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Dealing with stress has many dimensions. The causes of stress are so spread out that discussing and dealing with all the factors is just impossible.
Do every little thing that helps you reducing stress. Nature is one of them and it stands tall in the factors reducing stress. It heals your mind and makes it calm.
Increasingly, doctors are seeing a few moments spent in a park as the perfect prescription for a good many stress induced modern ailments. Experts say – gardening has a therapeutic effect – more so while getting down on your knees and getting dirty composting, sowing, hoeing, raking, heaping.
Studies show that whether you are planting a showy clump of dahlias or a little coconut sapling, this very experience can lower your blood pressure, reduce pain, ease stress, lift your mood, and give your immune system a massive boost.
The reason if you think basically is plants connect us to ourselves, the earth and to a bigger extent the whole universe. They take us to standstill where no worries matter, and that little thing occupies our mind to give pleasure.
This ability to heal by plants and the therapeutic effect of garden in a whole has given rise to an entirely new profession- horticultural therapy.
We all have experienced that being in a stressful situation; the mind gets totally occupied with the problem. Jay Stone Rice, a Californian psychotherapist, affiliated with Horticultural therapy institute, sums it up with a very powerful reasoning of reducing stress through plants. He says “In intense stress or depression we lose the feeling that we can change. We feel stuck. But plants put us in touch with the natural cycles of life and teach us that there is always a new cycle, a rebirth, a life being renewed.”
Indeed a very powerful sum up. Such little things in life and few changes in habit can go a long way in dealing with stress in our life.