{"id":5153,"date":"2013-03-28T14:16:30","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T14:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/?p=5153"},"modified":"2013-03-28T14:20:20","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T14:20:20","slug":"the-healing-heart-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/the-healing-heart-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"The Healing Heart Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our life is a journey of healing. \u00a0We are part of a very large learning experience. \u00a0One thing for certain, God&#8217;s garden has always been here for us. \u00a0It looks after itself if you look at a forest whether in a northern or southern climate. \u00a0We can create our own gardens both physically and mentally. \u00a0The Healing Heart Garden is a special garden that you create yourself. \u00a0You draw and colour it for your own use. \u00a0It will make you smile as you see the summer of your life when you are actually feeling that you are in the winter of your life. \u00a0You can use it to springboard visualizations from. \u00a0I look at my garden and then I do work in my garden so I step inside the images and sit and read a book, cultivate the soil, pick flowers, ponder about life, let the sun beat on my face making me feel good, growing ideas and finding inner peace. \u00a0Sometimes the garden will have weeds in it but perhaps that is where you are in your thinking but weeds can be beautiful too &#8211; dandelions are green and yellow and look beautiful on a lawn. \u00a0I have thistles in my garden and love watching them grow. \u00a0Hearts are so healing and you might want to plant a few heart flowers in your garden and add things like birds, butterflies, dragonflies, park benches, arbors or whatever. \u00a0Enjoy making your own garden. \u00a0Sally Spider says Hi!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our life is a journey of healing. \u00a0We are part of a very large learning experience. \u00a0One thing for certain, God&#8217;s garden has always been here for us. \u00a0It looks after itself if you look at a forest whether in a northern or southern climate. \u00a0We can create our own gardens both physically and mentally. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/the-healing-heart-garden\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Healing Heart Garden<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gardens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5157,"href":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5153\/revisions\/5157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gailmcnaughton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}