Participating in Horticultural Therapy activities will make you relax and provide inner peace and happy.

1. HORTICULTURAL THERAPY
For Distracting Mind…
Surya Suresh
Horticultural Therapist
ArtyPlantz

2. Distraction is when you are dragged away from your tasks or from
your worries.

3. Healthy Distraction
When you are dragged
away from your worries,
pain or any other
negative thoughts and
allow you to direct your
attention to any other
activity, it's healthy
distraction.

4. DISTRACTION=RELAXATION
It can also be a pleasant break. Forgetting your worries help you feel
relaxed and de-stressed. Therefore distraction can be a form of
relaxation.

5. Mental distraction is a technique that has been used effectively for a
number of physical and mental health issues.

6. Connecting to nature and plants can help you to control your mind and
body. Distraction through plants relieve your stress and tension

7. “In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy.”
~Robert Brault

8. Horticultural Therapy(HT) can help people to manage their life through
connecting with nature through a series of gardening and garden related
activities.

9. Distraction through HT activities, is not a diversion from reality, but
helps to raise coping skills.

10. Removing Negative
Thoughts
Specific HT activities that req
more concentration and so w
help to fades away the nega
thoughts easily. All HT activ
are also fun-filled and there
everybody, from children to o
population will love participa
in these activities. He
dragging their concentration
the acitivity becomes very sim
and easy.

11. Reduce worries
Color and fragrance of nature can
make much more impact on human
emotions and so in HT there are
many related activities used to
control our emotions, but they are
very specific to each individual.

12. Help to relieve pain
Many HT activities that involve
focusing helps to forget your pain,
and enjoy the activity you are doing.
Focusing on specific nature friendly
activities help you to forget about
what you were thinking and make
you focus only on the activity. Hence
practicing this activities will help you
to concentrate on a particular work
whenever you want to, without any
other thoughts disturbing you.

13. General gardening activities like weeding, harvesting, watering and
planting also lessens the buildup of anxiety and stress.

14. “Learn to be an observer in all seasons. Every single day, your garden
has something new and wonderful to show you.”

15. To know more about Horticultural Therapy, log on to www.horticulturaltherapy.in or
mail to surya@artyplantz.com