Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Renewal and springtime
Spring has finally arrived and not a minute too soon ! We can take this opportunity to re-evaluate and renew our energies and be on the road to living fuller lives. We can get out and smell the air, get some sunshine and awaken our desire to live. Hope is an important component of the will to live. Hope comes primarily from yourself if you are willing to do the things that will improve your health, mind, body and spirit. Going to a concert, enjoying a walk outside, filling your lungs with fresh air, raking leaves, what ever gives you joy will help you gain control and strengthen your will to live. Ask yourself, what are the things that will bring renewal to me? Perhaps, you would like to share these things with others....
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I always said that gardening was the way I kept my sanity! I`ve used my garden to relieve my stress, it was the place I found refuge in when I needed to think a problem out, when I needed peace and quiet. I know what it means to take the time to smell the roses.
ReplyDeleteI was really distraught when my doctor told me I was not allowed to do any gardening during chemo because of the risk for infection. So that year my son and my friends helped with the maintenance so that I could really "enjoy" the garden and get better.
So this year again I look forward to the garden's rebirth, as it brings me back to life too !
I was diagnosed with cancer in the spring of 2005. I remember how every bud that was opening seemed to hurt somehow, not only because I thought I was going to die, but also because I was ruining the springtime for all my family. All around me I would see the healthy people doing normal springlike things. But all I could do was to lay in the fetal position and hope that I would fall asleep. I felt disconnected from the world as I had always known it. I was on the fringe and I could barely breathe.
ReplyDeleteNow, exactly four springs later, I am one of those healthy people, doing normal springlike things and feeling very much connected to the budding world around me. I take long, deep breaths as I practice Tai Chi in my garden and every spring, my hope is renewed.