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CBT MINDFULNESS THERAPY FOR ANXIETY RELIEF

CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, involves changing thoughts, its the cognitive part, and actions, the behavior pattern, that interfere with leading a fulfilling and healthy life. The aim of CBT is to help you become your own therapist, and the skills are practical, goal-oriented, and can be practiced every day. Some CBT strategies aim to change thoughts and behaviors, while others promote mindfulness and awareness. Anxiety may cause your thoughts to wander, you may fret about the past, or about what might go wrong in the future. Mindfulness helps focus your attention on whatever you’re doing right now, in the present moment. Acceptance strategies help you cope with, and even accept, uncomfortable situations or emotions that you can’t control or change. THE CBT MODEL OF EMOTIONS CBT breaks emotions down into three parts: thoughts , physical sensations, and behaviors. Say you’re afraid of dogs and you see a dog coming toward you along the sidewalk. You feel afraid—that’s your
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Sensory Garden Increase Sense Stimulate

sensory garden - herbs garden
Sensory garden is designed with the specific intention of stimulating our sensory pleasure: smelling, feeling, seeing, tasting, and hearing. When planning a garden for your smelling senses, it is important to separate different types of odorous plants and flowers so that people can identify the different ones or go straight to their favorite area.

If you are planning on people using sounds to be able to enjoy the garden experience then you can incorporate fountains, waterfalls, fish ponds, and bird baths. Strategically using these props in your garden will not only give people the opportunity to relax while listening to their soothing sounds but will also allow people to watch the water flow, birds bathe and drink, fish swim, and water crash down from one layer to another on the waterfalls.

Sensory gardens can be used as a way to treat the ill or weak by being able to have their senses stimulated with all the sounds and smells around them. It can also serve as a way to give more enhanced enjoyment for those who have a problem with one or more of their senses because an impairment of your senses can cause other senses to become stronger - allowing you to enjoy the senses that are functional more.

Since sensory gardens are a good source of therapy for some it is a good idea to make sure that they are accessible to all whether they are able to walk or need a wheelchair.
 
One thing that makes a sensory garden completely different from other gardens is that people are encouraged to actually touch and some times taste some of the plants in the garden.

In this section of the garden you will usually find edible vegetables, spices, fruit and herbs. Since there will be multiple visitors to the garden you will need to include plants that can produce more often and a larger amount at one time to be able to allow more people the pleasure of experiencing the different tastes of the plants in this garden area.

Some plants that may be a good idea to include are strawberries, mint leaves, and some other varieties of edible flowers. You may even be able to break pieces off some plants and get a taste such as mint leaves, herbs, and some other edible plants. So you not only get to taste them but you can feel their texture as well. You would need to make sure you only plant non harmful and non poisonous flowers and plants in this area or people that may have impairments such as sight could be poisoned or tangled up in veining type plants. Even a beautiful rose plant could be a dangerous plant to a sight impaired person as if they touch them they could be scratched or poked.  

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