May 29, 2021
Blog Episode 29
Grow Your Emotional Garden
I have quite a few friends who are master gardeners. To be a master gardener you have to complete a program, show you have knowledge of different core components on a test and then volunteer in the community giving advice, assistance and information about gardening. To be a master gardener is like earning the Eagle Scout in Boy Scouts. Very intensive.
Ironic that I come from a long line of farmers and yet I have no interest (yet) to have a garden.
But I sure do appreciate those with a green thumb. One of my sorority sisters moved into a new home last year with land and the amazing work she is doing in her garden this year is inspiring. But I am a photographer and a writer and a documentarian. I am inspired in my emotional garden as she has shared video of the different elements she has created and tended to.
My church choir director has a fabulous yard that is a botanical paradise. The variety and landscape is so beautiful, it instantly draws praises from each guest lucky to enter his back yard. I haven’t even been to the farm yet. I can only imagine.
Tending your emotional garden is just as important as the real bounty that the farms and gardens of the world provide.
Now while I don’t get in the yard to deal with God’s nature, I definitely feel enriched by the work I have been called to do. Coaching. Our lives can find so many answers right in nature on a variety of levels.
In 1995, an author was featured on Oprah that changed my life forever. Sarah Ban Breathnach’s book Simple Abundance spoke to me so much, that I was instantly buying a copy of the book for friends. It wasn’t even that I had any thought to implement some of the ideas she suggested. They just weren’t me. But the beautiful thing was how reading about it made me feel. I could imagine and pretend, I was fascinated and mesmerized. It became a meditation inside my own emotional garden.
Thru Sarah’s listing of principles: Gratitude, Simplicity, Order, Harmony, Beauty, and Joy, I was able to plant seeds for my emotional garden way back in the 1990s. I have to say, following the order she laid out are really serving me now. Just as Sarah experienced, I found my own spirituality, authenticity and creativity finally starting to take root.
My emotional garden was a fresh bed of lettuce. “LET US imagine, LET US dream, LET US get rid of the negativity. LET US give thanks, LET US do a lot of things we haven’t so far but would certainly benefit from”.
I may not like all vegetables or fruits but I appreciate what they contribute to our world.
What I don’t eat, I may still have my senses touched wanting to arrange them into a beautiful color photograph that someone else may use as inspiration for a painting. Dimensions and color pallets, the sensory smorgasbord of it all. Whenever I can engage all my senses and use my mind at the same time provides my emotional garden with a plethora of nourishment and growth.
In coaching, we can take care of the weeds that have overgrown your thoughts by taking the steps to get rid of limiting beliefs. We can figure out what nurtures your landscape of heart and soul, what terrain your nature is based on the environment you are in and how to transplant to a healthier soil. We find the turtle steps to provide the water, food and air to a healthier you in laying out the blueprint for your emotional garden.
It is in doing the prep for your emotional garden that we can plant the seeds now for your bountiful harvest of a life.
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