{"id":116105,"date":"2020-05-06T18:00:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-well-gardened-mind-by-sue-stuart-smith-review-unwinding-with-nature\/"},"modified":"2020-05-06T18:03:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T11:03:34","slug":"the-well-gardened-mind-by-sue-stuart-smith-review-unwinding-with-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-well-gardened-mind-by-sue-stuart-smith-review-unwinding-with-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"The Well Gardened Mind by Sue Stuart-Smith review \u2013 unwinding with nature"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nA life-affirming study of the pleasures of tending a plot or garden, and soothing your mind Sue Stuart-Smith, a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, has a unique view of gardening: \u201cI have come to understand that deep existential processes can be involved in creating and caring for a garden.\u201d For her, a garden \u2013 such as her own at Serge Hill, Hertfordshire \u2013 is far more than just a much loved physical space. It is also a mental space, one that \u201cgives you quiet, so you can hear your thoughts\u201d. When you work with your hands in the garden, weeding or clipping, you free your mind to work through feelings and problems.. By tending your plants, you are also gardening your inner space and, over time, a garden is woven into your sense of identity, becoming a place to \u201cbuffer us when the going gets tough\u201d.It was Wordsworth who said that to walk through a garden is to be \u201cin the midst of the realities of things\u201d, to be immersed in the primal awareness not just of nature\u2019s beauty, but the eternal cycle of the seasons, of life, death and rebirth. The psychoanalyst Carl Jung believed modern technological life had alienated us from the \u201cdark maternal, earthy ground of our being\u201d. He grew his own vegetables and argued that \u201cevery human should have a plot of land so that their instincts can come to life again\u201d. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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