To stand and stare - How to garden while doing next to nothing

There’s a lot of advice out there that would tell you how to do numerous things in your garden. 
But not so much that invites you to think about how to be while you’re out there. With increasingly busy lives, yet another list of chores seems like the very last thing any of us needs when it comes to our own practice of self-care, relaxation and renewal. After all, aren’t these the things we wanted to escape to the garden for in the first place?