In your garden, mark off one area that you designate as your "healing garden." No matter what you plant here, care for it mindfully and ask that the energy you expend in watering, weeding, and cultivating the plants there be dedicated to healing the sufferings of others, perhaps someone you know personally. Offer prayers for that person (or persons) each time you water or work in that area of your garden.

Tom Cowan in The Way of the Saints