You chose the place where you live. It might be a house, an apartment, a cottage or a beach hut, a caravan or a mansion. The place you call home is a special place because you intentionally chose it. You chose to rent or buy or move to this place which you call your own space, the place you live and where you have stamped your style. How does living here make you feel?
The place you call home is connected with all the other spaces around you and the world you inhabit. It reflects you by the way you store things there and by what you bring into the home. As your habits and collections and accumulation changes, so too does the mood and energy of the home adapt to this. Your space is a being in the sense that it is a happening, adapting, changing place as a result of how you, your possessions and your guests, visitors and family members interact with it. Even if the items in the building do not change or swap around for months at a time and the general energy of the house is low, quiet and close to static, you are still moving in the space, the contents of the food cupboards are constantly changing, post is delivered, new items from shopping trips come into the space and other things are used, finished with and removed from the space. In this most basic way there is subtle change each and every day, even though at first glance we might not realise this.
Your home is alive and existing as energy. You are not separate from your home because it is a part of you. It is a reflection of how you think and feel, just as much as you develop by the way you personally interact with the space that is offered to you. The rooms of your home are a representation of how you think and feel, a reflection of your own energy.
Everything in life is composed of energy, of molecules and tiny atoms clustered together as different forms of 'stuff'. Wood and plastic are different materials, but each composed of a set of compressed atoms. Oak, pine, larch and sycamore are all wood types, albeit with a different composition. They each have their own form of energy and this is what you pick up on when you touch the different things in your home. Add to the physical makeup of each item, the emotional energy attached to every piece of furniture, glassware, DIY tool, or art work, books, clothing and bikes.
There is a glass bottle on my desk as I write. It is a recycled bottle that has existed in other forms before reaching the shop where I bought it and the sparkling water that was in it. There is energy within that static glass structure that I have no control over. It has another energy because I know practically that I will be adding it to recycling bin so it can take on another form once crushed, heated and remade into another glass item.
Also on my desk is a tray with some coins, a watch and some keys. Each item is imbued with a different energy. The coins have been in the hands of thousands of people before me. Each has a different date of minting or issue and gives an insight into the potential places they have been used or the times they have been a part of. They have been previously used to buy petrol, scratch cards, lottery tickets, a sandwich, a book, to pay a debt, to buy food, for a bus ticket or a parking token. Every transaction brought energy with it.
The watch was a fabulous gift on the first Christmas with my partner. She gave it to me with love and made a huge effort to buy it for me. Seeing it after I removed the wrapping paper and opened the box was the most enormous pleasure. It carries those thoughts each time I wear it proudly.
The keys represent the front doors of houses that I rent out, each house more than a hundred years old. Some of the houses have been easy for us to improve and repair and rent. Others have been difficult and challenging. Each positive experience, or troublesome event is connected to the key for that front door. With each key are my recollections of the many tenants who have lived in them over time and the relationship or friendship we have enjoyed. You can see now, everything in your home has energy in one form or several.
Become connected to the energy of your home and to the play of such energies as exist between the rooms and the items you have around you. If something does not give you positive energy you can remove it from the house and let it go. If a room in your house feels stagnant and heavy, the likelihood is that it needs a clean and a refresh for it to become a different space for you. Play with variables like decoration, pictures, rugs, art work and the furniture you use. Be aware of how you feel when you change or move around the things in a room and work to get the feeling right for you.