Is Your Garden of Eden cracking Prizon Guard Whips?
There is probably nothing more peaceful then strolling through a beautiful garden with a cup of morning coffee listening to the birds. That is unless your “magazine” garden is making you broke, tired and miserable. Beware when your spending every penny you have on landscaping but would rather run away in your car.
AN ARTISITC SPIRITUAL GARDEN COST’S AS MUCH AS A BREST TRANSPLANT
So here’s the problem. Once you have decided you want your garden to look just like the one in your favorite garden magazine you’re looking at BIG money. At this point the spiritual peacefulness of your retreat leaves. The “Experience” of the garden becomes as nasty and costly as a drug addiction. When the gazebos and exquisite “lawn living rooms” are in place you have invested the costliness of a breast enhancement.
AT THIS POINT DEPRESSION SETS IN. YOU MAY IGNORE YOUR GARDEN.
So what happens when the Gazebo goes up and you never sit in it? Or the beautiful pond of KOI gold fish cost a fortune and you have to work double time to afford it? You are living a LIE. What good is a garden if no one sits outside to enjoy it? The garden becomes just a drug of nasty dread. The high maintenance of watering and weeding, beautiful gates, arbors, pergolas, magical gazebos and exquisite ceramic pots is an investment fortune! “One with nature” becomes keeping up with the Jones. Like that magazine garden you admired, you depend on visitors to admire your investment. As for you? Your Garden of Eden is cracking whips over you like a prison guard! You can barely stand to be in it anymore!
RELAX. GIVE THE GARDEN PERMISSION TO DESIGN ITSELF.
Here is the point my Spiritual Garden Fanatic friends and I have reached.
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Our original goal was to feel peaceful and one with nature. After the garden has been formed, the theme created, STOP! Enjoy the Metamorphosis.
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Use the garden as daily meditation. Connect with it, watch it's process unfold.
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Stop demanding your garden grow expensive plants its dirt or climate can’t grow.
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Give the yard permission to reject or accept the plants it wants..
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Become a Co Existent Partner with your garden. It will shimmer with joy!
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Like a pet, when you relax and bond with your garden, its happiness is radiant and a happy retreat again.
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Pull weeds for therapy. After your garden plan has been accomplished sit back.
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Refuse to feel like a slave to the “looks” of your garden.
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Pick one spot a day to weed. This is your 'harmony" and meditation spot to let go and bond with the land. This is what gardening is all about!
Don’t become the egocentric garden displayer that ropes off their yard like a furniture shop. A garden is meant to bring peace and food for the soul.
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