It is all about slowing down, taking time for yourself and establishing new habits that will last a lifetime.
Theme – Connecting with Home
This week focused on how living spaces affect us, reflect us, support us (and don't sometimes)
What did you learn about your home or workplace that you didn't know before?
Nothing … my main issue is the problem of clutter. I need to have uniformity in my life and especially for my work space and where I relax to be tidy. My husband is the opposite and doesn’t even notice how untidy it is. This will always be an ongoing issue to which I have two choices: either learn to live with thing is a gentle mess or resolve myself to the fact that I will always be the one that puts things back in the right place.
Did some rooms feel differently than others?
My study is my main life room. It is where I work, my desk is mostly an organised space as I cannot work with clutter around me. All other room in the house are for everyday living and I do not consider them as so important.
Did you tend to your home in a specific way this week? If not, why not?
The area I identified when doing the virtual tour awareness meditation was the end of the lounge and again it was because it was untidy. I was immediately motivated to do something about it and did so whilst waiting for the kettle to boil. That is all the time it took so theoretically if I do something similar every time I make a cup of coffee then my house should start to be more in order.
What does your home reveal about you?
I am very pedantic about a lot of things, if something is not right I will do it repeatedly until I get it perfect. This idea stems back to childhood. It was instilled in me from a very early age that the taking part was not what mattered, as far as my mother was concerned nothing other than being the best would be accepted, however that was a tall order to fulfil and one which was almost impossible, because as far as my mother was concerned I never achieved anywhere near the perfection she expected, which was a view upheld right up to her death.