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.
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.
Sudha Hamilton
“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)
Sudha Hamilton is the author of House Therapy: Discover Who You Really Are At Home.
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