A saying has been rattling around in my mind for many years, and it's kind of a running theme for me:
water your fruit tree. I think it's a good way to look at the
New Year. If you don't tend to the things that feed you -
especially the one or two or three that make a really big difference -
your life doesn't bear all the fruit that it could for you and others.
This practice is a way of approaching "resolutions" that feels much
more warm-hearted and bottom-up than bossing oneself top-down -
Go to
the gym! Stop eating sweets! Practice gratitude! - as we usually do . . .
to little effect.
What's that one thing which really sets your life
right, lifts your whole state of being, and makes a big difference for
you?
What could happen this year if you regularly watered this
particular fruit tree?
Rick Hanson is the author of
Buddha's Brain. He publishes a
weekly newsletter, Just One Thing, from which today's blog is excerpted.
He also publishes a quarterly
Wise Brain Bulletin.
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