Can Gardening Help with Anger Management?




Gardening is an activity that is good for you, an activity that works the body, soothes the mind and delights the soul. Most people who do gardening regularly do it not only because they have started a gardening project and their allotments require their attention, but also because they enjoy the immediate calming effects of the process.

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One of the ways that gardening can help green-fingered homeowners maintain their emotional balance is by helping with anger management. While tending to plants gives us a sense of responsibility and nurturing, gardening is not all about pruning a few dead-heads and enjoying the beauty of our allotments – it also involves some physically demanding activities that have the same effects as a strenuous work-out session:  
Anger management Denver therapists suggest gardening may release the tension that we experience when we are angry. Gardening also involves some destructive activities, such as cutting and chopping that are in fact beneficial for the plants, while some other types of gardening work, such as digging, shoveling and raking are just as strenuous and tiring as a long jog in the park, so doing some gardening when you are angry is an excellent opportunity to let off the steam, channel negative energies and transform them into constructive powers.

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