SPIRITUAL WISDOM-I AM HERE
11 Sep 2010 Leave a Comment
in From Here to Serenity, Meditation Garden Tags: air plants, I am, Meditation Garden, Sacred Mandala, Sue O'Kieffe
I Am Here
“I am that I am,” are the words God said when Moses asked who God was. These words “I am” are powerful healing words. Begin affirmations with these words in faith and a demonstration takes place.”
From Here to Serenity, A Spiritual Guide to Transform Your Life
Gail Manishor, www.gmanishor.com
I Am Here Mandala by Sue O’Kieffe
I couldn’t resist this beautiful mandala created by Sue O’Kieffe. She was inspired by the airplants Tillandsia Bromeliad.
Here is Sue O’Kieffe’s link:
http://sacred-circle-mandalas.blogspot.com
Airplants on Grapevine
I also admire airplants and have recently started a collection of my own in my Meditation Garden. I’ve become quite enthralled by these fascinating plants. Above is an arrangement of some of my airplants of mine taken a few months ago.
Gail Manishor, RScP
www.gmanishor.com
GAIL’S MEDITATION GARDEN
05 Sep 2010 2 Comments
in From Here to Serenity, Meditation Garden, Plants in Meditation Garden Tags: baby tears moss, Buddah, Cherub, Garden Angel, heavenly bamboo, lavender, leather fern, maindenhair fern, pink camelia, Plants in Meditation Garden, red potato vinem, rosemary, spanish moss, split leaf philodendrum, sword fern, tillandisas
Meditation Garden Plants
It all started when Bill and I were married and I first moved into his home where he had been living for over 20 years. “Bad move” you might say. “You should move into a home that’s both of yours.” Normally yes. But not when you’re moving from La Mirada to Carlsbad. No contest!
Bill's Canna Lily
Bill’s Canna Lily is on the right as I walk to my Meditation Garden. He feeds waters and cares for it.
My Garden Angel instructed me to tell you the process of how and why my Meditation Garden came into being. I was inspired by the unbelievably spectacular gardens at the Self Realization Fellowship Gardens on Hiway 101 in Encinitas, CA. We have our own special bench looking out at the Pacific Ocean and that’s where Bill put the ring on my finger and we became formally engaged. I decided this would be my model (on a smaller scale) for my very own Meditation area.
Bill had planted basic shrubs and trees in his large backyard. That was it. Neat and clean and absolutely zero personality. I walked around looking for my special spot and found it. On one side of the house there was an interesting tree that gave shade and a lot of leather ferns. That was it. I could just picture it as my special space where I could go for spiritual fulfillment, peace and serenity. I began by planning the lay-out of a little flagstone walkway and patio. Once I had that in place I began planting a few plants which I have pictures of and are listed below. I needed a perfect place to sit and found the wrought iron bench at Anderson’s Nursery on La Costa. It’s small and an unusual shape. It took me a long time to find the perfect shape, size and colored pad for the seat.
Some have expressed interest in the plants I have used in my Meditation Garden. So I’m including pictures and a list of the plants. With my Garden Angel’s help it keeps getting more beautiful.
Buddah on Path to Meditation Garden
To the Buddha’s right is lavender, and rosemary, to the left is Heavenly Bamboo and Day Lilly. A Rose Quartz rock sits at his feet.
Sweet Cherub
A Cherub in the Fountain surrounded by Leather Fern, Red Potato Vine, pink Butterfly Succulent in Blue Pot and Elephant Foot Palm in the foreground. Sweet.
- Gail’s Meditation Garden
- Meditation Garden
To the left is the total view.
THE LAW OF CAUSE & EFFECT
28 May 2010 Leave a Comment
in From Here to Serenity, Meditation Garden, Spiritual Wisdom Tags: air plants, choice, Garden Angel, Peace Garden, The Law of Cause & Effect
Air Plants &
The Law of Cause & Effect
“We can walk in love, beauty and ease or we can walk
in sadness, bitterness, misery and struggle.
It’s our choice.”
Gail Manishor, From Here to Serenity, A Spiritual Guide to Transform Your Life
I’m sure you’ve heard the saying, “Be careful what you pray for.” I will add to that by saying, “Be careful what you think and say, and be careful of the actions you take.” Everything we say and do has an effect. It is called the Law of Cause and Effect. For every action there is a reaction.
One Monday when my Garden Angel had come to work I took her across the street to my neighbor’s beautiful garden. I knew she would enjoy seeing my neighbor’s well-kept garden and the view of the ocean from her backyard.
My neighbor has an area on her patio set aside for air plants. She has many different varieties of air plants – all artistically displayed. My Garden Angel got so excited that her halo was positively vibrating. Nothing would do except that we go and check out the air plants at various nurseries in the are. My neighbor had already given me a few of her air plants for my yard. The first air plant she gave me was Spanish Moss which did very well. I don’t know the names of most of these type of plants yet. Air plants live in trees in Mexico and South America. Many have interesting and colorful flowers. Contrary to what the name implies, air plants don’t live on air alone. They do need some water.
We (my Angel and I) went from nursery to nursery checking out air plants and sometimes buying a few. We bought an interestingly shaped grape wood branch at Home Depot and made an artful arrangement of air plants on the branch. My Angel carefully placed each plant on a branch of the large tropical tree in the meditation area until we were both satisfied. If a plant doesn’t do well. where we first try it, we move it until it does. However, there is one that doesn’t seem to like wherever we put it. I don’t think it’s going to make it and that’s sad.
OK! You may say, “What does all this have to do with The Law of Cause & Effect?”
It has everything to do with it. You can go back to before I even met my Garden Angel, or you can go back to my decision to take her across the street to see my neighbor’s garden. Everything in life is related. Can you see that?
I invite you to write what you’ve learned about the Law of Cause & Effect in the Comment Box below.
Our First Air Plants Sometime in Nov 200o
Beautiful and Hardy
Our Newest Prize 5-25-10
Gail Manishor, Author of
From Here to Serenity, A Spiritual Guide to Transform Your Life
http://gmanishor.com/
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My Meditation Garden
28 Apr 2010 Leave a Comment
in Meditation Garden, Review in The Light Connection Tags: amethyst, Buddah, Crystals, Meditation Garden, Peace Garden, rose quartz
The Path
My next move was to put down slate stones for a small patio and walkway to guide anyone who loved peace to my Meditation Garden. I found an interesting wrought iron love-seat at Anderson’s Nursery for that area. It’s an unusual shape and size and so far I haven’t found the perfect cushion for it and will have one made.
On Seaside’s Center for Spiritual Living’s annual trip to Baja, Bill and I looked for and found a small fountain with a cherub which we placed under the tree. Later in an Encinitas shopping area called The Lumberyard, I found a few treasures: a beautiful piece of rose quartz, a clear crystal rock and a chunk of amethyst and placed them on the baby tears moss under the tree.
For some reason which I couldn’t understand, I never did use the meditation garden for meditating. I had some work to do. Still, I thought it was beautiful and always took friends to see it when they came to visit.
The Meditation Garden
19 Apr 2010 Leave a Comment
in Meditation Garden, Review in The Light Connection Tags: Buddah, camelia, ferns, flowering purple trumpet vine, Meditation, Meditation Garden
Buddah
Beginning My Meditation Garden
I envisioned a meditation area in our backyard and the perfect site was obvious to me. There already was a beautiful tropical tree and some leather ferns on the shady side of the back garden. However, the ferns looked a little burned. I began to cut back the bad parts. I love camellias, so I bought several of those and one pale pink one went into the meditation area. It was beginning to take shape.
I placed a Buddha on the path leading to what was to be a peaceful setting and put an arch over him with a flowering purple trumpet vine climbing it and added some other plants to further spotlight our Buddha. We (Bill and I) found the Buddha on our first of many trips to Baja together.
