Meditating in the Garden

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Meditation is important to Kaylan, and doing so in her garden has brought her nervous system much peace. It has also given her a deeper presence and appreciation for the garden just as it is. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/46FWLmU Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/46FWPTG Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3RkTeGc EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3t1iYOa Connect With Kaylan Segev: Kaylan is a Bay Area native and budding gardener. Her passion for planting began when she started growing tomatoes in her studio apartment bathroom while living in San Francisco during shelter-in-place. Today, she gardens on 13,000 square feet of fertile land nestled in the hills of Oakland, CA (zone 10a), where she cultivates everything from native plants, vegetables, fruits, and bulbs, to medicinal and sensory plants in raised beds, grow bags, and in the ground. Her latest project, a dreamy chicken coop, is currently being constructed with chickens on the way in spring 2024. Instagram Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, and Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Meditation is something that has been recommended by probably tens of thousands
0:17.0	millions of people practice by probably billions over the course of our
0:21.3	human history. I have a bit of a history with it. I did some of the
0:24.9	possinus style meditation in my early 20s. I haven't done it actively in that
0:28.9	exact way for quite some time. We have Caitlin Sega back in the show. Sounds like you have. I know you talked about being a highly sensitive person, finding a lot of anxiety relief in the garden. I didn't know if that was by simply the act of gardening, which I assume it is, but if you were also
0:46.1	doing active meditation as well. Yeah, no, that's a great question and like you can meditate anywhere anytime eyes open eyes closed laying down sitting up like whatever feels right but yeah no I was a gardener first started dabble in meditation and now they're kind of like not fully
1:06.0	integrated but like one kind of begets the other you, and they overlap a lot.
1:13.6	And so, you know, I even learned about this,
1:18.0	this phrase called soft fascination
1:21.6	where it really is just spacing out.
1:23.6	It's just like, watch a spider build a web.
1:26.7	Watch a bird bathes.
1:29.2	Yeah, it kind of goes back to what I was saying
1:30.7	about the grounding and the forest bathing and stuff is we come up with
1:33.1	these scientific terms for things that we already have known for so long.
1:37.8	But you're right, I have heard of that soft fascination.
1:40.0	Basically you're not fully focused but you're not completely spaced out.
1:43.6	You're just sort of in the present watching an experience unfold.
1:46.6	Totally and like again, yeah, like you mentioned earlier it's like you know you're
1:51.4	just you're being you're not doing and I think you know in the
1:57.5	world that we're in right now so many distractions computers and apps and all these things like, you know, full of distractions, you know,
2:08.9	that is like currency these days, is like how much attention can I get from how many humans and hopefully it
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