Recently I was asked by a client in Shanghai about removing negative thought patterns. In fact, I’m kinda asked this a lot however not always so directly.
Removing negative thought patterns:
One might wonder how good it would be to remove your negative thought patterns however there is a bit more to it then simply just loosing it. If they were removed, what would take its place. One might imagine there could be a vacuum, or an abscence. Since ever action has a reaction. Or every effect, has a cause.
I like to imagine it like a garden.
Hence The Garden Metaphor.
If life was a garden, what would you want to grow?
It’s a simple and effective metaphor to a successful life. Pull out the weeds, grow beautiful plants.
1. Love and warmth
2. Appreciation and gratitude
3. Curiosity
4. Passion
5. Devotion
6. Confident
7. Flexible
8. Cheeky Vibrant Excited
9. Healthy energetic
10. Helping others, fulfilled
Sometimes there are weeds in my garden. Sometimes there is anger, exhaustion, sadness.
Removing negative thought patterns:
You wouldn’t pull out all the weeds and just leave it bare would you? No you would pull them out and quickly replace them with plants or weedproof matting. And good gardeners know, there is no such thing as weed proof. Only weed resistant. So I look at the weed before I pull it out. It’s grown there for a reason. Why is that. Oh, I need more beautiful plants or perhaps its time to plant some flexibility or devotion.
Fill your life like a beautiful garden. Appreciate that weeds are as natural as flowers. I’m sure if you keep a focus on this trying to remove negative thought patterns will be a thing of the past.
I was looking information about how to remove negative emotions and just stumbled across this article, the garden metaphor did a lot of sense for me, like you said ”
Pull out the weeds, grow beautiful plants.” Thanks for giving this information for free Adrian