctively stop playing those tapes.  What tapes are you playing in your head today?  Are you worried?  Are you manipulating?  Are you in despair?  Perhaps you are judging yourself or someone else harshly.  Are you holding on to bitterness based on how you think you should be treated?   By playing the tapes.... you are literally watering those seeds.  The bad news there is that what you water will grow.

In my past, I was watering fear, anxiety, judgement, and hopelessness.  Playing that tape once or twice creates exponential weed growth.  As a health and wellness coach, I still need a coaching here and there myself.  The beauty of my career is that I get to hear truth spoken over me from an outsider looking in on a regular basis.  I am thankful that my friends, colleagues and fellow graduates in IIN.  Recently, one particular friend listened.  He listened to me play those tapes.  He  let me cry.  Ever so gently, he held the mirror.    I am used to this excercise of looking in the mirror.  Sometimes, I just needed someone else to hold it up and point to the reflection.  I was playing some serious old tapes.  As soon as I looked in the mirror and recognized what I was doing, I was able to take the  pressure off.  I realized that for about a 24 hour period, I had been watering the weeds!  He reminded me of a quote from our school by Joshua Rosenthal, "What you feed/water, grows."

Let me put it another way.  What you put in comes out.  What goes around comes around.  You get what you give.  Its basic quantum physics.  Its scripture.  Its Karma.  The Bible says we are to be transformed by the renewing of our minds; that we reap what we sow.  When we sow negative thoughts, then we reap that energy and repel any positivity in our life.  When we sow crappy sugary packaged food, we reap sickness and inflammation.  When we sow busy-ness without taking time for self-care, then we reap anxiety, and our home becomes a place of non-peace.  I don't know about you, but my home is my haven and I want my children to feel peace and serenity when they enter it as well.

Today, I choose to nourish my soil;  drenching  it with self-care, and excercise.  Fertilizing with the life force energy of raw, nutritionally dense food; and renewing my mind with gentle, kind, and truthful language over myself and others.  Studying, reading my favorite book, and working on my own book is on the agenda as well.  I will tend to those wild carefree blooms just begging to burst open, and enjoy my wildflower soul's blooming.

What are you watering?

 What thoughts are you fertilizing?

What foods are you nourishing (or not nourishing) yourself with?

How are you nourishing  your children, spouses, and friends?

What you water will grow.