Healthy Gardening for Illness Recovery

by Babs 'O' Reilly
(Miami Beach, Florida, USA)

When it comes to healthy gardening, recovering from a major illness or surgery can be a long and depressing process. Many people find themselves wanting to give up and accept defeat which only prolongs the suffering and slows down the healing process.

What many people fail to realize is that lying around doing nothing will actually make you feel worse than if you get up, get out, and try to get back to doing the things that you love; especially your gardening. Healthy gardening has been found to be beneficial to the healing process in so many ways that it’s a wonder that hospitals haven’t started providing every patient with a garden of their own.

Order and Control

Ask anyone recovering from an illness or anyone still suffering through a diagnosis and they will tell you that the biggest thing they feel they have lost is control. Control over their own lives, control over their fate, and control over their emotions. Feeling no sense of order and control in your life will make anyone feel depressed and wanting to quit. The desire to keep going is difficult to muster up when you feel you have lost everything.

Healthy gardening allows you to have control over something—it allows you to maintain control of one solid thing while everything else seems to be falling apart. Many may be wondering how on earth maintaining a garden restores order, but if you allow yourself to keep working; you make yourself spend time each day even if it’s just a few minutes—the feeling when you stand back and look at your garden is incomparable to anything else.

Knowing that you are able to accomplish something despite what you may be going through is something that no amount of medication could ever provide. We all need a sense of control and a garden is one place that you will always be able to find it.

No Pressure

Because your garden is all your own, there is absolutely no pressure to accomplish specific tasks or spend a certain amount of time. How much time you spend in healthy gardening, what you plant, and how you plant it is all completely up to you. Your garden is for you to enjoy—it’s giving you a way to get outside, get back to normalcy, and accomplish something beautiful in the meantime.

Rehabilitating

Healthy gardening is a physical activity but only needs to be as physical as you make it. If kneeling or bending is difficult during your recovery, you can use planters on a table or have someone make other adjustments for you. The physical aspect is great physical therapy for your whole body as well as your mind.

Even planting tiny flowers in pots is helping to rehabilitate you—working with your hands has countless benefits no matter what you may be recovering from.
Be sure to check with your doctor before engaging in any aspects of gardening that are too physical.

You don’t want to do more harm than good while trying to recover. The key is to remember that you control the physicality of it—ask for help if you need it so that your garden can be a place of rehabilitation, relaxation, control, and most of all—happiness.

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