What if creating a beautiful, peaceful, love-filled home is easier than you think? Do you try your best to get things done at home, only to lose momentum, sometimes even before you start? Do issues like mess, clutter, décor, repairs and updates seem to go on forever? Even if you manage to get everything done and looking good, does your home still feel like something is missing? What if you could learn how to bring a whole new level of order, peace, beauty, love and good energy into your home, with ease, for the rest of your life? HouseHeal: Transform Your Life through the Power of Home reveals the three keys to a beautiful home that supports you in living a life that you love. Weaving timeless universal principles with the practical details of daily life, HouseHeal helps you to connect with your true power, know what you want, and move into action at home in a way that feels natural and life-affirming, even fun! HouseHeal's compassionate and inspiring step-by-step approach gives you the understanding, skills and motivation you need to create a more beautiful home, and a more beautiful life, now. Many people take design inspiration from magazine pictures of other people's houses. It's like trying to fit into another person's shoes and can leave you uncomfortable or even unhappy. Design should enhance your life, not be an obstacle in it. HouseHeal helps you to be aware of what works for you, execute it, and enjoy an enhanced life because of your house, not in spite of it, by helping you marry heart and home. - Glen Peloso, Glen Peloso Interiors, featured designer on W Network
HouseHeal
Transform Your Life through the Power of HomeBy Sara Brown CrowderBalboa Press
Copyright © 2012 Sara Brown Crowder
All right reserved.ISBN: 978-1-4525-4733-6Contents
Introduction How House Heal Came to Be...................................xvPart One: You and Your Home...............................................1Chapter 1 - The Connection between You and Your Home......................3Chapter 2 - Show Condition vs. Receiving Condition........................7Part Two: The 3 Keys to Living in Receiving Condition.....................19Chapter 3 - Key #1: Awareness.............................................21Summary of Awareness......................................................41Chapter 4 - Key #2: Desire................................................43Summary of Desire.........................................................67Chapter 5 - Key #3: Willingness...........................................69Summary of Willingness....................................................77Part Three: The 3 Keys into Practice......................................79Awareness, Desire & Willingness into Practice.............................81Chapter 6 - Shifting a Red Zone...........................................83Chapter 7 - Shifting a Yellow Zone........................................109Chapter 8 - Maintaining and Expanding a Green Zone........................129Chapter 9 - People, Money, and Thoughts...................................135Chapter 10 - Moving Forward from Here.....................................151About the Author..........................................................155
Chapter One
The Connection between You and Your Home
Some people say that your home reflects who you are.
Surprise! It doesn't.
Your home might reflect your taste, aspects of your character and personality, or your current circumstances, but it does not reflect who you truly are. It couldn't possibly. You are so much more than your home.
Your home says a lot, though, about how you are.
Your home and how you feel about yourself when you're there speak volumes about how connected you are to who you really are and how well you are taking care of yourself.
Look around the space in which you live. What do you see? What do you feel?
You and your home are connected energetically. What you see and feel in your home can tell you some important things about yourself right now.
The energetic connection between you and your home works something like this:
• If your home is filled with things you don't use, want, or need, your life will include things you don't want or need.
• If your home feels "not good enough" to you, you will feel "not good enough."
• If your house is a chronic mess, some aspect of your life will be a mess.
• If your house is in disrepair, some part of your life will be in disrepair.
• If your home feels overwhelming, your life will feel overwhelming.
• If your house is stuck in time, parts of your life will be stuck in time.
• If you can't relax and enjoy yourself at home, you won't be able to relax and enjoy your life.
• If you are concerned about what other people think of your home, you will be concerned about what people think of you.
• If your home looks perfect and beautiful but you feel no joy there, your life will look perfect on the outside but you will feel no joy inside.
• If you feel like you have no say in your house, you will feel like you have no say in your life.
• If you don't recognize and appreciate the good things in your home, you won't be able to recognize and appreciate the good things in your life.
And so on.
Before you start to analyze yourself or your house and jump into action, take a deep breath. It is important for you to understand the connection between you and your home and how it works. There is a lot more to it than you might think.
First, let's look at why your home is so important to your well-being.
If you want to love your life, feel good about yourself, and be genuinely happy, consider this question: How important is it for you to feel good where you live?
I hope you don't have to think too long on that one!
Whether you live in a mansion or in a tiny apartment, feeling good about yourself at home is vital to your overall well-being. Think about it. Your home is where you sleep, eat, and spend time with your family and friends. It's where you make love, read, listen to music, play with your pets, and take care of your body. It may also be where you work, write, or engage in creative projects. Your home is where you go for shelter and comfort when the rest of the world feels like too much. It's where you go to feel safe.
If you don't feel good about yourself at home, if you don't feel uplifted, supported, and loved at home, if you don't feel relaxed and comfortable and in control at home, what chance do you have anywhere else? No matter what personal or professional activities, relationships, or interests you have outside of your home, your home is your base, the foundation for your day-to-day living.
Now ask yourself: Where else in the world do you have as much choice and influence as in your own home? Everything in your home, including the people in it and your relationships with them, is what you have created for yourself. The look and comfort of your furniture, the feel of your sheets, the color of your dishes, the thickness of your towels, the art on your walls, the rugs on your floors, the clothes in your cupboards, and even the food in your refrigerator, are what you have chosen. What you do at home and how you spend your time there is your choice. You choose the people you invite in, the music you listen to, the books you read, the television you watch, the phone calls you make, the food you eat, and the websites you visit. You choose them all. Most important, you choose what you say, what you think, what you believe, and what you feel at home.
It's all your choice. Physically and energetically, your home is filled with what you have created, chosen, drawn to yourself, and allowed into your life. That's why your home and how you feel about yourself when you are there gives you more direct feedback about you than any other place in the world. And it's all within your direct influence and control.
How does it feel to know that you have influence and control in your home? Does it feel exciting? Or does it feel overwhelming? If you have that much influence and control, you might wonder why your home doesn't look and feel more like you want it to, especially if you have been intending to make changes.
How to create a beautiful home that supports living a life you love
I will guide you through a powerful process that will help you to see the degree to which what you experience at home is yours to choose. Through the details of your home, you can learn to recognize what you want and see how easy it can be for you to get it. Once you understand your natural ability to bring about changes at home, you will feel more confident to make all kinds of new choices for yourself, in every area of your life.
What do you think is stopping you?
You might think that you don't have the time, money, taste, power, ability, or energy to make changes at home. Think again! The best bumper sticker I ever saw said "Don't believe everything you think."
What you think and believe can keep you living in compromise, frustration, resignation, and disappointment. Wouldn't it be a lot...
