The mind is the most fertile soil.
One seed yields an abundant crop of some ten, twenty, thirty percent, or more.
You must take extra care of your garden.
Every day, every hour, every minute, and every second we are planting and watering.
Roots take hold quickly.
Before you know it you have a field
Errant thoughts give yield to a field of weeds; stifling, strong, and wild.
Rich, directed thoughts yield to fields of flowers; aromatic, pleasant, vibrant, and pleasing.
“An action is the perfection and publication of thought.”(Emerson P. 34)
Repeated action becomes habit until soldered in iron, difficult to break.
“Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.”
Ingrained habits signify the presence of roots that dig deep with little release.
“The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”
― Samuel Johnson
Many of the things we learned, were developed without our permission.
“Learning means that you take inputs from your environment and encode them into your long-term memory.” (University of Michigan)
Behavioral patterns are the result of mere observances; materials taken in through our five senses.
“Because your brain uses information about sights, sounds, textures, smells, tastes, and movement in an organized way, you assign meaning to your sensory experiences, and you know how to respond and behave accordingly. For most of us, sensory integration occurs without conscious thought or effort.” – Family Education
Every time you sit down to watch a movie, listen to a song, partake in a conversation, or read a book you are planting seeds.
What goes in will come out.
You cannot unsee what you have seen.
You cannot un-hear what you have heard
Once thought is planted expect a harvest of some kind
The thing is,
We never quite know when it will come time to reap the harvest.
Vigilance is crucial.
“An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.”
― Criss Jami
Your input has to have an outlet
“Reality is a projection of your thoughts or the things you habitually think about. Your entire life and everything in it is a result of your belief system coupled with your thoughts. The feelings and emotions you have, cement this in your mind, and the illusion of all of this combined is what you see as your reality on a moment-to-moment and day-to-day basis.”
― Stephen Richards, Your Wishes Fulfilled: Volume 1: Theory
You can replace negative thoughts or projections with positive ones.
“A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit.”
― Desiderius Erasmus
For the one who has not learned to master self completely, or has become overrun by an errant thought, the tongue will always be his or her downfall.
An individual will never be able to control output in the event of system overload when human tolerance has reached its boiling point.
Before one ever reaches the point of no return one can work diligently to prevent such responses.
He or she must commit to weeding the garden on a daily basis.
Work diligently to pull the seed up by the root.
Weeding the garden is no easy task.
It takes a lot of time.
One thing is sure, soil cannot prune itself
You must handle the upkeep
Emerson, Ralph. Nature. Boston: Archive Classics,1986. Print.
Adler, Mortimer. Habits are formed by repetition of particular acts. (n.d). Retrieved from
http://izquotes.com/quote/323106
Desiderius Erasmus quote. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.iwise.com/ykS3t
What is Sensory Integration. Family education.com (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://school.familyeducation.com/sensory-integration/parenting/56288.html
Quotes about manifesting our deepest desires. (n.d). Retrieved from
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/manifesting-our-deepest-desires.
University of Michigan. (2014). How do you Learn? Web. https://www.lsa.umich.edu/advising/academicsupport/strategiesforsuccess/howdoyoulearn
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