By Carole Fogarty,
Editor of Rejuvenation Lounge and facilitator of Women’s Rejuvenation Retreats:
Rejuvenate Your Home:
Your home is a sacred space. A place where your body, mind and soul can unwind, relax and chill out. A place that protects and keeps you safe from the outside world. But what if your home feels different? What if, the energy in your home is “up tight” and stressing you out even more. What if stress from the outside world has crept into your home.
Give Your Home A Stress Test:
Small snippets of human stress can easily begin sneaking into your home. Little by little, stress starts to fill your rooms and alter the atmosphere in your home. Then before you know it, your home is no longer peaceful, calm and relaxing.
Where did that great relaxing vibe in your home go?
Give your home a stress test today.
Run through the list – 10 sneaky ways stress can enter your home below and see how many stressful moments are sneaking into your home everyday.
De-stressing your home is easy. You simply eliminate or reduce the stress at its source. I guarantee, when you start reducing the amount of stress you allow into your home, little by little calm will be the dominate vibe in your home once again.
Ten Sneaky Ways Stress Enters Your Home:
- Friends and their drama: Every human being leaves an energy trail wherever they go. Avoid inviting friends with drama into your home. Meet them somewhwere else. Also make sure you have strong protective boundaries around you when supporting and comforting friends. You certainly don’t want to carry their stressful drama back into your home. Sage is great to cleanse stress from your personal living space or from your physical body.
- TV leaks anger, conflict and drama: You don’t need to be watching the TV for it to effect the energy of your home. TV’s left passively on in the background continously contributes to altering the atmosphere of your home. TV very rarely brings happy, uplifting vibes into your home. Did you know that your immune system is depleted for at least 12 hours after watching a horror film.
- Telephone stress: Simply the sound of your telephone or mobile ringing can trigger stress. You might even think the continious ringing is deliberately trying to stress you out even more. Create a healthy energetic distance between you and your phones. Give family or “chilling out” time priority. Don’t become a slave to every ring and bell in your home. Turn everything off for at least a couple of hours each night. Or if you are like me I have a day a week where it’s all turned off.
- Stop Inviting Gossip Into Your Home: Gossip is toxic and can be extremely stressful. Even if you are just a listener of gossip, simply by paying attention to it invites it into your personal space. Get clear with your energies around gossip. I dare you to quit participating in gossip particularly from your home.
- Bringing stress home from work: Being unable to leave your problems of work at the office is one of the quickest ways to fill your home with stress. If you or your partner need to unload then do it outside or go for a walk and talk about it. Do your best not to talk about it in your home.
- Possessions that stress you out: Yes, all your stuff and things do not necessarily bring you happiness. Take an honest look around your home and become aware of which possessions you continously complain about. If you are complaining then you are adding stress to your body and into your home. Is it worth keeping that possession that stresses you out? Is there something you can do which will de-stress that possession. Of course there is. Either way give it away, sell it or fix it.
- Unpleasant neighbours: If your neighbours have unpleasant energy this can easily disturb the calmness of your home. The closer they are the more impact it can have …… only if you allow it. The less you talk, think or worry about your neighbours the weaker their influence will become. Through my many years as a Feng Shui practitioner the top three remedies which have worked succsssfully for unpleasant neighbours are (a) send them happy thoughts back, rise above their negativity (b) place crystals on your window sill in the location where the neighbours are most disruptive. Elestial and black tourmaline are the two favourites (c) Plant tulsi (holy basil) along that side of your home. Holy basil is used frequently in India and believe to carry the breathe of god. It has fabulous cleansing and purifying qualities.
- Conversations: Yes every single conversation you have in your home leaves a trail of energy. It can be a conversation you are having with yourself (in your head) or actual conversations you are having with family and friends. The emotions behind your words and thoughts carry energy. Become mindful of the stressful and toxic thoughts and conversations that take place in your home. If you need more convincing then watch this trailor. You can heal your life:
- The stress of sound: Start listening to the sounds in your home. Observe which sounds stress you out. What options have you got? If its outside noise can you play some music that will cover its sound. If its a sqeeky door or window then fix it. If its game consoles or kids music can they wear head phones. If its TV can you turn down the volume or turn it off. If its your gadgets mobile etc can you put them on mute. Simply work out the sounds which irritate you and one by one eliminate or reduce their stressful influence in your home.
- The stress of paper: Strange but true. I can’t believe the amount of paper that comes in my home on a daily basis. It stresses me out. There is always paper everywhere. Junk mail, snail mail, stuff my kids bring home from school, letters from my kids sports clubs, receipts, dockets, shopping bags (if I’ve forgotten my eco friendly one) and the list goes on. I am yet to master the stress of paper but doing my best to become more efficient with it or eliminate it at the source. e.g request school newsletters electronically, put a no junk mail sticker on letter box, if I am given the option of requesting a paper eceipt I decline. Any more suggestions will be gratefully welcomed.
On finishing I would simply like to remind you of a quote by Deepak Chopra “The healthiest response to life is laughter”
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Interesting, You have spurred me on to finish a post on Paradise lost. This week total descration occured in out backyard. The Body corporate had had all our trees chained sawed back to the fence level.
It has taken me 2 days to get over the shock of losing the main aspect of what we loved about our environment. As you can imagine it hasn’t done a lot for neighbourly relations either.
It has made me realise how important how I feel about where I live is. At the weekend we had done a clarity through contrast exercise about what we want when we do move.
Looks like we have attracted a move sooner rather than later.
You will be interested to see where we are thinking of going
And yes i love green tea
Suzie