My daily-life routines for the last few days have been sent upside down thanks to some ‘malware’ application invading my computer.

As a result I couldn’t write this webblog, I couldn’t send or receive e-mails and couldn’t complete a lot of work I needed to get finished. It all became a huge irritation and I was feeling very frustrated. All that was on my mind was the injustice and how seemingly impossible it had made my life.

It was only when a friend remarked over the phone how lovely her garden was thanks to the early spring, that I was set free from this trance-like state. I suddenly remembered that in the big order of life and the world my problem was tiny.

Straight after the phone call I went out in to my garden and used all my senses to take in its beauty and lush growth.

I stood under a magnolia tree and looked up through the branches taking in the many different hues and shades of green made by the sunlight.

I pushed my nose into the beautiful roses and absorbed their scent.

Then I sat down and gradually slowed my breathing down and directed my thoughts to relaxing my muscles starting from my neck and shoulders and working down the body. With each out breath I imagined my worries leaving me and disappearing on the gentle breeze in the garden.

Breathing slowly and deeply increases oxygen levels in the brain and allows your mind to calm so that you can more readily come up with solutions.

After a few moments in my garden I knew what to do. Get an expert in to fix the problem so I could get on with what I wanted to do.

A few phone calls later I found an expert and in under 24 hours my internet-related problem was fixed and I resumed daily-life with fresh insights.

I realised yet again how thinking over and over how the problem annoyed me didn’t help me solve it. It was only when I physically took myself away from it and outside into natural environment that my mind could focus and resolve the issue.

The vase of roses on my desk act as a reminder of the lesson learnt.