Have you ever experienced home sickness as a child away at camp for the first time or as a student sitting on the plastic covered bed of your first tiny dorm room at university? It hurts. You are in a place of feeling excited about the new adventure with butterflies in your stomach but you can feel off balance, without connection, missing the familiar support with little to hang onto and your heart aches for family or friends. Out come the things that connect us to home. Familiar textures, smells, and visual reminders. These are our resources, the reminders of home, friends and family. Soon we have arranged our rooms and are off to meet new challenges.
What is happening when we feel off balance in our own homes? In Feng Shui we talk about there being a lack of energy flow in a home or too much movement of energy. If you are feeling stuck in some aspect of your life look around your home to see if there are areas that block your progress such as an unruly collection of shoes, schoolbags and more just inside the front door. What is the message you get every time you enter this area? If you never seem to be able to sit and enjoy your home does the pathway from the front door seem empty, cold and it sweeps you quickly out again?
What other resources do you have? Perhaps exercise, walking in nature, reading, listening to music, or writing in a journal help you to feel safe and renewed. Does your home provide a comfortable, nourishing place to develop these resources? Does it provide a welcoming area for friends to visit or do they tend to avoid your home? Do your children have a space they can call their own to develop their resources? Developing resources will support you during future times of change. And change they will.
Copyrighted 2007 by Brenda Rosenberg. All rights reserved.
Tags: Feng Shui for Children, Homesickness
