Many of us know what it feels like to step into, or even reside within, a house that is extremely cluttered or disordered. We can call it “Home Disorder,” literally and diagnostically, because the home itself becomes “sick.”
The mind that generates this situation is likely dealing with its own disorder: scattered, absent-minded, difficulty finishing tasks, etc. The problem with this is, it creates a situation that mirrors more of the same, making it a very difficult loop to leap from.
Then shame sets in, and nobody wants to visit (nor are they invited), and it becomes a lonely world. Add depression to the list. And depression creates lethargy, and then nothing gets done – sometimes for years. The home atmosphere then gets “tuned out” – people grow accustomed to living in a chaotic environment and don’t want to think about it. Yet every object is quietly pleading for attention.
The Metaphysics of a Messy Home
Consider the rice-in-a-jar experiments that people worldwide have replicated with various objects: the LOVE jar and the HATE jar. After a few weeks of sending love vibes and hate vibes, the results are visible and astounding.
When objects get lumped into a chaotic mess, the entire chaotic mess is hated.
“I wish I could just snap my fingers and make all of this go away.”
With this kind of energy projected into it, everything within it deteriorates. There is a lot of common sense here, as matter is subject to entropy – until it is loved back into life.
So imagine the mess being tended to, one item at a time – either trashed or dusted, adjusted, and put in its proper place. When the objects within the home are ready to serve at any moment, then respect for the inhabitants is mirrored all around them.
A home begins to change the moment a single object is seen again with fresh intention – not judged, but seen. Attention is the first act of healing.
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