Your Garden Determines Your Energy
A well-maintained balcony garden is indicative of a home that attracts positivity. Energy fundas explains the link and gives suggestions on improving this area
A well-maintained balcony garden is indicative of a home that attracts positivity. Energy fundas explains the link and gives suggestions on improving this area
The next time you travel by road, observe the various ways in which people keep their balcony gardens. Some will have neatly arranged pots, with well-pruned plants, the garden area kept clean and the plant varieties correctly chosen – basically, a balcony garden that accentuates the beauty and homeliness of the house. On the other hand, some home gardens have plants growing wildly on dirty pots, with some of them not watered for weeks and having dry leaves and stems hanging loosely – looking much like unkempt hair, searching for direction in life.
You can judge the amount of energy that will be entering a household, by simply observing the way the family takes care of its garden. When you grow a plant, you are actually nurturing a seed of energy. Your plant’s growth is directly proportional to the amount of care and effort you put in.
A badly kept garden indicates that a family doesn’t know how to manage its energy. The principle about energy that I have explained earlier, in this column, is that it should be managed. Else, the energy manages you. Ditto, with plants.
When your balcony is virtually taken over by wet mud and wildly growing foliage, which obstructs your view, it means that your garden is, in effect, controlling the amount of time you spend in the balcony and the degree of enjoyment you derive in the balcony. In other words, your garden’s energy is controlling you, instead of the other way around.
Your attitude towards energy runs through all the activities that you undertake, to generate energy – like cooking, fine arts, or even raising a child. A child, like a plant, is a seed of energy that you nurture. If you are unable to manage that energy, upbringing becomes a much tougher process.
So, if you have a poorly maintained balcony garden, then try this:
* Prune the plants, to keep them below your eye level.
* Paint the pots.
* Clean the wet mud and dry leaves away, from the area surrounding the pots.
* Ensure that the plants do not disturb you, when you stand in your balcony. Wherever you choose to place plants in your house, make sure they serve as adornments and increase the energy in the area around them – both, by way of colour and presence.
* Replenish the soil, by adding manure. The principle is the same as reinventing yourself in life, by dressing up differently or taking up new courses. A plant’s energy has to be replenished.
* Practise crop rotation; try different plants in the same soil.
* Gift your plant.
* Talk to your plant. Studies have indicated that plants that are ‘spoken’ to, grow better.
* Paint the pots.
* Clean the wet mud and dry leaves away, from the area surrounding the pots.
* Ensure that the plants do not disturb you, when you stand in your balcony. Wherever you choose to place plants in your house, make sure they serve as adornments and increase the energy in the area around them – both, by way of colour and presence.
* Replenish the soil, by adding manure. The principle is the same as reinventing yourself in life, by dressing up differently or taking up new courses. A plant’s energy has to be replenished.
* Practise crop rotation; try different plants in the same soil.
* Gift your plant.
* Talk to your plant. Studies have indicated that plants that are ‘spoken’ to, grow better.
A garden can be a wonderful source of energy. It all depends on how well you maintain it. When things don’t seem to be going too well in life and when matters generally seem to be getting out of hand, check your garden and the way your plants are growing. They will give you a complete picture of your energy pattern.
(R Sridhar is a personal energy consultant by interest and a journalist by profession. This column is aimed at providing explanations to esoteric concepts, practices and rituals, as also to discuss energy principles. If you are searching for answers to some bothersome questions on spirituality, write in to him on personalenergy@gmail.com and he will try to get the answers for you. If you know further explanations to the same question, do add to his answer)