House Therapy – Discovering Who You Really Are at Home, is now available to purchase online as an eBook. 155 pages of insights, self-help and interesting stories.

Each room in your home offers a chance to find out more about who you really are. House Therapy can show you how!

Meet your bathroom Queen and see what she has to say about you.

Do you have a special place, a special room, where you can be really you?

How do you sleep at night? Easily, or does it take a little while to unwind? House Therapy has some solutions and reasons why!

Would you describe yourself as an introvert or more of an extrovert?

Do you like to make a good impression on others?

Do you love or hate your home?

Find out what it all means.

House Therapy – Discovering Who You Really Are at Home, is now available to purchase online as an eBook. 155 pages of insights, self-help and interesting stories.

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What is our life? A play of passion,

Our mirth the musicke of division,

Our mother’s wombes the tyring houses be,

Where we are, drest for this short Comedy,

Heaven the Judicious sharpe spectator is,

That sits and markes still who doth act amisse, 

Our graves that hide us from the searching Sun,

Are like drawne curtaynes when the play is done,

This march we playing to our latest rest,

Onely we dye in earnest, that’s no Jest.

Poem by Sir Walter Ralegh from Orlando Gibbon’s Madrigals and Mottets, 1612. It has been speculated upon that Ralegh wrote this verse shortly before he was executed.

This poem beautifully illustrates the self awareness that the author exhibits in his analysis of the nature of existence and the short cycle of human life. It draws particular poignancy from Ralegh’s impending death and the ‘wheel of life’ extremities of his triumphs and final fall from grace. His home for many years, whilst awaiting his bloody demise, was the Tower of London, and indeed the particular tower he and his family were ensconced in was extended and renovated to more adequately house Sir Walter during his prolonged stay there. His status as a Knight and a gentleman assured his comfort, even during his imprisonment. Which just goes to show, that even if your home is a prison it can still be a home, with all the concerns and personalisation that entails.

©House Therapy by Sudha Hamilton

Cooking school on the sunshine coast – Sacred Chef – Cook Well Eat Well Live Well.

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.

The writing is on the wall, so to speak, just open your eyes and have a look – it’s your life afterall!

©House Therapy by Sudha Hamilton

“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

Another approach that we often take, as human beings in our search for understanding, is to create models of things. For instance the computer can be seen as a model, or working paradigm, of our own brains; it is not nearly as sophisticated as our real brains but it is the most complex thing we have come up with so far. In our language today, within the modern lexicon, we have begun using expressions and terms like default position; hard drive; download; key in; all as metaphors to describe aspects of life not directly related to the computer but usually about examples of human behaviour and thought. Using the computer and its functions as a model for our own complex selves. Earlier models, we used to understand ourselves with, were the steam and combustion engines, with their spark plugs and pistons like a brain and heart, and another archetypal model is the home or house. Here we have  a structure divided up into functional parts or rooms, and each room has a definite set of things with which to provide us with. These models, offer us the opportunity to temporarily isolate a particular aspect of ourselves and bring awareness to it – and if this behaviour or characteristic is causing us some level of concern, for whatever reason, then we have the chance to understand it.

©House Therapy by Sudha Hamilton