anunda  • Health, Therapy and LifeSkills

The Gentle Therapist Program

The Metaphor of the Garden

You are the Gardener - and you could rethink and become the master or mistress of your own garden.

Your body is your garden, you are given raw materials to work with, what you do with them is entirely up to you and your programming.

As with any garden there is a beginning point, conception and lots of planning go into the beginning of a good garden. But how many good gardens do you see?

The same with the body. Very few people born of a western background receive the consideration and planing that ideally goes to make up an individual who can take their place in the evolutionary processes of humankind.

In reality most of us are born of an act of avoidance, due to drink, or need or want. Very few individuals are free of these at the moment of their conception. Therefore these are patterns are integrated into the individual so that they are unable to attain their perfection and fulfil their possible potentialities.

Because of this, the garden that is the individual may have rocks in it that the creator decided it would be better to avoid moving in case something creepy or fearful lived underneath, or perhaps it would just be to much of an effort.

Perhaps the desires or imagined needs for a boy or a girl child are projected on the unborn, so that areas of the garden are indistinct, lawn and flower beds mix and become jumbled and unclear, so that people walk on the flowers and the grass grows unseen amid the tangled jungle of gender differentiation.

So it is that we are born at least most of us a sad and sorry garden, with rocks that equal blocks, without planned drainage so that the water of the emotions is unable to move freely and becomes stagnant and sometimes a breeding ground for disease and parasites. It allows the body to become host to many emotions that the body has not the drainage to handle, so it becomes a boggy mess. Sometimes even when there are drains they become blocked when neighbouring gardens allow an overflow of their emotions to run into another’s garden.

Perhaps the orientation of the garden is not as sunny or a balanced with shade as it should be and some plants grow to fast, forced to maturity before they have the strength to cope, others have the inner strength but are held in check by the shade or are overshadowed by the neighbouring plants.

Every person has the opportunity to create of themselves the garden of their being. What is needed depends on the standard of the initial planning. Careful assessment is the first priority, which areas of the garden are in most need of work, which take to priority. Isolating within those areas the systems of the garden that are not functioning properly. Wether it be that the soil is lacking nutriments, is to acid or to alkaline, if there are parasites in the soil, checking drainage, removing rocks and tilling the soil to a fine tilth, removing all that is not conducive to the optimum growth of the plants.

If the garden was created out of the old patterns handed down by generations of ill equipped gardeners there will be patterns to be located and untangled for they invariably exist and equally inevitably overlap and become tangled and congested. Very little light ever reaches all the plants in such a garden, so there is little opportunity for some plants to make new and sustainable growth.

There may also be a need to deal with the insecticides and poisons that have been used in the past of the garden as bandaids by those gardeners who could not see beyond patching up an illness. There will also need be work done on all paths for they carry you from one part of the garden to another, they carry the energy of the body, if they become overgrown and blocked then even the gardener cannot move freely within his own domain to heal and create.

Lastly, there is the task of allowing, of realising that, even though you may plan and plant, you may try and enforce your will on the garden you have created, there comes a time when you must hand over, when you must trust, for the forces of nature are complex and will not be denied.

It is then when we learn to trust our intuition and begin to work in harmony with the creator within and the universal creator that dwells in everyone and in everything that healing takes place.