Try Gardening as Stress Therapy

Gardening is a quiet, introspective activity. Yet many people live in apartments or condos where there’s no space to garden. Others live in homes with manicured lawns kept by a lawn care service because the homeowner is too busy.

Gardening takes time and you just have too much to do. Well, that’s the point - you need to get away from the stress of your daily schedule and gardening is great way to do that!

Whether you have a large backyard or a few containers on a patio, you can enjoy the therapeutic benefits of gardening.

More and more psychologists and physicians are prescribing gardening for stress therapy. Gardening allows you to enjoy an activity that’s nurturing and gives back whatever you put into it.

In our instant gratification world, gardening changes the importance of time. Plants don’t grow overnight.

During the growth time, plants need attention and depend on you to protect them from bugs and disease.

Gardening teaches patience that over-stressed, highly anxious people don’t seem to possess.

If you’re facing burnout and stress from work or your personal life, gardening is an activity that gets you outdoors and actually helps to lower your blood pressure.

Gardening can also give you a safe place to take out your frustrations. Mad at your co-worker? Imagine that face on every shrub you prune. Need to work out some anger? Pull weeds.

And if you really want to work out some emotions, get an ax and chop the dead branches into mulch. In these ways, you get something constructive out of negative emotions.

Even if your thumb isn’t very green, you can set up a Zen rock garden surrounded with easy care plants in small containers.

If you use small containers, you only stand to lose a small amount of plants at once. Then you replace the container and don’t have to dig in the dirt. That’s much easier and faster.

Another way to make your garden a peaceful place is to add a water feature.

Local home improvement stores have kits with everything you need and classes on how to set up the fountain. Even a small water feature on the patio can bring a sense of peace to your garden that you can’t even imagine.

As you gain more gardening experience, you can try growing different types of plants.

Check with your local plant nursery for suggestions on what types of plants fit into the limits of your outdoor environment and within your skillset.

Gardening might just become addictive - and it’s a good addition - one that can diminish stress and provide tranquility.

Learn more about how to manage stress on my page with all the information you need on this subject: How to manage stress

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