Cosmic Gardener – Cultivating a Life

Our life is our garden. We plant many seeds. It knows many seasons. Some plots are more complicated than others.

Our attention influences our harvest. Reflection and reframing are useful tools for the spadework of cultivating it.

Reflection stimulates growth. When we reflect on something we can often see a bigger picture. It is a process that offers us the opportunity to build on, or to reframe our life’s experiences.

Reframing is a bit like weeding. By asking What did I learn? our reflections can lead to (and often allow for) a rooting out of any idea, thought pattern or behavior that is no longer (if it ever was) in our best interest. Reframing a memory can also lead to transplanting it into another’s garden. For them to tend.

A garden needs attention in order to flourish. So does Life.

“An unexamined life is not worth living.”
~Socrates