Inner work cleans the ground; prepares the garden bed.
It allows you to express suppressed emotions, let go or alchemize past trauma, and unlearn harmful beliefs.
…But this isn’t what plants the seeds or grows the garden.
New lifestyle habits should be initiated… activities scheduled… connections rekindled or explored. And each needs to be watered… exposed to the appropriate amount of sun… and cared for.
It’s this two step effort that grows the garden of a beautiful life—so that the same past garbage doesn’t just re-do what the inner work works so hard to clean up.
And instead of the clean bare land attracting back in garbage or debris (like an empty table in a busy family household), the ground eventually gets filled with an incredible array of flowers and trees and plants… so much so that there’s no room for anything else to wander in.
And even if it does… the beauty of a beautiful garden is that even the garbage starts to feel out of place. The aesthetics alone make it feel displaced and make it want to catch the next wind drift and wander out and away.
And suddenly… instead of cleaning endlessly and focusing solely on removing trash… you get to focus on beauty… and investing love and light into the garden of your life that begins to attract more of the same and repel more of the opposite.