Welcome to Mindful Gardening! These days more of us are turning to our gardens to find solace in a difficult world. As we instinctively know, nurturing plants also nurtures us. We look at the science behind this and the case for gardening for your mental health and wellbeing. This bookazine digs into how to cultivate more mindfulness through gardening ad use it to create greater peace, focus, productivity and joy in our daily lives. Our slow, beautiful pages and practical exercises will help you integrate a regular, beneficial practice into your daily life. Supporting your leafy creations, we guide you through gardening best practice, how to create the conditions plants love, raise seeds, plant out trees, and the essentials of ongoing maintenance aligned with the seasons to help your gardens thrive. There are also many mindful gardening projects to inspire you, how to create edible, wildlife, herb and tea gardens, build sensory zones, use design principles that facilitate mindfulness or healing and more. This bookazine is published by Universal Media Co - The Bookazine Specialist. Printed on high-quality paper, and featuring a beautiful design with accompanying imagery, bookazines are an informative and entertaining deep-dive into a complete topic. Universal Media Co's 53 magazine brands include leaders in Home, Craft, Bike, and some Lifestyle categories. The company owns the Australian Publishing Company and Universal Online Media. Universal Media Co is an independently owned private company. Additional Information Year Published: 2021 Size: 230mm x 297mm Pages: 128 Material: Made from premium quality Woodfree paper
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The benefits
Calm in the chaos • Spirals are one of many common harmonious patterns that repeat in nature. Can you spot others?
Nature’s nurturing ways • Why being in nature brings calms in a chaotic world
Bringing the ‘being’ into human • The science of mindfulness is about recovering the ‘being’ part of human being.
Mighty mindsets • Another facet of mindfulness is cultivating a wise mindset. Apply these subtle yet powerful principles in the garden and elsewhere to achieve more daily Zen.
Why your mind needs a garden • There are many ways we can support our mental wellbeing. But gardening is unique to other activities.
A wholesome harvest • Gardening is increasingly being used as a therapeutic tool. Here are 10 life-transforming benefits to harvest from your own garden.
Study the Ancient Cosmic Order of a Tree • Focusing on a tree is a good centreing and stabilising exercise for times when you feel rocked by life and need strength, poise and wisdom.
Applying mindfulness to a garden
Mindful gardening • Applying the principles of mindfulness to gardening
Replicate the Art and Zen of Sacred Gardens • Use ancient design principles to encourage spiritual contemplation and relaxation.
Mindful design • These mindfulness principles will give your garden a touch more Zen.
Add a touch of Zen • Apply some Zen to your own garden.
Walking through the garden
Designing a garden for mindfulness
How to keep plants happy • Rather than rushing for a quick fix and buying plants, a more mindful approach to gardening is to take it slow and get to know the secret loves of plants.
Light, fire and fuel of the planet • A distant but powerful ball of intensely hot gas, the sun (our closest star) powers all life on Earth, including that of plants.
Site your plants correctly for their light needs
Morning intention setting
Air, breath of earth • Like us, plants need to breathe.
Water, the flow of life • Most plants are about 80 to 90 per cent water. Their main source of water? The soil.
A lush life • Compost and natural mulches are a...