Rhonda Byrne said, "How do I stop my negative thoughts?...a question I have been asked many times; the answer is simple. You PLANT good thoughts. The stop part is irrelevant--the negative thoughts are your focus. The truth is always simple and it is always easy. ...just plant good thoughts! Deliberately plant them! You plant good thoughts by making it a daily practice to appreciate all the things in your day. Compliment, praise, and give thanks to all things. What you focus on you attract. If you spend only one day speaking of good things and saying 'Thank you' at every single opportunity, you will not believe your tomorrow. Your planted good seeds will transform into a garden of paradise....your life!
President David O. McKay used a metaphor about roses: "Not a few of us have a thorn in the flesh as did Paul. Perhaps to some of us a dead leaf of some past act is clinging. It may be that there is a little dirt in our character, but each one has also a rose in his life, a hawthorn twig, or a lily. And it is a glorious lesson for us to learn: to see the rose and be blind to the thorn; to see the hawthorn twig and be blind to the dead leaf; to see the lily and not the dirt in our fellow's character." (Conference Report, October 1967, p.8)
We grow in two ways: removing negative weeds and cultivating positive flowers. I have an earlier post that is also about this same type of metaphor. It's a beautiful thing to conjure positivity up in your mind as an image of beautiful roses. How can you not feel good when you see a rose?
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