The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 32

Good morning everyone. The Mindful Farmer Patrick here. This morning I am coming to you a little earlier for the following reason, each morning I meditate for a while in the garden to welcome each day and show gratitude for a new day, a new dawn and for you all to listen to the dawn chorus. I just listen and be still. I usually do this barefoot so that I have the perfect connection with earth and nature and last night we were having a discussion here and Aoife made a very good point as she said “you know Patrick, you speak a lot about nature and being outside in nature and its lovely but what about the people who live an appartments or town houses and cant get out into nature?”. So with that in mind we are going to do the following:-  when we have retreats here I was giving a present to the participants when they are departing and it is a sketch of the 3 gardens - The Mindfulness Gardens, The Meditation Garden and The Forgiveness Garden and the surrounding Thinking Path with its little messages pinned on to the mature trees and this is sketched inside a head. My point here is that when people leave the retreat they take this garden with them and when they are at home and they take a little time to meditate or say a prayer or whatever, this is their garden for the rest of their life and they can go there as often as they so wish. It is put in a lovely frame for them and signed by The Mindful Farmer. So today we are putting the gardens up on The Mindful Farmer Facebook page and then each day you can in your minds eye go into the garden from your home, or where ever you are. I hope this will help you in this difficult time. This will be your inner garden and it will help you be patient with yourself, it will help you develop an inner strength and to embrace the beautiful seeds of beauty that we all have within us. Sometimes, especially in the difficult times, there are dark corners in our lives which we try to ignore but in the sanctuary of our garden and our hearts we can make room for the transforming power of love to grow within us and radiate through us.

Continue to pray, bless and mind each other.

The Mindful Farmer

Patrick