How The Environment Around Our Homes Affects Our Energy

The environment around your home has a profound affect on the energy of your home (and you). 

Whether you have a few square feet of space on your patio, a window box, or a small area of your yard that can be dedicated to butterflies or any life form - with just a little effort you can create an environment high on interest and low on upkeep. 

An environment conducive to life - all life attracts powerful cosmic life and elemental energies. Birdhouses, birdbaths, squirrel feeders, plants attracting bees and butterflies, all add a powerful and vibrant dimension to your living experience.

4 Ways To Awaken Natural Forces In Our Homes

“We live in a rhythmic universe. Every part of nature has a unique language and its own rhythm - every flower, bird, and tree has its own rhythmic language; and rhythm is the underlying context that weaves all life together.” - Denise Linn

When we awaken the natural forces within our home, we activate the most powerful forces of nature within ourselves. The more our living spaces look and function like nature, the more likely we are to survive and thrive on earth. 

Bring the rhythm of nature indoors

Simulate natural cadences, cycles, patterns, shapes and forms of nature in your home. This activates dramatic shifts in energies and consequently within our lives

"Energy and geometry are tightly interwoven in the evolution and up-building of life."   - Tom Bender

Here are some ways 

SACRED GEOMETRY - include it in your decor. Sacred geometry is a powerful healing force that reaches inside us and deeply connects us to the harmony and symmetry of life

LABYRINTHS - incorporate it into wall hangings, decorative table tops, and necklace designs. A labyrinth is a sacred geometric pattern that serves as a center point for integrating the forces of earth and the forces of the cosmos. It also powerfully creates a union between inward intention and outward form 

DIVINE PROPORTION - Pythagoras’ golden mean - 1:1.618. This magical ratio is found everywhere in nature and all of life - from the nautilus shell to the proportions of the human body. You can arrange furniture in rooms in accordance with this ratio. It has a tremendous healing effect.

MANDALAS - sacred circles of transformation containing geometric forms. Use in paintings, pictures, on altars, on the floor, make a mandala in a sand tray.

Choose Art That Exudes Uplifting Emotions

Research  done in a hospital setting revealed some interesting insights. One group of people were placed in a room with no windows but a piece of modern art. A second group had large expansive windows with views of nature - greenery, mountains and a beautiful landscape. A third group of people had nature inspired art in their rooms.

The people in rooms with views of nature healed on average 4 - 5 days sooner. The rooms with people with modern art had very slow to no improvement, and people in rooms with nature based art recovered sooner than the rooms with modern art but not quite as quickly as those who had windows with natural views!

Rasa is the energetic essence of the material object that makes it pleasing. It is the emotional flavor evoked in us by the art, objects, arrangement, or space.

A truly beautiful object (of art or arrangement in your decor) captures our imagination and leads to a sense of transcendence - described as rasavandana.

As humans we experience 9 rasas (variations on the essence of beauty). The soothing or uplifting essence of beauty being through the emotions that arouse

1. Tranquility
2. Playfulness
3. Heroism
4. Wonder
5. Romance

And  the darker sides of beauty

1. Fear
2. Contemptuousness
3. Anger
4. Compassion

Some rasas are appropriate for our homes and offices and some are not.

The darker rasas can be very powerfully expressed through art. These, however, are not a nourishing influence on us.

Such art, regardless of price or artist, should not find a place in our homes and offices. Their influence on us can be very deep at the subtle level playing out those rasas in our everyday living.

Choose art the arouses the soothing or uplifting essense of beauty in you - through tranquility, playfulness, heroism, wonder, and/or romance. 

Let In Morning Sunshine!

Our brain and body are electrical energy conductors. Our thalamus, the relay center for all the sensory and motor activities that occur in our brain, fires patterns of neurons differently when we are facing different directions! That means if we are facing South our brain fires different neurons from if we were facing North for the same situation.

Our mind is the interactive result of the Earth’s magnetic field on our brain cells. We are like an energy tuning fork. We work best when we are in harmony with our environment.

Allow your life to flow intune with nature. Allow the natural morning sunshine into your home every single day. Open Eastern and Northern Windows often. Northern magnetic energies and eastern solar energies exert positive supporting influences. 

6 Benefits Of Biophilic Design

One of the growing trends in interior design - Biophilic Design! Design that reconnects us with nature.

BENEFITS OF BIOPHILIA IN DESIGN

We have an innate biological connection with nature. Incorporating elements from nature :

1. reduces stress
2. enhances creativity
3. brings in clarity of thought
4. improves cognitive function
5. improves well-being
6. expedites healing

Bring the following into your home/office design

• Plants
• Water features
• Aquariums
• Sounds of nature
• Flowers
• Bird feeders
• Views of gardens and nature from windows
• Courtyard gardens
• Green walls
• Organic natural materials
• Sequences and patterns found in nature

Good Biophilic Design creates spaces that are inspirational, restorative, support health, and integrate with the functionality of space and urban ecosystems.