Pulling Weeds & Folding Laundry

Okay, so let's just think about weeds for a moment because in the personal development world, particularly when it comes to mindset manifesting the good stuff in life, I love the weed analogy, is that imagine your mind is fertile ground.

It will grow whatever you plant.

Now you don't even need to make an effort to plant weeds.

And you could think of these as negative thoughts.

And the more we feed them with our thoughts, our energy, they grow and they can grow pretty significantly.

Okay.

And so then you can choose to plant vegetables.

You can choose to plant flowers and you've got to nurture them.

And some of them are a little bit trickier than others to grow.

Right.

Okay.

So it's best to start easy and then take the leaps and try something a little bit more complex.

And so I took that analogy to the emotional work and I was like, ah, because I was pulling out thistles, I was pulling out marshmallow, I was pulling out dandelions and God knows what else.

Now, I used to be, or I guess I still am, a Western medical herbalist.

And I thought, oh, this is so interesting.

These weeds that people see are such a pest, right? that I will grub out or other people will spray out.

So for example, thistles, okay.

Thistles grow pretty easily.

Milk thistle.

Our neighbor has killed all the St. John's wort on their land.

There are dandelions, which I don't mind too much, but not when you're trying to grow natives and other plants, you don't want them to take over.

And there's a whole variety, but you're listening to this and going, Oh, milk thistle or thistle.

Hmm.

St. John's wort, dandelion.

I've heard about these people use milk thistle for their liver health.