What Is The Psychology Behind Gardening
I don't know what it is about a garden that has always drawn humans to them. But they have always been very popular, and an intrinsic part of peoples' lifestyles. Most religions feature gardens as the settings for a few of the greatest events According to Christianity, humanity was started in a garden and the son of God was resurrected in a garden. The Buddhist build gardens to allow nature to permeate their surroundings. Nearly every major palace and government building has a garden. But what's so good about them? They're just a group of plants, when all said and done.
Of course, the reasoning is fairly obvious behind why people grow food in gardens. It's to eat! If you live off the fat of the land and actually survive on stuff from your garden, it's easy to comprehend the reasoning. But I'm looking at those people who plant flower gardens just in the interest of looking nice. There is no immediate benefit that I can see; you just have a bunch of flowers in your yard! Still, after thinking extensively about the motivation behind planting decorative gardens, I've conceived several potential theories.
I think a reason people love gardens so much is although we have a natural hope to progress and industrialize, deep within all of us is a primal love for nature. While this desire may not be as effective as the hope for modernism, it is still strong enough to compel us to create gardens, small outlets of nature, among all our hustle and bustle. Since being in nature is like regressing to an earlier stage of humanity, we too can regress to an occasion of comfort and utter happiness. This is the reason why gardens are so relaxing and calming to be in. This is the reason why gardens are a fine place to meditate and do Chinese tai chi exercises. A garden is a method to quick escape from the busy world.
I've thought now and then that perhaps we as humans feel a kind of guilt driving us to restore nature and care for it. This guilt could stem from the knowledge that we, not personally but as a race, have destroyed so much of nature to get where we're today. It's the least we can get done to build a small garden in remembrance of all the trees we kill each day. It's my theory that this is the cause for most people to need gardening as an interest.
Gardening is definitely a nourishing addiction though, don't get me wrong. Any hobby that provides exercise, helps the surroundings, and improves your diet plan cannot be a negative thing. So in spite of what the underlying psychological cause for gardening is, I consider that everyone ought to continue to do so. In the USA particularly, that is treating excessive weight and pollution as its two major problems, I think gardening can only help improve the state around the world.
Needless to say I'm no psychologist; I'm just a curious gardener. I often stay up for hours wondering what makes me garden. What is it that makes me go outside for a couple of hours each day with my gardening tools, and facilitate the small-time growth of plants that would grow naturally on their own? I may never know, but in this case ignorance truly is bliss.
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