Gardening
{A Written Practice}
Gardening
Get your hands in the soil.
It is perhaps an original restorative practice, to be sure. For many people, outdoors, hands in the soil is the place that we are most easily able to find our relatedness to the Living World. You go out into the garden, and it just makes sense, because it is reality. You learn to patiently tend, you learn to notice the needs of the plants. How much sun, how much shade. How much water they need. The kind of soil the plants need. The proper concentrations of nutrients in the soil for them thrive.
A garden can teach you everything. It can teach you patience. It always teaches about beauty. It teaches about time. Gardening should be part of everyone's regimen of restorative practices, because it is the art and science of learning to work in harmony with Nature. And healing is to work in harmony with your own nature.
Related Practices:
See Study the Pattern Language of Nature. See The Importance of 'Aina'. See Sit Spot. See Forest Bathing. See Prune Your Trees.Photography: | Licensed from Pexels.com, used with permission.