In this post, I want to discuss how gardening affects my Tourette.
For several years, I have been tending a garden in my apartment in the kibbutz. I usually sit in the garden with coffee or a computer. The work in the garden started a few years ago with the activities of the Tsava club. A guide named Sela guided us about gardening in the club's garden. At first, I didn't really connect with the subject, but after a few activities, I started to like it, and I also had the idea of making a garden for myself in the kibbutz. In my first years in the kibbutz, I lived in Ashkovit, where there was no space and area to establish and cultivate a garden. I was also not in the mode of gardening and developing the garden at that time. In recent years, the issue has become more relevant for me since I got a bigger apartment in the kibbutz. An apartment that has a patio to sit outside, and next to it, there is an option to build and develop a garden.
Following moving to a larger apartment with a patio, I started to plant plants and develop a garden. I noticed that the more I was involved in gardening, the more the symptoms of Tourette's subsided. Even when I sit in the garden, I find myself more relaxed. Apparently, something relaxes me when I'm near flowers in the garden I've cultivated. I also like to sit in the garden with a coffee, write blogs, and think.
Sitting in the garden is a time when my soul is on another spiritual plane, where everything is relaxed and nothing threatens it. When I'm busy gardening, I find myself more comfortable, as does the Tourette. The work and the garden make me move to a more spiritual and calmer place. This directly affects the syndrome and my mood and helps me deal successfully with the syndrome.
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