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Non-contemplative lifestyles
“We spend a great deal of our time doing things without any real reflection upon what we are doing. We are intrinsically caught up in the drama of everyday activity, and this often prevents us from pausing, and having a good look around at where we currently find ourselves. Which is why it is usually only at times of crisis that reassessments about our lives are made. In the meantime, we are often all at sea and lacking a crystal ball, or insight into our situation. It is not that the process involved in House Therapy is particularly obtuse but rather that we are culturally blind to any real analysis of our own behaviour. If it is not broken why bother fixing it, or even looking into it – this is our readily expressed cultural attitude to self awareness in the West. This also explains why we are so sceptical about the different philosophical approaches that come out of the East. We are culturally averse to accepting viewpoints, like those that have emerged from Taoism, Zen, Buddhism, or other more reflective pathways through life. If we cannot immediately ‘join all the dots’ then we disparage it as unscientific. Really the truth and evidence of who and what we are is all around us, and right in front of us. You just need to take the time to have a look.
We influence everything we come into contact with, in fact according to the latest research in physics – Quantum Theory – these things may or may not exist without our participation or observance. Science, in the most cutting edge realms, now shows us that our very own consciousness plays a direct part in the existence of our universe – pretty awe inspiring stuff really. We are no longer seen as mere spectators in the cosmos, but rather our very presence has an impact on all life and matter around us. It takes a long time for these massive changes in collective human consciousness to filter through to all of us, and the revolutionary illumination provided by Quantum Mechanics began about one hundred years ago. People like Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr made these theoretical discoveries about the nature of life on the sub-atomic plane at the beginning of the twentieth century, but they followed nearly three hundred years of classical or Newtonian physics. Basically they discovered that the rules which govern the macro universe, the bigger things like apples and planets, did not apply to the smallest known particles, which make up the fabric of all matter or everything. So the rules of the known game had changed and for a long time nobody was very sure about a lot of things. They were clear about the fact that these sub-atomic particles, or waves, were affected by the those who were observing them. and that matter was no longer indifferent to our consciousness of it.
“Consciousness may be associated with all quantum mechanical processes… Since everything that occurs is ultimately the result of one or more quantum mechanical events, the universe is ‘inhabited’ by an almost unlimited number of rather discreet conscious , usually non-thinking entities that are responsible for the detailed working of the universe.” (8)
Physicist E.H.Walker
As human beings we experience life and matter through the filter of our five senses: touch; taste; smell; sound; and sight. Everything in existence must pass through these processing tools within our bodies and brains to register within our fields of perception. Light energy from the sun is processed via our senses – the eye and its visual optics fibres and the optic parts of the cerebral cortex – and we perceive a limited spectrum of what we call light, but is this the ultimate nature of this energy or simply what we can detect via our human sensory technology? Quantum physics is now taking us to that limit, and redefining that border, with what used to be called the known universe.
“Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, uniquely determined by the external world. In our endeavour to understand reality we are somewhat like a man trying to understand the mechanism of a closed watch. He sees the face and the moving hands, even hears its ticking, but he has no way of opening the case. If he is ingenious he may form some picture of a mechanism which could be responsible for all the things he observes, but he may never be quite sure his picture is the only one which could explain his observations. He will never be able to compare his picture with the real mechanism and he cannot even imagine the possibility of the meaning of such a comparison.”
Albert Einstein
©Sudha Hamilton – excerpt from his book House Therapy: Discovering who you really are at home.
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Read more »Bathroom Queens
“When Ellen DeGeneris bought Brad Pitt’s Malibu beach home for $US12 million in December, she declared it was perfect except for one thing – not enough bathrooms.
DeGeneris, the chat show host who buys and sells houses as a hobby, is known among estate agents as the “queen of bathrooms” or “the royal flush.”
When she buys a celebrity’s home, she adds more or fancier bathrooms, which have now eclipsed kitchens as the prime selling point of larger US homes.”
The Sunday Times 11th of March 2012.
So our bathroom represents our physical self and our connection to the body. Do you nurture your physical self and do you look after your body? Do you have a realistic and honest relationship with your body, based on who you are rather than who you want to be? Do you love yourself and what you look like? Many of us have split relationships with our selves, appreciating some parts and despising others. Indeed we may say we like and dislike particular bits of our body,
“oh I hate my thighs,”
is a common refrain or
“I like my breasts but hate my bum.”
Splitting our identity into pieces of which we reject this and that section of our human form is not the way to happiness and genuine self-acceptance and self-love. What it is saying, is, that a part of your consciousness, and a dominant sub-personality voice, is rejecting a valid aspect of who you are, in your entirety. Learning to love who we are is a journey, and sometimes a long journey, but the body in the mirror deserves your love and support.
©Sudha Hamilton excerpt from House Therapy – Discovering who you really are at home.
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Principles
“According to the principles of House Therapy, every room in your house or home represents a different part of you, or a sub-personality of yours. Each room provides an opportunity to observe the interests and concerns of these different parts of ourselves. We are all made up of so many different urges and inclinations, which operate within the framework of our lives and our main identity.
We have as adults, spent a great deal of time, whilst growing up, corralling these disparate feelings, thoughts and actions, into a recognisable ME or YOU. However a healthy individual, usually knows, that this sense of self is a tenuous, osmotic construct at best, and that all the animals in the zoo need to be fed; if you are to sleep easy at night. By which I mean, that we are all mostly aware that we have these different perspectives within us, and also that they require specialised treatment by us, to fulfil our own sense of completeness. I like that analogy, that they are like different animals with their own tastes and mores, and that the whole person is a bit like a zoo containing a variety of environments to satisfy each animal. We need to understand what our animals like to eat and feed them appropriately – and this is where House Therapy can shine a light on the occupants of your very own nature park.”
©Sudha Hamilton – excerpt from his book House Therapy: Discovering who you really are at home.
