Motivation Monday
Find Your Secret Garden
In the Middle Ages, secret gardens in Europe became refuges from the chaos, wars and disease.
These secret gardens were places for healing and spiritual communion where fragile flowers, medicinal herbs and trees grew.
They symbolize the sacred, protected garden of paradise within us.
Rediscover and explore your secret garden. Find a corner where you can retreat into yourself for a few minutes.
Imagine walking in your inner secret garden and find the serenity and peace that are your true nature. Note how this place feels and what you find there. Manifest this in some way in your life.
Plant a flower in your garden. Get some herbs for the kitchen or draw or collage an image from your secret garden to remind you of this serene place during the day.
Adapted from Debra Moffitt: Awake in the World: 108 Ways to Live a Divinely Inspired Life
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I just love secret gardens…and secret wooded areas! Thinking of you today! Also, thanks for the reminder that I need to transplant my herbs from my outdoor herb garden to my indoor garden as ol’ man winter will soon be visiting.
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I loved this 🙂
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My secret garden is my outdoor water fountain space. I love it. There is nothing like the sound of gently bubbling water to relax or settle down a person’s mind. And my mind often needs settling down!
I’m also just heading out the door to transplant some hostas. Digging in the dirt is healing for sure. It makes you connect somehow with nature. You feel part of it. At least that’s what it does for me.
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Nancy, you also come up with great soundbites! You should work in advertising 😉
“Digging in the dirt is healing for sure”
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I love the image of a secret garden. I have one in my mind, since I am displaced at the moment. A flower blooming in the depths of my mind. A beautiful picture of love.
XOXO,
Jan
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It’s such an honor to be mentioned on your blog. I’ve found the secret garden is an inner place as well as places I’ve visited in Europe and around the world. It has always brought me inspiration — and when I can’t get to one in nature I simply go inside and find it in my heart. — Debra Moffitt, Author, “Awake in the World: 108 Spiritual Practices to Live a Divinely Inspired Life” (Llewellyn Worldwide, 2011)
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