'Weed' your negative thoughts and cultivate a peaceful mental garden

Gardening can require a lot of hard work – but to look at a nice garden brings tremendous peace. It’s the same with our minds. — Filepic/The Star

This week I came across a post on social media that read, “Sometimes you need a ‘stop doing’ list as badly as you do a ‘to-do’ list.”

The timely insight came in a week when I had been reflecting on how we can think about our flaws in a way that doesn’t sink into self-criticism and yet allows us to chip away at unhelpful patterns of behaviour.