Tending The Garden Of The Mind

[Deleted member 28740]

Chasing my tail. I think of gardening, get out the weeds, good compost, tend carefully - my mind I can't do that for my self, but have to.

Compost - past?
Meds- additives?
Seeds and weeding?
Transplanting?
Good or bitter salad?
Tender or bitter?

 

[Anarchy]

I like the metaphor but would caution you to take care, and not to go following an analogy too far.

 

[WillyKat]

Interesting. I'm a big fan of backpacking and going on vision quests in the wilderness. What impresses me is that everything moves in a cycle, not start to finish. Therapy and healing are more like a cycle to me. Your garden also operates in cycles. You get out of it what you put into it.

 

[shimmerz]

I think it is a really helpful thing to take an internal set of 'feelings/experiences/whatever' and apply an external marker for them like your gardening. For me that would be a kind of 'grounding' as in knowing what has happened in the past, what is happening now, and what will likely happen in the future.

I wish for you the most beautiful blooms this year Changeling! :hug:

 

[Deleted member 28740]

. You get out of it what you put into it.

@WillyKat I know those trees BcP. Cycles of recorded natural history also reset carbon dating.

Also what was put into oneself.

 

[WillyKat]

@shimmerz is right: "grounding". Lol
@Changeling: you are right, taken last fall.

 

[WildMermaid]

@Changeling this makes good sense to me, great metaphor.