Home Sweet Home
The holiday season is upon us. Travel, gifts, shopping, family dinners, and more. The time after the holidays can bring a much needed rejuvenation for mind, body and soul. You may be very happy to be at ‘home sweet home’ or already longing for your next holiday. Both these feelings are very relevant from a Feng Shui point of view! What is your experience? Are you feeling at ‘home’ again? Read more by Wieke van Leeuwen
Your house, your home, or “Your house reflects who you are.” You are so used to your own home, that looking at it objectively is quite difficult.
Except… when you enter your home after a long holiday!
What are your first impressions?
Does the place make you feel welcome?
Where there loving, caring people who watered your plants and left you flowers?
Are you happy to dive into your favorite seat or was your holiday couch a better landing place?
When you want to apply Feng Shui it starts with being aware. Sense where your home is not comfortable. Then, step by step, you can try and change things. Off course your home won’t miraculously move to the gorgeous location with an ocean view! And it will be difficult to have that outdoor feeling of camping in your 5th floor apartment!
What Feng Shui can do for you is emphasize the aspects of life that you value! Put up your holiday pictures of the mountains for example in the 6_metal Gua: The place in your home representing traveling. Put your couch near the window instead of in front of your TV, so you can sit by the window and daydream like you did on holiday instead of focusing on the TV. Or did you miss your friends and family when you where away? Then it is a good idea to hang their pictures on the wall of 3_wood: the Gua for social connections and family!
Make use of ‘coming home again’ by being aware of your impressions of your own home! Evaluate what you like and don’t like about your house. And act accordingly!
When you think Feng Shui is still too ‘spiritual,’ you can start with ‘ordinary’ things like:
Repairing your jamming front door.
Buying some extra pillows so your couch feels like a nice place to cuddle up in like the one at your holiday destination!
And finally change the light-bulb that has been broken for far too long!
You don’t have to fix everything at once, but keep in mind what went through your mind when returning to your home! Keep in mind what you want to change before you return to the rush of day-to-day life. Because how you feel in your own home is essential for your wellbeing. In the end, only you are the one who is capable of changing that!
Wieke van Leeuwen is a delightful passionate teacher and former professional Feng Shui consultant from the Netherlands who uses her skills through her work in primary education and healing.
