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Secret Garden

© Victoria Tallman Freudiger

Each morning I go, relax, meditate (practice yoga) and pray in my 'Secret Garden' (similar to Gethsemane.) This beautiful garden (as seen in my mind is similar to the picture here on the right) is where not only I, but also others, can begin to hear how to get well. This garden is where I go to have my heart, soul, spirit and health taught to me. No human on earth can teach me what I am learning here in this wonderful quiet place.

People go to regular classrooms to learn with their brain, ears, eyes and mouth. However, in the Secret Garden, one can learn how to cope in the real world. An ill person may be at their wit's end. Nevertheless, if you will go to the garden, you too can begin to know you are at the beginning of a new type of wisdom. Matthew 6:6 says, "But though, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret."

Take a moment to trust this process of meditation and healing in the Secret Garden (closet of your heart.) Please try hard to leave your old belief that you are ill behind you. Here in the garden, the Great Teacher teaches you to have a life of a learning to serve others which will ultimately be your healing. However, you may find that you are incapable of serving others in person because of some reason. If this is true, then go and learn all you can about a particular illness or phobia you believe is harming you. Become an expert on the subject of fear or the obsessive-compulsive disease. Discover as much as you can about cancer or diabetes, or something similar (whatever best fits your circumstance.) With this newfound education, you can find a way to teach others what you learn in the garden.

Contemplate becoming a contributing editor for the health area of Suite101.com, or create a small website of your own. Maybe creating a website is not your 'bag'; instead become lecturers. Whatever way you are taught in your garden, you will learn that while you are teaching others about illness, the things you are plagued with will begin to separate from your mind because it will be busy. Then, ultimately the body will begin to lose what is ailing it.

Another idea might be to write poems about the things that haunt you. Write about how you wish you were healing faster. Write a book about "all you ever wanted to know about fear and were afraid to ask." The key is to do something different. Remember doing the same thing and expecting different results leads to insanity. Therefore, do something different. If you are an artist, paint beautiful pictures and then place them at a hospital. You will be busy being creative and then you will feel good about where you placed the painting. Begin to believe that the ill people going slowly down the hall will heal as they view your painting. Write letters to those in other countries that are dying. In essence, care.