Category Archives: Growing mindful

ways to achieve mindfulness, stress reduction and psychological harmony in the garden and in life

Breath awareness / How to breathe for mindfulness

Posted on August 14, 2017 by The Holistic Gardener

If you make the decision to be mindful or switch on your conscious awareness, the next job in hand is to master breath control. It will take a little time, you may have to work at it a bit but … Continue reading →

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Mental health can be a tough mountain to climb but it can be climbed

Posted on August 13, 2017 by The Holistic Gardener

Persistent sadness, depression and anxiety can be huge obstacles in the way of you living a full life –they can stop you in your tacks and are hard to get over. Mental health can indeed be a tough mountain to … Continue reading →

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Even a tree was once a seed

Posted on July 21, 2017 by The Holistic Gardener

Learning to become more mindful is a journey and we know not all journeys are smooth sailing. It does take time to get from 30 seconds of attempting to be non-thinking to a perfected 30 minutes of mindful meditation. Some … Continue reading →

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Empty your mind – become whole.

Posted on July 20, 2017 by The Holistic Gardener

In mindful practice – the stillness meditations, the ‘in the flow’ active meditations, the breath control and the non-thinking is all asking you to empty your mind and become whole. If that sounds a little bit Zen well that’s just … Continue reading →

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Mindfulness in the garden comes naturally

Posted on July 5, 2017 by The Holistic Gardener

Anything can be a mindful experience – from eating a meal to washing the dishes after it – if you allow it to be a mindful experience. If you become fully aware of it, in the moment of it – … Continue reading →

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what the garden teaches

Posted on October 30, 2013 by The Holistic Gardener
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jobs for the weekend – walk bare, reconnect, live a little

Posted on October 17, 2013 by The Holistic Gardener

When we walk the earth barefoot, be it upon the sands of a beech, the soil of a field, a dew soaked grassy hill, the forest floor or just the everyday lawn in our very own garden a splendid magic … Continue reading →

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want arcadia get ‘circadian’ gardening

Posted on September 13, 2013 by The Holistic Gardener

In 2001 a new class of cells were discovered in the retina of the human eye, classified as ‘circadian’ rather than visual receptors. That discovery renewed research into the spectrum, intensity and duration of light that influences psychological and biological … Continue reading →

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