Why Witnessing Your Home Space Is Essentially Yoga

What is around us, especially “closest to home”, is imbued with our ongoing energy and attention. Marie Kondo asks us to examine each item in our habitat and ask ourselves, “does it spark joy?” If it doesn’t, honor and let it go. When we take a closer look at our surroundings and what is in them, we can unfold our inner patterns and attachments. Dreamwork explorers like Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud see the home and the interiors as aspects of the psyche, the internal world.

 

Your internal creates your external. Therefore, your home is reflection of your inner world.

 

What makes you stay in a home you don’t love? What makes you keep that thing on the counter that is gathering dust? Where is the flow and movement of the space in your home?

 

All of these questions lead to self-inquiry and knowing Self. Knowing the self that is our individual personality – with all of its beliefs and distortions – supports us in knowing a deeper Self, which is the same vital essence that exists in all beings, connected with the whole, beyond the mundane limitations we have set for ourselves. Connection with Self opens us to all possibility.

 

How can looking at your home be a form of yoga?

 

Your beliefs create what you manifest, how you act, re-act, and exist; the ways that you relate to others and the spaces you inhabit and how. You can shift into greater possibilities and expanded ways of being by examining these beliefs. You can release the beliefs or ways of being that are not working for you.

 

How you relate to the expression of your external world allows you to dig deeper into your belief system. Reflecting on your attachments; what draws your energy; why you choose to live the way you do – all lead to the deeper investigation of what your home says about your inner world.

 

Take the jacket that you’ve never once worn and sits in the back of your closet. Doesn’t exactly “spark joy” but can’t get rid of it. But your mom bought it for you. So what? You feel guilty that she bought it and think she will feel badly if you got rid of it. Possible belief: I exist to please others.

 

Take the person that rents a space or buys a home and settles for a kitchen that just doesn’t feel right or a bedroom without enough light; it’s tolerable. Because it was cheap rent or a good enough. Perhaps they feel they don’t have enough money, which distills to the belief that they aren’t enough. Maybe they feel undeserving of a nice place.

 

This is not to say that if you live in a space with a dark bedroom that you therefore don’t feel worthy or if you keep a gift that you are a people pleaser. It’s not one-to-one like that. The beliefs behind each person’s expressions are unique and particular to each person. What I offer you to get curious about is who you are as seen through your home space.

 

Forget rationality. Observe the ideas that form who you think you are, what your place is in the world, and how the world should operate in relation to you. What emotions do you feel when these beliefs come out into the sunlight?

 

Take a look around your home. Witness what there is to witness. Explore what it means about who you are that this is the expression of your home space. The question is, who are you being that this is an expression of you? Notice the emotions or body sensations that may come up, without trying to change them. If it relates to a belief that is no longer beneficial, ask yourself what do I want to believe about myself instead? Who would I be without this belief or with a different belief and how would my home be different? Allow your body to connect with the new beliefs and soak in them. Feel through the emotions of what comes up. Try something new on in your home space that connects you with the new belief.

 

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Take the steps in reverse and try something new on in your home first and explore the beliefs that get shaken up.

 

Like yoga poses, this takes practice! Don’t pressure yourself to get the whole picture immediately. Let yourself soak in the inquiry and witness yourself over time.

 

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