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Benefits of Gardening for Mental Health

Gardening can improve many aspects of mental health, focus, and concentration.  Gardening can make you feel more peaceful and content.

Focusing your attention on the immediate tasks and details of gardening can reduce negative thoughts and feeling and can make you feel better in the moment.  Just spending time around plants eases stress for many people.

Gardening boosts your self-esteem.  Self-esteem is how much you value and feel positively about yourself.  Helping a plant to grow is a big feat.  When you see your work pay off with healthy plants, your sense of pride gets a boost.

Other benefits of Gardening for Mental Health

Improves attention span –

Gardening can change how well you pay full attention to a single activity.  If you struggle with staying focused on tasks, gardening can help you learn to concentrate on what’s right in front of you without getting distracted.

Provides exercise –

Things like weeding, digging, and raking are good exercise.  Regular exercise reduces anxiety, depression, and other mental issues.  Exercise has also been known to help improve dementia patients.

Download this eBook – Benefits of Gardening for Mental Health and see all the benefits that gardening has for yourself!