Garden Story (Germination)

Gardening helps you heal from anxiety or depression.  HOW? Anxiety is living in the future and depression is living in the past...

Please explain Mrs. Kelley!

While gardening you can’t live in the future or the past.  With gardening you can’t force that seed to grow any faster than its’ germination process!

Germination process???

The germination process is the process in which a plant grows from a seed to a seedling. I don’t care how much you stand over it and watch it daily, whatever is going on in that dirt is UNSEEN…You just have to WAIT and see. Patience is a virtue in a gardening experience.

Therefore you can't live in the future (with anxiety) while gardening. You can have a vision, but you just have to WAIT.

Depression is living in the past. You can't live in the past in the garden. I don't care how much you wanted that seed, tree or plant to grow...if it doesn't grow or gets choked out because you neglected to keep the WEEDS away or you didn't keep the harmful insects away, you just have to plant another one.

#lessonsfromthegarden