{"id":16398,"date":"2022-10-29T13:47:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T11:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qlx.now\/?post_type=magic-moves&p=16398"},"modified":"2022-12-23T09:25:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T08:25:45","slug":"mental-housecleaning","status":"publish","type":"magic-moves","link":"https:\/\/www.qlx.now\/nl\/magic-moves\/mental-housecleaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Mentale schoonmaak"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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You are a gardener. You love planting good things in your mind, watching them grow, and harvesting their fruit.\u00a0<\/p>

However, for your garden to succeed, you must do some gardening work. You must be ruthlessly diligent about weeding out negative thoughts and emotions daily. They will take over and prevent you from reaping a plentiful harvest if you don’t.<\/p>

Mental housecleaning removes the weeds from the fertile soil of your mind.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJust as a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds, and growing the flowers and fruits which he requires, so may a man tend the garden of his mind, weeding out all the wrong, useless, and impure thoughts, and cultivating toward perfection the flowers and fruits of right, useful, and pure thoughts.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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How do you do mental housecleaning?<\/h2>

Where do the weeds come from?<\/h3>

Most of the negativity that you experience does not come from the outside world, but from the distorted mental models that you are running.<\/p>

Your mental models are the software you have unconsciously built in your brain to make sense of the world. You have constructed these patterns by observing how the world works and by learning from and imitating others.<\/p>

You use your mental models to evaluate incoming sensory perceptions, to guide your behavior, and to help you figure out how to achieve your goals.<\/p>

Distorted mental models are the generators of negative thoughts. They are the toxic soil in your garden. They choke out the good plants and prevent them from growing. These mental models are deeply ingrained in our psyches and can be challenging to modify.<\/p>

If you don’t weed them out regularly, they will take over, and your garden will be overrun with negativity. Like in an actual garden, you must be willing and able to identify your faulty mental models and yank them out by the roots. This requires presence and conscious awareness<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Some tips for your mental housecleaning<\/h3>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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