House Therapy is about the connection between our homes and who we are as human beings! What is is about House Therapy that makes it useful to my journey?
We furnish our homes, making them reflections of our selves in many ways. Your house is you. It can tell you a lot about who you are; and what is important in your life. House Therapy seeks to enlighten its readers via seeing more of who they are, indeed, discovering their sub personalities which make up the entirety of who they are. Identity is a far more complex realm than many of us truly understand. The world wants to house you in less expansive conceptions of who you are.
House Therapy: Your Home Is Like The Inside Of Your Head
House Therapy is about how your home is like the inside of your head. As above so below, kind of stuff. The way we lay out things within our homes is very much akin to the arrangement upstairs and how we think. Understanding this connection allows us to work with ourselves more effectively. We can change things in our lives by reordering the plan on the ground. Every room inside your house or home has a meaning in regard to your personality. Every particular part of you has a special place within your home. We are all a gathering of voices living under one roof. House Therapy: Your home is like the inside of your head.
Sudha Hamilton
Therapizing Your Life Via Your Home
Each of us is a unique collection of disparate traits and views that we have brought together with the help of family and social conditioning. Our identity is crafted in this manner through our upbringing. We may be one person but that person is made up of various personality traits. The elements within us have appetites. Some say we are like small zoos or nature reserves where a variety of animals roam and play.
Problems in our lives are often caused by certain voices not being heard or fed. Domineering parts of ourselves can censor out other parts to the detriment of our own happiness and wellbeing. It is important that all of our characteristics are seen and heard in their appropriate settings.
“What Is a Trait?
A trait is a personality characteristic that meets three criteria: it must be consistent, stable, and vary from person to person.2 Based on this definition, a trait can be thought of as a relatively stable characteristic that causes individuals to behave in certain ways.”
- (Kendra Cherry, 2023)
A Therapy Based On How Houses Are Like Our Filing Systems
Society and family can seem to favour certain parts of ourselves over others. This can cause issues in our lives. Suppressing stuff can work for awhile but eventually these personality traits want to be heard. Inner conflicts can occur within us if we allow these things to be pushed down for too long. The ramifications of this can be destructive to those around us and to our own lives.
We each have a life to live and who we truly are must not be impeded in the greater scheme of things. House Therapy can assist in delving into this sometimes complex world. Solutions can be garnered through observation within the House Therapy prism. As above so below.
Open Your Eyes To See
Learning to become observant to those things right around you is a worthwhile skill. Finding meaning in the commonplace imbues your life with greater power. Really understanding yourself cannot be over estimated on life’s journey. Getting to know how you think and why you process stuff in this way makes things easier, both in the long run and in the here and now. Check out House Therapy, as a change manifesto and tool for self-awareness. How things are in your life is how things truly are.
Open your eyes to see what is already right around you in your home. The mystery is only that you have been blind to it for so long.
“Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying.
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he’s a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he is to setting.”
(Robert Herrick, Hesperides, Or, the Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick [Followed By] His Noble Numbers)
More About House Therapy
You do not need to be an architect or an interior designer, to benefit from the insights offered by House Therapy, indeed we are all to some degree designers of our own lives. If not you, who else is the most influential person in your life, and who knows you better? Who else, in your life, is defining themselves by every decision and choice made, as they make their way along their life pathway? Nobody but You I would proffer! Get to know who you really are at home.
House Therapy Is About You
Our home is a lively reflection of our state of being, one that is constantly updated by our presence and the presence of our co-inhabitants; usually family, friends and loved ones. What if I were to, hypothetically speaking, see into your home and in a slice of life moment cast my gaze around, as if in a museum, observing the anthropological evidence which makes up your life; but always with the awareness that there is more to come. What would I see? Take a moment now to imagine looking at your home as a complete stranger would. Begin looking from outside your house or apartment, what do you notice? Grab a pen/paper and take notes. Now step inside your front door and what do you see? On the threshold of your home what is most obvious to your objective view?
The answer to these questions can begin the House Therapy change manifesto, where acknowledgement of who you really are can open the door for real transformation.
Midas Word Publications
Published 2012.
House Therapy – Discovering who you really are!
Copyright © 2012 Sudha Hamilton
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House Therapy by Sudha Hamilton ebook in PDF
House Therapy – Discover Who You Really Are at Home by Sudha Hamilton is the perfect read for the COVID-19 lockdown. Stuck at home? Don’t climb the walls contemplate them for your own advantage. We can understand ourselves through analysing aspects of our houses and apartments.