Garden Evolution-Stage 4

Backyard Complete

We celebrated in the garden over the weekend with nine of my favorite people💃!

What a beautiful day, and most certainly proof that at least one of my beliefs is totally made-up 😳. Now speaking of random thoughts and beliefs that roll through the lower mind (the crazy monkey that knows only obsessive, running self-criticism and the related “to-do” lists)…the low vibration topics during the garden revamp included fear, mortality, lack of knowledge, general limitation and loneliness.

Ugh😫.

One of my most-used methods to uncover, acknowledge and clear the lower-mind uglies is ACTION!

We all have running thoughts and sometimes follow them around as though they are true. Rather than sitting still and meditating—which, no matter how positive, often just creates new thoughts or frosted and temporary affirmations, and don’t really work with the more tenacious programs—I like to take an action.

Meditation or self-reflection can be a wonderful tool, yet the electro-chemical body doesn’t always get the message from these (potentially falsely affirming) moments and cannot make the transition in its patterns for a real change. Though it may seem and even feel different for a minute, the lower vibration thinking will likely return.

The body must be involved to turn the “thing” around because programs are most deeply lodged in the part of the brain that governs motor control—physical movement patterns are created from thoughts-emotions-chemicals-neurological sensations that become motor (movement) patterns.

It’s called the motor sensory complex of the brain in the prefrontal cortex.

The body really does need to move (act) to resolve inefficient, unproductive patterns at every stage of their development—physical, chemical, emotional and ideological (beliefs).

So, when I feel the first signs of dissonance—heavy, tired, unmotivated, etc.; or hear self-negating mental disturbances, I begin to create something. As the creation unfolds, the thoughts arise and either drop away or morph into emotion and then chemistry. As long as I don’t push the feelings aside, they slowly *boil down to their most basic and original form and go back to whence they came or turn to ashes.

*Yeah—that will soon need a bit of explanation, though not today.

The key is to be aware and breathe. Keep creating—write, paint, draw, make music and use your body—dance, walk, etc; and take the action through to completion.

While you do these activities, just breathe and release, letting it all go rather than following the thought into a story which only cements the lie (that’s the belief in the lower vibration thinky-monkey).

Once the project or action is complete, there is a new perspective which allows us—me and you, to tell a better, different story.

Here are a few more angles of the completed backyard project and a reminder of its earlier appearance.

Before

Note the ferns have been filled-in alongside the house.

More Back-Sideyard Angles:

One night soon I’ll get some pictures of the lighting and post them so you can see its magical essence!

And, the front yard will be transformed over the next few weeks. Here’s a current photo and kindergarten drawing of the evolutionary plan.

This was taken in the early Spring by a neighbor across the street.

The Basic Frontyard Plan

Essentially, all grass—which becomes very mossy without poison treatment in the PNW, will be removed and replaced with amended soil, various heather plants and bark surrounding and in-between the fruit trees. Pebble-stone and flagstone—likely enhanced with lavender to steer the deer away, will be placed to create a pathway to the side yard meditation garden and around the outskirts.

Plans for an expanded veggie garden next year is underway! Greene’s Fencing has already delivered the elevated cedar beds which will be set-up and planted early in the Spring.

Wow! This was an amazingly cathartic and satisfying experience for me. Who knew gardening could be this internally transformational and fun!