How does your garden grow?

Today, as I was sitting in the backyard, I was so surprised to see that my tomato plants are covered with blossoms and even small tomatoes. We have cucumelons and regular cucumbers and cabbage and herbs, our strawberry plants are already starting to ripen and the flowers our blooming.
The challenge of the perennial garden is to plant in such a way that you have flowers blooming at different times throughout all the seasons. It is possible and we are still working on it in our garden. Once the peonies are gone, then you have the daisies and the dahlias (which bloom all summer and into the fall). I think the miracle of growth should impress all of us.

I recently have been reading a lot about the vagus nerve and one of the things that activates our vagus nerve is gratitude. It balances out our nervous system. A low vagal tone, means you can find yourself in an ongoing state of anxiety—the fight or flight mode—in response to moments of stress. Practicing Gratitude activates our vagal nerve, thus helping to protect ourselves from these negative states. A healthy vagus nerve allows us to move appropriately between these states. Because the vagus nerve travels so widely through the body, Vagal nerve dysfunction can also cause digestive issues, inappropriate changes to heart rate or blood sugar, swallowing challenges, and more. Several things including head trauma, diabetes, viral infection, and chronic stress can cause it.
Cultivating gratitude for our bodies is one of the best ways to inspire us to care for them. Let’s add our nervous systems to our gratitude list.

If you want to do some reading on the Vagus Nerve or the Nervous System,, try one of these books..
Tools to Regulate Your Nervous System: 9 Somatic, Cognitive and Lifestyle Techniques to Create Calm, Relieve Stress and Reduce Anxiety by Learnwell Books

The Vagus Nerve Reset: Train Your Body to Heal Stress, Trauma and Anxiety by Anna Ferguson

Vagus Nerve Unlocked – Guide to Unleashing Your Self-Healing Ability and Achieving Freedom from Anxiety, Depression, PTSK, Trauma, Inflammation and Autoimmunity by Mark Evans

The Vagus Nerve: Your Body’s Superpower: Simple 3-minute exercises to activate your body’s natural healing power to relieve inflammation, stress, anxiety, depression and chronic illness by Galen Hart

Written by Pam