Making Your Home Your Sanctuary.

By creating a sanctuary, we create an atmosphere that enables us to find peace and stillness, and this helps us contemplate our inner life. 

I was a professional organizer for many years, and one of the joys of my work was helping people find inner peace.

When people are overwhelmed because they have too much going on, and have a lot of distractions from their personal lives, work lives, and inner lives, it can be extremely challenging to relax the nervous system, as it becomes activated with every day living.

The first step is decluttering. 

I think of decluttering as a cleansing. Many of us have lots of things that don’t necessarily make us feel good. The more stuff we have, the more stuff we have to clean, gets ruined because it is in corners crunched underneath other things, and we lose track of what we own.

When we live in a home that is very cluttered, it reminds us of all the things we need to do, as well as all the things we spent too much money on, and all the things that are broken and need to be fixed. This can create a lot of stress.

It can be difficult under these circumstances to truly find peace and contemplate our inner life. It becomes a vicious circle. We don’t feel at peace because we have created a space that is chaotic, and that, in turn, creates chaos internally. It goes around and around in circles.

If things have no value to you, bring you down, are a part of your past that you don’t want to live with anymore, then release it. Unapologetically. Creating a blank canvas helps us keep from becoming distracted so we can then contemplate life in a really healthy way. This helps us feel at peace, focused and calm.

Once you cleanse the palate, make it your own.

Be resourceful. Find pieces that you have and love, and put them on full display. If they need sprucing up, be creative with what you have. Going to home improvement stores offers lots of options. It’s not as expensive or daunting as you might think. 

To get ideas, watch home and garden shows, look through magazines, search online. Take screenshots of things you like on social media. We have so much access to ideas and information now. Use it to your benefit. 

Doing something as simple as finding new pillows or changing paint color, can do wonders. Do you have something that you have drawn that you can frame, perhaps something from one of your children? Even a picture in a magazine can work beautifully.

Throughout this process, think of your ideal lifestyle. 

Do you love to garden, but don’t have the space? Utilize your deck or your backyard, or even display some herbs and easy to manage plants in your kitchen or home. Do you love a different culture, but can’t quite get there? Find items that are styled after a certain country and put them in your home so you feel like you are there.

Keep it organized. 

Things can fall apart pretty quickly. We shop, get gifts from other people, and manage to just find new things in our space that we don’t quite remember how they got there. We need to maintain, so subtract whenever you add an item, and continually manage things as best you can. 

Enjoy Your Sanctuary.

Your home is your sanctuary. It should be a place where you can relax, a place that makes you feel good, represents you, and not a place that embarrasses you. Treat it like your little space in the world, the space that brings you peace, that space where you can go inward, grow spiritually and enjoy your life.

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