It’s a beautiful Sunday morning, you wake up to the soft sun rays slowing lighting up your room. You look out the window and see the birds chirping, the flowers blooming and the leaves rustle as the wind blows. How does it feel? Does it fill you up with joy? Plants, trees, flowers, and nature; they all hold healing powers. With just the right fragrance, the colorful scenic view of flowers, or the view of a garden replete with green herbs and shrubs, you can feel energized and motivated immediately. If nature can have such an instant positive effect, why not surround ourselves with it? Why depend on trips to parks, or community gardens when you can create your happiness at home! How do you ask? It’s GARDENING!
Gardening allows individuals to have regular and constant contact with nature. It is resourceful for a healthy physical and mental state of being. Gardening is a lifetime of free access to abundant happiness. Planting new seedling, watering it, caring for it, and loving it is like taking care of your child. You have to feed it, you have to take care of its daily needs. You are responsible for another’s life, besides yours! This increases the sense of responsibility in an individual; making them more confident and independent. Not only does it induce competence, but it is also a mood enhancer. Gardening is associated with stress relief; a form of meditation. This activity requires patience, focus, and concentration.
Hence, like painting, gardening is also art. The love and patience with which you cultivate your garden help accomplish a sense of achievement; serve as a distraction from current stressors and put you in a state of calm and serenity.