Our home should be an arrangement of the intentional belongings we’ve deemed necessary to help us get where we’re trying to go at particular times of our lives. Because we’re consistently growing and changing, our homes need to consistently grow and change right along with us. And if we aren’t clear on where it is we’re trying to go, it’s really hard to make informed decisions about the things we should be surrounding ourselves with to help us get there.

We’ve all longed for a place we once lived, with all of its essence and aliveness, and imagined ourselves there again. The places where we were authentically ourselves. The spaces that didn’t require a performance or an outcome.

Open tabs, open loops, scampering from task to task while the walls close in. We buy more stuff to contain all the stuff and attempt to make sense of all the stuff without first taking a pause from all the stuff in order to get clear and ask — and wait for the answer — two honest and simple questions: Why am I here? What do I want?

Our home is a living, breathing ecosystem. It infuses our psyche with symbols, signals, and messages. And there is a special kind of medicine we can access when we are willing to believe that our home holds power.

When our home, the sacred place where we can step away from the expectations to perform or pretend or comply, the place that ultimately provides the backdrop to our entire existence, is overfilled with a bunch of stuff someone convinced us was mandatory, we are often left with no room to be curious about ourselves or to reflect or examine who we are now and where exactly we’d like to be going. It’s not only that we’ve clogged up our spaces, we haven’t been instructed on the process of inevitable change and the continual release that must occur in order to avoid inertia.

While gazing up and observing the contrast between the lush green canopy partnered with the brilliant blue sky, I was gently reminded of the universal laws of duality. I was reminded there is a necessary interdependence of contrasting elements in order for our world to exist and function. Yin and Yang… seemingly opposite but intrinsically interconnected.

By becoming acquainted with our authentic intelligence and begin to look at ourselves and our belongings through the lens of vibrational energy, we are better equipped to learn how to align and arrange our environments based on our personal internal compass thereby creating circumstances and spaces that ultimately ignite our souls fully coming alive. Not only will this best serve us individually, but the collective as a whole.

If we decide to take a weight-loss journey but don’t take our environment and the role it plays into consideration, we miss out on implementing an important piece of the weight-loss puzzle. If our home remains heavy, we too can remain heavy. In order to begin to feel lighter, it’s important we lighten the spaces around us, introduce order, change the frequencies, and ignite change.