10 Mental Health Benefits of Gardening
one of the fundamental laws that govern life – that health is not a passive process. What is taking place on a microscopic scale also needs to happen on a larger canvas. The mind needs to be gardened, too. Our emotional lives are complex and need constant tending and reworking. The form this takes will be different for each one of us but fundamenta
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The sense of physical freedom that the participants experience in the garden is accompanied by an inner sense of freedom in which the possibility of a different way of life can be glimpsed.
Sue Stuart-Smith • The Well Gardened Mind
As a writer, I find gardens essential to the creative process; as a physician, I take my patients to gardens whenever possible. All of us have had the experience of wandering through a lush garden or a timeless desert, walking by a river or an ocean, or climbing a mountain and finding ourselves simultaneously calmed and reinvigorated, engaged in mi... See more