Get a Plant
Get a Plant
It will settle you.
Sometimes taking care of something is a good way to learn to take care of yourself. If you are having a hard time taking care of yourself, get a plant, and then do to yourself what you are doing to the plant. To take care of a plant, you need to create a relationship with it. You need to make sure it gets enough light. You need to make sure it gets enough water. And a plant is something that you can learn from pretty much infinitely. It is something that you can carress with your eyes, and unlike a screen, it will soothe your nervous system. We are hard-wired to be settled by plants.
Related Practices:
See Gardening. See Befriend a Tree. See Prune Your Trees. See Get to Know Your Local Flora and Fauna. See Eat Seasonally. See Forage. See Nourish the Roots. See Living Water. From the standpoint of vision–using the eyes–related to Orienting, Soften the Gaze, and Stare Vacantly into Space. See Observe Closely.Video: Distill | Photography: Stein Egil Liland | Licensed from Pexels.com, used with permission.