Mind Garden Meditation: How to Connect More With Your Subconscious Feelings

The “Mind Garden” meditation is a mental exercise you can do to build a stronger connection with your subconscious mind.

The basic idea is to imagine a garden inside your mind, and then revisit this garden on a weekly basis to see what signals your subconscious is communicating to you, as well as how to communicate back.

This meditation takes several trials before it starts working effectively.

You first need to build the suggestion and association that this garden reflects the state of your subconscious and different areas of your life.

Then you need to give your mind time to subconsciously let the garden grow before you go back to it and notice changes.

Here’s all you need to know to create a “Mind Garden” of your own.

Step 1: Planting seeds

This is the first session of the meditation. After you complete this, you’ll have to wait at least a week to revisit your mind garden before you notice any significant changes.

1. Find a quiet place where you won’t be distracted.

2. Get in a relaxing posture and close your eyes.

3. Imagine yourself in a huge grass field, with a patch of dirt in the center and trees bordering the outside of the field.

4. This patch of dirt symbolizes your subconscious mind.

5. Take 10 deep breaths as you stand in this field and observe your surroundings.

6. Now imagine yourself walking toward your patch of dirt and then planting seeds in it. Plant one seed for each area of your life:

– Health

– Psychology

– Relationships

– Work

– Creativity

– Happiness


7. Once you’ve finished planting the seeds, take time to water them.

8. Take 10 more deep breaths and open your eyes.

Just as you can’t grow a plant in a single day, you can’t connect with your subconscious instantly. You now need to give your mind time to “absorb” the suggestion and let it respond to it.

The goal of this exercise is to first build a symbolic connection between your “mind garden” and your subconscious mind, as well as the individual plants and different areas of your life.

Then as you revisit this “mind garden,” it will gradually change over time.

Step 2: Visiting your garden

Wait a week after planting your seeds, then go back to your garden.

1. Find a quiet place where you won’t be distracted.

2. Get in a relaxing posture and close your eyes.

3. Imagine yourself back at the grass field, in front of the dirt patch where you planted your seeds.

4. Make note of any changes in your garden. Has anything sprouted yet? Observe it: What does it look like? What does it smell like? Take time to analyze each plant and how it’s overall health looks.

5. Next, make note of any changes in the surrounding field: Is there anything new? Is the weather different at all?

6. Water each plant in your garden.

7. Take 10 deep breaths and open your eyes.

This is your subconscious minds way of communicating to you. It will be represented in both how your “mind garden” changes, as well as how you interpret those changes.

It’s a very basic but powerful symbol. The more you visit your garden and the more time that goes by, the more things change and the deeper your connection is with your subconscious mind.

Step 3: Interacting with your garden in new ways

You can also communicate back to your subconscious by how you interact with the “mind garden.”

For example, some days I would visit my “mind garden” and certain plants would be kind of dead-looking. I saw this as a subconscious signal that I needed to focus more in that area of my life.

I then clipped the dead leaves off of the plant and watered them with a special fertilized water. This was my positive signal to my subconscious that I was going to try harder in the future to improve those areas.

Use your imagination to interact with your garden in new and creative ways. This will give you tools to communicate back to your subconscious more powerfully, leaving a stronger effect on your subconscious.

Suggestions on new ways to use your mind garden:

1. Plant different seeds that symbolize more specific areas in your life. For example, a seed symbolizing a particular relationship.

2. Decorate your garden. Build a fence, plant a tree, create a bird house. These are just ways to “spruce up” the experience and make it have a stronger impact on your subconscious. For example, I have a nice red chair in front of my garden that I like to sit in after I water my plants.

3. Engage all of your senses. Try to imagine at least one sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell in each meditation.

4. Imagine animals and other wildlife interacting with the garden.

5. Explore outside of your garden. Go walking through the field. Go through the woods and see what you discover.

These are just more advanced ways to engage yourself in the experience. They aren’t necessary, but they can make the exercise much more effective and insightful.

Step 4: Don’t take it too seriously

Treat this meditation as you would any other dream.

Not everything is going to mean something important or significant, some of it is just your mind playing around with new possibilities.

So try to not take this exercise too seriously – you’ll get more out of it if you have fun with it and think of it more as an interactive video game.

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