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If Your Home Were Alive…

If your home were alive…a living breathing thing filled with light and life, how might you think of it? How might u treat it differently?

There is a group out of Germany called Bau-Biologie which studies buildings as if they were alive. The concept is similar to the Gaia theory of our planet, which is that we are one giant ecosystem, with everything affecting everything else. So what might you do differently if you entered your home and imagined it brimming with energy, dancing with your desires, stifled by your clutter, confused by your broken things, and responding to your thoughts?

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” -William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Our homes are a reflection of where we are in our lives. If we look around, it tells a story. There are stories being told by the things we see (images, artwork, words) as well as whether we are looking at order or chaos. There are stories being told by what is hidden out of sight (what’s under the bed, what’s in the closet, even what is in our storage units.)

As my colleague Inessa Freylekhman points out, quoting Roberto Assagioli (a well known Italian psycho-analyst and spiritualist, as well as a student of Freud) “Holding new images before the eyes tend to produce the reality suggested by the image.” This is also similar to the phrase “that which we focus on, grows.” So use your home as a reflection of what you would like to see manifesting in your life.

There is a pattern of energy within our home based on the areas we USE the most. On the contrary, areas start to “feel” stagnant if we don’t use them. There are patterns of energy we bring into our homes when we take home antiques. Or take in items from other family members. Or Goodwill. Or items we get on Craigslist.

There are patterns of energy being cultivated in the ground from Lei Lines (patterns of energy which affect us from under the earths surface.) These lines of energy can either support us, or disrupt us, depending on whether we can harness their use for our good.

There are patterns of energy from cellphone towers and satelite dishes, from wifi and from microwave ovens, from computers, televisions and other electronic equiptment.

There are also patterns of energy from the wind rustling through the trees, from raindrops that splash on the cement outside and from the traffic which passes by our doors.

There are patterns of energy from the moon and other celestial bodies. From the seen ones (like our sun) and like the unseen ones which are there whether we are aware of them or not.

There are patterns of energy flowing through our bodies from the way things were and there are patterns which flow from our imaginations. There are patterns of energy which are stuck and other ones which flow freely. There are patterns which might make sense if we could see them and other ones which would only make sense from a different perspective than the one we are standing in now.

All of these patterns are available to us each day. At each moment. It is what we do with our thoughts, words and actions which determine if we have the current (or wind) at our backs, or if we will meet resistance with each step. If you aspire to anything this summer…see if you can look at each item in your home (starting with the room you are in now) …and know with certainty that it is there ON purpose, and WITH purpose. If you can achieve that, YOU are a Feng Shui master.

Namaste,
Ariel