The Art of Gardening

As I was growing up, my mom helped me to see the potential in what she was nurturing, whether it was fixing up the house, cooking a meal, sewing clothes, or talking to a lonely widow down the street. She helped me to see more than what I could see in the moment. She taught me to look at what WAS in our surroundings and then she showed me what it could be. 

She sprinkled seeds of love and attention into these spaces in her life and I saw that potential bloom into more than we thought possible. She could do that with a meal and feed all 8 of us out of nothing. She took space in her back yard that was full of weeds and rocks and she grew mountains of food. I saw her touch people’s lives and I tasted of the fruit of friendship as she nurtured relationships with seeds of service and love. I watched her overcome scarcity, adversity and pain. I watched her create art out of her daily living. What she focused her attention on -would grow and bloom right before my eyes. 

Whatever we touch, we are working to build and to beautify or to make it better -This is the art or living. Mothers and fathers work so hard to beautify and improve their homes and their lives. They work so they can pass on something better to those that are coming after them. This kind of gardening is in the invisible realm. Often times we are growing something that cannot be seen and something that is more valuable than money. 

My mother modeled to me that the heart has power to either grow into bitterness and stinginess or to grow and bloom into its full potential as a flowering personality. Those that have gone before us have passed on dreams and hopes and personal monuments about what mattered for them in their life. What they sacrificed for became sacred. And as they sacrificed their souls either withered or it bloomed.

The garden is oftentimes referred to as a space in the brain with the spine being the roots and the brain being the branches. It is also known as the tree of life. In our early childhood based on genetics and environmental influence our personality grows from seeds that were planted there. So, when we talk about the art of gardening, we are talking literally about the brain garden.

It takes a visionary to see what space needs to be cultivated in our own personal growth. Developing vision for yourself is noble, and change does start from the inside out. But taking it to even another level--being able to see others for who they might become is truly the heart of the gardener.

The mind is the garden. 

The thought is the seed. 

You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds. 

The IPT Certification Course is designed to support individuals to continue to do their personal gardening and to learn how to support other flowering personalities so that they too can BLOOM.

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Loves always,

Pam