About Your Environment...
Like it or not, our environments play a large part in how we feel on a regular basis and how quickly or slowly we progress and heal on emotional, and physical levels.
As individuals we spend hundreds of dollars each year on therapies, classes, retreats, medications, and self-help books and magazines which we diligently read in our search for meaning, purpose, and improved mental and physical health and wellbeing. As we are making all these internal adjustments what we often fail to realize is that our external environments need to mirror the changes we make inside if we are to continue to grow and not fallback into damaging patterns and cycles. What do I mean by that?
It means that as we evolve consciously and change damaging habits as well as the way we act towards ourselves and others we often fail to look at our immediate environments and how if unchanged they may begin to act as energetic anchors and depressants which work to counter balance the advances we make on the mental level making it increasingly difficult to advance beyond a set point.
As an example, how many of us have within our homes furniture, photos, articles of clothing, jewelry, etc. which are sentimental reminders of a time or person from the past? Occasionally they are links to people, places, and times which were traumatically damaging to our spirits, mind, and bodies; and yet for sentimental reasons we hold onto these objects failing to realize that they too hold energetic anchors which mirror those times past and thus may act as triggers for damaging conditioned emotional responses leading to destructive cycles and patterns that replicate throughout our lives.
Like it or not, our environments play a large part in how we feel on a regular basis and how quickly or slowly we progress and heal on emotional, and physical levels. It is not just how we perceive ourselves and our world, but also how it in turn nurtures or negatively stimulates us by the loving or corrosive reminders it carries. Over time items do take on the vibrational changes within the owner, but in the meantime they will act as energetic neutralizers or negativity emitters which we often ignore and write off as non-existent. Granny's picture that we may have on our living room mantle may remind us of the innocence of youth and the importance of honoring our heritage, but it may also link us to an internal emotional trigger reminding us of all the limiting beliefs she may have unknowingly projected upon us in childhood. These same beliefs we may struggle with on a daily basis as we remind ourselves time and time again of our own individual worth and power through positive affirmations. Yet every day we spend minutes to hours with a photo that links us back emotionally and energetically to the very things we are fighting to overcome.
Or the opposite may be true, your Granny may have been a tower of strength for you and your siblings and just having her photo around is very empowering and affects your environment in a healthy and loving way. If strong enough may actually counter balance any other negative items in the same area.
You see the very items we use to express who we are to the people and world around us in our living and working environments are more than just objects which stimulate the 5 senses, they energetically express who we are and can create limiting energetic boundaries if we are not careful. Have you ever been in a home or office with the wall colors and decor so foreign and irritating to the senses that you could not wait to leave? Or have you ever been to a place which you perceived to be sacred or just special to you? The vibration there may have been at such a high level which also felt disruptive to you but in a way which was stimulating and nurturing, leaving you with a feeling of awe and inspiration when you left. Maybe you just noticed feeling good when you were there, or feeling bad. Environment is as much a factor in wellbeing as the people around you are, and we should never underestimate the healing or damaging abilities of either.
So what is your environment saying about you? Are you stuck emotionally or physically? Do you feel like you are in a rut? The easiest step to make is to look at your environment. Is it supportive or damaging to you or your loved ones? Is it keeping you in a depression or inspiring you to grow and awaken your inner power? What do you FEEL when you look into all corners of your bedroom, living room, or kitchen?
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