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What does home mean to you?
Everybody probably derive over time a different connection of what home means to them. I think even the avid traveller is yearning for a place called home, even if it is a temporary home. From the earliest of times even nomad’s had a place to return to after the hunt, whether it is a cave or some other type of temporary dwelling.
If I take a quick overview then home is a place, often physical, where you feel at ease, you feel that you belong. You have the right to be there in that little place that you are intimately familiar with. Home, big or small, is a place shaped around who you are and how you prefer life to be. Whether this space is ordered or chaotic does not matter, what does matter is that it is your space. No wonder we often get into conflict with people at our homes, even though we love them, they still to some degree impart themselves onto how we live and what we do. The more we can do what we want, the more a place feel at home.
When you visit a friend or family and they say: “Make yourself at home” then it is an invitation for you to do what you want to do. At a home their is some warmth. The most beautiful warmth is probably when you have people as part of your home, that welcomes you and accepts you for who you are. They do not want to change you but live with ease with who you are and with who they are themselves. At home you receive not just warmth but you are nurtured with warmth and safety. A place that does not foster a feeling of safety is simply not a home.
Home does not have to be luxurious nor impressive. The sense of welcome, the ability to relax, the feeling of safety and being connected with loved ones are the key components that makes a home.
In my ideal world home is a place structured along the lines of feng shui where every corner is a creative exploration of meaning. I do not know of any other art that place such significane to every aspect of the physical layout. Even if we do not have much money to spend on our homes, we can apply the principles of feng shui and bring more meaning into life. All it takes is to understand the flow of energy, of yin and yang and how different objects and spaces relates to those objects. The ideal home should be a space not just for safety but one that promote health and happiness. In this regards having access to sunshine will definitely be a very positive environment. My ideal home has big open windows with a place that is dedicated to spiritual practice.
When home is a place of connection, a place of living and a place of relaxing from the tensions of the world then it also becomes a temple for our spiritual practice of worship. My home is my temple and my temple is my home. If you can not be receptive to the divine in you home then that home is still only a home on a physical level. A spiritual home is geared to motivate you to sit in quiet and become filled with an awe for the eternal.
However we look at home. Home is not an attachment nor something we cling to for it is in itself temporary. Being a Stoic even if we have the ideal home, we must know that what we call home can be taken from us through circumstances. That home is not a place but a space we create around ourselves. If a disaster strike and you have develop virtue within yourself and you have a relationship with your own soul, then home is where you are and where you find yourself.
When you have a healthy and balanced root chakra the physical space does not matter. You are simply present in the moment wherever you are. In that presence as a creative being you are continually in a process of shaping your environment, making where you go part of what you call home. Ultimately home is a presence of being established in space time.
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I really like the conclusion part – home is a presence
Thank you