Reduce your blood pressure with container garden grounding:
With the current environment and stress in our busy lives, it is very easy for one to get aggravated, agitated, angry and thus easily get ungrounded and cause blood pressure to rise. Fast foods can cause you to spike your blood pressure and so also can non-vegetarian meat can, specially red meats.
There are many different ways to get ground oneself but gardening can definitely be one of them. But at the same time, healthy foods can assist you to control your high blood pressure. Healthy mix of vegetables(specially leafy greens that are rich in potassium and magnesium) and soups can help keep a healthy diet.
In the hindu scriptures, the element of earth is said to be providing grounding, it supports one when engages with it. During the process of planting seeds, saplings, you directly engage with this element of earth. Contact with this element grounds one's self. While you work with your plants be it vegetables, flowers or herbs, it can be a good physical activity and it will relax you at the end of the container planting.
Flowers and blooms fill the air with fragrance that can attract beautiful birds and butterflies. This can relax the mind and the body, thus can relax and reduce blood pressure in turn.
Select the vegetable or vegetables that you would like to grow in your garden space. The garden space can be a small terrace area in your apartment or balcony area of your apartment, or a garden area around your house.
Personalize this small or big garden space for you, for people who like cooking, herb garden can be a good starting point, for women(specially Indians) who like flowers for Puja, flower garden can be good idea, for serious people who want grow vegetables for health, vegetable garden is a great idea.
Thus whatever the choice be for your garden, your container garden can help you stay grounded, keep your blood pressure under check and help stay healthy!!!
