THE SOUL-FULL HOME CHECK LIST
What would your home look like if your soul had a say in how it was created, decorated, organized or located?
This checklist is designed to help you create a home that nurtures and inspires your soul. Use my suggestions not as hard rules (soul usually rebels at this) but as inspiration to begin a deeper dialogue with your own soul and its needs, desires and creative images.
Here are some questions that will help you get started.
1- Do you feel physically safe in your home? Can you move about your home without unreasonable fear of invasion either physically or visually?
The ultimate home of the soul is the body. Thus it makes sense to create a home that is body friendly.
2- Is your home (internally) quiet and protected from external noise (traffic, etc.)?
3- Is your bedroom a ?happy sleeping? area? Does it feel safe, comfortable, quiet, dark enough at night? Is your bed inviting, supportive physically and visually? Does it smell good? Smell is important to soul and thus to every room in your home.
4- Are your floors inviting to being barefoot? The soul loves being barefoot both outside and inside.
5- Do you have rugs that say ?walk on me with your bare feet?? Rugs made of natural substances (silk and wool and cotton) are great. Rugs that are hand made (Oriental) are particularly pleasing to the soul. Indoor-outdoor carpet is usually soulless in feel and look.
6- Do your rugs have soul-full colors? The soul most often loves earthy colors and gets uncomfortable is there is too much stark white or black in the space. Do the colors in your home say ?welcome, relax, enjoy, be at peace??
The soul loves meaningful relationships and memories.
7- Do you have pictures of family and friends in places that you notice them easily?
8- Do you have objects that connect you (emotionally, spiritually)to the people you love in plain sight?
9- Do you have spiritually related objects (that are meaningful to you) in your home?
10- Does your home have plants both inside and out? The soul loves live plants and cut flowers. It is uncomfortable with plastic flowers and often even with silk flowers. Plants create oxygen, take carbon dioxide out of the air and connect you to the earth and nature (thus soul).
11- The soul loves natural substances and as a rule will not be present in anything made of or resembling plastic including furniture, flooring, objects of ?art?.
12- Too much glass can also create a feeling of soulless cold and iciness. A little glass can be lovely and interesting to soul but be careful about a home full of glass coffee tables and glass dining tables and glass chairs.
13- Do you have a pet? Pets always bring soul to a home. They protect you from too much cleanliness and isolation and increase your experience of love and being loved. Soul loves all of this.
14- Does your home have a fireplace? If so, use it as often as you can. DO NOT use chemical logs. Natural wood burning connects you to the past and to nature.
15- Is your TV placed over the fireplace? Some decorating programs show this placement. It is a total contradiction. The TV is mostly (depending on your choice of programs) soulless. Don't put it where it is in competition with a soul-full experience like a fireplace.
16- Does your home have music? Is the music soul-full or does it add to your stress and distress?
17- Does your home have a special place for meditation or quiet communion with God and/or yourself?
18- What greets you when you come home at the end of you work day? Does your soul smile when you walk into your house/home?
19- Is your home inviting to guests and friends and family? Do you have comfortable seating and dining furniture? Are your couches and chairs human friendly?
20- Are your walls soul-friendly? What colors soothe your soul? Does your soul get a say in choosing the colors in all the rooms of your home?
21- Do you keep your home clean enough to please your soul but not so clean that it is unfriendly to humans?
Matthew Anderson, D.Min.
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