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Ever wondered why you garden? What the love of growing tomatoes, in particular, says about you. I dived into the psychology of gardening during lockdown and found some amazing answers for myself. Perhaps you may find a few things that you can relate to, so let's go.
Biophilia is a term that describes the loving relationship we humans have with plants. Some of us experience this relationship more intensely than others, which is more than likely to be you, tomato lover. Now hold on to your tomatoes because what I'm about to tell you is mind blowing.
It turns out gardeners can manipulate time, we can speed time up, you head out to do one task, and it leads to another and before you know it the night is upon you and you have no idea where the time has gone. That garden just absorbed your attention in such a way that you no longer needed to notice the time. You were in a flow state. Flow is only interested in you, focusing on the process of completion. While you are there, you can even resist sleeping or eating; there's less reflection, more direction. Then we can slow time down, the garden is finally in full bloom, and we can simply stand there and drink it all in, as we immerse ourselves. It's called mindfulness.You're experiencing reflection you're becoming aware of internal processes that lower your arousal, you are moving from human time to natural time, nature is entering your senses. Welcome to the bigger picture, you're getting jiggy with the universe now.
But this is the part that really got me. Your gardening experiences or memories are lingering there. You can bump into your grandfather when you bite into that giant strawberry that tastes just as good as his did, or your grandmother as the soft scent of sweet-peas lightly kiss you, just like the ones she grew every year without fail. You've got a dianthus that your best-friend gifted you, and she's right, it is the most gorgeous thing you'll ever see when it blooms. There are these invisible connections that can be seen and held again. It's pure and good; it's always trying to restore you and make you see things differently see things better. You've got history, memories, and even better you can pass them on to your children. Gardening is a gift, a beautiful muddy time-altering interconnecting one.
There's some great news too for those of us that are ageing, the relationship to gardening deepens. Particularly if you are a woman, it could be making you live longer. There's so much more I could ramble on about but alas my flow state has come to an end, and I'm keen to find myself back in the garden with my memories of loved ones passed making time standstill.
My grandfather Wi and Betty Hauraki. My grandfather would eat dry weetbix with butter on it and spill it all over his shirt; he'd then get up and go and dust himself off over my grandmother's chair while she wasn't looking. It would drive my nana crazy. Crazy love is the best kind of love.
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