Watch Your Garden Grow

Each of us has an amazing power center within. This power is creative like your Father. You can plant a seed in the fertile earth and watch it grow.

Watch Your Garden Grow

My earthly father was a master gardener. As a child, I had to work in the garden whether I wanted to or not. I learned the mechanics of growing food and flowers from my dad, though I hated anything to do with labor and outdoors as a child. 

I was 40 before I owned a home that had enough space—1/2 acre—to grow flowers and vegetables. Suddenly, I was excited to begin. At first, I started with one small garden. By the time 8 years had passed, I had 5 gardens that took me about two hours a day to tend to and was the stopping post for every neighbor within walking distance. It truly was beautiful. 

This is what I learned from being a gardener:

1. First you must choose the right seeds for your garden. (Metaphorically: What do you want to see grow in your life?)
2. You must plant the seeds in a place where the fragile beginnings can be protected. (Know that storms will come to try and destroy your small dreams. Protect them with your love.)
3. Use fertilizer to nurture the plants and give them the food and nutrition they need to grow large, not just normal. (To dream big, you have to prepare bigger).
4. Biggest Lesson: Only God and Spiritual Law can actually “grow” the seeds. (Once you have planted the seeds and nurtured them, you must trust that a power greater than yourself creates the miracle of growth.)

My Story about Watching Your Garden Grow

As a Practitioner of Hypnotherapy

Most of what I teach I have experienced myself. Having a great sense of where someone is physically or mentally gives his or her practitioner a great sense of compassion. For me, the best metaphors of life come from Nature. God provided all the lessons we need to know in the majesty of the plant and animal kingdom. If we could just get back to basics, we would have a more harmonic universe, no doubt.

When is the last time you got your hands into soil, even potting soil for a plant outside your backdoor or windowsill? 

When I moved to Florida, I sold my beautiful house with the 5 glorious gardens with 150 species of flowers to another gardener. I thought with certainty that his family would be the perfect family to carry on my legacy. However, just one week after I moved, my neighbor sent me pictures of a bulldozer digging up all of the gardens. My heart sunk. I couldn’t believe all of that time and energy had been destroyed in one day, without regard to what I wanted.

• The lesson I had to learn about life was simple but difficult to learn. When you sell or give away something to another person’s care, you simply lose any rights to the property. 
• Second, if you want to continue to see something grow, keep it and cherish it. 
• And lastly, beauty in the physical realm is ephemeral. Everything on this Earth changes, gets old, and eventually goes back to the Earth. 

When you learn these lessons you will live every day cherishing your seeds, the power of growing a dream, and hold on to the things that you cherish the most. Most importantly, you will live everyday with the gusto of that moment quite possibly could be the last day of your life. Peace be with you! 

***The purpose of this blog is to realize that the stories in the brain are impulses from Spirit to help us heal, if we are willing to take the time to understand our own pain. Most of us want to avoid it. But, if you are tired of reliving your stories over and over again, try learning to become the observer of your mind.

GIVE IT A TRY.

With 31 years of experience and a new, great office in beautiful Fort Lauderdale, Hypnosis on Las Olas creates a clear path to health and prosperity for many people in South Florida. I will help put you on the road to peace of mind and keep you there, so that you may rewrite your prosperous story daily, as in my book: “Your New Story, Your New Life.”

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