Anxiety is a leading mental health issue affecting modern humanity. It floods our bodies with flight, freeze, or fight stress responses. Over time, it affects our physical health. Research has shown that getting exercise, being in nature, mindfulness, grounding techniques, and practicing awareness and gratitude reduce these fear-based responses within us.
The garden offers all of these solutions - stepping outside, sitting in the shade, making time to watch the birds splash in the birdbath, harvesting a tomato, watching the bees. Bending and moving to dig a bed, turn some compost, prune a rosebush into shape, is exercise with no pressure. Seeing new life, colour in our beds teaches hope and joy, if we'll let it.
A daily dose of time in the garden provides a safe space to rest, move, and use the tools it offers that ground us and heal us.
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