If you have a garden or plants at home, how often will you water them? Daily? Few times a week?
I love my garden. My life schedule has changed this year.
I have more time to look after our veggie patch.
Summer is the tomatoes seasons. Everyday, I would spend some time to trim their leaves,
tied it up straight, make sure tomato not touch the ground, if not the birds eat it all before us. When I do it every day, everything is easy to manage. Consistency is the key no matter what we do.
Our emotions & feelings, just like a garden within us, our soul garden.
How often you stay in tune with our inner selves. It can be easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of life and neglect our needs.
Specially our soul garden is not visible in the same way as our physical body.
We can’t see it when it hurt, no cut or bruises.
When we worry, most of time we pretend everything is ok, put up a smiling face. Accumulated negative emotions and thoughts that can cause your soul garden to become unhealthy.
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, it said each emotion is associated with an internal organ. When one emotion is too intense, it affects that organ’s ability to function. your emotion could affect and store in your organ, and your organ is the one impact the energy flow in your body. It’s why after some dramatic event like divorce, earthquake, brush fire, could make us seriously ill. Any part of our body is under stress or have problems, it could break down, sometimes the issue is not obvious, the body can work but deteriorated quicker than usual.
Taking breaks and engaging in activities like journaling and meditation that bring you peace and it can help replenish and revive your soul garden. Remember consistency is the key.
So, how often you watering your soul garden?
What do you need in this moment? Morning walk, enjoy a cup of tea, read a book, have a nap, eat out, have a chat to your friends, family or therapist…